Official Video: Ron Paul - Campaign Moves to the Next Phase
Dr. Paul: Let us hope that we can one day look back and say that this campaign was the significant first step that signaled a change in direction for our country. Our job now is to plan for the next phase.outputMost important will be the continued emphasis on the message. That message, simply put, is the message of human liberty. A detailed outline of this message can be found in the book: The Revolution, A Manifesto...














I think this video needs to be studied.
I think this video needs to be studied. There's much more here than meets the eye. I think he really is trying to warn us that the shit is about to hit the fan. He talks about the end of the empire: "At the rate our economy is slipping, we will likely see the disintegration of the American empire, and that will be no small event." He talks about the ongoing financial collapse: "the dollar crisis and its economic implications." He mentions the remnant: "Counting the remnant of true believers in a society that is slipping into chaos is not possible."
"We live in dangerous and exciting times. With world events changing rapidly, our efforts are all that much more important." And last, but not least, the "runaway government and the ongoing effort to systematically undermine our civil liberties."
What does everyone make of all this? Is it a warning? He does not look like himself in the video, and is clearly reading it, which is not his style. What say you?
Calling for protracted struggle on all fronts,
that's what Ron is asking. That was how the American Revolution was won.
Those of us in the liberty movement for some time have seen astonishing gains from Ron Paul's campaign in the last 12 months. We have moved from the dark days of imperial domination to an equivalent of the first big American Revolutionary War victory at Trenton, because now we are a sizeable political force to be reckoned with. From less than 1% in the dark days, to 7 or 8% today. Only about 10% of Americans actively fought in the American Revolution, it's been estimated.
What to make of the meaning of; "Counting the remnant of true believers in a society that is slipping into chaos is not possible." ??
As long as there is a core freedom group that is organized, it doesn't really matter what the numbers are if the rest all fall into chaos. We will be the only ones with a clear direction to offer.
We got to where we are today through over 30 years of educating, organizing and making our message known by running Libertarian Party and Constitution Party candidates. We will continue to spread the word in a credible way, aided by the bankers' destruction of the dollar and the increasing tyranny of the imperial elites.
Yes, there are dire warnings, but they also bring opportunity for liberty to reassert herself.
Finally, Dr. Paul is tired, of course. He stays in good shape, but he has held up better than many younger men after a year of grueling, often thankless Presidential campaigning.
March on the Convention not D.C.
Please read Devvy Kidd's article. She presents a very compelling argument for demonstrations/PRO RP March at the convention! We need some one thing to rally around and I don't think there is a better venue that a PRO Constitutional/RP rally there during the convention!
The media will be there and if the numbers are large enough, we could see a lot of coverage and hopefully the MSM bozos will get the message of Liberty on Freedom out there!
To me this has the greatest probability of success. We would be getting more bang for the buck here than anywhere else.
Great idea but...
the exuberance of many of us would frighten many of the stodgy GOP'ers. (BTW, I can't find that article on Devvy Kidd's website. Gotta link?)
We DO need a large floor demonstration at the GOP convention, but we need to be organized and behaved. (And the RP demos I've attended have been.)
The positive outcomes we want are for Ron to be given a chance to speak, and for our delegates to get support for the pro-Constitution platform planks we want in the party platform.
A few may recall the '68 Chicago convention, when a "police riot" (words from the Skolnick Commission) crushed the large anti-war demonstration outside, and the pro-Gene McCarthy demo inside. Any chance for the anti-war McCarthy was lost, because the anti-war movement's credibilty was shredded in front of the older voters we needed to convince.
why...
...is the video no longer available?
ok i see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
We must plow the way for Ron Paul to the convention...
We must plow the way for Ron Paul to the convention and beyond. Dr.Paul has always said that as long as we the people want him and support him he will continue.
All must understand the different ways the elitist individuals and groups apply pressure. Ron Paul is only one. The only way Ron Paul can withstand the pressures against him is if we the people are making way for him. So, we now are taking the reigns in our own hands and driving Ron Paul to the convention. He will continue as long as we are by his side to fight. You do not put the General on the front line to do all the fighting. Ron Paul has been fighting for over 30 years. Its now our turn to protect the wisdom and knowledge he brings to the table. He is worth protecting and carrying to the convention.
Continue canvassing, become precinct leaders, donate,become delegates. What better way to show the overwhelming support then to be at the convention as delegates and then let circumstances take its course.
Fellow patriots, do not waiver, do not give in, do support the message and the person who is the only candidate fit for the oval office as it was intended.
The doc is happy with the Congrational seat!
What Revolution? The Revolution was a gift for him and not something he fight for. See how the campaign was run! If he really believed in the Revolution he would fight going as an Independent!!! In his calculations from the beginning he knew that if the Candidacy will go wrong the Congregational seat is his second alternative. This is the reason he said that he will not run as an independent to be considered republican!
