Posted on 01/04/2012 9:28:40 AM PST by Absolutely Nobama
Hahaha, I enjoyed.
“Also, Paul is the prefered choice for an overwhelming majority of our armed forces.”
Prove it? I see this alleged from time to time, but never backed up.
Breaking News: There isn’t a big constituency out there for “bomb Iran” outside of the Evangelical Christian voting bloc. Most Americans are not tuning into the 700 Club to watch Pat Robertson.
“Also, Paul is the prefered choice for an overwhelming majority of our armed forces.”
Does Screwy Lewy Rockwell pay you a nickel every time you mention this ? That nonsense has been debunked so many times it’s not even funny anymore.
“As for Florida, Ron Paul will do will there. He will do well in New Hampshire too.”
He will lose Florida. H will lose New Hampshire.
He shot his wad in Iowa, it was his only chance for a win. He is a protest candidate who has no chance, unless he’s running for Texas State University VP.
He’s a joke to anybody with brains.
Umm, Ron Paul is a centrist compared to Rick Santorum and Pat Robertson.
“There isn’t a big constituency out there for “bomb Iran” outside of the Evangelical Christian voting bloc.”
lol, nice try...is that Pauline logic?
The lack of constituency belongs to Paul who thinks it is ok to allow Iran to attain a nuclear weapon.
Let’s see.
Ron Paul won Independents and Moderates in Iowa by significant margins. He won as many delegates as Rick Santorum in Iowa and defeated Newt Gingrich 22 to 13. He won 18 percent of Evangelicals in Iowa and the “True Conservative” vote according to CNN exit polls.
Ron Paul is going to lose New Hampshire and Florida? To who? to Rick Santorum? There are more Moderates and Independents in New Hampshire and Florida than Iowa.
Rick Santorum finished in second place in Iowa because he won the Jerry Falwell slice of the Republican electorate. He is not on the ballot in Virginia or other states.
Paul won 50 percent of Millennials in socially conservative Iowa and 26 percent of Gen Xers. Unlike Santorum, Ron Paul has the money and the demographic support to go much further into the 2012 race.
Romney finishes 1st = failure
Paul finishes 3rd = failure
Gingrich finishes 4th = "respectable"
Yeah, it's pretty hard figuring out who your preferred candidate is.
All that said, the Iowa caucus means next to nothing & pretending like it does (like NYT, CNN, Fox, Wash Post, etc) will not make it so.
No, it is a fact confirmed by exit polls. Independents and Moderates are the center of the electorate. Millennials and Gen X’ers are 30 percent of the Republican electorate now.
The people who support starting a war with Iran are THE MINORITY of Christian Zionists on the “Very Conservative” side of the Republican Party. They are the Jerry Falwell/Pat Robertson/Moral Majority crowd from the 1980s.
Compared to Ron Paul, these people are “extremists” on the Iran question. They call Ron Paul a “kook” for not wanting to start another unnecessary war with Iran, but the truth is that they are the ones who sound like “kooks” to the broader electorate.
Those people stuck with George W. Bush to the end when his approval rating had collapsed into the mid-20s.
I was a bit skeptical about your claim, so I randomly clicked on your ABC News link, which oddly linked to a USA Today article.
The article claimed that Ron Paul was second to Obama in donations from military personnel, based exclusively on a total of $19,300 from 23 donations he garnered in 2005.
I am no longer skeptical. I know the claim is a bunch of hooey.
I’m just happy to join the chorous. I was freakin’ bouncing off the walls watching Santorum leading the DNC/RNC pick Romney. And to see that crazy old whackjob in the one size fits all Kmart suit go third place was reassuring... but proof that some Iowans should NOT smoke crack before caucus day.
It is juvenile choice of words. You’re not mature enough to understand that, so you keep right on thinking you’re influential enough to write these vanities and sway somebody. All you accomplish is reflecting badly on the whole forum. Or, is that your mission?
100% agreed. Posts like these help no Republican candidates, but do give aid and assistance to Obama 2012. Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment should be posted in bold text at the top of every page here until the next election.
Good rant ... I have tweeted Reince Priebus and suggested rather strongly that the Antiestablishmentarian be dropped from any GOP support because he is NOT a Conservative and it just pulls the GOP down having him in the vicinity.
