Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org

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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Hubbell and diamondmagic

[jeiler]

As I told Drachenstern, this is not the forum for such a debate. However, I extend my offer of meeting on neutral ground to debate this issue with either or both of you.

Re:Hubbell and diamondmagic

[diamondmagic]

Simply saying "this is incorrect" and offering no citation or insight is... exactly the opposite of insight.
More importantly, if you don't want a discussion, just don't reply. This is after all the Slashdot discussion system. Don't force me to resort to a uid match point out you have the highest uid of all the ancestors to this post. No, I won't do that. (jk, jk)
Don't take any of this personally, please :-)

Re:Hubbell and diamondmagic

[jeiler]

I never said I did not want to discuss this topic--indeed, this is an area of great interest to me. I said that this is not the proper venue, and offered to meet you on any neutral venue of your choice to continue the discussion. Please do not attempt to put words in my mouth, especially since what you are implying that I said is almost the exact opposite of what I actually said.

Re:Hubbell and diamondmagic

[Raenex]

I said that this is not the proper venue Why is it not the "proper" venue?

Re:Hubbell and diamondmagic

[jeiler]

I personally would opt for something where formal debate could be more easily structured, where the debate and commentary on that debate were in separate threads, where observers could not interfere with the debate, and where debaters could not interfere with the commenters. Perhaps even where debaters could not read the comment thread until the debate was concluded.