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He's In, He's Out...He's IN!
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ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: For Ron Paul supporters disheartened at a March 6 web video the candidate posted on his website announcing that he was moving on to the "next phase" of his grand revolution to recast the Republican party as a small-government, non-interventionist and committed to civil liberties, Paul has clarified what the "next phase" is.
Even as he enjoined supporters to continue to cast votes for him, Paul said then that he was moving on and referred to his candidacy in the past tense, as something he would look back on.
He clarified his cryptic admission that he won't be President a bit on CNN's American Morning on Monday, telling anchor John Roberts' he's still in the race technically, but realizes he can't win nominally.
"The true revolution, the change in party and the change in the country is ongoing and we feel very good about it, which means I'm still in the race, but certainly in a manner that is less energetic than it was six months ago."
Roberts pushed a bit further, asking for a clarification of the clarification.
"So when people say Ron Paul is out of the Presidential race, that's true, not true, partly true, how would you describe it?" Roberts asked.
"I would think in the nominal sense, what are the odds of us overcoming delegates of John McCain or his delegates deserting, in that way it's over. But the campaign to get the maximum number of votes the max amount of delegates to participate in writing platforms and talking about the future, I think we're very much involved and very much alive," Paul said, arguing that so many people had worked on his campaign and "I don't feel good about walking away from them."
It does not appear Paul will ever make a Shermanesque statement about ending his candidacy because it would spell the end of the first leg of his revolution. And don't hold your breath waiting for Paul's endorsement of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, the Republican nominee.
Paul pointed out that McCain is anathema to pretty much everything Paul has been fighting for the past 30 years and he probably won't throw his support behind McCain, even at the Republican National Convention in September.
"Unity might be secondary to principle," he said.
Nor does it mean that Paul is going to endorse a Democrat. He pointed out that Sen. Obama, one of the Democrats still in contention for the nomination, says he wants to pull out of Iraq, but continues to vote to fund the war and wants to send more troops into Afghanistan, where the Taliban has seen a resurgence.
"His rhetoric is playing to the people that come my way, but he is every bit as much of an interventionist. He wants to send more troops into Afghanistan. He wants to broaden the military. I think it’s a fraud when he talks about how he wants to really get out of Iraq, but I think that's politics," Paul said.
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Good to see that more than half of Americans have voted for two of the top ten most corrupt politicians in washington
Posted by: Brandon | Mar 13, 2008 1:07:43 PM
Yea, actually... he was never out. Wolf was the one saying that in the first place, and it was never true. The article title should read, "He's in, he's in, HE'S IN!"
Posted by: Gio | Mar 14, 2008 3:07:49 AM
I think Ron Paul have the best explanation why your country is going thru a very difficult situation right now... You should weigh the candidates positions and goals instead of blindly following the propaganda that surely take you into your downfall.
Posted by: Jason | Mar 19, 2008 2:17:26 AM
notice how all the people that try to bash ron paul are not only supporters of the most corrupt politicians in the nation (the proof is right in front of you people) but also manage to blatantly lie about the state of the union (like the people they support) and completely twist reality, and then in a gigantic wave of hypocrisy tell the people that are working to ursurp the corrupt politicans that THEY are the ones who are crazy, corrupt, stupid, etc. etc...
its a classic case of the playground "no, YOU ARE" and "I know you are but what am I?"... i mean, just analyze these people talking for just 5 minutes and if your not sick to your stomach then there's something very wrong with you.
Case in point, RP was talking about the federal reserve and the gold standard on CNBC's Kudlow&Co. explaining how ever since the creation of the Fed.Reserve the dollar is slowly being destroyed, and the antithesis was "I think our dollar is quite stable, the economy is fine, and the gold standard has all sorts of problems" when asked what problems it had he goes.. "well the great depression was caused by the gold standard"... WHAT???
These people are so freaking twisted is disgusting. Please, hillary mccain and obama supporters, please develop some common sense and look at facts, look at the state of the country, beacuse obviously the people that actually want to keep our liberties and sovereignty dont have any more power, at the time; and its up to you fools to either stand with us or atleast soften the blow. The least you could do is to hold off until the RLC can take back the republican party...
Posted by: xrazorwirex | Mar 27, 2008 5:31:54 PM
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