Ron Paul announced Monday that his campaign will no longer spend money on presidential nominating contests due to lack of funds, effectively ending his campaign for the Republican nomination.

Paul wrote the following in an open letter to supporters:

Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to take leadership positions, win delegates, and carry a strong message to the Republican National Convention that Liberty is the way of the future. Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted. Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.

Paul, the only Republican presidential candidate actively campaigning against front-runner Mitt Romney, encouraged his supporters to continue their involvement in the presidential race as well as down-ballot races across the country, and to spread his message of lower spending and the protection of individual liberties. He stressed that he will continue working to win delegates.

"In the coming days, my campaign leadership will lay out to you our delegate strategy and what you can do to help, so please stay tuned," Paul wrote. He stopped short of an outright suspension, an option all of his fellow competitors (besides Romney) have chosen.

Two weeks ago, Paul and his supporters cheered Paul's delegate wins in Maine and Nevada. But as Yahoo News reported, those wins didn't necessarily move Paul any closer to winning his party's nomination.

Paul has long touted a strategy to rack up delegates as a way to become a part of this summer's convention process, absent an outright win.

Paul currently has 104 delegates and Romney has 966, according to the Associated Press.

In recent weeks, Paul supporters have been increasingly vocal in their attacks on establishment Republicans, accusing them of employing "dirty tricks" to benefit Romney over Paul.

Paul's campaign attempted to quash the most recent attack Sunday by defending the Republican National Committee and Chairman Reince Priebus against accusations the party is violating Rule 11, which bans favoritism, by creating a joint fundraising committee with Romney in April.

Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton reconfirmed in a statement Sunday that the Paul campaign was also invited by the RNC to set up a joint committee and declined.

"The RNC offered to set up a joint fundraising committee with the Paul campaign and were very clear that if Dr. Paul became the nominee, the Victory Operation would be behind him 100 percent," Benton said. "They also were clear that they would hold off if our campaign objected. I gave my full consent for the RNC to move forward."

He will probably move into Independent or third party mode now.

i think thats what the article was leading to... or hoping to get more donations from it...

Wouldn't that be great if a third party won this!! Boot the warmongering repubs, and hand-out giving libs out! lol And before anyone mocks the idea, think about Romney who couldn't even win his own state, and Obama's sorry approval rating. Food for thought, or worry...
R Paul might be craftier than you think!

The fact is he no longer needs to spend the money....his supporters will take it from here for him in the caucuses, and all he needs to do is accept the nomination when the time comes.

As usual, MSM spin on a topic they haven't covered enough to understand at all!

Paul won't quit until he is beaten....and that ain't gonna happen!

America desperately needs a viable third party. They don't have one now. If Paul runs as an independent, he will just draw votes from Romney and may cost him the election.

Hasn't that been the case all along?...........lol

Doug Wead “We are not out, We are Up!” The fight has just begun!
Submitted by Kurt Wallace on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 19:28


Kurt Wallace has worked for the last three years as a PR, marketing and fundraising consultant for politicians, personalities and non-profit/for-profit organizations. He has a background in television production and as a radio talk show host. He is presently the editor of Liberty Pulse and host of Daily Paul Radio with Kurt Wallace. When not working Kurt enjoys spending time with his eight-year-old son.

Doug Wead Senior advisor to the Ron Paul 2012 campaign joins Daily Paul Radio with Kurt Wallace for ‘Doug Wead ‘We are not out, We are Up!’ The fight has just begun!’ to discuss today’s email from the Ron Paul campaign and the media spin that Ron Paul has ended his campaign. Doug also explains the reasons for the campaign allocating resources to win this primary election with the delegate strategy and the need for help to fight the corruption state by state.
Listen Here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzeoVUo1QCA&feature=player_embedded

So what if he isn't campaigning. That wont effect his current delegate strategy. His real goal is just to not let Romeny get 50% of the delegates right? that 1148 I think it is. He doesn't need to campaign to do that.

Ron Paul FTIW (for the independent win)!

Ben Swann Chimes In on Ron Paul's Email

"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

The grass roots movement will push his momentum, he doesn't need to spend any more money.

Josh Romney over the weekend got booed off stage in Phoenix LOL

He gave his speech without incident..... it was when he broke convention rules and used the mic to prop up this dads delegate slate as "the one to vote for" (highly against the rules!) that BOTH Paul and Robme supporters booed him!

Like a Robme, he doesn't care about rules, proceedure or ethic principals. It's what you get sending a boy to do a mans job in a dirty environment.

As I reflect on our 2012 Presidential campaign, I am humbled by the supporters who have worked so hard and sacrificed so much. And I am so proud of what we have accomplished. We will not stop until we have restored what once made America the greatest country in human history.

This campaign fought hard and won electoral success that the talking heads and pundits never thought possible. But, this campaign is also about more than just the 2012 election. It has been part of a quest I began 40 years ago and that so many have joined. It is about the campaign for Liberty, which has taken a tremendous leap forward in this election and will continue to grow stronger in the future until we finally win.

Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to take leadership positions, win delegates, and carry a strong message to the Republican National Convention that Liberty is the way of the future.

Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted. Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have. I encourage all supporters of Liberty to make sure you get to the polls and make your voices heard, particularly in the local, state, and Congressional elections, where so many defenders of Freedom are fighting and need your support.

I hope all supporters of Liberty will remain deeply involved - become delegates, win office, and take leadership positions. I will be right there with you. In the coming days, my campaign leadership will lay out to you our delegate strategy and what you can do to help, so please stay tuned.


For Liberty,


Ron Paul

I detect a hint of sarcasm there.........lol

GOOD!

Because she doesn't have enough faith in Obama to win on his own.

LOL...........have you seen his numbers? Hideous! And Paul is the only one who can beat Obama! Mitt doesn't stand a chance, they have mountains of dirt on him!