Paul's surge may prompt a new look from GOP voters

AP via SFGate ^ | 12/27/11 | Paul J. Weber, ASSOCIATED PRESS

[SmithL]

The closer the first votes of the 2012 presidential campaign get, the more competitive longtime congressman Ron Paul appears to become.

It's a moment his famously fervent supporters have longed for. Plenty of others are asking: What's Ron Paul about, again?

[Jonty30]

A real conservative fights the feds to do federal things only. He doesn’t do deals, than vote against them knowing that they will go through anyway.

[Jonty30]

He's from Texas, where they like hard nose conservatives.

If he was from Massachusetts, he'd have to be a bit soft to survive, but there's no excuse when you're from Texas.

[4rcane]

But he does fight against it. He earmark the funding then vote against the spending bill for it. Its not his fault that the other gop vote for the spending bill thus allowing them through. So in the end, money going towards projects proposed by elected senators/congresseman go is better than allowing the unelected federal administrators to decide

[goldstategop]

He’s Jeremiah Wright without the tan.

Apparently, GOP voters can’t get enough of a truther, a bigot and a moonbat.

Its sad.

[Jonty30]

I’m savvy enough to know that conservative politicians cannot vote conservative all the time. There are times when am earmark will do more good, in the long run, than for it not to be done.

I’m sure that some of Ron Paul’s earmarks actually went to good causes. But you cannot be, consistently, one of the Kings of Earmarks for a long time and still claim to be against them.

Ron Paul is simply playing his supporters like a cheap violin.

[ScottinVA]

Ron Paul is the guy at the end of the bar who babbles incessantly even after everyone has gone home and the lights are out.

If Republicans are actually supporting Paul in such high numbers in Iowa, it further shows the irrelevance of that state. If Republicans are actually supporting Paul in such high numbers nationwide, then the GOP has ceased to be a serious political party.

Ron Paul is never going to be elected President. Ever. Bank on it.

[FastCoyote]

Ron Paul has some insightful economic views. But the world is a scary place and that is half the equation that Ron Paul misses. No one who is sane will vote for Ron Paul as a matter of self preservation. And I say that as someone who realizes retrenchment from foreign entanglements is necessary.

Eventually the Soma will wear off and Paulists will realize they’ve been had but not until too late.

[DeaconRed]

If the tin foil hat nut case has any support it is from the RATS since Iowa has open primaries.

The idiot will NEVER be our president. NEVER

[harpu]

Ron Paul is the ‘Jerry Brown’ of the GOP!

[gwilhelm56]

**If Republicans are actually supporting Paul in such high numbers nationwide, then the GOP has ceased to be a serious political party.**

If WronG Paul wins Iowa, the next Iowa Caucus should be held in September... AFTER the Convention!!

[harpu]

"Ron Paul is the ‘Jerry Brown’ of the GOP!"

Oops...I forgot the Photo.

[Fresh Wind]

Most rational people like Paul less every time they take a new look at him.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Yeah, I gave that certifiable, nut job another look; even used a whole tube of some special, "Conservative" lipstick, but in the end, he still looks like a...

[madison10]

ROFL

RP is a whacknut.They WISH we would consider him as a serious candidate. The Dems only want him for fodder in their MSM- destroy-conservatives-cannon.

[jmaroneps37]

Wishful thinking from America’s enemies.

[LibLieSlayer]

I am giving Perry, Bachmann and Santorum a new look... and I will vote for any of the three... paul, newt or romney... NEVAH!

LLS

[algernonpj]

Some information on Ron Paul and Israel

Any time I have been able to track down the entire newletter or quote referenced in a Ron Paul smear, I have discovered a dissembling partial truth.

Like him or not Paul, brings to the campaign serious questions that warrant discussion, questions about big government, how US taxpayer money is spent, foreign policy, the role of the Fed...

While my research thus far leads me to believe that Ron Paul is naive regarding the most basic motivation of Jihadis, consider the following:

GW kept reminding us that 'Islam is a religion of 'peace'. Never mentioned that Islam is a total political system and peace is achieved when there is a world wide caliphate under Sharia.

Ultimately Paul's foreign policy would be better for both Israel and Christianity.

While Israel would get no foreign aid, neither would its enemies:
2011 Interview

Newsmax: What should our relationship be with Israel?
Ron Paul: We should be their friend and their trading partner. They are a democracy and we share many values with them. But we should not be their master. We should not dictate where their borders will be nor should we have veto power over their foreign policy.
... Stop and consider America’s policy: We give $3 billion a year to Israel in loans; and we give $12 billion or more in assistance to Israel’s self-declared enemies. Some of these are countries that say they will drive Israel into the sea.
... We should share intelligence for mutually agreed-upon goals. We should honor our pledge to refuse any arms sales that would undermine Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region.

As a result of 'nation building', promoting 'democracy' in the middle east, and PC immigration policy:

Iraq's Christians Near Extinction

Per Pamela Geller "US policy regarding the refugee resettlement program would shock most Americans if they only knew. The UN picks who becomes US refugees. Christians are being refused refugee status and face persecution and many times certain death for their religious beliefs under the sharia, while whole Muslim communities are entering the US by the tens of thousands per month despite the fact that they face no religious persecution"

Paul would stop funding the UN and pull us out of all treaties that impinge upon our sovereignty. His proposed budget would shut down entire federal bureaucracies while preserving military pensions. Could shutting down the tax payer funded trough be what has the political elite so p*ssed and the source of the smear campaign?

[algernonpj]

Ron Paul is the last free marketer left on the field. The rest are socialists

You astute devil you. ;-)

[maddogtiger]

There’s no daylight between a black liberation theologist and Ron Paul’s world view. READ.

[rideharddiefast]

Ron Paul have a pretty good explanation about it. Earmark is better than allowing the Fed administration to decide where the money go

Then why does he say he is against them? Another example of the surrender monkey saying one thing and doing something else.