[gunnyg]

Like RP said, “What are they afraid of”!!!!!

[TexasFreeper2009]

Ron Paul even being in the top 5 made a joke of the whole event.

[McGruff]

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

http://reagan2020.us/speeches/Let_Them_Go_Their_Way.asp

[Daveinyork]

A lot of people (too few, in my estimation) have had the royal sh@ts of big government. So far, unfortunately, the only candidate who promised, with any real conviction, to actually shrink government, rather than slowing its growth, cutting spending, cutting taxes, etc, is Ron Paul. Whatever one thinks of his foreign policy views, that is a fact that is difficult for the GOP to accept.

[AAABEST]

I once like Rush a lot better than Paul.

Now... not so much.

[Jim Noble]

Paul and Palin do not belong in the GOP. Neither do most of us.

[nhwingut]

[C.O. Correspondence]

It may come down to the question of: How much does the Republican establishment want those who would vote for Paul?

The next reasonable question would possibly be: How much does the Republican establishment need those who would vote for Paul?

If most of the comments on FREP that I've read about Paul are any indication, not many on this site care a whit for Paul and consider him an enemy as much as the Dems do. I don't know who I will vote for in the end, but it's kind of fun seeing all the liberal/progressives sweat in the GOP and the Dem party.

[longtermmemmory]

kook paul is comic relief proof of the MSM view of the GOP.

kook paul is their propaganda spin “insanity by association”

covering kook paul is just journalistic malpractice.

[Buckeye McFrog]

"Ron Paul is going to destroy this party if they keep him in there,"

So how exactly to you propose to get him out of there, Rush? He has already proven that he is able to ride out a campaign till the end on relatively little money. And he doesn't seem amenable to appeals to do "the proper thing" in the name of GOP unity.

On the other hand if you piss the Good Doctor off he may just take his Band of Merry Paulestinians and make a third-party run at it.

[Notary Sojac]

If there were a candidate in the GOP primaries who was as clearly on message as Ron Paul regarding our last two decades of crony capitalism/asset bubbles, and that candidate was even a couple of notches closer to the conservative mainstream on social and foreign policy, he or she would be leading the polls and I believe would be the consensus favorite on FR.

But there is nobody like that. None of the other candidates has openly broken with the Wall Street-Federal Reserve bull---t.