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The Spectacle Blog
Tonight Mitt Romney will beat Ron Paul in the Texas primary, and possibly clinch the Republican presidential nomination. But the Paul network will be active in the state’s Senate primary, like other races across the country. BuzzFeed reports:
Quietly, from the remnants of two failed presidential campaigns and the formidable online Paul organizations, a political machine is being born. The Paul agenda of extremely limited government, suspicion of economic elites, and their true outsider street cred have broad appeal in their party’s politics that go well beyond the sometimes-eccentric standard-bearer. The Republican Senate nominees in Wisconsin and Minnesota this cycle owe their nomination in part to the Paul influence. A Paul acolyte, Ted Cruz, is on the cusp of an upset victory over the establishment favorite in Texas Republican Senate primary. And Paul’s son Rand, the junior senator from Kentucky, is now mentioned seriously as a prospect for the 2016 Republican nomination should Mitt Romney fall short in November.
This new attention to state races is, a Paul advisor said, a matter of strategy.
I wouldn’t say that Cruz is a “Paul acolyte” in the same sense as some candidates running explicitly as Ron Paul Republicans. But Cruz has the support of both Pauls, among many other conservatives, and we’ll see if he can force a runoff tonight. (Since some commenters will bring up Paul no matter what I post about, figure I might as well have a genuine Paul-related blog entry.)
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Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 1:41PM
Ron Paul. Barf and crap.
His supporters fade in light,
Nazi checks taken.
Marco2| 5.29.12 @ 4:17PM
Yes, yes, yes, to RP barf and crap, and may his goon squads soon perish. Many of his cretins conflate the fate of the republic with the legalization of doobies. An ill-mannered, idiot lot, indeed, and which our republic does not need.
C Bowen | 5.29.12 @ 4:22PM
Classic Occam quote:
http://spectator.org/blog/2011.....tcontainer
"They should be suffering and inconvenienced---not us. Without pity, remorse, or mercy. At minimal cost in American dollars and lives. Leave them poisoned, deformed, crying, and broken in spirit, soul, and mind. Make their survivors build the Mexican wall for us, without pay, under the lash. Let their future be a boot crashing down on a human face, forever."
Occam's Tool 6/18/11
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 4:52PM
If the Iranians do not stop their nuclear weapon program and desire to murder their neighbors, exactly what happened to the Germans and Japanese should happen to them, Bowen. It disturbs me to be inconvenienced because we don't want to hurt those who torment us.
Perhaps you would rather see millions of Americans or Israelis dead than these douchebags who have been nothing but terrorists since 1979 suffer. As a Paulbot, I'm fairly certain of it.
Me, I'd rather win and my enemies lose. And building the Mexican wall would be a useful enterprise compared to child rape and murder of innocents. You, of course, are entitled to feel differently. That's why this is a great country.
Red Phillips | 5.29.12 @ 5:05PM
"If the Iranians do not stop their nuclear weapon program"
Our own intel says they are not pursuing nuclear weapons. You know more than the CIA?
"and desire to murder their neighbors"
Our intel and sound scholarship, as opposed to interventionist hysterical fearmongering, does not support the Iran as martyr state myth.
"Me, I'd rather win and my enemies lose."
You would rather preventively kill people just to be on the safe side. There is a word for that. It's called barbarism.
It must be uncomfortable to always be so afraid. Write yourself some Prozac to help you with this anxiety condidtion you have.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:24PM
Our last NIE was shown to be wrong. Keep up.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:49PM
On Sptember 10, 2011, no one believed that The WTC could be taken down by terrorists flying airplanes into it.
Comic book stuff. Also comic book stuff: cartoonists being attacked in DENMARK, a WESTERN country with CENTURIES of Western civilization, for drawing pictures.
Comic book stuff.
C Bowen | 5.29.12 @ 6:38PM
So after months of silence, I have finally generated a response from you on your quote? And this is it?
I have posted your quote and a link at least 25 times, and you ran and hid--and once you tried to make nice, and I have to admit, I really thought about it--but today, you defend.
