[Leep]

Must be a membeer of the decaffeinated Tea Party?

[peyton randolph]

Five reasons...

1. Because anyone can call themselves a member of the “Tea Party.”
2. Anyone can claim to be a conservative.
3. Mental illness.
4. Islamophilia (See #3).
5. Hatred of Jews/Israel (See #3).

[mk2000]

Then it is simple he is not a conservative. Bachmann had it exactly right last night. Paul is DANGEROUS! Period end of story.

[davisfh]

The thing that really frightens me about this Ron Paul character is that he might run as an independent. We have enough people who are short on thought to throw the election to Obama by voting for independent Ron Paul. Apparently, the Ross Perot lesson was not received or was not understood.

[mnehring]

Russ Paladino has been a Paultard for a long time. At that, he posts an article like this every few months, playing the ‘I just discovered Paul’ lie..

Sounds like those seminar callers to Rush. I used to support X but then I started listening to Gandalf...err, I mean Paul...

[Jonty30]

Love Rand.

Would love to see him in cabinet.

[Seaplaner]

I'll paraphrase Mister Paul from the debates last evening...

The only reason that other countries want to attack us is because we have a strong defense.

Which is precisely what every Marxist/liberal sociology prof has been saying for generations, and is...

Precisely, 180 degrees incorrect.

No legitimate Tea Partier supports Paul.

.

[cripplecreek]

He would be an ineffective president simply because congress would shut him down at every turn.

On the other hand, that might not be such a bad thing.

[Jukeman]

Ron Paul is not a conservative. As a matter of fact, I don’t know what he is. He is so far to the right, he is on the left. The universe is not flat.

[frogjerk]

Ron Paul is a Libertarian that could not win as a Libertarian so he joined the GOP. He is not a conservative. I want a conservative candidate for the GOP.

[Utmost Certainty]

If it came down to it, I’d rather have Ron Paul than Mitt Romney.

[Lazlo in PA]

This whole meme that Paul is a Tea Party favorite is a canard. Last poll on this topic showed that Paul garners a whopping 7% support.

TEA PARTY SUPPORTER %:

Newt Gingrich 47%
Mitt Romney 17%
Michele Bachmann 8%
Rick Perry 7%
Ron Paul 7%
Rick Santorum 4%
Jon Huntsman <1%
Other/Any/None 11%

Gallup Daily Tracking. Dec 1-5, 2011

This writer is a dopey Paultard.

[chrisser]

I've seen a lot of FReepers say they like Paul's domestic policies, but can't stand his foreign policy.

And I've tended to agree. He's far more of an isolationist than I would otherwise think is prudent.

That said, there is no otherwise. Nobody else is advocating the kind of cuts in government Paul is, and without cuts of that magnitude, we're going to be broke sooner rather than later.

In other words, we're either going to be isolationists because Paul implements it - something we could change after 4 or 8 years, or we're going to be isolationists because we're flat broke and our economy has collapsed to the point we will be impotent on the world stage.

If it's the latter, then we sure as heck aren't going to be able to change our minds after 4 or 8 years and have a more activist foreign policy.

Those are the choices as I see it. We're too far along to pretend that a few bandaids on the economy are going to turn it around. If it means 4 or 8 years of a little extra chaos in the world (and, honesly, can he do that much worse than Obama?) to get us patched up, that's a far better choice than chaos for the next 50 or 100 years because the U.S. ceases to exist as a world power.

[Sudetenland]

The unintentionally funniest moment of the debate last night was Mr. "Sometimes I'm the only one voting my way" talking about working across the aisle and getting the left and the right to work together.

Ummm . . . hey loony Paul, if you can't even convince a single person in your party to vote with you, how can you possibly believe that you can convince a coalition to vote your way??? LOL!!

The sheer irrationality of Paul supporters is astounding.

[mnehring]

the sad part is I actually got some Paultards to pick up the "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" phrase- they had no clue

[Logical me]

Still say Paul has a mental problem.

[SkyDancer]

He’s the scary uncle that comes over for Sunday dinner and leers at the kids. He’s a humorous addition to the otherwise dull boring debates. He gives one or two really good ideas and then blows it on other topics.

[Notary Sojac]

If there was one other candidate in the running who was clearly in favor of fighting only when we go all out to kill the bad guys and their enablers, rather than fighting decade long nation-building "wars" under the Care Bears Rules of Engagement, Paul's support would be a lot less.

Frankly I don't give a crap whether the Iraqis or Afghanis have elections, or schools, or running water, now or ever. And it's not worth one American death to see to it that they do.

[madison10]

Ron Paul is a racist, Nazi-ish, loony tune. I don’t want him, or any of his little friends, anywhere near the presidency. As I stated before, he’s just a cleaner Occupier.

[Nifster]

Ron Paul the guy who is a 9-11 truther....He is good on fiscal stuff but is so far left of Kucinich on foreign policy there is NO WAY I could vote for him (except if he is running against Barry)