Because I Said So…

Reality has hit Ron Paul hard.  The Texas congressman basically admitted he’d never get the GOP nod.  I mean unless a house fell on John McCain and Mike Huckabee ran away with the Lollipop Gild.  Paul posted a letter on his website at 10:14 p.m. yesterday saying, now that Mitt Romney had dropped from the race he’d be scaling back his campaign. 

Apparently, Paul was banking on a brokered convention to propel him to the White House:

Let me tell you my thoughts. With Romney gone, the chances of a brokered convention are nearly zero. But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get. But with so many primaries and caucuses now over, we do not now need so big a national campaign staff, and so I am making it leaner and tighter. “

  Never fear though, Paul won’t abandon the GOP and try for a third-party bid because he is “committed to fighting for our ideas within the Republican party.”  Perhaps this change of heart has less to do with Paul actually having his hopes for the Republican bid for president dashed and more to do with him realizing he can losing his House seat if he doesn’t start campaigning to his constituency in Texas for the congressional primary:

I have constituents in my home district that I must serve. I cannot and will not let them down. And I have another battle I must face here as well. If I were to lose the primary for my congressional seat, all our opponents would react with glee, and pretend it was a rejection of our ideas. I cannot and will not let that happen.

Looks like Paul’s ruby red slippers are on the fritz so he is retreating to Texas (what is with all the Republican nominee rejects squatting in Texas?) to make sure he has a place on the Hill after all this hoopla.  Give ‘em hell on the inside is what I always say.  And what does Paul say?  “The neocons, the warmongers, the socialists, the advocates of inflation will be hearing much from you and me.”

Oh, Dr. Paul.  You had me at neocons.  Now what to do with all of your supporters?  We’ll just let them keep believing their $30 million didn’t go to waste.

Alan Keyes continues touring Texas before the March 4 primary and guess what?  He thinks he can win!  Ignore John McCain’s huge lead in the Republican race and the fact that Keyes is getting nearly zero media coverage.

When asked by The Beaumont Enterprise if he thinks he can pull off the biggest upset in U.S. government history, Keyes replied “of course”:

I am both the most experienced in every respect, and the best candidate. I proved that back in 2000, when I won every single Republican debate.  I think it is just a matter of getting the word out, from the grassroots to the media, to overcome the effort of the elite to destroy the freedom of choice of the American people.

In that same interview Keyes called McCain “barely halfway” (did he just say McCain is in recovery from drugs?) to the Republican bid since he has betrayed so many grassroots conservatives.  Keyes predicts McCain is bound to lose the general election if he is nominated.  Uh…

Keyes also said “the Republican party is being hijacked” by a bunch of liberals in conservatives clothing.  So what is he going to do to get his party back on track?  Win big in Texas of course.  The former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State believes Texas is the key to Keyes’ campaign.  He told Beaumont he has “no plans beyond winning the Texas primary and moving on to the convention, where I believe that the conservatives will come together in order to nominate the kind of alternative that America needs.”

Looks like Bizzaro World Obama is on a mission to save the Republican Party and it all starts–and ends–with Texas.  Anything I could say about this would sound trite.  So, ellipses.