The Las Vegas Sun’s Jon Ralston tweeted this rather remarkable photo this week, showing a new billboard in Las Vegas, which offers “a stark reminder of the Ron Paul takeover of the Republican Party in the state’s largest county.”
The message is unmistakable: Ron Paul is like Ronald Reagan and Mitt Romney is like George W. Bush. The latter is not meant kindly, I assure you.
Also advertised on the billboard is Oathkeepers, a group calling its members patriots but who critics refer to as paranoiacs of the first order…. I swear, folks: The Republicans here are better than any act on the Strip.
Three-quarters of Nevada’s residents live in Clark County. For its Republican Party to have been taken over by Ron Paul acolytes who have little use for Romney’s candidacy is no small development in an election year in which Nevada is expected to be a key battleground.
Indeed, the larger significance goes well beyond the billboard. Paul supporters have seized control of much of the state party’s apparatus, which in turn has caused panic among GOP officials in Nevada and D.C.









