At the Republican National Convention, all of Missouri's 58 delegates arrived pledged to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) whom we had voted 2-1 against in the primary. The Missouri Republican Party settled this at the state convention in Branson with the closest thing I have ever seen to a police state in America: a carnival of low testosterone Stalinism.
LETTER: Missouri Republican Party put a damper on dissent at state convention
Monday, September 8, 2008 | 11:26 a.m. CDT;
updated 8:34 a.m. CDT, Monday, September 15, 2008
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