This is why.
Posted on 01/13/2012 12:56:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
Since Ron Paul swept the youth vote in Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s become popular for press accounts to contrast the age of his supporters with the wizened appearance of the 76-year-old country doctor. The stories go like this: a “great-grandfather” with a “crotchety streak” possesses a “youthful magic” that spellbinds a “surprisingly young support base,” and not just because he wants to “legalize drugs.” Often enough, the stories take Paul at face value, concluding that college students have been pining for a presidential candidate who talks about the Constitution, ending the Fed, and Ludwig von Mises.
But this doesn’t explain the passion Paul inspires, the T-shirts declaring him “my homeboy,” the hottie calendars dedicated to him, the enthusiasm that greets news that Paul has released a new cookbook, of all things. “Ron Paul has the answer,” is the phrase his supporters tend to use when posting blogs and comments about him, with or without the enhancement of all caps.
The youth have long had a thing for the good doctor. In 2008, Paul’s volunteers in Des Moines were almost exclusively scraggly out-of-town college types who slept at a YMCA camp and were given three rules, “No drugs, no booze, and no freedom babies." In the first two contests of 2012, the 12-term Texas congressman has dominated the field among those under 30, and drew far more lopsided support from men than any of the other candidates. As one fresh-faced supporter recently told MTV News, exhorting others to vote for Paul, “You have two choices: freedom and tyranny.”
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..they haven’t paid enough taxes yet to understand.
...he’s a racist.
Isn’t he pro-life?
If he is a racist, why does everyone who has known him for decades (even his enemies) scoff at that idea?
Did you know that he has a larger percentage of the black vote than any other candidate?
Because they are either immature, or stupid, or both?
This is why.
The man appeals to recreational drug users and other incomplete people IMO.
He doesn’t have “hard line social beliefs”. He just doesn’t think the federal government should be dictating morality to its citizens. It should be quite the other way around.
What better way to change peoples opinion than to ridicule eh?
JANUARY 11 Greece so poor families are abandoning their children
JANUARY 12 - Greece's unemployment rate jumped to 18.2%
here in the USA 15.227 trillion and counting
Just a little reminder debt(spending) kills nations
Exactly, as if anything this man has said in any of his political campaigns point to him instituting racial discrimination in government. If there is so much wrong with his platform why do so many resort to this baseless accusation.
I am voting for Ron paul because newt, romney, perry, santorum are a freaking joke who will not fix the problem of overspending.
Ron Paul is the high-tax candidate?
Enough is enough. I am not listening anymore to those who claim Ron Paul is anti-Semitic or anti-American.
You voted for tyranny last time...make up your frickin' minds.
Has Willie Nelson endorsed him yet?
never said that, but what has he said about taxes?
I definitely agree with you about Romney and Gingrich, and can see why you doubt Perry and Santorum. But what proof is their Paul is better? If you dig down in the record, he’s more Tip O’Neill than libertarian. He might grow the nanny state more than any of them. I’d like more proof then name calling.
The story is basically nonsense.
Ron Paul's base of support is small. He got 26,000 votes in Iowa and 57,000 in New Hampshire.
According to exit polling, the typical Rom Paul supporter is least likely to have a high school or college degree, not be married and be in the lowest income level. He is likely registered Democrat or independent.
The typical Ron Paul supporter is not only in the lowest income level, he is most likely to see himself falling behind financially as opposed to remaining steady or moving ahead.
The Ron Paul supporter describes himself as liberal on BOTH fiscal and social issues. He has no religion.
The Ron Paul supporters are most likely to be satisfied with Obama.
In short, Ron Paul supporters are uneducated liberals. They are not successful and they are losing ground financially. They sound a lot like the Occupy types.
They are Obama supporters and they don't have any religion. It sounds like they do a lot of drugs too because the legalize drugs position seems popular.
They don't understand the implications of Ron Paul's positions or his record. They will probably vote for Obama in the fall.
You can put your fingers in your ears and pretend he’s not, but that doesn’t change the fact that he is.