You stand by it?
The US of A gives Iraq to Iran--which you supported--and now you are trying to play the hawk?
When you get serious, call for the criminal prosecution of those who favored the Iraq war, and then continue your tough guy attitude--that is the only way out for you and only chance.
Abortion has taken 50 million; Iran not quite that many. I am believer in Western civilization so I have my doubts "Iran" is capable of building a weapon or a delivery system that can kill millions--that is comic book stuff.
Child rape and murder of innocents? Now you are just being Janet Reno silly.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:25PM
Islam in Iran supports child rape and murder of innocents. You support Iran getting a nuke.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:42PM
It's not cutting off foreign aid that you prefer. It's not money that is the major issue. It is staying neutral against evil. We are not scumbags like the Swiss.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:46PM
I have responded many times before, Bowen. You can't read too well. Comes from the venereal diseases from sucking too much jihadist dick.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:47PM
Pakistan has weapons that can kill millions, and they are no more advanced than Iran. You need to keep up, Bowen.
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 5:01PM
Mess with the US, die like the rest, Bowen.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 6:42PM
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha !
The Only Mess Tool Job Sees Is What Bibi Squirts On His Face.
GMK| 5.29.12 @ 6:48PM
HAHA! Good one.
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:25AM
ahhhh...another Widdle Cwint gay fantasy...when are you and Jackie in WI heading out to 'tie the knot?'
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 6:33PM
Uh Oh !
The Screwball Maniac Israel Firster Smear Bund Goebbels Propagandist Neo-Chickenhawk Coward Traitor Bastard Bibi Cabana Boy,Tool Job Is In The Builkding.
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:28AM
time to pack up the 'cut&paste;' machine, Widdle Cwint-the Tinfoil Tinhorn, Dr Earmark, has gotten TOASTED-and his own home state has OVERWHELMINGLY rejected him...my God, he barely beat Self-Righteous Ricky, who's not even running! how pathetic is THAT??????????
Don| 5.29.12 @ 2:26PM
I see the anti-Paul trolls have arrived early with their tired bag insults and cliches. You would think as much time as they spend obsessing about their irrartional fears of Ron Paul, Jewish conspiracies, secret commies, and free heroin for all, these folks could at least contribute something to a debate on policy or the direction of the country,
Bill| 5.29.12 @ 2:37PM
Ron Paul? A Fading Glory.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 6:46PM
Actually Little Billy,You RINO-CINO's Are Fading And Never Were Glorious.
" Rush Limbaugh: Romney Is Not A Conservative
The reason is simple: Romney is not a conservative. He's not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn't. "
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:29AM
faded wad of Kleenex, is more like it
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 2:50PM
Buzz Feed says, "The Paul agenda of extremely limited government, suspicion of economic elites, and their true outsider street cred have broad appeal in their party’s politics.."
The thing is, it isn't REALLY the above with these guys.
The truth is that they're closer to anarchistic, anti-Israel in general, and anti-military. They're also for the legalization of drugs and everything else.
Truth in advertising, I tell ya.
The above statement by Buzz Feed makes them sound conservative, but they aren't.
And that's why they should go back to their true party of origin and stay there~ the Libertarian party.
But they won't, because it's too clear where they stand.
By registering as Republicans, they can sneak in like wolves in sheep's clothing and take it over. Or try to.
And yes, that's what I consider them, wolves. So sue me.
Mr. Antle, you do what you have to do here, but do you really believe in this stuff??
Steve in Ohio| 5.29.12 @ 4:24PM
I am a Christian conservative, not libertarian, who supports Ron Paul as do a number of my like minded friends. We support Israel, but not interventionism. Did we make Israel safer by invading Iraq? And we are not anti military. I have two kids in ROTC who also like Ron Paul.
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 4:56PM
You sound like a decent human, Steve, but I don't think you've checked Paul's background, his newsletters (which he profitted from) or who he gets checks from (like StormFront). You need to check Paul's votes on Israel more closely, say, since 1989 and the fall of the Berlin wall. Invading Iraq and taking out Saddam was a good thing. Nation building attempts for scum was worthless. Nation destroying costs far less than nation building, and far fewer lives. We toppled Iraq with fewer than 500 casualties all told, I believe.
