Ron Paul’s supporters are quietly plotting a revolt against John McCain at the GOP Convention scheduled for the first week in September, on grounds that McCain isn’t really a conservative but another globalist whose excesses would surpass those of the Bush Administration.

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With the ongoing battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and with the Republican nomination presumably locked up by John McCain, Ron Paul may seem to have disappeared. Not quite. Ron Paul, alone among the other candidates for the Republican nomination, never conceded defeat. His supporters have remained active both raising money and working at state and local levels.

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Moreover, there is a lingering dissatisfaction among many Republicans with McCain regardless of their willingness to support Ron Paul. Many Republicans doubtless recall McCain’s close work with ultraliberal Ted Kennedy to produce last year’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens legislation. Along with South Carolina’s Lindsay Graham, they made four separate attempts to get an immigration bill through Congress. On each of these occasions, Congressional switchboards were practically shut down and email servers were overwhelmed from the response of a public that is tired of illegal immigration and wants the federal government to secure our border with Mexico.

Right now, McCain may have the 1,191 delegates necessary for the nomination, but the numbers do not reflect anything approximating unanimous support by Republicans at the grassroots level. More recent primaries show this: in Indiana, he got 77 percent of the vote, which means that 23 percent of Republicans voted for someone else in protest. (Ron Paul took 8 percent of this vote, exceeding Mitt Romney’s 5 percent.)

In North Carolina, McCain got 74 percent of the vote, which means that 26 percent of Republicans there voted for someone else. (Ron Paul got 7 percent of the vote.)

In Pennsylvania, McCain won just 73 percent of the vote, which means that 27 percent of Republicans supported someone else. (Ron Paul got 16 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania, which exceeded Mike Huckabee’s 11 percent.)

Obviously, these tallies do not count the Republicans in those states who saw their primaries as meaningless and stayed home. Had they believed their votes might affect the outcome in September, McCain’s numbers would surely have dropped while those of other candidates would have gone up.

Be that as it may, Ron Paul’s supporters have been fighting the equivalent of a guerrilla war at state and local levels — often leading to state conventions being shut down to prevent Ron Paul from winning new delegates. This happened in Nevada. One of the goals of the Ron Paul “Revolution” has been to compel the GOP Establishment to give Ron Paul a speaking platform at the convention in September.

His views, as is well known, are diametrically opposed to those of the McCain machine, which is essentially that of the globalist neocons who hijacked the Republican Party during the Reagan years (the first major fruit of this hijacking was, of course, NAFTA).

Ron Paul would immediately end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He would bring home troops from the 130 nations around the world where they are stationed at taxpayer expense. He would dramatically reduce the size and scope of the federal government at home, moving to shut down numerous federal agencies such as the Department of Education (something the Republican Party once promised to do as recently as the Reagan era). And most controversially of all, he would move to have Congress repeal the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and institute a sound, Constitutional money system.

In short, Dr. Paul’s agenda is antithetical to what the global elite wants — which is why the Republican Establishment tried to shut him out of the debates, why the mainstream media tried desperately to ignore him, and why his grassroots popularity is making the Establishment extremely nervous. After all, among Dr. Paul’s fiercest supporters are tech-savvy twentysomethings who this past year acquired their first taste of the struggle for liberty and discovered that they like it. These people are capable of becoming a major force to be reckoned with.

These are the people who propelled Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution: a Manifesto, to the top of Amazon.com’s bestseller list almost immediately after it was published last month.

Dr. Paul’s own comments on areas long at the center of attention at the JBS, e.g., the growing control over the global economy by a power elite — or to use the term introduced by David Rothkopf, a “superclass” — are reserved and possibly deliberately understated, although his position on the Federal Reserve is telling.

The Ron Paul Revolution is larger that Dr. Paul himself, as he readily acknowledges, and will doubtless continue to make its presence felt both within and outside Republican Party ranks. It is difficult to predict what will happen at the GOP convention. Republican Party elites will doubtless try to minimize any hint of a Paul presence there. Eventually, of course, it will be necessary to force a national dialogue on such matters as the Federal Reserve, the future of globalist trade accords like NAFTA, and whether the U.S. is to remain a sovereign Republic or one (increasingly impoverished) component of a North American superstate. Those who supported Ron Paul will be in the thick of it, articulating the case for individual liberty, genuine free markets and a trade policy that is free of political entanglements, sound money, and a Constitutionally limited government that lives within its means no less than we citizens are expected to do.

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