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Why a Tea Party conservative now supports Ron Paul...including his foreign policy
American Thinker ^
| 12/16/2011
| Russ Paladino
Posted on 12/16/2011 7:48:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Must be a membeer of the decaffeinated Tea Party?
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:52:08 AM PST
by
Leep
To: SeekAndFind
Five reasons...
1. Because anyone can call themselves a member of the “Tea Party.”
2. Anyone can claim to be a conservative.
3. Mental illness.
4. Islamophilia (See #3).
5. Hatred of Jews/Israel (See #3).
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:53:01 AM PST
by
peyton randolph
(B. Hussein Obama solved Bush's "problem" of a AAA credit rating)
To: SeekAndFind
Then it is simple he is not a conservative. Bachmann had it exactly right last night. Paul is DANGEROUS! Period end of story.
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:53:01 AM PST
by
mk2000
To: SeekAndFind
The thing that really frightens me about this Ron Paul character is that he might run as an independent. We have enough people who are short on thought to throw the election to Obama by voting for independent Ron Paul. Apparently, the Ross Perot lesson was not received or was not understood.
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:54:46 AM PST
by
davisfh
To: SeekAndFind; BlackElk; lormand; Allegra; Absolutely Nobama
Russ Paladino has been a Paultard for a long time. At that, he posts an article like this every few months, playing the ‘I just discovered Paul’ lie..
Sounds like those seminar callers to Rush. I used to support X but then I started listening to Gandalf...err, I mean Paul...
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:54:54 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: mnehring
Russ Paladino has been a Paultard for a long time.Thanks, I guessed that was the case. These pinheads are just too obvious with their make-believe conversions.
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:57:09 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: SeekAndFind
Love Rand.
Would love to see him in cabinet.
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:57:36 AM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: SeekAndFind
I'll paraphrase Mister Paul from the debates last evening...
The only reason that other countries want to attack us is because we have a strong defense.
Which is precisely what every Marxist/liberal sociology prof has been saying for generations, and is...
Precisely, 180 degrees incorrect.
No legitimate Tea Partier supports Paul.
.
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:57:45 AM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: mnehring
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:57:45 AM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: SeekAndFind
He would be an ineffective president simply because congress would shut him down at every turn.
On the other hand, that might not be such a bad thing.
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:58:24 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: SeekAndFind
Ron Paul is not a conservative. As a matter of fact, I don’t know what he is. He is so far to the right, he is on the left. The universe is not flat.
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posted on
12/16/2011 7:58:43 AM PST
by
Jukeman
To: SeekAndFind
Ron Paul is a Libertarian that could not win as a Libertarian so he joined the GOP. He is not a conservative. I want a conservative candidate for the GOP.
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posted on
12/16/2011 8:00:04 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(OBAMA NOV 2012 = HORSEMEAT)
To: SeekAndFind
If it came down to it, I’d rather have Ron Paul than Mitt Romney.
To: davisfh
What really frightens me is that he has a large youth following who have turned it into a cult. They all are worshiping at the alter of a guy ‘from the government who is here to help’. They weigh everything they believe about the government and the Constitution on what Paul says about it instead of picking it up themselves and reading it or grabbing the Federalist papers. They are worshiping at the feet of a career politician and are actually excited to send their money to someone in the government. They are selling their personal possessions and spending all their time in the service of him.
It really is a cult. Replace Ron Paul with Fred Phelps or David Koresh and the Constitution with the Bible and the the feel of the rhetoric would be indistinguishable.
They say it is just passion for ‘freedom and liberty’ but it has well crossed that line when they sacrifice their own individuality for a politician. They have long crossed the line from passion to obsession.
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posted on
12/16/2011 8:00:16 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: SeekAndFind
This whole meme that Paul is a Tea Party favorite is a canard. Last poll on this topic showed that Paul garners a whopping 7% support.
TEA PARTY SUPPORTER %:
Newt Gingrich 47%
Mitt Romney 17%
Michele Bachmann 8%
Rick Perry 7%
Ron Paul 7%
Rick Santorum 4%
Jon Huntsman <1%
Other/Any/None 11%
Gallup Daily Tracking. Dec 1-5, 2011
This writer is a dopey Paultard.
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posted on
12/16/2011 8:03:44 AM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: SeekAndFind
I've seen a lot of FReepers say they like Paul's domestic policies, but can't stand his foreign policy.
And I've tended to agree. He's far more of an isolationist than I would otherwise think is prudent.
That said, there is no otherwise. Nobody else is advocating the kind of cuts in government Paul is, and without cuts of that magnitude, we're going to be broke sooner rather than later.
In other words, we're either going to be isolationists because Paul implements it - something we could change after 4 or 8 years, or we're going to be isolationists because we're flat broke and our economy has collapsed to the point we will be impotent on the world stage.
If it's the latter, then we sure as heck aren't going to be able to change our minds after 4 or 8 years and have a more activist foreign policy.
Those are the choices as I see it. We're too far along to pretend that a few bandaids on the economy are going to turn it around. If it means 4 or 8 years of a little extra chaos in the world (and, honesly, can he do that much worse than Obama?) to get us patched up, that's a far better choice than chaos for the next 50 or 100 years because the U.S. ceases to exist as a world power.
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posted on
12/16/2011 8:06:06 AM PST
by
chrisser
(Starve the Monkeys!)
To: SeekAndFind
The unintentionally funniest moment of the debate last night was Mr. "Sometimes I'm the only one voting my way" talking about working across the aisle and getting the left and the right to work together.
Ummm . . . hey loony Paul, if you can't even convince a single person in your party to vote with you, how can you possibly believe that you can convince a coalition to vote your way??? LOL!!
The sheer irrationality of Paul supporters is astounding.
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posted on
12/16/2011 8:06:20 AM PST
by
Sudetenland
(Anybody but Obama!!!!)
To: SeekAndFind
the sad part is I actually got some Paultards to pick up the "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" phrase- they had no clue
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posted on
12/16/2011 8:10:23 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: Utmost Certainty
Ya gotta be kidding me!!? Most of us here don't want Romney but you have to at least admit Romney is not a blame America firster. Not to mention the Anti Semitisim and the racism in Paul's newsletter and the fact that he doesn't believe that Iran wants to wipe out any country that doesn't share their despicable beliefs. Ron Paul belongs with the Shelia Jackson Lee's of the Congress a nutbag who is dangerous and has way to much power and influence.
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posted on
12/16/2011 8:11:07 AM PST
by
mk2000
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