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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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Uh oh, Sarah Palin’s a Paulbot. The cognitive dissonance of this will surely explode many heads.
The Paul supporters who are Tea Partiers, So-Cons and the like we shouldn’t insult. Those who are peacecreeps, dopers, Lefties, Jew-haters and racists can go to Hell.
The Paulistinians will alienate themselves without help... their candidate is divorced from reality and rather alien when it comes to international issues.
“As I see it, a lot of Ron Paul “supporters” are actually Obama supporters trying to sew seeds of diversion and division.”
Ditto.
What does she know or care about it anyway?
She’s right.
The question is, how to do it. It won’t be easy. Paul supporters generally tend to be all or nothing and for years have been getting nothing as a result.
I don’t think anybody (besides the establishment neocons) hate Paul for not wanting to go to war at the drop of a pin, but for his nutjob positions such as not having Israel as an ally and not caring if Iran gets nukes.
Saying we shouldn’t alienate his voters (Politics 101) makes her a Paulbot? Please explain.
Lol, it was a joke. Not a serious suggestion. :)
Okay so she makes ONE comment about not alienating a certain group of voters though she has NEVER said anything positive about him except aspects of his economic policy and suddenly she’s a Paulbot? That makes absolutely no sense whatever. Also, unless this is the first interview you’ve ever heard or comment she’s make via facebook or twitter, you’d know she’s paid compliments to every candidate.
Cindie
In fact the GOP should retire and hand over the controls to the TEA Partiers.
(P.S. Why is Willard getting all sorts of $$$ from The Goldman Sack?)
Good plan, let’s have the GOP be the hippie party.
Anti-war. Bush’s fault. Those are good campaign platforms.
Oh, let’s legalize all drugs.
All those people will vote for Mitt Romney, darling of big capital.
As long as he goes with that platform.
When he’s talking to Ron Paul supporters.
Then, when he’s in front of other people, tell them what they want to hear.
See, the real thing is winning the election.
We must have an establishment Republican - our team guy - in the White House.
And nice establishment majorities in Congress.
It’s like Occupy DC, Republican style.
Nobody will realize that we’re actually conservative and we’ll “win” the elections.
Seeing that the Republicans didn’t care about the Tea Party after the 2010 Election, I don’t think they’ll care about Ron Paul’s supporters after this primary either.
That’s right! We don’t need the votes of you 20-plus percent of the voting public who question the wisdom of this 15 trillion dollar debt and endless war on a noun!
That’s kind of what I’ve been saying and I have no love for Ron Paul. He brings up some issues that really do need real discussion.
Personally I think a real honest discussion of the issues would disarm him.
It’s actually a lesson Paul supporters could learn. You can’t win by alienating everyone.
Hey, that’s the beauty of FR...flip-flopping’s ok sometimes.
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