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Post by shortcircuit on Jan 26, 2008 19:02:53 GMT -4
GOP Agenda: Stop Ron Paul at All Costs?
Nolan Chart
01-23-2008
As reported in Ballot Access News, "It appears that Ron Paul supporters outnumbered the supporters of any of his opponents. But since this was predicted, the supporters of Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, cooperated to set up a "fusion" slate of unpledged candidates for Delegate. The "fusion" slate, labeled the "Pro-Life/Pro-Family" slate, beat the Ron Paul slate in each of the 7 U.S. House districts. Formally, the "fusion" slate billed itself as an "uncommitted" slate, and no one really knows how many supporters of each presidential candidate are on the fusion slate, except the campaigns themselves."
According to the Louisiana GOP, preliminary results indicate that an "uncommitted 'Pro-Life/Pro-Family' slate appears to have won a majority of delegates in all seven congressional districts."
This unprecedented uniting of GOP candidates to stop Ron Paul clearly shows that the GOP agenda is apparently to stop Ron Paul at all costs.
Provisional ballots remain to be verified.
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Post by shortcircuit on Jan 26, 2008 19:04:39 GMT -4
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Post by shortcircuit on Jan 26, 2008 19:06:46 GMT -4
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Post by unionindividual on Jan 26, 2008 20:09:49 GMT -4
I know you folks love Ron Paul, but I can't throw any support to somebody that is for the civil liberties of drug users. I say the government shouldn't legalize drug use......Ron Paul has stated that the government shouldn't be able to restrict whether people can use them or not...I say he is wrong...
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Post by summerose on Jan 26, 2008 20:12:35 GMT -4
I saw some fellow Ron Paul supporters in town today. It's nice to know that the message of truth is spreading. That is good to hear! ;D |
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Post by shortcircuit on Jan 26, 2008 21:51:56 GMT -4
by Ron Paul, Dr. May 17, 2004
May 17, 2004
When we talk about the federal war on drugs, most people conjure up visions of sinister South American drug cartels or violent urban street gangs. The emerging face of the drug war, however, is not a gangster or a junkie: It’s your friendly personal physician in a white coat. Faced with their ongoing failure to curtail the illegal drug trade, federal drug agencies have found an easier target in ordinary doctors whose only crime is prescribing perfectly legal pain medication. By applying federal statutes intended for drug dealers, federal prosecutors are waging a senseless and destructive war on doctors. The real victims of the new campaign are not only doctors, but their patients as well.
Dr. Cecil Knox of Virginia is one recent victim of federal authorities, who cannot abide physicians using their own judgment when prescribing pain medication. Dr. Knox faces federal criminal charges for prescribing legal pain drugs, and tragically has been forced to spend several hundred thousand dollars defending himself. Virginia state authorities have neither charged him with a crime nor revoked his medical license, yet the federal government- which constitutionally has no authority to usurp state drug laws- perversely seeks to imprison Dr. Knox for life!
Even if Dr. Knox is acquitted of all charges, his life will never be the same. His professional reputation and clientele cannot be easily restored, and the enormous legal bills cannot be easily repaid. So whether federal prosecutors obtain a conviction of Dr. Knox or not, the message sent to other doctors is chillingly clear: prescribe the wrong drugs and we will destroy you. The end result is that doctors become afraid to prescribe pain medication, no matter how appropriate for a patient. The judgment of doctors has been replaced by the judgment of federal drug warriors.
Those who support the war on drugs may well change their views if one day they find themselves experiencing serious pain because of an accident or old age. By creating an atmosphere that regards all powerful pain medication as suspect, the drug warriors have forced countless Americans to live degraded, bedridden lives. Even elderly deathbed patients sometimes are denied adequate pain relief from reluctant doctors and nurses. It’s one thing to support a faraway drug campaign in Colombia or Afghanistan, but it’s quite another to watch a loved one suffering acute pain that could be treated. A sane, compassionate society views advances in medical science- particularly advances that relieve great suffering- as heroic. Instead, our barbaric drug war treats pain patients the same way it treats street junkies.
Doctors are not slaves, and they will not continue practicing medicine forever if the federal government insists on monitoring, harassing, fining, and even jailing them. Congress should take action to rein in overzealous prosecutors and law enforcement officials, and stop the harassment of legitimate physicians who act in good faith when prescribing pain relief drugs. Doctors should not be prosecuted for using their best medical judgment, nor should they be prosecuted for the misdeeds of their patients.
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Post by shortcircuit on Jan 26, 2008 22:00:05 GMT -4
I must be a little late, both CNN and CNN headline news are talking about Hellary, just like normal.
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Post by shortcircuit on Jan 28, 2008 0:11:30 GMT -4
Union County needs someone like Ron Paul to run for commissioner, like Ron Paul he would be ignored and ridiculed by the local media but the people who know the TRUTH would work hard to get him elected.
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Post by sometimeman on Jan 28, 2008 7:38:43 GMT -4
I love Ron Paul and what he stands for!
Ron Paul is the only decent, honest person in the race.
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Post by mac on Jan 28, 2008 8:26:04 GMT -4
The media just will not extend him any coverage at all will they?
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Post by bb on Jan 28, 2008 8:33:41 GMT -4
The media just will not extend him any coverage at all will they? Nope, mac. You don't hear anything about him in the media. |
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Post by mac on Jan 28, 2008 8:43:05 GMT -4
Makes you wonder doesn't it. What if the dude would actually take a state in super Tuesday..... would they not report it
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Post by queenbee on Feb 6, 2008 16:52:00 GMT -4
Ron Paul To Stay In Race Despite Poor Showing on Super Tuesday
By Sarah Lai Stirland February 06, 2008 | 1:33:34 PMCategories: E-Voting
ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports on Facebook that Texas congressman Ron Paul plans on staying in the presidential race despite his lackluster Super Tuesday results:
Texas Congressman Ron Paul did not have a stellar showing on Super Tuesday. But it was good enough for him to stay in the race.
In most states with primaries where Republican voters voted for their Republican nominee preference, he got no more than 5 or six percent of the vote. He runs a distant fourth in the all-important delegate count.
Paul did better in the Northern Midwest caucus states, placing second in Montana, third in North Dakota and fourth, but with 15 percent of the vote in Minnesota. He also placed third with 17 percent at the Alaska Republican caucus and, despite a fourth place finish in initial voting, got 3 national convention votes in a backroom deal with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee in West Virginia.
Those finishes, while they won't secure Paul a huge chunk of votes at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis this summer, are enough for him to stay in the race, according to his campaign spokesman, Jesse Benton, who yesterday said Paul would reevaluate after Super Tuesday and described Paul's quest for the White House as "not completely quixotic.".
Paul had said earlier in the campaign that he would look at Super Tuesday as a gauge for his presence in the race. As long as the support and the fundraising remained, he said he would stay in it. Paul is over $5 million in fundraising this year.
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