Ron Paul: Endorsing GOP Nominee 'Would Defy Everything I Believe in'
At least one Republican presidential candidate says he will be "reluctant" support his party's eventual nominee.
On Sunday, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) told Fox News host Chris Wallace that if he loses, he will "probably not" endorse another any of the other candidates.
"Can you state flatly that you will support the Republican nominee in the off chance that it isn't Ron Paul?" Wallace asked the candidate.
"Probably not, unless I get to talk to them and find out what they really believe in," Paul admitted.
"But if they believe in expanding the wars, if they don't believe in looking at the Federal Reserve, if they don't believe in real cuts, if they don't believe in deregulations and a better tax system, it would defy everything I believe in. And so, therefore I would be reluctant to jump onboard and tell all of the supporters that have given me trust and money, then all the sudden say, 'All we've done is for nought so let's support anybody at all even if they disagree with everything that we do.'"
"Would it mean then that you might consider an independent run?" Wallace wondered.
"No, it does not mean that at all," Paul insisted. "I have no intention of doing that. That doesn't make any sense to me."
"Because?" Wallace pressed.
"Because I don't want to do it," Paul replied. "That's a pretty good reason."
After suspending his presidential bid in 2008, Paul refused a request to endorse Republican presidential candidate John McCain, choosing to support Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin instead.
"I just will not be endorsing John McCain, nor will I endorse Obama," Paul told CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the time.
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I like Ron Paul's view on the private Federal Reserve cartel, the foreign wars, and the Bill of Rights. He also seems to be pretty smart on summing up his fellow Republican candidates for President.
Thanks for covering Ron Paul who just won another straw poll in Illinois this weekend.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
That's ok Ron, Droopy dog Lieberman will, and that will make up for one republican off the reservation.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Yeah, Chrissy, that's the most logical conclusion you could draw from his non-endorsement? Quit trying to angle for some inside scoop that's not forthcoming. You just ain't that special.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
but hey you can't have everything
(Ron Paul for President)
end the wars...
end the fed...
stop the bailouts...
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Don't give him credit where it's not due.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
is pro-bank...
pro-war..
pro torture..
pro...wiretapping immunity...
pro-patriot act....
(I could go on)
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I did not know.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
...Ron Paul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyg4Xwhy1Kg&fe...
(sorry)
I thought you voted for Obama last time.
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alex fucking jones....now there's an endorsment.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
So is yours....
will get 10 times the amount of corporate campaign donations as mine does!
I also bet your choice for president will get twice the mainstream media coverage as mine does!!!
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I don't get a choice...I just act like I do...
...looks like it will be serving Obama leftovers for president in 2012...
(maybe Dennis Kuchinich will step up again this year?)
give Obama a run for his money?
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Ron Paul and Jesse Ventura could probably run for President and get a lot of support from the people and a lot of ignoring by the media.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
at least give him credit for educating his peers....on Iran, Blowback, and the Empire in decline.
Mind you their ears may have shut fast when the pin dropped...
not endorsing mccain was an impressive anti-partisan move. i fully expect he will do the same this time around when he doesn't win the nomination
If Ron Paul won the nomination (which he won't), I would vote for him over Obama. I guess that makes me a Paultard or something.
just a "lesser of two evils tard"
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"With Liberty and Justice For Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful",
then explain to me why I should vote for Barack "Transparency! Look Forward Not Back! Torture! Secrecy! Pro-Wiretapping! Al Queda!!! GWOT!!!" Obama for President.
If the election were held today I would HAVE to vote for Ron Paul. For a few very serious reasons. First and foremost because I believe he actually supports the Constitution and what it stands for. Second because I sincerely believe that the creation of the PRIVATE Federal Reserve Bank has been the fundamental undoing of our economy, third because I want the wars to end and fourth because I believe Ron Paul actually cares about civil liberties and American's having FREEDOM.
The Obama administration is Bush's third term and if Romney wins it will be Bush's fourth term. Romney has already identified who his chief advisers are/would be and they are ALL Neocons.
