RP was doing all of that to spread the liberty message and obviously he needed money to do that...and anyone with a brain and instincts should have realized he wasn't going to give up his Congressional seat and run independent...especially when there were other liberty-minded candidates eager to run.
By the way, when I saw how his campaign was spending donations and that he wasn't getting results with the $34 million the campaign raised...I stopped sending him money.
So now you're going to betray the liberty movement and vote Obama because he's not a fraud like RP?
My point is is that many people gave this campaign money because Ron Paul said he wanted to be president. I never ever heard him on any interview say no I really do not want to be president, I just want people to listen to what I feel is going on?
Alot of people gave up money that they could have been using in these tough times for better things, and if he wasn't seriousabout being president heshould have owned up to it after nov 5th.
I know of alot of people that not only donated to this campaign but actually took money from their own pockets to help try to get this guys message out while he sat on almost 34 million dollars of donated money, and we were all like ok now we can get some relief, some commercials will pop up, some stops in key states he could have easily won like Michigan, and the campaign kept telling us don't worry he will be there. I sat in on meetings with Michigan's campaign person and she was telling us to go out and find us a building to get a headquarters set up . So there we are driving around spending close to $4 a gallon to find a decent place to set up headquarters only for them to tell us well it has to be alot cheaper, thus putting us into looking into areas of town that were basically the hood, then them telling us that well once we get the place you guys will have to pay for the electric bills, phone hookups and such. This after I used my hard earned money to promote Ron In GUN SHOWS, spending my money to get us in parades to spread the mesage. oUr primary was in early JAN and this was being told to us in middle DEC? I was looking at my meetup coordinator going by the time the bills come due the primary election will be over. The GOP here in Kent County kept asking us wil Ron come and speak? and we were like wewill have to get back to you. He made us look like damn fools.
I drove over a hundred miles to get dvd's that the michigan meetups made up for all delegates in Mi, I still have well over 75 of those dvd's, why? because people started realizing he is not coming here, there is no commercial ads coming. Hell we saw McCain ad's up the ass and he was supposedly broke, and here we sat with over 34 million and not one? Not one appearance except for his appearance at two stops in Mi. One at an arab conf and one in DETROIT. These have been Dem voting areas of MI FOR YEARS. Not one stop here in the west MI AREA RICH IN REPUBLICAN SUPPORT.
Will I be voting for Obama? You damn straight I will, because it would haunt my conscience for years if I voted for McCain and his 4 more years of Bush's destrution of the lower middle class working man. HELL GIVE ME Obama socialism, if it means a little relief for me and my family at the cost of my so called allready torn to shreds under Bush's administrations liberties hell why not.
I do not understand this whole he did not want to give up his congressional seat. What the hell has he accomplished in Congress? All his proposed Bill's are shot down by both Dem's and his own fellow Rep's. His own Party treats him like the step kid they never wanted. Yes every now and then he gets some air time slamming greenspan and Bernanke on their evilness AND the absolute corruption of the Fed. They sit there and patiently wait for him to get done with his spiel, then smile like ok you told us but it won't do a damn bit of good because wecould give a damn about your lone opinion of us.
Ron is a good man, and I finaly saw a damn politician that I could say yes you know what I will go out of my way to support this guy even though I know it will be a uphill battle. But he purpotrated the lie all the way into june saying as long as you guys keep sending in the money I will not drop out until the convention only to do the direct opposite.
I may sound bitter here because I am. I know that something happened to this campaign after nov 5th, and I am not sure what it was or if it wil ever come out. Either he and his family were threatened or something else I do not know because I just do not believe or maybe I am too nieve to believe that a man of his principles would decieve us all for the payoff to the tune of 34 million and change.
Then he comes out with a press release telling us we should support a third party candidate, when he himself isn't even willing to be a third party candidate? Then gets mad at Barr for not attending?
I mean come on thats like a milionaire telling you how great it is to be poor because you appreciate things much more but then you ask them are you going to give up yours to become poorand they go oh heck no I just think you should do it.
I'll take my chances with Obama and go back to my Democratic roots because although I truly believe in the platform of the original Republican Party, I just do not see any one of the Republican's wanting to drink the koolaid they want everyone else to drink up.
At least with the Democrats in power I as a lower middle class American Hard working citizen get some relief.
