Why Do So Many Lunatics Support Ron Paul?

Vanity ^ | 29 November 2011 | Windflier

[Windflier]

I don't get it. Why do so many wackos and outright lunatics support Ron Paul? Just what is it about him that attracts such crazies?

Exhibit A. The following exchange occurred on Facebook tonight:

Louis Farrakhan endorses Ron Paul

Ronnie: Ooops...

Amy: lol!

Ozzie: Its funny because it says endorses Ron Paul. But yet what he does is praise Ron Paul's will and determination to fight the illegal Federal Reserve. If you dont agree with that, then your a hopeless case.

Ronnie: You don't get it, Ozzie. No Republican politician who wants to stay in good standing with the conservative community wants Farrakhan saying nice things about him. Farrakhan is evil incarnate to the right.

Ozzie: And why is he evil? Because he speaks out also? Tells the truth about alot of subjects most wont even approach?

Ozzie: Why is the truth so hard to grasp for so called "Conservatives"?

Ozzie: If your a true conservative there is only one person to support.. Ron Paul the only true conservative to run for president. Most claim they are conservative, but just watching Fox News does not make you right, in fact it will make you look ignorant

Ronnie: Farrakhan is an abject racist, and a moronic conspiracy loon. You want to hitch your wagon to his, you go right ahead.

Amy: Farrakhan is a racist son of a bitch who hates Jews. Why is it that so many Anti-Semitic f-ers are Paulbots?

Ronnie: Thanks, Amy. I forgot about his anti-Semitism.

Amy: And don't forget about the UFOs

Ronnie: That's the moronic conspiracy crap I was referring to. Farrakhan's a nut.

Ozzie: Same old statements same old false bs

Amy: It's not bs. Are you a Farrahkanbot, too?

Ozzie: Paulbots hate jews and are anti-semitic. Couldnt be farther from the truth

Ronnie: Don't you wish they were false. Unfortunately, Farrakhan is on record making hundreds, if not thousands of racist comments. Don't forget his little talk about the Mothership .. LOL

Ronnie: Ozzie, you sound like a lib. Are you a lib?

Ozzie: I support Paul not Farrakhan. But I have heard alot of truth out of Farrakhan including this vid.

Ozzie: Everyone is a liberal if they dont agree with you guys.

Ronnie: So, you ARE a liberal. Thanks.

Ozzie: Keep watching Fox News and believing that our goal as a country is to support and protect Israel. Nothing else matters in the entire world but Israel.

Amy: Ozzie, Hitler said lots of truths. He probably said "2+2=4" at one time. That doesn't make him any less a piece of sh**, like Farrakhan. And as Ronnie said, Farrakhan isn't shy about speaking his sh** to the media. I would guess there are thousands of racist remarks that can be cited by that piece of sh**.

Ozzie: Ron Paul is far from a liberal.

Amy: Ozzie, why do you hate Israel so much?

Amy: Ozzie, why do you hate Jews so much?

Ronnie: Ah.....so you're an anti-Semite to boot. Nice.

Ozzie: I never said I hate Israel or that I hate jews, but thats how your arguments go you put words in peoples mouths.

Ozzie: Maybe you should learn the true history of Israel.

Ronnie: Hey Ozzie. What sort of flag is that in your avatar? Looks like an alteration of Old Glory to me.

Amy: You said I watch Fox News. I don't, and I never have.

Ozzie: Or just sit back and watch your zionist controlled media in which you love.

Amy: Oh, the "true" history of Israel. Care to tell me about the "true" history of Israel?

Ozzie: Its a flag in which you will know nothing about because your a war mongerer.

Ronnie: Only libs rail like that against Fox News. Real conservatives don't think much of that news channel. In fact, most conservatives can't stand it. You're outing yourself, Ozzie.

Ozzie: Sorry Amy your far from savable. Your lost and educated like the mass sheeple.

Ronnie: Hey Amy......we got us a 'true believer' here.

Amy: ‎"Zionist Controlled Media." I was right... you're a racist mf-er. Do you believe the Jews caused 9/11 too?

Amy: Oh Ozzie, I'm brighter than you will ever be.

Ozzie: Media isnt controlled by Zionists? Prove that one.

Ronnie: Tell me more about your flag, traitor.

Ozzie: name calling is so good.

Amy: Ok Ozzie.....Not one of the major television news operations—Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, or NBC News—is currently headed by a Jewish executive.

Ozzie: Traitor?

Ronnie: Not name calling. I'm identifying and classifying you. Keep talking. I'm working on your dossier.

Ozzie: And that proves what Amy?

Ronnie: That you're a moron, Ozzie.

Amy: That the Jews don't control the media. Duh.

