Posted on 11/30/2007 4:33:59 AM PST by davenalle
dave
Ron Paul - the MoveOn.org candidate.
Ron Paul gives the Image that CNN and Democrats want to Portray for all Conservatives.
I think Paul’s support is beginning to fall off.
ACORN staffers (a communist front group) are also signing on to be Paulestinians to help put a monkey wrench in the GOP primaries.
Now this is a fair and reasoned anti-Paul commentary. Not the BS that we see on FR of “Paul is the ant-Christ”, or how he’s just no damned good.
You worthless Paul haters on this site could learn something from this writer. After seeing the reactions to Dr. Paul on FR, I’m completely in agreement with Bill O’Reilly that the haters on the right are every bit as dangerous as George Soros and moveon.org, if not more so, at least to me. To this point, I’ve felt that the people who basically share my ideas were reasonable and genuine in their concern for America, but my support of Dr. Paul has shown me that the far right is only concerned with power acquisition just as the far left is.
Ron Paul, Hillary’s hope for a third party win.
I like the tone af the article and can respect the author’s uncomfortableness with the concerns he raises.
It sounds to me like the author is concerned that unless those supporting Paul are in 100%, or even75%-90% agreement, with him on the issues than his candidacy should be suspect.
I don’t think that is a criticism that should hold any water. What candidate could pass that kind of test?
I am convinced that if Paul were elected President he would govern according to the same ideals he has held all throughout his career of public service. If the Lefties want to support Paul because of his stand on the war then good for them. They’ll also be helping to elect a man that will be against everything else they desire in a government.
I don’t have a problem with that.
Racists want to support Paul? Liberals want to support Paul? CTers want to support Paul?
Good, let them because in supporting Paul they are unwittingly supporting the candidate who will do the most to promote policies antithetical to them.
Ping for the lists.
There are things I like about Ron Paul but I’ve been watching politics for far too long to have any illusions that he will win the white house. As things stand now, all he’s doing is helping to insure the worst of both parties will win their nominations.
Even in the wildest fantasy that he actually ended up in the white house he would still be powerless. Both parties would isolate him and render him totally impotent as a president.
Incrementalism got us into the mess we’re in and wildly swinging a baseball bat isn’t going to get us out. It will take someone who can at least work with his own party to get us back on the right path.
I honestly think he'd be more of a hindrance to Hillary.
Ron Paul appeals to the fringe, which tends to vote left.
A fine collection of supporters he's drawing together, united by contempt for the GOP, each with their own peculiar individual hatreds. All of which must be overlooked, of course.
Ron Paul is doing amazingly well in fundraising, and it is ironic that the very people who decry the conspiracy minded 9-11 Truthers themselves fantasize the machinations of George Soros as Paul's hidden money source. The fact remains that all polls show Paul in single digits, and, more significantly, over half of potential GOP voters in at least one state have a negative opinion of him. His negatives far outweigh those of the two arch-Yankee RINOs in the race, Giuliani and Romney. George Stefanopoulos was right when he told Ron Paul during an interview that he would bet every dollar he had that Paul would lose. (Even a liberal can be correct occasionally!)
However, his campaign has introduced thousands of young people who are inclined leftward to the benefits of laissez faire economics and limited government. These are people who are culturally incompatible with the GOP base and with traditional conservative ideology. Frankly, evangelical Christians, a group to which I belong, have drifted too far toward support of big government and social welfare schemes, baptized as "faith-based initiatives." Republicans in general who were quick to condemn the big government schemes of Clinton stood by as Bush introduced his own statist programs like No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D.
To the extent Paul can shift the domestic agenda of the GOP away from liberalism with a "family friendly" facade and back to its limited government, low tax roots and can attract new converts to laissez faire economics and minimalist governance, he will benefit the conservative cause.
Oh, so you're assessing people's worth now?
We might take your childish insults more seriously if there weren't so many Paul Cultists on FR whose posts read more like something you'd expect to see on DU or DailyKOS.
I haven’t seen such an entertaining bunch since Lyndon LaRouche was out on bail.
In 1939 American Communists and American supporters of Hitler both united in an antiwar movement.
Nazis and Communists obviously had some fundamental ideological disagreements, but they were united in their desire for the USA to shrink from the world stage and allow murderous ideologies to rage unchecked across Europe and Asia.
Today, MoveOn.org, the 9/11 Truth Movement and the National Alliance unite in support of Ron Paul, ignoring their ideological differences to make common cause against their common enemy: the United States.
Kind of along the lines of what I'd expect to see at a Star Trek convention.
Or the Star Wars Cantina.
It's not hidden at all: George Soros is passionately and openly opposed to the US presence in Iraq.
Ron Paul is also passionately and openly opposed to the US presence in Iraq.
George Soros is the man behind MoveOn.org. That's a matter of public knowledge.
MoveOn.org openly cosponsors Ron Paul meetups on meetup.com. That's also quite public.
It makes sense that people with such openly declared common interests would work together.
This isn't mysterious speculation or conspiracy mongering: it's a quite public and open collaboration.
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