Mitt Romney has attempted to buy the GOP Nomination for a long time and is STILL not within shouting distance. Will he ever realize that voters just don’t warm to his “Ken-like” appearance and his ObamaCare-Light personality? And he’s allowed voters to suggest a Marco Rubio VP ... doesn’t he KNOW the Constitution at all? Rubio is NOT a Natural Born Citizen and is ineligible to be Vice President! Is Mitt toying with the voters or just ‘that’ dumb? OR is he afraid to say anything because he knows if he does, it opens up the “birther” questions?
Newt Gingrich is a vengeful opportunist. He’s still angry at Congress for kicking him out of the House and he will do ANYTHING it takes to get into a position of thumb-nosing power. He’s a womanizer. He converted to Catholicism and is doing his ‘thing’ by using the Faith to promote himself in his efforts to reach his goal. Trust this former Georgia resident that when he loses the GOP Candidacy AGAIN, he’ll show his chameleon ways and turn into someone else. He’s now trying to attach himself to Rick Santorum’s coat-tails and if Santorum has ANY sense, he’ll pass ... No one needs the chains and concrete sinking weight of what is in Newt’s closet.
Ron Paul is an antiestablishmentarian. The GOP is and has been foolish to give him a platform. His supporters couldn’t raise nearly the money he’s gotten in FREE advertisement for his antiestablishment so-called libertarian views. He’s no longer the ‘comedic relief’ of the ‘staid uptight’ GOP ... he’s dangerous because his supporters aren’t ‘just’ antiestablishment, they are also anarchists.
Rick Santorum is far far from ‘perfect’ ... but then there never has been a perfect Candidate ... what he is, though, is head and shoulders better than the likes of Romney and Gingrich and Ron Paul. Most of his faults are in the past and he’s not a womanizer ... and needs to stay away from womanizers. He is going to be called many things by other Republicans who want to bring him down to their level. He needs to be very very very careful of who he allows to ‘advise’ him because that could be his undoing and give the liberal media fodder. Alan Colmes’ hateful comment will keep some of the media at bay for a while, maybe all the way til November.
Rick Perry is George Bush Light mixed with Obama Open Borders Light ... He couldn’t win the heart and soul of American Conservatives. He’s wasting money but helping Texans by continuing to run. Any time away from screwing up Texas is good for Texas.
Jon Huntsman ... can’t win anyway is is just spending money to spend money, it appears.
Now we come to the heart and soul of Conservative TEA Party politics ... Michele Bachmann ... What a pity that people don’t mean what they say, that people don’t actually STUDY the Constitution the way they study the gossip magazines and watch ‘reality’ TV and listen to liberal news media. What a pity that people don’t even know what Taxed Enough Already means for them. What a pity that people prefer the status quo to risking returning to Founding Fathers’ standards of government. What a pity that people are GENDER BIASED ... how many times has the phrase “shrill” been used by print media and pundits and in online comments when describing Michele Bachmann? And instead of LISTENING to her words ... that’s all people remember ... she’s ‘shrill.’ Yeah, she’s as shrill as YOUR MAMA! I wish and hope that Michele Bachmann becomes Speaker of the House ... as she should already be.
Romney may have ‘won’ by a few votes, but he spent a lot of money for those few votes ... and proved once again that money CANNOT buy enough votes to get one into the White House. [Not without thuggery and George Soros and Media promotion.]
Ron Paul coming in third means that ‘libertarians’ cannot be told to Occupy Caucuses by Democrats out to prove their power in Iowa.
The saddest part of all is that Michele Bachmann should have come in Third ... and gender bias is still strong in Iowa and across the USofA ... “We’re not ‘ready’ for a woman President.” If I hear that one more time, I’ll scream.
“Umm, Ron Paul is a centrist compared to Rick Santorum and Pat Robertson.”
Your confused perspective fails to realize that we want real conservatives...not liberal charlatans confusing those lacking intelligence.
“100% agreed. Posts like these help no Republican candidates, but do give aid and assistance to Obama 2012. Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment should be posted in bold text at the top of every page here until the next election.”
Maybe you can go over to the Paul Forums and paste that over there, since he teamed with Romney to attack other conservative Republicans.
Paul is the pure RINO...a libertarian on some issues with a Mondale foreign policy....apologies to Mondale, who is to the right of Paul.
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