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Ron Paul Cuts Campaign: Could a Libertarian Ever Win?

SodaHead News 2012/05/15 18:46:25
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In a carefully worded statement sent out by Ron Paul's campaign chairman on Tuesday morning, the GOP candidate announced that he's... Well, he's not exactly dropping out of the race, but he is conceding defeat. Jesse Benton wrote, "Unfortunately, barring something very unforeseen, our delegate total will not be strong enough to win the nomination. However, our delegates can still make a major impact at the National Convention and beyond."

For many, Mitt Romney has been the winner for some time. While Paul had enormous public support and the potential to significantly impact voting, he hadn't been faring too well in caucuses and primaries, and only had 104 delegates to Romney's 966. But Benton says things could have played out differently if other candidates like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich had stayed it. As for Paul's new direction, his team is "doing everything in our power to work with out supporters." And for the record, he says it's "unlikely" he'll back Romney. Could someone like Ron Paul, just shy of a third party, ever hope to win?

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  • The Bantam Seditioner 2012/05/16 00:54:21 (edited)
    Yes
    The Bantam Seditioner
    +26
    Ron Paul would have been America's first libertarian President if the powerful alliance of state and corporations (especially corporate media) hadn't done everything they could to sabotage and marginalize him. That's ok though...try as they might, they can no longer sweep these powerful ideas back under the rug now that they're out and gaining almost viral popularity.

    At this point, they can only try to forestall the inevitable. A free and voluntary society is coming. The only thing we can't predict with much certitude is whether we will transition painlessly and peaceably, in time to save the economy, or whether the reform will come after a series of painful lessons learned at the cruel hands of dictators, central planners, and kleptocrats.

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  • DavidK John Ga... 2012/05/16 13:18:14 (edited)
    DavidK
    rwrwrwe

    Maybe Obama will help you hippie potheads now.

    rtertet
  • Mitchell McAleer 2012/05/16 01:06:41
  • TheR Mitchel... 2012/05/16 01:17:44
    TheR
    +4
    I agree Mitch.
  • DDogbreath Mitchel... 2012/05/16 06:41:53
  • Boblawbla DDogbreath 2012/05/16 07:26:25
    Boblawbla
    +4
    I recognize you Mr. Breath.... far right, front row with the monocle.... you cut your hairs!
  • irish -... Mitchel... 2012/05/16 10:24:29
  • The Libertarian 2012/05/16 01:06:38
    Yes
    The Libertarian
    +12
    America will wake up and see what Republicans and Democrats really are. When Americans start to realize that regulation after regulation is killing our economy they will wake up, when they finally get tired of the TSA groping old women and shaking down 2 year olds they will wake up. When Americans realize that the Patriot act is nothing more than a blank check for the government to spy on Americans, they will wake up. When Americans realize that fighting wars protecting others borders with the blood of our men and women isn't working, they will wake up. When Americans realize that the only two parties who have constantly violated the Constitution and the Freedoms and Liberties of this country are Democrats and Republicans, they will wake up.

    America wake up, its happening now.

