Paul People storm GOP straw poll
It’s worse than we thought. The growing disaffection within the Republican Party caused by the Bush presidency threatens to split the GOP like an atom in a nuclear reactor, if that hasn’t been accomplished already. It’s especially true here in California, evidenced by a recent dust-up in San Francisco between mainstream Republicans (MSRs) and supporters of GOP renegade Ron Paul. The SF Chronicle’s Matier and Ross (scroll down) wrote about it earlier this week. The free-for-all occurred about a week ago at a straw poll dinner that was rigged for GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson.
The Paul People, indignant they weren’t invited, crashed the dinner then taped the quarrel-fest they incited. The video is hard to watch and long, but you can hear a number of “Paultards” (so-dubbed by Wonkette) screaming about the downfall of the Republican Party.
It will be interesting to see how much of a force Ron Paul and his people will be in the presidential election. I don’t think Paul has a chance to win the Republican nomination. Not with the attitude of some of his people, who one MSR I’m close to compares to the Nazis' Sturmabteilung. Will Ron Paul be Ross Perot redux? Or will his web-fueled campaign crash and burn like Howard Dean’s in 2004?
I plan to blog more about the Ron Paul phenomenon in the coming week.
Comments
I have to beleive that given the ego of politicians, Ron Paul will have a hard time letting go of his sudden glory and will therefore try to turn his dark horse bid for the Republican nomination into an independent run for the White House. Translation? Good news for Democrats.
Posted by: James Faulk | December 14, 2007 11:31 AM
"Paultards"???
How mature.
You just lost a reader.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 14, 2007 04:51 PM
Don’t forget Ron Paul may actually be running higher than the polls suggest. I have seen some informal polls that show 75% of Ron Paul voters are first time primary voters. These people would not get picked up in a “likely” voter metric. But if they do turn out that would put Ron’s current support between 20% and 30%. That would be enough to win several early primaries and get the ball rolling.
Posted by: Mark Stromberg | December 14, 2007 05:35 PM
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Posted by: Andrew Bird | December 14, 2007 06:21 PM
Ron Paul not only has major support in the US, Despite the MSM is blocking him at every turn possible. If they do mention him it is always negative. Not to mention the polls, What a joke. I can come up with a poll that says I am the best or whatever result you pay for. How come he has raised more money from “the people” than any other? Why does he have support from all over the world? Why is following the U. S. Constitution "kooky" or "Fringe"? Oh it might level the playing field for everyone instead of a chosen few.
For all you people who are going to vote for someone else, why don't you go to youtube and look at the videos of Iraq? Look at all the innocent people that have been blown into pieces, all the kids and women who are suffering. Why don't you look at what war really is! Why doesn't the main stream media count all the thousands of our soldiers that commited suicide last year? Open your eyes! Is this what you want? For what?
I myself and most of the people around the world want peace. Ben Laden- What a joke!
He is just another CIA puppet. Follow the money.
He is nothing. So if you want more war vote for someone besides Ron Paul. The blood will be on your hands.
What do the other candidates really know about the economy and our monetary system? Not much at all. Ron Paul knows it well. He has been studing it for over 20 years. He wants a country more like Switzerland. Who is the president there? How many wars are they in? How is their economy?
If you would study history you would see that The US puppets and others have overthrown about a country a year for about the last 45 years and installed their new puppets. Our country is going to be a third world country in just a few more years if the masses don’t WAKE UP. It used to be that information took along time to gather and to find out what is really going on in the world. Now it can be done in an hour or so. It used to be people would find out what the US puppets had done 20 or 30 years after the fact. Everyone would say oh my %&$ can you believe that? Now there is no excuse for peoples ignorance to what is going on in the world today, besides laziness.
Just Google CIA Venezuela, Besides Iran it’s their other target. Where the hell does it stop! Wake Up America Get off your buts and educate yourselves. Stop beleiving all the lies from Washington and the Media. I for one want to leave my children a peaceful world.
Oh by the way, Oil is a sick joke. For one they have a 200 year supply in Alaska that they capped off not to mention the natual gas they are pumping right back into the ground. Actually we do not even need oil! All the technologies for virtually free power have been suppressed. Control the power control the people. Ever heard of Tesla? What if all you had to pay for was the manufacturing of a small device and you would have enough power for the rest of your life. Not much profit in that . Do you know that you can buy a car in Germany that gets over 100 miles a gallon? Did you know overseas you can buy a car that runs off of compressed air? Did you know there are cars that can run off water? Did you know that there are electric cars that produce so much extra energy that you can plug it into your house to power your home when your not driving it? Oh ya we have a Free Market here in the US! What a freakin joke. Can you say supression. What was the first car to win the first auto race in America? Yes an electric car. And you think we haven’t made any progress in how many years? Wake Up. So when they report this winter on all the people who have sufferd or died, Ask yourself Why? – Everyone should be on their own independant power. Look at all the people without power right now because of the ice storms. What makes me really sick is the unnecessary suffering and deaths. Why? profit and control. We need a truly free market for a better world.
Wake Up America. Quit being so freakin lazy and stupid, At least do it fot our children.
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