Ozzie: Do you think having unwavering support for Israel makes you American?

Ronnie: Don'tcha just love having these sorts of civil discussions with Paul supporters, Amy? They're always so......enlightening.

Ozzie: Because an executive isnt jewish means the media isnt controlled by zionists?

Ozzie: You guys are the morons

Amy: BTW a-hole, if you are a conservative, then you should encourage successful people to rise to the top. The Jews have been disproportionately successful for centuries. One of the reasons why is that Gentiles did not allow them to own land, so they had to be professionals.

Ronnie: Ozzie, you're what Lenin and Stalin called a "useful idiot". I'll bet you voted for Obama and attended at least one Occupy protest. You're a brainwashed lib, and it shows.

Amy: So racists, like you and Hitler, call them lazy, but they were only lazy because they could not own land and become farmers. They had to work in the cities. And because of strong family values, they did well in school, and succeeded. Without going to wikipedia, Jews were about 1% of the population in Germany, yet received 35% of the Nobel prizes awarded to Germans prior to Hitler. Why do you hate Jews for being successful?

Ozzie: Ronnie your not even close which just proves how clueless you idiots are. Go to the voting booth next year and act like yo have a choice. Act like your free.

Ronnie: You voted for Obama, didn't you Ozzie. Admit it.

Amy: Jews have been -----ed for thousands of years. They finally have their own homeland. It's a ----ing desert that they turned into a mecca. If the Palestinian leader sh** weren't a bunch of insane radical muzzies, there would be peace in the Middle East. But they leaders suck. Arafat was the biggest peace of sh** ever. He stole from his people.

Ozzie: I would never vote for a Democrat. Never have, I have just awoke to the truths in this world and I am not living in the la la land you still seem to occupy.

Amy: I think I recall that the Muzzies attacked Israel on the very first day of their assistance... RIGHT????

Amy: Come on Ozzie... tell me the "truth" about Israel. I'm waiting....

Ronnie: I pity you Ozzie. You only think you're free. You're a liberal sheeple, whose head has been stuffed with all kinds of lies about your country. You've drunk the Kool-Aid, and think you've got the answers, when all you've got is some first class indoctrination.

Ozzie: I must have touched a soft spot with you and the jews Amy. Its always so easy to see, anyone who doesnt support Ron Paul and considers themself conservative always reverts to Israel and jews.

Ronnie: Oh really? Who threw out the "Zionist" card?

Ronnie: I don't believe a word you say, Ozzie. You're a liberal, pretending to be 'something' else. What that is, I don't really know. Sorta typical of you Paul supporters.

Amy: No, dumb----, you said Farrakhan was ok.... REMEMBER????

Ozzie: Its just plain easy to see.. The media is controlled and its so simple to see

Amy: I have lots of Paulbot friends. And it's not Ron Paul that I hate... it's you racist f-ers.

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And so it went, for perhaps another thirty posts or so.

[Windflier]

Well, ya see, it’s really kinda simple. Lunatics like to support other lunatics, but in today’s political environment it’s a bit hard to decide who the real lunatic is.

However, since most people agree that Ron Paul is a lunatic, and say so, all the other lunatics figure he’s got to be the guy to support.

LMFAO!

Thanks, Ronin. The check's in the mail ;-)

[goat granny]

I think of Ron Paul as that crazy old uncle that comes to family reunions and once in about every 5 years says something that makes sense...its usually just by accident. The rest of the time he lives in someone’s attic....LOL

[Windflier]

It’s not Ron Paul’s stance on the Constitution, taxes, and down-sizing big government that scares conservatives away from Ron Paul. Most of us truly appreciate his positions in those areas.

It’s his 19th century ideas about foreign policy, and his total lack of support for our ally, Israel, that we find so disturbing.

Frankly, I don’t mind the man being a House rep at all - but President? No. Not only does he have a few deal-breakers in his portfolio, but he doesn’t have any of the sort of attributes I look for in a leader.

[logician2u]

Why do so many wackos and outright lunatics support Ron Paul?

Saying so does not make it so.

[Windflier]

Some of those “lunatics” also used to support Free Republic. The hostility toward this man who, more than any other member of Congress, has tried to adhere to the Constitution, has driven most of them away.

So, what are we down to, out of the original 20 or so? Three or four?

Shame, that.

[berdie]

Gary Johnson is as much of a Libertarian as Ron Paul.

If they would run as what they are (Paul did once) at least I might have some respect for them.

It is pretty easy to dupe the young into supporting Utopia.

[golux]

I thank God for Ron Paul. I do not know whether he would be a good President. Man, he is terribly bright. And he really, really cares about individual liberty. Did I mention, he is about fifty times smarter and more constitutionally aware than – well, you know...

