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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs it possible the GOP may just throw up its hands and go with Ron Paul?
He may be a closet racist, he may be too liberal on a few issues (and too crazy on the rest of them), he may advocate libertarianism to a degree that few are comfortable with, and he may be in his late 70's...
But the one thing positive thing you can say about Ron Paul (and to be clear, I'd never vote for him) is that he doesn't seem to be a hypocrite--at least, not as obviously, demonstratively hypocritical as Mitt "Average Joe" Romney and Newt "Family Values" Gingrich. And don't forget, he still has a fan base that would walk through fire for him...
If the two of them cancel each other out with their negative campaigning and media vetting, and Santorum remains as big of a religious nutjob as he is now, might we see a GOP convention that nominates Ron Paul to go up against Obama? Stranger things have happened...or have they?
ellisonz
(27,709 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)He thinks it's fine for state governments to repress their citizens -- just not the Federal government.
But in any case, they're not going to nominate him.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Fabulous gowns and wigs! Not to mention the shoes and 'pose offs'.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... with that and say Ru Paul is more than either Ron Paul OR Rand Paul to be POTUS. Ru Paul is the only sane member of the entire Paul Family.
MADem
(135,425 posts)ZM90
(706 posts)Someone on DU said that I thought it was brilliant so I figured I'd repeat it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)That was several days ago, and I'm sorry I didn't capture a copy of it at the time. I hope someone will post it again.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Woof, woof....run, Sparky, RUN!
RZM
(8,556 posts)'Throwing up their hands' means selecting either Romney, Gingrich, or Lil' Ricky.
Paul just has no chance, period.
What would be interesting is if the nominee asks Rand Paul to be their running mate. That would be something (though it's also unlikely, albeit less so).
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)As Sister Sarah waves to no one there.
Which brings to mind the philosophical question, if Sarah waves, and no one is there, does anyone wave back, hoping she sees them?
And now as dozens of Sister Sarah's fans, pared down to just relatives of hers by now, cross their eyes trying to figure that one out, the bus pulls slowly away from the train station as the taxi driver asks for his fare from the cuckoo clock.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)But in the case of Sarah, another turkey goes in the chopper...
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)and the Republicans want to control government, not nominate a guy who has never played ball with them or anyone else.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)It will be Romney and always has been.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)it would cost them the congress.
Not going to happen.
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B Calm
(28,762 posts)to being a good republican. He'll never get the nomination!
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Hopefully it will be deliciously ugly for our amusement.
Owlet
(1,248 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)If the current troupe of Republican schmucks were a Vaudeville act, they would have been yanked off the stage a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)This would be just as likely as the Republicans deciding to nominate Angela Davis for President with a pledge to establish Soviet style communism in America. Ron Paul advocates a fundamental reversal of the universal post-World War II bipartisan agreement on America's role in the World as well as a reversal of universally held basic and fundamental bipartisan assumptions about monetary policy at the most basic level. The more radically pro-capitalist of the two capitalist parties - the more extreme militarist of America's two militarist parties are not going to nominate anyone from either the left or the right who is committed to dismantling their most basic institutions. This is not even remotely plausible on any level.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)First, you imply that the Republican base might chose him because he isnt as hypocritical as Mittens and The Newt. IMO the Republicon based couldnt care less about that.
Second, IMO the authoritarian masters of the party will decide who is going to win and then manipulate the base. IMO the "masters" like Mittens. The Newt is too loose of a canon. When Rove is done with him he wont have a chance.
JSnuffy
(374 posts)Most folks I run into seem to fall in the category of "I love Ron Paul except for his international and defense policies"