Posted on 01/04/2012 1:16:42 PM PST by La Enchiladita
Sarah Palin said she wasn't surprised at Rick Santorum's success in Iowa, and warned that the GOP should not take Ron Paul's supporters lightly.
Speaking on Fox News before Iowa's final numbers were in, she called Santorum "spot-on" with his policies toward Iran and praised his "social conservative" positions.
Her strongest comments came for Paul, however, saying "the GOP had better not marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters after this" because "a lot of Americans are war-weary and we are broke" and Paul has reached that constituency well. She warned that the GOP "better work with them."
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As bad as Paul’s people are, the real threat of dangerous infiltration is by the Romney crowd, there is a real threat of Romney becoming the nominee whereas Paul can’t.
We all need to be united in stopping Romney at all costs before he destroys conservatism with his anti-Reagan, anti-conservative agenda and political beliefs.
It’s more like a lot of Obama supporters were just Independent swing voters and first time Millennial voters who opposed the Iraq War. Those people at the center of the electorate have turned more strongly against him than any of the other White subdemographics.
They are not hippies and nutjobs or liberals who show up at OWS with purple hair to beat drums in Atlanta. Just people who thought that Iraq was a disastrous clusterfuck and who resent having to pay for it.
It wouldn’t be surprising: Ron Paul is winning 48 percent of voters in the Iowa Caucus under the age of 29.
If Bachmann,Perry,Santorum said this; you would start and bash them in about three threads in one day.It wouldn’t be ‘politics 101’ if it were someone else that said it.
“The question is how to do it [turn Paul supporters}”
The nominee offers to appoint him as Fed Chairman, so Paul can get inside the Fed and audit it to his heart’s content. It might well satisfy both Paul and his followers- I’d be happy with it.
Milt is just another obama but worse i think. that clown will look you streight in the eyes and lie like a dog, and never blink an eye- that dude gives me the creeps.. if hes the nom, then good luck cause i will go fishing on voting day. and i really mean that..
BTW, I listen to Sara last night and I heard her describe herself as an independent. I thought that was curious, probably a slip of the tongue. One other thing if not for Paul voters mostly young, mostly independent mostly thinking they were conservative the GOP turn out would have been way down in Iowa. Maybe Sara is right and maybe the GOP should be a little more welcoming to Paul and his supporters, just saying.
Yes, I know he gets 115% of the weed vote, but I’m curious about the vet vote.
Yawn!
Right said!
I know several libertarians. I spent many years as a dues-paying member of the Libertarian Party, although I drifted away a few years back over their preoccupation with the War on Drugs. Neither I nor my other libertarian friends ever were democrats, nor were we ever in favor of big government.
“What a load of crap. Bachmann said that she would work to eliminate the EPA and Department of education right off the top as well as killing Obamacare and that’s just for starters. “
I like Michele, and I’ll miss her in the campaign, but that sounds like a bit of a hedge on her part. To promise to work to eliminate the EPA, is not the same as promising to eliminate the EPA. The President can do that by vetoing any budget that includes funding for the EPA.
I thought Libertarians were for small gov.?
I do, I know tons of democrats that are Paul supporters since I live in his district and I don't know a single one that would vote for Obama (again). Of course not one will vote Paul in the GOP (open) primary since they are democrats.
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The essence of libertarianism is to minimize government, and have as much as possible handled by private means.
The overwhelming sentiment that motivates Ron Paul’s supporters is opposition to utopian social crusades - whether it be foreign military interventions by neocons or “duty to protect” liberals, or domestic spending programs like “No Child Left Behind” - and a resentment at being expected to pay for these things.
The majority of Ron Paul’s supporters are not hardcore ideological libertarians like the Lew Rockwell crowd. These people are appealing to a broader slice of the electorate - especially Independents and under 40 voters - because of war fatigue and the general sense that the federal government is unresponsive, favors the privileged, and is out of control.
Most of Ron Paul’s supporters can be won over quite easily:
(1) If respect was shown to them. Something that can easily be done. As Palin is wisely doing here.
(2) If there was a serious effort to cut government spending, massively cut the size of government, and reign in the incestuous, corrupt relationship between Wall Street and DC.
(3) If the saber rattling, warmongering neocon element were reigned in who destroyed the Republican Party in 2006 and 2008 through the unwise intervention in Iraq - or, in Newt’s case - through his hypocrisy in the 1990s.
It is repudiation of George W. Bush-style “compassionate conservatism” more than anything else.
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