While libertarian Rep. Ron Paul has been racking up delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, the running assumption has tended to be that even if his supporters might make some noise for a change to the party platform, they won't be able to stand in the way of Mitt Romney. But what about his choice for Vice President? Jon Ward writes that an obscure rule change made by the GOP four years ago could provide Paulites an avenue to unleashing convention chaos:

Save yourself the bother and just get ticked off now: A new poll shows that most people will be unhappy regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in its much-anticipated decision on the nation’s sweeping healthcare law.

The survey by the Pew Research Center found that regardless of whether the law is upheld, struck down or kept intact except for its “individual mandate,” fewer than half those asked would be happy with the outcome.

The nutty thing about the health care debate that will play a prominent role in the next election is that most Americans want pretty much the same outcome: to control costs without sacrificing quality. And that’s not what either major-party candidate is offering. Few think that Obamacare, a Romneycare descendant that contains the same kind of individual mandate the then-governor of Massachusetts signed into law, will get us to that desired goal. Nor would Mitt Romney, who has been reborn as a celebrant of the old, pre-Obama system with a few nips and tucks.

My cancer won’t wait and doesn’t care about what nine robed judges in Washington, DC, say about healthcare.  Cancer doesn’t care.  Obamacare.  Romneycare.  No matter.  Cancer doesn’t care.  But the nurses do.

Unrelenting and not fearful of any CEO’s rage or the loss of a political contribution, cancer, illness and injury march on.  It is with that sort of fearless and unwavering force that the nurses of National Nurses United and the patients for whom they advocate are advancing the cause for healthcare justice.