Ron Paul heading to Branson to haunt Mo GOP
Missouri supporters of Ron Paul, the Republican presidential contender who’s declining to quit despite John McCain’s lock on the nomination, are circulating his video announcement that he’s heading to Branson for a rally on May 30.
That’s the night before the state Republican Party convention — also slated for Branson.
(A hat tip to Jason Rosenbaum at the Columbia Tribune, for first reporting Paul’s planned stop.)
Party leaders have been trying for weeks to weed out the hundreds of pro-Paul delegates elected at local and regional caucuses, to prevent them from being seated at the state convention. The aim is to avoid a McCain-Paul floor fight.
But Paul’s presence the night before could complicate matters.
According to his Web site, Paul will headline a 7 p.m. “Freedom Rally” at Branson’s Tri-Lakes Center, 2527 State Highway 248.
Go, Ron Paul!
Explain to me please, Missouri GOP, why you want to get behind a Democrat, and call it ‘unity’?
“Let it not be said that noone cared, that noone objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy. Let it not be said that we did nothing.
Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.
Understanding the magnificent rewards of a free society makes us unbashful in its promotion, fully realizing that maximum wealth is created and the greatest chance for peace comes from a society respectful of individual liberty. ”
~Ron Paul~
Before Congress
May 22, 2007
Y’all go Missouri Ron Paul brothers and sisters! The GOP is not going to keep lying anymore. The Neo-Con Rule is ended forever!!
Thanks for the article and thanks for sharing this video great video. It is funny however, that the GOP feels like they are being haunted by someone who is bringing them their traditonal values.
r3VOLution continues.
McCain is doomed. Let then exclude Paul at their own peril.
We can still do it. A short history. In 1960 according to everyone, LBJ had the nomination “locked up” and JFK didn’t have chance. Well a grassroots effort got everyone fired up to go to the national convention and they DEMANDED that JFK be the nominee. We all know how it turned out! I don’t know about you guys, but I am sick to DEATH of having the MSM telling me who I will have to vote for in Nov!!!!!!!! Lets get Dr. Paul ELECTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s good to see Missouri still harbors a stubborn independent streak, and doesn’t trust the federal government to solve all our problems. Let’s remind the Republican party of what they once believed in.
Keep the Revolution alive.
What happens if McCain suffers a heart attack? Though others who have dropped out of the race may have more delegates, Paul is still running, doesn’t he become the presumptive nominee?
As far as the GOP goes, I think it’s becoming a popular trend to fire Republican politicians, the party may not be around much longer. That’s when Democrats will start eating their own, and then maybe we can do away with the divisive parties all together.
I love that the republicans are rallying behind the candidate that will assure that we have a democratic president in 2009. McCain is 4 more years of Bush w/ irrational temper tacked on.
It’s funny that they claim to represent the people, but are selectively choosing and weeding out those very same people they claim to represent.
Lastly, I solute Ron Paul for being one of the only politicians that still works for the people he represents. MORE POWER TO Dr. NO!
“Haunting”? Clearly a horrible choice of words in this context, but perfect for another specter that will be harder to ignore when Dr. Ron Paul visits.
It is the spirit of Ronald Reagan’s classic speech in support of Barry Goldwater that will be “haunting” the Republican Party in Branson on May 30th. And it should. The same Missouri Republican Party whose state committee letterhead comes from the “Ronald Reagan” Republican Center is the one that now wants to ignore the 1964 message of what they consider their greatest President. The TRUTH is that there is NO social security trust fund, that wars are not automatically justified, that the Federal Reserve’s “program of deliberate, planned inflation” hurts the average American. Those are some of the truths that Ronald Reagan spoke of in his classic speech. Dr. Ron Paul, who was one of only four sitting U.S. Representatives who endorsed Ronald Reagan’s 1976 Presidential candidacy believes those truths too, and ACTS upon them. Among many others that Dr. Ron Paul stands for, those truths are something that the party of alleged fiscal conservatism and individual liberty should EMBRACE. Missouri Republicans should be happy to have those issues raised on their own soil by the greatest living champion of them. I know I am.
Prosperity, freedom and truth before “unity”, ALWAYS.