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.
Could you give us an update as to what Eric Dondero and the rest of the Pedenphiles are up to now?
Ahh, a goosestepper with a lifetime 82 rating from the ACU. You're as nuts as the supporter you quoted is.
When Hitlery/Obama start running campaign ads with Skeletor doing his "bomb, bomb, bomb... bomb, bomb Iran" Beach Boys thing, it's gonna get ugly REAL quick.
He just seems a few bricks shy of having a full load to me. I did not mean to insult those who believe in him.
Forget Ron Paul.
Ron Paul Newsletter: A Special Issue on Racial Terrorism”, June 15, 1992, Volumne VI, #6. Re: the Los Angeles riots of 1992:
“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.”
Paulites are like the Obamaites......it’s a cult.
It’s a little bit odd to find people who criticize a candidate for being crazed - or for being supported by crossover Democrats - backing McCain.
Who?
And this, too: “An October 1990 edition of the Ron Paul Political Report ridicules black activists, led by Al Sharpton, for demonstrating at the Statue of Liberty in favor of renaming New York City after Martin Luther King. The newsletter suggests that “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” and “Lazyopolis” would be better alternatives—and says, “Next time, hold that demonstration at a food stamp bureau or a crack house.”
Yep. Forget Ron Paul.
Ron Paul was the only Congressperson to vote AGAINST Israel yesterday.
He is an embarrassment to the entire party.
That was yesterday? Jeeze...
The article is about the only two candidates left officially running, McCain and Paul. To particularly disfavor one strongly implies favor of the other.
McCain’s recent ACU rating is only 65, and it has trended downwards for quite some time. Between the two, McCain is measurably a good deal less conservative.
The article in question doesn't favor McCain, it talks about the fact that McCain has gained enough delegates to retain the nomination and the Paul's campaign refusal to quit, hoping for McCain to drop out. There is no policy debate in this article. If anything, it is a debate of math.
Ron Paul...Ron Paul. Was he a member of the Puddle of Mudd band from 2003?
Ping, looks like the laughs will continue for a while.
I respectfully suggest that that’s because you’re buying into what “they” (as in the media and his opponents’ supporters) say he said, as opposed to listening to what he actually did say and judging for yourself.
It’s been my experience that the majority of Paul-haters listen to The News in regard to the good doctor, and are therefore quite indignant about “what he said,” although he generally didn’t say that. It’s easy to mischaracterize someone who doesn’t speak in sound bites.
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