Ron Paul big on 'Net, but media don't notice

Chicago Tribune ^ | August 8, 2007 | Clarence Page

[CenTexConfederate]

I’m his base and I’m not loonie. I suspect you really don’t have anything substantial to say on the subject.

[soccermom]

Uh huh....

[soccermom]

You may not be a loon, but a disproportionately high number of loons comprise his base.

[Dean Baker]

“Central Texas Confederate”????

Ummmm...Oh, nevermind.

[CJ Wolf]

“Uh huh....”

John Cougar Mellencamp - 1983

[Oberon]

But the fact is that Paul has no really support.

I support Ron Paul. I've told friends about him, friends who were discouraged that there were no real conservative candidates for President. He'll get a couple of extra votes this year thanks to me.

It ain't much, but it's something.

[SJackson]

Misunderstood, I though you were suggesting he’d approach his internet poll standings in public polls.

[soccermom]

Hey, John Cougar Mellencamp sounds like he might be a big fan of Paul!

[sofaman]

ah yes...

the "Neocons"... code for "Jews"...

[CJ Wolf]

I think he’d like gore more.

[soccermom]

Hee hee! Here’s a celebrity wish list from the aPaulogists. I see the Dixie Chicks come right to mind:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/archive/index.php/t-442.html

[soccermom]

I dunno about that. After all, when Gore was VP, he supported the resolution for regime change in Iraq. Mellencamp didn’t even want to respond to Afghanistan. Sounds more like a Kucinich/Paul guy.

[airborne]

If Paul should decide to run as a third party candidate, whose champagne do you think he’ll be peeing in?

[CenTexConfederate]

What are you suggesting? Rush Limbaugh, William F. Buckley, George Will, Robert Novak Paul Weyrich etc etc etc, all use the term NeoCon!

[P-40]

Hopefully everyone’s.

[Designer]

""Neocons"... code for "Jews"..."

Interesting that you are attempting to expand and change the meaning in order to assert your obviously racist tendancies.

[pacelvi]

I didn’t know that.

Three strikes.. he’s out.

[airborne]

LOL!

I prefer beer!

[mnehring]

I’m his base and I’m not loonie

I don't think you are. I believe Paul's base comes from three very different groups:

• Traditional conservatives who are desparate for a return to 100% pure core values. (I would consider you, Xenalite and a few others in this category) While I admire your intentions, I believe that you are being led off a cliff by Paul who is using the Constitution as a Pied Piper flute.
  
• Those who are afraid of some CFR/TriLateral/NeoCon conspiracy to control the world, or worse, 9/11Truthers. (hopefully not to many here, but sometimes I wonder).
• Liberals who either like Paul's position on the WOT & Iraq or HSW types who see it as a way to split our side, especially with the hope that Paul could go third party.

[Designer]

"whose champagne do you think he’ll be peeing in?"

Hopefully the globalist neo-cons and the globalist Marxists.