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Why Did Ron Paul Skip CPAC?

Why Did Ron Paul Skip CPAC?

Ron Paul, addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference last year, opted to skip the annual gathering this week. (AP)

Texas Rep. Ron Paul opted to skip this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, making him the only GOP presidential contender not to put in an appearance at the annual Washington gathering.

Paul‘s absence is curious considering he has dominated the conference’s presidential straw poll for the past two years, but campaign spokesman Gary Howard told Business Insider the candidate opted to skip CPAC to “concentrate on campaigning” — and perhaps put his supporters to better use:

Howard told Business Insider that the campaign knew that if Paul spoke at the conference this year, his fans would descend on Washington to listen and represent their candidate in the straw poll. With this in mind, the campaign decided that those human resources would be of far greater use in the field, Howard said, where Paul is gearing up to compete in 12 Republican nominating contests over the next few weeks.

But despite Howard’s explanation, Business Insider noted, Paul’s public schedule over the past several days has been relatively light. As the Washington Post reported on the first day of CPAC Thursday, Paul‘s campaign said he wouldn’t be attending due to “travel constraints” — even though he had no public events scheduled for the day.

While Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich each spoke to the conference Friday, Paul appeared on CNN from his home state of Texas and spoke about the Maine caucuses. He is spending the final day of CPAC in Maine, where he‘s hoping to extend Romney’s losing streak in the state’s caucuses Saturday.

“I think we have a very good chance,” Paul told caucus-goers Saturday morning, according to the Associated Press. Romney will “be better off if he wins it and I’m going to be a lot better off if I win. So this will give me momentum and it will just maintain his. It‘s a pretty important state as far as I’m concerned.”

As Business Insider noted, Paul’s CPAC absence could have the “added benefit” of “quelling tensions between the event‘s organizers and Paul’s staunchly libertarian fan base.” Despite sweeping straw poll votes, his vocal support base hasn’t yet translated into actual presidential contest wins, and his supporters have previously “raised a ruckus as their views — particularly those on foreign policy — came into conflict with those of the other CPAC attendees.”

Paul has also been known to take time off from the campaign trail during some key moments, the Post pointed out: He spent New Year’s in Texas ahead of the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3. He ultimately finished third.

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  • TruthHurtsBad
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:34am

    I love how snarky you neocons get whenever there is a Ron Paul article posted. It’s ok, keep making fun of him, and his supporters… we’ll treat you equally well in November.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:48am

      @TruthHurtsBad

      You clearly don’t know much about how we do things in America. What country are you from?

      We don’t take kindly to bullies here in America. You should probably go back where you came from.

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    • readytostand
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:59am

      RON PAUL is a fake and flake ! Why does ronnie run as a Republican, when he is an advocate for legalizing weed ! He knows he would never get any where showing what he truly is (LIBERTARIAN ) !!

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    • Ordie69
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:26pm

      Because I believe in the message that Ron Paul espouses, by proxy, in the eyes of his detractors, I must also be crazy. It isn’t a threat that due to the fundamental disagreement of the direction of the country, and how well Ron Paul supporters have been treated, that it will be next to impossible to support the status quo. If the majority of Republicans feel comfortable insulting my candidate and by proxy me, not on policy matters, but personal attacks, it is safe to say that Republicans feel they can do just fine without me. So feel free to bad mouth the only candidate with an understanding of, and adherence to, the Constitution. When you candidate loses to Obama, don‘t come crying that it was Ron Paul’s fault. The fault is your own. And before you say I am in the wrong country or not American, know that I spent 24 years of my life, defending your right to believe what you want in the Navy. I might not agree with you, but I will defend with my life your right to say it. I just don’t have to like it. So good luck come election time.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:26pm

      readytostand
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:59am

      RON PAUL is a fake and flake ! Why does ronnie run as a Republican, when he is an advocate for legalizing weed ! He knows he would never get any where showing what he truly is (LIBERTARIAN ) !!
      ==============================================

      You’ve certainly got a lot to learn then:

      “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.”
      -Ronald Reagan, July 1, 1975
      http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan/singlepage

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:18pm

      @Ordie69
      If you do something that you KNOW will help 0bama get reelected, then yes, it will be your fault that you helped him get reelected. ..And, it will be your fault when 0bama finishes bringing the country down. This is not a matter of anybody’s opinion. It’s just pure logic.

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    • American Soldier (Separated)
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:25pm

      @QPWillie but I bet you support sanctions on Iran. If that‘s not the definition of BULLY I don’t know what it.

      Ron Paul doesn’t want to legalize weed, he wants to legalize LIBERTY.

      Tell me, what is the difference between getting high and getting drunk?

