Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Is It Really Over?

Telma Reed emails:
My husband Nate and I, got energized by Ross Perot when he ran for president  and even endured with some neighbor/friends a bus ride from Kansas City to St. Louis to hear Ross speak.  It was a good speech and when he basically dropped out and then started up again I wondered why I even bothered caring.   Nate and I both were new to Austrian Economics at that time but Nate who had read much more said, Ross isn't perfect but he's worth voting for.  Then years later when I read that Murray Rothbard also supported Ross Perot I felt better about getting involved in the voting process.  For years my husband Nate has said,  "It's over."  I would be neck deep in political conversations with friends and Nate would end it abruptly with, "It's over."  It was hard for me to not get emotionally tied to the Ron Paul campaign because I have so much respect for the man and I guess I hoped in my head that he would pull through and save the country if not the world.  The announcement came.  Ron Paul was done.  Nate looked up from reading and said, "It's over."  He has put no emotion in the Ron Paul movement.  I have.  We live in a college town, Lawrence Kansas.   There are Ron Paul signs in several places.    Graduation is over.  The signs will come down.  The apartments will be rented to new students in the fall.  I just wonder.  Is it really over? I hope not.  We read you everyday.  Thanks.  Telma Reed.
Telma,

The Ron Paul campaign is over, the fight for liberty goes on.

19 comments:

  1. It's NOT over.

    Jesse Benton is a maroon.

    Delegate Nation Arise!!!

    At least we can make them squirm!!!

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  2. There are a few too many delegates in favor of liberty scheduled to attend the GOP convention in Tampa for Dr. Paul to have fully quit, it could very well be. A brokered convention led to Harding...

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    1. I agree that it is possible for us to make some impact on the convention, though I believe it to be relatively small. But the Harding reference is a bit off, he came into the convention with at least 5 other candidates which made it possible to have a brokered convention. This time around that is not likely.

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  3. Where are you getting "it's over" stuff Bob?

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  4. It's a slim possibility but I know there are a lot of stealth delegates for Ron Paul. The Unit Rule also means that NONE of them are actually bound to vote for Romney or whoever on the first round.

    Ron Paul could definitely pull a Harding out of his hat.

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  5. A pope can be elected by the college of cardinals (establishment) but also by public aclaimation (supporters). By humbly down shifting his campaignforliberty, will RP be win by aclaimation by his grassroots delegates in Tampa? He's not telling people what to do, but letting his ideas and principles guide their actions.

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  6. Yes, I don't think that it is over. Ron Paul didn't say, "I Quit". He didn't endorse Romney. Maybe you should read the Monday statement again.

    I expect that he will do about as well after "not contesting future primaries" as he would have without making such a statement, so I'm not sure why he made it. But he will continue along the path to Tampa for another three months, as planned.

    The May 17th "final" money bomb will be telling.

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  7. The only thing that could dampen the liberty movement at this point is if Paul is convinced to waste four decades of work and endorse Romney. I had not thought this was possible until the announcement the other day and statements by Jesse Benton, but now it is a real possibility.

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  8. so why is rand paul saying this then?

    "So please help the Ron Paul campaign continue to make an impact for the principles you and I hold dear by making a generous contribution to the Rise for Liberty Money Bomb taking place tomorrow.

    Every dollar you can give will help the campaign take over more key positions within the Republican Party and send new delegates to Tampa, which will help liberty candidates tremendously in the future."

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  9. Truth is, if his supporters stay motivated and continue to push the delegate strategy, he might end up winning even with that asinine statement. I love Dr. Paul, but I still contend that statement release was a colossal brainfart.

    I can't help but wonder, with all the momentum that his candidacy was generating, that something fishy happened.

    Manchurian Candidate? WTF

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  10. Bob,

    Thanks for all your great work. I'm a long-time Paul supporter and I've been just as puzzled as everyone about the poorly written press releases and mixed messages from the Paul campaign in the last few days. I've done a lot of digging and coverage of the story over at my blog. I put up some telling video of Tom Woods and Doug Wead. There is something going on over at the Paul campaign that we don't know about, and there are a lot of different plausible explanations.... but I would put my money on general mismanagement and incompetence. Check out this post for the summary. Maybe you and your readers would find it interesting.

    http://fromviennawithlove.blogspot.fr/2012/05/debacle-summary.html

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    1. Great video of Woods. I had never seen that before, and it explains a lot. I think Benton is either just a moron or corrupted by the DC gop machine with promises of future jobs and power. To hell with him. Paul should have never had an idiot like that with zero qualifications as campaign manager anyway.

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    2. It's called nepotism. A gynecologist can't see it, but perhaps an opthamalogist can.

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  11. Wenzel, what's with all the gratuitous negativity? You don't really know that it's over. You're betting that it is. Perhaps because you can predict the economic tides you feel that you're a sage about these matters as well. But you're not--you know about as much as anyone else outside the campaign--and you are coming off as an ass.

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    1. I think Benton releasing this AFTER Paul had really picked up momentum and started to win states is exactly why it is over.

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  12. I hate to say it but ive been posting on this blog for how many months saying Ron Paul has zero Chance.

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  13. Shortly before Super Tuesday I quit phone banking and decided I would not give any more money. I was uncomfortable with the way the Paul campaign related to the Romney campaign.

    Now, I feel vindicated.

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  14. Maybe it's just a ruse to throw off the establishment Repubs. They were getting antsy as Paul picked up delegates. Now they're complacent while Paul continues to pick up delegates. Who knows?

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