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Title: Message from Ron [he's a GOP through and through, will ease on prez campaigning]
Source: Ron Paul 2008
URL Source: http://ronpaul2008.typepad.com/ron_ ... 8/2008/02/message-from-ro.html
Published: Feb 9, 2008
Author: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2008-02-09 08:26:19 by a vast rightwing conspirator
Keywords: None
Views: 7057
Comments: 315

Message from Ron

Whoa! What a year this has been. And what achievements we have had. If I may quote Trotsky of all people, this Revolution is permanent. It will not end at the Republican convention. It will not end in November. It will not end until we have won the great battle on which we have embarked. Not because of me, but because of you. Millions of Americans -- and friends in many other countries -- have dedicated themselves to the principles of liberty: to free enterprise, limited government, sound money, no income tax, and peace. We will not falter so long as there is one restriction on our persons, our property, our civil liberties. How much I owe you. I can never possibly repay your generous donations, hard work, whole-hearted dedication and love of freedom. How blessed I am to be associated with you. Carol, of course, sends her love as well.

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.

Sincerely,

Ron

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#1. To: All (#0)

Mr. Paul is a lot more anchored into reality that some of his supporters. This message shows them the difference between a fighter and a loser.

Losers blame their loss on some weird and generally imagined circumstances or they call their loses 'victories'. Mr. Paul understands that he can not win the GOP nomination. I do not apprieciate his insistence in staying in the GOP party - I guess his GOP membership makes the theory of 'the good Nazi' or 'the good Communist' more plausible, even though I don't buy it myself - but it's his choice and it's his political life.

Now, for those who, first, were advancing theories about Ron Paul winning the GOP primaries because his supporters were 'more committed' or the later discussion of he, somehow, prevailing in a 'brokered convention' with his 'couple dozen' delegates, or those who were talking about some secret master plans to hail-Mary everyone via some independent run, do face reality. Reality can be interesting too. Mr. Paul is a freedom-loving politician who seems to have a strong attachment to the GOP party and the GOP is one half of the curse that is taking this country apart, known as the '2 party system'.

As a loyal GOP member, RP is part of the problem, not part of any imaginable solution. His liberty talk, while nice to listen to, it is very much harmless to the system as it is confined inside the GOP section of the 2-party system. By staying an active member of one of the parties of mass murder, global interventions and ever more intrusive control in an individual's life, RP only, if not intentionally, legitimizes the system and enforces the illusion that the system is sound, viable, reasonable and the best vehicle for expressing 'diverse' views that are not racist, anti-semitist, anti-globalist, isolationist, anti-free trade, nationalist, pro-illegal-drugs, pro-smoking, pro-drinking, anti-seat-belt mandates, pro-slavery... well... most diverse views.

It is clear to me and it should become increasingly clear to everyone that freedom is not granted to anyone by their government or their country president. Freedom is a matter of choice. It is true that, under particular political systems, freedom is an easier choice that in others but, ultimately, it is an individual choice or, rather, a series of choices one makes every moment of their lives. One can be free or experience joy and freedom, regardless of Mao being the chairman of the country or Ron Paul presiding in the White House and one can live like a rat or like a sheep when one finds it more advantageous or more desirable to live that way. Ultimately, one freely chooses to wear chains, server a master, charge with the mob or live like an individual.

So, if your aim is 'freedom', forget about Ron Paul. He has freely decided to stay a GOP, he freely entered the GOP nomination race for prez and he now freely decided to focus on his congressional race. Don't follow Ron Paul, follow his example.

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2008-02-09   9:05:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

As a loyal GOP member, RP is part of the problem, not part of any imaginable solution.

Wrong.

I understand your impression of "parties" given your background, but he's not more a "part of the problem" in staying in the GOP than you are "part of the problem" in staying in the United States. Afterall, you do pay many, many taxes which fund the beast's activities, whether it's bombing Iraq or paying the CIA & military agents that engage in torture. Am I wrong?

Sure, Ron's in the GOP, but what the GOP is, is not in Ron. You'd prefer he depart the party that dispises him, thus making it's sickness more pure?

This looks like it'll be a busy thread for me.

Pinguinite  posted on  2008-02-09   13:00:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#258. To: Pinguinite (#77)

Wrong.

I understand your impression of "parties" given your background, but he's not more a "part of the problem" in staying in the GOP than you are "part of the problem" in staying in the United States. Afterall, you do pay many, many taxes which fund the beast's activities, whether it's bombing Iraq or paying the CIA & military agents that engage in torture. Am I wrong?

Sure, Ron's in the GOP, but what the GOP is, is not in Ron. You'd prefer he depart the party that dispises him, thus making it's sickness more pure?

I am sorry, my friend, but Ron Paul staying in the GOP is a vastly larger problem than me staying in the United States or me staying alive. Let's have some sense of proportions, should we?

I am tired of having to repeat this over and over and over but his staying in the GOP only strengthens the GOP by feeding the illusion that the GOP 'bit tent' is the natural residence for libertarians. This is nothing new. The GOP is also feeding the illusion that it is the natural home for 'conservatives', 'Christians', sexually normal people and those who are financially responsible - all untruths, of course. The GOP, like the Demo party is nothing but a power Mafia. It seeks power for the sake of holding it and wielding it and the expressed GOP ideology is little more than an attempt to differentiate itself, on minor issues, from its Demo 'rival'. The fact that most people, even most intelligent people accept these illusions shows how good the illusionists working for 'both' parties happen to be.

Does my 'background' have something to do with my understanding of how parties work in the US? Sure it does. Political science happens to be part of my background. I studied it in college and among my college buddies I count a prime minister, the prime minister's wife, a foreign minister, the equivalent of the US speaker of the house and a couple of ambassadors - so 'they' must have thought us something given that it worked quite well in the post-communist East Europe, in a country of tens of millions. I have a pretty good understanding of the US political system even though I will never involve myself in it. My understanding of the 2 party system is a bit more sophisticated and goes way beyond someone's belief that the 2 parties are nothing but machines or tools available to just about anyone who feels like getting himself nominated for some important elected job - if there was a mother of all naive views on how the US 2-party system works, this one would be a good candidate for the title.

It IS true that I prefer that Ron Paul and all honest people quit the GOP party and leave only the sick and the monstrous there, all by themselves. All RP and other decent people do by staying in the GOP and the Demos is lending these evil organizations credibility and legitimacy and therefore helping them keep going for a while longer.

These being said, if you read what I wrote on this thread, you would notice that I, in fact, salute RP for his decision to do what is good for him and for the people who elected him to represent them. I do not think that his staying in the GOP is a good thing but, clearly, it makes no sense for him to stay in the GOP race for nomination when everyone with a clear mind and their dog can see that he has zero chances to win that nomination. He should not have been in that race in the first place and I've been stating this for quite a while now.

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2008-02-10 08:54:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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