He will be remembered as the one who fulled a lot of people raising $6 mil in one day! Period!
You are just dumb. Nice try though. Ron's NOT out...Push on!
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I HAVE NOT HEARD FROM RON
I HAVE NOT HEARD FROM RON PAUL IN HIS LATEST MESSAGE THAT HE IS BOWING OUT, THE ONLY PLACES I HEAR OF IT IS FROM MSM. SO LISTEN CAREFULLY AGAIN, AS LONG AS SUPPORT FINANCIALLY AND OTHERWISE KEEP FLOWING IN, HE WILL CONTINUE. HE IS WORKING FOR YOU ALL, IF HE SEE'S THAT THE NUMBERS GO THIS OR THAT WAY, HE WILL MAKE A CLEAR STATEMENT. IT NOW DEPENDS ON YOU, HE NEEDS MONEY AND CONTINUED SUPPORT TO CONTINUE, IF HE GETS IT, HE WILL CONTINUE, IF YOU STOP YOUR SUPPORT, HE LOGICALLY CANNOT CONTINUE. SIMPLE, N0? MY ADVISE, TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, YOU JUST CANNOT BELIEVE THE MSM'S BLATANT LIES. OUT OF 11, TWO ARE STILL STANDING. WE ALL KNOW WHO IS THE MOST QUALIFIED AND HONEST OF THE TWO. IT CERTAINLY IS NOT OVER.
Mind control or fatigue?
That video did not sould like our Ron Paul. What has happened to our doctor? He is not a quitter. What's going on? He was reading that. Was he drugged? It was like a confession of a POW. Where was that recorded? This is fishy as heck.
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"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves." ~ Winston Churchill
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." ~ Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER QUIT!
I thought the same thing. He looks very tired and
stressed. And was clearly reading it, which is not his style. I feel like someone got to him. He was totally unenthusiastic, and only smiled at the very end, and then it seemed strained. WTF???
EASIER SAID THAN DONE
HISTORY MAY BE REPEATING ITSELF, THE ELITES HAVE USED NEARLY EVERY DIRTY TRICKS TO COUNTER DR. PAUL. IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT THEY HAVE THREATENED HIS FAMILY. REMEMBER CHARLES LINDBERGH? HE ALSO WAS VERY VOCAL AGAINST THE "MONEY TRUSTS". AND HIS SON WAS KIDNAPPED...
Oh, PLEASE... Give it a REST
Oh, PLEASE... Give it a REST ALREADY!
You wonder why everyone has left!
keep
the revolution going. http://www.youtube.com/wa...
OPEN LETTER: To ALL RP RƎVO⅃UTIONaries. A Moment of CLARITY.
Dear Ron Paul RƎVO⅃UTIONaries,
In light of the apparent miscommunication by the campaign, and blatant spin by the MSM of last night's Ron Paul video, and in light of many who are obviously accepting the propaganda, still, and apparently abandoning ship, I feel compelled to state the following.
Ask yourselves why you thought germane to get involved in supporting someone like Ron Paul in the first place:
+Were you not aware of the odds?
+Were you not aware of what happens to those who ACTUALLY champion We the People's cause?
+Were you not aware of what MSM media machine, bought and paid for by the military industrial complex, would do to someone with genuine honesty and sincerity?
+Were you not aware of election fraud, Diebold, vote rigging, chain of custody? Or are you still under the illusion that we have any fairer election than the Russians did during the Soviet era?
+Were you not aware of trolls? Were you NOT aware that they'd take advantage of any temporary moment of doubt that anyone express to drive a wedge between all of us?
+Did you think this would be easy?
With all that knowledge, what STILL inspired YOU to support such a man like Ron Paul, who by all standards have very little chance considering all the forces deployed by the global elitists to destroy him? Yet many of us still supported him, regardless?
I can only speak for my self, but NOTHING HAS CHANGED, before or after the TNR newsletters, the mixed message video post-Super Tuesday, nor last nights, or this CNN's Benton "confirmation." NOTHING.
But this is not based on some blind loyalty. Look at the facts. The dollar is on the verge of collapse. With war brewing against Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Sudan, martial law is imminent. Vast majority of Americans know nothing about their own Constitutionalist heritage, let alone find US on a map. NO social entitlement programs can ever be funded. NO MATTER what the neoCONs and neoCRATs promise. They are McNut-Hitlery-O-bomb-a are all sychophants, hacks of the ruling elite. The only free agent in this fight is RON PAUL.
Ron Paul has a 30yr track record of OBEYING the Constitution. He has relentlessly fought on our behalf. It matters NOT whether he was successful or not with all of his proposed resolutions or bills. It matters that he maintained his core principles and faithfully carried out his duties as outlined in the Constitution.
