http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/paulestinians/ en-us Sun, 7 Sep 2008 03:49:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076483/posts Speculation is that that Baldwin and Barr are stepping aside so that Paul can become the nominee of both the Constitution and Libertarian Parties The Montana Constitution Party has removed Chuck Baldwin from the ballot and is putting the ticket of Ron Paul for President and Michael Peroutka on the ballot for Vice-President. Economic Policy Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076483/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 03:49:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075538/posts .....Why were you here in the Twin Cities? And how did you get into the Excel Center? I was here in Minneapolis for the IVAW convention and thought I’d stick around for this. Well I’ve been a Ron Paul supporter since the beginning of this campaign. Since before this campaign started, actually, I’ve been a fan of Paul. So I’ve got a lot of friends in the Ron Paul crowd. And he’s got a lot of delegates in there. More than the Republican Party is willing to admit. And the fact that I got into there is proof of that.... The American Prospect http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075538/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:52:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042070/posts If Ron Paul does not win the nomination in September who will you vote for? Barack Obama Bob Barr Chuck Baldwin John Mccain Ron Paul (WRITE IN) None of the above www.revolutionbroadcasting.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042070/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:21:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2034970/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a23mbSYcBgc YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2034970/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:18:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031821/posts While most Republicans are likely to consider Rep. Ron Paul of Texas a mere pest, his devoted followers could be a problem for Sen. John McCain in November. Paul, the GOP congressman with the squeaky voice but with a following of vocal supporters, will not go away. He's suspended his presidential campaign but his crusade goes on. Paul got into the presidential race with no chance of winning. But his opposition to the war in Iraq, his isolationist foreign policy, and his leave-us-alone views on the domestic front won him faithful supporters during the debates earlier this year. Based on... US News World Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031821/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:19:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028932/posts Ron Paul plans his own convention By David Brown TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Maverick GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has booked an arena in Minneapolis for a "mini-convention" that could steal some of John McCain's thunder just days before he accepts the Republican nomination. A Paul campaign aide said the Texas congressman hopes to pack about 11,000 supporters into the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 2, which coincides with the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in neighboring St. Paul. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028932/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:41:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028812/posts Now on Fox, a spokesman for a group called "The Resistance." They are sending personal letters to our troops in Iraq blaming the U.S. for 9-11 and calling the troops stupid murderers who should desert the military. The spokesman is having a quiet tantrum as he curses the U.S. and demands we pull out of the Middle East. Eye-opening. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028812/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:39:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028578/posts Harris County Court-at-Law Judge Roberta Lloyd today dissolved a court order restricting how the Texas Republican Party should run its convention under state law this week in Houston. Lloyd said the order, issued last week by retired substitute judge Tom Sullivan, was improper because her court lacks jurisdiction over such a case. She suggested the group of Republican delegates and activists who asked for the order take the case to the Court of Appeals in Houston — and that's where the group headed late this afternoon. The group, headed by Wharton County GOP Chairman Debra Medina and represented in court... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028578/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:18:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026251/posts Republican activists' Houston case warned state leaders will try to shut out grass-roots opposition at meeting next week A Harris County judge on Wednesday ordered the Texas Republican Party to comply with state election law at its state convention in Houston next week after Republican activists alleged that the party illegally uses procedures to minimize grass-root dissent. Visiting Judge Tom Sullivan issued the temporary restraining order on Wednesday, a few hours after it was requested in a lawsuit filed by activists across the state. Represented by lawyer Gary Polland, a former Harris County Republican Party chairman, the group alleges that... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026251/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 02:51:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023497/posts Ron Paul 'revolution' to flex views at GOP convention By David Brown TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, May 30, 2008 Ron Paul and a legion of his die-hard supporters plan to descend on the Republican National Convention in September -- not to surrender to John McCain, but to begin the next phase of Paul's "revolution." Paul, 72, a 10-term Texas congressman and Green Tree native, likely won't be allowed to speak at the convention, as many of his backers had hoped, because he refuses to endorse McCain, Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said Thursday. Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023497/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 13:37:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022540/posts John McCain has the Republican nomination wrapped up, but Ron Paul isn't going anywhere. In fact, in Tuesday's little-noticed Republican primary in Idaho, the iconoclastic Texas congressman had his best showing so far, grabbing 24 percent of the vote, nearly 30,000 votes in all. McCain won with 70 percent, while the other 6 percent went to uncommitted... Boston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022540/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 18:17:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019757/posts Long-time Minneapolis peace activist Ed Felien will be in court this afternoon pushing for President Bush to be arrested and investigated for war crimes when he comes here in August for the GOP convention. Felien filed a motion in Hennepin County District Court asking Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to begin investigating Bush and charge him with war crimes. The president "has fraudulently represented a war against Iraq as essential for our national interests when in reality the war only benefits his private interests. With his Saudi friends he has cornered the supply of oil and raised prices. And through... StarTribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019757/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 16:46:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017548/posts With their third straight loss of a House seat in a special election, Republicans are discovering that they’re in crisis. Well, duh! After all, here you have a political party that preaches the old libertarian mantra of “free enterprise, private property, and limited government” while embracing and supporting such socialist, interventionist, and imperial programs as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, income taxation, the drug war, paper money, the Federal Reserve, the war on immigrants, the war on poverty, torture, wars of aggression, military occupations, kidnapping and rendition, suspension of habeas corpus, and denial of due process of law, right to counsel,... MWC NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017548/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 02:48:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016171/posts Sen. John McCain, taking a victory lap as the presumptive Republican nominee, happily poked fun at his only remaining opponent. Asked during an appearance on "The Daily Show" last week which of the two Democratic nominees he preferred to run against in the general election, McCain quipped, "Ron Paul." But Paul might get the last laugh during McCain's coronation at the party's convention in early September. McCain's nomination may be certain, but he finds himself pressured by different wings of the conservative movement -- from the libertarians and the anti-war activists, to social conservatives and evangelical voters. ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016171/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 03:51:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014757/posts quietly, largely under the radar of most people, the forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in St. Paul at the beginning of September. Paul's presidential candidacy has been correctly dismissed all along in terms of winning the nomination. He was even excluded as irrelevant by Fox News from a nationally-televised GOP debate in New Hampshire. But what's been largely overlooked is Paul's candidacy as a reflection of a powerful lingering dissatisfaction with the Arizona senator among the party's... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014757/posts#comment Mon, 12 May 2008 13:45:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011480/posts According to an email from some Missouri supporters of Ron Paul, sent late Sunday night, the state Republican Party has scheduled a special “credentials meeting” for 10 a.m. Monday at the Blue Armory in Jefferson City. At the meeting, according to the email, about 300 of the 1,900 elected delegates to the state GOP convention May 30-June 1 must disprove allegations that — presumably — accuse the targeted delegates of not being bona fide Republicans and/or not committed to supporting John McCain for president. STLtoday.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011480/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 16:24:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012601/posts Will a GOP uprising take place at the Republican National Convention? As the mainstream media obsesses over the Democratic Party’s brewing civil war, supporters of Republican presidential candidate US Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, are already staging their own quiet uprising at GOP conventions across the nation. If, by a strange twist of fate, the Republicans’ presumptive nominee, US Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., fails to win the first ballot at the national convention, “all hell will break loose,” one Santa Fe County delegate tells SFR. In New Mexico, Paul would need to collect 15 percent of the popular vote to win... Santa Fe Reporter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012601/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 19:50:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011961/posts As the Democratic presidential candidates held pre-primary rallies yesterday in Indiana and North Carolina, and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain spoke to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, another major-party presidential candidate continued his own quest for nomination, headlining a "Freedom Rally" on a Fort Wayne, Ind., university campus. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) told supporters in early March, through a Web video, that he knew he was no longer in the running for the presidency, and aides said his campaign would be "winding down." But it turns out Paul never stopped running for president. WashingtonPost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011961/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2008 15:31:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011378/posts HOUSTON -- Congressman Ron Paul is considering using $4 million left over from his failed presidential campaign to start a for-profit publishing company that would reflect his Libertarian-leaning views.The move could test the limits of federal campaign finance rules. Federal guidelines say the money can’t be used for personal things like vacations and mortgage payments, but it’s not clear if he could use the money for a company that would produce educational material. Paul also has a potential gold mine in his mailing list, if he rents those names to interest groups or other campaigns. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011378/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 12:11:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011090/posts Jeff Greenspan, Ron Paul's paid out-of-state political operative who helped engineer last weekend's fiasco at the Nevada Republican Party convention in Reno, is tying himself in knots trying to spin his way out of responsibility for the embarrassment he caused. The story line that the Paul people desperately want to believe - as it fuels the already abundant level of paranoia that flows uncontrolled through their ranks - is that the Nevada GOP had been conspiring behind closed doors to block any Paul supporters from going to the Republican National Convention in Minnesota later this summer. In their conspiracy-addled minds,... Nevada Appeal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011090/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 17:28:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010527/posts As far as John McCain is concerned, the Republican presidential nomination is a done deal and the party is united behind him. But thousands of Republicans -- particularly supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul -- aren't buying that. In the Pennsylvania primary, more than 215,000 Republicans cast ballots for Paul or former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who together captured 27% of the vote. And that was tame compared with the uproar last weekend at Nevada's Republican Party Convention. About 600 well-organized Paul supporters overwhelmed McCain's forces and engineered a rule change that permitted national convention delegates to be nominated from... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010527/posts#comment Sat, 3 May 2008 01:16:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008461/posts The Nevada Republican party suspended its convention on Saturday night with no delegates elected to attend the party's national convention in September. The state party chairman, Sue Lowden says that the party will reconvene to nominate the state's 31 delegates in Las Vegas at a later date. An argument over the delegate nominating process sent the party into disarray. The nominating committee put forth a list of candidates and called for a vote. Ron Paul supporters on the floor were unhappy with the list of candidates. Through a rule change, delegates were able to start nominating candidates from the floor... KRNV4 News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008461/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:39:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007762/posts RENO, Nevada (AP) — Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention. Outnumbered supporters of expected Republican presidential nominee John McCain faced off Saturday against well-organized Paul supporters. A large share of the more than 1,300 state convention delegates enabled Paul supporters to get a rule change positioning them for more national convention delegate slots than expected. "I've seen factions walk out. I've never seen a party walk out," said Jeff Greenspan, regional coordinator... CNN.com Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007762/posts#comment Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:11:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994162/posts Down here in Galveston County, the Ron Paul bots tried to hijack the convention using subterfuge and tactical advantage of surprise, that would have made al Queda proud (high-placed sleeper, multiple coordinated attacks with a goal of causing a larger scale effect at the State convention and later at the National convention. Unfortunately for them it was discovered and thwarted for the most part by perceptive Republicans that took action and alerted others to help block their efforts. But it did make for a long and chaotic mess. Like jihadists, they took advantage of a weak Party leadership in transition... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994162/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:19:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967583/posts In a message to supporters sent just before 11 p.m. Friday night, Representative Ron Paul, a long-shot G.O.P. candidate from Texas, basically conceded that he’s not going to win the party’s nomination. That said, he’s scaling back his campaign — but not entirely. He said: With Romney gone, the chances of a brokered convention are nearly zero. But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get. But with so many primaries and caucuses now over, we do... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967583/posts#comment Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:09:04 GMT