Rep. Paul votes with Rep. Kucinich on foreign policy. Do NOT take my word for it. Check THOMAS and see.
I have a good friend who ran the Army Rule of Law Training program who thinks Paul's Foreign Policy positions are crap.
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 7:24PM
Well put, O.T. and Oldefarte and Crassus.
Steve, a fellow Ohioan am I now. (North east). You?
Anyway, I was actually referring mostly to the Libertarian "leaders" and the Libertarian party's leanings in my post. And you don't usually join together with someone unless you're in agreement.
And if you think Ron Paul is in any way pro military, he isn't. He wants to gut it.
I hope you will check more into what Ron Paul actually believes and why, and whom he actually votes with and thinks like.
Can you say, Maxine Waters? Barney Frank? As Occam said~ Dennis Kucinich.
Just because the man can talk a good talk (supposedly) on "fiscal" matters, doesn't mean he's conservative. Conservative is more than just about fiscal matters. Yeah, being fiscally conservative is a good thing, but his mindset is warped concerning terrorism, et al.
He actually came out and stated on t.v. that the "terrorists are terrorists because of us!"
He's all wrong.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 8:05PM
Ronald Reagan,
"Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country."
" Dr. Ron Paul served in the United States Air Force as a flight surgeon for several years (1963-1965). While in the air force, Paul reached the rank of Captain. Directly after his service in the air force, Paul worked again as a flight surgeon for the United States Air National Guard (1965-1968).
" Paul served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force in the 1960s, spending time on the ground in countries like Ethiopia, Iran, Pakistan, South Korea, and Turkey. He also sits on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs."
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 8:21PM
Ronals Reagan,
" If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are traveling the same path."
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 7:47PM
Now,The Rest Of The Story.
Ron Paul "I don't want white supremacists support"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gKXyBgr24c
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:26PM
"But I'll take their money, and I'll let them write for my newsleters."
Actions speak louder than words.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 7:59PM
" Disaffection with the politics of shock and awe runs deep among men and women who have served in the military during the past decade of conflict. Only 32 percent think the war in Iraq ended successfully, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. And far more of them would pull out of Afghanistan than continue military operations there."
Israel Fitster Smear Bund Traitor Bastard Bibi Cabana Boy,Tool Job Wouldn't Know Real Conservatism If It Jumped Up And Bit His Neo-Chickenhawk Ass.
Read George Washington's Farewell Address, Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address, The Old Right And Get Back To Us.
" George Will, "Today, we have a very different kind of foreign policy. It’s called Wilsonian. And the premise of the Bush Doctrine is that America must spread democracy, because our national security depends upon it. And America can spread democracy. It knows how. It can engage in national building. This is conservative or not?"
William F. Buckley, " It’s not at all conservative. It’s anything but conservative. It’s not conservative at all, inasmuch as conservatism doesn’t invite unnecessary challenges. It insists on coming to terms with the world as it is …”
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:32AM
it's over, Widdle Cwint...O-V-E-R!!!!! DrEarmark, the Tinfoil Hat Tinhorn, the darling of the 9/11 truthers, StormFront, KKK, the Birchers, and assorted nutcases, the man widely known as being crazier than a shithouse rat, has gotten STOMPED on his own home turf---here's the cold hard truth:
RON PAUL WILL NEVER EVER EVER BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
EVER.
God Bless America-the system works!
Red Phillips | 5.29.12 @ 5:07PM
Hello Margie.
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 7:26PM
Hi. Still believing the same old stuff, huh Red?
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 8:11PM
Still American Spectator's Resident Anti-Catholic Apocalyptic Crank Lady White Trash Bigot, Margie.
Now,Tell All The Practicing Jews Where You Say They Go When They Die, And After You Get Done Usin' Them For Your Apocalyptic Agenda.
