Kokesh dragging the Paul train to RNC

An anonymous lurker left a press release in our inbox about Kokesh choking the last drop out of the Ron Paul campaign with a veterans’ march on the Republican Convention;

Adam Kokesh, Zakery Carter and Nathan Cox, all veterans of the Iraq war, released a statement today claiming that the mission of their newly formed Veterans for Liberty Super PAC is to ensure that Ron Paul is elected president. They are calling for veterans and active duty troops to join them at “FOB Domestic Defense” and to be present as a lobbying force for the duration of the convention.

Yeah, “Domestic Defense” like that’s even an issue with the Paul campaign.

Their goal is to convince delegates to the convention to ignore their constituencies and vote for Ron Paul – that makes complete sense. Someone who can’t even get the votes from his own party forced onto the ballot.

Following a successful march on the White House on President’s Day under the banner “Veterans for Ron Paul,” three Iraq War veterans have announced the formation of Veterans for Liberty Super PAC. This week, the committee announced the organization of a march on the Republican National Convention in August to lobby delegates to support Paul in the all-important second round of voting at what many are now certain will be a brokered forum.

Their “successful march on the White House“. Thousands pledged to come on Facebook, less than a thousand showed up and then after they weeded out the strap hangers, they had less than 500 actual veterans to march on the White House. That’s the definition of success, huh? Well, if their goal was to walk to the White House from the Washington Monument without falling down, I guess it was successful. But if their goal was to show overwhelming support for Ron Paul by veterans, I think it was successful not so much.

But, they’re just as relentless in their defeat as their candidate. The Washington Times points out that, despite the fact that Paul has failed to win a single state in the primary race even though the race is almost halfway to the finish, Paul is still optimistic;

On Tuesday, Mr. Paul put his effort into caucuses in North Dakota, Idaho and Alaska but managed just a second-place showing in the first and third-place showings in the other two.

In Fargo, N.D., Mr. Paul said Tuesday that his campaign has succeeded in placing his issues before voters.

“The momentum is building,” he said at his victory party.

Yeah, that momentum has been building since I started watching the Paulians four years ago and it’s resulted in one second place win in a two-man race in those four years. Maybe in another four years he can actually come in second in a three-man race.

Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Ron Paul