CNN is reporting that Ron Paul has not been asked to speak at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will have speaking roles, along with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Arizona Sen. John McCain and Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
The big question for Jesse Benton: "How's that infiltration on the Republican Party working out?"
If only Dr. Paul would get the hell out of the GOP (Grand Old Progressives) and run as a third-party candidate! The choice would be between Dr. Paul (for freedom) and two communists (and their tyranny).
ReplyDeleteHey!
DeleteAs a communist, I resent that statement.
Democrats are actually socialists, while republicans are fascists.
Ron Paul stands for TRUE Republican values! Values that have been changed over the years to something quite disgusting and Ron Paul wants to change it back to how it was and how it should be!
DeleteHey Truth -- I think Scott was lumping all leftist trends into one group, probably as Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihin did in his masterpiece "Leftism Revisited". Libertarians call them statists, the extreme Statists being the totalitarians. But you are right on the Dems and Repubs classification. At least you see behind the fog.
DeleteIt's probably working well for Benton personally.
ReplyDeletelol, Wenzel you bad boy.
ReplyDeleteYou're right though, who other than Benton & company, couldn't see this was going to happen?
Wow, all women speakers? Rice, Martinez, Haley, and McCain???
ReplyDeleteNot surprising at all.
Jesse - What a putz!
ReplyDeleteEven Rand is not on the list?
ReplyDeleteNot exactly surprising. There is not one interesting speaker as far as I can tell, and for some reason it really pisses me off that Mike F'ing Huckabee has a speaking role. This is the guy who couldn't wait to show Iran the Gates of Hell way back when he was in the Repub debates. I believe he also endorsed a manned-mission to Mars. Maybe he will bust out his guitar and play some sweet gospel tunes. The Repubs are a joke.
ReplyDeleteI've decided to protest vote. I just can't decide between Obama and Gary Johnson.
ReplyDeleteseriously, you can't decide between the hypocrite in chief and a guy who's policy is to get the government off our backs and save us all a ton of money?
Delete"The big question for Jesse Benton: "How's that infiltration on the Republican Party working out?"
ReplyDeleteC'mmon, let's get serious and stop with obfuscations and mystifications. The question above should read:
"The big question for Rand and Ron Paul: "How's that infilrtration on the Republican Party working out?"
Ivan -- Dr. Paul (show some respect to the man and Patriot) isn't infiltrating. He was part of the GOP and was for 30 + years a Congressman under the GOP. Dr. Paul nevertheless, is libertarian (classical liberal) first and saw the Old Right and Paleoconservatives more home to his beliefs than the Democrats. All Dr. Paul has tried to do is try to reform and restore the party to it's classical Liberal roots and federalism and if that failed, plant the seeds of former America in the next generation before it's too late and Orwellian totalitarian Statism engulfs America and the world.Hence his Campaign for Liberty.
DeleteSo, with that said, Ivan "How's that infiltration on the Republican Party working out?"
And why should he? He is failed to get the nomination, again.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if he had 250 million like the other guy...
DeleteEnglish not your first language?
DeleteSusana Who? Didnt know jawboning was an Olympic Sport.
ReplyDeleteNow would be a good time for Dr Paul to announce his candidacy for the Presidential election. The Republican Party has all but disenfranchised him and his supporters and it would serve as his final wake up call to the nation.
ReplyDeleteIf ever there was a need for one true man to stand up and be counted - this time is now. God bless Dr Paul!
Every speech at tampa " obama,obama, obama, obama, lame joke, ,....., obama, economic efficency, oh and freedomandliberty"
ReplyDeleteHeath, you made my day. :)
DeleteHonest man unwelcome at criminal convention, news at 11.
ReplyDeleteWhen has a candidate for the nomination EVER been invited to speak before the convention before the vote? It simply isn't done EVER. The nominee is invited to give his acceptance speech at the very end of the process, and typically, he is introduced by one of the losing candidates, but this is not major speaking opportunity.
ReplyDeleteWe shouldn't expect that Ron Paul will be invited to speak as long as he remains an active candidate. Note that neither Gingrich nor Santorum have been given major speaking opportunities either, and they are no longer active candidates. Any suggestion that Ron Paul would be given a major speaking role would presuppose that he ended his candidacy which he has not done.
Nothing unusual is happening here. It is not a slight to Ron Paul, but even if it were, what would be gained by making a fuss about it? We need to confront the Republican establishment about their policies, but it is foolish to make a issue of formalities.
I feel sorry for all of the suckers who donated to this campaign. Fooled again.
ReplyDeleteWell, I have to say I expected him to lose but donated anyway. I figured I kinda owed it to him and others because I was first illuminated to libertarianism, austrian economics, etc. after listening to him @ a 2006 primary debate. I felt overwhelmed by the things he was saying at the time.
DeleteI simply see his runs as a platform by which to disseminate ideas to people that might not have otherwise have heard them before. I was 35 when first exposed, Paul had a great positive impact on me.
How I got through college without reading Atlas Shrugged or exposure to Libertarianism is beyond me.(Jr. college in SoCal, Kent State & Akron U)
So now I'm just paying it forward so to speak.
