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Where Would Ron Paul Supporters Rally if Paul was Not Running in the GOP Primary?
Venus
Ron Paul is running for Ron Paul, not for the Republicans and not for his supporters.
Maybe he believes that he isn’t doing harm long-term, perhaps he’s getting financially compensated to run as interference.
Don’t know.
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OBAMA voters.
Paulies are pinball players ... they love the buttons and whistles, the lights and occasional free play, even if they tilt, they'll drop another quarter ... they're not drunk enough, haven't found a girl to take home tonight and ain't ready to go home yet .... they still might get lucky.
Where Would Ron Paul Supporters Rally if Paul was Not Running in the GOP Primary?
ComicCon?
Lyndon laRouche
I am part of Ron Paul’s base. I didn’t start out there, but after watching all the candidates, and examining their positions, and previous history, that’s where I am now. I am here because he’s the candidate who will best limit government. This is my primary concern. The unrestrained, unlimited, daily growth of government! And, yes, I am tired of the endless foreign incursions as well. No, I do not support everything Paul says in the foreign policy realm. I think it was perfectly appropriate to go into Pakistan and kill Bin Laden. If I wasn’t in the Paul camp, I would be in the Gingrich camp.
Well, considering there’s no other true conservative in the race, I’d vote for the Constitution Party candidate or write in Sarah Palin if Paul wasn’t in it.
It’s unfathomable that not all Tea Partiers support Paul, since he meets and exceeds all their demands in a way none of the other candidates do. I guess if you’re a 60’s Marxist radical turned pseudo-conservative (also known as a filthy “NeoCon”), Paul isn’t your guy. But if you were for Goldwater back then, you’re for Paul now. And since polls are repeatedly showing only Romney and Paul beating Obama in a one-on-one match-up, those looking for a conservative alternative to Romney have but one place to go. So ditch the other losers and support Paul already.
(Unless Sarah Palin somehow magically emerges as a compromise candidate at the convention, in which case I am TOTALLY in the tank for her. Paul would have to settle for Treasury Secretary in that case!)
Iran?
He’s a spoiler for certain, but intent is the question.
Almost seems as though he’s Captain ZOOM addicted to adulation from his Space Cadets.
The pauliacs would rally where they have always rallied: at the medical marijuana supplier parking lots all across this great nation.
Nowhere. And that's what's so fascinating about the Ron Paul phenomenon.
Look at the guy. He's easy to knock as the crazy uncle (or worse.) Earlier in his career, he was a fringe candidate. By all the conventional rules of politics now, he still should be.
And yet, he's at the head of a genuine mass movement. A mass movement that's coalesced around him, rather than the reverse. A movement whose heart is young people, who will carry a lot of what they got from him when they get older.
I know it's primary season, and detachment isn't welcome, but I want to call attention to the fact that Ron Paul has threw one helluva Hail Mary pass and it was caught. Even if he ends up going nowhere, he rates being in the history books because his current reach is so improbable.
When the histories are written about this time, Ron Paul is likely to be compared to William Jennings Bryan.
Mom’s basement?
If you keep a mental note of of the Paulophiles online and on the radio, it is pretty clear that most of them have a liberal tilt, not a conservative tilt. Some of them are hardcore libertarians who are as partisan as the Republicans and Democrats (whom they despise with equal relish for their partisanship).
The former do not plan on voting for Paul or any Republican. Their goal is to split the Republican vote by using Paul to point out that the RINOs that comprise our current pool of candidates are not fiscal conservatives and that that is what we need most right now.
The latter will not vote for a Republican. They will write in their candidate if they have to.
As I have said repeatedly, Libertarians and Conservatives have some mutual interests (smaller government, reduced spending, fiscal sanity). But that is where the friendship ends. There is a critical divide between Libertarians and Conservatives that cannot be bridged and we often end up doing each other more harm than good when it it comes to politics.
If Paul isn’t running they will vote Democrat.
Comic book conventions.
Actually, I think the Paultards are doing a *good* thing by reminding us of several things.
1. Freedom. Whatever law you pass, it is going to have some negative effects. How will it affect the freedom of the average citizen? We don’t ask that question enough and the Paultards are pointing that out.
2. Monetary policy. Paul is dead wrong, but since when have so many people even known there was such a thing as monetary policy? The debate is good. (BTW, our currency *is* indirectly backed by something, and that “something” is crude. If you move it back to gold or silver, you’ll just have more conflicts over the supply of gold or silver).
3. Foreign policy. Paul is dangerous. But hey, it’s the same position privately espoused by many Dems, so it gives us the opportunity to really sharpen our arguments.