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Lost in the news cycle today was the fact that Ron Paul officially ended his presidential campaign and announced a new political venture.
Video report from the Associated Press:
Another report from ABC News:
Story from the AP:
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will end his campaign Thursday night and announce a new effort to help elect libertarian-leaning Republicans to public office around the country.
Campaign spokesman Jesse Benton said the announcement, expected during a rally coinciding with the Texas GOP State Convention in Houston, was “not a disappointment at all. I think this is really exciting.”
Paul’s announcement will be a formality.
The 72-year-old Texas congressman won few delegates during the Republican primaries. But he raised millions of dollars online and developed a large, grass-roots following among those who backed his call for ending the war in Iraq and smaller government at home.
Supporters have pushed for a speaking role for him at the Republican National Convention in September in St. Paul, Minn.
Paul has said he won’t endorse Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee. Benton said that was unlikely to change.
You can read Paul’s official “Thank you” message on his website.
No surprise here, McCain has easily locked up the nomination by winning the needed delegates.
I guess this is proof how accurate and important cell phone text message votes are:
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I’ll give it to the guy; had he won the nomination, I would’ve had a much harder time choosing between party lines. He’s the only Republican I’ve ever watched debate and found myself nodding in agreeance with his statements.
I like Ron Paul, but from a pragmatic standpoint, I’ll suck it up and vote for McCain in November.
I appreciate how Ron Paul is not interested in endorsing McCain just because McCain is the nominee. Fred Thompson did, which has hurt his credibility to an extent. The good news, I think, is that the Revolution, even if no longer focused on getting Ron Paul as President, is continuing to grow and waking people up to the Constitution. It’s moved into a “Campaign for Liberty”.
I think Ron Paul, better than any candidate running, revealed the cracks forming in our 2-party system. He obviously didn’t fit the mold of the current republican party - and he’ll never be taken seriously there. But obviously some people took him seriously, as he garnered some very strong support financially and certainly in spirit on a grassroots level.
He was the real change candidate in this race. Ironically, most of his change involved returning to tenets many of us never realized we’ve departed from.
RON PAUL!!!!:) LOL
he is a joke.
I have recently taken the time to read parts of The Revolution and have respect for many of his ideals. This spot on analysis http://pajamasmedia.com/b.....evolution/ and the comments by AJ, echo my sentiments very closely.
I find it interesting that some here say they respect Ron Paul for not endorsing John McCain, and some support this break away revolution. But at the end of the day, Hillary supporters are trash for doing the same in regards to Obama. Isn’t that odd?
I don’t know about everyone else here, but I, for one, don’t think of a person as trash for not voting with the party. I did four years ago, though, back when I was fixated on how Bush was better than Kerry. In fact, I used to think Ron Paul was a freak who was just stealing votes from good candidates, but I don’t think that any longer.
Well to be honest from a constitutional point of view Ron Paul, and even Alan Keys would be much better in office than McCain, or Obama. I think they were taken as jokes because the people currently running things will never want a President in office that wants to take away some of their power.
Fred Thompson is the most modern conservative that was running and therefore by far I think should have gotten the Republican Nod, but over all Ron Paul would have been better for protecting my personal freedoms as an American, and I think our country is that much weaker for taking true TRADITIONAL REPUBLICAN views as a joke.
The Republican party was built on the idea of small government, and making sure the “FREE CAPITALISTIC ECONOMY” thrived, and staying out of Americans personal lives. The Department of Homeland wouldn’t exist in a real Republican ran government, either would the IRS, or many other offices.
Our current Neo Conservatives that love to try and fight for being most Reagan like, are all missing the damn point. Reagan would not be in Iraq today. Reagan wouldn’t have started the Homeland Security, and Reagan wouldn’t be spying on American citizens. Ronald Reagan would have blown the hoy SH*T out of Saudi Arabia, utterly decimated anyone harboring anyone remotely related to 9/11, and then brought all of our troops back home in weeks or months, not years. Reagan didn’t believe in bringing a gun to a knife fight; he would have brought a tank to a water balloon fight and rightfully so.
The current Republican party needs to stop calling itself the “GOP” it is anything but.
I applaud Ron Paul for trying to continue to be a true Republican in this time of money choosing the leaders not the people.
“Reagan didn’t believe in bringing a gun to a knife fight; he would have brought a tank to a water balloon fight and rightfully so.”
