Posted on 03/20/2008 7:11:35 AM PDT by jdm
Representative Ron Paul, Republican nominee for Congress in Texas district 14, believes there is a 'New Right' conspiracy against him in the GOP.
Despite the fact that he shifted effort from his Presidential campaign to ensure he beat the mainstream Republican, Chris Peden, in the Texas 14 primary, and that he still has neither endorsed John McCain for President nor even acknowledged that he needs to work with McCain to ensure Republican victory in November, Paul thinks the burden is on the party to come to him.
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Says the Washington Times:
The Texas congressman says neither he nor his supporters have heard from Mr. McCain or Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan since March 4, when the Arizona senator accumulated enough delegates to clinch the party's presidential nomination.
"I don't think they want them," Mr. Paul told The Washington Times, adding that indifference doesn't surprise him because the party's establishment has deserted traditional conservative principles for big government and foreign intervention.
"We don't agree with them," he says. "We agree with the Old Right, and they're the New Right, which is 'The Wrong,' [because] the New Right has morphed into neoconservative."
Look, Congressman, it's very simple: You have sold yourself as a Republican to the voters in your home district. They believed it, but the rest of us are not bound to do the same. After all your outlandish rhetoric this campaign season, the burden is on you to prove that you are back in the fold by endorsing John McCain for President. Just take that one step, and that will prove we can work with you.
Had you won the Republican nomination, surely anyone who failed to back you would have been relegated to Republican in Name Only status, and been held up for mockery and attack. The time has come for you to hold up your end of the deal and avoid that fate. Nobody will ask you to campaign for Senator McCain, though it would be nice of you to do some outreach to your supporters. Just ask your supporters to vote for him, though, in one simple, unambiguous statement. I have no connections inside the national GOP, but I have to believe that is all anyone wants.
Because he’s a big dork.
should read ...his run. Don't ask how that happened!
For me its not so much the message as it is the messenger. Some (emphasis some) of his positions are sound, but the man himself is just a bit too squirrelly.
He kinda parallels the moonbats and Kucinich over there; they all agree with him policy-wise but don’t want to put him within a million miles of the party nomination.
Nobody’s going to “work with him” as long as he keeps telling people that being a republic doesn’t mean “electing Republicans”.
Please deposit your soul in the waste receptacle to your left.
Ron Paul has brought in a lot of pork for the Shrimp boaters.
pork and shrimp, making me hungry.
There, that's much better.
He exemplifies it.
Good riddance, Ron Paul!
He’s a loon.
I used to kinda like the guy, that was before I started learning just who he really was and what he advocates. Now I can hardly stand to hear or look at him. I know he claims to be a Libertarian but if he is an example of that party then please, go away and don’t bother me! We don’t need anymore wacko politicians.
I don’t know Paul’s track record on “political speak,” but any denial about running for office has always been suspect. There’s always a way to justify it.
Paul isn’t getting any younger, and Paul’s never going to be the Republican nominee, so maybe his ego and age would drive him to take the CP nomination.
If the CP comes calling, I’m guessing that Paul would take it. It would put him in the role of spoiler, and he’s 73 years old. This is his last chance.
He exemplifies it.
Good riddance, Ron Paul!
You're showing total ignorance. Ron Paul is NOT a neo-con. Most likely YOU are the neo-con, if you agree with most of what Bush has been doing.
Ron Paul at a glance
How did that happen?
:>)
nmh clearly doesn’t understand what a “neo-con” is - that would be George Bush/John McCain types - but his post record indicates that nmh is not a neo-con himself. Neo-cons don’t protest open borders, and neo-cons welcome the leftward movement of the GOP.
It’s an interesting thread to have this discussion in, considering that the neo-cons are the ones who decided the “Big Tent” had room for global warming chicken littles and big government socialists and anti-freedom crusaders, but no room for small-government libertarians and paleocons (traditional conservatives).
Ron Paul’s influence is still important. He was the only candidate who talked about abolishing entire federal agencies because there is no basis for them in the constitution...just as republicans used to profess during the 90’s. Bush was more liberal than even Bob Dole, who called for the elimination of 4 depts.
I think he just wants to keep his House seat. For all his libertarian talk, he sure doesn’t believe in term limits.
neo-con usually refers to foreign policy.
If you supported the war with iraq because you thought saddam had to be taken out because he was a threat to the US, you may not necessarily be a neo-con.
If you supported the war because you want to turn iraq into a democracy or because you thought Saddam deserved it because he oppressed his own people, then you are a neo-con.
Then I guess that makes me a Super Neo-Con. I think it our duty as a Free Nation to seek the Freedom on all men, and should use whatever means at our disposal to accomplish that. Even if it means citizens forming extra-military groups to further that goal, primarily using 5GW methods.
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