No, no, no. He was on his way TO Alpha Centauri, along with Don, Judy, Will, Penny and The Robot, when their ship got knocked off course and they all ended up...
... well. You know. ;)
Posted on 02/09/2008 4:09:04 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In a message to supporters sent just before 11 p.m. Friday night, Representative Ron Paul, a long-shot G.O.P. candidate from Texas, basically conceded that he’s not going to win the party’s nomination. That said, he’s scaling back his campaign — but not entirely.
He said: 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.
Mr. Paul clearly stated that he will not run as a third-party candidate. Right now, his priorities are serving the residents in his Texas congressional district and winning re-election.
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. From what we can make of the letter, Mr. Paul is staying in the race on a peripheral level, just so he can keep participating in policy discussions (and maybe use up all that money he’s amassed?).
“In the presidential race and the congressional race, I need your support, as always,” Mr. Paul wrote. “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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
See? Toldja the meds would finally kick in, eventually. ;)
Ron Paul--all talk, all the time.
Truthers everywhere shed a tear.
Well howdy, Stranger. :-)
Yeah but... has he said anything definite about which planet he actually came from?
I’m in the betting pool for some place in the Alpha Centauri system.
It is close as stars go, and he does dang near pull off that whole “act human” thing.
PING!
Howdy yourself, hero! How's the night life way ver where you are, lately? They feedin' you right, an' stuff...? ;)
I’ll bet he won’t. His strategy was to win just enough delegates to be an influence at a brokered convention.
He is a Member of Congress, and has a handful of delegates, and thus will get time to speak at the convention.
The RNC should treat him with respect and schedule his speech as they would any other GOP candidate who has made it this far.
But they probably won’t, which goes to show you just how narrow the window of acceptable political discourse has become.
No, no, no. He was on his way TO Alpha Centauri, along with Don, Judy, Will, Penny and The Robot, when their ship got knocked off course and they all ended up...
... well. You know. ;)
I think an interesting thing will be seen, and confirm what I've been saying all along. There were really only 7-12 actual Wrong Paul supporters who stay up all night on Red Bull and Mt. Dew binges FReeping polls.
I guess I can spill it now. Selling secrets is trendy enough. Just tell me you work for the NYT and it should all be ok.
Now, the truth, finally, after all these years.
He was actually trying to return home to AC. That ship got knocked off course because the good and decent folk of AC did not want him back.
When they banish someone, they tend to mean it. You ever notice how many bizarros there are around our little planet?
yeah, well, we do not have representation at the Galactic Conference of Civilized Worlds, so guess where all the undesirables and unwanteds get sent?
Absolutely. Right between the opening dedication by Michael Moore and the party mission statement by Cindy Sheehan.
wait, he’s crazier than mccain?
I don't doubt it. He's in it for the money.
I'll take that action and even give you eight to five odds.... virtually. LOL
Paul is a patriot. He's a loon, but he is definitely OUR loon. He's had in mind, all along, running for re-election in his district, hence the fund raising online. He knew he'd never win the GOP nomination for POTUS, but now he has one heckuva large war chest for what is essentially a local race. There has always been a method to the madness.
No extraordinary rendition without representation!!
Too close to call. Like trying to decide which one you'd rather see naked on a hot summer's day: Tor Johnson or William Conrad. ;)
He was also supported by many conscientious conservatives and libertarians in the GOP who found his anti-statist message a refreshing contrast to the socialist Dems and the “tax collectors for the welfare state” in the GOP race.
What about the troofers, neo-nazis, and KKK members that support McCain, Huckabee, or Hillary? Certainly there are some.
If he agrees to endorse the nominee and to explain why that nominee is better per Ron Paul’s issues than the Democratic alternative. they should let him speak at the convention.
I'd settle for allowing him to talk about the virtues of fiscal restraint and a limited government. Of course, as near as I can tell most in the GOP no longer adhere to those principles.
It would be stupid of the RNC to shun Paul. He is an ideological cognate of the old right that opposed FDR and Truman. Or is the RNC ready to jettison such historical figures as Robert Taft, Howard Buffett, and John Miller of NY (Goldwater’s running mate)?
I agree.
Although I disagree with his foreign policy position...isolationism...I will probably vote for him in November. I have the advantage of knowing he can’t win...and it will make me feel good.
In recent months he has raised a fortune and spent almost nothing, so what is he going to do with it all?
I have been predicting this, that Ron Paul is going to go independent.
