Ron Paul always does well in straw polls but never does well in primaries. . He has yet to break out of single-digit support in any national poll taken yet he receives far more media coverage than any of the other fringe candidates. Tthe question is not why does Ron Paul get so little media recognition, the question is why does he get so much?
“Four years ago, Mike Huckabee came in a bad second to Romney, losing by 13.4 percentage points. Huckabee managed to spin that into a victory at Ames and became a media darling. But Paul almost wins the thing and he remains poison.” - Paul Simon, Politico.
In head to head matchups, Ron Paul polls competitively against Obama. Better than most of the ordained “front runners”. The only place where Paul cannot seem to gain traction is with the old guard, status quo Republicans, who seem dead set on selecting a candidate will alienate the independent middle and pro-life Democrats who would otherwise vote against Obama.
Agreed, but the problem is bigger than the government corruption staining both parties who basically bow down to the force that is strong enough to determine the political landscape. And We, the People? I contend that we would not have this evil if we were not guilty of a wholesale abandonment of the Christian faith and godly values which has caused us to lose our vision of the basic principles of the Constitution. On May Day there was a march in Los Angeles that should frighten every American as the Democrat Progressives, the SEIU and the CPUSA joined hands, no longer caring that their support for one another be concealed from the public. Except for isolated blogs that reported the incident and took actual pictures of the signs which extolled Communism, the American people looked the other way and expressed no outrage over such an affront against their Republic.
No surprise there-I would vote for Paul in a head-to-head matchup with Obama. , Ron Paul has no chance of winning the Republican nomination and if by chance he did get it he would be utterly destroyed in the general election. It is not a matter of an evil conspiracy between Jews, communists, , facists , the press, neocons, etc- it’s because he offers wacky ,simplistic solutions to complex problems. . He has no support on either side of the political spectrum.
Couldn’t have said it better.
“wacky, simplistic solutions”?? Here, let me translate: CONSTITUTIONAL SOLUTIONS. There, that’s better. “No support on either side of the political spectrum”?? Here, let me translate: No support among neo-marxists and neo-conservatives but PLENTY of support among pro-life, pro-constitution conservatives, independents and democrats - in other words, plenty of support among the people who will decided the next election.
I guess this would be the first time in history that neo-Marxist and neoconservatives got together to form a conspiracy to block the election of somebody who didn’t have a chance in hell of being elected anyway.
Nonsense. The Church specifically said that a candidates support or non-support of war did not rise to the level of abortion. . In fact, the only other thing the church mentions coming even close is racism, , which is problematic for supporters of a man who does not believe the government has any business interfering with forced segregation and enforcing antidiscrimination laws.
He has as better chance of beating Obama than he does of being supported by the so-called conservative Republican Party. So I guess you are partly correct. The question is not what Republicans are going to do but what are Catholics going to do.
50+% are going to vote for Obama regardless. Most of the rest will vote for whatever poster boy Republican is thrown up there.
Either no vote is a wasted vote, or all votes are wasted votes.
By mainstream and fringe I mean he’s neither fish nor fowl, i.e. neither conservative nor liberal: he’s a libertarian. That is outside the norms of American political discourse. This isn’t an argument by the way, it’s just an observation that I think any neutral observer will agree with.
warning warning - - - logic error - - - false dichotomy
It is the inability of Ron Paul supporters to see that people can actually disagree with his positions without having been misled, that make it so hard to have a rational discussion with them I’ve pretty much decided I’m going to ignore any post that has the term “neocon” in it.
Interesting thoughts, but it’s far too late in the day for this. If Catholics voted like Catholics, there wouldn’t be a Democrat in the White House or either house of Congress.
I believe Archbishop Chaput put it best: It’s not a matter of voting for the lesser of two evils, it’s a matter of voting to lessen evil"
How so?