Posted on 01/04/2012 1:16:42 PM PST by La Enchiladita
Sarah Palin said she wasn't surprised at Rick Santorum's success in Iowa, and warned that the GOP should not take Ron Paul's supporters lightly.
Speaking on Fox News before Iowa's final numbers were in, she called Santorum "spot-on" with his policies toward Iran and praised his "social conservative" positions.
Her strongest comments came for Paul, however, saying "the GOP had better not marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters after this" because "a lot of Americans are war-weary and we are broke" and Paul has reached that constituency well. She warned that the GOP "better work with them."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
You can sense a third party run coming up, I just hope and pray it doesn’t lead to Obama pulling a 1992 style wedge victory since his 35-40 per cent won’t likely erode much if Paul and some GOP are the alternatives.
But the GOP could still beat Obama and Paul if they have a strong enough ticket. Santorum-Perry with Gingrich on board as sec’y of state designate would inspire confidence.
Paul would be a disaster but an issue not yet discussed much is, who would his running mate be, an important point with such an isolated figure starting in as president at 77 years of age (hypothetically). I hope he sees the error of his ways and resists the temptation to compromise the election. America needs a clear choice.
Excellent post....
I am here talking with 3 over 50 men who are Ron Paul supporters. All have been long time conservatives and voted Republican, two even voted for the rino Mccain.
Two are evangelical Christians.
All three work for a living, one is retiring next year.
None are hippies, or smoke dope.
Those of you who think Ron Paul supporters are all lefties are shooting yourselves politically in foot. Two won’t vote for Romney no matter what, one probably won’t. One won’t vote for any of the others running for the GOP.
All this malice towards those who have voted Republican in the past and now support Ron Paul, is nuts. Do you guys want to lose the White House again. There is good reason these people support Ron Paul and you had better wake up, especially after what the polls showed from last night. Ron Paul has strong support from those who have voted Republican, some who have voted Republican for decades. Add in the younger vote that supports Ron Paul and want Obama out, we need these peoples votes, duh!
I quoted this from your previous posting:
And I responded:
Are you capable of posting anything without being insulting or inflammatory?
Then, you respond by quoting Ron Paul? Do you not recognize which of your two sentences above I was referring to?
Do you not realize what you are doing, or do you just not care? Or now that your preferred candidate has been handed his hat, are you just lashing out at anyone that dares to challenge you?
DON’T YOU EVEN PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR OWN CANDIDATE.
Ron Paul is not "my" candidate, and neither is any of the other assorted fruits and nuts that are running for the Republican nomination this election.
However, there's no excuse for the circular firing squad going on between Republican candidates and especially Republican voters.
What really disgusts me -- even more than you and people like you -- is that the Republican party leadership couldn't recruit a decent fiscally conservative candidate to challenge the least popular and least competent incumbent President in my memory.
“Do you want to make the 2012 election about starting a war with Iran? I mean really? Are there people who seriously believe that “WW3” is what American voters want right now?”
Palin makes a good point.
In an analysis accompanying his most recent survey in Iowa, pollster Scott Rasmussen noted, “Romney leads, with Gingrich in second, among those who consider themselves Republicans. Paul has a wide lead among non-Republicans who are likely to participate in the caucus.”
The same is true in New Hampshire. A poll released Monday by the Boston Globe and the University of New Hampshire shows Paul leading among Democrats and independents who plan to vote in the January 10 primary. But among Republicans, Paul is a distant third — 33 points behind leader Mitt Romney.
In South Carolina, “Paul’s support is higher among those who usually don’t vote in GOP primary elections,” notes David Woodard, who runs the Palmetto Poll at Clemson University.
In a hotly-contested Republican race, it appears that only about half of Paul’s supporters are Republicans. In Iowa, according to Rasmussen, just 51 percent of Paul supporters consider themselves Republicans. In New Hampshire, the number is 56 percent, according to Andrew Smith, head of the University of New Hampshire poll.
Well, I would just like to vote for a candidate who won’t bankrupt the country - debt is now above 100% of GDP and that is just what is “on the books” - unfunded liabilities have the potential to bring us to financial ruin in the next few years - this, as we send all of our industry out of the country.
I also would like to not have to see TSA agents ‘feel up’ my girlfriend. Or worry about TSA pervs touching my nieces. I feel like we are in a different nation now - not the one I grew up in.
I am sick of watching the constitution be destroyed on a daily basis.
I want to vote for a candidate who is not business as usual and won’t bankrupt us.
My great, great, great, grandfather was actually AT Valley Forge. My family’s been here since 1630 - I want to vote for someone who will defend personal liberty - the liberty that made US exceptional. I am sick of the USA being just another monstrous federal bureaucracy that tells us what to do, and when to do it.
SOMEONE tell me of someone who will bring back our liberty, what the founders, and my own ancestors bled for? Not just a slow descent into tyranny via endless laws, regulations, and nonsense.
Or is this just the same old ‘hold your nose’ and vote for McCain situation?
I think that's great. I do wish that a few other people (some of whom have posted to this thread) would follow your lead.
But Ron Paul supporters are in a different class. they are fanatics mostly.
I see that, too. But, if they could be co-opted by the eventual Republican candidate, that fanaticism could be converted into something useful.
I don’t know what they will do in the end. I hope we can find a candidate with enough anti-big government leanings to attract some of them.
I think that's what it is all about: Ron Paul's supporters are trying to effect a change in fiscal policy within the Republican Party. By making enough noise, they hope to get a coalition candidate to lean in their direction. That's what I mean by getting libertarians and conservatives to at least temporarily set aside their differences and concentrate on what they agree on: fiscal issues. It's what I think is most important anyway, at the moment.
There’s actually a candidate like that out there and he’s another Texan.
I think Perry was done before he started. The only question is what candidate his supporters will switch to, and whether it will be enough to counter Romney.
Iowa Entrance Polls: How Different Groups Voted
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/states/iowa/exit-polls
We don’t want to alienate them. We want them to leave the Party of their own volition.
Hopeless.
>> “We must have an establishment Republican - our team guy - in the White House.” <<
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That’s how we got into this mess.
Agreed. The Paulers aren’t polite, don’t seem to know the Republican platform and yet, Governor Palin wants *us* to listen to them?
I was a surrogate speaker for Rick Perry last night at a caucus at an elementary school. Several of the signs I put out around the building, between 5 an 5:30 PM, were pulled out of the ground and thrown down. The speaker for Paul was actually chastised by the Chair, twice, for his behavior toward me.
This all reminds me of the time I spoke at the Democrats for Life and the Texas Dem Chairman told the D4L members that they needed to compromise with PP and pro-aborts!
How quaint and adorable.
Lay off the pot kid, it'll stunt you growth.
Well, you’ve flopped, when are you going to flip?
I see that you got your elite establishment Talking Points this morning.
Its kind of pointless to argue with them because they’re the true one issue irrational voters. Ron Paul couldn’t even live up to the standards they set if they actually bothered to look at him.
I point out that Ron Paul has some valid questions and all they can do is screech because I don’t support him.
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