Kindly point out the precise point where I stated anything even remotely along the lines of "shunning" the man, for heaven's sake. I simply feel it contingent upon myself -- inherently solicitous sort that I am -- to offer the occasional suggestion, wherever I reasonably can, to see that his message is appealingly "set off" against the most naturally appealing and sympatico sort of background possible, under the circumstances.
Now, for the introductory musical number... which one do you like better: Dixie Chicks, or Babs Streisand...?
I’d settle for allowing him to talk about the virtues of fiscal restraint and a limited government. Of course, as near as I can tell most in the GOP no longer adhere to those principles.
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Nod.
Goldwater’s running mate was William E. Miller, not John.
John McCain has more in common with Michael Moore than Ron Paul.
McCain agrees that health care is “in crisis” and that we have to “do something” to stop Big Pharma and the evil insurance companies.
McCain and Moore agree that campaign finance reform means getting the “big money” out of politics by enacting restrictions on free speech.
They agree on amnesty for illegals.
They agree on a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emmissions in the G-7.
So perhaps Moore should speak at the convention.
I don’t know about Sheehan. I could never find a coherent thread in anything she ever said.
The fat broad ain’t opened her yap yet!
See post #18, above.
You're attempting to parse the razor-thin difference between (say) being french kissed by Larry Fine, and being french kissed by Shemp Howard. Surely there must be some stray atom, someplace, you might more profitably split...? ;)
Phooey on campaign finance reform! Paul (the truthsayer): "I'm running for president and I need your donations!! (applause) And even if I only get 1% of the wacko vote and bucks, I'll use it to grease my congressional re-election bid." Probably next eleciton cycle we will see 50 candidates running using this formula.
BOO! :-)
I sure hope it doesn't take him this long to come to the right diagnosis in his medical profession.
The constitution party wants him badly. I can see why — he has a pot of money, recognition, and aligns fairly well with their positions.
He would be a good place in the Repub Party to register conservative votes that show McCain the strength of the conservatives in the party. Huckabee will serve the same purpose with religious conservatives.
McCain needs to go into the convention knowing there are 2 massive groups who want to see a real signal from him — the annointing of a viable, relatively young, true conservative as his VP.
Without that, he loses my vote.
Aw, I got called into a meeting with some Marine officers. They needed my procurement expertise. ;-)
What? No more “9/11 was an inside job — vote for Ron Paul” bumper stickers?
What is a brokered convention??
I thought Don Meredith has already sung, "Turn out the lights, the party's over."
EEEEEK! :-)
Do you think it depends on whether he loses his primary? Like if we beat him in the primary, will he be upset enough to bolt?
Was there really any chance he was GOING to lose his primary down there?
You did good, sir. See ya around.
Amassing delegates to get the nomination is like amassing electoral votes to win the electoral college, and the presidency. You have to win a majority of the total. Just like it’s possible for the electoral college to end in a tie or no one getting a majority, that then gets decided by the House of Representatives, the result of a candidate failing to win a majority of the delegates is that the other candidates have the opportunity to join forces and give delegates to one another to allow a candidate to finally win a majority of the total and win the nomination, at the party’s convention. The process of giving your delegates to another candidate is called brokering, because you get something in return for giving away your delegates— the VP or a special speaking spot or whatever.
"Given that it has become readily apparent that Senator McCain will soon be the presidential nominee for the Republican Party," reads a card that accompanied the wreath addressed to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, "we, the staff of the Libertarian National Committee, send our condolences to you upon the death of small-government principles within the GOP."
The note continues:
Libertarians encourage competition within both the free-market and politics. Unfortunately, with the rise of John McCain and the big-spending practices of the Bush administration, the two-party system has emerged as representing only one philosophy - big-government liberalism.
With your loss, the Libertarian Party will continue to move forward to represent those American patriots who still believe in smaller government, lower taxes and more individual freedom.
"McCain's Super Tuesday win marks the death of limited government values within the Republican Party, which had struggled with its principles throughout the Bush administration," says Shane Cory, executive director of the Libertarian Party. "It is a day of mourning for the few remaining small-government Republicans."
Say what you want about Libertarians...that’s pretty funny.
Thank you for your information.
ok, if brokering is an accepted practice, then why was everyone so upset at what happened in W VA? Wasn’t it just brokering??
People mistake the ending of Paul's campaign and ending his issues. Constitutionally declaring war plus protecting our currency from inflation will be issues that live on.
He's building a spaceship for a return flight to Anthena...
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