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Women of the Ron Paul Revolution

I was pleased to see a number of friends on this great list from Business Insider on influential women within the Ron Paul movement.

But the larger point is, is there a “Women of the Newt Gingrich Revolution” list? The “Romney Revolution?” The “John McCain Revolution?”

Those in the mainstream media who continue to wonder why Dr. Paul is still a candidate refuse to admit, or are comically blind to the fact, that Paul goes on precisely because he is so much more than a candidate.

Ron Paul is a revolution. This revolution extends far beyond the man himself. Here are some of the women who are leading it:

Behind the scenes, a growing number of women — and millennial women in particular — are taking arms in the Ron Paul Revolution, as grassroots organizers, party activists, anti-Establishment political operatives, and elected representatives.

“It’s not uncommon…to joke about how an upcoming event will be awesome because there will be at least one girl for every 30 guys,” said Bonnie Kristian, a Ron Paul supporter who serves as director of communications at Young Americans for Liberty. “In practice, however, the ratio is much better than that, and over the five years or so that I’ve been involved, I’ve seen a very steady increase in the proportion of women in the movement.”

Kristian is part of a cadre of young women who have quickly risen through the ranks of Paul-inspired organizations, a cottage political industry that is working to remake the Republican Party in Paul’s image.

These women are far more comfortable talking about Austrian economics and defense appropriations than about gender politics.

And when Paul leaves Republican politics this year, they are ready to take over the mantle of his movement…

“Meet the Women of the Ron Paul Revolution”

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Michigan Delegates Are UNBOUND After All - Romney May Lose Michigan

Submitted by minimumrage on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 10:18
Delegates

There was an article last week that indicated many delegates would probably abstain during the first round of voting to get around state binding, but they did an investigative report and determined that delegates from Michigan that were thought to be bound are in fact UNBOUND and free to vote their conscience on the 1st ballot.

Ron Paul Delegate Strategy to Win Republican Nomination Paying Off | Michigan Standard

This article makes it clear that not only are Michigan's delegates unbound, but very likely that all delegates will be unbound at the national convention. The state convention in Michigan is 5/18 and 5/19 and Ron Paul is expected to pick up more delegates and it is unlikely that Romney will even get the 16 that he thought he had secured.

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Ron Paul is not OUT! He is UP!

“We are absolutely not dropping out of this race! We are focusing our efforts squarely on winning delegates and party leadership positions at state conventions.”

- Jesse Benton, Campaign Chairman

Ron Paul announced today he would not be competing in the upcoming primary states, saying that he would focus, instead, on his delegate strategy. A strategy that is working, by the way, and transforming the Republican Party. It is something he has said many times since the February 11, 2012 caucus in Maine.

Only this time, the main stream media gave the announcement full attention and treated it like the end of his campaign. Drudge ran it as a front page headline “Ron Paul is out.”

It is all evidence that Alfred Harmsworth’s famous quote that “news is not when a dog bites a man but, rather, when a man bites a dog” has now been offciaily turned on its head.

For the last two years the national media has been saying that Ron Paul is out. So how could that possibly be news? One might ask, “When has the mainstream media ever thought that Ron Paul was in?”

Bracing for a Ron Paul win in Iowa, major new outlets last January announced that if he won, the Iowa Caucus, itself, would be discredited. According to the New York Times and the Associated Press, Ron Paul is still listed as the recipient of one, count em, one delegate from Iowa, a state that he now dominates.

Likewise, the fact that Ron Paul supporters took a big chunk of the delegation of Mitt Romney’s home state of Massachusetts was not big news. This was evidently not a man biting a dog. There were no headlines, just small reports saying we were “flooding” state conventions with delegates. We were sucker punching the front runner. Even this, “we were stealing delegates.” Now, that’s a trick.

It was a ridiculous assertion. One cannot “flood” state conventions with delegates. Nor can one “steal” a delegates, unless they mean we packed them away in vans and drove them off to camps behind barbed wired.

Each delegate was elected at District or County caucuses by delegates that were elected at precinct caucuses. So yes, one can flood precinct caucuses with people who in turn must get elected but that had to happen last January or February. It was then that we beat Romney in Massachusetts, and all the other states, it was in the heat of battle.

Now? We are trying to make nice. Like our attempt to “give” him the delegation from Arizona, an offer his man refused to make. So after three attempts to give him a majority we reluctantly won instead, thank you.
The fact is that all of this fighting makes Ron Paul nervous. Yes, he is taking on the establishment. Yes, he wants the monetary policy reformed so that the poor and the middle class and even the excluded rich can know the thrill and opportunity of free markets that aren’t rigged for insider trading. But Dr. Paul is a happy warrior on these issues. He is a person who has always believed in a respectful dialogue and debate. As John Tate says, “That is what he wants his legacy to be.”

Shouting people down is not Ron Paul’s way. Winning a battle of ideals based on principles, in a respectful way, is how he approaches the contest and it is how he wants others to approach the contest, as well.

By ending the primary battles, Ron Paul is signalling to the field that this is the end of hostilities. In primaries you end up tearing each other down. It is millions of dollars spent on negative advertising. In caucuses, as brutal as they may be, you change the Republican Party, you empower the new and challenge the established.