You're Up Zany Crazed Bigot Broad, Apocalyptic Crank Lady, Margie
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 6:54PM
American Spectator's Resident Anti-Catholic Bigot, Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie Is One Of Mittens' Israel Firster Kittens.
Ronald Reagan,
"Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country."
Now Margie ,Tell All The Practicing Jews Where You Say They Go When They Die & You're Done Usin' Them For Your Agenda.
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 7:26PM
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 8:15PM
Now,Tell All The Practicing Jews Where You Say They Go When They Die.
Mittens The Cat Got Your Tongue Bigot Broad Margie.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:29PM
Since we Jews do not care about the afterlife, Clint (read the latest issue of TAS, which I have received in hardcopy as I subscribe), who cares? (We do not need rewards, you see, for we trust in the L-rd.)
What I care about is what Margie wants to do to Jews on this planet, in this life. You, Bowen, Jack, and all your little toads want to see them killed in mass quantities. She wishes to keep them alive and well.
FeFe| 5.29.12 @ 3:32PM
As Mr. Lord just pointed out, Meghan McCain gets a lot of earned media bashing conservatives.
http://spectator.org/blog/2012.....snt-get-it
The Ron Paul R3volution is no different.
Cam| 5.29.12 @ 4:03PM
Ron Paul speaks out against anti-freedom laws like NDAA and the Patriot act. Romney and Obama support NDAA and the Patriot act. Why would anyone support a law that takes away due process from the American people?
Crassus| 5.29.12 @ 5:22PM
RuPaul also supported Cynthia McKinney for President in 2008. How do you like them apples, Junior?
GMK| 5.29.12 @ 6:53PM
What a fool. Tough talk on the keyboard by fearful half-wits still sh*tting baby food.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 7:00PM
Now, The Rest Of The Story.
"Ron Paul Endorsed the Whole Third-Party Field.
“Presidential elections turn out to be a charade more than anything else,” Paul said, and so he urged his supporters to vote for candidates who would expand the debate beyond the major party’s platforms."
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 7:28PM
He WOULD say that. He's an idiot.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 8:25PM
Ronald Reagan,
"Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country."
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:34AM
so is Clint...turds of a feather get flushed together
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:30PM
Yes. He supported Cynthia McKinney. Like you, he's a blithering idiot.
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 4:18PM
Some of the economic planks that Paul faction submits I agree with, but his foreign policy of apparent anti-Israel I cannot and will not support. Their theories of allowing Israel to handle their own ME problems are a little bit over the top and excessive, since Israel's problems are the US's as well. Their ideas that Muslim terrorists are inflamed due to the US's presence within their lands is asinine, since same may be a factor but the overriding one is their religious radicalization [anyone doubting same have only to examine the contents of the Sharia Law's treatment of women and children as basically chattel/property]. No, IMHO, the Paulistas are using the Republican Party as a trojun horse, when they could care less about same!!!!!!!!!!!
C Bowen | 5.29.12 @ 4:23PM
Bibi and the neocons wrote and entire foreign policy piece (Clean Break) in 1996 that supports Paul's position.
Please tell me you have read Clean Break before writing a post on the subject?
Oldefarte| 5.29.12 @ 4:55PM
Want to talk Bibi? Try this [and then we'll discuss the possibility of WHY ALSO THIS US ADMINISTRATION IS SO IGNORING THIS SYRIAN SLAUGHTER]:
'.....Breitbart.com Syria: Netanyahu .... by Joel B. Pollak 8 hours ago Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has linked Iran and its Lebanese client, the terrorist group Hezbollah, to the massacre of innocent civilians in Syria. In a statement issued by Netanyahu's office on May 27, the prime minister declared: "Iran and Hezbollah are an inseparable part of the Syrian atrocities and the world needs to act against them."The Syrian opposition would seem to agree. Sources told Israel's left-wing Ha'aretz daily that North Korea and Russia continue to send arms to the regime of Bashar al-Assad--weapons that are funded by Iran. The Assad regime is one of Iran's most important clients, and provides the Tehran regime a layer of military and diplomatic insulation, as well as assisting Hezbollah with weapons and logistical support. The collapse of the Syrian dictatorship might mean greater uncertainty for the Arab world, but a definite setback for Iran and its regional ambitions.Whatever military action is taken against Iran--likely by Israel, likely inevitable, and likely soon--it is clear that Iran is already fighting a proxy war to maintain its ability to threaten its neighbors and the world beyond......'
