Title: Actual Media Proof They Are Blacking Out Ron Paul! Source:
youtube URL Source:http://youtu.be/ldMMDm_ed00 Published:Apr 1, 2012 Author:. Post Date:2012-04-01 23:36:10 by farmfriend Keywords:None Views:818 Comments:32
He didn't capitulate. He stayed in the race for the nomination until the last States had voted and he never withdrew, even though he only had 14 pledged Delegates. Do you think he could have switched to a third party for the Presidential race and for his Congressional race and won either then? Probably not. Could he have run third party in the Presidential race and as a Republican for his Congressional race? Probably not.
I know, it is difficult to accept that Ron is not in the race with any more fervor and fire than last time. Being left at the alter one time is usually sufficient. Tis for me.
There has always been the possibility that Ron is nothing more than a stalking horse, to keep a true conservative from running with intent to create a third party.
Perot garnered 20 million votes, then he dropped out.
Good thing for America that he got agreeable about returning to Congress a dozen times.
I know, it is difficult to accept that Ron is not in the race with any more fervor and fire than last time.
I don't get that impression.
There has always been the possibility that Ron is nothing more than a stalking horse, to keep a true conservative from running with intent to create a third party.
I don't even see a true conservative around besides him. Which one do you think would want to run with intent to create a third party?
I do not understand how Paul can be a conservative and still maintain he will be a republican member until he dies.
But he didn't say that he will be a Republican member until he dies. You read it that way when all he said at the time to his campaign supporters was that he was going to remain a Republican re: the Presidential race, since he also had to run for his Congressional seat. Maybe that wasn't clear enough for you but it was to me. Why you accuse him of being a capitulator because he stayed in the '08 race as a Republican, when switching to a third party run then would probably have resulted in him being out of office four years ago, I don't know. No doubt he'd like to be able to help the Republican Party find its way back to its roots and maybe he can do that better by forming a Jeffersonian-Republican wing. Whether he moves to do that during this race or after or not, he states very directly here at 8:38 [uploaded Mar 31, 2012] that the obligation of politicians is the Oath of Office, not an oath to the Party.
His support money is drying up for a reason and he will be operating on a shoestring if he remains a republican. With seven months to go he has less than two million in cash.
It is quite evident that his support is realizing they are enduring yet another lost cause. after his Trotski memo four years ago, I put away my checkbook as did most others. Never opened it this time around.
I suspect that it would have been ok with you if he had won as a Republican and stayed one, since you did contribute to his campaign as a Republican. So, it seems like you think he must be punished because he didn't win the nomination in '08 as a Republican and wouldn't risk everything by changing parties to run a three-way race for the Presidency that would have accomplished what at the time?...Obama and McCain would have gotten fewer votes for your money if he didn't win? Why would you even want him to risk all the rest of his political career, probably to no avail, for your conditional donations? He'd already gone way above and beyond the Call of Party Duty by his efforts to Champion the Constitution, not just be a run-of- the-mill candidate with no such principles. I think it's unfair and inconsiderate if you expected him to take on what might have been a total career-suicide mission to meet whatever standard you preferred besides Republican, which could have left his TX constituents adrift and those of us who appreciate his voice in Congress. Unless you honestly think he would have won in '08 by running third party, what difference could it possibly make to you that he didn't? He did win four more years in Washington as a Congressman, very likely because he chose not to risk losing both races [Edit to add: and more campaign contributions] by switching to a third party then.
As for the so-called "Trotsky Memo", I think it's unkind to refer to it so and it's like he's being punished for being completely truthful. If he had simply said "this Revolution is permanent" without mentioning Trotsky's usage of the phrase, his detractors might have accused him of plagiarism and worse. As it is, they can't accuse him of plagiarizing it but just because Trotsky said it too doesn't mean no one else can say that anymore unless they're a covert or overt Communist suspect. Trotsky said so many things that I wouldn't even want to count it all. He might have said, "It's at two o'clock," speaking of some doing way back then and it was for him. Flyers like you can still say, "It's at two o'clock," in this time period and be correct, without being a Communist, yet mean something very different from his perspective at that point. It's likewise perfectly ok, imo, to describe the Ron Paul Revolution as permanently ongoing, yet it's a very different concept for us of Revolution than Trotsky's.