Ron Paul On The Verge Of Losing… In Congress!
Pajamas Media has the details…
Despite millions of dollars and devoted online support, Ron Paul’s idiosyncratic campaign for the Republican presidential candidacy never caught fire. Now, polls show Dr. Paul falling behind relatively unknown challenger Chris Peden in his 14th Texas District endangering his congressional seat in the Texas primary.
Some may call it poetic justice, others may call it unfair, but Ron Paul is in the fight of his political life, but it’s not for the presidency. It’s to stay in Congress from his own district.
While pursuing his thus far quixotic quest for the presidency, Congressman Paul has fallen behind by over ten points in the polls (43-32) in the fight for the Republican nomination in the Texas 14th to challenger Chris Peden, according to internal polls from both campaigns, which Pajamas Media was told were quite similar. Peden is a 43-year old CPA and city councilman from Friendswood, Texas. The primary takes place on March 4.
With reports for January 2008 not yet out, Congressman Paul has spent (according to OpenSecrets.org) $20,262,084 on his presidential campaign – well over a million dollars per delegate (he has 14 to John McCain’s 903). Paul still has nearly eight million in his presidential war chest, possibly more when the new report comes out on Feb. 20, but cannot use any of it in his contest against Peden unless the OBGYN-politician drops out of the presidential Race
Is this really a surprise? The man disgraced himself by adopting an isolationist foreign policy stance that would have earned him a rousing applause of approval at the Democratic party debates. He made a mockery of himself by befriending head kook Alex Jones and the notoriously dishonest troofer movement. He never made a serious attempt to distance himself from the Neo – Nazi movement, in fact it appeared he would take anyone’s money regardless of the moral dilemma. The best indication of his nuttiness was how he was constantly booed at the GOP debates. Ron Paul was a joke from day one, and it’s great to see that voters in Texas are taking notice.
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3 Responses to “Ron Paul On The Verge Of Losing… In Congress!”
February 20th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
“The best indication of his nuttiness was how he was constantly booed at the GOP debates.”
Yeah, that’s clearly the gold standard.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
The point being is that he did not belong on that stage, would have fit in better with the Democrats.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
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