As a physician, Paul routinely lowered fees or worked for free and refused to accept Medicaid or Medicare payments. As a member of Congress, he continues to refuse to sign up for the government pension that he would be entitled to in order to avoid receiving government money, saying it would be “hypocritical and immoral.”

His district lies between Houston and Rockport Texas – right on the Gulf of Mexico. About 22 counties.

Most doctors are busybodies, know it alls. This one – Ron Paul – wants to protect YOUR freedoms.

There’s another thing I like. In the days of fighting sail, a Letter of Marque and Reprisal was a government license authorizing a person (known as a privateer) to attack and capture enemy vessels, and bring them before admiralty courts for condemnation and sale. Calling the September 11, 2001, attacks an act of “air piracy”, Paul introduced the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001.

Letters of marque and reprisal would have targeted specific terrorist suspects instead of invoking war against a foreign state. Paul reintroduced this legislation as the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007. He voted with the majority for the original Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists in Afghanistan. In April 2009, following the Maersk Alabama hijacking, he proposed issuing letters of marque to combat the problem of piracy in Somalia.

So he’s a privateer.

[Ronin]

I said NO CHECKS dagnabbit!!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

You can pretty well chalk up the fact that this country has lost the War On Drugs. I think the government really doesn’t care one whit about the outcome of the WOD, just as long as people are doing drugs which gives them justification for throwing them in prison. The government should be fearing the people, yet it’s not.

[Windflier]

the flaw in the ronPaulista organization is that it is a personality cult. When 2016 comes around, who will the support? ronPaul will be older and dead or something.

Dennis Kucinich?

I don't know, but the boiling center mass of Paul supporters will find some other anarchistic figure to follow.

That aside, I actually feel sorry for those conservatives who've honestly looked the man over and have decided that he's worthy of their support. They've got some strange bedfellows.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Speaking for myself, I support most of his ideas, I just don’t think he’s got enough of a base of support to get nominated or elected. I refuse to live in this fantasy world that most Paul-bots live in. Reality states he has a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning.

[MacMattico]

I could almost take the nuttiness. But I'm starting to see a little senility and hard of hearing at times. People might not notice it but he acts like my long passed on Grandfather that leans forward and puts his hand up to his ear to try and hear, and as with my Grandfather, to give himself more time to figure out what people were talking about. I don't know if you can see him doing this in any of the debate clips but I've watched all of the debates and I know he did it more in the first, less later on (probably advised not to do it.) I need a President with clear hearing and thinking on his toes.

Sec of Def: “Sir, we're being attacked.”

Ron Paul: “ No, I don't want a Big Mac”.

Just like Gramps.

[Lazlo in PA]

just as long as people are doing drugs which gives them justification for throwing them in prison.

The pot smokers are pretty much getting slaps on the wrist. As for the rest, I just as soon see people peddling Meth and other hard street drugs behind bars and not in my neighborhood.

[berdie]

Dr. Paul may or or not be smart.

#1. He has brought a lot of “pork” to his district.

#2. He is a Libertarian running on on the Republican ticket.

#3. If he refused Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements...he hurt lots of people. I can’t believe that he discounted or freebied many patients. I’ll have to look, but how long has it been since he was a doctor...and not a politician?

I would like a source that says he has refused a government pension.

[Windflier]

I think of Ron Paul as that crazy old uncle that comes to family reunions and once in about every 5 years says something that makes sense...its usually just by accident. The rest of the time he lives in someone’s attic....LOL

Funny, but also a pretty good description of the guy.

It's gotta be pretty hard on his son, Rand. He seems to have his head on straight, and appears to headed for great things in the future.

[Windflier]

Saying so does not make it so.

You're right. Reality does.

[Windflier]

Most doctors are busybodies, know it alls.

And with that noxious generality, you threw away your credibility.

[Windflier]

I said NO CHECKS dagnabbit!!!

But, it's certified....ain't that ok?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Most doctors are busybodies, know it alls. This one – Ron Paul – wants to protect YOUR freedoms.

Most doctors I know, don't fit this mold. Most doctors I've been to want to protect my freedoms while while swearing the Hippocratic Oath to protect and save my life and the lives of all their patients. In the age of frivolous lawsuits, the last thing they want to be is "busybody know-it-alls".

[hosepipe]

[ Just what is it about Ron Paul that attracts these nuts? ]

Ron Paul wants the federal government to stop doing most of what they do..

Anybody with sense wants some of that to happen as well.. just not all of it..

Of course, there are many conservatives that are not really conservatives..
some libertarians are also not anarchists.. most of them..