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R Paul all but gives up Presidential bid

Thunder said:
Ron Paul all but ends presidential campaign, continues delegate strategy | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

why does this guy keep wasting money on running for POTUS?
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I'll say to you what I said in another thread....

Your misinformed. He has refocused on the delegate selection process only...the area where he is actually winning. Ron Paul will still have ads in Texas and California, but that is it. He is counting on his supporters to do what they have been doing...showing up in large numbers at local, district, and state conventions.
 
AreteCourage said:
I'll say to you what I said in another thread....

Your misinformed. He has refocused on the delegate selection process only...the area where he is actually winning. Ron Paul will still have ads in Texas and California, but that is it. He is counting on his supporters to do what they have been doing...showing up in large numbers at local, district, and state conventions.
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he's already lost the delegate race.
 
Well Ron Paul i support a lot of your positions and disagree with everything in your economic policy tho. Hope to see ya again in 2016.
 
Thunder said:
Ron Paul all but ends presidential campaign, continues delegate strategy | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

why does this guy keep wasting money on running for POTUS?
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why does everyone hate the establishment candidates but consistantly hates on the only non establishment candidate?


but to answer your question he is getting states to back him where voters didnt,even with some of the states favoring paul to hand over remaining delegates,he still would not have enough.he is just trying to get his point across and to pave the way for tohers like him to be recognized.
 
Thunder said:
Ron Paul all but ends presidential campaign, continues delegate strategy | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

why does this guy keep wasting money on running for POTUS?
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He was NEVER running for POTUS in the first place. He is running to promote libertarianism as a political ideology. He knows darn well he has not a chance of a snowball in Hell - perhaps less - of ever getting the nomination. But then, that is not why he does it in the first place. He is the religious missionary who gets to knock on millions of doors with this strategy and leave his leaflets behind in the hope they will win converts.
 
Thunder said:
he's already lost the delegate race.
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He won majority of delegates in Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Nevada, Maine, Alaska, Washington...and is poised to win Oklahoma and Arizona. His supporters show up at conventions that Romney's people do not. His supporters will continue to show up at state, district, and local conventions around the country.

Remember Warren Harding and how he became the nominee with only 39 delegates...Paul has way more then that now. Wait until the RNC..it will be a show for sure.
 
some people seem to foam at the mouths at the idea of libertarions.its like they hate everything done wrong with this country but believe the only way to fix it is to elect the same people who caused the problem with the same solutions that did nothing but harm,yet like to go on about how doing anything different but what has failed will cause failure:confused:


seems like the above is what i get out of every debate involving ron paul or libertarians.but hey the libertarian movement has grown quite a bit,4 years ago ron paul was mostly an underground movement,now hes pretty well known to everyone,just not so much liked:shock:
 
R Paul is his own worst enemy. His embracing of wacky conspiracy theories & isolationist foreign policies, makes him just too dangerous to seriously consider for POTUS.
 
Thunder said:
what about the other 39 states?
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Ok I went to research this for you.

Here is what I've gathered.

Romney Has Won Delegates in:

Wyoming
North Dakota
Ohio
West Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New Hampshire

Paul has taken:

Nevada
Maine
Minnesota
Iowa

Santorum took:

Kansas
Alabama
Tennessee

The rest of the states are awaiting the state conventions or have yet to release a full count. Paul supporters have been recording these conventions and have done their due diligence. Paul has won majority of delegates going to the state conventions in:

Louisiana
Massachusetts
Missouri
Washington

Paul had a clear majority in these states and from the people attending the conventions has taken these states though unconfirmed by that state's GOP:

Alaska
Oklahoma
Arizona
Virginia
Colorado

This is why Paul has decided to focus everything on state and local conventions because he is winning there. His supporters show up where Romney's do not in near as many numbers.

Source with Map: The Real 2012 Delegate Count for the Republican Primaries & Caucuses
 
AreteCourage said:
I'll say to you what I said in another thread....

Your misinformed. He has refocused on the delegate selection process only...the area where he is actually winning. Ron Paul will still have ads in Texas and California, but that is it. He is counting on his supporters to do what they have been doing...showing up in large numbers at local, district, and state conventions.
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no my friend, YOU are misinformed.

R Paul has given up on the GOP nomination.

Ron Paul: Nomination is out of reach, but campaign continues | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

But campaign manager Jesse Benton clearly stated that the hopes of Paul winning the Republican presidential nomination are officially over.

"We recognize that Gov. [Mitt] Romney has what is very likely to be an insurmountable delegate lead," Benton told reporters on a conference call Tuesday. "And we acknowledge that we're very, very unlikely to be able to block that nomination."
 
Wiseone said:
He's smart enough to know that getting the nomination was never going to happen, his continued bid is an effort on the part of him and his supporters to get their message out in the hope of changing things. Thats it.
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RP running will take away some of the Libertarian & Conservative vote from Romney.

go Paul!!!!!!! ;)
 
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