What about John, you know, McCain?
-Christian Science MonitorAs America has had its eye on the Democratic nomination battle, another story has been unfolding more quietly on the Republican side of the ledger.
Since Sen. John McCain wrapped up the GOP presidential nomination on March 4, he has had some trouble bringing all of the party’s voters into the fold. He hasn’t broken 80 percent of the vote in the state primaries that have followed, including Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Indiana, or North Carolina. In Pennsylvania, for instance, Senator McCain received just 73 percent of the Republican vote in a closed primary in which only registered Republicans were permitted to cast ballots.
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McCain wants to run against Ron Paul in the fall
-Lew RockwellWhen asked his preferred opponent, Obama or Clinton, McCain said Ron Paul. The war criminal meant it as a joke, but if only: a general election between a man of peace and a mass killer, between an Austrian economist and a fascist, between an honest money man and a Fed counterfeiter, between a good man and a bad one.
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Nuisance vote eludes McCain
-PoliticoIt's hard not to notice: In each of the last three Republican primaries, roughly a quarter of the vote went to someone other than John McCain.
Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee got a combined 27 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania last month, long after the GOP nomination had been settled in McCain's favor. On Tuesday, Paul, Huckabee and Mitt Romney received a combined 23 percent in Indiana. Alan Keyes, Huckabee, Paul and "No Preference" took 26 percent in North Carolina.
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One in Four Republicans Reject McCain
-The Nation...Obama's not the only likely party nominee who should be worried about some shakiness at the party base. Despite the fact that all-but-coronated Republican nominee John McCain was running essentially without opposition Tuesday, 27 percent of Republican primary participants in North Carolina cast their votes for a candidate other than McCain. In Indiana, 23 percent of Republican primary voters rejected the senator from Arizona.
Each state saw a portion of the Republican vote go to Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the libertarian, anti-war candidate who has maintained a semi-serious campaign while focusing on getting reelected to the House...
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Diehard Paul supporters seek role at convention
-Boston GlobeSenator John McCain is sailing toward his coronation as the Republican presidential nominee while the Democratic candidates battle fiercely. But Republicans also are engaged in some tough infighting that could disrupt the national convention and make it more difficult for him to unite the party in the fall.
Across the country, at state and county GOP conventions, diehard supporters of maverick Ron Paul are staging uprisings in an effort to secure a role for Paul at the national convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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Paul makes bestseller list
-Boston GlobeRon Paul doesn't have much in common politically with Barack Obama.
He's an iconoclastic congressman from Texas still running an insurgent campaign for the Republican nomination though John McCain has it wrapped up. Obama is senator from Illinois almost certainly soon to be the Democratic nominee after a campaign that is more of a movement.
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A Gated Community for Ron Paul Supporters?
-NY Times onlineA group or ardent backers of Ron Paul, the maverick congressman and Republican presidential candidate, are flocking to Paulville.org, a Web site that promises to help them set up exclusive residential enclaves open only to the like-minded — presumably to help them replicate in the physical world the comfortable feeling they’ve experienced online, of being fenced-off from the rest of us.
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Do you have a plan for freedom?
-Devvy KiddUnfortunately, most Americans seem content to willfully believe lies to support their comfort zone. They're too afraid to confront the reality of what's right in front of their faces. My column, Do you have plan? earlier this week dealt with getting your personal affairs in order and planning for survival. Now, do you have a plan to become a participant in this fight to stop the complete annihilation of this republic?
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Ron Paul #1 on New York Times Best Seller List
-Ron Paul 2008ARLINGTON, VA – Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s newest book, “The Revolution: A Manifesto”, is number one on the New York Times Best Sellers list for May 18th, 2008. The ranking is yet another of the many successes Dr. Paul has had during his presidential candidacy spreading his message of personal freedom and constitutional government.
Upon its official release on April 30th, “The Revolution: A Manifesto” was the number one bestseller on Amazon.com and remains the number one bestseller in political books.
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Ron Paul #1 on NYT Bestseller List
-Lew RockwellRon's The Revolution: A Manifesto will be #1 on the May 18th New York Times bestseller list, to the cheers of every good libertarian and conservative, and to the snarls of every bad guy. How sweet it is.
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Ron Paul Looks Ahead of Convention
-TownhallCongressman Ron Paul ruled out the possibility of running as a third party candidate in the 2008 election and said he expected support for his candidacy at the Republican National Convention at a private event to discuss his new book Wednesday afternoon.
“Theoretically, I could run as an Independent or third party, but realistically I have no plans to do that,” Paul told a small audience of conservatives in Washington.
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A Million Votes for Ron Paul
-Ron Paul 2008ARLINGTON, VA -- Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul eclipsed an important milestone in yesterdays primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. By winning over 71,000 votes, Dr. Paul has earned the backing of over one million supporters across America.
“By voting and caucusing for Dr. Paul, one million Republicans have sent a powerful message to our leaders that they want the GOP to return to its traditions of limited government, personal liberty and a strong national defense,” said campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. “Dr. Paul and the grassroots movement he has inspired are building a bright future for the Republican Party and the United states of America.”
