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Ron Paul deserves representation at the Republican national convention in proportion to the support he received in the primaries. And his supporters are prepared to fight like hell to make sure he gets it.

Across the country, at state and county GOP conventions, diehard supporters of maverick Ron Paul are staging uprisings in an effort to secure a role for Paul at the national convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul….

In Minnesota, Paul loyalists captured seven delegate slots at congressional district meetings, and in Nevada, the convention abruptly recessed on April 26 after balloting showed Paul supporters winning at least half of the initial contests for delegate slots to the national convention….

People are catching on.

Last weekend in Maine, McCain’s forces were well organized, but Paul’s activists nevertheless managed to pick up one of the 18 delegates at stake.

“They attempted fraud,” [Julie O’Brien, executive director of the Maine Republican Party] asserted. “We knew what had happened in Nevada, so we really prepared in advance . . . to make sure everything was done by the book.”

I say boooo to Julie O’Brien. I hope there are enough Paulestinians at the national Republican convention to rouse some rabble. To paraphrase one of our commenters, Ron Paul tried to save the Republican Party. Sometimes I wonder why he bothered.