Fooled? How so?
DeleteI donated to RPs campaign for one reason and one reason only: to help spread the ideas of Austro-libertarianism. Seeing that that is the case, I am very happy that I did donate to RPs campaign, because no other avenue of spreading these ideas has been more successful (today, or ever). Considering that I don't vote and question the legitimacy of the state, it is obvious that having RP win the presidency was never a goal of mine.
Was this campaign in any way related to Austro-Libertarianism?
DeleteAfter people remove their own ideological projections from Ron Paul, we're left with some mixed debate performances for basically 10s of millions in cash and labor.
Dixie,
DeleteYes, his campaign was directly related to Austro-libertarianism. While many became aware of this philosophy during his last campaign, I noticed quite a larger awareness during this campaign. Not only amongst the young (which is a given), but even more so amongst the older generations. In fact, his rallies during the 2008 campaign pale in comparison to those of his 2012 campaign.
If his first aim was to actually become president I don't think any of this would have happened. However, since his first aim was to spread ideas (with the presidency being secondary to that), his campaign succeeded far beyond anything that his becoming president would have accomplished. I knew this from the outset, which is why I know it was money well spent. Just the media blackout in the early part of the campaign alone was enough to get people interested.
The fact that you think that all he did during his campaign was give mixed debate performances tells me that you probably viewed this whole thing from your living room. I am sure that if you actually got out there with the boots on the ground, talked to people, attended some political rallies, etc; then you would see that the political landscape has completely changed.
I remember about 4 years ago I attended a not-to-be-named rally with a sign quoting Mises and that people would ask me who Mises is. This time around, not only are people able to have a competent discussion about Mises, they are doing so while wearing a Rothbard t-shirt!
Show me another candidate that has had this sort of impact to get people to study political philosophy and economics en mass.
"Thank you for the endorsement, Rand.
ReplyDeleteNow buzz off and take your father with you."
Poor Rand, selling out the support of whole scores of people who trusted him, and for what? For a party elite that does not even intend to take him seriously. Why ask him when you can get Condi and old man McCain a.k.a. REAL power players?
Neocon cheerleaders have plenty of options in 2016, and he certainly won't get all of even most of Ron Paul's supporters on board. And we know Ron Paul did not have enough supporters to win.
Rand may as well stick a fork in his ambitions. That's what you get - and deserve - for making a deal with the devil.
I'll bet the GOP and Mitt's operatives are laughing their asses off at what an over-inflated ignoramus Benton is. This would almost be hilarious if it wasn't for the matter of squandering $76 MILLION. ($36 in '08 and $40 million on this "in it to win it" campaign).
ReplyDeleteThe truly sad part is that's a lot of $10 and $25 donations from good people who sacrificed to contribute to Ron because they believed in him. Of course, Benton lavished a lot of that on himself --- as he will continue to from every one of Ron's enterprises that he can eel himself into.
Why would they give time to someone who would get up and call out the party for being the big government liars they are?
ReplyDeleteWhat a disgrace. I'm so glad I ditched the Republican party for the Liberty movement. This is just flat-out stupidity by the GOP. They could have at least made SOME effort to try to court Ron Paul's supporters. This seems like a big 'F YOU' to the Liberty movement. NEOCONdeleeza Rice over Dr. Paul... disgraceful.
ReplyDeleteLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
ReplyDeleteThe Paultards are going to have a fit.
Wow, the GOP snubs an OB/GYN doctor for an ethically challenged former Columbia/HCA CEO? I worked five years with Dr. Paul and briefly for Rick Scott. There's no comparison between the two. If the GOP wants Scott on stage, it's a sham party.
ReplyDeletePaul knows more about economics and displays more intelligence than any politician I've seen. I'm not neccesarily a fan of the Austrian school of economics but I sure as hell can the the Fed for what it is. He view of the Fed is probably the number one thing that will keep him from ever being president. Or taken seriously by the majority for that matter. Most sheeple just wait to be spoon-fed information that goes along with what they've been taught since birth.
ReplyDeleteI'm just getting real tired of being called a Sheeple, meahhahhhahh. It's discriminatory and disrespectful, meahhahhhahh.
ReplyDeleteMy organization - the NAASP (National Association for the Advancement of Sheeple People) is filing a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit and lobbying Congress to enact legislation preventing the use of this derogatory anti species-charged language, meahhahhhahh.
Now, I understand that Ewe may say "Bah" to this pending legislation, but we sheeple are tired of getting Sheared, meahhahhhahh! We are sick of being Fleeced. And Hay, we are not Lambs being led to the Slaughter, meahhahhhahh. So just Ram it!
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I actually wish they would let RP speak, just for the hell of it. Let him embarrass himself and his delusional movement.
ReplyDeleteDelusion is thinking that fascism and crony capitalism is synonymous to freedom and property rights and individuality.
DeleteSo who is delusional now??????
Did anyone seriously expect that they would?
ReplyDeleteInverted Totalitarianism. Look it up.
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