Ron Paul's Political Farewell

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One way to measure Rep. Ron Paul’s ascendance as a political player is to compare the cold shoulder he got from rival Republican presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 with the cozier embrace he has received from 2012 presumptive nominee Mitt Romney.

When Mr. Romney announced Monday that he supports auditing the Federal Reserve, it underscored the odd but powerful influence of the maverick congressman from Texas, whose years-long push for a Fed audit will now appear in the party platform.

From overseas adventurism to deficit spending to a distrust of government institutions, the gospel of Paul has revived long-simmering debates that were muffled during the eight-year tenure of President George W. Bush — and, at least on some of those issues, Mr. Paul’s side appears to have gained the upper hand.

Indeed, with Mr. Paul and his ardent supporters set to play a visible role in the Republican National Convention next week in Tampa, Fla., it’s arguable that Mr. Paul, in his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, has done more to shape the party’s ideology than either Mr. McCain or Mr. Romney.

“More than anything else, what Ron Paul with these past two presidential runs has done is used the Republican Party presidential process as a platform to proselytize to an audience that otherwise wouldn’t hear it,” said Mark P. Jones, chairman of the political science department at Rice University in Houston, just north of Mr. Paul’s southeast Texas congressional district.



...Beyond the people and the tactics, there are his stances that once seemed fringe views, but now approach party orthodoxy.

Four years after Mr. Paul called for shutting down entire Cabinet branches, in the 2012 primary season his fellow candidates competed to out-slash him — though in the end his pledge to cull five entire departments still bested the field.

In Congress, meanwhile, where Mr. Paul earned the monicker of “Dr. No” for his repeated votes against spending bills and much of the other annual legislation that props up the government, he has been joined by an entire corps of lawmakers willing to take those stands.

One of those is Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, whom Mr. Romney tapped this month to be his running mate.

Paul is holding a "We Are The Future Rally" this Sunday at the University of South Florida’s 10,000-seat Sun Dome...

...he promises his address will be the:

speech the Republican National Convention doesn’t want the rest of America to hear.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ey-trust-as-he-leaves-political-stage/?page=1

 

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[dirtycarol]

Ron Paul should be the one running, not that douche bag rhino they're putting in.

 

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The OP is obviously incorrect. Ron Paul has a secret plan to steal the nomination away from Mitt Romney. I donated because of it and everything. Therefore any story about how he's not going to get the nomination has to be a lie, and what he said was the truth.

 

[dirtycarol]

The OP is obviously incorrect. Ron Paul has a secret plan to steal the nomination away from Mitt Romney. I donated because of it and everything. Therefore any story about how he's not going to get the nomination has to be a lie, and what he said was the truth.

If only that were true...

 

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If only that were true...

It is!

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