Ron Paul Fights to Move the GOP to the Right

Just like Ronald Reagan did in the years from 1968 to 1980, Ron Paul's organization is building itself into a force to move the GOP back to the right.

And many of the people contributing to the effort are volunteers who are donating their time and talents to the cause.

A group of independent artists have contributed their talents to a project that rendered Congressman Ron Paul into a 3-D animation. They're hoping that their video project, a 60-second commerial entitled, "The High Tide", is able to be aired before the Pennsylvania primary.

The High Tide is not just about Presidential candidate Ron Paul, but about the idea of returning America back to it's founding principles of freedom and liberty.

A small group of dedicated grassroots artists have created a new 60 second promo/TV ad for Presidential candidate Ron Paul, entitled "The High Tide". The ad combines carefully edited audio from various Ron Paul speeches with high end computer animation, motion graphics, and a moving musical score, into a unique presentation that is reaching new eyes and reinvigorating the dedicated Ron Paul grassroots.

Serving as lead animator, Arcfx's Nathan Evans conceptualized the project and reached out to various grassroots activists, tapping into individual creative talents the Ron Paul Revolution is famous for. Coming in early on, Ron Paul CNN/Youtube ad competition winner Chris Rye (AdamT from RonPaulForums.com) built the audio from famous speeches given at the Robert A. Taft Club and the Ann Arbor, Michigan rally where Ron Paul drew a crowd of over 2000.

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Ron Paul's supporters are taking a page from the Barry Goldwater/Ronald Reagan history books: they're continuing to build a grassroots organization to fight for the soul of the Republican Party.

Reagan, first campaigned in 1968 and later in 1978, losing to Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. But in the process, he assembled the organization that later propelled him to a historic victory against Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and his thousands of fervent supporters may be fighting more over the soul of the Republican Party nowadays than they are for the actual presidential nomination, No it's not your eyes It's Republican presidential candidate and House member Ron Paul on a giant TV screen in Killeen Texas a GOP House of Representatives member from Texas who continues to campaign against Sen John McCain. Paul reported his campaign finances March 19, 2008 having raised nearly $35 million with nearly $5.6 million cash on hand and like a good conservative no debts. Seeeing how the congressman is more than 1,000 delegates shy of what he'd need to head the ticket.

With John McCain having already secured the nomination--and having left the country--Paul supporters are actively continuing the campaign for the next election, whether Paul actually runs again or not.

The 72-year-old Paul has plenty of free political time now because no Democrat, not even in Texas, is dumb enough to take him on in the November House election, which will award Paul his 11th term. On March 4, Paul vanquished his main Republican challenger in the 14th District by capturing 70% of the vote. Other than that, it was close.

Paul says he'll continue to take his conservative message of smaller government, more personal freedoms and an end to American troops abroad wherever his followers are strong and loyal, places like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, maybe Idaho. But they're actually all over, even allegedly liberal California, where one branch posed nearly-naked for a Hotties4RonPaul pinup calendar.

Other Paul supporters have chipped in with a music video, while others have contributed the above 3-D animation commercial project.

Ron Paul's organization is doing it the Reagan way: building an organization, one county at a time across the country.

And they're finding plenty of people who feel the two main parties are not listening to them.

As noted here earlier this week, Paul's volunteers are winning GOP influence the old-fashioned way, at the grassroots level county by county, tedious meeting after tedious meeting, largely under the radar of the national media, except The Ticket. Paul's volunteers, many of them new to politics, hope to exert some influence on the platform in St. Paul and go from there, the way the 1964 Goldwater generation of conservatives finally won in 1980 with Ronald Reagan.

What assets do the Ron Paul have in their fight to move the GOP rightwards?

Read the rest of "Ron Paul: Campaign Fights to Move the GOP to the Right"

by Mondoreb
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Sources:
* What's this? Ron Paul runs a conservative campaign with no loans?
* Ron Paul, waiting to be wooed, defies concession to John McCain
* YouTube: The High Tide
* Grassroots Artists Create Ron Paul as a 3-D Animation
* Alaska is Ron Paul Country
* Ron Paul: Supporters Want to Move the GOP back to the Right


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Ron Paul: Campaign Efforts in Maine, NH and Louisiana and Super Tuesday

Campaign Recount and Checking Efforts Continue
In New Hampshire and Louisiana

Ron Paul to Campaign Tomorrow in Maine

Super Tuesday Primary States and Delegates Schedule



With the primary season getting ready to kick into high gear, the Ron Paul campaign is moving behind the scenes to cross its T's and dot its I's in states where voters have already cast ballots.

Super Tuesday, with its rich booty of GOP convention delegates, is looming--only eight days away.