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:31pm

      @READYTOSTAND..WHy does he want legalized weed? Maybe it’s because it is costing the tax payers money to pay for the criminalization of a substance substantially less harmful than alcohol.There is not even a comparison.. He wants to give the authority back to the states,..so if you want to pay big bucks in your state to put a bunch of harmless pot smokers in the pokey..be our guests…

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:49pm

      QPWILLIE
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:18pm
      @Ordie69
      If you do something that you KNOW will help 0bama get reelected, then yes, it will be your fault that you helped him get reelected. ..And, it will be your fault when 0bama finishes bringing the country down. This is not a matter of anybody’s opinion. It’s just pure logic.

      __________________________________________________________________________________

      Then by logic, you should vote for Ron Paul because you KNOW Ron Paul supporters are passionate and are not going to go against their principals and vote the status quo. They will vote for Ron Paul if they have to write his name on the ballot. So, again, by your own standards, you need to be behind Ron Paul or lose to Obama.

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    • readytostand
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:52pm

      @kidcharliemagne – First off Reagan may have been one of the greatest Presidents this country has had (which is a sad statement because they ALL should be) but that does not make him God. But if you read his statement you posted he said “general description” NOT the same! When you get to SPECIFICS – they are not the same and Ron Paul and his “Paul-Bots” have NO business trying to involve themselves in the REPUBLICAN process- It’s an INFESTATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Ordie69
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:13pm

      @QPWILLIE

      Sorry friend. I have paid any debt I might have had to this nation with 24 faithful years of honorable military service. I do not owe you, the Republicans, the Democrats, or anyone else in this country one more second of my life. I have earned the right to vote for whomever I so choose. If the candidate I vote for does not win, then so be it. To try shame me into voting for a candidate that I do not support by trying to lay blame on me, if your candidate can not get the votes to win is like blaming pencils for bad grades in school. I do not bear any ill towards you and yours and I respect that you will vote for whomever you want. I have supported your right to do so my entire adult life. I will never vote the least of 2 evils and quite frankly I do not see a very large degree of difference between the “other” 3 candidates and Obama. So, with all due respect, take your silly argument to someone that it will work on. Good day sir.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:14pm

      @TheWholeTruth
      You Paulbots never were good at logic. I will vote to save our country by stopping a plan that is already 70% implemented. If my vote helps save the country, I’ll gladly own my part in that. On the other hand, when your vote helps destroy the country, you’ll have an obligation to own your part in that. Hiding behind claiming principles doesn’t change the truth. People with real principles will do whatever it takes to try to save our country.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:31pm

      The whole statement of purpose from the Paulbot cult is one big lie. If you want to talk about principles, why don’t you just go work for the 0bama campaign instead of stooping down in some shady little cult which is there for the sole purpose of helping 0bama get reelected?

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:53pm

      Truth hurts is right.

      The Ron Paul supporters are the true party conservatives and the ones mature enough to admit the mistakes we’ve made and are trying to correct them by dragging the party back to the right. The reason “the kids” flock to him is they don’t usually have to admit to themselves (like I did) that I never should have supported Bush or the Iraq war.

      We were wrong people. We can keep denying it, or we can look it in the eye and work to make things right. Voting for another McCain isn’t going to accomplish that.

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:17pm

      Libertarians by catagoization are fiscally conservative and socially liberal, that does not make them a “conservative” any more than “Blue dog democrats” who are likewise fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

      Now if you want to argue the Libertarians are “Constitutional Conservatives” that dog has fight. But they are not “Conservative” in the common use of the word.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:17pm

      Ron Paul has done more to futher the cause of liberty and freedom than any of ther other candidates combined. And the fact that you war mongers cant see that makes it even more beliveable that yall will get us into ww3 very soon.

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:29pm

      @QPWILLIE
      The nursing home called. It’s time to get off the computer and change your diaper.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMwVjKx8PfY&feature=plcp&context=C33511c3UDOEgsToPDskLCa0FeBG08_B6counzPy-1

      Who let you go without your helmet?

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 12:54pm

      Hello… people… Ron Paul isn’t about to legalize drugs. He wouldn’t keep it a federal issue, leaving it up to the several States, as stated in the Constitution, to decide whether to decriminalize it or not. The Federal Government‘s influence wasn’t ever supposed to leave Washington… Buh-bye ATF, Buh-bye DEA. There’s 2 federal agencies gone.

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    • LibertarianRight
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:36pm

      @QPWILLIE

      The plan may be 70% implemented, but you are choosing to get rid of a guy who wants the other 30% and replacing with a guy (Romney) who wants 29.9% of it. Big frakking deal. I’ll stick with the guy who actually wants to return this country to the CONSTITUTION – Ron Paul.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:49pm

      QPWillie.. completely agree with you. People that throw their vote away in November on a “write in” just because “their guy” isnt there, will carry the burden for Obama’s reelection.

