We already tried that.
Posted on 08/14/2011 10:19:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Between the unions and the socialist government, we’ll be lucky if we have ANY meaningful well-paying jobs left in the USA!! Capital is being driven over seas.
Conservatives aren't pro-union. They never have been. They never will be.
Quite an eloquent post. I am sure you have a contingent of farmers in your neck of the woods that are as you describe. Your original question was on where Paul gets his support. Old farmers are not in the demographic. In the last two election cycles, he has siphoned off college age kids with Rat leanings to work the streets. They are the folks hooting and hollering at the debates like children when Paul so much as sneezes. They are the ones who flood the internet polls with votes for him. They flooded a radio station with Paulite questions for Perry this morning. They are why a guy who stagnates in the polls appears well supported. As you said, your friends are not activists. They work for a living.
I live in the sticks. If the wind turns around, I can smell cow s#!t from the dairy down the road and a mile in the other direction is a pig farm so we smell that. The farmers I chat with are straight up businessmen looking to see the economy turned around. There is little talk of Ron Paul except for comedy purposes. I rarely see Ron Paul stuff anywhere in PA.
I agree that the world is a mess and the country needs a sharp turn around. I just do not subscribe to Libertarian doctrine to save it. I want no part of the whole Ron Paul experience. If the ideology was so forward thinking and a winner in American politics, wouldn’t there be at least a few elected Libertarians? Instead Paul has to use the GOP as a platform and than shoehorn himself into the Tea Party. If Libertarianism was going anywhere, Paul would run under his true banner.
I appreciate your point of view on this, but I am a Conservative and will remain one. I will also do my best to enlighten people on the outright un-American ideals that Paul holds. Some were cited in my last post.
Regards
As he was speaking to Bachmann in the debate, I thought “Rick Lazio”.
Her reaction was contrived but successful.
Pawlenty presented as Bob Livingston in 2000 with a hollow fear vulnerable to a 70-mph Indiana wind.
Then he picked a fight with a wind turbine whose tips travel at 184 mph.
Why is Java4Jay still here, I ask myself...
He would be the guy if you want to elect a nerd.
We already tried that.
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