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I think a lot of Ron Paul’s support is cynical (follow the money). Young people "looking forward" to no jobs in the Obama depression, or working on degrees in areas where government money could fund a study, a program (their professors have sucked on this tit for decades) -- instead of being “wasted” to support the "evil" military and “misguided” war on drugs -- which also ties into what they've been taught in many institutions of higher education -- all those misguided, useless degrees and “green” thinkers think Ron Paul is the Rx for what ails the country. So they're leaving support for Barack “hope and change” Obama at the school house/no job market door and flocking to Ron Paul which has the sweetener of hurting those evil “rich” conservatives who are destroying the planet and are ready to “bomb” the world.

The problem for them is -- they never will get the money; it always finds another home. With the debt and deficit ballooned out of sight, that money isn't heading in their direction. The naturally productive ones will eventually “grow up” and realize the truth about living in a safe, free market society but many will hang fast to the hope (libertarians for sure) that once the "war on drugs" and the "evil military complex” have their wings clipped, some of those trillions of “wasted” dollars will certainly flow to them. It won't and their lot will be worse. We have for too long been building “me-me-it is” generations, whose values and goals are nurtured and fanned by teachings of socialist professors spawned in the Sixties who have multiplied themselves with our youth.

So Ron Paul is their cup of tea. They’re only one step away from OWS (most likely have a foot in both camps already). If Ron Paul definitively said, "I will not run third Party," much of his support would evaporate today. Which is precisely why he has not ruled it out.

1 posted on 12/18/2011 1:16:34 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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She hates muslims?

Well, it looks like she gets my vote.


2 posted on 12/18/2011 1:17:52 AM PST by waus (FUBO UFCMF, Just in case I stuttered, FUBO)
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Dec 2011: The Company Ron Paul Keeps - "Meet Alex Jones"

3 posted on 12/18/2011 1:19:24 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Bachmann hates Muslims? Well, at least she’s got that going for her.

Paul’s ignorance concerning the Muslim “faith” is stunning. They ARE all bad. The basic tenet of the faith is to kill anyone who won’t convert. If a Muslim became good, he wouldn’t be a Muslim any longer.


5 posted on 12/18/2011 1:28:51 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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Go RuPaul! Wooooo...

What? Oh, Ron Paul .... uh, never mind

6 posted on 12/18/2011 1:30:30 AM PST by Bobalu (even Jesus knew the poor would always be with us)
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Geeeez. I was hoping I could vote for Paul, should the NDAA indefinite detention provisions be signed into law, but after that performance, I guess not.


10 posted on 12/18/2011 1:37:53 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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Paul added that the federal government should “protect the right to do with our own body what we want.”

So, if we kill other people with our bare hands, this should be allowed, since we are doing with our own bodies what we want?

11 posted on 12/18/2011 1:39:28 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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...said Paul adding that “after a while you get mixed up.”

An age Paul reached several years ago...

12 posted on 12/18/2011 2:21:58 AM PST by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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Michelle hates Muslims? Well good on her.


14 posted on 12/18/2011 3:13:49 AM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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The reason Ron Paul can never get elected to higher office is... He opens his mouth.........


16 posted on 12/18/2011 3:29:06 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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Paul added that the federal government should “protect the right to do with our own body what we want.”

I'd go along with this if the pro pot crowd would go along with paying for their own medical attention and joblessness that results from doing with their own bodies what they want.

Did Paul remind them that that's part and parcel of his "do what thou wilt" beliefs. Did they give him a standing ovation for that stance? Of course not.

They just want to get stoned and then have everyone else pay their way through life.

Bunch of freeloaders.

