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Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign
New submitter Dainsanefh sends this quote from the LA Times:
"Ron Paul, Mitt Romney's lone remaining rival for the Republican presidential nomination, announced Monday that he would stop spending money on the party's 11 remaining primaries, in effect suspending his campaign. ... Apart from President Obama and Romney, Paul has raised more money than any other White House contender this year – more than $36 million. His calls for strict adherence to the Constitution and his no-nonsense manner have spawned a vocal and well organized group of followers, but not enough to give him a realistic shot at the presidency."
He is no longer seeking primary votes, and is instead focusing 100% on taking delegate positions. This race is not over.
He's trying to put like minded people in as state GOP officers, and to amass delegates. And he'll keep doing that until all the primaries and caucuses are over this summer.
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He is not actively campaigning in the primaries because he is focused on the delegate process. He has a plurality of delegates in more than 5 states, so he will be on the ballot at the convention. If he stops Romney from getting the majority, then 2nd round of delegates can all vote for whoever they want to.
He stopped spending money on ads, and is diverting the money to the state conventions (where he's winning). It seems a logical stance to take if his goal is to win the delegate vote.
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And, thusly, the hopes and the dreams of half of Slashdot's libertarian kook fringe, have been dashed...
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The Paul campaign is redirecting their attention to the delegate strategy---which is turning out to be very successful. This is being discussed at The Daily Paul. They predicted that the media would intentionally misrepresent this as Ron Paul ending his campaign, and they were right.
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As a small-l libertarian, I may agree with Paul on an number of issues. I will never vote for him, however, as he does not believe in the separation of church and state.
You like Ron Paul because he "talks truth", we like spazdor for the same reason.
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The Constitution and Bill of Rights say nothing about the "separation of church and state." It simply states that, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This is the very first sentence in the Bill of Rights, so the Framers considered it to be pretty important. The "wall of separation" was built by Thomas Jefferson in his letter to the Danbury Baptists. http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html. In this letter Jefferson refers directly to the text in the First Amendment, with no additional context.
From everything that I've heard from Ron Paul, he adheres to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, nothing more (building huge wall) and nothing less (infringement on the free exercise thereof).
Apparently you're referring to the notion that Ron Paul is a great admirer of Ayn Rand and/or follows her philosophy. I hadn't heard that before, and a brief search turned up no real support for that view*. Your post is at best woefully incomplete and at worst simply irrelevant. How you got so many up-mods is beyond me.
* One site implies that Ron Paul's son Rand Paul was named in Ayn's honor, but his actual name is Randal and his wife shortened it to Rand from Randy. Another article says "Dr. Paul has said he is a great admirer of Ayn Rand", though I was unable to locate any direct quote to support this statement. This article is similar. I was unable to locate anything short of a few fringe views. Libertarians and libertarianism was apparently influenced by Ayn, but by no means exclusively.
Dr. Paul's ideas would be fine for certain countries of Europe, like maybe Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Switzerland.
You must be living in the US... It shows, I'm sorry to mention, because of your comment's utter display in geopolitical illiteracy.
With respect to Scandinavia, you presumably ignore that they enjoy some of the highest standards of living, best education, best healthcare and best pensions in the world. Along with one of the highest tax rates. That's not exactly Ron Paul material, but they're quite happy with it.
As for Switzerland, you might be unaware that there's a rampant and growing "screw rich foreigners, they deserve to get taxed more" sentiment. As in an über-tax the blasted creeps who buy Swiss Francs as a store of wealth, screwing exports in the process kind of sentiment. Not precisely Ron Paul material either.
The truth is closer to this: one of Ron Paul's biggest fans in Europe in France's xenophobic extreme-right wing National Front leader Marine Lepen. And the poor curmedgeon desperately sought --and failed-- to avoid her when she visited the US a few months back.
Some commentators on this side of the pond are in line with Paul's ideas, mind you. They've been continually arguing in the past years that his views ought to be applied almost verbatim in Greece. But then, the Greeks recently had an election, and they'll likely do a new election shortly, from lack of a government majority. These may very well bring "screw the banksters, and the rich, we'll just default, expropriate and hang them" extreme-left wings to power, with "screw the banksters, and the foreigners, we'll just default, expropriate and shoot them" neo-nazis as one of the opposing parliament groups.
It's not a pretty sight...
Food for thought.
that supporting Ron Paul is completely untenable without self-deception, but that the Randian-Libertarian philosophy taken as a whole is.
The fact that you know so little about the topic that you assert that Libertarianism = Randianism leads me to believe that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I would love to see the proof that either Randian or Libertarian philosophy is "untenable". Of course you can't be bothered because you are just trolling.
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