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  • oddball130
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:33am

    LMAO, umm, maybe because in the true meaning of the word, he’s not a conservative. He’s passed 1 bill that he sponsored in his 30 plus years in office. And that was transferring property. He’s a loon, and I’m in Texas.

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    • justangry
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:50am

      Can you name one of his propose bills that you wouldn’t support? Perhaps it’s the one that prevented students from Jihadist countries from attending American Universities that got NO co-sponsors.

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:16pm

      He’s just an agitator … as he has been in Congress … he has done NOTHING to help stop the fall of the United States .. and would not as President … I don’t think he EVER wanted to be President .. just a PAIN.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:44pm

      If he’s proposed legislation to limit the amount of power and spending that other politicians have…….and other politicians vote against it……..how are you going to blame that on Ron Paul?

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:28pm

      @CATB
      If by “agitator” you mean strictly adhering to the Constitution, (the supreme law of the land) while the others voted in their own special interests, then you would be correct. Otherwise you would just be making another ignorant, bird brained comment. What a surprise.

      There is a reason CONgress has an 11% approval rating, and it’s not because of Ron Paul.

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    • louise
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:29pm

      Catb, you said…
      He’s just an agitator … as he has been in Congress … he has done NOTHING to help stop the fall of the United States .. and would not as President … I don’t think he EVER wanted to be President .. just a PAIN
      ____________________________________
      He has been sounding the alarm for decades. But like all who are in denial, people do not want the truth, they want what makes them feel good.
      There are no more blankies or binkies to pass out for comfort, America. No amount of stimulus, or bailouts of banks and corporations or raising the debt ceiling will work.
      So you think he is an agitator, Catb? Yes, he is not afraid to go against the flow and present bills such as to audit the fed. He is not beholden to lobbyists. His biggest contributors are millions of small individual donors. Tell the Blazers who among the candidates has the RECORD of upholding the Constitution…..and our military men and women have made it clear who they want as a Commander in Chief.
      Who among the candidates has the message of Liberty and constitutionally correct economic and foreign policy……and who has voted to strip our liberties?
      So you think he has done nothing? He has warned America. Maybe you would like to hear his own words from 2002. Everything he predicted happened.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z69fYyoMlVk

      Ron Paul to Restore America in 2012

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:32am

    Maybe Ron Paul has decided to back out and instead buy some land far away on some Island to watch America from a distance sink into the abyss.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:27am

    @70mach
    I guess that makes you Paulbots “everybody else haters”.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:24am

    Texas Rep. Ron Paul opted to skip this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference because he didn’t want to be booed and laughed at.

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:28pm

      Ron Paul was booed at one of the debates for standing up for the Golden Rule, i.e., we should treat others how we want to be treated. BOOED. I believe at that moment he and many others realized that prophecies were being fulfilled, and yet, still, he will not back down on his principles. God Bless him.

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    • louise
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:16pm

      WebwithDeb,
      Amen

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:38pm

      @WEBWITHDEB I have watched Paul videos that have moved me to tears..He is such a sincerely kind wonderful man with so much compassion.. It made me ashamed for how I had joined in with the rest of the war mongers…My pastor has told me that we have no business killing people..

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:53pm

      Ron Paul has been booed many times for his Obama blame-America rhetoric. Twice on that one night alone at the CNN – “Tea Party” debate.

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:55pm

      Jesus was ridiculed more than once. He was also right.

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:20pm

      hey punk maybe it would make u mad to know he won the past two years in a row. so to boo at the message of liberty is to spit in our founding fathers face

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:33pm

      @3monkeysmomma

      Thats seriously disturbing, comparing that creepy little freak to Jesus.
      See why normal people, especially true Christians, don’t take you seriously and think your a cult?

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    • LibertarianRight
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 7:29pm

      @Rational Man: This being the “true Christians” that BOOED THE GOLDEN RULE and utterly ignore Christ’s admonition that we turn the other cheek? “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.” – Matthew 5:9

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:23am

    If anyone thinks that DR. Paul can win the General election
    Please contact me – I have a great deal on a bridge.

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  • mck05002
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:22am

    Nope, he isn’t considered an “insider” by those is Washington unlike Rick or Gingrich. So no not terminal. But we can look at those 12 terms and see that he is electable…huzzah!

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:15pm

      Paul got bored with CPAC. I would too. I heard the place was like a funeral with a bunch of zombies wandering around this time. (other than Rand laying the pimp hand of truth upon the crowd)

      Paul brings the most diverse, youthful and energetic base into a corrupt, stuffy, stale old GOP. He has the most support of the military. The most support of Independents. The most support of disenfranchised Dems. THAT is what it takes to beat ohmamma. Oh that, and a PROVEN record of TRUE PALEO conservatism, not the pathetic records these other clowns try to explain away.
      Those people aren’t “conservatives.” They are part of the reason this country is in the shape it is in. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing.

