Posted on 01/10/2012 2:45:06 PM PST by NKP_Vet
I want Ron Paul to become Secretary of Education with the goal of shutting it down and then move him to Department of Energy, etc.
The other possibility is that we are seeing cross-over voting. The ‘rats may have bought the media hype about Romney, so they crossed over and voted for Paul. Cross-over voting could be a real problem for the GOP this year.
Wow, what a brilliant strategy......he is a genius.
Nutjob Paul being a nutjob as usual! Screw him!
All he’s doing is trying to get rid of the three conservatives in the race which he has attacked 24/7 leaving Willard the Lib alone.
Only a fool doesn’t see this.
Let’s hope Huntsman does better tonight than Paul, and stays in to be to Willard what Perry is to Newt. A spoiler.
Btw, new polling today: GO NEWT!
2012 Republican Presidential Nomination Reuters/Ipsos
Romney 30, GINGRICH 20, Santorum 13, Ron Paul 16, Spoiler Perry 7, Hunts 3
General Election: Romney vs. Obama Reuters/Ipsos
Obama 48, Romney 43 Obama +5
The Libertarian party was split between a Conservative and Liberal wing. Ron Paul represented the Conservative wing, ......... Nevertheless the nomination went to Paul. Ron Paul argued, "Pro-life libertarians have a vital task to perform: to persuade the many abortion-supporting libertarians of the contradiction between abortion and individual liberty; and to sever the mistaken connection in many minds between individual freedom and the 'right' to extinguish individual life.
“There are only the two Reagan Free Market Conservatives in this race. The others besides Santorum all attack Business.”
There are times when business could use a kick in the pants. The short shortsightedness of outsourcing and commitment to short term gains can doom us all in the long run. Once a core competency has been ended it may not come back.
And seriously. “Mike, it wasn’t personal it was only business” is right on the money. Some of the “businessmen” today could use a little taste of reality when an industry is killed for short term gains. When we can no longer build anything because we have outsourced the technology AND the talent, we’ll all understand better that it isn’t just socialism that killed England. Becoming “a nation of clerks” did it, too.
The poll on Drudge is not exit polls from today. It’s his own poll of Drudge readers. And any online poll is always won by Paul because his Paulbots vote over and over and over.
Ron Paul attracts Code Pink commies by the trainload. No real libertarian gives hugs to commies. Ron Paul does.
Ron Paul is not a libertarian and never has been. Ron Paul talks the talk, but he goosesteps with collectivists.
BTW, Harry Browne hated Paul’s guts.
Those are not exit polls, they are unscientific online polls that mean nothing. Same kind Drudge was running on Iowa caucus day.
And while I think Paul is a kook and think Romney is a RINO chameleon, I actually agree with Paul on this. About the only thing Romney actually has going for him is his work at Bain Capital. Hearing Newt, Perry and others attack Romney over his work as a capitalist is sad. I think those are some of our candidates saying this stuff, but they sound like OccupyWallStreet idiots. Never thought I'd hear attacks on the free market and capitalism in our own primary.
But Paul is being selective in whom to defend from unfair accusations. It is just a tactical ploy on his part. He can see all of the “non-Romney’s” fading one by one, until he is the last non-Romney standing, and receiving 30-40% of protest vote post February primaries...
As far as Gingrich, I always had a respect for him, tolerated some of his mis-steps. But I question his Kamikaze attack on Romney. Is this really how he wants to exit the stage as a statesman?
That is the Drugde poll results, sadly not NH
The comments on FR are getting weirder by the minute. If you read Paul's quote, he's simply saying what a lot of people are saying. That attacking Bain capital and the fact that they fired workers is a misunderstanding of how capitalism works. His comment is perfectly reasonable and one I agree with. Yet posters are taking this as evidence of some Paul / Romney conspiracy or "one liberal supporting another." That is bizzare.
People are way too caught up in the "horse race" aspect of the nomination. Paul is making a statement of principle defending free market economics, not conspiring to support Romney. And I say this as someone who is not supporting either of them.
People are throwing any s___t they can find up against the wall and seeing what sticks. Blindly attacking Romney with anything they can--even OWS arguments--and claiming anyone that disagrees with those arguments is a liberal. Its bizzare.
Not everyone agree with that tactic, but he is the candidate and it's his campaign. Also there is bad with a capital B blood between Paul and Newt. Newt recruited a Rat switch parties and primary Paul, so Paul going after Newt has a long history.
Couldn't agree more and this all started with Clinton putting a cap on what CEO pay could be considered an expense and stock options became standard part of the package. Instead of thinking long term CEOs now are incentivized to maximize the bottom line short term for bonuses.
“As far as Gingrich, I always had a respect for him, tolerated some of his mis-steps. But I question his Kamikaze attack on Romney. Is this really how he wants to exit the stage as a statesman”
If not for the kamikaze on Gingrich, flat-out LIES on the negative ads from Romney’s stooges in Iowa, Newt Gingrich would be the favorite for the nomination. The lowlife liberal Romney knew the ad was a fabricated pack of lies and went right ahead with it day after day after day. I hope Gingrich uses everything in his arsenal to completely destroy whatever chances this egotical creep has at getting the GOP nomination and in the process destroying whats left of the conservative wing of the party. Romney is as low as a damn snake. I only regret that he has not knocked that shyt eating smirk off his mugg during one of those debates. Now that I would pay to see.
“There are only the two Reagan Free Market Conservatives in this race. The others besides Santorum all attack Business.”
Romney profited from a $10 million bailout. That does not sound very “Free Market” to me. Shame on Ron Paul.
“Last week, Reuters profiled one company, Worldwide Grinding Systems, that went belly up after Bain invested in it. The company not only lost 750 jobs, but the federal government had to come in to bail out its pension fund, while Bain walked away with millions in profits.”
How is it conservative to bankrupt a company and throw it onto a taxpayer funded agency to bail out the destruction you caused...?
Legal? Apparently.
Conservative? I don’t think so.
And a big thank-you from this Yankee if that were to happen.
PUKE-KOOK 2012!
“And a big thank-you from this Yankee if that were to happen.”
A pleasure to oblige, to be sure.
*spins cylinder on a LeMat revolver*
(Figuratively of course, for all of you American Stasi out there)
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