REPORT Key Ron Paul Supporters Leaving Rand
US News & World Report writes:
Ron Paul Team Split on Sagging Rand...
As Rand Paul’s once-promising campaign registers as low as 1 and 2 percent in national polls, a survey of his father’s 2012 state-level leadership reveals continued cause for concern among the passionate base that was crucial for Ron Paul, with some of those leaders having utterly lost faith in the younger family member as a candidate and a bearer of their message.
“Ron had paved a path that was ripe for a continuation,” says Marianne Stebbins, a small businesswoman who chaired Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign efforts in Minnesota. “If [Rand Paul] had a little more of his dad's background, philosophy and demeanor, he would be doing much better.”
Stebbins and her compatriots won for the elder Paul 32 of 40 Minnesota delegates to the GOP national convention in 2012. Their commitment to game the system and flood the state party brought their candidate victory, even though he came in second in the state’s caucuses.
Stebbins soured on the younger Paul over some of his positions, including his signing of a Senate GOP letter that aimed to undermine the Iran nuclear deal and what she calls his “not standing up for Edward Snowden.” Though Paul sued to end one of the mass surveillance programs Snowden exposed, he’s avoided a full-throated endorsement of the exiled whistleblower, suggesting he share a cell with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who allegedly perjured himself when speaking about the scope of dragnet data collection.
“At this point in the game,” Stebbins says, “Rand needs to go back to the Senate and emulate his father there. A vast change now wouldn't be taken as sincere.”...
in Iowa, where Ron Paul supporters took over the state Republican Party and won their candidate 22 of 28 convention votes, despite his coming in a close third in the state caucuses, longtime campaign leader Drew Ivers has become disillusioned.
Ivers served as Ron Paul’s Iowa campaign chairman in both 2008 and 2012 and isn’t endorsing Rand Paul this year. He says the senator has ruined a golden opportunity for the liberty movement.
I remember Marianne Stebbins when Ron Paul spoke here in Minnesota back in 2012. To use a Trump word, she's "terrific." How disappointing that Rand is losing people like this.
ReplyDeleteWe NEED to get our own Party organized. We need ballot access and 535 outstanding candidates. We're wasting time trying to save the lost cause that is the Republican Party.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you're right but sometimes I wonder if its better to avoid politics all together. The recent Michael Rozeff article on LRC was a real eye opener. Who's making a bigger impact for the freedom movement, guys like Rockwell, Winzel, Block and Rozeff or the politicians?
DeleteSolutions to the mounting problem in the US aren't going to come from politics. Let it burn, & educate as many people as you can so when the inevitable comes people consider options other than government.
DeleteThe options are minimal government or maximum government. Anarchism is total chaos! We need laws above people to restrict violent behavior. That's not anarchism. Individual sovereignty is nonsense.
Delete"We need laws above people to restrict violent behavior."
DeleteYou need an organization that is created by violence to restrict violence?
"Anarchism is total chaos!"
Someone needs a dictionary.
"Individual sovereignty is nonsense."
You are a sad person. I feel badly for you.
How old are you Wags? Twelve?
Delete"He says the senator has ruined a golden opportunity for the liberty movement."
ReplyDeleteThe opportunity was ruined when Rand endorsed Romney as Ron was gaining momentum. I believe that announcement was intended to slow that momentum, as Republicans were learning that we absolutely would not vote for Romney, and if they wanted to avoid Obama, then it was THEY who should stop splitting the vote, not us.
We didn't want Romney to destroy the economy with his socialist / protectionist policies and then have the Left blame it on "the failed free market policies of Romney".
Romney was open to a VAT, and wanted automatic hikes to the Minimum Wage, AND he thought Bernanke was doing a great job at the Federal Reserve.
He was *not* pro free market, as Republicans thought.