The Unpardonable Sin: The Ron Paul Blunder

Truth About Bills ^ | 12/21/2011 | Mark Mayberry

[Colofornian]

Mitt Romney’s racism-by-association is next for the MSM...especially anything published by the Mormon church between early 1965 and early 1978...when Mitt was an adult and the Mormon church still practiced open racism in its policies.

[John D]

But true conservatives will not vote for someone who blames America for every problem in the world. True conservatives do not want to destroy our military. True conservatives do not say one thing then do another, as the surrender monkey does regarding earmarks. True conservatives do not think the way to handle the terrorist threat is to appease the terrorists. True conservatives are not afraid to stand up to our enemies.

[John D]

Meanwhile, I'll be out looking for a capital-R Republican candidate who will secure the borders, shrink the budget, cut multiple cabinet-level departments out of the Federal bureacracy, enforce existing banking law, and return us to a valid currency.

Well Cut and Run is not who you will be looking for because anybody with half a brain knows the surrender monkey will never do any of it.
Cut and Run has been in Washington for over a quarter of a century. Can you or anybody name one thing he has ever accomplished? That is other than blaming America for every problem in the world and acquiring more earmarks than any candidate running. The earmarks he SAYS he is against.

[Oberon]

Well Cut and Run is not who you will be looking for because anybody with half a brain knows the surrender monkey will never do any of it. Cut and Run has been in Washington for over a quarter of a century. Can you or anybody name one thing he has ever accomplished? That is other than blaming America for every problem in the world and acquiring more earmarks than any candidate running. The earmarks he SAYS he is against.

Well said... that's the way to stay on message. Continue to drive those points home.

However, what you've posted doesn't contain any reason to vote for any of the current crop of Republican candidates. Telling me that Ron Paul ain't the guy is no more than a good reason to stay home come election day.

So who do you got that's good? Who's the guy who's going to secure the border, shrink the budget, cut multiple cabinet-level departments, etc., etc.? Because unless a president does that, we're all hell-bound in one big handbasket and it doesn't matter who's in charge.

[x]

If he were a serious candidate, this might be the end for him.

But Ron Paul is more of a protest candidate, a "none of the above" candidate, and a chunk of the electorate will go for him regardless of stories like this.

[John D]

Telling me that Ron Paul ain't the guy is no more than a good reason to stay home come election day.
The big difference between Cut and Run and the rest is that Cut and Run has already said he wants open borders. He blames America for 9/11. He wants gays in the military. He endorses OWS. The last election after he was eliminated endorsed Cynthia McKinney for president.
Maybe the others will not do any more than Paul to improve the economy, but they will definitely not do as much as Paul will to destroy America.

[Oberon]

[long list of half-truths, reductionist bullet points, oversimplifications and bumper-sticker debate] ...Maybe the others will not do any more than Paul to improve the economy, but they will definitely not do as much as Paul will to destroy America.

Again, this amounts to an argument not to vote for Ron Paul. Fair enough, as far as it goes... but without a reasonable Republican alternative we still don't have a reason to stir from our houses come election day. Business-as-usual from Washington insiders isn't going to cut it.