C Bowen | 5.29.12 @ 8:04PM
It's true. Bibi is a politician and is now supporting Al-Qaeda's forces in Syria.
Why do you think that is?
Occam's Tool| 5.29.12 @ 4:59PM
Paul's position is not in keeping with Clean Break. He believes that the Islamists are no threat to the US if we abandon Israel. He is a fool.
Red Phillips | 5.29.12 @ 5:15PM
"abandon Israel"
Occam, your choice of words betrays you. How can we "abandon" Israel? To abandon something you must first own it or owe it some allegiance. As in a mother abandoning her child. What exactly do we owe Israel that we would be "abandoning?"
The Islamists WOULD BE less of a threat if we were perceived as neutral in their conflicts, which is exactly what we should be as George Washington so presciently advised.
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 7:31PM
Abandon. As in, no longer support. I'm sure you can understand that. hmm?
C Bowen | 5.29.12 @ 8:06PM
Cutting off Foreign Aid means no longer support?
Who are you, Al Gore saying cutting off Medicare payments if killing old people?
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:30PM
We are opposed to the spread of Sharia law, Red. You are clueless as to strategic thinking. There is no point here.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:41PM
Yep, helped us with the Barbary Pirates real good, yah.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 7:20PM
" Ex-Israeli officials criticize Netanyahu’s bellicose stance on Iran
The former head of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency has criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak for adopting a bellicose stance on Iran, according to the Haaretz daily.
Yuval Diskin, who was speaking at a public meeting in Beit-ul-Moqaddas (Jerusalem) on Friday, said Israel’s political leaders are exaggerating the effectiveness of a possible military attack on Iran, AP reported.
“I don’t have faith in the current leadership of Israel…,” he stated.
“I do not believe in a leadership that makes decisions based on Messianic feelings,” Diskin added.
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan backed Diskin on Sunday, saying that he disagrees with Netanyahu’s policy on solving Iran’s issue, according to Haaretz.
He also called a strike against Iran’s nuclear program “stupid”, AP reported.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at a conference hosted by the Jerusalem Post in New York on Sunday that he is against an attack on Iran, criticizing Netanyahu’s policy on Iran, Bloomberg reported.
In addition, Israel’s military chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, in an interview with Haaretz published on April 25, said that he does not believe Iran will decide to develop nuclear weapons, describing the country’s leadership as “very rational”.
“I think the Iranian leadership is comprised of very rational people,” Gantz stated.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 7:10PM
Dr.Ron Paul,
“Our military’s purpose is to defend our country, not to police the
Middle East.
“As the President prepares to send even more support to Egypt, we should
be reminded that it was our foreign aid that helped Mubarak retain power
to repress his people in the first place. Now we have to deal with the
consequences of those decisions, yet we keep repeating the same mistakes.
“I am not the only one who can see the absurdities of our foreign
policy. We give $3 billion to Israel and $12 billion to her enemies.
Most Americans know that makes no sense."
TexasMom2012| 5.29.12 @ 4:38PM
It is not the Paulbots that have helped Cruz. He has the endorsement of Sarah Palin and Rick Santorem as well as other conservative leaders along with TEA party support. And now the Paulbots are jumping on the bandwagon? LOL
If I believed that Cruz was completelt in line with Paul, I would have voted for Dewhurst as the lessor
of two evils. I like a lot of Paul's domestic policy but the federal government sets our foreign policy and I find too many of his positions there to be wing bat nuts or simply a rainbows and lollipops fantasy!
KEH| 5.29.12 @ 5:13PM
Rand Paul endorsed Ted Cruz long before Sarah Palin or Rick Santorum. Ron Paul endorsed Ted Cruz at the Tea Party express rally that Ron, Rand and Ted spoke at. This rally occurred before the Palin and Santorum endorsements. It is Palin and Santorum that are jumping on the bandwagon, not the Pauls.