The delegate strategy is working. That is the way we will impact the platform in Tampa. That is the way we will begin the process of change. It is through the caucuses that we are attracting youth, like the twenty-one year old woman recently elected to the national committee from Maine or the Ron Paul Hispanics or the Independents who have never been involved in party politics.

Yes there is pain.

The establishment turned off the air conditioning at the Arizona State GOP Convention last weekend, trying to sweat the Ronulans into leaving.

In Oklahoma they pulled out a ballroom divider to cordon off Ron Paul supporters and shut them out of participation. Later they turned out the lights. Voice votes that were clearly lost were declared won.

In Carson County, Nevada they turned off a microphone when a Hispanic tried to speak, they knew that Hispanics were for Ron Paul.

In Minnesota they told their people not to vote for any delegate under the age of fifty.

In Alaska, they defeated the majority by retaining the committee which “interpreted rules” and later, after taking the delegation, reluctantly gave up the party control to the new majority but transferred all of the money out of the Republican Party accounts.

In Virginia, at a District Convention, they coaxed the Ron Paul delegation outside and then locked the door. The pastor of the church that was hosting the event was, himself, locked outside.

In Missouri they had all the delegates sign up at County Conventions and then had their County Chairman take the rolls outside and lock them in their car trunks so they could block roll call voting and have their chairman declare lost voice votes as won. At another convention delegates were arrested.

Our people have been punched, yelled at, lied to and worked until they can hardly stand. But on they come, fighting for their children, fighting for their future, angry at the corruption of the banks, of Wall Street, of the lobbyists, of the congress, of the White House. The battle for liberty is not over. It has just taken on a new phase. It cannot be stopped by the national media. If that were the case it would never have been born in the first place.

And some will say that it is a lost cause, which I will not concede but it does remind me of Clarence Darrow’s famous line, “Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.”


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Ben Swann Chimes In on Ron Paul's Email

Submitted by bucko158 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 15:12
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"The headline on Drudge says it all "Ron Paul OUT!" Link to the Washington Times article and it says "Ron Paul Ends His Hunt For Votes".

The first headline is NOT TRUE.

The second headline MAY BE.

Either way, read through the article and you will see that the inference that Paul is out of the race is absolutely not true.

The article explains that Paul will abandon the game of going from state to state to trying to win a popular vote that doesn't count for anything. Instead he will focus on the states that are currently holding delegate conventions.

That strategy makes a lot of sense when you have the kind of fights in Oklahoma and Arizona we saw this weekend. The State Conventions is where the nomination will be won or lost not traveling from state to state for beauty contests."

_Ben Swann on FB
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Update: Ben Swann via twitter:

MSM thinks Paul is dropping out because they don't understand delegate process BenSwannRealityCheck - YouTube

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May 15 GOP Primaries: Nebraska, Oregon & Idaho - Open Thread

Submitted by The Daily Paul on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 15:00
Ron Paul 2012
Oregon

Voting tomorrow: Nebraska, Oregon & Idaho

Post your news, observations and insights in the comments below.

May 15 GOP Primaries: Nebraska, Oregon & Idaho - Open Thread | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012

Obsequious play by the Campaign makes sense now.

Submitted by John Fowler on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 18:16
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Ladies and Gentlemen, a seemingly meek play only works if you are really strong. We are so strong that the campaign gave polite deference to the Republican National Convention when they asked if they could proceed as if Romney would be the nominee. Now (after the recent campaign statement) we are seeing the real beauty of this maneuver. The Media will now do our jobs for us.

They will announce the end of this race. They will entirely squelch what very little motivation there was for Mitt Romney. It is time now to go to work. It is time for US to elect Ron Paul as President of the United States.

Obsequious play by the Campaign makes sense now. | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012

Ron Paul is not suspending his Campaign: Official Campaign Release.

Submitted by Greorith on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 19:06
Ron Paul 2012
Texas

http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2012/05/14/ron-paul-has-not-suspended-his-campaign/


So keep fighting and keep up the coverage from the conventions. Ron Paul will be speaking at the Minnesota on the 18th of May: get footage of it. Go Ron Paul!!

Ron Paul is not suspending his Campaign: Official Campaign Release. | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012

The Revelation. The Revolution.

Submitted by cnasshan on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 19:51
Daily Paul Liberty Forum

I can't believe what half-a-day of neglecting the Daily Paul does to my stress levels.

After about 32 minutes of the Daily Binge, I've finally got that feeling of excitement right before I saw Ron Paul walk on stage at UCD.

We are going to win this.

The pure brilliance of the Paul campaign with this press release is mind-boggling. I don't even know if it was intentional. In fact, I don't think anything about this nomination process for Paul has been intentional. Everything is just working itself out in our favor.

Remember the debate where Ron Paul only got 59 seconds of speaking time?

We were all so pissed about that. Hell, INFURIATED! But what happened in the wake of that debate? We got fired up!! And blowback ensued.

After being barraged all day by co-workers informing me of my hero dropping out of the race, I was confused, befuddled, and downright enraged.

But now that I'm reading all these viewpoints and opinions about the supposed suspension, I've established one of my own: Victory. That's all I see now. It's a revelation. It's a revolution.
This entire episode in my life has been one large snowball that is turning into an avalanche, and nothing can stop it.

MODS: Please embed this video to help explain what I'm trying to convey.



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