Ron Paul Giving New England Another Try
David Weigel | February 1, 2008, 11:28am
The AP asks whether Ron Paul, increasingly left out of the big narratives of the GOP race, could actually
pull a win in this weekend's Maine caucuses.
It doesn't hurt that Paul's visit this week made him the only presidential candidate from either party to visit Maine before the caucuses.
"I think that (because) he's paid attention to Maine, he'll be rewarded," said R. Kenneth Lindell, Paul's campaign coordinator in Maine... [he] wouldn't give specifics on the number of Paul volunteers but said it is in the hundreds, not a small figure considering Maine's relatively small population and meager share of the national delegate pool.
It's shaping up a lot like Nevada: Mitt Romney's the only other Republican giving the race any attention, grasping for a positive headline among the drumbeat of McCain endorsements and wet kisses from newspaper edit boards. And, like in Nevada, some of the Paul organizers will be battle-hardened veterans of Iowa and New Hampshire. The level of love for McCain is closer to New Hampshire than to Nevada—McCain won 44 percent in the March 2000 Maine primary. But early reports from the Ron Paul Forums, from Paul supporters who've been hitting the caucus sites, suggest that Paul is headed for second place behind Romney. (Romney would much, much prefer McCain hit second place: For the narrative he wants, beating Paul is like running up the score in World of Warcraft.)
One thing helping Paul this weekend and after: He definitively won the fourth quarter of fundraising and is almost certainly raising more money now than any Republican save McCain.
UPDATE: Right after I posted, the Paul campaign announced its newest policy advisors: Doug Bandow, Charles Peña, and Philip Giraldi. I guess they'll be writing the same stuff, but in a more official capacity.
Web Smith | February 2, 2008, 1:51pm | #
Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus, he claimed the power to arrest anyone arbitrarily and hold them, without specific charges and without a trial. When the chief justice of the United States, Roger Taney, had ruled that Lincoln had no constitutional power to do this, Lincoln ordered Taney’s arrest too. He had federal troops arrest dozens of legislators and other prominent citizens, including the mayor of Baltimore and a Maryland congressman. A large body of American opinion held that the Confederate States had every right to secede from the Union and thought they should be allowed to go in peace. To Lincoln, this view was “treason” and by his definition, most Americans, not just Southerners, probably qualified as traitors. He ordered the arbitrary arrest, without warrants or due process, thousands of leading citizens of Northern cities, state legislators, U.S. Congressmen, newspaper owners and editors, ministers, bankers, policemen or anyone else who expressed the slightest reservation about Lincoln’s aims and means or who was anonymously denounced by a rival or envious neighbor.His military governors sometimes ordered hangings, without trial, for minor offenses. Lincoln encouraged his generals to violate international law, the U.S. Military Code, and the moral prohibition against waging war on civilians. Lincoln urged his generals to conduct total war against the Southern civilian population, to slaughter them with bombardments, to burn their homes, barns and towns, to use rape as a weapon of war, to destroy foodstuffs, and to leave women, children and the elderly in the cold of winter without shelter or food. He ranted against slavery but his primary objective was to destroy the primarily Southern resistance against the establishment of centralized power. Lincoln utterly destroyed the union achieved by the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Since Maine was among the first states to abolish slavery, perhaps they will take a stance against the loss of freedom and economic slavery we are facing.
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