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Palin on Ron Paul "Right On!" Campaign [Praises Paul]
The Nation ^ | 9-1-2008 | John Nichols

Posted on 09/02/2008 8:02:54 AM PDT by jmc813

In a February interview with MTV, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin lavished praise on maverick Republican presidential contender Ron Paul.

She had a few nice things to say about another GOP candidate, Mitt Romney.

But Palin made no mention of John McCain.

Now that McCain is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, he has selected Palin as his prospective running-mate for vice president.

McCain calls Palin his political "soul-mate."

But, in February, at a point when McCain was closing in on the Republican nomination, it sure sounded like she was sweet on Paul.

The governor, who sported a Pat Buchanan pin at a 1999 rally for the renegade Republican presidential candidate (Pat says: "She's a great choice for the base ... She's a Buchananite"), described the anti-war, libertarian-leaning congressman from Texas as "cool."

"He's a good guy," she said of Paul. "He's so independent. He's independent of the party machine. I'm like, ‘Right on, so am I.'"

Paul supporters were delighted. In fact, they even began promoting Palin as a possible veep choice for the Texas congressman.

As it happens, Paul won't be picking a running-mate in St. Paul.

But the congressman will be in the Twin Cities.

Conveniently for Palin, Paul -- who refuses to endorse McCain -- will be holding an outside-the-convention "Rally for the Republic."

More than 10,000 tickets have already been sold for an event that is expected to draw thousands of Paul's most ardent supporters to the Target Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday.

Perhaps Palin will join them.

Or is she now with the party machine?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; buchanan; lp; mccain; palin; paul; ronpaul; sarahpalin; thenation
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To: jmc813

Paul Bagala once claimed that ‘even he was a member at freerepublic’. Of course, it came during an insulting exchange about conservatives as right wing knuckle draggers with FreeRepublic being one of the ‘knuckle dragger’s favorites Internet sites.’


61 posted on 09/02/2008 12:40:04 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Ben Ficklin
Guilty! You've outed me! Muawahahahahahaha ... you simpleton.
62 posted on 09/02/2008 12:41:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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Oh my! Now I'm outed as a Srahbot. Whatever will I do? ... oh, I know, I'll go troll hunting


63 posted on 09/02/2008 12:43:22 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: HoustonTech
And that is why Ron Paul will never be President of the USA. It is amazing why someone would even want to be the leader of "a force for evil." I can tell you something about Ron Paul's congressional district too: If they knew that he believed this, he wouldn't be in congress either.

Ron Paul doesn't believe America is "a force for evil". He simply doesn't believe we should have an interventionist foreign policy, which is in line with the Constitution. Ron Paul's district knows what he believes and why, unlike Freepers here who spread false statements about his beliefs and cast him in a bad light.

64 posted on 09/02/2008 12:45:26 PM PDT by rightwinghour (http://rightwinghour.podbean.com/)
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To: jmc813
I know you want to make it about me. It isn't.

If the GOP is going to have a veep whose biggest claim to fame is going after BIG OIL, then it would follow that the GOP is have to go after big oil. And the transnationals, and the .........

65 posted on 09/02/2008 12:47:08 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
I know you want to make it about me. It isn't.

I understand that. But if you bash someone on a site, it would be common courtesy to name at least one person who you think would be better so we could get an idea of where your opinions stand and take it from there. Who would be considered the "anti-Palin"? I'm not asking this to be a pain in your ass, I'm asking because I'm like a child walking into the middle of a movie and have no frame of reference as to where the heck you're coming from.

66 posted on 09/02/2008 12:52:19 PM PDT by jmc813 (Welcome to New York, Brett!)
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To: MHGinTN; jmc813

It wasn’t about “outing” you. It was about how the self-annointed true conservatives and real Americans vote for and support democrats who say they are culturally conservative


67 posted on 09/02/2008 12:53:29 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
It was about how the self-annointed true conservatives and real Americans vote for and support democrats who say they are culturally conservative

And one example of a Republican who does not fit this mold is ______________________.

One name, Benny. I ain't asking for much.

68 posted on 09/02/2008 12:58:20 PM PDT by jmc813 (Welcome to New York, Brett!)
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To: jmc813
Wrong again. I'm not bashing anyone.

As for who I might think is better, the answer hasn't changed since you asked me the same question about the presidential nominee. There several who I would support.

The problem here is that the internal polling data was looking bad for McCain, so he went for a veep that he hoped would get the biggest turnout of the cultural populists.

69 posted on 09/02/2008 1:04:39 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
There several who I would support.

If you would be as kind as to let me know who some of these are, this thread would be a lot less gay.

70 posted on 09/02/2008 1:42:13 PM PDT by jmc813 (Welcome to New York, Brett!)
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To: jmc813
Any of these:

Pawlenty, Romney, Ridge, Steel. Or any of the other females that had been considered.

But you are missing the point. It is not who I would support, it was who James Dobson would support.

71 posted on 09/02/2008 1:56:48 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: rightwinghour

The his constituents are as nutty as he is.


72 posted on 09/02/2008 10:43:52 PM PDT by robert david (Ensure the new USSR is still-born - Elect John McCain. Smash the new National Socialists)
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To: Ben Ficklin
Pawlenty, Romney, Ridge, Steel.

Thanks for a response finally. The people you like bore the hell out of me.

73 posted on 09/03/2008 8:15:50 AM PDT by jmc813 (Welcome to New York, Brett!)
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To: robert david
The his constituents are as nutty as he is.

Coming from one of FR's leading illegal alien apologists, I'll take that as a compliment.

74 posted on 09/03/2008 8:27:44 AM PDT by jmc813 (Welcome to New York, Brett!)
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To: jmc813
"bore the hell out of me"

Sounds like you put the same degree of thought into as someone voting in high school class election.

Are you voting for who is "coolest"?

75 posted on 09/03/2008 8:41:24 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
Are you voting for who is "coolest"?

I just want to have sex with Palin, so I'm going with them.

76 posted on 09/03/2008 8:42:24 AM PDT by jmc813 (Welcome to New York, Brett!)
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To: HoustonTech
Any government has the capacity to be a force for good or evil. Such is the nature of concentrated power.

Government, ultimately is force, and that force is exerted by people with firearms and other tools of warfare.

The founders wrote limitations into the Constitution on the extent of that power, and their writings make it apparent that those limitations were not to be merely internal, but should apply to the way that power is used outside our borders as well.

So whether that force is good or evil only depends on how it is used.

So look at the acts of our Government, especially under the Clintons, and tell me our government has not been a 'force for evil', ever. Why would Dubya have wanted to be the President of a country which used Federal Law Enforcement to shoot mothers holding babies, burn church groups to death, and send children off to Communist regimes, just to name a few things?

To change it.

Will Ron Paul ever be president? Very doubtful, but the idea of dissenting voices, especially ones which are grounded in the Constitution, is something valuable as well.

Unfortunately, for most of the folks here at home who accept daily the comfortable chains of petty tyranny, freedom is a relative thing and not a well-understood concept.

77 posted on 09/03/2008 8:55:25 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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