But before Super Tuesday, the Maine GOP Caucuses takes place in most Maine towns on February 2. (Although technically running throughout Super Bowl weekend, February 1 - 3.)

Ron Paul will be campaigning in Maine tomorrow all day on January 28 in an effort to snag Maine's 21 Republican delegates.

While the Texas Congressman is meeting and greeting citizens in the Pine Tree State, his campaign will be attending to contests already completed. Paul's supporters are bankrolling a recount effort in New Hampshire, where there were some election worker mistakes acknowledged.

Meanwhile, the results from the Louisiana Republican Caucus--which took place this past Tuesday--are still clouded with uncertainty.

Paul's campaign said Saturday that it has filed a complaint with the Louisiana state GOP over what it calls problems and inconsistencies in Louisiana's process of choosing delegates.

"At this point right now, we're not going to charge anything nefarious is going on, but it's a very confusing process, and there have been inconsistencies, and we're voicing our complaints now" and hoping to work out their concerns with state party leaders, Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said.

Messages left for state party leaders Saturday were not immediately returned.

More than 10,000 Louisiana Republican voters met Tuesday, the state party said, to choose delegates to the state Republican Convention — a step in choosing delegates to the national convention.

The party listed results as preliminary on its Web site because they did not include about 500 votes from people allowed to cast "provisional ballots" even though they did not show up on the rolls as registered Republicans. Also, many candidates ran on "more than one slate," resulting in overlap, the party said.

Louisiana GOP staff were working with local election officials to determine the eligibility of the delegates, the LA GOP said. Anyone registered as a Republican as of Nov. 30 was allowed to take part, under party rules.

However, the outcome of races, including president, in five districts could be affected by any resulting changes in the ballot count, a LA state party spokesman said.

"Results of provisional ballot analysis will be updated regularly on the party's Web site until a final count is reached," the site read Saturday. It reported that delegate candidates endorsed by U.S. Sen. John McCain "appear to have won more state convention delegate positions than any other presidential slate" in the caucuses, followed by supporters for Paul, the libertarian-minded Texas congressman.

"The initial failure of the Louisiana GOP to properly determine who was and wasn't eligible to vote threw this entire process into disarray," Lew Moore, Paul's campaign manager, said in a statement. Moore said eligibility was "just one of many irregularities" in the process.

"We are filing this contest to ensure that we can challenge the results if it appears that delegates were improperly selected," Moore said.

Unofficial results from the caucus show McCain with more of the state convention positions than any other presidential hopeful. Paul follows, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney finished third.

Paul's campaign contends that hundreds of voters were forced to file provisional ballots because of mistakes by the Louisiana GOP.

About 500 voters at statewide caucus sites were not shown as registered Republicans on voter rolls. Those voters were allowed to cast provisional ballots, which are not included in current tallies.

Paul's campaign also states that caucus locations relied on a voter list from Nov. 1, though party rules state that voters must be registered Republican by Nov. 30.

In addition, Paul's campaign contends that at the time of the original Jan. 10 deadline, Paul had the largest number of delegates pledged to him. But later, the party extended its deadline to Jan. 12, allowing candidates to file more delegates.

UNOFFICIAL Louisiana Republican Caucus Results for Tuesday, January 22, 2008.

All the while, supporters of Ron Paul are helping to bankroll the re-count of votes in New Hampshire's January 8 GOP presidential primary. That primary, like the Louisiana contest, was won by John McCain.

Paul's supporters didn't initiate the NH re-count, but they are pitching in because of several published accounts of irregularities.

GOP candidate Albert Howard of Ann Arbor, Michigan, requested the re-count, which began Wednesday and was continuing. Howard got 44 of the more 200,000 votes cast.

Because Howard wasn't close to the leaders, he had to pay the nearly $60,000 cost of the hand re-count. Howard said a group of Paul supporters called the "grannywarriors" is paying for the re-count. He said Lawrence Lepard of Boston — who spent more than $100,000 on newspaper ads for the Texas congressman — lent the money to get the re-count started.

Many of Ron Paul's supporters nationwide believe their candidate will have won Louisiana and its delegates when everything is said and done. With several of the candidates focusing on Florida and its winner-take-all primary, the Paul campaign is switching its focus to several other states.

Included is Maine, where Paul will campaign tomorrow.

"Maine has 21 delegates that Paul has a serious potential of winning," points out Natalie Schultz of the Nolan Chart.

"Why can Ron Paul truly win Maine? Because outside of the political elite urbanites who control the state, the majority of real Mainers are very anti-government gun-lovers. Huckabee is gaining a Christian following, but truthfully, most Mainers are old-school Christians, not Evangelicals."

To date, Maine Republican Party Executive Director Julie O'Brien says, activity on behalf of the various GOP presidential hopefuls has been relatively high.

"I mean the phone is not stopping," she says.

