Posted on 02/22/2010 6:28:24 PM PST by presidio9
He is too old
They shudder in their boots when Sarah Palin is mentioned!
Drug legalization, yes. Check out the Libertarians for Life website at http://www.l4l.org/. I don't think your characterization on military spending is accurate. Libertarians do not oppose wars in self-defense. They just oppose initiating wars.
nutmeg was there and she posted the facts on the voting. Multiple votes are allowed and the students manned the voting table(s). Ron Paul's brats stuffed the ballot boxes. The straw poll is meaningless, except to the media and that's the rub. The vast majority of adults don't bother to vote.
Ron Paul has been pulling this stuff for years, bussing in supporters to vote for him in straw polls. But when the real elections come around, he’s never gotten more than 2 or 3% outside of his home district.
He did not win over the Tea Party movement, BTW. The CPAC oligarchs preferred him. There’s a big difference.
He didn’t win diddly squat. Only about a quarter of the attendees voted in the poll and it was loaded with Paul supporters. The poll means nothing!
I'm not sure I get your point, since John McCain has always been a big tent Republican, rather than a Conservative.
Ron Paul is nuttier than a squirrels breath.
Nuff said.
Every person I know in the TEA Party Movement is interested in a strong national defense, fight them there not here. Paul does not seem to support this foreign policy.
The point is that John McCain did not win any CPAC straw poll in the last few years like Romney did, but he made it to the general in 2008, nonetheless.
Part of the ongoing FAILING effort to portray the Tea party Patriots as loons and extremists. Except that the people they are trying to convince...is US. Har! Too many of us know better and they just can’t figure us out period.
Every time they come out swinging, they hit foul balls while we wait for the good pitch and get home runs. As long as that continues, let them just keep swinging away.
Aye am a Tee Party Leader!!!
“Ron Paul is a shitbag assclown that will never get elected president. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.”
I would have used the same exact words to describe obama... And he won.
BTW, I know little about paul, I haven’t followed him at all. However, I don’t dislike him like I do obama or mitt or mccain.
Ron paul is a loon. BUt even loons can be dead on 100% right once in awhile. Deficit spending is loony ron’s one hit wonder.
Or to put it another way...I like what ronpaul says about spending.
I though I heard that 2400 people voted, out of 10,000 attendees. 930 some people do not speak authoritatively for Republicans, Conservatives or Tea Partiers.
I’m a tea party of one.
Come git me libtards.
Following a fool with a fool is not going to make things better.
THIS IS THE KEY POINT.
The Liberal media is VERY consistent. They don't tell a story because it is true (it is usually false). They tell it because the narrative helps them.
Trying to peg the broad Tea Party movement as just one corner of the GOP held by Ron Paul libertarian-types is a way to marginalize both and to deny the broad swath of fiscal conservative voters who have a lot of concern with Obamunism.
” Libertarians do not oppose wars in self-defense. They just oppose initiating wars. “
fact: We didnt initiate 9/11, but Ron Paul and Libertarians still opposed going to Afghanistan.
This may be why 9/11 trutherism is popular with Paul-ites, a way to deflect from the reality that we were attacked.
Check out the Libertarians for Life website at http://www.l4l.org/. “
Fact: There are prolife Democrats too, but that doesnt represent the party ... only the GOP has pro-life planks in the platform.
Starry eyed Ron Paulie worshippers may have corrupted portions of the Tea Party movement, but Paul has won nothing.
In many ways, Paulies running for their own lower offices as they are, remind me a lot of a dog chasing a car. The dog wouldn’t know what to so with it either, should it catch the car.
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