Ron Paul is the ONLY man with a sane solution to BOTH our domestic and foreign policy. Even with RP's first term, economy WILL take a hit. The only difference is, with his policies of saving 500 billion to one TRILLION dollars a year, by cutting our empire of foreign occupation, and tidying up those in need at home. STOP bleeding our credibility dry by plugging inflation and the fiat currency printing press. We shall prevail. At most we will go through a two years worth of growing pains. But as long as it is made clear to Americans, what is happening, we will fight through. With anyone else, it really IS OVER.
The only REAL question is do you want a cushioned blow, or an abrupt collapse in which our dollar will take the global economy down the tubes with us. Where the only prospect of a job is YOU joining the arms of the police state, so you can spy on and torture your family, friends, and neighbors? Because once sh*t hits the fan, military-policestate-prison-complex economy is the ONLY thing you will have. And that will be the ONLY jobs available to ANYONE. Either that or it's FEMA slave-labor camp for you. We will have our economy reversed; we will become slave-labor goods producer for China, for them to import cheap American goods, like we ridicule them now.
But a SILVER LINING:
We are a resilient group. Americans have come from all walks of life, with all different background across the globe. We are the best and the worst the global citizenry has to offer. We are the embodiment of unrivaled greed, leisure, and debauchery. But we also have the most spiritually diverse population. We are NOT bound by the tribal warfare that have plagued other nations, though obviously many immigrants still bring those animosity with them, but a sheer physical geographical reprieve give them breathing room to reflect on their past. We are also the most creative and dynamic population. Struggle builds character. When you've been a loser, be it economically or socially, in your native land, you have a chance to raise yourself up, here. It prepared you to be tough. Be HUNGRY. BE AMBITIOUS. But once you attained that success, you cannot help but want to share your secret to success with others. So starts a chain reaction of good will.
Only recently, we've lost our ways, and focused much too much on material needs. It's understandable in a way. Most of our current batch of hi-tech billionaires were former hippies. As often was the case with many who benefited from their parents structured WWII generation, who were practically all veterans who benefited, somewhat, from the discipline that military instills. Out of that, the boomers had a chance NOT to worry about bills, and harsh reality of an unforgiving world. But once out of college and the 60's binge, they suddenly realized they needed money. Of course I'm oversimplifying it. But ask yourselves. Is it not always the person who is repressed, once given a chance, over does it? If you were raised as an extreme prude, you either stay that way, or go complete debauchery. Or if you were bullied all your life, you either remain timid, or you go postal. Extremes whether in economics of social morality, compensating acts are as equally extreme.
So in someways, the neoCONs, who are disgruntled Trotsky-ite liberal intellectuals from the 1960's, it's the same. Tools of the elite international banking coterie or not, these are the same group of people who cannot fathom doing a serious self-critique and admitting their wrongs. Guaranteed, most probably never even been in a fist fight, yet they're the biggest warmongers. Just another case of a spoiled Boomer, compensating extremes.
So that's who we're up against. Those who have closed off their minds, the brainwashed sheeple. But if those of us, who are awake, start abandoning the cause of liberty, we deserve tyranny.
TO those on the forum who have decided to drop out, where are you going to go. This isn't a challenge for you to stay. I am asking you, when was the last time you had a candidate with this much integrity, with history to back it up?
So after facing all the odds against us, knowing this would not be easy, knowing that the establishment would cheat us every step of the way, you're going to QUIT, NOW???
As for myself, I WILL PHYSICALLY DRAW a Line on the ballot and WRITE HIM IN, if I must. NOTHING has CHANGED for me. My support is strong, if not STRONGER than ever!!!
If you feel that a write in would be a wasted vote, what the HELL makes you think we have an open, honest, accountable election process to begin with? DID YOU Have a choice is selecting Hitlery, O-bomb-a, or McNut at any level of the candidate picking process? What makes you think if you voted for them, or even Nader, it'd be counted or make a real difference, when once in office, they won't GIVE a damn about anything WE the People care about?
Those of you abandoning ship, if you were really honest with yourselves, you'd realize that you've never really deeply thought about why you were supporting RP to begin with. It's like those stuck in a bad relationship, constantly look for an excuse to finally break up. Essentially doing it for you. Well baby, it ain't gonna happen here. If you were looking for excuses, a dark horse candidate should never have been your choice to begin with.
Simply put, cowboy the f*ckup. And get a grip. We will finish this and see this through.
Now, I respect Alex Jones as much as anyone. However, he fears IF we get the nomination by delegate dominance, somehow the rest of the country would be up in arms that he's only getting 5% yet wins. Well, hell, they're cheating, yet we're wining playing fair and square by the very rules originally set up to rig the democratically representative voting process. So where is the problem. If anything else, it should prove to the electorate, once and for all, the polls and elections are rigged. That's why a winning candidate had his polls and primaries overtly undermined.
