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Ron Paul Won't Endorse Romney, Sees "Essentially No Difference"
The New American ^ | 10-12-12 | Jack Kenny

Posted on 10/12/2012 3:00:10 PM PDT by kingattax

Ron Paul, the maverick Texas congressman who has twice run for the Republican presidential nomination, won't endorse the nominee of his party. Though Paul said last week it was "very unlikely" he would endorse former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, he made it definitive in an interview October 12 on the CNBC program Futures Now.

"No," he said, plainly and unequivocally, when asked about an endorsement. Neither the GOP challenger nor President Obama will change the course of fiscal and monetary policy that is leading to what has been called the "fiscal cliff," Paul said, because both are captive of special interests.

And neither will act to stop the Federal Reserve from papering over the growing chasm of debt by inflating the money supply in a policy called "quantitative easing."

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


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To: whitedog57

Yes, it is definitely time for Ron Paul to get onboard and campaign for the Rep. party ticket!
Yes, Ron Paul has some positions that are different than Romney’s.
But to do what Paul is doing is only gonna stick us with another 4 years of Obama, and that is such a wrong thing for Ron Paul to do now.
Mr. Paul, please put our country ahead of your politics... quickly... very very quickly, please.
(I didn’t get my choice of Rep. Party nominee either, so Mr. Paul we both got outvoted. That’s no reason or excuse to go sulk in your corner and let Obama get re-elected for another 4 years!)


21 posted on 10/12/2012 3:09:43 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: Lakeshark
The inability to perceive fairly obvious differences is a sign of over-involvement in an extreme position. A clear sign of defective judgment.
22 posted on 10/12/2012 3:10:48 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: kingattax
It's the truth; MR is just a full-white version of the kenyan.

The Kenyan must go.

23 posted on 10/12/2012 3:12:20 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: montanajoe
He is the problem the Libertarians/Ron Paul crowd always have. They are so busy arguing their political theology they lose any contact with practical political reality.

Romney or Obama will be the next President. Romney is a pragmatic business man. We will have to work daily to keep his feet to the fire but he will listen to us. Obama is a fevered far Leftist ideologue who will work tirelessly against us.

If Obama is reelected by 2016 we will be so far over the fiscal cliff there will be no climbing back. Romney sees the chart below as a problem. 0bama thinks the problem is we have not spent enough!

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FY 1992-1993 Bush 1 and Dem Congress. FY 1994-95 Clinton and a Dem Congress. FY 1996-2001 Clinton and a GOP Congress. FY 2002-2003 Bush 2 and GOP House/Dem Senate. FY 2004-2007 Bush and a GOP Congress. FY 2008-2011 Obama and Dem Congress. FY 2012+ Obama/GOP House/Dem Senate.

Obama added planks favoring Gay Marriage and taxpayer funded abortion on demand up to birth to the 2012 Democrat Party platform.

By contrast the 2012 GOP platform is the most Conservative one in their history.

No matter how much one might hate Romney, no one with a brain would refuse to see the stark difference between Romney and Obama on both fiscal and social issues.

With Romney Fiscal and Social Conservatives have a seat at the table, while Obama will actively promote everything real Conservatives are against.

By 2016 everything Conservatives claim to be so passionate about will be legislated. As Roe V Wade should of taught Conservatives once something is legislated it become almost impossible to undo.

Once 2016 rolls around the Judiciary will be so packed with Obamabots anything Conservatives DID manage to legislate would simply be undone by Judicial Fiat.

If Obama is reelected there will be nothing left to win.

After another 4 year term of Obama the USA will be a European style 1 party state with a state directed media, that will allow just enough political window dressing from a “loyal opposition” to keep their peon classes passive.

And those around here who feel their political sour grapes from the 2012 GOP Primaries are more important then the future of our country will have been the active allies of that destruction

24 posted on 10/12/2012 3:12:20 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: faithhopecharity

Ron can rot in the purity of his own irrelevance. He and his son are now safely in the government retirement system, and he knows he’ll be dead before he runs out of his money and before Obama totally destroys the country.

Thus, he doesn’t give a damn. He can afford to look self important. He’ll be six feet under before it really gets bad. He’s a coward.


25 posted on 10/12/2012 3:13:17 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
I went to a Ron Paul rally was offered a purple sheet and a pair of black-and-white Nike Decades athletic shoes.

I left.

