Ron Paul Wins Big in Alabama(Landslide Republican Victory

Ron Paul (2008) ^ | August 18, 2007

[Captain Kirk]

Ron Paul received 216 votes for a commanding first-place finish in a straw poll today sponsored by the West Alabama Republican Assembly. Mitt Romney came in second with 14 votes.

The poll was open to Alabama residents.

[Bullish]

Hillary cannot win without a Ross Perot type of candidate in the race as an alternative for conservative voters and she knows it. In my opinion, the current dissatisfaction with the GOP sets the stage for an alternative party like Perot in the ‘90s.

Will it be Ron Paul? I don’t know. I wasn’t aware that he has stated he wouldn’t run 3rd party.

As to being nervous. Anything that increases Her Heinous Hillary’s chances of winning makes me very nervous indeed.

[radioman]

Us bra burning, baby killin’, wealfare homos in the rest of the party will stick with a winner...

You're voting for Hillary?
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[ejonesie22]

Yes I do. Spent more than a bit of research time with their papers in my day. Indeed I used them to support my own conservative arguments. How far they have drifted from their original path. I know there is a core still there, but time has usurped the cause. Robert Welch is a name I have not heard in some time though. Canadian wasn’t he? To far back in the cob webs...

[ejonesie22]

Well normally I don’t either, but calling out a kooky fringe group under these conditions...

[ejonesie22]

Only if she shaves her pits...

Oh, she has...

Ick...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You don't know what the Hell you're talking about.

Your argument is just as incoherent as your screenname.

[JTN]

It’s not getting any funnier.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

No, I mean his stubborn dogmatic isolationism (whether appropriate or not), and failure to appreciate that we interact in a world that is MUCH more interconnected than it was back in the days of the privateers going after the pirates.

Paul supports interacting with nations, via trade.
That's much different than meddling in the affairs of other nations, giving them massive foreign aid boondoggles (which will be used against us) and such.

[ishabibble]

Bingo!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Wouldn't that mean that his numbers are just bunk?

No, it simply means that a loud-mouth minority of kooks from the far left & right are trying to drown out the decent folks from all walks of life who make up Paul's base of support.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The only way Hillary will win is if the GOP stupidly nominates ultra-liberals Rudy or Romney for President.

You have nothing to fear from Paul, and in fact should be grateful that he's in the race. He is drawing a lot of people who never cared for politics before, independents, and small L libertarians back into the old Reagan coalition.

[lfrancis]

“How far they have drifted from their original path.”

I don’t know if they have strayed that far.

I used to read back editions from the ‘60’s of “American Opinion” when I should have been studying calculus. I subscribed to the “The New American” up until about a year ago. Thought it was a pretty good conservative magazine at times. Then they would have an edition about all the conspiracy BS.

I know Ron Paul always is/was the lone U.S. Representative with a 100 rating on their conservative index.

[George W. Bush]

Isn't it amazing how a single ping to a RP thread, probably the first in over a week, and suddenly we've got over a hundred posts?

I checked the three FredThreads on his little appearance in Iowa. Those threads had 67, 33, 22 posts on them. The Romney threads are even more anemic. Threads for Huckabee and Tancredo hardly exist.

So for all the blather from the Paul-haters, RP must be doing something right.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Paul supports interacting with nations, via trade. That’s much different than meddling in the affairs of other nations

I see.

So Dr. Paul’s response to 9-11 would have been to /trade/ with Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq?

Sounds like another leftist position to me. “We’ve got to understand why they hate us” and all that baloney.

[radioman]

Humor is often lost on fools and ignoramuses.

Well, humor is humor, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.
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[radioman]

Only if she shaves her pits...
ROFL!!!
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[SoldierDad]

216 votes? And how many people of voting age live in that state? You’re excited about 216 votes? How pathetic. The delusional will grasp at straws even when the straws are on fire.

[JTN]

There was a landslide in Alabama? Was it caused by an earthquake or flash flood?

Neither. It was the

[Petronski]

I made a typo and said Iowa instead of Alabama. Gee whiz, it wasn’t on purpose.

[Krodg]

No, it simply means that a loud-mouth minority of kooks from the far left & right are trying to drown out the decent folks from all walks of life who make up Paul's base of support.

If the "load-mouthed kooks" were drowning out his "base of support"...wouldn't that mean that his base is very quiet? Or, does that mean that his numbers are wrong and those voting for him are "loud-mouthed kooks"? Which is it??