Become delegates. Let's win FAiR and SQUARE. They set up the rules. Let them be cry babies about it. Is it fair that throughout history, only true people's champions are assassinated? Is it fair that they steal our hard earned money, and make, sell and drop weapons of mass destruction upon innocent civilian population in "third world" nations, colonial subjects, and puppet states, only to have it come back to us in blowback? Is it fair that with the money they've stolen from us, they taser innocent civilians indiscriminately and get away with it? Is it fair that thugs with badges shoot unarmed citizens and yet is considered following proper protocol? Is it fair that the brave military men and women who conscientiously object are courtmartialed? Is it fair that the torturers of Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, who are as victimized as the prisoners themselves, yet those who crafted such policies and legally institutionalized such legalese get promoted?
So would it be fair, for once, that a true people's champion, upholder of the Constitution, wins FAIR and SQUARE, following their own CORRUPT rules? Is it subversive, when we're simply following the rule of law to achieve our ends? Where is the stealth? All delegates are known to the party.
So my fellow Ron Paul RƎVO⅃UTIONaries, let us continue to BECOME DELEGATES, wherever we still can, in those States that are still open, become PRECINCT LEADERS, wherever we can. Continue to donate whatever we can. CANVASS wherever we can.
Even if they have to drag me to a FEMA camp, I will not stop. I'd rather CRAWL on MY TWO FEET, than walk on my knees.
So it's time to STOP all the bickering, negativity, infighting. As Ben Franklin famously said, either we stand united, or we shall all hang separately. It's NOW or NEVER.
l'm NEVER stopping. You get the govt you deserve. Start abandoning ship, you don't have to do much to welcome tyranny. It's everywhere. Freedom requires a bit of dedication and creativity. I for one, want that feeling of satisfaction after a long hard days worth of work. Because the genie is out of the bottle, and I WANT MY FREEDOM, I WANT IT BACK! I WANT MY REPUBLIC BACK!, more than I WANT SEX!! So say we all!
I AM RON PAUL!! We ARE ALL RON PAUL!!!!!
President RON PAUL: Jan 20, 2009 - Jan 20, 2017
Because, I STILL B E L I E V E!!!!!!!
I CALLED HEADQUARTERS.....TODAY
And, the gal who answered the phone, answered that it was "his" presidential campaign that was winding down, not the presidential campaign in general. I asked if that meant he was quitting? She said, "yes"....and went on to say, "but you can still carry his message and become a delegate if you want". I said, "Will be resign formally?" She said she didn't know. So, then, I said going to the convention and voting for him would be the only reason we'd even go. Otherwise, it just wouldn't be worth it, I said. She said, "well, people make their own decision and some will go and some won't anyway".
I was dumbfounded, because I, like the other post, wanted Ron Paul to give us some clarity and forthrightness about his status. If he was officially conceding and that meant he was resigning? And, if that was true, how did he arrive at that conclusion?
Instead, the video was SO TERRIBLY VAGUE, and I felt disappointed. I'm not disappointed in Dr. Paul and how he's championed the issues for us all & himself. But, I am disappointed he wasn't more forthright with us all, especially after all we've been through. You can't blame the media, when Dr. Paul could easily have been more forthright about his decision. Instead, he was obscure and enigmatic.
I felt as if I was left hanging in the wind a little bit. People can deal with finite explanations, but they don't like vagueries, you know what I mean? Alex Jones suspected yesterday when he interviewed Lou Dobbs that Dr. Paul had probably been threatened and was protecting his family? If that was so, why didn't he just bow out, period, and make no question around it.
Anyway, I'm taking what the campaign worker said today at his headquarters as the unvarnished truth, and this evening CNN did report he had "conceded victory", and that they got the information from a campaign spokesman, and I think they even mentioned his name which escapes me right at this moment.
What do we, myself & my husband, now do? I don't know. First, we need to digest all this information and let the shock settle in. I suspect many people will drop away now. Why go to the convention if you can't vote for Ron Paul? And, all the suffering we are all going through state by state with the harassment by our fellow GOP state reps....I'm very tired right now, as I'm sure you all are.
I suggest we take a MUCH NEEDED REST to think about and determine if there is anything left we can do. But, I will say this. I get an uneasy feeling if Ron Paul can't even spearhead our march on D.C. If he's dropping out of the race, then, why can't he rally the troops, so to speak? What difference does it make if he's a Congressman? I guess we entrusted our money & hopes in his campaign managers, all to no avail, and now, we're so used to giving them something that it's hard to even think of what to do now without any organizational support.
Please tell me what you think.....and rest, my friends, rest now...
I think she meant her job is winding down
HQ said he is turning worker status to volunteer status and he is in it all the way to the convention, so don't listen to MSM and former employee.
