In response to Paul's comments Thursday evening, former Bush administration spokesman Ari Fleisher Tweeted: "The man is nuts."
What is this old fruitcake smoking?????
Nutburger central.
And that little goblin wants the GOP nomination? Not likely. The first GOP candidate that wouldn't get my vote.
What a disgusting little troll this man is....
This is obscene. Shame on Paul. Bravo, Ari.
You could read it in their faces, even if you didn’t believe anything else.
Goodbye, Rep. Paul.
Rand Paul is part of his father’s campaign.
It undermines his credibility on any issue.
It also explains his odd attacks against Newt Gingrich. (Or Cain, Perry, Bachmann, etc., when they were leading.)
Ron Paul is not just nuts; he’s dangerous.
Rand Paul needs to lose standing especially if his dad runs 3rd party. After all, he is part of his father’s campaign.
Sorry to be late to the Official Ron Paul Supporter Lynch Mob thread.
I won’t bother with defending the “glee” comment made by Rep. Paul. I don’t happen to agree with it.
It just tends to reinforce my belief that Rep. Paul intends to run as a third party candidate in the general election. Neo-cons....who wouldn’t vote for him in a million years anyway...were not the intended audience. You see if Rep. Paul intends to run at all successfully in the general election, he’s going to have to cobble together a coalition that includes folks well outside of traditional gop mainstream.
See-BS, they of the superscripted memos, is a news source of choice of the left. I think he’s trying to attract those on the left that are themselves heartily sick of barky’s foreign policy adventures. He’ll need them if he intends to put together a fringe coalition, which is probably about the only way he could come close to winning. Barky, mittens, and Newt are going to do what they can to win the center. But there are plenty of disparate groups that are being left in the cold by those three candidates. Let’s look at a few of them....
Christian social conservatives. Ron Paul has been working hard to position himself with these folks. Lessee what other choices the Christian social conservatives have to pick from at this point: Barky? Mittens the Mormon? Newt of marital fidelity fame?
Gunnies. Let’s see who they could support. Massachusetts gun control mittens? Fast and furious barky? Newt of gun free school zones and gun bans for those convicted of misdemeanors?
You get the idea. Every ideologue has as many votes as you and I have: one. It’s clearly an unorthodox strategy, but I think that’s where this is going.
FURPUPOSFOAD.