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Gingrich frees up delegates, Ron Paul still holding on to the dream

Newt Gingrich releases delegates, Ron paul holds his
Because he’s not going to be the Republican nominee for president, Newt Gingrich wrote an open letter yesterday to the delegates he won in the primaries saying they are free to support Mitt Romney. From the letter:

“I hereby release all delegates bound or pledged to me under any and all state laws or party rules. At the same time, I call upon them and all Americans committed to a safer and more prosperous American future to join Callista and me in strongly supporting the Romney-Ryan ticket.”

Meanwhile, presumably for a rainy day, Ron Paul is keeping his and he even just picked some up in Louisiana. “Paul will be awarded 17 of the state’s 46 delegates in the compromise,” Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton told ABC News. “The rest of the state’s delegates are expected to support Mitt Romney, the party’s presumptive nominee.”

[CNN, ABC News]

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Comments (10)

  • JaxLawyerHelp
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 4:16pm

    All the others are the same… Ron Paul for change… http://www.usalawyer.org/the-federal-reserve-communist-america-under-bush-clinton-obama-romney/

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 12:47pm

    Oh…..I believe I get it now……it sounds like a quid pro quo arrangement to me:

    ————————————-
    Gingrich’s private ventures are going bankrupt
    By Marcus Stern
    Tue May 22, 2012 6:00am EDT
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/usa-campaign-gingrich-idUSL1E8GID2320120522

    Sounds like Newt is deep down in the well and Romney’s campaign coffers are the only one with enough rope to spare.

    Of course, I don’t know why Romney would want to ‘acquire’ Newt’s delegates anyway….after all, the corporate media has been telling us for a couple of months now that Romney already had it locked up.

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    • windwardtack
      Posted on August 22, 2012 at 1:10pm

      So far as I know, most of Gingrich’s were already filled with Romney people, or party people which is the same thing.

      Ron Paul won a majority of delegates in LA because he won the caucus there in a landslide. His supporters bones were broken and another had to be taken away by ambulance from the state convention due to the cheating of Villiers and that group. I disagree with that deal, the video is so telling we could fight that battle in the media and win, hands down.

      Ron Paul won the delegates from well over 5 states and should be nominated to the floor to be voted on, earning him a 15 minute unedited speech. He would also be able to make conservative motions in ordinary course of business at that point. Strike suits against his delegates based on the establishment breaking the rules they themselves made are disgusting.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:56am

    RP supporters are nothing more than closet Obama supporters. Too afraid to admit it. ‘Nuff said.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on August 22, 2012 at 12:38pm

      What does that make Romney supporters then?:

      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/romneys-2002-flashback-my-views-are-progressive/

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    • windwardtack
      Posted on August 22, 2012 at 1:11pm

      Nonesense. Obama signed NDAA putting in indefinite detention of US citizens without trial. He extended the Patriot act and is compounding the destruction of our economy hand over fist.

      It is just that Romney wants pretty much the same thing.

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    • bpitas
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 10:55am

      I think you had a typo there – it’s Romney whose policies are exactly the same as Obama’s. Ron Paul was the most conservative in the race, the exact opposite of Massachusetts Liberal Romney.

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    • BigRedDog
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:25pm

      @Windwardtack: Ron Paul didn’t bother to show up to vote against NDAA. He was too busy campaigning.

      @Bpitas: See, I thought it was Ron Paul who aligned himself with Obama when he came out in support of the Occupy Movement. I didn’t see Romney supporting them.

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  • watersRpeople
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 11:32am

    I would suspect you shouldn’t be thinking that Ron Paul will ever give up his delegates.

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  • goodinohio
    Posted on August 22, 2012 at 10:10am

    Poverty, WWIII or peace and prosperity, It’s up to the delegates.

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