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Ron Paul’s Speech On May 18th At Minnesota GOP Convention Is Drawing Interest

May 16, 2012

By Chris Steller

Local Republicans readying for Paul’s appearance Friday.

Ron Paul is set to speak at the Minnesota Republican convention Friday, and party activists in the Fifth District are preparing for a possible Paul win—with one local activist saying “I get the feeling I’m witnessing history.”

Paul is poised to make a strong showing in Minnesota after congressional-district conventions gave him 20 of 24 available national delegates. The Texas congressman was denied a speaking slot at the 2008 state convention, but has proven a popular candidate and speaker here since—turning fans away, for example, from an over-capacity speech in Arden Hills shortly before Minnesota’s 2012 caucus night.

On Monday, Paul announced his campaign would stop spending money in states that haven’t yet held primaries or caucuses. But that didn’t seem to dampen the enthusiasm and sense of anticipation of Paul’s Fifth District fans …

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Jack Hunter – Moving Forward: Mitt Romney, Tampa And The Revolution

May 16, 2012

in Election, Politics

By Jack Hunter
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Let me be blunt: Mitt Romney represents the same, old Republican Party I’ve been fighting against my entire adult life. The question today is, to what degree is the GOP the same, old Republican Party? To what degree will it remain the same, old Republican Party?

When I signed on with the 2012 Ron Paul campaign I viewed it as Part 2 of the Part 1 of our movement that Paul had inspired in 2008. Before 2008, the Republican Party was a depressing wilderness, offering absolutely nothing for constitutional conservatives. I had supported Pat Buchanan’s presidential runs in 1996 and 2000 in my early 20’s because he was the only candidate willing to take on the neoconservatives who were steadily influencing American foreign policy. With the election of George W. Bush, the neoconservatives would dominate on foreign policy. The GOP became so obsessed with championing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the party became little more than apologists for big government so long as it was Republican. Medicare Plan D, No Child Left Behind, doubling our national debt, destroying the 4^th amendment with The Patriot Act—nobody cared. That period of the GOP was all about support for war at any cost, literally. At the 2008 RNC convention, neocon liberal Joe Lieberman was even given a prime time speaking spot while strict constitutionalist Ron Paul wasn’t even allowed in the building.

Like I said, during that time there was literally nothing of worth to constitutional conservatives in the Republican Party.

This is no longer true.

In his quest to save America, Ron Paul is also saving the Republican Party. The Democrat-lite, big government hacks and neoconservative maniacs who still think the George W. Bush model represents Republicanism defined—and believe me, they do—are quickly becoming yesterday’s news. Yes, they’re still there, and yes, they still have much influence.

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Ron Paul Spokesman: Candidate Unlikely To Ever Endorse Romney

May 16, 2012

in Editorial, Election, Endorsements, Politics

Presidential candidate Ron Paul is not expected to ultimately endorse presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, Paul’s chief strategist said Tuesday.

“Never say never, but I don’t believe that’s likely,” said Jesse Benton, during a half-hour-plus give-and-take with reporters.

And there’s also no chance, he said, that Paul, who is remaining in the race in an effort to collect delegates to the Republican National Convention, will endorse Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. Or that he would endorse anyone outside the Republican Party, he said. Unless his supporters are treated badly.

During the call, in what appeared to be a direct message to Paul supporters, Benton repeatedly emphasized that the campaign expects its delegates to the national convention …

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Ron Paul off the campaign trail, pocketing Romney’s delegates

May 16, 2012

in Election

Ron Paul: LIVE Republican Party Primary Results 5/15

May 15, 2012

in Election, Primaries

Live primary results for Nebraska, Oregon

Jesse Benton Phone/Press Conference 5-15-12

May 15, 2012

in Election, Interviews, Politics

Why We’re Entering the Age of Ron Paul

May 15, 2012

in Editorial, Politics

Ron Paul Isn’t Dropping Out, Jesse Benton Says

May 15, 2012

in Campaign Trail, Election, Politics

By Liz Halloran

Republican Ron Paul is not shuttering his presidential campaign, his chief strategist says in a memo sent this morning to supporters and the news media.

“Let me be very clear,” said Jesse Benton, “Dr. Paul is NOT dropping out or suspending his campaign.”

“As Dr. Paul has previously stated, he is in this race all the way to the Republican National Convention in Tampa this August,” Benton said. The campaign will, though, be “maximizing our resources” by not investing in remaining primary states, he said.

Benton’s statement comes after reports over the past 24 hours characterized the Texas congressman’s move to curtail his activities in the remaining primary states as an end to his campaign. As Eyder reported Monday, though, the Paul campaign’s “carefully worded statement about its plans spelled out how it would continue hunting for delegates.)

“We will,” Benton said today in his statement, “continue to run …

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Doug Wead: Ron Paul is not OUT! He is UP! 5-14-12

May 15, 2012

in Election, Politics

Video: The Best Of Doug Wead: "Why Ron Paul Should Be President" Jan 12,2012

“We are absolutely not dropping out of this race! We are focusing our efforts squarely on winning delegates and party leadership positions at state conventions.”

- Jesse Benton, Campaign Chairman

Ron Paul announced today he would not be competing in the upcoming primary states, saying that he would focus, instead, on his delegate strategy. A strategy that is working, by the way, and transforming the Republican Party. It is something he has said many times since the February 11, 2012 caucus in Maine.

Only this time, the main stream media gave the announcement full attention and treated it like the end of his campaign. Drudge ran it as a front page headline “Ron Paul is out.”

It is all evidence that Alfred Harmsworth’s famous quote that “news is not when a dog bites a man but, rather, when a man bites a dog” has now been offciaily turned on its head.

For the last two years the national media has been saying that Ron Paul is out. So how could that possibly be news? One might ask, “When has the mainstream media ever thought that Ron Paul was in?”

Bracing for a Ron Paul win in Iowa, major new outlets last January announced that if he won, the Iowa Caucus, itself, would be discredited. According to the New York Times and the Associated Press, Ron Paul is still listed as the recipient of one, count em, one delegate from Iowa, a state that he now dominates.

Likewise, the fact that Ron Paul supporters took a big chunk of the delegation of Mitt Romney’s home state of Massachusetts was not big news. This was evidently not a man biting a dog. There were no headlines, just small reports saying we were “flooding” state conventions with delegates. We were sucker punching the front runner. Even this, “we were stealing delegates.” Now, that’s a trick.

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