18 posted on 12/18/2011 3:40:01 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-blasts-ron-paul-for-running-to-the-left-of-president-obama-on-iran/ At this point, Rush Limbaugh‘s offensive against Rep. Ron Paul has become something of a regular feature on his program. So it’s not entirely surprising that Limbaugh’s anti-Paulism has seeped into his commercials, too– or at least in parody. This week, Limbaugh debuted a “pro” Rep. Paul ad that featured the “candidate” arguing “the greatest danger is not from Iran, it’s from us overreacting.” Surely this will go over well with Paul fans.
20 posted on 12/18/2011 3:51:22 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave (VOTE GOP!)
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Ron Paul Takes Swipes at GOP Rivals, Says Michele Bachmann ‘Hates Muslims’

And the surrender monkey hates Americans, and blames us for every problem in the world. MB may not be my first pick, (my first pick was just eliminated by the media), but I would rather have someone who hates mooseslimes than Americans.
22 posted on 12/18/2011 4:11:11 AM PST by John D
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Good post.

Hope the responders don’t get sidetracked...your point wasn’t that it’s good to hate all Muslims, and that if she hates Muslims like Ron Paul said, she should be considered presidential material.

Paul is a malevolant political force, not a force for political good.

Whether Bachmann hates Muslims or not is a total red herring. Paul’s point was that she’s too anti Iran.

Absurd. The other candidates have just as well recognized and spoken to that Iranian threat against Israel, the entire Middle East, Europe and America. Paul is just miffed that she went after him so strongly in the last debate.

He could just as well have accused every candidate of hating Muslims, because all of them except him understand the problem Iran represents.

We could say the same about Iran if they weren’t a Muslim country but were acting this way.

I don’t hate all Muslims. I totally disagree with and oppose the religion. I’m wise enough to see that some Muslims actually fight with us and die in the same cause we do, against al quaida and the Taliban, for example.

That has nothing to do with who should be President of the United States, except for sure it shouldn’t be Ron Paul.

Paul attracts the young, primarily, because the young are looking for pie in the sky solutions to real problems that trouble society and trouble them personally. The young are lured by the false promise of...just follow this person, or just follow that idea...and the things that you’re concerned about will be fixed and will be wiped away.

As CW pointed out, one of their big concerns is the allocation of resources and how that will affect their lives now, and in the near future. Another big concern is possibly being sent to war.

The only brightness I see in the clouded Iowa Caucus picture if Paul wins or does very well there, it will discredit the importance of that process in terms of letting it guide what others should do in states with real primaries.

People need to back up, and refocus on what this election is truly all about - a freedom killing, job killing, all powerful Federal Government - and who can get us where we need to go as a country.


26 posted on 12/18/2011 4:39:29 AM PST by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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And thinks this is bad, why?


28 posted on 12/18/2011 4:52:28 AM PST by calex59
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He’s imploding, thank God.


29 posted on 12/18/2011 5:07:19 AM PST by CitizenReporter
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Ron Paul Takes Swipes at GOP Rivals, Says Michele Bachmann ‘Hates Muslims’

Nothing wrong with that in my book.

31 posted on 12/18/2011 6:00:42 AM PST by chainsaw (Sarah Palin would be my first choice. .)
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Doesn’t she know it’s only hip to hate Americans?

Merry Christmas


35 posted on 12/18/2011 6:13:26 AM PST by bray (The Tea Party Occupies their Mind)
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Just watch and see how the crazy leftist posing as Paulites try to take over the IA straw poll sites like Obama did in 2008 .
They will storm and take over the stage at each site and scream and yell and intimidate
All other votes there.
These Paulites are mostly code pink linked nutters who want to
Cause chaos in the GOP primary and at the convention.
Obama ‘s storm troopers were quite effective in Tx and Wa straw poll using this tactic!


37 posted on 12/18/2011 6:39:05 AM PST by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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Perry doesn’t hate Muslims. He helps them build Mosques and says “It is a great honor to be in the presence of the Imam of 16 million Muslims”. Perry’s attitude towards Muslims is a danger to this country.


38 posted on 12/18/2011 6:44:13 AM PST by CynicalBear
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“Young people are principled,” said Paul adding that “after a while you get mixed up.”


I always wonder what was the cause of Paul’s positions but I see he explained it in the above quote.


39 posted on 12/18/2011 6:49:25 AM PST by deport
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