Ron Paul attacks Sarah Palin as 'country club' Republican

American Thinker ^ | 7/18/2009 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

What to make of Ron Paul? The word erratic comes to mind. On domestic spending, he is a righteous guardian of small government, while on foreign affairs he is a dangerous isolationist who believes the world will leave us alone if we just tend to our own knitting. And as far as Sarah Palin and her supporters go, he is a space cadet, apparently.

An interview with Politico published today contains this startling assertion from Paul:

'As for soon-to-be departing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Paul dismisses her supporters as "more establishment, conventional Country-Club type of Republicans."'

This is odd indeed, detached from reality as it is. Sarah Palin is about as far from a country club Republican as one can find. And Texas sources indicate:

And if you were to check the membership rolls of the Lake Jackson Country Club here in Texas, I'd bet real money that you would find the names of Ron Paul and his wife Carol listed as lifetime members.

The assertion of The Pauls belonging to this country club is supported by other bloggers as well. Representative Paul (also an OB/GYN, by the way) should address the question of his alleged country club membership, if he is going to throw around this label.

Could it be that Ron Paul is jealous of Sarah Palin's popular support?

[Terpfen]

Add Ron Paul to the list of Republicans who feel threatened by Sarah Palin.

I think Mike Huckabee is a total fraud, but he at least has the sense to publicly ally himself with Palin.

[napscoordinator]

Could it be that Ron Paul is jealous of Sarah Palin’s popular support?

Is everyone jealous of Sarah? I don’t think that is true. I think there are people who really don’t like her period. I don’t understand it but not everyone likes everyone. Are we all jealous of Obama????? Is that why we don’t like him?????

[True Republican Patriot]

Ron Paul s a Loon:-) Nothing worse, nothing better! He is a bitter Loon! That Paul says something Bad about one is a true Badge of Honor:-)

[Jeff Head]

I have met Ron Paul personally. He is a comitted and dedicated American, and as you say, spot on as regards the finances and financial fiates of our nation.

But on foreign policy of late, and here with Sarah, we part ways.

Sarah is the antithesis of the liberal, and elite political establishment.

To the contrary of what Paul asserts here, Sarah Palin initiated a brilliant flanking manuever against the left, the DNC, the MSM, and throw the RINOs that has them all in a frenzy wondering what her next move will be and how it will be perceived...and has them frothing at the mouth in their efforts to discredit her.

Sarah will now get her book out, go on tour, give speeches and promote conservatie principles all over this country in the midst of the Obama administration disaster and gain great political capital in the process. Then she will support conservative candidates in 2010 and help them win, amassing much more political capital. She will then take all of that and make an awesome, stunning run for the Presidency in 2012.

MANY MORE STICKER DESIGNS HERE

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Paul is definitely jealous of Sarah, and he’s got lots of company by people of all political stripes throughout the entire world!

[fantom]

The Palin DS continues unabated. It is now laughable.

[Outlaw Woman]

What the hell? Those are exactly the types (countryclub) that are trying to demolish her.

Ron Paul is right on in some of the issues but man........you have to wonder what’s in the water in D.C. when these types of thoughts make their way to print.

[wardaddy]

way nutty

Paul and Pat are a lot alike....they have moments of cogent articulation then they say something stupid so you wonder just how bent are they really?

[KarlInOhio]

Country club? I could see an argument that she is part of the right wing, religious conservative branch of the party which a libertarian like Ron Paul might dislike as much as the country clubbers, but he sounds pretty stupid confusing the two segments of the party.

[ansel12]

[Zionist Conspirator]

Ron Paul is a Birchite. Anyone who is friendly to Israel is in on “the Conspiracy.”

[SeekAndFind]

I sometimes wonder if Ron Paul is willing to go to war for any reason at all (even if we were attacked). For him, ANY attempt at strengthening the military or venturing overseas to protect American interest is a waste of human life and the country’s resources.

[True Republican Patriot]

Remember that Huckleberry grew up in Hope, Arkansas and followed in the footsteps of The Bent One! Has anyone ever heard Huckleberry say Anything negative about the Clintoons? Also, how does a selfavowed Minister ever qualify as a future Commander-in-Chief?
Between Paul and Huckleberry, we could open a Vaudeville Sideshow and it would probably beat out Saturday Night Live:-)

[TheConservativeParty]

Disappointed to hear Ron Paul say that. He is very wrong. Country club? Not quite. When’s the last time he did an honest days work with his hands? Where does he get off insulting the salt of the Earth people who support Sarah?

Makes me like Sarah more and more as these dolts reject her. She scares the RINOs, the Washington establishment and the liberals. They are all the problem.

Didn’t think Ron Paul was part of the problem, evidently he is.

[expat_panama]

Ron Paul is proving that not all loonies are on the left.

