Posted on 05/03/2007 10:23:46 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
DRUDGE REPORT
The Reagan Derby
Well, with 47,617 individual Votes recorded as of 12:55AM EST on 5/4/07, The Drudge Report has provided perhaps the most sweeping and comprehensive initial survey of viewer reaction to the first GOP Primary Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
The Results thus far:
With an optimistic, confident demeaner and a polished presentation, Mitt Romney decidedly overshadowed the erstwhile Front-Runner, Rudy Giuliani. Rudy's primary strength thus far has been his vast name recognition and the sheer momentum of his supposed "inevitability" -- and yet, in terms of viewer reaction, for him to be trailing (by double digits) a former Governor not widely known outside of Massachusetts until this election season demonstrates clear vulnerability on Giuliani's part.
However, the greatest source of comfort to Constitutionalist Conservatives has to be the tremendous upswell of support being registered by the former Leader of Ronald Reagan's Electoral Delegation from Texas, United States Congressman Ron Paul -- and that DESPITE receiving comparatively little "face time" from the debate organizers. With viewer reaction to the first GOP Primary Debate already placing Congressman Ron Paul solidly in third place, nine points ahead of his nearest rival and within five points of Giuliani himself, a tremendous opportunity exists for Ron Paul to establish widespread national Name Recognition and garner increasing support for his broadly-appreciated message of Individual Liberty and strictly-limited Government Power.
With the second GOP Primary Debate rapidly approaching, Conservatives can take heart in knowing that the Message of Reagan Republicanism still resonates when presented confidently and forthrightly --and that there's at least one GOP Candidate on the stage who has stood solidly for Reagan Republicanism for thirty years: RON PAUL.
According to the 2002 State of the Union Address, the United States MUST NOT give Military and Financial Support to any Nation which Knowingly and Willfully HARBORS TERRORISTS.
Well, the "democratically elected" Islamic Thug-ocracy of Iraq is guilty of EXACTLY that -- they have knowingly and willfully harbored self-confessed, and even convicted, Anti-American Terrorists (including a convicted US Embassy Bomber!) in their RULING COALITION!
According to the Principles laid down in the 2002 State of the Union Address, therefore, we must not provide any more Military and Financial support whatsoever to the Terrorist Islamic Regime of Iraq.
Ergo, Ron Paul is Right.
Allegra is way off base accusing you of having a desire to "surrender to the terrorists." Your post there and others have demonstrated a desire to stop US support of terrorists.
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Looks like Ron’s name is catching on :>} The GOP usually fairs well when it runs on a conservative platform. If the GOP wishes to keep the Oval Office Ron Paul would be the best conservative for the job. A Ron Paul campaign may well help usher in some needed strong conservative leadership in both houses as well.
Who, the liberals?
Among non-members, it was Paul 33%, Romney 30%. Well, Friends Of Ron are a busy bunch on the Internet. Heh-heh. I guess we won't take our poll too seriously since we FReepers know that online polls can be "FReeped".
Mitt Romney 36.7%
Ron Paul 23.3%
Duncan Hunter 18.8%
Rudy Giuliani 8.1%
Romney is the most impressive of all the candidates, and the most electable. He is smart, articulate, conservative, photogenic on TV, and he has executive experience as Governor.
As the founder father Benjamin Rush (present at ALL the important signing of our young America) said... ""I am neither (rep or dem)... I'm a Christocrat" -- Benjamin Rush
Ron Paul's record on supporting Israel is sickening... one has only to google a few articles on Ron Paul to see exactly who is supporting RP (and it runs a gambit close to as anti-semitic as it gets).
I as a fellow Christian can not support this man in any manner on that ground alone, not to mention his total lack of backbone on fighting terrorist. Saying otherwise is to this statement he himself said in the debate...
Ron Paul -- "My major political decision, which was a constitutional decision, was to urge for five years that this country not go to war in Iraq."
"I rise in opposition to this resolution, which I sincerely believe will do more harm than good... It is very clear, reading this resolution objectively, that all the terrorists are on one side and all the victims and the innocents are on the other side. I find this unfair, particularly considering the significantly higher number of civilian casualties among Lebanese civilians. I would rather advocate neutrality rather than picking sides, which is what this resolution does." ...Ron Paul on a pro-Israel legislation
Paul once suggested in a political newsletter that the Israeli government was one of the most "evil lobbying groups in Washington" (Houston Chronicle, 2/23/97).