    wake up america
  • Lucy The Lib... 2012/05/16 02:20:14
    Lucy
    +1
    What makes you think the people will ever wake up? If they haven't by now, I doubt they ever will.
  • The Lib... Lucy 2012/05/16 02:21:17
    The Libertarian
    +2
    They will, one day, they will.
  • UMAD The Lib... 2012/05/16 03:45:01 (edited)
  • Tinka123 2012/05/16 01:03:39
    Yes
    Tinka123
    +9
    Of course a libertarian could win. People are once again turning on the entire notion big govt. Go figure - folks don't like being controlled.
  • wilsonmja 2012/05/16 01:02:14
    No
    wilsonmja
    +2
    This country is full of sheep. No way the two party system ever goes away...well until it's just one party...but that's another conversation.
  • Odinsown wilsonmja 2012/05/16 01:08:06
    Odinsown
    +9
    It is already one party, the debt and big government party.
  • RogerCoppock 2012/05/16 01:02:05
    No
    RogerCoppock
    +1
    No, a Libertarian can not become President of the US. Most American voters know that this is the 21st Century, not the 18th.
  • Odinsown RogerCo... 2012/05/16 01:10:25 (edited)
    Odinsown
    +6
    Odd, it seems that for being the twenty first century America it's really trying out 19th and 20th century Europes failure, maybe it is time for free markets and free minds.
  • kobidob... RogerCo... 2012/05/16 02:13:58
    kobidobidog
    +4
    So far warmongers have been president. Look where it has gotten us. It has not been good for human souls either.
  • staticc... RogerCo... 2012/05/16 03:01:23
    staticc5300
    +4
    that is true..... in the 18th century people actually used their brains
  • JP staticc... 2012/05/16 03:05:23
    JP
    +2
    And their hands...or they starved.
  • RogerCo... staticc... 2012/05/16 03:09:19
    RogerCoppock
    +1
    In the 18th Century, only the upper classes were supposed to have brains. It was a crime, punishable by imprisonment, to teach a lower class person to read. I would know this very well, my Coppoc ancestors fled the old world for America because they violated this law.
  • staticc... RogerCo... 2012/05/16 03:22:07
    staticc5300
    +2
    Well since I am a American I guess one could assume that my comment was based on a American view. my comment was saying that in AMERICA in the 18th century, that people used common sense. If i was misleading in making people think I was talking about some old world country and their laws I apologize.
  • RogerCo... staticc... 2012/05/16 03:33:03
    RogerCoppock
    In America, in the 18th Century, 'poor laws' made it illegal to teach lower class people to read.
  • staticc... RogerCo... 2012/05/16 03:49:14
    staticc5300
    +3
    and yet they still had more common sense than the average dumnacrat and retardican today! Point is that you voiced an OPINION and then I voiced mine. Your rant about poor laws and the old country holds no ground with my argument. People didn't have to read or write to see what was going on around them and know what they needed to do to keep this great country going. Now days people have to be told how the feel, what they like and don't like, and how to vote. The common sense factor doesn't exist anymore. That is my point.
  • Boblawbla RogerCo... 2012/05/16 07:52:33
    Boblawbla
    +1
    I'd sure like to have my grammar school teachers all arrested. I hate this having a brain.
  • The Lib... RogerCo... 2012/05/16 15:59:20
    The Libertarian
    +1
    We aren't talking about Europe, Einstein.
  • RogerCo... The Lib... 2012/05/16 21:56:49
    RogerCoppock
    In America, in the 18th Century, 'poor laws' made it illegal to teach lower class people to read.
  • The Lib... RogerCo... 2012/05/17 00:28:28
    The Libertarian
    So your saying Libertarians don't want people to read? LMAO!!!
  • RogerCo... The Lib... 2012/05/17 01:23:30
    RogerCoppock
    No.
  • Dan ☮ R... RogerCo... 2012/05/16 04:28:00
    Dan ☮ R P ☮ 2012 ☮
    +2
    I thought it was the middle ages, or at least that is what Holdren, Obama's Science Czar wants us to return to.
  • Wally-M... RogerCo... 2012/05/16 09:21:27
    Wally-Molon Labe!
    +2
    Wow! You sound so proud of what society has become at the hands of corrupt and greedy psychopaths.
  • stormy rae 2012/05/16 00:59:44
    Yes
    stormy rae
    +6
    O to you that believes Ron Paul is out, the fact is he is not wasting more tax payers money on an agenda that is irrelevant to his campaign, he won 11 states by the delegate process, wait til the convention in August, he will be there, and he has secured his delegates, I would be willing to bet that his strategy of focusing on the delegates results in either a brokered convention or him getting the nomination, the delegate strategy thus far has gained him maximum support, and I also bet he is going to be coming to your state for a delegate recruitment, he is the honest candidate, and he did not quit, only is not going around the country on a photo shoot, as his campaign funding comes from people like me, not Goldman Sachs, or any of the other corporate criminals. Furthermore, if you are going to post something about Ron Paul quitting, I ask that you make sure you have the details as facts and accurate, not based on something you heard from the mainstream media outlets. Nice try, and tell Barry, or Mittens, that the strategy of telling Ron Paul supporters that he has given up will not work. The reason being is Romney treated Paul like a doormat and disrespected him by frauding him in previous states. It is no wonder he is not campaigning in states that have not held primaries, ...
    O to you that believes Ron Paul is out, the fact is he is not wasting more tax payers money on an agenda that is irrelevant to his campaign, he won 11 states by the delegate process, wait til the convention in August, he will be there, and he has secured his delegates, I would be willing to bet that his strategy of focusing on the delegates results in either a brokered convention or him getting the nomination, the delegate strategy thus far has gained him maximum support, and I also bet he is going to be coming to your state for a delegate recruitment, he is the honest candidate, and he did not quit, only is not going around the country on a photo shoot, as his campaign funding comes from people like me, not Goldman Sachs, or any of the other corporate criminals. Furthermore, if you are going to post something about Ron Paul quitting, I ask that you make sure you have the details as facts and accurate, not based on something you heard from the mainstream media outlets. Nice try, and tell Barry, or Mittens, that the strategy of telling Ron Paul supporters that he has given up will not work. The reason being is Romney treated Paul like a doormat and disrespected him by frauding him in previous states. It is no wonder he is not campaigning in states that have not held primaries, it seems all that has happened in the primaries, is he has been violated and blatantly robber. If it makes any sense to you, and if not, maybe you will eventually figure it out, that Ron Paul's message of freedom and liberty, and love and peace, will not die. As a matter of fact the seed is planted, and it is the harvest season. Good luck. Did you not forget that mainstream media is not whom Paul's supporters rely on for Ron Paul's campaign updates? Apparently, you must think we are all as phony as the impostor in POTUS, and the one that endorses him. Or you do not yet realize that Mitt Romney supports Obamas policies. Maybe his flip flopping on major issues has slipped your mind, but a liberty seeker, and one who is willing to stand for their rights and their liberties, does not forget. Furthermore, a message that Ron Paul carries, is not one you can back down from, nor can you change your mind. Something you know nothing about, but its embedded in ones soul. Freedom rings louder and heavier than control. You cannot stop an idea, whose time has come, and if you know anything about intelligent people, Martin Luther King Jr. " truth is always on the side of the opressed" you must not be struggling in America, so go ahead vote for Romney, or vote for Obama, you will be crying next year, and I will be far gone. That or I will stand and fight for my freedom, and die doing so, because stormy rae " I would rather die fighting for my freedom than give up my right to live"
    (more)
  • The Bantam Seditioner 2012/05/16 00:54:21 (edited)
    Yes
    The Bantam Seditioner
    +26
    Ron Paul would have been America's first libertarian President if the powerful alliance of state and corporations (especially corporate media) hadn't done everything they could to sabotage and marginalize him. That's ok though...try as they might, they can no longer sweep these powerful ideas back under the rug now that they're out and gaining almost viral popularity.