[FormerACLUmember]

Psych 101: Projective identification.

[SuziQ]

'As for soon-to-be departing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Paul dismisses her supporters as "more establishment, conventional Country-Club type of Republicans."'

How in the world did Ron Paul come to THAT conclusion?

[Cinnamontea]

What the hell? Those are exactly the types (countryclub) that are trying to demolish her.

Which is exactly why Ron Paul, a fruit loop but fairly clever, chose the words he did. Sneaky.

[marron]

The more they go after her the more I like her.

[DGHoodini]

“What to make of Ron Paul?”....

Simple. Ron Paul is a certifiable nut! With a capital N-U-T. He’s like a Ross Perot, who is not only nuts, but has been self medicating himself with large doses of psychotropic drugs on a daily basis for 23 days.

How delusional does he have to be, to consider Sarah Palin to be in any way, shape, or form, a country club Republican? She is the antithesis of those suck up toadies with money.

It’s clear that he is just trying to smear and damage her, and will say *any* damn rediculous thing that he thiks will cut a wedge between her, and the supporters he wants for himself. Typical liar...He should be a Democrat.

[workerbee]

Ron Paul just moved another step towards complete irrelevence.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Ron Paul is proving that not all loonies are on the left.

I used to be a Birchite myself. I know what I'm talking about.

[AmishDude]

Ron Paul is a Birchite. Anyone who is friendly to Israel is in on “the Conspiracy.”

Bingo. Although the term is usually "Bircher". I think Ron Paul means the same thing by "country club type" as he does by "neocon".

It will be interesting to see where this thread goes. If it doesn't go 500 replies, even the Paulbearers are embarrassed by their hero.

Somebody should ask Kentucky gubernatorial candidate Rand Paul what he thinks of Palin and the remark of his father.

[samtheman]

Paul is definitely jealous of Sarah, and he’s got lots of company by people of all political stripes throughout the entire world!

That's right. He joins the august company of Peggy Noonan and Eleanor Clift.

[ansel12]

Is everyone jealous of Sarah? I don’t think that is true. I think there are people who really don’t like her period. I don’t understand it but not everyone likes everyone. Are we all jealous of Obama????? Is that why we don’t like him

We pretty much know that Hillary is jealous of Obama and I bet that most democrat politicians such as John Edwards, Kerry, Bill Clinton, and others are all jealous of Obama.

This thread isn't about us, it is about a desperate, small time politician that has to compete with a super star for political attention, he is jealous.

[RichInOC]

As I noted on the other thread...impressively stupid.

[wardaddy]

very few threads go to 500 anymore

[PhiKapMom]

Now I have seen everything with Paul calling Sarah a Country Club Republican. Does he even know the meaning of the term? Wish he would just go away.

A Ron Paul person is running against Cong Cole for the 4th District and has put me solidly on the Cole side. I have had enough of those people to last a lifetime. They took seats of precinct chairs illegally in my state (have the evidence) and the County Chair backed them up here. Then the moron County Chair who was not running again had the Ron Paul person as the Keynote at the County Convention which I boycotted. Cole paid for their office in 2008 and he disses Cole to have the Ron Paul person speak.

Want nothing to do with the Paul people — anyone who supports him is not someone with common sense.

[samtheman]

Ron Paul just moved another step towards complete irrelevence.

He's already pretty far out there. Like beyond the orbit of Pluto.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2296076/posts

[Dead Corpse]

I normally find myself defending Paul's domestic policies....

This cannot be defended though.

WTF Ron?

[johnthebaptistmoore]

The ‘12 elections really won’t matter for the healthy, long-term future of conservatism, if the U.S. is really “stuck on socialism”! If “Cap and Trade”, socialized health care, amnesty for illegal immigrants, all of the entitlement programs, and everything else that’s “forever leftist” really aren’t either successfully eliminated for always, or successfully changed to pro-conservative, pro-capitalistic, and pro-free market solutions instead and for always, then what’s the point in even running for any political office in the future as a conservative?

[livius]

Only if your country club hunts bear.

[jazminerose]

What in the hell is so inherently evil about country clubs anyway? I expect this crap from libtards but republicans really ought to knock it off.

We have a lot of those dreadful country clubs here in the SoCal desert & you know what, they employ a hell of a lot of legal workers & create beauty in a desert that otherwise would look like the surface of the moon. They also bring in tons of revenue during the winter that keeps a lot of other businesses alive.

The local nutroots are already pushing to shut them all down & tear out the landscaping.

Off on a tangent, I know. But if we keep spouting the Country Club republican crap, the left is controlling our narrative.

The enemy is not the damnned country clubs, it’s the RHINOs.

[McGruff]

Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul — who is campaigning as a critic of congressional overspending — has revealed that he is requesting $400 million worth of earmarks this year.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292334,00.html

Must be at least 1 country club there.

