Ron Paul Quietly Converting GOP Believers

The Street ^ | August 9, 2007 | John Fout

[CenTexConfederate]

Ron Paul Quietly Converting GOP Believers

By John Fout TheStreet.com Political Correspondent 8/9/2007 12:20 PM EDT

Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public?

I pondered this issue in an article in June. I saw Paul as the one second-tier candidate who might have a chance of a breakout from the pack. It turns out I might have got it right. He has remained the most popular GOP candidate on the Internet. This genuine outpouring of support is rivaled only by that for Barack Obama.

[cripplecreek]

Before long we’ll all be an unstoppable tidal wave of moonbattery.

[wideawake]

Fout is late to the party. David Duke has been saying the exact same thing for months now. So has Alex Jones.

[The_Victor]

Before long we’ll all be an unstoppable tidal wave of moonbattery

They should talk to Howard Dean about that path to the presidency.

[jveritas]

Rolling on the floor laughing. You Paulestinians are more delusional than the left wing liberals, in fact you are more delusional than the Arabs.

[MNJohnnie]

No this is just more wishful thinking from the Paulites. He still cannot register with anyone outside the same fringe that voted for Buchannan.

Ron Paul has ZERO chance of wining a single primary. OUtside of the manufactured media hysteria about him being fanned by fringer political groups and the wacko anti American groups who think they can use him as a wedge in the Conservative Movement, Paul has NO appeal.

[Red Badger]

Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public?

Public humiliation?.......

[GulfBreeze]

Funny! I like it

[Badeye]

Indeed, its so quiet you can’t find anyone to name as ‘converted’.

[VRWCmember]

He has remained the most popular GOP candidate on the Internet.

Yeah, but wasn't Howard Dean the most popular democRAT candidate on the Internet at this point in the 2004 race too?

[West Coast Conservative]

According to the latest polls Paul's support is down.

Not that it matters though...his support in every single poll is within the margin of error.

[CenTexConfederate]

The child that knows nothing returns.

[trisham]

This genuine outpouring of support is rivaled only by that for Barack Obama.

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I wouldn't be making a comparison of the two groups if I were a Paul fan.

[showme_the_Glory]

Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul

busy supporting conservatives that are actually Republicans?

[org.whodat]

Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public?

I must be a little slow are something, but what does conservatives embracing their own ideals have to do with Paul? He's not a conservatives, oh, I know what it is I had some wild caught shrimp for lunch.

[stm]

I saw Paul as the one second-tier candidate who might have a chance of a breakout from into the pack.....

There, fixed it

[samtheman]

The article is on 3 separate pages so I had to do 6 separate searches to verify the unbelievable: the writer doesn’t mention the words ‘Iraq’ or ‘terrorism’ even once. It means his head is buried as deeply in the sand as is the head of his idol, Ron Paul.

[ari-freedom]

Why haven’t conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public?
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maybe because conservatives aren’t America bashing surrender monkeys? ya think?

[ex-snook]

70% of the nation agree with Paul on Iraq. The other GOP candidates are heading up sh’t creek next election allowing Clinton to win.

[billbears]

Conservatives have gone from a party of ideals to a party of money, power brokering and winning at all costs.

About right.

So why not take a chance on Ron Paul? Even if you can't win, at least conservatives would feel good that they did the right thing by cleaning house. Besides, the last time a conservative got drubbed in a presidential election was Barry Goldwater in 1964. His loss did lead conservatives to their greatest win -- Ronald Reagan

Instead we need a mealy mouthed 'conservative' in there so when Bush the IVth comes along, we'll have someone else to claim is conservative when in fact they won't be. Rep. Paul is one of the last chances for what's left of the Republic. If the few here choose to try to drub him out of the party, it's perhaps because of their love of big government (advocated by all the rest..)

[WBL 1952]

Looks like it is more like 55% today agree with him. Next week it will be even less.

Clinton and company are going to look like fools when we win this war.

[trisham]

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul

busy supporting conservatives that are actually Republicans?

Or better yet, supporting Republicans who are actually conservatives!

[Long Island Pete]

Ron Paul Quietly Ineffectively Converting GOP Believers.

Fixed that headline

[Oberon]

Ron Paul has ZERO chance of wining a single primary. OUtside of the manufactured media hysteria about him being fanned by fringer political groups and the wacko anti American groups who think they can use him as a wedge in the Conservative Movement, Paul has NO appeal.

