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Hello Friends,
An interesting thing happened yesterday, the kook Ron Paul showed his rel intentions for all to see but the ronbots still fail to comprehend and understand that they've been had and used.
Ron Paul knew something that none of his supporters knew from the start. He knew he had no chance of winning the GOP nomination but he went into this campaign eyes open for one reason only and that's to get a power base at the GOP convention. The power base is to make deals for himself and his son and in the long run that's all it boils down to. I've been saying this for the longest time and now that he's come clean and says it himself the ronbots still fail to understand.
After reading the different news flashes about Paul pulling out of the upcoming primary elections, I decided to wait till this morning to post about it cos I wanted to see whether the ronbots will come out of the woodwork once again and they didn't disappoint me in the least. They're out there in total denial and even after literally being told they've been had and used by the kook Paul they still believe he'll win. You can't be more brainwashed then that.
He knew he never had a chance but was out there telling all his brainwashed supporters that he's in the race till the convention and even after pulling out of the primary race they still don't get it. He lied to his supporters but that doesn't stop them does it? You really can't fix stupid and brainwashed. Carry on and make it easier for him to make behind closed doors deals for himself and mostly for his son. His intentions were on the wall for all to see and he isn't running for reelection either so he has nothing to lose.
Many of us discerned there was a deal between Romney and Paul almost from the beginning of the race. Both of them bashed all the other candidates but rarely had bad things to say about each other. That was a pretty obvious and transparent fact that the deal was in and in a sense you have to think that if Paul chose to make a deal with Romney he can't be as bad as his ronbots are claiming. That said the fact that there was a deal at all shows that he had only one thing in mind during this race and that's insuring his son's future with his power base. And why not, he didn't do it on his dime but that of his rabid supporters.
Now Romney isn't my first choice, far from it but my conviction was and still is that our main concern during these elections is to rid our selves of the monster sitting in the White House and I'll quote Andrew Breitbart in his last major speech before he 'died'. He was saying what I said now and he ended by saying that if you don't support and vote for the GOP nominee you're part of the problem and SHAME on you for that. The problem is that the ronbots have no shame nor do they have real understanding how badly they've been had and used by Paul and all you have to do is read their rabid rants after the announcement yesterday. For them nothing's changed and they fail to understand that now's the time for unity and not divisiveness. But that's beyond the comprehension of the ronbots but I do believe that the fence sitters and so called devils advocates will finally get it and unite to oust the fraud and great pretender and send him home as he so richly deserves this November.
Shalom,
Peter
Rep. Ron Paul said Monday he will not compete in Republican primaries in any of the states that have not yet voted — essentially ending the 2012 primary season and leaving the path open for Mitt Romney to win the GOP presidential nomination.
Mr. Paul said he will still try to win over delegates in states where the voting is done but where state conventions are still picking representatives to the Republican nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. But the Texas congressman and three-time presidential hopeful said he’s done actively trying to win over voters themselves in the 11 primaries still ahead.
“Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” Mr. Paul said in a statement from his campaign. “Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.”
That move leaves Mr. Romney as the only man actively seeking the Republican nomination, having outlasted a half-dozen opponents over the last four months of voting. The former Massachusetts governor is still shy of the number of delegates needed to win the nomination, but is expected to easily collect those in upcoming votes in Texas, California and nine other states still to hold primaries.
Mr. Romney’s campaign did not return a message seeking comment, but the push to win over Paul supporters is already under way in other circles. Former New Mexico Gov. Gary E. Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee, said he’ll pick up Mr. Paul’s torch heading into the election.
“You can’t suspend liberty,” said Mr. Johnson, who had initially tried to win the Republican nomination before dropping out to join the Libertarians. “The Ron Paul revolution must continue, whether he is actively campaigning or not. His message must be a part of the conversation leading to November.”
Mr. Paul is retiring at the end of this term in the House. But he has already bequeathed his political movement to his son, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, who rode voter dissatisfaction to victory in a Republican primary and then in the general election in Kentucky in 2010.
The 2012 campaign marked Mr. Paul’s third run for the White House, following a 1988 campaign as the Libertarian Party’s nominee and then his 2008 bid for the Republican nomination.
That unorthodox 2008 campaign rewrote the manual on Internet fundraising and attracted Americans who had been alienated by much of the political process but were attracted to Mr. Paul’s message of limited government bound more strictly to original constitutional intent.
His rallies attracted supporters dressed as Colonial soldiers, and “Don’t tread on me” flags became staples of his appearances, well before they would become a part of the anti-Washington tea party movement in the 2010 elections.
“Ron Paul presaged the tea party movement, and many of his supporters fueled the tea party and its 2010 victories, not least that of his own son. That is one major impact. Another is Paul’s ability to attract young people, a feat few in the GOP have been able to duplicate in recent years,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato.
Still, Mr. Sabato said, Mr. Paul’s stances on foreign policy and on drug legalization were unacceptable to too many Republican voters for him to have gone further within the party.
Mr. Paul briefly surged late last year, topping the polls in Iowa ahead of that state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. His third-place showing also seemed to leave him poised to make a run.
But that never materialized.
He ends his active campaigning without having won the popular vote in any state — though he did end up with the most bound delegates in Maine, thanks to his delegate-maximizing strategy.
According to the latest tally by the Associated Press, Mr. Romney has 966 delegates of the 1,144 needed to win the nomination. Mr. Paul has 104 delegates.
More than 700 delegates are still available across the 11 states still to hold primaries, and Mr. Romney is now virtually assured of collecting the bulk of them and clinching the nomination.
Throughout the campaign, Mr. Paul has said his lower vote totals would be countered by his supporters’ enthusiasm, particularly in states that hold caucuses.
In many of those states, the initial caucuses amounted to nonbinding straw polls, with the real delegate-selection process for the Tampa convention happening at regional and state meetings. Mr. Paul’s supporters have been more likely to show up at those meetings and win the delegate slots.
Now Mr. Paul will rely on trying to maximize delegates at the few states that have yet to choose their final delegates to the national convention, such as Washington and Missouri. He can also try to win over support of delegates who were bound to Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum — two former candidates who have suspended their campaigns.
“Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to take leadership positions, win delegates, and carry a strong message to the Republican National Convention that liberty is the way of the future,” Mr. Paul said.
Many of Mr. Paul’s supporters argue he can still win the nomination, pointing to his success in having his supporters elected as delegates to the convention.
But most of those delegates are actually bound by the results of the primaries and conventions to vote for another candidate in the first round of voting. Most delegates’ personal views won’t come into play unless no candidate wins on the first ballot.