Thread: Ron Paul Launching Campaign for Liberty, Will End Campaign

Supporters Plot Shadow Convention, More Revolution


By Z. BYRON WOLF
June 12, 2008

Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign, which was a pugnacious, ideological crusade against big government and interventionist leanings in the Republican party, will officially end Thursday at a rally outside the Texas GOP's convention, ABC News has learned.

Paul told supporters back in March, in a video posted on his website, that he was "winding down" his campaign and planning a new phase to what he and fans call their "revolution."

The new phase of the revolution officially begins with a speech tonight in Houston and a web video to be posted on his website, officially ending Paul's presidential campaign and freeing up the more than $4.7 million in campaign cash for investment in a new advocacy group, The Campaign for Liberty.

The new entity will be used to push a slate of libertarian-minded Republican candidates for public office in local districts nationwide, according to a description provided to ABC News by the Paul campaign. Paul also recently published a new book on his political philosophy, The Revolution: A Manifesto.

The Texas congressman's campaign to win the Republican nomination raised about $33 million in nine months, and he and his organizers hope to reignite that grassroots support for the new organization. They're setting a goal of raising $35 million over the next year.

Despite the dedication and moxie of Paul's supporters, maintaining that level of interest without the vehicle of Paul's presidential campaign could be difficult, especially given the frenetic, laissez faire interaction between Paul and his supporters through the presidential campaign. The congressman in many ways served as a figurehead, while independent actors drawn to his message did most of the organizing.

The Liberty Campaign is meant as a means for harnessing some of that energy and maintaining interest on a more micro level, by recruiting like-minded people to seek political office.

Paul, who is a medical doctor, is not ending his political career but will seek reelection to his congressional seat in Texas.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008 ... 019&page=1

Oh, what a shame,I was hoping somehow someway .That the Informed Americans in this Country,could some how get this man into Office
Dr Ron Paul woke up a lot of people in this Country as to what direction we need to go.

Sign me up. 'For the Campaign for Liberty' The new revolution has begun!

I think tomorrow.I will pick his book up.

Campaign for Liberty

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/

YES!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the link Lynn. I am re-energized! Let's take back our country!!


From http://www.campaignforliberty.com/ :


Dear Supporter,

These past 17 months have been among the most exciting and eventful of my life.Â* Together you and I delivered a message of freedom the likes of which American politics had not seen in decades.Â* I wasn’t sure the country was ready for it.Â* But it was a message, I discovered, that many Americans had been waiting for a long time to hear.

I have been blessed with the most informed, well read, and enthusiastic supporters of any presidential campaign.Â* Your extraordinary efforts in organizing and fundraising grabbed the attention of millions of Americans and shocked just about everyone in politics and the media.Â* I still cannot get over all the fantastic work you did.

Something of great significance has just occurred in our country’s history.

With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign is at an end.Â* But the larger campaign for freedom is just getting started. Therefore, I am happy to announce the official launch of the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty.

The work of the Campaign for Liberty will take many forms.Â* We will educate our fellow Americans in freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, and free markets.Â* We’ll have our own commentaries and videos on the news of the day.Â* I’ll work with friends I respect to design materials for homeschoolers.

Politically, we’ll expand the great work of our precinct leader program.Â* We’ll make our presence felt at every level of government, where just a few people with our level of enthusiasm can make a world of difference.Â* We’ll keep an eye on Congress and lobby against legislation that threatens us.Â* We’ll identify and support political candidates who champion our great ideas against the empty suits the party establishments offer the public.

We will be a permanent presence on the American political landscape.Â* That I promise you.Â* We’re not about to let all this good work die.Â* To the contrary, with your help we’re going to make it grow – by leaps and bounds.

This is the most ambitious venture of my political career, and I think it can achieve great things.Â* But I can’t do this alone.Â* I need you to help me.Â* I need your energy, your creativity, your ideas, and your dedication.

People frustrated with our political system often wonder what they can do.Â* I have founded this organization to answer that question, to give people the opportunity to do something that really makes a difference in the fight for freedom.Â* Please join me by becoming a member of the Campaign for Liberty.Â* Our goal is 100,000 members by September.Â* Can we reach it?

Our campaign netted 1.1 million votes in the primaries of a shrinking Republican Party.Â* Millions more support us.Â* I need you to help me reach them – and to keep making new converts to the cause.Â* What a force we can be, if only we rise to the occasion.

Now what about the Republican Convention in St. Paul?Â* Our delegates will attend, of course, and I expect our contingent to have a visible presence there.Â* Without disruption, we will do whatever we can to influence the party and its platform, and return the GOP to its limited-government roots.Â* This is very important.

This brings me to my second announcement. Â*I invite you to join us at Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday, September 2nd, for a grand rally. We intend to draw over 11,000 people.Â* We’ll have live music and entertainment, and special guests.Â* I’ll address you all as well.Â* A massive rally will generate still more interest in our ideas.Â* And what a great time it will be.

Remember that it was Senator Robert Taft, who shared our views, who was called Mr. Republican.Â* But we are not merely the Republican Party’s past. If the enthusiasm of young people for our campaign is any indication, we are also its future.

Right now I will need your patience and input as we develop our program and assemble just the right team of individuals. But it is my intention to launch the Campaign for Liberty in its full capacity at our rally in Minneapolis this September.

Over the past week we’ve learned that the Democratic presidential nominee, supposedly an antiwar candidate, is committed to the same rhetoric, the same propaganda, and the same aggressive intentions toward Iran as the Bush administration.Â* As usual, the major parties refuse to offer Americans a real choice.

The Campaign for Liberty will lay the groundwork for a different America, the kind of America you and I, and millions of our fellow countrymen, want to inhabit.Â*

“Dr. Paul cured my apathy,â€

So sad he is suspending his campaign.