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Ron Paul Has Left the Building

Ron Paul left the GOP convention unexpectedly early yesterday, and is back home in Texas. I don’t suppose this was part of the Benton/Tate playbook, so I consider it very good news indeed.

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XXUI2U5IPS7IABBMSM4I27BYDA chris

    Welcome home, Patriot.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not sure how much of the LRC post is a joke, but if the TSA was trying to piss him off enough endorse to Gary Johnson, or somehow continue the campaign himself, I hope they succeeded.

  • Left Wing Mole

    It’s going to be fun watching the Republicans lose come November (not that I want Obama to win). I’m going to make popcorn, sit back, and laugh.

    I sure hope the RP delegates walk out on Romney during the speech.

  • J Fournier

    I loved this part of Ron’s recent interview with Cavuto:
    Cavuto: “Maybe the better part of valor is to swallow your pride so that [Rand] can carry the torch.”
    Ron Paul: “Well, it might sound like I’m cold and callous, but guess what, about the time he was 16 I sort of turned him loose He’s on his own. So, I can’t bestow anything on him…”
    I got something from campaign for liberty the other day. I signed their End the Fed petition, but wrote a note on their solicitation that there would be no money until Tate and Benton are gone.

  • Jeff Miller

    Amen to your last sentence. That would actually get me to watch the convention!

  • Anonymous

    Huh, he left before Rand’s big speech. Hmmmmm.
    I caught a few seconds of Rand’s speech and the place was comatose. Except for the one (rather oblique) reference to the old man. BIIIG applause!!
    What a joke of a party. They’re gonna get KILLED in Nov. and boy do they deserve it.
    At least they can blame the coming greater crash on Obama. Oh, wait. You don’t think they PLANNED that??
    Nah, they too dumb.

  • Frank M

    I’ll bet a lot of donors felt robbed back in mid-May. It’s a time I’ll never forget. In spite of the Ron Paul delegate strategy enjoying huge momentum, reports by Ben Swann that all GOP delegates will be unbound, the Texas primary about to start, and California’s right around the corner, we get hit with this one-two combination out of nowhere. Benton and Tate send us letters quoting the fake MSM delegate numbers and telling us we lost. Bam! Pow! If that combination didn’t send us reeling, Rand follows it up by endorsing Mitt Romney on Sean Hannity’s show. Boom!
    No, I didn’t feel like we were bad guys on the “Batman” TV show, but more like washed up pug Terry Malloy in “On The Waterfront.” Remember when he sat in the back of the taxi with his gangster brother who had made him take a dive and throw away his career?
    “It was you Charlie! I coulda been a contender!”
    This could’ve been the GOP convention for the ages.

  • David

    It was over by mid-May. I’m pretty sure Rand didn’t endorse Romney till after California, and the only primary left after that was Utah, which was obviously going to be a Romney win. The delegate strategy was relatively successful, but there was simply way too big of a gap in the popular vote for it to overcome it completely.

  • Frank M

    The Benton and Tate emails came in mid-May; by the 17th I think. The Texas primary was on the 29th. Then on June 7th, when Ron was about to speak in Ft. Worth (and I was going to go because I’m not far from there) reports were buzzing with how Rand was going to endorse Romney that night on Hannity. Yes, that was the day after California voted and Scott Walker’s recall win. One other thing that was annoying about the emails is that they referred to “bound” delegates when we knew they weren’t bound. In any event, I wish they would not have sent those emails and let Texas and California play out. “You’re going for the money on Wilson? I coulda took Wilson apart!”

  • Dave Carroll

    Seriously that speech from Rand was disgusting.

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