Ron Paul Quietly Converting GOP Believers

The Street ^ | August 9, 2007 | John Fout

[CenTexConfederate]

Ron Paul Quietly Converting GOP Believers

By John Fout TheStreet.com Political Correspondent 8/9/2007 12:20 PM EDT

Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public?

I pondered this issue in an article in June. I saw Paul as the one second-tier candidate who might have a chance of a breakout from the pack. It turns out I might have got it right. He has remained the most popular GOP candidate on the Internet. This genuine outpouring of support is rivaled only by that for Barack Obama.

[cripplecreek]

Before long we’ll all be an unstoppable tidal wave of moonbattery.

[wideawake]

Fout is late to the party. David Duke has been saying the exact same thing for months now. So has Alex Jones.

[The_Victor]

Before long we’ll all be an unstoppable tidal wave of moonbattery

They should talk to Howard Dean about that path to the presidency.

[jveritas]

Rolling on the floor laughing. You Paulestinians are more delusional than the left wing liberals, in fact you are more delusional than the Arabs.

[MNJohnnie]

No this is just more wishful thinking from the Paulites. He still cannot register with anyone outside the same fringe that voted for Buchannan.

Ron Paul has ZERO chance of wining a single primary. OUtside of the manufactured media hysteria about him being fanned by fringer political groups and the wacko anti American groups who think they can use him as a wedge in the Conservative Movement, Paul has NO appeal.

[Red Badger]

Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public?

Public humiliation?.......

[GulfBreeze]

Funny! I like it

[Badeye]

Indeed, its so quiet you can’t find anyone to name as ‘converted’.

[VRWCmember]

He has remained the most popular GOP candidate on the Internet.

Yeah, but wasn't Howard Dean the most popular democRAT candidate on the Internet at this point in the 2004 race too?

[West Coast Conservative]

According to the latest polls Paul's support is down.

Not that it matters though...his support in every single poll is within the margin of error.

[CenTexConfederate]

The child that knows nothing returns.

[trisham]

This genuine outpouring of support is rivaled only by that for Barack Obama.

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I wouldn't be making a comparison of the two groups if I were a Paul fan.

[showme_the_Glory]

Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul

busy supporting conservatives that are actually Republicans?

[org.whodat]

Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public?

I must be a little slow are something, but what does conservatives embracing their own ideals have to do with Paul? He's not a conservatives, oh, I know what it is I had some wild caught shrimp for lunch.

[stm]

I saw Paul as the one second-tier candidate who might have a chance of a breakout from into the pack.....

There, fixed it

[samtheman]

The article is on 3 separate pages so I had to do 6 separate searches to verify the unbelievable: the writer doesn’t mention the words ‘Iraq’ or ‘terrorism’ even once. It means his head is buried as deeply in the sand as is the head of his idol, Ron Paul.

[ari-freedom]

Why haven’t conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public?
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maybe because conservatives aren’t America bashing surrender monkeys? ya think?

[ex-snook]

70% of the nation agree with Paul on Iraq. The other GOP candidates are heading up sh’t creek next election allowing Clinton to win.

[billbears]

Conservatives have gone from a party of ideals to a party of money, power brokering and winning at all costs.

About right.

So why not take a chance on Ron Paul? Even if you can't win, at least conservatives would feel good that they did the right thing by cleaning house. Besides, the last time a conservative got drubbed in a presidential election was Barry Goldwater in 1964. His loss did lead conservatives to their greatest win -- Ronald Reagan

Instead we need a mealy mouthed 'conservative' in there so when Bush the IVth comes along, we'll have someone else to claim is conservative when in fact they won't be. Rep. Paul is one of the last chances for what's left of the Republic. If the few here choose to try to drub him out of the party, it's perhaps because of their love of big government (advocated by all the rest..)