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#279. To: robin, Original_Intent, TwentyTwelve, FormerLurker, christine, noone222, Ferret Mike, richard9151, ALL (#0)
I didn't read the article, just the title. Ask me why if you really want to know. I suspect that maybe Ron Paul was threatened. Then I also have other ideas, but some things are better left unsaid. Personally I'm disappointed, but not surprised. The idea's unstoppable - the human spirit indomitable (sp?) and the collective mind will prevail. Now I'm gonna go look for a youtube video...
If that were the case, he would retire from politics completely, just to be safe. I mean, who in their right mind would yield to threats about running for prez and still run for congress?
Someone that was instructed to quit running for prez and run for congress, or else? I dunno, why else would he go so far and then just quit? Sorry, I didn't read the whole thread here. Just that, something's fishy here...
I just cannot imagine anyone trusting the word of someone who just threatened their family. I think the average person would take a pass on the order to run for congress and either disappear or deliberately sabotage his one congressional campaign to get as far away from the threat as possible. If you've been threadened, than doing otherwise is playing with fire. No, threats don't add up here. Disappointment could smell like that.
(something's fishy here...) Disappointment could smell like that. Yes, good points, thank you. It's just that why would someone with such good ideas as Ron Paul had just up and quit before it was all over? I mean I'd be less disappointed if he'd lost, but to just quit? Doesn't make sense to me. Mind you, I'm not very knowledgeable about the ways of politics and again forgive me, but I didn't read the whole thread.
Ron has a practical streak in him. If Romney hadn't quit then I think Ron would still be focusing on the prez race. With Romney out, RP just sees that it's very unlikely further efforts bearing fruit, since all hinged on the hope of a brokered convention. In fact it seems Romney didn't want any disunity in the R party and quit early specifically to prevent a brokered convention. If any thing is fishy around here it's Romneys "suspension" of his campaign as he basically undermined Ron's strategy by withdrawing. But being as pragmatic as he (Ron) is, he's changing focus to the house campaign. It's really the same line of reasoning that he's had for not going indi. He sees no hope of winning as an independent so he won't try. It's also likely that if he ran indi for prez he'd have to run indi as well for his TX congress seat. I'd guess that a factor. He's not quit the prez race exactly. He's still in it and he cannot use his prez funds for his congress seat, so those funds will continue to be used at the prez level. This thread is a great thread, actually. I was thinking to myself this evening that unlike LP, this thread is full of real discussion between people who strongly disagree, and there's yet to be any mudslinging as happens all the time elsewhere. There's disappointment and such, but we're pretty much all civilized people on this thread. It's really a great promo thread for 4um.
EAT ME Dickhead! (just kidding ;-) The disappointment has me feeling a little cagey...my way of avoiding breaking things...LOL.
LOL! You always gotta go out and ruin a good thing, don't you?
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