    At this point, they can only try to forestall the inevitable. A free and voluntary society is coming. The only thing we can't predict with much certitude is whether we will transition painlessly and peaceably, in time to save the economy, or whether the reform will come after a series of painful lessons learned at the cruel hands of dictators, central planners, and kleptocrats.
  • Tinka123 The Ban... 2012/05/16 02:31:50
    Tinka123
    +8
    Yep - Libertarianism by bankruptcy. lol
  • Boblawbla The Ban... 2012/05/16 07:54:11
    Boblawbla
    +5
    How could a seditioner know all that? Especially a bantam one? LOL

    Great articulation!
  • Jennifer The Ban... 2012/05/16 15:04:19
    Jennifer
    +3
    Bam! :O) Nicely put!
  • Mungu The Ban... 2012/05/16 16:13:21 (edited)
    Mungu
    +5
    So optimistic...................... forget it. We obviously don't deserve Ron Paul.
  • Greg The Ban... 2012/05/16 22:03:26
    Greg
    +4
    Very well put and definitely deserving of top opinion status.
  • The Ban... Greg 2012/05/16 22:15:00
    The Bantam Seditioner
    +3
    Thank you! :)
  • lee 2012/05/16 00:35:34 (edited)
    No
    lee
    +1
    libertarian ideas sound great at first but then as soon you start to think thru the implications, it can get very weird, very quickly.


