Posted on 03/06/2008 7:16:40 AM PST by jdm
The Austin American-Statesman notes that John McCain has clinched the GOP nomination and all the other GOP hopefuls have dropped out … except Ron Paul:
“President Bush welcomed John McCain to the White House today and hailed him as “the nominee of the Republican Party.”
But while that Rose Garden victory celebration was going on, Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul — who issued a statement Tuesday night saying he will return to the U.S. House next year — continued a presidential race he now seems to be conceding he cannot win.
“There were 11. Now there are two,” says a posting on Paul’s Web site that shows the crossed-out faces of nine Republican contenders who have dropped out of the presidential race.
In the Tuesday night statement after he won renomination for his U.S. House seat, Paul said, “I have no Democrat opponent in November and will serve another term in Congress where I will continue my battle on behalf of taxpayers.”
He’s not getting much press anymore but Paul’s spokesman vows that Paul will “remain in the (presidential) race and will do so as long as his supporters wish it.” At least one Paul supporter has hope:
“There is a very good chance that John McCain could drop out of the race when enough negative information hits the masses,” a Paul backer said in a Wednesday e-mail. “Ron Paul and his supporters are counting on this. Whether this is realistic or not, only time will tell.”
That’s positive thinking.
Replace “blacks” with “illegal immigrants” and it reads like a lot of conservative sites now?
Difference might be that the pre-judgment you seem to accuse “a lot of conservative sites” with is ethically and morally defensible, since it is illegal to be an illegal immigrant. Can’t, and shouldn’t, and musn’t intimate, as Mr. Paul has done, that blacks are trouble, but it should be rather obvious to the casual observer that it ain’t prejudice to oppose government benefits for illegal immigrants, because the illegal immigrants are here illegally.
Hayna? Or no?
You wanted a possible RINO to win?
Chris was no RINO, he had a very Conservative record and platform, with an actual history of accomplishments to back him up.
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