In the end
Ron Paul is a politician, too. Yes, he had a magical message, and a magical run, but in the end, he still has a lot of the typical DC political blood flowing through his veins. He's only human, after all.
I'm not meaning to denigrate Dr. Paul. I'm just speaking realistically.
Truly, what did you all expect?
You knew the odds were incredibly long, and you knew that the main point was the message. Ok, you got the message across to some....doesn't that mean something?
Is the fact that Ron Paul is now throwing in the towel THAT much of a surprise to some of you?
Heck, he made it much, MUCH further than I ever dreamt that he would.
I'm pleased, and have a sense of accomplishment about that.
I truly don't understand some of the bickering, infighting, and finger pointing that has gone on on this site lately. I have read it for quite some time, and have just now felt the need to respond. This site used to be so optimistic, hopeful, and fervent in it's enthusiasm for Ron's message.
And then reality hits, as so many of us knew it eventually would, and suddenly people here go into this shockfest of panic, fear and anger.
What did you expect??? We got the message spread. We enlightened lots of others. So much was done.
But yet some want to scream and cry and roll into a ball because Dr. Paul didn't win???? Come on. Please. We already exceeded ALL expectations, including many of our own, yet you want to bring everyone down because the impossible wasn't achieved???? Yea, impossible.....I said it. This year. Next time, maybe not so much. A little chunk at a time.....a little chunk at a time.
I just can't understand those of you that are so incredibly shattered over this inevitable outcome. Next time we have a go at it, get more in touch with reality, please, and we might actually do better.
If nothing else, maybe we'll spend our money more wisely.
Next phase?
So is this the "next phase"? Infighting, fingerpointing, and name calling?
Sure looks like it from some of the posts that I have been reading today.
Great example for undecided voters.
"Undecideds" can choose to
"Undecideds" can choose to make a point and vote Ron, or they can throw their vote behind a candidate where their vote will get lost and not send a message. Pretty simple, really.
Somebody pass this on to Ron Paul
He needs to come out with an official press conference and publicly announce that he IS NOT OUT of the race. He must clearly and unequivocally STATE that he is in all the way to the convention. He has a little PR flaw that he makes statements that can be interpreted in many different ways. He NEEDS TO GO OUT AND SAY IT - "I AM IN THE RACE, I WILL STAY IN THE RACE and I HAVE ALL INTENTION OF BEING ELECTED PRESIDENT".
shhhh
it's our little secret - i mean big secret. he really knows what he is doing. it's okay.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Wach you got in mind?
Wach you got in mind?
well, i'm not actually in on the exact plan
but considering he's done it so many times before, i just figure he knows what is going on and we are just playing the game correctly!
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Remember, the RNC
runs the convention, and even though Dr.Paul has not withdrawn, they don't have to let him speak at the convention. They only allowed Pat Buchanan to speak at the convention when Bush was nomnated, after he agreed to support Bush.
So, they don't even have to let him speak! His speaking in front of all the uncommitted delegates was what we were waiting for and the RNC WON'T allow that to happen - make no mistake about it.
So,we delegates will speak for him at the convention, make no mistake about it. The r3VOLution will continue on!!!
Ron Paul is the only one I will vote for there!!!!
What if we had a rally at
What if we had a rally at the Convention...that way if the RNC doesn't let him speak they will still hear his message...I'm thinking the evening before the convention would be an awesome time. I am not familiar with St. Paul, maybe the meetups there could scope out a location that is around the hotels, convention center ... an outside venue... we could have ron paul speak in the evening so we could get the most delegates to hear his message.... just some thoughts.....ideas....we are a creative bunch, we have always had to fight the status quo, it is no different this time around....Let's keep fighting for the Dr and for our Country.....Keep on Keeping on....nothing in life that is worth anything is easy......
In the race
Everybody is all panicky about this video and the media now act like sharks after a dead fish.....STOP, STOP this silly talk.... Ron Paul is in the race until Ron Paul says he is not in the race.. Do not believe all you read. Do not believe all you hear. Do not believe all you see. Ron Paul is an intellegent man, he can talk. If he is not in the race let HIM say he is not in the race. And when that happens I will still write him in.
Take a breath people...
Why did he focus on district 14? You can still donate no? No pretty ticker, wah,wah.. what kind of picture was the ticker painting in feb? Ya gotta follow your heart now... Image is everything. Think my friends "THINK" "NEW PEOPLE WILL DONATE FOR THE MSG." Ya can't show your hand forever....
Remember the past as you look forward to today...
The hard truth is that Ron
The hard truth is that Ron Paul doesn't want it as bad as we do. The official campaign has been poorly run and was never, ever, ever, ever aggressive. If RP was 20 years younger I think they may have had to shoot him because he would have been ambitious and pissed off. As it has played out he kept his cool ALL the time-even when he should have been calling his opponents out and raising hell.
