Posted on 01/11/2012 7:51:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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RUSH: I did not have cable TV on last night. I didn't. I was reading. I watched a couple of movies, but I did not have the TV on last night. (laughing) I take it back. One clarification. I did turn on Fox at about 7:55pm 'cause I wanted to hear O'Reilly read the e-mail. That's my favorite part of his show. And O'Reilly wasn't on. They were doing coverage from New Hampshire, and they were proclaiming Romney the victor. It was over. So Romney had his seven electoral votes. Okay, the only thing that interests me now is how does Ron Paul finish. That to me was the key, where does Ron Paul finish, 'cause anybody can vote, Democrat, Republican, pick up a ballot and go in there and vote. And Rasmussen has some interesting data that I've gotta double-check.
But Ron Paul, the majority of people that voted him were not Republican. And in another poll, the percentage of Ron Paul voters who say they will vote for the Republican nominee is... like 80% of Tea Party voters in New Hampshire said no matter who the Republican nominee is they're voting for it. The Ron Paul number is 40%. Now, as I say, I've gotta double confirm. It's ostensibly Rasmussen and we're double-checking this, but what I know so far, or what I've been told is that Ron Paul supporters, 40% say they would vote for the Republican nominee, 23% said they'd vote for Obama, and 31% of Ron Paul voters said they would vote third party. So the Ron Paul voters cannot be counted on, and most of Huntsman's voters and most of Paul's voters were Democrats who walked into the New Hampshire primary, picked up a Republican ballot, also according to this polling data. Or maybe not majority. I don't have it right in front of me but it's close. It's a very high -- since I brought it up, let me see if I've got it in this particular stack. I'll find it. It's nothing that you don't know.
Here we go. It's the exit polling data from Fox, and it is on political matters, "Do you consider yourself very liberal, somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat conservative, very conservative?" You go to Ron Paul, 33% of his voters, according to exit polls, were somewhat liberal; 24% were moderate; 0 were very liberal. So 57% of the voters that voted for Ron Paul were not Republican conservatives. And that's one of the things that I wanted to see because with this big push -- what is happening here, the final push now that's on to get Romney the nomination, Newt and Perry, with their attacks, have made it impossible to defend them. I hate to tell you, folks, but you just can't put your name to what they're out there saying, vulture capitalism and so forth.
Romney, however, wants Ron Paul to stay in. Everybody is urging everybody else to get out of this except for Ron Paul. They want Ron Paul to keep pounding away at Santorum and Newt. They want Ron Paul to continue to get big numbers and take away any high second- or third-place finishes from Santorum or Gingrich or Perry or anybody else. So the powers that be realize the monkey wrench that Ron Paul represents. Ron Paul is a conservative killer. Ron Paul kills the conservative vote, and the Romney camp wants him in there, encouraging him to stay in there.
And, in fact, depending on where you go, depending on what you read... Even Sarah Palin said it'd be a big mistake to reject those Ron Paul voters. The Republican Party would be making a huge mistake to reject the Ron Paul voters. So the effort is being made here to encourage people to reach out to Ron Paul's crazy, anti-defense supporters. A lot of his supporters are simply college kids who like his ideas on liberalizing drug laws. A lot of his supporters are young college kids who like his idea on gay rights. You know, they're the young idealists who have only their own personal interests here at stake, and he's out there representing it. Plus there is the awareness on the part of some Ron Paul voters that he's the giant monkey wrench and they enjoy playing that role.
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No question that Ron Paul has become Romneys attack dog. I don’t think Paul has said one bad word about Romney. Paul has saved all his venom for Newt. That shows where Ron Paul is at.
whatever
It only proves Mitt is boring and that you only notice when someone criticizes your precious Newt.
Ron Paul doesn’t have a Conservative bone in his whole body.
IA was worse it was only 17 percent GOP and the rest were Dems.
The Gop has been gamed by Soros and Axelrod operatives like Acorn and
Code Pink.
The radical left has used this Useful Idiot to cause chaos in the
GOP primary with these Obama storm troopers
Acting like wild rabid dogs in the streets .
The GOP need to pull the plug on this Insane
Paul and these lefties using him .
