This is really a stupid thing for Newt to do. Paul makes a compelling domestic case and his nuttiness on defending America does not put him or his supporters “outside” the realm of “decent” people. If he wins the nomination, he’s going to need some Paul votes to take him across the line.
Dumb dumb dumb.
Newt tried to take the high road and not attack his fellow candidates, but they unloaded on him and knocked him off his perch. Now, it seems, he has no choice but to respond in kind since the voters of Iowa have shown how responsive they are to negative campaigning. I don’t blame Newt, I blame the voters of Iowa.
I worry about losing Ron Paul votes as much as I worry about losing the votes of NAACP members. Neither one was coming anyway.
“If he wins the nomination, he’s going to need some Paul votes to take him across the line.”
Sure seems to like shooting himself in the foot, doesn’t he?
The bigger threat, though, is not Ron Paul supporters not supporting the gop-e nominee, it’s of him taking his supporters and his money and his organization and running a third party challenge that will scuttle any chance of the gop nominee winning the general election.
I will say this in his defense, though. At least Newt is attacking Ron Paul himself, and not hiding behind surrogates in the conservative media to do his dirty work for him.
“This is really a stupid thing for Newt to do.”
I assume you think it was OK when Paul was attacking Newt? However you don’t like it when Newt attacks Paul.
He doesn’t have a chance to win the nomination, but if by some fluke he did win it, that would be the end of the Republican Party. He would be the first Pubbie nominee to get booed. There’s no way he’d be able to get through an acceptance speech. I will not vote that scoundrel.
That is what I keep saying. I know a few of his supporters, and most are solely because of his views on financial matters. You don't call his supporters, or him, which they keep calling college kids who want legal drugs, when MANY are not, outside the realm of decent people!! How is that any different from what Democrats do?? And you don't go way overboard in stating where he stands on issues other than the economy. Agree with him or not, and I don't, he has not said a lot of things the R's in the race keep stating he said. Thant is too big a voting block to alienate and denigrate.