Both he and Huckabee should quit already.
Ron Paul Scales Back, Shifts Focus to Congressional Raceby FOXNews.com
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Ron Paul says he’s still in the presidential race but is moving to scale back his staff and shift focus to his own re-election campaign for his Texas congressional seat.
The libertarian-leaning, financially well-endowed Republican candidate who was all but overshadowed by the once-titanic fight between Mitt Romney and John McCain, wrote in a message to supporters on his Web site Friday that he has an obligation to his constituents in Texas.
“I cannot and will not let them down,” he wrote. “And I have another battle I must face here as well. If I were to lose the primary for my congressional seat, all our opponents would react with glee, and pretend it was a rejection of our ideas. I cannot and will not let that happen.”
Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich cited his congressional race, too, when he dropped out of the Democratic field, but Paul said he’s not giving up the fight.
With Romney out of the race, Paul said the chances of a brokered convention are nil, “but that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get.”
He added that with many contests over, he does not need a big national staff, so he’ll make his “leaner and tighter.”
Paul’s chances for recovery in the presidential race are smaller than Mike Huckabee’s. He has 14 delegates, according to the latest Associated Press tallies, compared with McCain’s 719.
But Paul ruled out a third-party run: “I do not denigrate third parties — just the opposite, and I have long worked to remove the ballot-access restrictions on them. But I am a Republican, and I will remain a Republican.”
He said no matter what, “The neocons, the warmongers, the socialists, the advocates of inflation will be hearing much from you and me.”
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