*SNORT* I'd like to say that I just shot wine out my nose when I read that, but that would be playing into the joke in some sick way. LMAO 
Posted on 02/27/2010 5:08:52 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Paul burned by Tea Party blowback By: Alex Isenstadt February 27, 2010 06:29 PM EST
Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-oriented Republican whose 2008 presidential run provided kindling for the Tea Party movement, suddenly finds himself dealing with the blowback: a handful of Tea Party-inspired candidates are seeking to dislodge him in Tuesday’s Texas Republican primary.
It’s an unusual turn of events for a veteran congressman who has reached stardom in conservative populist circles and who just last week emerged as the victor of the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Yet despite his solid anti-establishment credentials and non-conformist views, Paul finds himself under siege from three Republicans who are embracing many of the themes that have defined Paul’s career. At the heart of the resistance is the notion that the 10-term Paul has gone Washington, abandoning his constituents as he pursues his white whale—the presidency.
“To be honest, I was surprised when these guys started coming out of the woodwork,” said Fort Bend County GOP Chairman Rick Miller. “They’re trying to tap into the idea that it’s time for a new face. It’s a sign of the times. It’s what’s happening in our country.”
Paul remains the favorite in the race but the opposition clearly has him looking over his shoulder.
In a January email alert titled “They’ve Turned Their Attack Dogs Loose On Me!”, Paul warns that both parties are “doing everything they can to make sure I am defeated.”
“These candidates include three Republicans in my own primary on March 2,” he wrote, “and they will stop at nothing to tear down and destroy all we have worked for.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
*SNORT* I'd like to say that I just shot wine out my nose when I read that, but that would be playing into the joke in some sick way. LMAO
“Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-oriented Republican whose 2008 presidential run provided kindling for the Tea Party movement,”
Why even bother reading an article that starts out with this garbage? Oh wait, I didn’t...
Ron Paul is a crank. The Tea Party people are simply looking for good, honest, sane and intelligent patriots to represent them and I think this search will be relentless and focused.
(Original rant self-censored.) Please educate yourself. Galilleo wasn't even imprisoned, let alone burn at the stake by the Church: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/galileo_and_the_vatican_debunks_black_legend_about_scientist_and_the_church/
Paul who?
Perot brought us slick Bill, twice by splitting the Republican vote. Makes one wonder how much the Clinton machine paid Perot to run?
You know NOTHING about the Tea Party movement here in Illinois as demonstrated by your post....
Well I had to go back and refresh my memory as to why I thought he was kind of nuts and the reason was when he dropped out of the race and the reason for it...Something to do with his daughter’s wedding and also his comment to the NAACP? Granted, he is a great American; the work he did for the POWs and the Iranian hostages was very good. But in my opinion and it’s my opinion, he was a little nuts to say the least. He had it in for the Bush’s. I wasn’t crazy for the gas tax he wanted, still don’t like it.
As I understand it, some people are running a candidate on the “Tea Party” line on the ballot. Having looked at the Motley Crew doing it in Nevada, it’s clearly a Soros-lead or at least Soros-inspired operation hoping to split the vote and elect Harry Reid.
So are you saying that the Illinois group who is running the third party candidate is a genuine outgrowth of the movement — sore losers who want to tip the election to the Democrat — or is it similar to the situation in Nevada, a hijacking?
It’s a hijacking ...
I have no sympathy for Ron Paul. It would be a disaster for America if this, this, uugh, eccentric, became president. His bizaar idea about bring Americans home from all over the globe makes no sense. One of his supporters said that Paul wouldn’t bring ALL Americans home. He would leave some of our people outside our borders. He just plans to bring home our troops.
What does he think would happen to the Americans he left out there in countries we have been allied with? Apparently it has never occured to him that people who have cooperated with us in places like Iraq and Afghanistan would be slaughtered. Forget about the fact that Muslim jihadists will portray America’s withdrawal as evidence that we are too weak to prevail against them.
Is Paul so crazy that he believes the jihadists will just leave us alone and not launch any attacks inside our borders once we bring our troops home? I for one would like to see him forget about becoming POTUS. He won’t be elected anyway and if he stopped running maybe some of his nutcase supporters would stop trying to destroy the Republican Party.
Tea Party candidates will bring the Republican Party back from the left where the RINOs have taken it. All the Ron Paul people are doing is helping the Democrats.
Exactly. I wasn’t speaking against the Tea Party movement at all, I was talking about the “Tea Party” line on the ballot. I’m sorry if I didn’t make that clear.
Ron Paul is neither a populist nor a conservative - he is a libertarian, an entirely different animal.
By itself, libertarian is neither good or bad, it is a philosophy of how one looks at what the function of government is, and that is to provide the minimum regulation possible without lapsing into anarchy.
Populism may be best summed up as looking around for a parade somewhere, with a large bunch of noisy people already in it, and getting yourself around in front of it.
A conservative is one who looks to principles, preferably carved in stone, that are simple in their definition, as based in solid experience of what has worked within human societies, sometimes for thousands of years, and applying those principles to the degree they may be made to conform to daily life. Some of these principles are really difficult to follow, and may be abandoned at some time or another, but the basic soundness always reasserts over time, filling the coffers anew with the moral rectitude that comes with knowing the right thing has been done.
None of these philosophies support or deny the need for political action by the government, they are personal statements of values of individuals, be they solitary recluses or gregarious (and maybe egregious) socializers. It is the controlling clique of oligarchies that try to turn these philosophies to their own use. The Tea Party movement is the attempt to wrest control away from these oligarchies, and restore personal dignity, the honor of living your own life justly and well.
Sheesh. This “Tea Party” stuff is getting older than “Woodstock Nation”.
Gotcha ... no worries.
Sending the loony Ron Paul backing after 20 years in Congress would be fine by me.
Making sure his loony son Rand Paul never gets elected to the Senate from Kentucky would be even better.
No, he's a kook.
Paul had nothing to do with the Tea Party Movement.
Ron Paul call us “Imperial America” Thinks we deserved to be attacked because we are occupiers.
Paul is a Neo Leftist.
He quotes writings of 1807 and ealier why we should not interfere with other countries.
What his lemmings haven’t realized
200 years, a man of war ship tooks weeks to reach America
and it’s weapons would damage not much of the shore area.
Today, weapons can reach America in 30 mins and destroy major cities and kill millions.
If we don’t take care of the enemy first, there won’t be an America.
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