Yup, many are. Also, you can be be so extreme to the right that you actually meet the extreme left...
Obama is 8:45 - 9:30 (socialism is at 9:00)
Rush Limbaugh is 3:15
John McCain, Romney and Snowe are 7:00
Newt, Santorum(sp), Bachmann are between 3:00 and 4:00
Bill Clinton = 8:00-8:30
Jimmy Carter 8:45
Ron Paul is at 12:00 extremist (he's getting the extremists from both sides.
Ron Paul has the anti-war leftists (many I think will end up voting for Obama because of Ron Paul's "extreme" right stance on social programs.
Ron Paul also gets the support from the 1:00 constitutionalists who (like my-self and many here) believe Social Security is against the Constitution.
Question is, as a third party candidate who would Ron Paul hurt more, Obama or the republican. I tend to think he'd take more of our votes than he would take from Obama.
Like you say "a lot of Ron Paul "supporters" are actually Obama supporters trying to sew seeds of diversion and division."
I don't see the leftist support voting against social programs.
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