Ron Paul Speech After The Iowa Caucus Result "We Will Go On!"

Please hear me out...Dr. Paul had all the cameras on him, the world watching, and he rambled and said things like "We are Austrians now" (yes, to the DP community we know what that means but 90% of Americans don't and it sounds weird).

Newt used his moment to strike...to be specific about the differences between him and Paul, Romney, Santorum and that is what I wish Dr. Paul would have done with all the world watching.

Dr. Paul could have forcefully said..."Our campaign won the independents 8-1 over all the other candidates, and without independents no one wins a national election. Our campaign brings in the progressives & democrats too because we are against the NDAA that Obama just signed, Obama signed to have Americans detained IDEFINITLY and under a Paul administration we will obey the constitution and protect civil liberties! Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum believe in the current foreign policy, they have no problem with continuing these wars and starting new ones...under my administration I will not go to war unless Congress votes to declare war. Mitt Romney has zero credibility as a conservative, he was for the bailouts and Obama gives Romney praise for coming up with a healthcare mandate for Massachusettes and took some of Romneys'ideas for Obamacare."

That is what I would have loved to have heard, and I could sense from Rand's body language he looked like he wishes his dad would stay more focused instead of rambling.

Bottomline...I accept Dr. Paul and his speaking style (it has been this way all his life)...and only want to see him succeed--On to New Hampshire!

I'd like to reiterate: the establishment is playing hardball and there are no rules. Everyone needs to be realistic about that.

I stated in a thread here before IA that I feared the random rise of Santorum meant the plan was to push Paul down to third.

http://www.dailypaul.com/198925/your-guess-on-the-vote-tomor...

It's easy to see how that happened. Santorum was made to appear credible and many, many of Paul's anti-Romney votes were shifted to Santorum through insider party deals. If not for Santorum materializing out of nowhere, Paul would have walked away with a first place finish. Even with Santorum's "surge," Paul was only a few percentage points off.

In NH, I fear a random Huntsman surge, or possibly another factor or factors, pushing Paul down to third again. The establishment's tactics are unsophisticated, but effective, and they can detonate these nothing candidates whenever they need to, as well as pull out all the stops with crooked media coverage, as we've seen.

If things played out naturally, Paul would be first in IA, and a strong second in NH. However, if he can be kept third or lower in early caucus states, he can be entirely marginalized as things go forward.

We, and the official campaign, need to be realistic about who and what we're up against, or we're going to get steamrolled.

I noticed Rand had a kind of glazed-over look in his eyes during recent appearances. I think he is just appalled at the treatment of his dad by the media. Instead of asking about Ron Paul's policies, almost every interviewer has badgered Rand and Ron about drugs and prostitution, "outside the mainstream" views, etc. Rand is not used to this kind of treatment, since the mainstream GOP has been more accepting of him than his father. It must have been spirit-crushing.

That said, I hope Rand moves closer to his father's politics and doesn't become just another Republican.

The main question in this campaign is not whether Ron can win. It is "How can Ron not win?". Ron's tireless 10% insures that Ron can be the only real Republican nominee. Anyone else will turn into Bob Dole without Ron's 10%. A long primary process will allow Ron to lay the groundwork for Rand in 2016. By then, they'll be talking about Rand's tireless 20%.

We over doubled Ron Paul's support in Iowa since 2008. That is unbelievable. We should be very proud of ourselves. The people who worked Iowa should be standing tall today. They where amazing. Also there was allot to be learn from watching last night. It has taken the progressives 100 years to get us to this point and look what we have done in only 7 years. I'm telling you its amazing. Think about it last time the evangelical vote was 35% for Huckabee this time it was 25% for rick Romney got his same 25% so that means either the other 10% voted for the others or they voted for Ron Paul. Either way the Christians showed that some of them are figuring out they need to make their decision on their own and not just vote the way their pastor tells them to that is a huge thing. It should give us hope for our nation that it can be woke up. It is our job to do everything we can to poke them and say "hey its time to get up". We are so lucky to have the internet or non of this would be happening. We have to protect an open internet at all cost they will do anything they can to close it off. anyway that's how I see this and everyone keep your heads held hi we are doing great.

I'm still at the Marriott where Dr. Paul's victory speech took place. 'For Liberty' director, Chris Rye is sitting at his computer--still editing footage. Here's a little something from last night from both of our cameras:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hfpt4sxpPo

So Ron Paul may have lost the popular vote, but not the delegate vote. I know people are quoting the examiner link:

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-con...

or the infowars/business insider link:
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-may-have-just-secretly-won-...

According to CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/state/ia

Paul: 7 delegates
Santorum: 7
Romney: 7
Gingrich: 2
Perry: 2

Unpledged: 3

Now what happens?

If Santorum drops out, what happens to his delegates?

We peaked early, and the press pounded on us for several days.

Santorum grabbed a lot of our votes, he peaked perfectly, because up until recently, his polling numbers bought him a total pass in the media, and us, no one scrutinized him. He's been under the radar. Fox and friends pumped him for all they were worth. Santorum won't last, because we will turn the flashlight on him, and probably get some help from part of the media.

People were warning about Santorum, they were right. Not because "he's the one". But because he was the right tool, at the right time, for the establishment to counter Paul. Now their usage of Santorum is done.

We got to go back to educating. If people don't understand what Paul is about, they won't have conviction.

I'm still seeing and hearing people say: "He's got strange ideas. He wants to go back to the gold standard. He wants to do this... He believes in that ... etc etc etc"

Which infuriates me. If Paul wants to go back to literally go back to the gold standard next year, then why is he trying to save the dollar?
It's a device, a learning tool, a history lesson, a warning. People really think that by 2014, Paul wants everyone to be carrying around little baggies of gold!!! They're idiots. I've corrected as many as possible, talking about the lessons of the gold standard, and why gold is real money, and that if we don't observe the dangers of fiat, we're going to lose ours. You tell them about competing currencies, sovereign money, money backed by something, etc etc etc. The main point is, with fiat, banksters rob us blind of our purchasing power. Once I explain it, people get it.

They confuse "a promise", with "a position".

Paul has many philosophical positions. But he's only made a few promises.

1. Bring the troops home.

2. Do everything in his power to balance the budget and start setting up an atmosphere of paying down the debt.

3. Veto un-constitutional legislation.

That's it. People are getting fooled by the media to think that all his philosophical positions have instant real world execution waiting for him to walk into the office of president and put on his crown and "make it so".

We need to fix that. We need to hammer the 3 promises home, and we need a frequently-asked-questions about all his positions, with comments about their educational value, real world solutions/options built on those stances, and how those things are achieved not by decree, but by people deciding.