"We want Paul! We want Paul!"
If Republicans want a nominee selected and funded by voters who normally support leftist Democrats, Ron Paul is your guy...
But if Republicans want a Republican nominated by Republicans to run against Hillary, it's time to put an end to the Ron Paul campaign...
You might want to ping the list, as this article appears to base much of its information off of the testimonies of Eric Dondero...who, if I recall from earlier this year, was shown to be a suspect source of information.
Ron Paul is the new Lyndon LaRouche.
Whack job.
if allowed to continue
Who can stop him? I mean he filled out the appropriate paperwork is raising money and somebody is going to get rid of him???? I have no use for Ron Paul but this article is crazy when the writer says “If Ron Paul is allowed to continue” Duncan Hunter 2008. The best for America!!!
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Among Ron Paul’s top donor zip codes are of course parts of Texas, but also heavily liberal districts in Chicago (60614), San Francisco (94117), more than 80% of which supports Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer, and Los Angeles – Long Beach, which is his second largest donor area after Dallas. What we have here is a candidate trying to win the Republican nomination by raising money from liberals across the political aisle.
This is why his fund-raising is not translating to improved poll positions
His donors are not Republicans. So no matter how much money he raises, it is not translating into Republican support in the polls. He remains at or below 5% support in every national Republican poll, no matter how much money he raises.
I've been saying this on this board for two months now, much to the derision of the Pauline Apostles and others. I'm glad that someone else is finally catching on...
How is Ron Paul going to "take votes away" from conservative candidates that are supposedly much better than him?
He's going to fool them? Republican primary voters are stupid? I don't get it.
“those myopic small government conservatives angry with Bush for his Democrat-like spending habits.”
That describes about 75% of the rank and file of the Republican Party. I guess we are “myopic”, because we don’t like big government, the falling dollar, and possible national bankruptcy.
This is one of the silliest articles I have read this year.
How do the author and his acolytes intend to “put an end” the Ron Paul campaign? Do they intend, Al-Gore-style, to repeatedly defame all of Paul’s supporters? So far it hasn’t worked very well. Hopefully the Paul campaign will end in the only reasonable way; by the voters listening carefully to all of the arguments, and then choosing the best alternative for the country. I am confident that the best alternative for the country will be the Republican nominee for President, whoever that turns out to be. It very likely won’t be Ron Paul, but if it is, he will have my support against the Clinton/Obama ticket.
Practice saying “President Paul”!
"We want Paul! We want Paul!"
This comes to no surprise. Ron Paul is the only unqualified Republican candidate. As a Conservative Republican, I know a RINO (Republican In Name Only) when I see one and Ron Paul fits that description. Paul keeps saying he’s an “Antiwar Republican”, which is funny because there is no such thing. Republicans know when it’s necessary to defend the country. Second, he’s a Libertarian. Libertarians are not Conservatives they are Liberal sociably, though it is fair to say that some are Right leaning, but most lean to the Left and that is defenitely the case with Ron Paul. Paul is part of the “Blame America First” crowd and is hurting Conservatives by hurting the GOP. The other Republican candidates are all qualified to be president. They would all make great leaders because they are true Conservatives who are supported by true Conservative Republicans, unlike Ron Paul who is just a knat.
Libertarians have always had their own constituency. Look at the consistent popularity of Ayn Rand’s work. It can’t just be a Democratic subterfuge campaign.
I’m not necessarily a Paul supporter, but I’m often surprised at the opposition to him on this site.
Aren’t the other GOP candidates jokers themselves?
Yep.
You've GOT to be kidding. You must have missed the picture I recently obtained of a high-level Ron Paul for President strategy session.
Do these people look dangerous to you?
Hank
uhh... and just how, pray tell, do you intend/propose to do this?
ROFL! There is no facts in this drivel of an article. I read it at work today and knew some FReeper would jerk his/her knee posting this garbage and all the bashers would crawl out of their rocks to post their ad-hominems and jpegs.
Meanwhile, Paul just crossed over $8 million in fundraising. He's already two-thirds of his 4Q goal and November ain't even half over yet. BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!
With the primaries slated to begin in weeks, and the general election less than a year off, this could be an election of historical proportions.
The author of this article, JB Williams, cited polls as the basis of his claims. It is appropriate to address polls.
Throughout the course of this decade, I’ve asked all the established public polling establishments if they had ever conducted a poll of only voters that say they are Independents, or Independent leaning. Their answers were always no, and the reason given was that either they were contracted to conduct polls for the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, or they were contracted by a third party, such as a news media company, and told to conduct the polls with only Democrats and Republicans.
The last year has seen the fortunes of the Republican Party slip if Independents were considered a separate political entity. Thirty-six percent of voters say they are Democrats or Democrat leaning, 27% saying they are Republican or Republican leaning, and 24% said they were Independents or Independent leaning.
Coupled to that poll is a poll from September this year in which voters of all political parties were asked if the Democrats and Republicans do an adequate job representing the American people, or is a New Third Party needed. Thirty-nine percent of voters polled said Democrats and Republicans do an adequate job of representing the American people. An astounding 57% said the two parties do not adequately represent the American people, AND a third major party is needed. With as many as 125 million voters expected to go to the polls in 2008, 57% would represent over 71 million voters, and more than enough to defeat the Democratic-Republican political dynasty.
Of the current third parties on the national scene, both the very conservative Constitution Party, and the Libertarian Party, are expected to introduce motions to back the candidacy of Representative Ron Paul, essentially both drafting him as their party presidential candidate. If Ron Paul did launch an Independent campaign, his name could appear three times on the same General Election ballot in some states.
I don’t think for a moment that Ron Paul can win the Republican Party nomination. Currently, Rudy Giuliani holds the top spot in polls of Republicans at 29%, Fred Thompson in a distant second at 19%, and all remaining Republican candidates under 15%. With 27% of voters nationwide saying they are Republican, or Republican leaning, Rudi has a solid and dismal 9% of popular support nationwide.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is supported by 45% of Democrats, with Barack Obama in the second spot at 22%. With 36% of voters nationwide saying they are Democrats, or Democrat leaning, Hillary is supported by an unimpressive solid 16-17% of the voting population.
Another interesting development in the 2008 election is that if held today, both the Democratic Party and Republican Party will have very liberal presidential candidates. Their shared theme could be “Our liberal is better than your liberal”.
I can only sit and watch the 2008 election develop at this point as I am registered as “Decline to State”, and cannot participate in the partisan primaries. I will be watching with great interest. The 2008 election could be the historic turning point where the majority of Americans throw-off the two powerful, special interest owned and operated political parties.
How can the hard core anti war leftest candidate take away more conservative votes than liberal votes?