The real sequence of events leading up to the Rand Paul announcement

Video: Ron Paul's speech shows no signs of rolling over to the establishment.

Make no mistake about it, the pundits claiming that Rand Paul’s endorsement of Mitt Romney would be good for his political future in the long-run are absolutely wrong.  In my opinion, Rand Paul just committed political suicide and we may never know all the reasons behind his decision or the timing of this disastrous announcement.  Rumors had been widely circulating that there were serious death threats upon his father, Ron Paul.  There has also long-been claims that many on Ron’s paid campaign staff have been undermining his campaign, all along.  At this point, we do not know whether Rand came to this decision as a result of bad people around him giving him terrible advice or if he was the sacrificial lamb trying to take the heat off of his father.

It was somewhat interesting that Rand made a point to mention that his conversation with Romney occurred in Washington.  Could this have been his way of confirming four witnesses’ claims of seeing Mitt Romney at the Bilderberg Group’s secretive meeting in nearby Virginia?  He also knows that the social conservative base has been hard for his father to win over.  Mentioning about how much the Romneys and Pauls have in common regarding family values was a bit odd considering the question but delivering it to a Sean Hannity audience was also quite interesting.

The real sequence of these events seems to have been misunderstood.  Let us remember that Rand Paul met with Romney days before Ron Paul sent out an email claiming that he will not have enough delegates to win the nomination.  I believe the email was actually an attempt to try to soften the blow of his son’s endorsement that Ron would have to be politically savvy enough to realize would be a huge mistake.  As a statesman that has fought his entire career to promote the original principles of our constitution and the individual freedom and liberty of the American people, it would be expected that he probably gives his son the individual respect to make his own decisions as an adult.  He probably tried to talk him out of it, but we may never know that part of the story.  Regardless, the email may likely have been an attempt to lessen the blow of his son’s decision giving the pundits the reasoning that he did not officially endorse Romney until after his father’s email.  Although the public announcement was made after the email, the decision to endorse Mitt Romney was probably made before it.

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