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Frank Cotolo
May 18, 2012 |
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The Republican Presidential primary schedule will soon feature one candidate, as Ron Paul announced
he won't be on the ballot for the remaining contests, though he intends to visit local eating
establishments with fans and insists he is not out of the race.
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Nor is Mr. Paul endorsing Mitt Romney, even though his competitors, the biting Newt Gingrich, the
feisty Rick Santorum, the cranky Michelle Bachmann and the others, have said they will back him.
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"I'm going to continue to woo delegates," Mr. Paul said among his supporters, many of whom
threatened to hang themselves in public if he didn't continue his campaign in one form or another.
"I'll be at the Republican National Convention with my delegates. We will all arrive on a big bus
that we are chipping in to use."
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Money is one of Paul's biggest problems, even though he raised more than any other candidate. He
has 104 delegates as of this writing and has been mathematically eliminated from coming in better
than fourth behind Romney, Santorum and Gingrich.
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"It's too bad Ron Paul is so poor," said a staff member for presumptive nominee Romney's. "He would
have given Mitt a run for his money had he anywhere near as much money as Mitt to fall back on, no
less a super pack."
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Rick Santorum has virtually disappeared since officially endorsing Romney. Sources say he has had
the dry heaves since the public announcement.
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Newt Gingrich has been dealing with his campaign debts by scouting for investors for Newt Park, an
entertainment amusement park.
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"Once Newt pays me," said a former campaign manager for Mr. Gingrich, "investors will be lining up
to pour money into the grand project that will feature high-tech rides, including one that simulates
a colony on the moon."
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Now that the greatest number of Romney's Republican enemies have said they will work to get him
elected, Romney has been critical of President Obama's tough ads.
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"Sure, we hammered Gingrich in Florida with every weapon of disgust he had available in his past,"
said a Romney publicist, "but this stuff the president is advertising, about Romney not being a
good businessman, well that is just plain dirty."
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Romney, polls show, has a strong and close race going with the president and the far-right wing of
the Republican Party is ready to make a tough case of re-electing the president.
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"We no longer care who is really more conservative," said a Tea Party spokesman, "we will make
Romney do what we want once he is president. Then this socialist liberal movement of Obama's can
end and he can go back to Kenya."
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Democrats, meanwhile, have been focusing on various things Romney and his party have been saying
and doing, labeling them. So far, they have identified the war on women, war on religion
(specifically Christian evangalism), war on Christmas, war on poor people, war on middle class
people, war on killing Bin Laden, war on counter intelligence, war on the national debt and so on.
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Frank Cotolo can be found
hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles.
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