GOP Operatives Fear Lasting Ron Paul Problem

Townhall.com ^ | August 23, 2011 | Byron York

[iopscusa]

“I once like Rush a lot better than Paul”, I agree, Rush and Levin both seem to be welded to their self perpetuating life lines @ the GOP/RNC....both have become shills for the statist on the Right. Neither appear to be able to do more than rant at their opponents! It’s time for a return to actual Conservatism, not the Repug Con!

[C.O. Correspondence]

It may come down to the question of: How much does the Republican establishment want those who would vote for Paul?

The next reasonable question would possibly be: How much does the Republican establishment need those who would vote for Paul?

If most of the comments on FREP that I've read about Paul are any indication, not many on this site care a whit for Paul and consider him an enemy as much as the Dems do. I don't know who I will vote for in the end, but it's kind of fun seeing all the liberal/progressives sweat in the GOP and the Dem party.

[longtermmemmory]

kook paul is comic relief proof of the MSM view of the GOP.

kook paul is their propaganda spin “insanity by association”

covering kook paul is just journalistic malpractice.

[gargoyle]

...Yea, write Palin in, waste yer vote. You'll be the one that gets Obama re-elected...

...I don't believe that but, that's the same sh!t a lot of us hear when we vote on the issues from FReaks like you...

...see ya...

[AndyJackson]

Paul has a libertarian take on things, and his supporters must have that same view. Therefore, I’m thinking they should be viewed as “independents.” Will they find the democratic party liberal social views the deciding factor, or will they find the republican party’s conservative fiscal policies to be more important.

You have, in a nutshell, summed up why the Republican party is going nowhere. You expel liberatrians a social liberals, when the libertarian view is to get government out of "social issues." Nothing is more abohrant to a libertarian than the Democrats. The fact that social conservatives see the republican party choices as RINOism or social conservativism, is a big problem, however.

[Buckeye McFrog]

"Ron Paul is going to destroy this party if they keep him in there,"

So how exactly to you propose to get him out of there, Rush? He has already proven that he is able to ride out a campaign till the end on relatively little money. And he doesn't seem amenable to appeals to do "the proper thing" in the name of GOP unity.

On the other hand if you piss the Good Doctor off he may just take his Band of Merry Paulestinians and make a third-party run at it.

[Notary Sojac]

If there were a candidate in the GOP primaries who was as clearly on message as Ron Paul regarding our last two decades of crony capitalism/asset bubbles, and that candidate was even a couple of notches closer to the conservative mainstream on social and foreign policy, he or she would be leading the polls and I believe would be the consensus favorite on FR.

But there is nobody like that. None of the other candidates has openly broken with the Wall Street-Federal Reserve bull---t.

[xzins]

A third party gives the win to Obama, but at the same time, I have no problem with people voting their principles if that’s what they decide they have to do.

I think Paul would not win. His foreign policy would undermine any national run.

I do think Rand Paul would make a great VP candidate, but he probably hasn’t been in Senate long enough....although Obama was.

I doubt Ron Paul as a VP candidate would help anything; his foreign policy would still kill the ticket.

[seekthetruth]

Just so everyone knows:

77% of Democrats (and Ron Paul) Voted Against Rules Of Engagement That Protect Our Troops
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/77_of_democrats_and_ron_paul_voted_against_rules_of_engagement_that_protect_our_troops.html