Crassus| 5.29.12 @ 5:24PM
RuPaul the Senile didn't even know what a Tea Party was until some liberal journalist referred to him as the Godfather of the Tea Party movement. How's that for jumping on the bandwagon?
GMK| 5.29.12 @ 7:04PM
WRONG AGAIN, weirdo jack*ss. Keep talking... some of us might need a good laugh and retard fix.
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 7:38PM
" Tea partiers in two camps: Sarah Palin vs. Ron Paul
Tea party activists are divided roughly into two camps, according to a new POLITICO/TargetPoint poll: one that’s libertarian-minded and largely indifferent to hot-button values issues and another that’s culturally conservative and equally concerned about social and fiscal issues.
The survey, an exit poll conducted Thursday by Edison Research at the massive Tax Day protest on the National Mall, found that the attendees were largely hostile to President Barack Obama and the national Democratic Party — three-quarters believe the president “is pursuing a socialist agenda.”
Yet they aren’t enamored of the Republican Party as an alternative. Overall, three out of four tea party attendees said they were “scared about the direction” of the country and “want to send a message to both political parties.”
Palin, who topped the list with 15 percent, speaks for the 43 percent of those polled expressing the distinctly conservative view that government does too much, while also saying that it needs to promote traditional values.
Paul’s thinking is reflected by an almost identical 42 percent who said government does too much but should not try to promote any particular set of values — the hallmarks of libertarians. He came in second to Palin with 12 percent.
When asked to choose from a list of candidates for president in 2012, Palin and Paul also finished one-two — with Palin at 15 percent and Paul at 14 percent. "
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 7:29PM
Do Your Homework Mittens' Kitten.
" Santorum: Might As Well Have Obama Over Romney
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Republicans should give President Barack Obama another term if Santorum isn't the GOP nominee and for a second day compared rival Mitt Romney to an Etch A Sketch toy.
Santorum reiterated an argument he has made before: The former Massachusetts governor is not conservative enough to offer voters a clear choice in the fall election and that only he can provide that contrast.
"You win by giving people a choice," Santorum said during a campaign stop in Texas. "You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who's just going to be a little different than the person in there."
Santorum added: "If they're going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate for the future."
Santorum was referencing Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom's comment Wednesday that "everything changes" for the fall campaign. "It's almost like an Etch A Sketch," he said on CNN. "You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again."
The remark reignited criticism of Romney as the type of politician who will say or do anything to win."
Scorpio51| 5.29.12 @ 5:16PM
I'm not a Ron Paul supporter, but I'm just wondering when are the pundits going to report the REAL delegate count?
www.thereal2012delegatecount.com.
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:35AM
suuuuure you're not
nevadasmith| 5.29.12 @ 6:17PM
One day,say after Labor Day.The American voter is going to realize that,the only choice available to them for President is : Democratic same old and Republican same old.
Ron Paul
All men dream: but nor equally, Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses oftheir minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. I meant to make a new nation, to restore!
T.E. Lawrence from: "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
Restore US All Ron Paul
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:36AM
you might as well start campaigning for warren harding to run again...he's got as much chance as RuPaul
nevadasmith| 5.29.12 @ 6:24PM
The US could have had it All with Ron Paul.
Liberty and Freedom for US All from Ron Paul
What The Main Stream Media has called the Battle for The GOP is over. I expect that the Battle for America is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own American life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Country. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Obama knows that he will have to break us in this campaign or lose the Presidency. If we can stand up to him, all America may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if Ron Paul's America and The Ron Paul Revolution last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
"Winston Churchill" and Wikipedia
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that votes Ron Paul with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in America now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That voted with us upon Ron Paul's Election Day." Compliments to SHAKESPERE
MacGhil | 5.29.12 @ 7:55PM
You really deserve a better class of commenter, James. You're far too good a writer to have so many neoclown hacks venting their spleens with such wild abandon under your work.