If he really wanted it he would be determined to go after McCain at this point--not saying oh well we had a good run. There's finally only one opponent and McCain is a clown whose record won't stand up to scrutiny. A guy who is still in the race, can tap massive donations, and wanted to smear McCain up one side and down the other, could really shake things up. May even turn the tide. Paul simply doesn't want to.
Horse shit!!! It's you and
Horse shit!!! It's you and all of us that don't want it bad enough. This quarter he did not bring enough money to mount an assault that could weather the storm until September. When you calculate the cost and budget for the convention you have to start from the convention and count backwards until the money runs dry. Right now what that means is RP has enough for the short lead into the convention and the convention itself. But nothing to get him from here to there. This is far from his fault, so if you wanna point fingers seek not to point further than your ownself!
Jesus..Shut up.
I'm talking wanting it as reflected in strategy. I saw zero aggressive moves from the campaign. Shitty ads, laying down when the media flat-out lied, when moderators and other candidates were openly abusive, laying down when the media decided he didn't exist.
The guy is human. He found himself at the forefront of a movement he never expected or asked for, and he found himself pitted against the entire media and the entire money establishment. In order to fight that fight, you have to be willing to make bold moves and take chances, and everything else must stop. He wasn't willing to go that far.
I'm just about 100 percent behind him on the issues. He's right on the issues. He's a genius. But as far as taking on the whole system, he wasn't willing to throw down the gauntlet and risk everything. I don't blame him necessarily, but that's the reality. Accept it.
Give me a break. You seen
Give me a break. You seen the way the media spins everything. If RP had made alot of noise about alot of those issues he would have just been further marginalized. Squawking would have only validated their treatment of DrPaul and squawking about that would only insight laughter.
Fact is he has gone farther on these issues than anyone else in our living history. He was ready in 1988 but the people were not. He is ready now but evidently the people are still not. People need to stop pinning their hopes one guy praying that he alone with deliver you from evil. He's not here to DO that for you, but do it WITH you. Any weaknesses you may have witnessed should have been a sign for you to fill in and reinforce that weakness. Besides that you can't challenge the system if you're not in it. He kept his House seat so he could stay in it. Would you rather he "threw down the gauntlet" and lost everything?
He has done very well for a very long time with very few allies or help from the likes of you or me.
You have
Got to be kidding me!?! The man who has been fighting longer than you have probably been alive doesn't want it as bad? You need to take a good long look at yourself and just how "bad" you think you want it. Have you been running a non-stop schedule of flights and appearances and being away from home and holding down a congressional seat?
I simply can't believe that anyone would choose to be so ignorant.
NY Times Says Paul Calls It Quits???
http://thecaucus.blogs.ny...
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JKap, RP didn't want 2 be president like everyone else wants to
In the traditional sense of why people want to be president - power, control, access - Ron Paul does not want to be president.
Everything should not have to be spelled out. It's obvious his campaign was not for power or cronyism or anything else, it's about freedom and individual responsibility and a lean government by and for the people.
There is not another candidate in the arena that cares a hoot about liberty, freedom and the Constitution.
So in the flavor of the word WANT, no, Ron Paul did not want to be president as he did not want power, control and access, which is why they ALL run, especially that frightening bitch Hillary Clinton.
We Are Making History! There Silence Proves It!
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds".
"The Father Of The Revolution"
-Samuel Adams-
1) Donate
2) Rally in DC and in every city in the nation on June 21st
3) Continue to campaign for votes and delegates
4) Educate the people by spreading the message of liberty
5) Expose corruption, totalitarianism, interventionism, lobbyist, etc.
6) Stick together in the cause for liberty an show our love for our country
and our constitution.
7) Use the campaign to gather more supporters and to advance the
cause of liberty.
8) Through dedication we can take over the party and we can advance
within the political proccess.
9) Money bombs give our movement credibility, and the politicians are
being impressed and influenced by our dedication.
10) Read Ron Paul's book "The Revolution - A Manifesto"
"All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should."
"The Father Of The Revolution"
-Samuel Adams-
Video pulled. Perhaps they
Video pulled.
Perhaps they got rid of it because it was being used to report that he has dropped out.
What I heard him say is that chances are slim that he can win but to continue to vote for him. That's very diffrent then "I'm dropping out."
Ron is trying to rally the base in the face of impossible odds because the message is what is most important.
It's still on HQs site
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
What's next
Are you guys going to sit this one out, or are you going to support one of three candidates left?
The last resort is and has
The last resort is and has always been to write in RP. The hope is something happens between now and then which doesn't force this issue. You can nay-say the write-in campaign all you want to it really doesn't matter. There is no better alternative last resort. period.
