Posted on 05/14/2012 12:11:34 PM PDT by Kevin C
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said Monday he will not compete in primaries in any of the states that have not yet voted — essentially confirming Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination. Mr. Paul said he will continue to work for delegates in states that have already voted and where the process of delegate-selection is playing out. He said that’s a way to make his voice heard at the nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. “Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” Mr. Paul said. “Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.” He did encourage his supporters to still turn out and vote. His decision not to compete for new votes in other states leaves Mr. Romney as the only candidate still actively fighting for voters’ support.
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Also, nobody had his meanness nor his unscrupulous tactics.
What Ron Paul is doing is working in states where selection national convention delegation slates have no connection to primaries or caucuses, and subverting the process by taking over county, congressional district, and state conventions and ramming thru Ronulan delegates. Just as they’ve done in Iowa. The delegate slate to be resented for ratification by the state convention has absolutely no correlation to caucus results - and it’s all been done “by the book”. Every other campaign has been asleep at the wheel - and are reaping whats been sown.
Who “worships” Fox News? The last time I heard something like that, it came from a leftwinger.
In your book, a “good man” might enable abortions, suck up to homosexuals, and say that sodomites have the right to adopt children. Not in mine. You can have him.
Romney or Zero.
Death by fire ants or death by anal rape.
Not much of a choice there.
RIGHT, and his money bought that.
His attack ads were orchestrated by him.
He can deny it, but those ads were his.
We have a deal. Congratulations, Vice-President Rand.
Just in my lifetime:
What a glorious eight years that was! But maybe it was because we were united behind a single conservative candidate rather than nit-picking over slight flaws of many candidates in a wide field.
What does that even mean?
Rick Perry, Tim Pawlenty, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul all count for nothing?
Never before have I seen so much spurious crap being passed off as analysis here on FR!
It is a disgrace.
You Romney-haters need to take the crazy pants off already! We've got work to do!
LOL.....Death by Bongo Bongo
So who is it that ran this cycle who you believe was a genuine conservative with only slight flaws?
I don’t think the kooks are what Paul meant to attract, but once they became his core base of support, he had no choice but the embrace them.
The comment wasn't that Ron Paul was nutty. It was that some of his supporters are. Big difference.
Nutty? There's about a 100 million American that agree with about 90% of what he says.
Then why didn't he win?
Your tired meme is an ant against a tidal wave.
A tidal wave that fizzled out with less than 10% of the vote. Hey, I like Ron Paul. I'm one of those people who agrees with at least 80% of what he says, though the rest made me unable to support him in the primary. Still, I'm glad he was in the race and raised these issues of limited government.
What a lot of people really resented, however, was the boorish behavior of some his supporters. Just the conservative/libertarian version of ill-mannered OWS types who equate shouting other people down to winning the argument.
You guys might have gotten further if the annoying tactics hadn't alienated so many people. Maybe that makes it fun for them, and they think it's funny. But it just comes across like a bunch of smug frat boys who think they're smarter than everyone else while puking on their shoes.
Oh please, beating all of those guys was as easy as beating the Charlotte Bobcats.
Romney is not running as a liberal.
Obama is, however.
When was the last time the 'Rats won with a self-acknowledged liberal as candidate?
What utter foolishness you just wrote!!!!! The ‘powers that be’ (Establishment) were behind Romney all the time even to this day. Fox News had been shilling for Mitt for months and your statement on Romney being brave is idiotic!!! Where was Romney and ABO (Anybody But Obama) as his staffers absorbed by the McCain camp were anonymously trashing and sabotaging Sarah and thus trying to hurt the McCain ticket for Romneys future ambitions? That not bravery but cowardly!!!!
That’s right. It was the most vicious campaign to destroy someone’s character I’ve seen, outside of what was done to Palin.
There is nothing more disgraceful than defeatism.
Nothing.
Reagan was clearly head and shoulders above everybody else in the field....This time around, they were all just a big gaggle of spares that were indistinguishable from each other. They picked Romney, for the same reason the pointy-headed boss in Dilbert picked the boss, "He has executive-style hair."
So what's your point? That was the entire rest of the field. If it was so easy why didn't someone else jump in and do it?
Good question....perhaps they knew the RNC wouldn't support them.
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