Goodbye Ron Paul: He Has 'Another Priority'

Freedom died on Friday night. The Second American Revolution was lost. Ron Paul will not be president. He also won't be the GOP nominee. He won't even be a Third Party nominee.

Who made this gloomy pronouncement that's sure to break the hearts of Dr. Congressman Paul's legions of Internet supporters? Ron Paul himself, that's who.

The official RonPaul2008 website posted a grim message from the gold-loving Republican at 10:14 p.m. last night.

The note, signed "Ron," says he'll be trimming the national campaign because there's no chance of a brokered GOP convention now that Mitt Romney has left the game.

(Was that Ron Paul's campaign strategy? To hope for a brokered Republican convention that would somehow turn John McCain and Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee's delegates into Ron Paul delegates?)

And he's got this other problem, or priority: His own House district in Texas may dump him in the primary. Ron writes;

"I have constituents in my home district that I must serve. I cannot and will not let them down. 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."

Whoops.

Well, goodbye Dr. Paul. It was a fun ride. I hope your disgruntled Internet supporters don't go on a rampage or something. But if they do, it will probably happen within the safe confines of a video game on the computer, so most of us should survive the turmoil.