Posted on 01/07/2008 3:30:07 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Ron Paul isn’t just running for president. The antiwar 10-term congressman from Texas hopes that as titular head of the Republican Party, he can nudge the Right in a less interventionist direction, both at home and abroad. In fact, reviving an older, less reflexively hawkish conservatism may even be a more important motivation for Paul’s long-shot campaign than actually capturing the GOP nomination.
There’s just one problem: the movement Paul is trying to lead, or at least influence, is filled with people who think he is some kind of crazed left-wing radical. The popular conservative website RedState.com has effectively banned Paul supporters from signing up as commenters and promoting their candidate, partly on the grounds that such people are liberal Democrats merely pretending to be Republicans. FreeRepublic.com founder Jim Robinson, whose website was once more open to constitutionalists than Republican boosters, asserted that “Paul equals Hillary on the War.” National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser has opined that Paul backers are “wicked idiots.”
Syndicated columnist Mona Charen dubbed Paul a “kook,” saying that although he shouldn’t be president, “[h]e might make a dandy new leader for the Branch Davidians.” Dean Barnett of The Weekly Standard devoted a similar piece to taunts along these lines, calling Paul the “crank-in-chief” and “undisputed owner of the “‘Don’t tase me bro’ vote.” Averring that “Crazy people love to have a cause,” Barnett observes that “America’s lunatics” have “taken such a shine to the formerly obscure Ron Paul”—since all Paul really wants is to “wear a powdered wig without being ridiculed in public.”
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The feeling is mutual.
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You’ve hit on the crux of the crass crossdressers and crisscrossing crossing guards. And it’s their crassroots crush for RP that’s driven his crazy poll numbers.
Speaking of Texans, this one is priceless:
Syndicated columnist Mona Charen dubbed Paul a “kook,” saying that although he shouldn’t be president, “[h]e might make a dandy new leader for the Branch Davidians.”
FWIW, I know Texas like the back of my hand, and the oddest Texans I ever met were in Abilene.
I suspect that Paul is a member of the John Birch Society as Buchanan is. My father, in the 50’s, almost joined this society as a conservative alternative to the Democrats until he realized what a racist, anti-semitic group they are. If you read his comments, they are very similar to Buchanan’s.
Paul is a parasite. He has asked voters for support many times nationally, and never got very far. It is time for conservatives and Republicans to cut him out. The “people” aren’t buying that which he is selling. What ever happened to the Libertarian Party?
I visit some financial forums that for some reason are full of leftist loons, and Ron Paul is very popular with them.
He’s right in there next to Riverbend’s Baghdad Burning.
Syndicated columnist Mona Charen dubbed Paul a “kook,” saying that although he shouldn’t be president, “[h]e might make a dandy new leader for the Branch Davidians.
Whether you support Ron Paul or not, it is a disgrace that the founder of FreeRepublic would quote someone who mocks the murder of children for political purposes. This kind of filth belongs on DailyKos or DemocraticUnderground.
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