26 posted on 10/12/2012 3:14:09 PM PDT by Perdogg (Vote like the US Constitution depends on it - it does!!)
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To: MNJohnnie
Johnnie I have far more faith than you in the ability of the American people to ride out four years with a liberal Democrat than potentially 8 years of a Republican liberal posing as a conservative.

I have no faith that the GOP wants Conservatives for anything but their blind votes every four years.

If you want want a conservative you vote for a conservative its not rocket science..

27 posted on 10/12/2012 3:20:19 PM PDT by montanajoe (Blamed Flamed Shamed didn't vote for R/R or O/B)
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To: montanajoe

You pose more false arguments and straw men, straw situations, than Barack Obama on ritalin.

Anyone not smart enough to understand the differences between stage 1 cancer and stage 4 cancer - and you apparently are not - deserves stage 4.

Metaphorically speaking, of course.


28 posted on 10/12/2012 3:22:28 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: kingattax

I’m fed up with self-important politicians such as Ron Paul that crave the adulation of followers who believe they have some revealed truth to impart when all they have is ambition. For Ron Paul to refuse to endorse the only man who can defeat the dangerous Barack Obama and call them ‘the same’ is delusional. Ron Paul is 77 years old, retiring from congress with his fat government pension (congress takes good care of it’s members) and obviously doesn’t give a hoot what happens to his country. Screw him.


29 posted on 10/12/2012 3:22:28 PM PDT by Jim Scott (Obama must be defeated)
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To: Lakeshark

“I have to say, people that say the two are the same are simply morons with no brain cells left.”

Including Jim Robinson, the owner of this site?


30 posted on 10/12/2012 3:23:26 PM PDT by CodeToad (Padme: "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.")
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To: Jim Scott

Well said.


31 posted on 10/12/2012 3:23:42 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Hey pal peddle your book with someone other than me..


32 posted on 10/12/2012 3:24:50 PM PDT by montanajoe (Blamed Flamed Shamed didn't vote for R/R or O/B)
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To: kingattax

FU, Ron Paul. You’re a worthless, delusional POS.

I’ve known drunks in sleazy bars who make more sense than you.


33 posted on 10/12/2012 3:27:54 PM PDT by Walrus (Restoring America starts today! Let's roll!)
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To: montanajoe

With every post, the exposition of the weakness of your arguments and the disdain for your country become more evident.

You should remember the “rule of holes.”


34 posted on 10/12/2012 3:31:15 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: kingattax

Nice post.

I agree , get lost Ron Paul you little roach.

His poor ego is hurting and he wants to punish Mitt Romney.

Tell you what Ron go do yourself.


35 posted on 10/12/2012 3:33:32 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: montanajoe
Hey pal peddle your book with someone other than me..

Sorry for the confusion. There's a minimum IQ requirement to buy the book, and you didn't make the cut....

36 posted on 10/12/2012 3:37:28 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: Lakeshark

Rand learned kookery at his daddy’s knee.
He may not display it daily, but he has kookery in his soul.

He’s a geek studying to be a kook.


37 posted on 10/12/2012 3:39:37 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: kingattax

“Ron Paul, the maverick Texas congressman....”

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Don’t we all remember another maverick sweetheart of the MSM that screwed up things royally?

Or was it perhaps done, intentionally?


38 posted on 10/12/2012 3:42:27 PM PDT by 353FMG (The US Constitution is only as effective as those who enforce it.)
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To: kingattax

While Romney is not a dream candidate by any means to say they essentially are not any different is over the top.

First and foremost, I do believe Mitt likes America. I also believe Mitt IS an American at heart, and in birth. He is a far, far more generous person than Obama, and does not appear to be generous just in order to flaunt it. I do not believe Mitt would tell Putin to “wait until I’m elected and I can be more flexible” like Obama’s second term will be.

He is obviously not as conservative as me. He is not even my faith, as his faith actually holds MY faith to be in error. I take issue with him on many things. But as much as I will not give him or anyone else extra slack just for being a “R”, I also will not call him something he clearly is not. He is not essentially the same as Obama. The country and policies and proposals and potential SCOTUS justice nominees will not be identical/equivalent to Obama’s.

Again, this election is choosing between Xerxes and Mohammed. You can reason and work with, and live under, a Xerxes. You cannot with a Mohammed.


39 posted on 10/12/2012 3:43:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
the disdain for your country become more evident

Maybe it's a disdain of YOU.

You're pretty much full of yourself and lame as hell.

Shall I recall your tagline when you first came here?

Prick.

40 posted on 10/12/2012 3:43:29 PM PDT by humblegunner
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