Supporters of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are busy and those backing Sen. John McCain of Arizona and ex-Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts are stepping up their efforts, according to O'Brien.

She says former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has a presence.

But most active?

"If I had to say," ventures O'Brien, "Ron Paul," the Texas congressman.

Schultz believes that Ron Paul is wasting his time following the other Republican candidates around "winner take all" Florida, where both Mitt Romney and John McCain lead by a large margin. It should be noted that Rudy Giuliani is already down to 5.5/1 odds of winning Florida at BetUS.com compared to McCain's 2/1 odds and Romney's even odds. Ron Paul came in with 40/1 odds of winning the state and this is one bet even his own supporters are not likely to place money on.

"No matter how much time and money Paul spends there, he will not win. The die-hard Paul supporters there will vote for him no matter what. It’s high-time he moves on to fresh waters were there are many fish waiting to bite."

So on Sunday evening, efforts continue to ensure the correct delegate counts in New Hampshire and Louisiana, while campaigning in other states is heating up.

Tuesday, January 29, is Florida's primary, which Paul trails and is not likely to win. As was stated, Florida's primary is a winner-take-all affair with Romney, McCain and Rudy Giuliani fighting it out for the top spot.

The winner of Florida collects 114 Republican delegates.

Next up will be Maine on February 2 with its 21 delegates.

Super Tuesday on February 5 will see voters in the following states casting ballots for delegates:

Alabama (48)
Alaska (29)
Arizona (53)
Arkansas (34)
California (173)
Colorado (46)
Connecticut (30)
Delaware (18)
Georgia (72)
Illinois (70)
Minnesota (41)
Missouri (58)
Montana (25)
New Jersey (52)
New York (101)
North Dakota (26)
Oklahoma (42)
Tennessee (55)
Utah (36)
West Virginia (18 of 30)

Ron Paul was originally scheduled for an appearance at the WV Republican Convention in Charleston on the morning of Super Tuesday. The results of that convention will be announced in the early afternoon, before the polls close in the other states.

It is hoped that a good showing in WV may help influence wavering voters in other states.

So, these are the prizes up for grabs in the next 8 days.

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by Mondoreb
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Sources:
* Paul Contests Delegate Credentials
* Ron Paul's Supporters Finance NH GOP Recount
* McCain Wins State GOP Caucus
* Ron Paul Can Win Maine



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Ron Paul: Campaign Picks Up More of Everything

More Endorsements, More Cash, More Delegates

"Jane Roe" Endorses Paul



The Ron Paul campaign continues to pick up three things: money, endorsements and the scorn of pundits.

It may also looks like the Texan Congressman will be picking up some delegates later today.

It's been speculated that at least part of the reason Fred Thompson dropped out of the contest today was due to money--or lack of it. And Mike Huckabee's campaign staff is said to be working for free, also due to a lack of money.

Meanwhile, the Paul campaign collected another $2 million dollars on MLK Day, most of it in the form of small donations (under $50).

Meanwhile, Paul has picked up three endorsements in the last 24 hours.

The first from Gary "Veto" Johnson, former governor of New Mexico.

Yesterday, former New Mexico Governor Gary "Veto" Johnson announced that he is supporting Dr. Paul for president. Governor Johnson is an icon to small-government conservatives and libertarians for his long-standing commitment to the principles of the Founders. You can read our press release here.

The second endorsement came from well-known financial commentator, Donald L. Luskin.

This morning, Ron Paul also received the glowing endorsement of Donald L. Luskin, a prominent financial commentator on CNBC and Chief Investment Officer for Trend Macrolytics LLC. You can read Don's editorial in National Review about why Ron Paul is right for America here.

And finally, Dr. Paul, an ardent foe of abortion, received an endorsement on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade of "Jane Roe" aka Norma McCorvey.

On the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling, Norma McCorvey (a.k.a. "Jane Roe," who later changed her views on abortion in the mid-90s) gave Paul her official endorsement today.

"I support Ron Paul for president because we share the same goal, that of overturning Roe v. Wade. He has never wavered on the issue of being pro-life and has a voting record to prove it. He understands the importance of civil liberties for all, including the unborn," she said at a press conference in Washington this morning.

Paul accepted the pro-life activist's endorsement, saying of abortion: "It is still one of the most crucial issues of our day that we deal with this. As much as I talk about economic liberties, and civil liberties, and trying to avoid the killing overseas, I think the issue of life is paramount."

On Fox earlier today, Paul blamed the Federal Reserve for the weak economy.

Paul blamed the Federal Reserve for the current economic conditions; stock markets worldwide fell Monday after Wall Street declined last week. On his Web site, he said the Fed has taken the United States “into a terrible crisis.”
Paul told an overflow crowd at a suburban New Orleans hotel Monday that the Fed has allowed the dollar to weaken, which in turn, he said, has hurt the middle class and led to inflation.

