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“As I see it, a lot of Ron Paul “supporters” are actually Obama supporters trying to sew seeds of diversion and division.”
Ditto.
I tend to agree with you to a large extent, but there are fellow Tea partiers in my chapter who are Paul supporters.
As for the rest of it, I saw it best expressed on another blog that Paul supporters tend to marginalize themselves....
I agree with you. I first noticed their tactic during the 2008 primaries, when Google paid campaign workers to go in to New Hampshire and promote Wrong Paul. I truly wonder where his abundant funding comes from.
“As I see it, a lot of Ron Paul “supporters” are actually Obama supporters trying to sew seeds of diversion and division.”
You see it wrong.
Yup, many are. Also, you can be be so extreme to the right that you actually meet the extreme left...
Obama is 8:45 - 9:30 (socialism is at 9:00)
Rush Limbaugh is 3:15
John McCain, Romney and Snowe are 7:00
Newt, Santorum(sp), Bachmann are between 3:00 and 4:00
Bill Clinton = 8:00-8:30
Jimmy Carter 8:45
Ron Paul is at 12:00 extremist (he's getting the extremists from both sides.
Ron Paul has the anti-war leftists (many I think will end up voting for Obama because of Ron Paul's "extreme" right stance on social programs.
Ron Paul also gets the support from the 1:00 constitutionalists who (like my-self and many here) believe Social Security is against the Constitution.
Question is, as a third party candidate who would Ron Paul hurt more, Obama or the republican. I tend to think he'd take more of our votes than he would take from Obama.
Like you say "a lot of Ron Paul "supporters" are actually Obama supporters trying to sew seeds of diversion and division."
I don't see the leftist support voting against social programs.
A lot of Ron Paul supporters are America-first, small-government activists who we need in the Republican party. I would vote for Ron Paul ahead of Mitt. People on FR dismiss the "Paul-bots", but one thing you CANNOT deny is that Paul has some pretty passionate people rooting for him, people that the Repubs will NEED in the General Election.
Oh, I don’t think Ron Paul supporters are Obama supporters. Just the opposite.
They admire his government completely out of our lives stance.
They are also disenchanted with sending our men and women to fight in foreign wars where there is no satisfactory end game and where nothing will ever change.
I feel that way also.
Where we break with Paul is his crazy isolationist ideas where he still thinks that if we would stay home, make our armies weaker and mind our own business, there would be no war.
And his feeling that we somehow contributed to the World Trade Center bombing is beyond ridiculous and infuriating.
We must be vigilant, ready to defend ourselves and do it, if necessary.
I believe in more bombing and fewer troops on the ground and in not interfering with countries to help them get rid of some cruel leader, when we should know they will only end up with an even more cruel one.
Or try to change their societies to suit us. Let them alone but if they attack us, give them hell.
Paul is correct about spending and the federal reserve and fixing the corruptions, after that he gets out in the weeds a whole lot.
Hopeless.
I don't like Paul (and some of his weirder supporters); but I think people need to really look deeper at that thought. I think it's wrong; we shouldn't marginalize them.
I think Palin is 100% right on this issue. With the proper small government conservative candidate (such as Palin could have become); I think most of them would be on our side; and the primaries would be almost over.
The ones I know personally; and are 100% not Democrats. They overlooking Paul's foreign policy stupidity; and embracing his slash and burn economic ideas.
They are fed up with things(like many of us). They see Paul as a radical who can maybe get some things done.
“As I see it, a lot of Ron Paul “supporters” are actually Obama supporters trying to sew seeds of diversion and division.”
You should get your eyes checked.
I’m leaning towards the thought that Paul supporters are closer to the ‘Occupy’ crowd than the ‘Tea Party’ crowd.