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Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org

Posted by timothy on from the new-kind-of-paulist dept.

JoeKuboj writes "Texas Rep. Ron Paul announced Thursday he is suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination to focus his time on building an organization to help recruit and elect 'limited government Republicans.' Paul's decision to leave the race is an acknowledgment he had no chance of winning the GOP nomination. But even in loss, Paul is one of a handful of candidates who walked away from this presidential contest a winner. His presidential campaign had a broad base of support that included traditionally fiscal and socially conservative Republicans to young people who were angry about the U.S. decision to wage war against Iraq."

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  1. A broad base of .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    insane people, who do not understand econ 101.

    1. Re:A broad base of .. by morari · · Score: 4, Funny

      I don't see why. They're one of the largest presences within the Beta Quadrant.

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    2. Re:A broad base of .. by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Ronulans have always been trouble.
      You don't understand. These are Ronulans! You run away from them and you guarantee war! They'll be back, not with just one candidate, but with everything they've got! You know this, Mr. Science Officer, you're the expert on these people, but you've always left out that one fact. Why? I've very interested in why!
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      Similar to the upcoming US election results
  2. Re:Interesting by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please please please make the Republicans more libertarian. That way the Republicans will be just as crazy, but an awful lot more fun at parties.

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  3. Re:How Is This News For Nerds??!!! by Devin+Jeanpierre · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's funny, as one of the pro-Paul arguments I heard a lot was "Sure, he disagrees with your views, but he believes the power should be held by the States, so he won't actually do anything you don't like!".

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  4. Re:Isolationism rising by Scrameustache · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting. Probably a result of public education, but I've not heard any of that. Have a cite? For all of that? Nope, I didn't get that recently off the net... maybe if you'd ask for a particular, but google those facts for yourself.

    Heck, they mentioned the declaration of war in that aweful Pearl Harbor movie, but that's no reason to watch it.
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