“We are absolutely not dropping out of this race! We are focusing our efforts squarely on winning delegates and party leadership positions at state conventions.”
#2. To: Flintlock, Pinguinite, F.A. Hayek, Cynicom, Jethro Tull (#1)
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This is good news. It has to make Cynicom eating a lot of crow. Apparently Jethro already ate a big portion yesterday.
I would like to take up a collection for Cyni so he can get some medical help to try and overcome his hatred of Ron Paul. Anyone who would like to donate, just say so. Cyni has been carrying a lot of hatred for the past 4 years and I worry about his health.
I'm still eating crow this morning. I just watched a 'tube from the OK Republican convention. The Paul people got dumped over by the establishment, and RP issues a statement that "we" have to show more respect and decorum at such events? Respect and decorum have given us a $15 trillion dollar debt and "we" should be rightfully pissed at the establishment for putting us here. The establishment GOP'ers, at any level, deserve a boot in the ass and that's what I signed up for. I was left at the altar once again by Mr. Manners.
I was left at the altar once again by Mr. Manners.
A statesman is consistent, Jethro. If we do not maintain respect and the decorum, then we are made out to be "radicals" who are "stealing" the election and other such nonsense.
We must maintain higher ground.....a little Mr. Wonder and you will feel better. : )
"Yesterday’s Drudge Report linked to a Los Angeles Times story about a speech that Kentucky’s junior U.S. Sen. Rand Paul gave at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition last Friday. That speech is on YouTube in two parts and merits watching.
What is the takeaway from it? As presumptive 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is on the ballot against Sen. Paul’s father, Texas congressman Ron Paul, in Kentucky’s pointless Republican presidential primary next Tuesday,........ the senator himself is busily burnishing his Christian social conservative bona fides in the first-in-the-nation caucus state........
Make no mistake —----------- Rand Paul is preparing to run for president in 2016. He is readying himself regardless of whether Romney beats President Barack Obama in November.------- One cannot help but view the elder Paul’s continued quixotic (if not guerrilla) campaign against Romney through the prism of the younger Paul’s presidential ambitions.
I see it as a fathers love for his son. Very strong bond.
Whom better to leave your political legacy to than your son???
I see nothing wrong with that.
When the final gavel goes down AB, everyone will have their answer. Denial of reality would be absurd.
Over and over for years, Ron has sworn fidelity to the Republican party, he tells us he is part and parcel of the system and his Son will take up the cause......AS A SYSTEM REPUBLICAN....
I think your denial of decades of consistency for a message of liberty and our Constitution is absurd.
Ron Paul didn't swear fidelity to the Republican party when he refused to endorse McCain in 2008 or when he ran for POTUS on the Libertarian ticket in 1988. He has decades of voting principle and NOT PARTY.....but you go ahead with your denial of reality to all of that Cyni.
Ron Paul is a Republican because that's how you win elections. That's it. He knows first hand that the 2-party system makes running outside of the R/D circuit a complete waste of time. The R-party is a vehicle for Ron Paul and nothing more.
Ron Paul is an idealist but with a very practical streak as well. He knows what battles can be won and which ones can't. That is why he has owned a seat in Congress for so very long even in the face of the GOP's resentment the whole time.
I'm amazed that anyone can acknowledge RP's 30 years of consistency and proven love of Constitution, freedom and rule of law can so quickly abandon him and question all he is about when a single decision is made that they don't understand.
I'm amazed that anyone can acknowledge RP's 30 years of consistency and proven love of Constitution, freedom and rule of law can so quickly abandon him and question all he is about when a single decision is made that they don't understand.
I think Ron Paul has been very consistent. I'm not willing to assign nefarious reasons to this action yet. There have been many reports of his campaign running out of money. He does not have the war chests that Romney and Obama have. It make sense to stop spending when you run out of money. Good Lord, isn't that the kind of man we want and have been supporting? What he is doing is working. Abandoning the cause now because he stopped spending himself into a hole is just wrong. Is it Ron Paul we support or his ideas?
ff, who the f is running his campaign? I assumed he was broke long before they blundered into making this press release. Despite the lack of funds things were going swimmingly well. I have a feeling RP is surrounded by Republican hacks, which is *always* a giant mistake. I also think he fears that Tampa will embarrass him and #1 son.
I like Paul's message, & have met him a few times. But his supporters seem way too mesmerized by him like some kind of damn cult members. It's F'n weird. Damn who taught todays men to idolize F'n politicians? Truly pathetic. A no go.