    liberal with a libertarian streak is a more practical political position from which to combat the forces of conservatism which stand in the way of moving us toward liberty in America today.


    http://putpeopleoverprofit.org/
  • stormy rae lee 2012/05/16 01:01:22
    stormy rae
    +6
    O to you that believes Ron Paul is out, the fact is he is not wasting more tax payers money on an agenda that is irrelevant to his campaign, he won 11 states by the delegate process, wait til the convention in August, he will be there, and he has secured his delegates, I would be willing to bet that his strategy of focusing on the delegates results in either a brokered convention or him getting the nomination, the delegate strategy thus far has gained him maximum support, and I also bet he is going to be coming to your state for a delegate recruitment, he is the honest candidate, and he did not quit, only is not going around the country on a photo shoot, as his campaign funding comes from people like me, not Goldman Sachs, or any of the other corporate criminals. Furthermore, if you are going to post something about Ron Paul quitting, I ask that you make sure you have the details as facts and accurate, not based on something you heard from the mainstream media outlets. Nice try, and tell Barry, or Mittens, that the strategy of telling Ron Paul supporters that he has given up will not work. The reason being is Romney treated Paul like a doormat and disrespected him by frauding him in previous states. It is no wonder he is not campaigning in states that have not held primaries, ...
    O to you that believes Ron Paul is out, the fact is he is not wasting more tax payers money on an agenda that is irrelevant to his campaign, he won 11 states by the delegate process, wait til the convention in August, he will be there, and he has secured his delegates, I would be willing to bet that his strategy of focusing on the delegates results in either a brokered convention or him getting the nomination, the delegate strategy thus far has gained him maximum support, and I also bet he is going to be coming to your state for a delegate recruitment, he is the honest candidate, and he did not quit, only is not going around the country on a photo shoot, as his campaign funding comes from people like me, not Goldman Sachs, or any of the other corporate criminals. Furthermore, if you are going to post something about Ron Paul quitting, I ask that you make sure you have the details as facts and accurate, not based on something you heard from the mainstream media outlets. Nice try, and tell Barry, or Mittens, that the strategy of telling Ron Paul supporters that he has given up will not work. The reason being is Romney treated Paul like a doormat and disrespected him by frauding him in previous states. It is no wonder he is not campaigning in states that have not held primaries, it seems all that has happened in the primaries, is he has been violated and blatantly robber. If it makes any sense to you, and if not, maybe you will eventually figure it out, that Ron Paul's message of freedom and liberty, and love and peace, will not die. As a matter of fact the seed is planted, and it is the harvest season. Good luck. Did you not forget that mainstream media is not whom Paul's supporters rely on for Ron Paul's campaign updates? Apparently, you must think we are all as phony as the impostor in POTUS, and the one that endorses him. Or you do not yet realize that Mitt Romney supports Obamas policies. Maybe his flip flopping on major issues has slipped your mind, but a liberty seeker, and one who is willing to stand for their rights and their liberties, does not forget. Furthermore, a message that Ron Paul carries, is not one you can back down from, nor can you change your mind. Something you know nothing about, but its embedded in ones soul. Freedom rings louder and heavier than control. You cannot stop an idea, whose time has come, and if you know anything about intelligent people, Martin Luther King Jr. " truth is always on the side of the opressed" you must not be struggling in America, so go ahead vote for Romney, or vote for Obama, you will be crying next year, and I will be far gone. That or I will stand and fight for my freedom, and die doing so, because stormy rae " I would rather die fighting for my freedom than give up my right to live"
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  • Mack 2012/05/16 00:34:47
    No
    Mack
    +6
    Most people want the easy way out, the false promises, and would rather stall everything instead of fixing it. Ron Paul said the hard truths and people ran for cover. Now, we are stuck with an incompetent (Obama) and a flip flopping RINO (Romney). Nothing's going to change. The economy will stay in the $#itters where it is, the jobs will keep leaving, and our rights will keep diminishing. All because people "would rather vote R or D" and no one knows what the Constitution is anymore.

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