Due to lack of funds, Ron Paul will end his campaign for the nomination. The only thing he’s fighting for now is a speech at the convention.
I would say it has been a pretty disappointing run.
How is it disappoting? Dr. Paul has brought more people over to libertarianism then any economist/philosopher in history. Sure he advocates a min-statism but I’m certain he’s a voluntaryist at heart. Voter fraud destroyed his campaign.
Lack of funds?
This is weird timing cus I’m pretty sure there is a money bomb coming up in a couple days for the campaign.
Paul is not ending his campaign, as in he’s not withdrawing from the race. Both the Yahoo! News headline and the OP are misleading.
Ah, but he’s continuing his sneaky delegate strategy…
How about we get it from the horse’s mouth (where any news outlet is going to be getting their info on this from):
“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.
“Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted. Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have. I encourage all supporters of Liberty to make sure you get to the polls and make your voices heard, particularly in the local, state, and Congressional elections, where so many defenders of Freedom are fighting and need your support.
And here’s the guy from RonPaulFlix:
There is a strategy shift: The campaign will not spend resources campaigning in primary states but WILL BE focusing on winning delegates in caucus states … Rest assured, he is not dropping out … We must now redouble our efforts. We are doing extremely well, and the chance of a brokered convention in Tampa is extremely good, and the delegates we have collected so far are many hundreds, unlike what the media is lying to us about.
There is a moneybomb coming up on May 17th. Please, pour everything you’ve got into the moneybomb. It’s absolutely so vital that we do that. We have to keep the campaign going. ~ Israel
The OP is highly misleading.
Ron Paul is not going to campaign in those states in which there has not yet been a primary. Considering the amount of delegates he’s amassed -irrespective of how he has fared in states which have already held primaries- campaigning reasonably can be regarded as irrelevant in Ron Paul’s case: what’s the point of spending so much money to gain, maybe, some marginal voters when he can already claim a significant majority of delegates regardless (look at the recent contests)?
The battle for delegates has only just begun.
I hate to be cynical, but Paul [redacted]. I knew this day would come. Every campaign says they will “continue doing what blah blah make the country strong again.” It is just standard PR.
Caucus vs. Primary… How many caucus states are left? one? I cannot see this going anywhere anymore. And to think Paul just said if I don’t get two million I’ll have to end (or something close to that)…he got it, then ends.
The media and GOP will think and say…Paulbots…conspirators…seditionists.
EDIT: I trust Webster Tarpley on almost everything he says, but from the start of the campaign he has said that Huntsman and Paul were both wingmen of the Romney campaign. I refused to believe him, but if Paul doesn’t say something himself about this I may have to give Tarpley a little bit of credit. Romney did like all of our energy, boy, he could sure use a polemicist like Paul to get a group of super active political activists acting in order to scare the mainstream of the party into participating so they don’t get crazy old Ron Paul.
I am disappoint.
This is why people who like Ron Paul hate Jesse Benton. They had to have known how a press release like this would be spun. I don’t understand the logic behind this, or what good they expected to come from it.
The only thing I could imagine is they figured this would “rally the troops” to give and give big for the moneybomb this week, but they could have easily done that in another way.
Well…that, or perhaps there’s more to this strategy, and the idea is to make Paul’s campaign look weaker than it is. It’s possible they felt that he was getting too much attention for his delegate strategy and that it put more of a target on the delegates and the process. It’s possible they think that by making an announcement like this, they make it seem like the campaign is weak, and is crumbling, and is gearing up for it’s “inevitable downfall”…and warming up to make a deal.
Perhaps they think that if this seems to be the case, there will be less interest and motivation from the Romney campaign and the GOP footsoldiers, and the RNC in trying to mess with the delegate process and Convention rules. If they assume he’s going to crumble and assume Romney’s got it in the bag, they won’t care as much and won’t feel like it’s really necessary (i.e. worth the risk of creating a scandal) to try any big shennanigans.
I honestly don’t know. But those are the only scenarios I can think of.
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re: hating Jesse Benton
I can’t embed images, but here’s exactly what I’m talking about:
Headline on Drudge
This downer came completely out of nowhere for me. And I don’t think it could simply be chalked up to a stupid campaign manager/strategy. I mean, you could still cut down on your primaries events if you thought money could be better spent elsewhere but why make this kind of fuss about it?
If I had to make a quess, this would be the scenario if TPTB finally found, or successfully planted, a HUGE skeleton in RP’s closet, then blackmailed him into bowing out gracefully. I hope I’m wrong.
Paul neither ended nor suspended his campaign. People at the LvMI should know better than to take a MSM story about Ron Paul at face value.
The announcement merely stated that he will not be campaigning in upcoming primary States, devoting all campaign resources instead to the caucus States where we can win more delegates. This is a (minor) shift in strategy, not the end.
Original statement:
Clarification prompted by confusion about original statement:
How many caucus states are left?
If it is less than two. Paul is done. There wil be no enthusiasm for him in August. See my previous post regarding Webster Tarpley’s position on Ron Paul.
Did you look at a single post in this thread? Oh wait nm.
Hear the eloquent man speak:
Doug Wead “We are not out, We are Up!” The fight has just begun!
And of course there’s the “Southern Avenger” as well:
Apparently, there are 6 conventions coming up this weekend alone.
There were (I think) 4 last weekend - Arizona, Oklahoma, Hawaii (I think), and Wisconsin (I think). We don’t know the final outcomes of any, but it looks like Paul swept Oklahoma and either just missed out on a majority in Arizona, or scraped the majority. I don’t know what’s going on in Hawaii or Wisconsin, I heard they were convening… but nothing else since.
Virginia also elected some of their delegates over the weekend, and Paul won 11 or something there. The were also great results the weekend before
Paul’s gone from hoping for a brokered convention to hopefully eek out a win, to potentially being able to clinch the nomination on the first vote.
People don’t be naive about this, the announcement was very well planned. The GOP had cottoned on to Paul’s tactics in Arizona/Oklahoma and put up a hell of a fight. By announcing this, fewer Romney supporters will show this weekend. Pretty much all Paul supporters already see past the MSM propaganda.
From Ron Paul’s official site. Jesse Benton is at it again:
RON PAUL CAMPAIGN CONVENTION STRATEGY
“Unfortunately, barring something very unforeseen, our delegate total will not be strong enough to win the nomination. Governor Romney is now within 200 delegates of securing the party’s nod. However, our delegates can still make a major impact at the National Convention and beyond.”
Can a moderator please rename this thread, since its current name is inaccurate?