And you neos work very hard to keep it that way.

I think you're afraid of something; otherwise, why all the effort?

[wideawake]

The child that knows nothing returns.

You love that age thing. You just love it.

Next time you're hanging out with David Duke at a Paul rally, tell him about all the brilliantly witty repartee you engaged in on FR threads.

I'm sure he'll be as pleased as you are.

[samtheman]

You Paulestinians are more delusional than the left wing liberals, in fact you are more delusional than the Arabs.

Every Ron Paul thread as at least one great post. This is the post for this thread.

jveritas, you are the man!

Paulestinians. I love it. I'm using it from now on.

More delusional than Arabs. Man, you got that right. The Arabs think that all their problems are the Jews. The Paulestinians think that all our problems with Arabs are our "failed foreign policy". Both mighty delusions. But I think you have to give first place to the Paulestinians.

[Crim]

Hell...120% of people agree with paul...

*picked a hell of a week to quit sniffing glue*

[CenTexConfederate]

from the article

Paul's campaign recently scheduled several last-minute events in South Carolina with a few days notice. They drew 450 people at one and over 1,000 at another. Front-runner Rudy Giuliani would love to draw those kinds of crowds.

[Abathar]

Probably because there aren’t enough paper bags around for everyone to hide their shame behind, and plastic will kill you.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Question for the Paulistas: How exactly does a “congressional authorisation for the war” NOT count as a “declaration of war”, if the process of congressional deliberation and the end result are both the same?

[West Coast Conservative]

Not only that, the comparison is spurious. B. Hussein Obama has real support within the Democrat party. He has raised tens of millions of dollars.

On the other hand, Paul is last in the polls, has no real support from Republicans and has raised only a fraction of what Obama has and, for that matter, what Rudy and Romney have raised.

[CenTexConfederate]

and your afraid of people that still ride camels

[wideawake]

The Arabs think that all their problems are the Jews. The Paulestinians think that all our problems with Arabs are our "failed foreign policy".

To be fair, Paulestinian CenTexConfederate was reviving the old "Israelis were behind 9/11" conspiracy theory on a thread yesterday - so they might be only equally as delusional as "the Arab street."

[ejonesie22]

While I do like you taste in Audio/Video equipment, Paul is getting way too much nutjob support.

Come have a beer, we’ll fire up some good Fred Thompson flicks on the 52” Samsung and forget about it for awhile...

[kawaii]

the majority of america agree with ron paul on states rights taxes and a bunch of other issues too...

[ex-snook]

"Front-runner Rudy Giuliani would love to draw those kinds of crowds."

Ghouliani cut and ran from Iowa.

[Poser]

“Why haven’t conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public?”

Um... Because he’s nuts.

What do I win?

[ejonesie22]

No they don’t.

They want to leave because they are tired of hearing about it.

He never wanted to go because it might up set the Muslims more...

[Petronski]

The child that knows nothing returns.

And we're all thrilled to have you back.

[Constantine XIII]

LOL

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

And we're all thrilled to have you back.

Snort!

[samtheman]

70% of the nation agree with Paul on Iraq

As much as you hope and pray for that to be true --- you and your scumbag leftist friends on the Pelosi side of the aisle --- the fact is, support for the surge is beginning to surge, even from long-time critics of the war.

Our soldiers have to fight the enemy overseas, while the traitors at home try to stab their efforts in the back. It's really disgusting. Sickening and disgusting.

And the Paulistinian bunch of home-grown traitors have the gall to label themselves "the only true conservatives"...

True conservatives don't stab American soldiers in the back.

[ejonesie22]

Hey wait a minute there buddy, I am have fully converted to fully supporting...

(Who was it again we were talking about?)

(Paul)

Whoa, never mind...

I thought this was a Thompson thread...

[elizabetty]

At the Republican Convention next year Ron Paul will get ZERO delegates.

It really is that simple.

[ejonesie22]

Entertainment value...

[ejonesie22]

On top of stacks of Anthrax, yes, very much so...

[West Coast Conservative]

Actually, no. The trend is reversing. As the successes of the surge are being known, Americans are supporting the war.

I know you anti-war liberals and Paulestinians are invested in America's defeat on the War on Terror and in Iraq, but it ain't over yet.

USA TODAY/Gallup: Latest poll shows growing support for aspect of Iraq war policy

[Badeye]

ROTFL!

[ejonesie22]

heh heh...

Nice one...