Now you must ask the question. What could take place that would not force a write-in? McCain dies or McCain implodes moving to unelectable status. So what could cause him to die? IDK, all you can do hope. What could cause a McCain implosion? Scandel, scandel, and more scandel. He's got a closet full but someone needs to open the door.
Nice Try !!!!
The only thing that has changed is gears. We are mounting our passing gear at this stage of the race. Attacks are not always visible. The revolution is getting stronger not weaker. New people every day with new enthusiasm.
We the people are now plowing the way for Ron Paul to get through this race and more. You havnt seen anything yet.
We are honored to continue the fight for freedom along side Dr. Paul.
You keep watchin now, you hear;)
As a long suffering supporter - and contributor
I respect and admire Dr. Paul. I support him in all his efforts and what he has done for our country. BUT... and this is big. He owes it to us faithful supporters - the ones that sent MORE money when he didn't win primaries, who sent MORE money when others dropped out. He owes it to us to fight to the end, the real end. Through the convention. If, after the convention, he does not win the nom, then fine. But it is NOT over until it is OVER, and some of us out her have Faith. Truth is often stranger than fiction and you never can predict the future - just ask John Ritter.
Dr Paul. We need you to see this through to the end. Use the money we have sent to continue the fight. Let the truth about McLame be known and let the fact that you alone are the RIGHT candidate be told. Fight. Stay. Strong.
Make an unambiguous statement that you ARE HERE TO THE END. Challenge McLame to a debate. GO RON GO
FEC = RP Wins?
I don't get it, shouldn't every single RP'er be looking for ways to publicize and popularize the travesty of the campaign financial manipulation of McCain? Fiscal conservative, my ass. Everyone else has dropped out, and McCain has gifted us all we need to shut him down. How can a candidate that is limited by spending caps beat the democrats? Answer: He can't. The GOP is acting like retards with their heads in the sand if they think he can. Doesn't this all mean that RP wins when the hammer drops and the GOP abandons McCain?
He did HINT he was quitting...
Stop drinking the Kool aid for a minute and listen.
Listen to Ron Paul's latest March 6th 2008 video message to us all....
"through victory in the conventional political sense is not possible in the presidential race" and "the presidential campaign will soon be winding down"
That is more than a hint, that is telling you its over.
FACT: Ron Paul never Wanted to be President, really.... He just loved delivering the Freedom Message.
FACT: Oh well, he will not be the first President drafted into the job by his followers....Thomas Jefferson was drafted too and he was very reluctant.
Perhaps you are holding on to the notion that we will win a stealth victory with delegates?.... perhaps Mitt Romney is thinking that too. Perhaps so is Newt.
But stop and think about it for a second. If indeed we were crafty enough to get the majority of delegates at the GOP to go for Ron Paul, do you think in a General Election the rank and file republicans would be HAPPY ? Do you think they would wine that their primary vote did not count and the crafty Paulbots STOLE their vote? Do you think MSM would announce a libertarian "takeover" ....an "inside coup" of the GOP ? Do you think there would be a lot of BLOWBACK from a delegate win for Ron Paul?
Sure there would be.....
This is why we have 7 months to get to the General Public's psychic, get to them with the revolution. To stop the Blowback, get rank and file Republicans on the Revolution bandwagon, we must...MUST get on TV.
MSM stands in our way. But there is a Door for us Patriots to enter.
That door through MSM is to BUY our Television time. We have 7 months before the GOP convention to do it.
This is why, on another thread, I talk about the need for us all to TELEVISE the REVOLUTION. We have plenty of videos.... lots of media material. We just need to MONEY BOMB our own TELEVISION CAMPAIGN.
I started a website just for this. www.paulsrevolution.com It is not up yet, but we are working on it. I need all the help we can get.
We can and should TELEVISE the Revolution. We must Frame our own message, and stop MSM from framing it for us.
Treg
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008
"FACT: Ron Paul never Wanted to be President, really.... He just loved delivering the Freedom Message. "
That is so absurd. Please demonstrate to us how Ron Paul never really wanted to be president.
Was it because his campaign petitioned for ballot-access in all 50 states that gave it away? Or was it all those speeches in which he articulated his plan to resurrect the Constitution if elected President?
Here's a hint for you. I am done wasting my time reading your counter-productive arguments and your borderline disinformation.
"We don't have to start a brand new revolution...All we have to do is restore the original Constitution." -Ron Paul
Too much Kool aid for you
J.Benton calls the campaign quits, did you not hear that?... what more do you need?
Stop drinking the Ron Paul Campaign Kool-aid and join the Revolution.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/P...
Look, you asked, then answer your own question.... childish.
Here is an answer to your question as to how I can see that Ron Paul did not wish to be President.
#1) Ask him, "Do you REALLY want to be President?" Listen to his answers.