Most of the Ron Paul Mob Zombies are close kin to the Obama drones. Both rabid sets of supporters see their political messiah as a savior of sorts. Both groups are part of OWS; both groups HATE Capitalism and preach against wealth (The RP Mob Zombies call it Corporatism); both groups see their guy as the One who will ‘tear the whole evil sham of America down’; both groups HATE the military and America’s superpower status in the world; both groups want America to retreat from the world and both groups blame America for the world’s woes.
Both groups hate Conservatives nearly equally with as much vitriol as the other. Death threats abound for those who voice a negative about Obama, and the same is true of those who voice opposition to Ron Paul.
Both groups merely differ in degrees from one another.
But both groups see either Obama or Ron Paul as a ‘deliverer’/’Savior’ or ‘the only choice’.
And both men will have to govern as a dictator to accomplish their pet agendas.
Ron Paul is no Conservative. In matters of our national security and foreign policy - Ron Paul is to the uber-LEFT of Obama.
Obama is no American. In matters of our very liberty, Obama is akin to Stalin and Nero.
Ron Paul and Romney are the assurance that Obama gets another 4 years to Life as Americas first dictator.
Reminds me when freepers were voting Obama just to keep Hillary off the ballot. Sad because Hillary would have lost the election.
Romney learned to use Paul as an attack dog against Santorum and Gingrich in the same way McCain used Huckabee to attack Romney in 2008.
It’s the STUPID PARTY’S FAULT for permitting OPEN PRIMARIES!
“Paul has saved all his venom for Newt. That shows where Ron Paul is at.”
It just makes me sick how this old non-conservative so-and-so has been the spoiler for Newt and Perry/Santorum as well. And he’s gleeful about it. Yep, he intends to stay in until all but he and Romney are gone - just like Huckabee did for McLame in ‘08. I think Santorum, Huntsman and maybe Perry will drop out soon, but not before a couple of more crucial primaries, so Newt’s really going to have to do something - pray that he can hang in, because if it gets down to a 3 man race, I think he can really shine. Hell, RuPaul isn’t even in this to win (for himself, at least).
Sickening AND disgusting.
“(The RP Mob Zombies call it Corporatism); both groups HATE the military and America’s superpower status in the world;”
Yes, the almighty, catch-all “Military Industrial complex” that RP and his fan-atics love to spout about.
Many that call themselves conservative are really just anarchists.
The problem comes when he blames America for everything. Hell, I might even be able to grudgingly admit perhaps putting the Shah in place was a bad move by the CIA. But somehow that makes the American government and its people equal on moral grounds with Iran is a stretch in any rational person's imagination. But his supporters go as far as claiming Iran's problems and issues is OUR fault as a nation. These guys would have thrown Churchill under the bus as a “chickenhawk” (they love to throw that one at us) and would have claimed Hitler had every moral right obtaining his breathing space. And then after the holocaust they would have found a way to blame the US again for creating the conditions that made Hitler take drastic action on the Jews. It would have been our economic sanctions forcing the German people to extremes or something of that nonsense type of logic. In fact, Pat Buchanan, another social conservative, but defense liberal claimed in his latest book.
The problem comes when he blames America for everything. Hell, I might even be able to grudgingly admit perhaps putting the Shah in place was a bad move by the CIA. But somehow that makes the American government and its people equal on moral grounds with Iran is a stretch in any rational person's imagination. But his supporters go as far as claiming Iran's problems and issues is OUR fault as a nation. These guys would have thrown Churchill under the bus as a “chickenhawk” (they love to throw that one at us) and would have claimed Hitler had every moral right obtaining his breathing space. And then after the holocaust they would have found a way to blame the US again for creating the conditions that made Hitler take drastic action on the Jews. It would have been our economic sanctions forcing the German people to extremes or something of that nonsense type of logic. In fact, Pat Buchanan, another social conservative, but defense liberal claimed in his latest book.
Actually, the blame for WWII really was the harsh surrender terms imposed on germany after WWI. America was not really in on that, however. So I guess in a way, one could say Hitler was a result of “sanctions”.
I think that is disengenuinely simplistic. I agree the terms were harsh and the war was a war where the victors were no better than the losers (with the exception of the US which had every right to attack Germany for its merchant marine losses). WWII was just as much as a result of the pacifistic stance of the powers around Hitler who stood by and allowed his aggression.
Translation: Ron Paul is a NUT.
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