Ron Paul is not a Neocon and he does not support their agenda which is global hegemony AT ANY PRICE.
I am willing to worry about healthcare legislation on another day. All Obamacare is anyhow is just another corporate/for-profit dirty deal. Obama even PERSONALLY killed the "public option"!
I am willing to let the fight for reproductive rights go to the individual states if need be. I am willing to argue with a Ron Paul administration about "regulations" etc.
But I must say that I would cheer the day that the FISA legislation gets undone and Google can no longer hold all my searches and share them etc.. I would cheer the day that our troops come home and all the hundreds of bases all over the world are shut down. I would cheer having quarterly TRANSPARENT audits of The Federal Reserve that I feel would ultimately be it's undoing. We need to return to a NATIONAL money supply. Read Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt".
You either support the Constitution and the Bill of Rights or you do not. I do not believe that there is one candidate currently running for President who is not completely comfortable with identifying the Constitution like Bush did as just "a Goddamned piece of paper." Except for Ron Paul.
Oh, and one more thing. I would REALLY like to see the War on Drugs called off and for ALL non-violent/victimless drug prisoners to be released from prison. The U.S. now has MORE prisoners than any other country in the world.
Had enough???!
(P.S. Please read Greenwald's book or listen to some of the recent interviews he has done regarding the book. It is truly frightening and SOBERING to understand what the Obama Administration really stands for.)
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I hope Ron Paul wins his parties nomination. Not for any personal reasons, but because that is what would be best for the country. He represents those values, whereas the others are all corporate fucktards.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Paul is an extremist that would make a teabagger blush. He would leave us in a Mad Max world, every man for himself. Make no mistake he is a crook, worthy of this site's critique. Ending empire for a dytopian nightmare is not a good trade off. We can do better.
Is it the 21st century yet?
Who then?
(sorry but the Empire is going to go kaput...regardless...and you should be ashamed of supporting it
(screw the empire).
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Someone who won't destroy our way of life AND end empire. Use the trillions wasted on being policemen of the world at home, for us to have a higher quality of life. That's what I stand for, that's the kind of person we need to elect. I'm not made for the ruggedness of politics, but I can support a good man or woman who holds my values.
Is it the 21st century yet?
Ron Paul is just as much a freak as Rick Santorum and the rest of the GOP field - it's just that Santorum's ire is directly focused on a specific group of people (poor, gay and minority), while Paul's ire is focused on undoing any and all federal, state and county regulations and decimating such things as osha, the civil rights act, the persons w/ disabilities act, etc. etc. etc - the only sunlight between the two of them is one wants to take Americans back to the 1600's and the other wants to take Americans to the fabricated, ayn rand hallucination that is nothing more than the real life set of "Mad Max". Pick your poison, GOP and keep up the great work.
Doesn't objective reality defy much of what Ron Paul believes?
But he can just vote against objective reality and claim an ideological victory. It's fine. I'd like to ask him, in front of as many of his supporters as possible, why he wants to undermine free speech on the internet. Like all the other Republicans Paul opposes net neutrality, which he sees as 'regulation' of the internet. In a technical sense, of course, he's correct, but all the regulation is is a legal provision that corporations can't a) manage traffic in a manner preferential to big money contributors and b) create the kind of packet investigation infrastructure necessary to engage in that level of traffic management. So in other words taking his 'government is always bad' philosophy to heart he supports a legislative position which empowers corporations to spy on you and restrict your speech on the internet. If there were ever a better reductio ad absurdum to demonstrate which libertarianism of Paul's sort and genuinely caring about freedom and liberty are incompatible (which would resonate with his internet base) I can't think of one.
...if he ran he's high enough profile now (as opposed to when he ran on the Libertarian ticket before) that he'd shave a few percentage points off Romney which might a) lead to him being blamed for a GOP loss and b) therefore make life very difficult for him if he wants to remain in the Congress, which he presumably does. Ironically he's a victim of his own success in appealing to the crazy-Goldwater wing of the Republican party which seems to be expanding with every election.
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