Wow, every day Ron Paul supporters make me more and more thoroughly disgusted by him.
Oooh.... the Democrats filed endless ethical complaints against him. Does that make him (1) evil, or (2) hated by liberals? Well, he was found innocent of all charges. He did acknowledge submitting false financial data to the House, but he was NOT convicted of any wrong-doing as implied by the statement that he had to pay $300,000. Rather, he covered the costs of the witch hunters who were sent chasing a rabbit trail by his lawyer’s clerical error.
I am troubled by Gingrich’s admiration for the enemy, and by his personal failures. I am disgusted by what a desperate, mudslinging attention whore Paul’s campaign has become.
Talk about “ethical failures”: The Paul campaign has launched “Blue Republicans,” a campaign to get Democrats to commit fraud to vote for him in the Republican Primary. I denounced Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos,” but Limbuagh never, to my knowledge, targeted states wherein Republicans would have to violate their oaths to vote in the Democratic Party primaries, as “Blue Republicans” have done.
Roach Paul’s days in the GOP are becoming numbered rapidly.
I actually like a lot of Paul’s ideas & thoughts. However, his followers are so rabid & so determined to use any means, whether ethical or not, that I’m just completely turned off by the man.
I’ll vote for the man if he wins the nomination (not likely) but it won’t be fun walking by the loons that support him.
I recall a well-turned phrase by William F Buckley back during the height of the Cold War: (Close para-phrase if not exact quote) "I never understood the logic of discounting or underestimating the strengths of your enemy."
What he meant is that it is dangerous to ignore or minimize what the enemy brings to the battlefield.
FDR was elected four times. Right or wrong he had to be offering something the public valued highly. It would be useful to recognize what that was and see how it could be adapted to conservative goals and principles.