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Many Ron Paul supporters and delegates have been very disappointed that Paul wasn't given a prime time speaking slot at the upcoming GOP convention in Tampa.
However, it has been revealed by the New York Times today that Paul was indeed offered the opportunity to speak at the convention. An offer which he turned down.
According to the New York Times, the Romney campaign offered the speaking slot on the condition that the speech was vetted and that Paul fully endorse Romney:
Mr. Paul, in an interview, said convention planners had offered him an opportunity to speak under two conditions: that he deliver remarks vetted by the Romney campaign, and that he give a full-fledged endorsement of Mr. Romney. He declined.
'It wouldn’t be my speech,' Mr. Paul said. 'That would undo everything I’ve done in the last 30 years. I don’t fully endorse him for president.'Paul's statement also put to rest any speculation that he would be endorsing Romney for president in 2012.
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11 comments:
Ron Paul - a man with morals to the end. And for us, this is the end.
Or at least it will be in November.
Be a patriot! Don't participate in the theater planned for our entertainment in November. Just say "No" to the crime being committed against us.
Let the winner of the election that we're not a part of announce to the world that just 10% of the American people support their "presidency" because that's the truth!
Ron Paul wasn't given an offer, he was handed a threat. It was an either/or proposition. He basically told Romney to stuff it. Good for him.
do not sit out this one vote for write in Ron Paul fuck the GOP...even if obama/romney wins we will still have to face our problems one way or another'''''both parties are controlled by TPTG...so write in RON PAUL..
Ron Paul, the greatest shill in American history. For all of you, like Eric B., who claim Ron Paul cannot speak out about 911 truth because he was running for office, what is your excuse now?
And poor deluded fools out there still think the USA is a representative republic where voting matters. It's been this way for at least 40 years; it's just that the fangs are easier to see now that there is less wool on we-the-people to fleece.
Ron Paul's refusal to be bought once again earns him my highest respect. How cheap of the Romney camp to put "conditions" on this elder statesman! To attempt to censor him! Respect has to be earned, not bought, and apparently the Romney strategists have not learned that.
Dale declares:
I hate the false idolatry of Ron Paul.(or is it the idolatry of the false prophet?)
Despite his anti-war rhetoric, he panicked when the vote to invade Afghanistan (which had offered up bin Laden if the US provided evidence)came up because of the "peer pressure to conform." This is not leadership; this is cowardice. And that war has cost a trillion dollars, all borrowed. Paul's support meant authorizing the funding, increasing the national debt.
As for earmarks, which he opposes, he has a long history of proposing earmarks and accepting them, but in a charade of protest, he refuses to vote for them, even the ones he has proposed and will accept. I find this dishonest.
And last, when the "temporary" tax cuts for the rich (whose promised result was a massive creation of jobs: Bush created negative private sector jobs in 8 yrs) were ready to expire, Paul voted to renew them, claiming that letting them expire, as was originally intended, was a tax hike.
This is phony balony by a man who made hundreds of thousands from the Ron Paul Report, which used racist arguments in the 90's, but which Paul claims he knew nothing about while getting rich off the appeals to racists. At least 3 former staffers have revealed that he was intimately involved with the Report which bore his name and knew exactly what was going on. So he is a liar.
He also says his whole philosophy is based on non-aggression, but he opposed the non-violent Civil Right Movement and Act,and would like to repeal the public accomodations section which would return us to the era when restaurants, hotels, amusement parks, and hospitals and schools could post NO Blacks signs...or NO Women, No Jews, No Muslims, etc. This obscenity is based on putting property rights (which represent centuries of theft, sanctified as rights by law) ahead of human rights, such as the right to be treated equally and with respect. Property rights are created by the state to solidify the existing power and wealth relationships in society; human rights are prior to government, "granted by the Creator," and trump legal constructs like property laws by being innate.
For these reasons, I find the Ron Paul fans operating on blind faith without regard to his real views, his voting record, and the many absurd statements he has made such as that under his administration, gas would be 10 cents a gallon, or that the government has no role to play when disasters such as hurricanes or wildfires occur.
Look at the real man, not the fantasy that the media has created about Ron Paul. When the crisis comes (as with the vote on Afghanistan), he caves in and joins the herd. That is the exact opposite of his public image, but that is the actual truth about his record as a public servant.
I was once a Ron Paul supporter but when I researched his record, I recoiled and realized he is just another lying politician with a gullible base unaware of his real actions over the years.
He is for liberty but opposed the struggle to give blacks liberty, gays liberty, women the liberty to make decisions over their own bodies.
He's a fake. Sometimes the truth hurts.
When are we going to stop the "dog chasing its tail" debates about our insidiously failed government oligarchy of the rich?
Ron Paul, or someone, please throw a peaceful, massive, nationwide demonstration that will bring the 1% corporate "evil doers" and their puppet government shills to their knees.
Why? Corruption, influence peddling, mortgage meltdown recessions, no jobs, illegal wars, Citizens United, NDAA, ALEC, NRA, NAFTA and all its off springs, drone murders, failed health care, failed education, poverty, CIA impunity, the destruction of our environment, climate change, fossil fuels, drug wars, failed immigration, AND, you know - just fill in the frickin' blank and march!
But why? Because nothing else will work and you know it.
http://twopesos-protestfortheundocumented.blogspot.com/2012/07/fill-in-frickin-blank.html
Will vote absentee ballot for Ron Paul nov
A paper trail
Get this out to all
Internet can do it
Send cert mail copy to Ron Paul
Let the world see the numbers and a win there is no republic ( rule of law) in republicans
The NRC changes rules to control
So unless Ron Paul goes on record saying vote for Gary Johnson in Nov
Ron Paul gets my absentee ballot vote!
If RON PAUL wants to preside for the Republic all he needs to do is contact interime president for the Republic of united States of America Timothy Turner !
( He can't complain about the situation Americans are in today since the Act of 1871 ....whereas
the rights that your founding farthers gave you were turned into privilages that could be remouved by decree such as an executive order !
Every working person in America has been paying for Medicare. A law enacted and passed in 1986 allowed this tax on every working person. Now if you stayed in the same job before 1986 until retirement--you did not pay. However, every new job, and if you moved to another job did pay. No one has been talking about this--WHY? However my friend was making $70,000 a year and her tax was around $4,234.00 a year.
The baby boomers draining medicare is a pie in the sky lie. We paid, everyone paid. Someone put this Medicare Tax of 1986 out there and have the powers to be explain it to the nation. If I remember correctly, it was 1/16th yearly of your gross. Wonder what Ron Paul would say, he could have been telling us about this tax.
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