Feb 09 2008
Ron Paul back from the Land of Oz
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.