Good going - alienate all the younger people who are getting excited by the message of limited government, which they are hearing for the first time.
The first time is right - they sure as hell don’t hear it from the GOP.
Alienate them and they will never vote for another Republican again.
Christopher Cook, YOU get out of the Republican party. You spoke of a tent big enough for nanny stateres, abortion supporters, and gungrabbers - but not for people who favor limited government and the constitution.
When you whine after the election that the libertarians lost it for the Republicans, I don’t want to hear you whine that Hillary won because of libertarians standing on principle. You wouldn’t know principles if they bit you in the tuchus. YOU said get out - and if and when Hillary wins, I am 100% sure you’ll blame the people you told to get out.
The GOP lost my loyalty somewhere between massive social welfare entitlements, phony free trade, calling me a vigilant for supporting minutemen and opposing open borders, and calling me a sexist for opposing Harriet Miers.
I’m a Hunter supporter who would vote for a 3rd party Paul in a heartbeat against a gun grabber, an abortionist, a nanny stater, or any other type of Democrat in GOP clothing that appears to infect the upper levels of party leadership these days.
Saving some buildings and lives is not worth giving up our liberty for - which the GOP is doing incrementally slower than the Dems, but not damn much.
Your post does exactly what the article says the Paulistas are doing, it accuses those of us who oppose Paul of opposing him because we’re in favor of big government and against the Constitution.
If that was all there was to Ron, I’d be all for him.
I oppose him because of his disastrously unrealistic view of our national security needs, and because of his association with Lew Rockwell and other people I despise.
Lay down with pigs, you get up dirty. Ron chose to roll around with Lew and other pigs for decades. Now you accuse those of us who point out the smell of pushing “guilt by association.”
Two more reasons I don’t support the guy.
1. He claims he will do things like abolish the IRS, which the president has no authority to do. This is a constitutionalist?
2. In an election against any mainstream Democrat, Ron would probably get <30% of the vote.
I got news for you: most of the people ranting and raving against Ron Paul don't support the message of limited government.
That about sums it up. Any party that considers Rudy Giuliani--a thrice married adulterer who supports abortion and gay rights and turned New York City into a "sanctuary city" for illegal aliens--"respectable" and Ron Paul beyond the pale has something wrong with it.