“I would enjoy being the next president to get rid of our central bank,” he told supporters. The crowd gave him a raucous welcome, chanting at one point, “Who dat? Who dat say they’re gonna beat Ron Paul?” — a riff on a popular football chant for the New Orleans Saints.

Paul called for the abolition of the federal income tax.

Ron Paul's prescription for staving off recession is likely to strike a chord with many voters--especially around April 15.

He wasn't above saying "I told you so".

Paul had warned that the current economic crises would develop and has blamed the Federal Reserve for creating it. Paul said, “The Fed has again taken our country into a terrible crisis. Who else is talking about honest money that cannot be printed up at will by DC bureaucrats? My opponents in both parties are all some variety of print-and-spend Keynesians.”

Paul continued, “Only we are telling the truth, about who is to blame for this recession, and how we can build real prosperity with sound money, no IRS, no deficit, and strict obedience to the Constitution. And, of course, no hyper-expensive, hyper-dangerous empire all around the globe.”

Paul is campaigning for Louisiana's 47 delegates and is expected to reap his fair share of the delegates in the Bayou State.

Coming off his second-place showing in Nevada, the campaign is upbeat and the continued strong fund raising is expected to continue.

The vast majority of Paul donors are far underneath their limit of $2300, a concern for other campaigns that have depended on large bundled contributions.

Back to Louisiana. This assessment was offered by "best of New Orleans".

"The biggest surprise to come out of Louisiana's GOP delegate process thus far involves Ron Paul, the Texas congressman mounting a quasi-libertarian campaign that has been defined by its grassroots organization. Dore says the Paul campaign dropped off a 'whole slate" of delegates about two weeks ago " a surprise showing that wasn't expected. If any controversy arises from the delegate process, it will be from Paul's camp. 'We're being watchful, though, because we want to make sure all of the delegates were registered Republicans before the Nov. 30 deadline," Dore says, adding there was a great deal of interest expressed by nonparty voters about switching to the GOP in support of Paul. 'We started contacting registrars of voters in 17 parishes yesterday about roughly 90 people, the vast majority of which were signed up for Ron Paul.""

While other campaigns are reporting problems, name recognition is still the largest problem the Paul campaign must overcome.

That's the state of the Ron Paul campaign on Tuesday January 22, 2008.

by Mondoreb
[image: ronpaul2008]
Sources:
* Jane Roe endorses Paul
* Ron Paul Raises Nearly $2 Million on MLK Day
* Paul Blames Federal Reserve for Weak Economy
* Ron Paul Calls for Elimination of the Federal Income Tax



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View From the Cheap Seats: The Second Tier--How Paul, Kucinich, Richardson, Hunter, Dodd, et al. Are Doing

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The view from the cheap seats: or how the lower echelon in both parties are doing these days. The new Rasmussen Poll offers little change among the second-tier candidates of both parties.

According to the Democratic poll, the second ranks look like this.

Bill Richardson attracts 4% while Dennis Kucinich is at 2% along with Joe Biden. Chris Dodd earns 1% and Mike Gravel is below that level while 12% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters are undecided.

Meanwhile, the backbench of the Republican side look like this:

Ron Paul is at 2%, Tom Tancredo at 2% and Duncan Hunter’s support rounds up to 1%. Seventeen percent (17%) are undecided.

The front-runners ebb and flow with the times. No matter how much each candidates' spinners spin, little is likely to change, barring some unforeseen events, until the primaries. For Republicans:

For the seven days ending October 28, 2007 show that Rudy Giuliani earns 21% of the vote while Fred Thompson attracts 18%. John McCain is the favorite for 14% while Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are tied at 12%.

The Big Three threatens to turn into the Big Two. Or maybe just the Big One.

For the seven days ending October 28, 2007, Hillary Clinton earns 44% of the vote. Barack Obama is second at 20% followed by John Edwards at 14%.

For the second tier, hope rests in someone else dropping out, raising more money than expected or picking up a powerhouse endorsement. Anything that can help build a little momentum and keep supporters flush with hope.

If Richardson, Kucinich, Biden, Dodd and Gravel pooled their poll supporters at this point, they'd ring up less than 10%--not as much as Undecided.

If Paul, Hunter and Tancredo joined forces they'd command about 6%. Of course, Mike Huckabee's recent jump to 12% would have helped. And it did: it gives them hope that they can make the jump also.

Sam Brownback dropped out and no one in the second-tier seemed to be the beneficiary.

There's a long way to go yet. The elections are still more than a year in the future. That there's that much time left is reason for the second stringers to hope all by itself.

by Mondoreb
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