Good statement, Melvin! One thing most conservatives forget is that overseas wars used to be a leftist, progressive thing to have an excuse for consolidating the federal government’s power. (The PATRIOT Act is nothing but a “homeland security” way to suspend the Constitution.) It was traditional to follow the Monroe Doctrine and mind our own business. But with our economy in shambles as it depends on China and the World Bank, it will be very hard to return to the Monroe Doctrine.
Babs: “I find it interesting that some here say they respect Ron Paul for not endorsing John McCain…. Hillary supporters are trash for doing the same in regards to Obama. Isn’t that odd?”
Not really, McCain and Ron Paul ideological and stance on numerous issues are highly divergent. Obama and Clinton positions are virtually identical on most topics, and as a result the process could only evolve into a personality contest. Arguably, switching your support from Clinton to Obama allows a person to maintain an opinion on the current issues. Clinton supporters may find McCain’s positions quite antithetic to the issues that excited them over the previous months, not least the contentious Roe Vs Wade. McCain’s trouble is to reach across to Clinton supporters while maintaining credibility with the far right base.
Ron Paul, sadly, did not fight back at his being labeling as an oddball in his own party and beyond. Not helping this, was the very visible and solitary support of the younger generation. There was then an implied immaturity, wide-eyed idealism and a lack of practicality that was mirrored in his positions. He had a reformist vision, but didn’t see the populist needs of the country as needing as much address as the vague, bigger picture. The way to talk to the nation is in terms of “your money, security, jobs and children”, rather than “the constitution says”. I feel sorry that he didn’t see the distinction, because he was rendered impotent far too early in the contest.
Christopher Schwinger,
Returning to the Monroe Doctrine, and fixing our economy can all be handled easily. The problem is that it will never happen as long as you are asking power hungry people to give up their control.
I actually mentioned this before some time ago. Anyone that has ever studied economics, government, and sociology (all of them not just 1) and read Atlas Shrugged, and The Art of War would agree.
The United States needs to take some time away from the world and heal itself.
1. Close ALL Borders - Financial, and Physical
Allow travel in and out, but pause all import trade, immigration.
2. If the US froze all imports the unemployment rate would vanish. (Let’s try the trickle up theory for a change) We invent most of the consumer electronics here because we have the biggest consumer markets. Everyone else just produces them cheaper and sells us our own inventions.
Made in America wont be the the tag we look for it will become the rule.
3. Some people will say what about things we need to import like oil.
We don’t need to import it there are 2 very large untapped oil fields on US land that could more than sustain the country with greater efficiency than what we have now. Plus let me introduce you to a facility in Carthage, MO. http://www.changingworldtech.com/ this refinery converts bio trash (anything but glass and metal) into Light Texas Crude. That’s right oil, and not just any oil Light Crude which takes less work to convert to gasoline. Also makes the facility self sustaining because it produces it’s own running fuel. No the refinery is not a joke or a scale model test. It works in full production. Oh I forgot the oil companies are lobbying to keep this technology from going nation wide, but there is the oil problem, and landfill problem solved in one swoop. Lower oil prices because we have an unlimited supply.
OH BY THE WAY THAT HAPPENS TO MAKE OIL A RENEWABLE FUEL RESOURCE.
4. Our military can go back to what it was intended for. Protecting the United State. If another country wants us to go save them, or stop their civil war we need to be adding another star to our flag.
If you want the freedoms our American men and women die for then you become Americans. If you want us to help you get free elections then we will, and you can vote in American elections as a State.
5. We have the intelligence community and Special Forces to make sure that anyone planning to do us hard abroad can get a foot hold.
Just a start but you get the point. When we decide to reopen our borders the US will be much stronger.
I appreciate your sharing that, Melvin. The way people scoff at “isolation” makes it sound like an old-fashioned, impossible, long-gone dream in the “global community”. But it’s the way to retain sovereignty, and I finally realized that the people who scoff at the idea are the ones who believe the UN should be making our decisions. That’s when the brainwashing ended for me. You know, to stop trade COMPLETELY with other countries while we redevelop our infrastructure sounds like a very good AND MANAGEABLE idea. We just need to reclaim our government and reimpose tariffs, and pressure our officials to DO THEIR JOBS. That is very encouraging that a return to independence is not so unmanageable. You made my day, Melvin
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