Title: Dana Loesch CUTS OFF Ron Paul Supporter For Sticking By Ron Paul Source:
youtube URL Source:http://youtu.be/DSOT4DRtVhw Published:Mar 25, 2012 Author:. Post Date:2012-03-25 15:13:30 by farmfriend Keywords:None Views:593 Comments:26
On March 4, 2008, John McCain became the Republican presumptive presidential nominee when he obtained the 1,191 delegates necessary to receive the party's nomination.[2] Mike Huckabee announced his withdrawal from the race later in the evening.[3] McCain's last remaining competitor in the race, Ron Paul, [Edit: withdrewsuspended his campaign] on June 12, 2008.[4]...He did not endorse John McCain as the presumptive nominee for President - Paul eventually went on to endorse Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party.[20]
On June 3, 2008, the last States voted -- South Dakota and New Mexico -- and McCain then had 1,575 Estimated Delegates.
Ron Paul's Campaign Status: Suspended June 12, 2008; 9 days later -- not withdrawn, just suspended. He had 14 Pledged Delegates and 35 Estimated Delegates, with his endorsement for the Constitution Party -- not for McCain.
I don't know what else you expected from Ron Paul. Please explain.
Someone cannot be accused of a factual event of their own making.
He did not drop out of the race four years ago or leave us adrift. I still voted for him in my State, even though his campaign was suspended -- not ended. I read the so-called "Trotsky Memo", so what is it you wanted him to do? Never trim down his campaign staff anywhere the voting was over to save on expenses when, as he said, the chances of a brokered convention were nearly zero by then? Did you want him to refund whatever was left of his campaign contributions if he couldn't win the nomination? Could he still have launched a third party run after not dropping out of the Republican race until all of the voting was completed in June? If so, could he have won the Presidency as a third party candidate with so little time left before the Nov. election, since he didn't have unlimited funds on hand to go that route? At what point would you have wanted him to drop out of the race and try to run third party, after taking your donations to run as a Republican? Had he done that, might some other contributors have felt tricked into financially supporting another Party that they didn't want to back? Should he never have decided to refocus his efforts and run for TX Congressman to keep his seat in D.C., just retired from politics four years ago? Why disparage him for not getting enough Delegates or not going third party even if he couldn't realistically win that way? He put what was left of his campign resources to good use and established the Campaign for Liberty project to continue furthering Constitutional Education. He also arranged for his supporters to have their own Convention. I'd like to see him start his own party of Jeffersonian Republicans to distinguish us from the infestation of Neocons. Wouldn't you?
He did not drop out of the race four years ago or leave us adrift.
I thought his Trotski memo was rather clear about his intentions of remaining a republican for life.
He is a man of his word and I accepted that.
To further research on Paul, in the background you will find for several years, that among conservatives, speculation abounds that Paul may indeed be a "ringer", an active part of the system.
I thought his Trotski memo was rather clear about his intentions of remaining a republican for life.
He is a man of his word and I accepted that.
To further research on Paul, in the background you will find for several years, that among conservatives, speculation abounds that Paul may indeed be a "ringer", an active part of the system.
He has lots of detractors but I think you're reading more into his statement about remaining a Republican than is actually there. It does not say "for life" or "forever". He had to run two elections then because the Presidential nomination was going to McCain. Switching parties would probably not effectively have won the Presidency and could have cost him his Congressional seat:
Let me tell you my thoughts. With Romney gone, the chances of a brokered convention are nearly zero. But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get. But with so many primaries and caucuses now over, we do not now need so big a national campaign staff, and so I am making it leaner and tighter. Of course, I am committed to fighting for our ideas within the Republican party, so there will be no third party run. I do not denigrate third parties -- just the opposite, and I have long worked to remove the ballot-access restrictions on them. But I am a Republican, and I will remain a Republican. I also have another priority. I have constituents in my home district that I must serve. I cannot and will not let them down. And I have another battle I must face here as well. If I were to lose the primary for my congressional seat, all our opponents would react with glee, and pretend it was a rejection of our ideas. I cannot and will not let that happen.In the presidential race and the congressional race, I need your support, as always. And I have plans to continue fighting for our ideas in politics and education that I will share with you when I can, for I will need you at my side. In the meantime, onward and upward! The neocons, the warmongers, the socialists, the advocates of inflation will be hearing much from you and me.
The situation now is different than '08. Chances are better this time that a third party run can work and he doesn't have to remain a Republican to be more competitive for another Congressional contest. This election has shown that the Republican Party is rigged against him and, no matter what he does, there's no guarantee that it wouldn't be rigged against a run by his son too, especially if he plans to retire from office before then. He could form his own Jeffersonian-Republican Wing and greatly improve his chances for the Presidency -- as well as Rand's eventually, if he also decided to leave the Neocon-rigged farce that the GOP has become. I think many Republicans, Teapartiers, and others -- even some Democrats -- would be glad if Ron Paul established something more Constitutionally principled as a Conservative Party option.