I believe a lot of Ron Paul’s support is cynical (follow the money). Young people "looking forward" to no jobs in the Obama depression, or working on degrees in areas where government money could fund a study, a program (their professors have sucked on this tit for decades) -- instead of being “wasted” to support the "evil" military and “misguided” war on drugs -- which also ties into what they've been taught in many institutions of higher education -- so many useless degrees and “green” thinkers believing that Ron Paul is the Rx for what ails the country. So they're leaving support for Barack “hope and change” Obama at the school house/no job market door and flocking to Ron Paul which has the sweetener of hurting those “evil-rich” conservatives who are destroying the planet and are ready to “bomb” the world.
The problem for them is -- they never will get the money; it always finds another home. With the debt and deficit ballooned out of sight, that money isn't heading in their direction. The naturally productive ones will eventually “grow up” and realize the truth about living in a safe, free market society but many will hang fast to the hope (libertarians for sure) that once the "war on drugs" and the "evil military complex” have their wings clipped, some of those trillions of “wasted” dollars will certainly flow to them. It won't and their lot will be worse. We have for too long been building “me-me-itis” generations, whose values and goals are nurtured and fanned by teachings of socialist professors spawned in the Sixties who have multiplied themselves with our youth.
So Ron Paul is their cup of tea. They’re only one step away from OWS (most likely have a foot in both camps already). If Ron Paul definitively said, "I will not run third Party," much of his support would evaporate today. Which is precisely why he has not ruled it out.
Many of Paul’s backers are actually RATS. Remember “Operation Chaos”?
When you get right down to it, even here there are more folks than I would like to admit, who think Paul’s thoughts on the military and foreign policy are exactly right.
Add in his comments on the federal reserve and spending, and they think he’s the perfect candidate.
While there are some things I agree with Paul on, his military and foreign policy alone would cause me to be unable to support him.
If this man were president, I think he would harm this nation on a level that would be roughly comparable to that of Obama.
He would thumb his nose at our allies, and embolden our enemies around the planet.
Shades of 2008, all over again.
It turned out that, despite the massive amount of press Paul got, he only got 10% Of REPUBLICAN Caucus voters, since most of his supporters were actually LaRouche DEMOCRATS, Registered Libertarians, and whimsical internet supporters who don’t vote in Iowa.
This could be our best hope after all. Paul will draw more Obama Democrats or extremely Liberal Independents than he will Tea Party or Conservative/Republicans.
A Paul win in Iowa, will hurt Romney much more than it will Newt. Perry is still not even a remote possibility. The conservative electorate has reserved itself to that foregone conclusion. The National Average Polls don't lie, when they consistently say the same thing repeatedly.
The fact that we have open primary’s in the lead states is an atrocity
“Rinse Pubus” and the RNC have to go.
“The fact that roughly half of Paul’s primary supporters are Democrats or independents is probably an asset in selling his general election viability, which his fellow Republicans have frequently called into question. “