Posted on 02/09/2008 9:50:43 AM PST by LdSentinal
HOUSTON (AP) - Presidential hopeful Ron Paul says he won't run as a third-party candidate in a new message to supporters that seems to recognize his slim chances at getting the Republican nomination.
The Texas congressman wrote on his Web site that he's making cuts to his national campaign staff. Paul says he also can't afford to lose focus on the next primary for his House seat.
Paul started today with just 14 delegates for the Republican nomination that John McCain, with 707 delegates, has all but officially secured. Mitt Romney dropped out of the race Thursday.
Paul says that Romney gone, "the chances of a brokered convention are nearly zero."
Darn. I was hoping he’d be the Libertarian candidate this year...
Hallelujah!
There is an open Senate seat in Texas, and I have heard that Ron Paul might run for this.
The only way I would ever vote for McCain would be if cut and run ran.
He was!
I know. I voted for him back then.
Go Paul! lol
Good, he decided not to divide up the Republican vote even more to help the democrats. There are things about him I do respect.
Me too. I'm leaving the GOP after my state's primary & I've been trying to figure out where I want to go from here. I'm thinking either Independent or Libertarian. I'm sick of government getting larger and larger. I can no longer be a part of the republican party because they are becoming virtually indistinguishable from the democrats. The only issue they differ on is the War on Terror & I suspect they will cave on that soon enough.
My jaw is on the floor. I’m shocked, awed and overjoyed. What could have been THE STORY this year will become a non-story if true. The Nominatrix cannot win the general election without a 3rd-party on the right. I’m suspending judgment, though, until I know for a fact that it is true. What blessed news!
The good doctor should be rewarded for not running third party. I sorta like the guy. Genuine to a fault, I think.
He has been clear from the beginning that he was not going to run third party.
He is a more balanced, thoughtful person than I gave him credit for.
The Libertarian Party Convention is Memorial Day weekend in Denver. We’ll see if Paul is a speaker.
Well, I hope someone runs that I can vote for. Not that my vote in Illinois is going to make much difference anyway, but still....
I’ll tell ya what, I like Ron Paul a lot but I would be REALLY upset if he hurt the party and handed the election to Hillary because he wanted to prove a point.
Since he started this campaign he’s repeated a few dozen times that he will not be running as a third party candidate, and this upsets some of his leftist supporters because it shows his true loyalties are to the conservative movement.
Its too bad we can’t have a domestic executive and a foreign policy executive. I’d love to see Mr. Paul in D.C. working to abolish socialist ABC departments - not so much running the military.
Me too, supercat, me too. This has indeed been the most horrible election year in my memory. The big three being Hitlery, Hussein, and McCain, good grief...
Me, too, my friend. It would be interesting to see him as the _____ - czar, asking for half of the funding they had last year.
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