Posted on 07/23/2012 9:55:15 PM PDT by RitaOK
Ron Paul cooperates with no one, checks his voice for no one and doesn't much like the GOP establishment types. This would include the GOP's likely nominee, Mitt Romney, template maker in Massachusetts for all things nefarious accomplished by Barack Hussein Obama but brought to a national audience.
Paul has declined to endorse Romney, but given the army of organized pitchforks he has attracted over the course of a run or two at the party nomination, the man has won a seat at the convention table.
USATODAY.com reports that room will be made for Ron Paul in the convention, and it is reported that Paul's platform delegates are being included in the planning of the platform document. Additionally, GOP planners have lent assistance in Paul's arrangements for using the Sun Bowl in Tamap to host a rally for his supporters.
The secret to his success is his, or at least his message’s, appeal to youth. Sometimes, I wonder if some of the criticism of him here results from jealousy and sour grapes.
The youth are able to see that the emporer has no clothes. The establishment of both parties are little more than mafia using government to take from the people that actually make the country work and give it to the well connected. Any serious conservative would insist on a Fed audit. Whether or not Paul is who people think he is, there is a sizeable chunk of voters who are fed up with tweedle dee tweedle dum politics and Paul has tapped into it.
I knew sooner or later all ye who Hate Mitt and Mormons and who no doubt (at least the majority thereof) come from the camp of disalusioned and sore losers who supported this wack job would make their true reasons for attacking Mitt known and I was not to be dissapointed.
Oh please. People hate Mutt for the same reasons that they hate Kennedy, Obama, and Hilary. He’s a leftwing, big government type that will just push America down the road to destruction.
We need to realize that we (that’s a TEA Party “we”) have a lot in common with the Ron Paul supporters. A lot of them don’t like his stance on Iran, for instance, and are very much with us on fiscal responsibility issues. Let’s not create future divisions where they should not exist by being too harsh on his followers, as many here are (not you, I’m just not naming names).
Well put, and see my previous post.
I spent a good bit of time talking to Paul delegates at GA GOP conventions this year. We need to work with these folks, we as conservatives have a lot in common with them. They dislike the GOPe as much as we do, but in many cases mistake us for being part of them. Explaining that is how I learned they often don’t like Paul’s foreign policy blissninnyism.
RuePaul won’t endorse Mitt, but was all too happy to cooperate with him in the primaries to eliminate anyone who could stop Romnet. Pure hypocrite.
I knew sooner or later all ye who Hate Mitt and Mormons...
The face of the GOP establishment is changing here in Maine.
Of the 81 seats on the state GOP committee, 38 are now held by ‘liberty’ candidates elected in county caucuses during the state convention.
More heat is being applied to the upper echelons of the state party with regard to which candidates get supported and which do not in local races.
Many of the party loyal neo-cons are being left behind by a group of hard working true conservatives and liberty minded types who should be the future of the party.
Here in Maine - It’s not your father’s GOP
IMHO, the criticism of him here results from an epidemic of total Constitutional ignorance.
A LOT of what we're told the Constitution 'says' as we're growing up is bass-ackwards to the intent of the actual Compact.
The way it is done in America is to include small coalitions within the parties.
The inclusion of Paulites to the group at the table is evidence the system is functioning.
What will they accomplish? We will see. Will they accomplish everything they desire? No
They are however there and have not run away and guaranteed to accomplish nothing
I agree. RP served his purpose there and it was never to win.
BINGO!! And he’s not the only one. It shows how easily the voters can be deceived by these political maggots.
The only political signs I saw carried by Ocutards at Zuccotti Park were Paul signs.
Thanks for that eyewitness report. They may have been carrying Paul signs only because it was the "cool" thing to do. But - as I'm sure many veteran Freepers can confirm - the libertarians are eager to press libertarian literature on everyone who shows even the slightest interest (and many who don't, which is one of the reasons why they're unwelcome here.)
Back in the 1930s, the only group with the same intellectual self-confidence was the Marxists. And you know what that led to.
Long-term, the libertarians will have the same influence. What will that lead to - particularly for the Ron Paul youth who decide that they're liberal? As I said earlier, they'll always have a fox in the bosom vis-a-vis the standard liberal nostrums. Sure, they'll concoct other nostrums, but the success of the Ron Paul movement further confirms that the ideal of big government is slowly dying. Remember, the liberals with the power and clout were largely New Lefists back in their youth. Tomorrow's liberals won't be.
Ron Paul won't run again for anything, but his influence will show over the next several decades. Thirty years from now, the Ron Paul youth will be at the peak of their powers. I realize that it's somtimes difficult to think of the longer term when faced with this year's taxes and the latest outrage against liberty, but the current expansions of Big Government are like a supernova. The underlying star is burning out.
Just remember: Cloward-Pivenites are playing on Ayn Rand's turf.
They were carrying the signs because they support him.
Nothing to be proud of.
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