[zipper]

Sarah Palin has a 72 percent rating among Republicans, the highest of any potential candidate for president BY FAR.

“Country Club”? Sarah Palin can skin a moose bigger than girly-man Ron Paul in less time than it takes him to be duped into an interview with ‘Bruno’.

[Carl LaFong]

Okay, Ron. Follow the nice nurse to the ECT room and then we’ll get you started on some therapeutic crafts. (No sharp instruments, though).

[J40000]

Hey Ron,

If she WERE, then why do all the ‘country-club’ republicans HATE her as much as the democrats do? HMMMMMMMMM???

And why are YOU joining in that chorus?

moron.

[arealconservativeforachange]

Eff L. Ron

[ak267]

Ron, two things....

One:

If she’s “country club Republican” then I’m the bloody king of China.

Two:

Never thought I’d say this to Ron, but PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE AND PUT YOUR HANDS OVER YOUR HEAD!!!

[ex-snook]

Definition per Wikipedia. Doesn't apply to Palin.

"Country club Republican" is an expression, most often negatively intended, used to describe certain members of the United States Republican Party. Some of the characteristics attributed to country club Republicans are: Higher than average income or wealth, lack of sympathy with lower income citizens, and liberal views on abortion, gay rights, and other social issues. [1] They are also said to put less value on religion[2], and to have attended more prestigious colleges than most other Republican Party members. [3]

[personalaccts]

I guess Ron Paul is smoking pot. It’s the “blue bloods” that hate her.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Ron Paul is a Birchite. Anyone who is friendly to Israel is in on “the Conspiracy.”

Bingo. Although the term is usually "Bircher".

That's their term for themselves. I'm no longer a member, so . . . I say "Birchite."

The JBS is the "blue lodge" of the anti-Semitic movement in America. They officially eschew anti-Semitism, of course (though they are certainly hostile to Israel), so they get lots of decent people as members. Then they expose them to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories via such people as Nesta Webster and Prince Michel Sturdza. Eventually the decent members get the idea that "the Jews" are really behind it all and turn on the JBS. The JBS then kicks them out (refurbishing their "non-anti-Semitic" credentials) and replace them with more decent people. But the point is, once decent people have been turned into anti-Semites. And the JBS couldn't do this if they were openly anti-Semitic.

The JBS has a quasi-official theology (Rushdoonyan "chr*stian reconstructionism") and its interpretation of the Constitution is Jeffersonian strict-constructionism. It's almost as if they believe that the United States is G-d's special country (replacing Israel), that the Founding Fathers were Divinely inspired and the Constitution the Word of G-d. It wouldn't surprise me if they believed the thirteen original colonies were the "restored tribes of Israel." This is a form of national supersessionism not far removed from "identity."

No organization has done more to make anti-Semites than the Birch Society (and again, they couldn't do this if they were openly anti-Semitic). Almost every anti-Semite fo the past fifty years has been a member. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if that old coot who shot up the Holocaust Museum was a member at one time.

The JBS is far more dangerous and evil than openly anti-Semitic organizations because it creates the anti-Semites who then join those organizations. Its "official" non-anti-Semitic position gives it an influence in the decent world that out-and-out anti-Semitic organizations don't and can't have.

The "isolationism" of the JBS is 100% phony. They are "isolationists" only in conflicts that they perceive benefit Jews. They were all for "American meddling" in Central America in the Eighties and defended John Singlaub when he was removed by Jimmy Carter for criticizing the notion that American troops should be pulled from that peninsula. The only situation in which the JBS takes a neutral position between a country under attack by Communists and the Communists who are attacking it is Israel. I was once a chapter leader and had a small library of back issues of their former magazine American Opinion, and they were far more explicit about their anti-Israel animus back in those days (Israel, alone among countries under attack by Communist terrorists, was actually run by "the Conspiracy" and the conflict was "phony").

I hope they rot.

[Iron Munro]

Sarah Palin's Country Club

[SolidWood]

RuPaul loon alert!

Palin PING!

Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

'As for soon-to-be departing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Paul dismisses her supporters as "more establishment, conventional Country-Club type of Republicans."'

How can this man be so wise as to domestic economic policy and basic Constitutional freedoms, and yet be so stupid politically?

[Sarah Barracuda]

I think Ron Paul forget to take his medication this morning. So us supporters are “Country Club Republicans” is he serious. I have never been to a country club, EVER. What a loon this guy is

[anoldafvet]

I used to live in Pauls district in Texas. I thought he was a Clymer then and nothing he has done since has changed my mind.

[John Leland 1789]

That’s their term for themselves. I’m no longer a member, so . . . I say “Birchite.”

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The reason “Birchite” would be incorrect is, to be a Birchite one would have to be an independent, fundamentalist Baptist preacher. That’s what John Birch was.