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Ron Paul, The Revolution, and Ending Abuses and Usurpations
-Michael Scheuer, via Lew RockwellCongressman Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution, is an unusual presidential campaign book in that the candidate – Dr. Paul – is almost entirely absent. This is not to say that his presence is not felt; indeed, Dr. Paul is with the reader every step of the way and writes in a clear and very direct style. But the reader will find that Dr. Paul is not offering the audacity of hope or chanting change; he does not argue that it takes a village or having slept with a former president; and he surely does not hold up his military service as a reason why he should be elected. Instead, Dr. Paul politely, laconically, but frankly lays it on the line for his countrymen:
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Army pay to run out unless congress acts
-BloombergThe U.S. Army won't be able to pay soldiers beyond June 15 unless Congress approves $108 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or authorizes a funds transfer, a Defense Department official said.
If the supplemental spending legislation isn't enacted by then, the Pentagon will be forced to seek congressional authority to use money designated for other services to fund the Army payroll, department spokesman Geoff Morrell said.
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Global Elite have it in for Ron Paul
Two Dr. Nos in the House?
-Third Party WatchIt looks like Dr. William (B. J.) Lawson aka Ron Paul, Jr. just poured an entire can of [butt]-whoopin’ on Republican Augustus Cho in North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District GOP primary. Here’s an update from last night:
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Ron Paul Uprising
-Santa Fe ReporterWill a GOP uprising take place at the Republican National Convention?
As the mainstream media obsesses over the Democratic Party’s brewing civil war, supporters of Republican presidential candidate US Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, are already staging their own quiet uprising at GOP conventions across the nation.
If, by a strange twist of fate, the Republicans’ presumptive nominee, US Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., fails to win the first ballot at the national convention, “all hell will break loose,” one Santa Fe County delegate tells SFR.
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GOP leaders warn of election disaster
-PoliticoShellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.
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How Ron Paul Is Going to Win
-Ben Novak, Founder of Americans in Europe for Ron PaulDear Paulites:
For some time I have been pondering two questions: First, why is Ron Paul working so hard to collect delegates to the Republican convention when John McCain already has it all sewed up? Second, if Paul doesn’t have a chance at the nomination, why does he look so happy and confident? Then it occurred to me: perhaps he has a strategy to win it after all. So, I thought about it a long time, and realized that he could indeed win it. So I decided to buck up your spirits by telling you how he is going to do it.
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Illinois man wins political sign battle
-Chicago Daily HeraldA six-month fight in the name of the First Amendment has paid off for a Wheeling resident.
Chris Shefner has been fighting a citation he received Nov. 5 of last year for having two Ron Paul signs in his front yard.
On Monday, the Wheeling village board made a final change to its ordinances that Shefner said complies with what he was looking for.
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Cancel My Subscription
-Jeremy Parfitt via Lew RockwellDear Reason:
I have been a nearly continuous subscriber to Reason magazine for over twenty years. There was a time when, for a few days early in each month, I would arrive at home hoping that there was a "Reason" to check my mail box.
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Missouri
-Daily DoseMany of your fellow Ron Paul supporters in Missouri had to attend “credentials hearings” yesterday to prove that they were “true Republicans” so that they could keep the delegate status they had earned in earlier Missouri Republican meetings. The first thing that pops up in your mind is probably the first thing that popped up in mine - we are the true conservatives, and the principles we defend are the core ideas of the Republican Party.
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Fans embrace Paul's message
-News-Sentinel, INThey're for Ron Paul because of what he's against.
The Texas representative and Republican presidential candidate reeled off what he opposes to some 1,500 enthusiastic supporters at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne on Monday night.
End the war in Iraq and the drug war. Repeal the Patriot Act. Get rid of the Internal Revenue Service and eminent domain law. Ditto for the Department of Education. National health care for all Americans? Who needs it?
"This country is in need of and ready for the message of liberty," Paul said to applause. "The most important part of the constitution was written to restrain the government."
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Derb on 'The Revolution'
-NROThe Ron Paul campaign shows that the Taoist style of masterly presidential inactivity still has some level of public appeal. Dr. Paul likes to put the example of Switzerland before his listeners: A nation that is well defended by a citizens’ army (with widespread private ownership of firearms), whose regions enjoy great autonomy, and whose president not one American in a thousand could name. Paul promises to be just that inconspicuous in office.
Now Dr. Paul has a book out: The Revolution: A Manifesto. Not much in it will be surprising to anyone who has heard a Paul speech, browsed his website, or watched one of the innumerable YouTube clips of the good doctor strutting his stuff, but it is handy to have the Paul program packed into 167 well-produced pages. There is no index or endnotes, but there is “A Reading List for a Free and Prosperous America” appended.
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‘Just getting started'
-Fort Wayne Journal GazetteHe might not have a chance to be the next U.S. president, but Ron Paul unquestionably still sparks passion in his supporters.
Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, proved that Monday while addressing 1,000 fervent fans at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
During his hour-long speech, Paul elicited numerous eruptions when he touched upon pieces of his individual liberty-based platform: from ending the Iraq war to repealing the Patriot Act.
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Latest from MO
-MissourinetDozens of elected delegates to the Missouri Republican Party Convention made the trek to Jefferson City on Monday to respond to concerns that had been raised regarding their qualifications to serve as delegates. They were from a group of about 300 elected delegates who received registered letters informing them that concerns had arisen and that they would be allowed to appear before the convention credentials committee to basically defend themselves.
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