He’s also a nasty, crazy old man.
“I want to abolish the income tax, but I don’t want to replace it with anything. About 45 percent of all federal revenue comes from the personal income tax. That means that about 55 percent — over half of all revenue — comes from other sources, like excise taxes, fees, and corporate taxes.
We could eliminate the income tax, replace it with nothing, and still fund the same level of big government we had in the late 1990s. We don’t need to “replace” the income tax at all. I see a consumption tax as being a little better than the personal income tax, and I would vote for the Fair-Tax if it came up in the House of Representatives, but it is not my goal. We can do better.”
From a purely 2A perspective...... Paul is the only one of the GOP candidates who would disband/defund the ATF.
I would have loved to have seen that question asked during a debate.
A few of his quotes:
“The ATF has a long history of abusing our Second Amendment rights, so I was glad to see Congressman Issa demanding answers on the Project “Gunwalker”
“My hope is that the recent hearing will further expose the ATF’s and Attorney General Eric Holder’s assaults on law-abiding gun owners, and more people will start questioning the need for unconstitutional agencies like the ATF that exist solely to infringe on American citizens’ God-given right to keep and bear arms.”
Oh yeah? Then who are you backing? Santorum is another Huckabee. Romney is another Dole/McCain. Gingrich is another Bush.
The anti-Paul forces have no real arguments besides insults. They rant that "Israel is our ally," although Israel is nothing but a dependent. Israelis are not fighting alongside our men anywhere, as are the Brits, Aussies, and Poles. Israel is a wonderful nation, a millenium ahead of its neighbors. But let's quit pretending. Most American Jews do not care about Israel; they care about advancing Communism. It is impossible for any intelligent person to fail to notice that many (probably most) of those bashing Ron Paul in the U.S. are Jewish. Maybe non-Jewish conservatives should think about that, and prepare a reasoned response instead of slogans.
Pat Buchanan I really do think is an agings Neo-nazi who has huge sympathy for Nazi Germany. Ron Paul on the other hand I think is really trying to drive a course through a very narrow ideology that tells him that America needs to retreat behinds its borders and that all the ills that befall it MUST be a result of not doing so. But by making such a conclusion without a larger perspective on what's going on in the rest of the world just makes his positions compeletly irrational.
I certainly would not fault anyone for voting for him. I just think his foreign policy position is nuts.
C'mon, sending Israeli troops into Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya or Yemen would only make things worse. They do play a role in other ways. Doing things that we can't do ourselves. Watch the news this week. I'd like to tell you more, but I'd have to kill you first.
Most American Jews do not care about Israel; they care about advancing Communism. It is impossible for any intelligent person to fail to notice that many (probably most) of those bashing Ron Paul in the U.S. are Jewish.
Ron Paul has some Jewish supporters himself, but what do you think? You tell Jews they're Communists if they don't agree with you or Communists even if they agree with Ron Paul about Israel and you think that's going to make them vote your way?
Let's also be honest. If we let the IDF fight with us in Afghanistan, the Saudis would go apeshit. Every even arguable moderate Arab ally we had would go absolutely ballistic.
One more thing. We sometimes forget the big picture of the Cold War. We brokered alliances and armed Islamic armies in Afghanistan and maybe that was a mistake in the 1980s. But back then we really believed that the USSR was going to crush us. I remember those days. I remember with alarm the stats that showed the Russians had 3 times our conventional armies and about double our nuclear capacity.
It’s all America’s fault. And when all else fails, blame it on the Jews!! FURP!!!
Is "zot" a slogan?
I would prove you wrong, which is really a low hanging fruit kind of thing, but you're gone now.
Oh well..
Light one up, take a toke and have some nachos...
That pot induced haze is a challenge...
Oh, wait...
Oh, wait...
It is first and last the drug thing. They think he’ll legalize drugs and they don’t care about Iran, Israel or America. That’s why the occupiers support him. Legalize drugs and the idiot youth of America will sell her down the river in 30 seconds.
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