Well, this thread will generate another round of Paul bashing and mocking of his supporters, thanks to a biased article that only focused on a few nutjobs to portray the Paul campaign as a whole as driven by them. Which is primarily why you posted it.
All of a sudden straw polls mean something now, since Paul didn’t win it. Remember when Paul came in a strong 5th in Iowa and swept the NH, AL, and WA polls? Those didn’t count, remember?
I don’t think there’s any need to call Paul a kook or disparage his supporters. That doesn’t carry much weight with me. I do think it is proper to say you can’t support the guy because of a/the specific public comment(s) he has made, or a/the stance(s) you can’t get behind.
Paul isn’t my cup of tea. That doesn’t mean that I don’t think he has offered up some good ideas over time, but as a whole package, I can’t support him.
These threads don’t need to get out of hand. I would hope that this forum’s participants could be more mature than those in 2000 were.
What...you mean that all the other candidates don't have articles that put the little zinger "without offering proof" at the end of their supporter's comments?
“...thanks to a biased article that only focused on a few nutjobs to portray the Paul campaign as a whole as driven by them.”
I attended the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames and that pretty much described the vast majority of his (most likely) out of state supporters. Attendees of the straw poll were accosted by Paul supporters all day long. I could hardly walk 25 feet without another Paul nutjob trying to shove another “fact sheet” on Paul. One kook spoke to our group, expounding on how he had just heard of Paul the week before and jumped on his bandwagon. Lot of thought put into that decision I’m sure. Another thing that I found off-putting was the music blaring from Ron Paul’s tent. We heard Darryl Worley’s “Have You Forgotten,” coming out of his tent. How ironic, since that song supports our troops and the fight that we have had to engage in, when Ron Paul blames America and opposes the war. So, yeah. I think we’re talking a LOT more than just a few nutjobs.
He's also a bit of a nut. And he's got some nutty ideas. Like about the War on Terror.
The former doesn't disqualify him to be President.
The latter does.
I have no desire to bash Paul.
I’m more interesting in pointing out that Duncan Hunter won. Hunter is definitely the best candidate in the race.
Well it is a good reason to post it...
Still love the bit from the Fred Thread...
I don’t know the man well, although I hear he thinks of himself as a libertarian. But far as I know, that move he made (after taking the lobbying cash from ‘Women in Govt’) mandating Guardisill vaccine on public school children is NOT very libertarian thing to do. NO CRED.
Oh, my bad..that was the Govnor Perry. I retract :)
Some of them believe our government planned 9/11 or GWBush did.
EEE, a few nutjobs IS his whole base of support.
Yeah the article only focused on a few nutjobs that support Paul. It should have focused on all of Paul’s supporters, who by the way, are all nutjobs.