Pffffffffffffttttttt!!!!!!!!!
"Paul ends his presidential campaign" by Globe Staff | June 13, 2008
Republican Ron Paul ended his rebel campaign last night and announced a new effort to help elect libertarian-leaning Republicans to public office around the country.
Paul, who announced his move during a rally coinciding with the Texas GOP State Convention in Houston, told supporters in a letter posted on the website of the new group, Campaign for Liberty:
"With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign is at an end. But the larger campaign for freedom is just getting started. We will be a permanent presence on the American political landscape. That I promise you. We're not about to let all this good work die. To the contrary, with your help we're going to make it grow - by leaps and bounds."
I had to go check for myself.
No way I would ever believe the AmeriKan MSM alone.
Are you kidding? After their primary coverage?
Why I'm here everyday, too!!!
The 72-year-old Texas congressman won 24 delegates during the Republican primaries, but was the last remaining challenger to John McCain, the party's presumptive nominee. Paul has said he won't endorse McCain.
Paul, in an interview with CNN earlier yesterday, had nice things to say about Bob Barr, a former Republican congressman from Georgia who is the Libertarian Party's nominee:
"[Barr] talks our language, so I do really believe that he can have a very positive effect in this campaign and let the people know that limited government is a very, very important message."
Which is why I will probably be marking the ballot for old Bob here!!!
Paul raised more than $34 million, much of it online, and had more than $4.7 million in hand at the end of April that he could use to fund Campaign for Liberty.
He also developed a large grass-roots following among those who backed his call for ending the war in Iraq and smaller government at home.
I'm part of it!!!
Except in this rink-dink town, the meetings are loaded with Christian nutties and McCain flaks!!
He easily passed the 1 million-vote mark during the primaries, and in the final three contests on June 3 he finished second to McCain, with 22 percent of the vote in Montana, 17 percent in South Dakota, and 14 percent in New Mexico. His new book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto," zoomed to the top of bestseller lists.
Yeah, and how come THOSE FACTS have been BARELY REPORTED!!!!
Also see: Ron Paul Revolution Excerpts: Civil Liberties
Paul confirmed plans yesterday to hold a counter-rally at an arena in neighboring Minneapolis on Sept. 2, the second day of the Republican National Convention.
Same old shit... pffffffffffffftttttt!!!!!
By the way, after the way they treated the Good Doctor, I'm OFFENDED by MSM press coverage of him now!
Update: I KNEW IT!
"UPDATE: Hold on! Ron Paul did NOT quit the GOP presidential race"
".... Our perceptive Times colleague, Scott Martelle, knew that too as a loyal Ticket reader and guest blogger. In his news story for this website and today's print editions, Martelle notes astutely that Paul's rambling speech stopped short of actually saying he was quitting his campaign.
He talked instead about "shifting gears" and "a technical change" to launch a vigorous new effort, the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty, using the nearly $5 million left from his successful $34.5-million presidential fund-raising effort over these last 17 months.
In the fourth quarter of 2007, Paul actually raised more money than millionaire Mitt Romney, who seems to print the stuff in the basement of one of his many homes.
True, Paul's old website carries an obviously counterfeit message claiming Paul is ending his presidential campaign. But that site has clearly been hijacked by neocons and other dastardly demons determined to undermine libertarian unity, to confuse Paul's 1,400 meet-up groups and to build that somehow subversive highway across Texas that could maybe undermine American sovereignty like a sinkhole and cause Canada to take over all 50 states. (57, if you're an Obama Democrat.)
First, if Paul officially quit the campaign, he'd lose control of his delegates under party rules, the one little pocket of power that might give him some leverage for platform phrasing or a speaking spot at the Republican National Convention in early September in St. Paul (no relation).
Second, if Paul was giving up like those better-known Republican wusses from Arkansas and Massachusetts, he would likely be endorsing McCain as a gesture of party unity, something that simply ain't gonna happen, if only because Paul opposes everything about the Iraq war, wants an immediate withdrawal and those resources spent on America's own pressing needs. Wait a minute, that sounds kind of, dare we say it, Democratic.
And fourthly, no thirdly, if Paul was really quitting, why would he also announce a parallel gathering of the Paul gang -- possibly 11,000 strong if they fill the Williams Arena in Minneapolis on Sept. 2 during the Republican convention across the Mississippi River?"Frikkin' lying MSM!
Sigh!!