As my tagline suggests... I will not support Ron Paul... and any true conservative that understands that this nation was founded with Christian leanings that understand that a nation that turns it back on Israel has turned it's back on God.
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other." ~~ President John Adams
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty. Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitiveness to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior. -- President Herbert Hoover
Ron Paul has lost the ability to call evil evil... the anti-Israel pro-Islam stance will never warrent my vote (even if cleverly falsely masked under constitution rhetoric that this nation hid from evil). Nothing could be futher from the truth.
He will get crossver support from other parties, too. In fact, he's getting it from a Constitution Party member at this very moment.
I prefer the term "pseudo-con" as the global policing at the expense of present and future taxpayes is not conservative.
Does this mean we can’t put you on the Ron Paul Pinglist?
Yep, Drudge does have a lot of Democrats that will say anything to make sure the wrong Republican will get in.....
“RON PAUL is the ONLY socially-conservative Candidate defending the independence of the Christian Church against Federal “Faith-Based Socialism”. “
Romney gave a great answer to Chrissie’s lame question about ‘what would you say to Catholic bishops’.
Several candidates have a good grasp on the proper way to view religious liberty and the separation of church and state (ie Govt, keep your paws off the church and let them be).
Also, Romney supports the Federal Marriage Amendment.
“RON PAUL is the ONLY 100% Anti-Terrorist candidate.”
Ron Paul supports letting Al Qaeda in Iraq defeat the US. Ron Paul joined the defeatist Democrats in concocting the worst foriegn policy vote in the Congress since the days when the Democrats in Congress engineered defeat in Vietnam.
“Yeah, Ron really cracked me up when he held up Eisenhower as an example of a non-interventionist President. I guess he needs to hit the history books and study up on the 1953 Iranian coup.”
Or Guatamala 1954, or *LEBANON* 1958. We also leaned on the Brits to end the Suez crisis, etc.
And the constitutionalist Ron Paul voted for legislation that is clearly unconstitutional. Congress has no power to execute war and it sure the hell doesn't have any constitutional power to tell commanders in the field that they have to check with Congress 15 days in advance before troop movements. Paul is very, very good on some things and horrid on others with the WOIslamofascism being one of his most horrid positions.
“What makes you think that our engagement in Iraq does not provide a “huge recruiting tool for the jihadists” NOW?”
This kind of lame, shallow, moonbatism on FR makes me quite annoyed. How can we take Ron Paul seriously when OP so badly misrepresents what is going on in Iraq? So we get in Ron Paul a fiscal conservative who happens to have the same position on Iraq as Ron Dellums, Howard Dean, and Al jazeera??!?!? Phooey!
today, sheiks are joining us to fight AQ in Anbar:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0503/p01s04-wome.html?page=4
Iraq has become a recruiting tool for *US* to find muslims willing to fight A.Q. because AQ has killed more Iraqis than anyone else in the last 3 years.
And OP should know that Muslim extremists have attacked Christians for centuries:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2007/05/call-to-prayer-for-church-in-smyrna.html
Bin laden and AQ have recruited terrorists since the 1980s. It mind-blowing cluelessnees to assert that our liberation of Iraq created terrorism when it has been around for years prior.
“For what it’s worth, on Intrade, an online futures market where real money is on the line, Paul was the only candidate other than Romney to have his stock go up. He definitely impressed some people.”
Romney rose by over 2% to %17% or so, right?
Paul is still under 2% *total*.
“Now the most vocal people are often a bunch of bitter, hateful, prune faced blue haired geezers engaged in a scorched earth screamfest.”
You talking about the people who go out of their way to criticize other people in the party/movement, denigrate erstwhile allies, and dreamers who want 100% of what they want or refuse to compromise?
Oh the irony.
“I long for a leader who is not concerned with burying the left and rubbing their faces in it, but simply with going around, over, or through them to achieve the goal, all the while keeping cheerful about it.”
Go ahead, then, support Romney. it won’t kill you.
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