Never have I ever seen such a hateful, bloodthirsty cult as these neo-Trotskyites in "conservative" clothes. Too bad this country's lousy with them-particularly in Washington and on both sides of the aisle.
They're just so stupid too. They acually buy all that crap about "hating us for our freedoms." And when they talk about RP's "insane" foreign policy, as they advocate for Wilsonian "spreading of democracy" by...waging endless Islamic theocracy-building wars? Talk about appeasement! Any other ways you want the terrorists to win, guys, aside from bankrupting the US on your nation-building misadventures, creating a massive and intrusive police state here at home, and nullifying the entire of Bill of Rights in order to "keep us safe?" These quivering weasels, who beg to have their mothers, wives and daughters irradiated, naked-scanned and/or molested by the TSA goons certainly have a lot of gall pretending like they're so tough. They are the biggest cowards on the planet.
Oh well. What can you do? Their glorious Welfare-Warfare-Police State will collapse soon enough. Maybe then they will finally go back to the Democrat party from whence they came, where the perpetually wrong and ineducable statists belong.
"[G]o home from us in peace. ... May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"
Only One Mediator Christ Jesus| 5.29.12 @ 8:56PM
Typical Leftist mindset. Always complaining that conservatives have taken away your rights.
What rights would that be, haughty Pontificator of all that is False?
Nothing is preventing you from spouting all of your nonsense (lies).
What exactly is it that we are preventing you from doing?
Clint| 5.29.12 @ 9:09PM
Obama Is A Tarpser, And Romney Is A Tarpster.
Obama Orchestrated Obamacare, And Romney Orchestrated Romneycare.
Obama Is A Chickenhawk, And Romney Is A Chickenhawk.
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
Bob Grant| 5.29.12 @ 9:17PM
ronpaul currently is under 10 percent...on his home turf. A long night for runpaul.
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:38AM
give it up, Tard...your tinfoil hat messiah has gotten his wrinkled old butt handed to him from sea to shining sea-even in his own state
sweeterjanf| 5.29.12 @ 11:56PM
Now They Are Trying To Give Us http://www.vendreshox.com/femm.....-c-15.html Romney Care,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:39AM
awwww....lookie-Widdle Cwint has a sock puppet! how pwecious is THAT?
spike59| 5.30.12 @ 6:24AM
attention Rontards:
it's OVER...i know it's hard for you to take YET AGAIN, but that's how it goes-get over it
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:36PM
By the way---Paul got his ASS stomped in Texas. ASS STOMPED. STOMPED. STOMPED HARD. IN HIS ASS. Red, Cwint, Jack, Bowen, other assorted Paulbot vermin and scum---ASS STOMPING OCCURRED. YOUR ASSES KICKED IN. STOMPED HARD. THEN WE TURNED YOU OVER AND STOMPED ON YOUR FACES, REAL DAMN HARD. HOBNAIL BOOTS ON YOUR FACES. FOREVER STOMPING HARD. BLOOD FLYING, JAW BREAKING, TEETH SHATTERING HARD FACE STOMPING. YOU BEGGED FOR MERCY BUT WE KEPT STOMPING AND STOMPING UNTIL ALL WE COULD HEAR WAS A GURGLE.
Now, go home, STFU, and leave the adults alone, and vote for Cynthia McKinney, who agrees with RP on foreign policy ALL THE WAY.
Nice job, Spike, by the way. You think I got the message through, Margie and Spike?
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:44PM
By the way, folks, just as Clint did, I am speaking of figurative, electoral face stomping.
YOU LOST BUTTWIPES! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Think I'll donate some more to Mitt.
Occam's Tool| 5.31.12 @ 5:52PM
Red, Bowen, and the other assorted clowns---promise me this and I will never insult either of you again---when the WMD attack occurs, you will go to the American site, or sites, and start the cleanup without protective clothing as penance. I will simply state---"remember your promise."
Before the Civil War started, one Congressman stated that he would blot up all the blood from that conflagration, should it occur, with his handkerchief.