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Title: Ron Paul Switches Gears
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URL Source: http://thisiscommonsense.com/2012/05/16/ron-paul-switches-gears/
Published: May 17, 2012
Author: Paul Jacob
Post Date: 2012-05-17 07:42:14 by Eric Stratton
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Views: 479
Comments: 28
The day before the official debut of Brian Doherty’s Ron Paul’s Revolution — the new book on the man, his crusade and his many enthusiastic supporters — Ron Paul slipped his 2012 presidential campaign into neutral: Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to take leadership positions, win delegates, and carry a strong message to the Republican National Convention that Liberty is the way of the future. Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted. Talk to a Ron Paul organizer, and you can hear harrowing tales of how the Republican establishment treated Paul’s supporters as outsiders. Despite such ill treatment, chronicler Brian Doherty compares Ron Paul’s future influence on the party to that of the past influence of Barry Goldwater. “His fans understand that Ron Paul is not just out to win an election.” Dr. Paul’s near-term influence, though, is less obvious. In his 2008 outing he was shut out, and held his own very successful parallel rally. What he hopes to accomplish at the upcoming nominating convention remains to be seen. He concludes his letter with promise of further elaboration of his campaign’s delegate strategy. But his main thrust, in this letter and elsewhere, has been to build a long-lasting movement. This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob. Ron Paul Switches Gears
The BBC puts Ron Paul’s delegate count at 104, with frontrunner Mitt Romney 178 short of a lock on the nomination — but that’s at present, before the upcoming primaries. As the BBC concisely summarized Dr. Paul’s campaign, he had some successes in “several contests, in states such as Maine and Nevada,” gaining “some delegates and sometimes a significant portion of the popular vote. But he was viewed by the Republican establishment as a candidate outside party orthodoxy, and he did not manage to win a single primary election.”
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#1. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
This is shocking information. The only reason why Dr. Paul is viewed as outside "party" orthodoxy is because he's actually conservative and the republican party are big government socialist libs.
Orthodoxy mean "upright teaching." I see little of upstanding doctrine among the bluenoses the run and populate the republican party. They wage piratical war and call it defense, they are debauched with usury and call it prosperity, they bow to a police state and call themselves free men. They flaunt every lesson that the Founders conferred upon them. I want nothing more to do with them.
#3. To: randge (#2)
The existence of the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM proves the absence of statesmen in D.C. - I want nothing more to do with them either.
Ron Paul has said time after time, he is a REPUBLICAN. He was elected twelve times as a "republican". His son is a REPUBLICAN Senator, There are many reasons that tend to make some people consider Ron Paul a ....REPUBLICAN...
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestBut he was viewed by the Republican establishment as a candidate outside party orthodoxy
#2. To: noone222 (#1)
party orthodoxy
Replies to Comment # 2. They wage piratical war and call it defense, they are debauched with usury and call it prosperity, they bow to a police state and call themselves free men.
#4. To: randge (#2)
I want nothing more to do with them.
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