#2) From the beginning he refused to give up his Congressional seat
#3) Early on, he took the most popular Vloger on the web for Ron Paul For President campaign OFF the WEB and stuck her in his Congressional Office. I and many others missed Rachael's rants for Ron Paul. That was like taking your top quarterback off the team and putting her to work flipping burgers for your own restaurant.
#4) The total failure to pay for STRATEGIC TV Time, starting with Iowa, then in New Hampshire.... records show they blew their big money wad on a multi page brochure and mass mailing to everyone in NH....yet McCain with no money had the national Press follow him around.
#5) Benton and the rest ALWAYS sought Free Interviews and then allowed the MSM to FRAME and PACKAGE the RON PAUL Campaign as They saw it..... They NEVER sought damage control by BUYING their own TV advertising to RE FRAME the and Package the Message correctly.
#6) No TV time backing up the massive SIGNS NATION WIDE for Ron Paul to BREAK THROUGH to the NATIONAL conscious that indeed Ron Paul is VIABLE and YOU WILL NOT BE WAISTING YOUR VOTE--- hence the Two primary concerns of all Rational Voters. Idealists like you and I never think in such terms, but the majority of the population does... first comes "Does this person have a good chance at winning? If YES, then, THEN i will consider them so I do not WAIST my VOTE." That is the Catch 22 Mountain all Politicians must climb.
#7) New Hampshire's failure shows that HQ did not break through this Catch 22. Despite having the best Grass roots nationwide and the Most Money going into New Hampshire, HQ F*cked it up,....or did they? Ron Paul was the boss, perhaps they did as they were told. Certainly Ron was telling his older brother that he thought it would be over by then...
#8) No State wide TV advertising in SC and Florida.
#9) No National TV advertising "Going for Broke" prior to Super Tuesday.
The SAD, REALLY SAD irony, is IF Ron Paul had gone for broke and WENT NATIONAL TV ads...Then and only then would HQ and Ron Paul had our Backs for all of us in the Revolution. If and when National TV ads came, then all those people we PESTERED daily on emails and youtube videos and with our signs would have joined the cause... it was all set, locked, and ready to be fired.... Yet the campaign ---through Ron's instructions--Held tight to the $8 mill they had left before Super Tuesday. Everyone we in the Grassroots had contacted WAITED to "See" if Ron Paul would be "viable, electable"...and listen to MSM tell them he was not. HQ failed to get on TV other pro Ron Paul pundits like Charles Goyette (Faux on their own invited Charles on to defend Ron Paul) and to fight NeoCon pundits. But 99% of the time, the campaign made zero attempt to Repackage the Message and Counter what MSM was saying, which was Ron Paul was marginal, wacky, a kook, fringe, odd, a libertarian, and most of all.... NOT to be taken seriously. Oh yea? what about all those grassroots people? Oh yea? what about all the NATIONAL TV ads for Ron Paul? Ooops, HQ did not make any. He had the funds. He could have ADVERTIZED and packaged his own message during each Televised Debate knowing full well those who decide who is Viable will be watching. Huckabee, to his credit, got of a TV ad during the CNN debate in California 6 days before Super Tuesday. McCain had TV ads going into South Carolina. Ron Paul, had NOTHING. He had money, but blew their wads of cash on brochures, badly made 30 second commercials --- what a waist, the Revolution had already made them... never used Eliberty's good stuff.
10) And most of all, with 7 months STILL To GO, a hungry Grassroots and a GOP base NOT HAPPY with McCain, Economy Tanking, and MONEY READY TO FLOW into his campaign if he WENT NATIONAL TV and Made himself SEEM VIABLE, BE VIABLE.....so even NOW, the window is OPEN to BREAK through to the Collective Republican Conscious. But it must be done via a National TV Campaign.
Read my thread here and join me... The REVOLUTION MUST BE TELEVISED... http://www.dailypaul.com/...
Treg
you mean waste not waist?
you mean waste not waist?
libert pack and freedom foundation
ufcama
can anyone explain or directme to the liberty pack? and the freedom foundation ron paul talks about in the video
lets take the revolution to new highs
RLC, RLC-PAC, FREE
You will recognize people/names at both sites, including Paul, Sabrin, Palmer, Sanford, etc.:
"...The Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) is a grassroots, nationwide organization affiliated with the Republican Party (GOP). The goal of the RLC is to elect pro-liberty individuals to office..."
http://www.rlc.org/ (find your State Chapter)
FAQ: http://www.rlc.org/?p=FAQ...
RLC members are urged to contact the campaigns or contribute to federal candidates via the RLCUSA-PAC: http://www.republicanlibe... http://www.republicanlibe...
"...We are in a war. A war of ideas that threatens to undermine our liberties and radically change our way of life. We are not defenseless, however..." http://www.free-nefl.com/...
FreedomRings...
"With a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor."
Why Ron Paul failed
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