Oh For Frigg's Sakes They Finally Throw The Gauntlet!!

it falsely portrays him as something other than Republican, when in fact he's pure Republican (not to be confused with neocon)

first of all....those undecided republicans won't go for a Ron Paul as the republican cuz they think it will be a wasted vote. The undecided Dems wont switch to vote for him cuz the same reason...then the independent undecided, well some will and some wont....at least that is what the OM seems to be trying to do. Also, after reading that and the Huckabee thing at the end...it seems that ole Huck is trying to get the Paul people...by now being anti-bush foreign policy and 'all inclusive' and 'changing' the republican party to do so. Odd...this is their best set of tactics yet.
-discredit Paul (finally a decent try that dummies will believe)
-make Paul seem the outsider for sure (3rd party crap...)
-get those votes to Huck

Good try...but it is too little to late.
Ron Paul already has the support he needs to win.

Lets GO! Can I vote already!!!

And I'm always surprised about the ignorance of Americans. They usually think that the Civil War was "to free the slaves", when that was a political calculation made years after tens of thousands had died. Lincoln did it primarily to inject a moral justification for an immoral war whose primary purpose was to try to prevent people who had freely joined a union to freely leave it. Even as a political calculation, Lincoln did not free "the slaves". The Eman Proc freed only slaves in the seceding States, not in the Union states.

The moral thing to do would have been what Ron Paul suggested, which was to buy the slaves and free them and some abolitionist groups were doing that.

The moral thing to do would have been to use economic pressure to free the slaves and some abolitionist groups were doing that.

The moral thing to do would have been, having won the war, Lincoln could have freed the slaves, and then freed the South to do whatever they wanted, including seceding.

If the South had freed all the slaves and then had seceded, Lincoln would have still attacked. He personally wanted slavery ended, but he did not think it politically possible. What he did not want was for States to be able to leave the Union, even if their people decided that the Union no longer represented them. He was willing to extend Tyranny, and was not as concerned about reducing Slavery.

But Americans believe that the Civil War was fought to free the slaves (and was not a political expedient afterthought). They believe that the Civil War was necessary because the slaves could never have been freed otherwise. And they never think about the real underlying issue -- when can a free people leave their government because they believe the government no longer represents them.

Lincoln represents to me Tyranny, not Freedom. "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people" did "perish from the earth" with his immoral war.

But this is a losing argument!

People "know what they know", because it was indoctrinated into them from elementary school. And the government schools have enobled the Civil War to a degree that saying that 100,000 men need not have been slaughtered is considered heresy.

The big question for the campaign is why let this be discussed at all. If they want to review history of 130 years ago, there is another forum for that. We're talking about increasing freedom today.

I wish Ron would focus on his message and leave off the disabusing of historical ignorance. That's not his job.

reLOVEution,
Dennis
"The best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in nursery." - Disraeli

The problem with that is that he doesn't want to be called a lier if he runs 3rd party. If RP doesn't win the nom, you can be sure he won't let down the millions of people and dollars he has. The issue isn't "putting it to rest," it should be explaining the goal. You cross that bridge when you come to it. The goal now is winning the republican nom, nothing else. All questions of a 3rd party run are inconsequential because the opportunity isn't even there yet. It's rather obvious that he wants to keep his options open. All he needs to do is say, "I have no intention...I'm running for the republican nomination now and that's all I'm thinking about." A press conference will never happen because Paul will almost certainly run 3rd party if he doesn't get the nom. It shouldn't be an issue, since he's currently running as a republican, but the media can't stay away.

"we can be angry about the inevitable smears from now to next sunday (figuratively), but it helps nothing but reinforce the attitude that we are just a bunch of whiney internet dorks"

You nailed it.

u speak truly and wisely...

The 99.9% position is a tactical brilliancy. Dr. Paul has been around politics a long time and is looking several moves ahead on the campaign chessboard. He has a better chance to win the Republican nomination by not ruling out every option and so he simply accepts the aggravation of being asked about it repeatedly as the price he has to pay to retain that advantage. Interestingly the threat of making that particular move is even more powerful than actually making the move. This is a common theme in chess strategy.