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Posted on 04/01/2012 3:42:53 PM PDT by mnehring
Ron Paul's loyal band of supporters are just accepting now what many have known for a long time: the Texas congressman's White House bid is fading badly.
Paul's poll numbers are down and he has no chance of earning the Republican nomination. He is 29 percentage points behind front-runner Mitt Romney in a poll for Tuesday's Wisconsin primary.
Now, the main questions remaining are whether his followers will switch their allegiance to another candidate, and if Paul can still carry his libertarian banner into the Republican convention in August and beyond....
...He is unlikely to drop out of the race soon, but some of his backers may gravitate toward Romney in the vote for the nomination, Republican strategist Ford O'Connell said, noting that Paul and Romney have maintained cordial relations in the often bitter campaign....
...one thing for sure is that Ron Paul would rather have Romney than (Newt) Gingrich or Santorum,...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Well, Meth is cheaper than Crack and easier to manufacture, from a raw materials standpoint.
I'd say the choice is clear.
Paul Tards don’t care about winning. That’s why Losertarians is an great name for their twisted ideology.
Fade? When did it shine?
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Serious question, no snark intended in any direction: why, as the article states, would Paul supporters favor Romney over Gingrich or Santorum?
Because Paul does and his supporters are sheep.
True. If you can stand to have a long enough conversation with a Paultard it will come down to, “But DUDE, he’s like going to legalize WEED”, and then, “The Federal Reserve is like really bad, EVIL in fact”. If you ask them why or what they think the Fed really does you will get a blank stare. Or, and this is true, what I got from one of them, “Dude, they’re like printing their own money”. This one still believes Paul is going to be our next President. I have a bet with him from several months ago if Paul doesn’t win the Presidency he’s going to buy me and a friend a dinner at a nice local restaurant. His parents are loaded so I may actually get to collect.
Has to do with principle, I think i heard someone say...
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...And yet, if you ask what have we [the Republican Party] done, I think we’ve lost our way completely. Our rhetoric is still pretty good, but when we get in charge we expand the government… So if it means limited government, you have to ask the basic question: ‘What should the role of government be?’ “
“The Founders asked that question, had a revolution and wrote a constitution. And they said the role of government ought to be to protect liberty. It’s not to be a welfare state and it’s not to be the policemen of the world. How can you be ‘conservative’ and cut food stamps, but you won’t cut spending overseas? There’s not a nickel or a penny that anybody will cut on the ‘conservative’ side on overseas spending. We don’t have the money – and they are willing to start world wars.”
“So I say that if you’re conservative you want small government across the board – especially in personal liberty. What’s wrong with having the government out of our personal lives? We have to decide what ‘conservative’ means, what ‘limited government’ means – and I have a simple suggestion. We have a pretty good guide. And if we follow the Constitution, government would be very small and we’d all be devoted conservatives.”
As Dr. Paul lectured the big-government candidates on what a conservative truly is, Santorum, Romney and Gingrich could only stand in silence. What remains to be seen is whether or not the Republican Party actually still possesses a true conservative base – or if the base has actually shifted far to the left while preferring to wear the conservative label.
That may be, but still, why? I would think either Gingrich or Santorum would be closer to Paul than Romney.
I think the jist of this article is wishful thinking by rooters. Paul has virtually no common ground with Romney.
Oh? Grab "Liberty Defined". Paul has no problem with states 'experimenting' with individual mandate health care. He has no problem with States making abortion legal. He has no problem with States or local governments restricting 2nd Amendment rights. He takes the 'powers' statement in the 10th Amendment and reads that as States have the complete right to restrict fundamental individual rights (which is a slap in the face of original intent). You can find almost every RINO issue of Romney's and find Paul agrees with it, just on a State versus Federal level.
Ping to 13 to answer your question. (not to mention it has been reported often they are personal friends and Paul has stayed at Romney’s vacation home and used his jet before.)
It is clear that Ron Paul likes Romney better than the other candidates, but Ron Paul’s WA campaign made a deal with the Santorum campaign to throw their delegates to Santorum, not Romney.
RomneyCare is anathema to Libertarians.
Thanks!
I think that’s what Paul supporters want you to think. I was a alternate delegate at Clark Co. All week long my E-mail box has been filling up with “messages” from the Santorum campaign, But when I contacted the campaign they knew nothing about it and had made no deal with the Paulbots, Also they (Paul campaign) would get very upset when they called me and I told them I’d rather vote for 0bama than ron paul.
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The Bellingham Herald Claims to have checked it out and confirmed it. They also had quotes from the GOP. I am not going to say Kirby, but someone on the state level, who said that it was going to cause problems at the state convention.
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