      While these other boobs strut around with their beauty pageants “wins,” we are becoming delegates.
      While the corrupt GOP heads move to “secret locations” and rig the vote count, we are becoming delegates.

      You‘d better hope that the corrupt GOP doesn’t piss him off to where he runs 3rd party, because it will be THEIR fault, not ours.
      See you in Tampa.

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:21pm

      “And” is a conjunction which implies you are adding on to something. If that “something” is not present in the first place, then attempting to add onto it is futile. Perhaps you would like to re-post your comment (Academia2020) onto a thread in which the “and” is properly utilized.

      But (also a conjunction), if not, I am perfectly capable of reading this comment in the context of which it what intended. Attempting to come off as intelligent requires one to intellectualize; intellectualize means, “to examine rationally, not emotionally”. I am afraid I do not see the rationality in much of what you are saying, but your emotions come out full force.

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    • louise
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:20pm

      WebwithDeb…priceless

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:15pm

      JEFFERSON… An election ‘guru’ did the math and IF Paul runs 3rd party he has a VERY good chance of winning with a conservative 36% of the vote and in a 3 way race that WINS! He’s the only candidate that pulls from both Republican and Democrat parties as well as the Libertarians and Independents (who make up 40% of the voting population.)

      He’s not only going to take Republican votes, he’s going to take Democrat votes too! That’s a win win in my book.

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  • 70mach
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:22am

    All Ron Paul supporters should not comment on Storys about him and watch all the establishment folks talk crap about him and then complain about the way their treated by his supporters!

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:34am

      If Paul had any sense he would be getting out of this land where children are traumatized when they don’t get dessert after dinner.

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    • Grasshopper42
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:42am

      Or maybe someone could take a red pen and correct your grammar, MACH70.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:44am

      academica2020,
      Of course most Americans don’t like bullies, but they also want someone else to take care of the bully problem, and that’s why Americans sit complacently and have for well over 100 years while chains are shackled around them.

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:54am

      “People don’t like bullies” . . . unless they are the one doing the bullying.

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    • 70mach
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:15pm

      @ Grasshopper- Really? your whinning about my grammer?its a post on a website! I dont proof read because I really dont care! :)

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:17pm

      Academia2020, would that reference the date in which you strive to be a member of the academia? I surely see no evidence that you have any academia in your mental make-up as of the present (2012) since your reading comprehension is woefully lacking.

      Just as other words are misused continually in an effort to demonize one whom you disagree with (e.g., racist, homophobe, intolerant), so has the word “bully”. It is a buzz word for those whom cannot stand on their own two feet and intellectually defend their own position. This, of course, is all merely my honest opinion (aka, judgment), but if my judgment makes you feel “bullied” then I anticipate the next group to be demonized is all of us independent thinkers.

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    • 70mach
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:38pm

      @WEBWITHDEB
      Luv your post!!! All of them! @ academica2020- :)

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:08pm

      Intellectualize a point and I will be happy to intelligently reply to it. And by intellectualize, can we all agree on the academia (dictionary) meaning? That would be, “examine rationally, not emotionally”.

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:34pm

      Academics teach that for words to be attributed to another that those words be put in quotation marks (” . . .”) I attributed your words in quotation marks. Where else did I attribute (use quotation marks) in reference to what your emotions are claiming I made with reference to yourself?

      As far as me speaking to, for, about any other Ron Paul supporters, I am afraid you have completely shut out the main theme of his very being: We are INDIVIDUALS. Each of our individual liberty is the very life–blood of our Constitutional Republic. Running for president based on recognizing that each individual has the liberty to act, speak, think, believe as they themselves see fit, I know, is a far cry from the group demonization or group courting (depending on the group) than the emotionally based reactionaries it appears others prefer.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:42pm

      Just as a side bar. Millennium is a 1989 film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Al Waxman and Daniel J. Travanti. The film was marketed with the tagline “The people aboard Flight 35 are about to land 1,000 years from where they planned to.”

      Bill (Kristofferson) and Louise (Ladd) step through and disappear into the Gate, which takes them to another time and another place, in order to save their lives, and to fulfill a destiny to repopulate Earth. A simple, but poignant, message is recited by Sherman the Robot, quoting Winston Churchill, in the closing seconds of the film. As the blast wave of the gate being destroyed vaporizes Sherman he states, “This is not the end. This is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning” as the scene transitions to the sun rising above the clouds.

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:59pm

      James Madison’s reasoning as to why he did not want a system of government known in any form as a democracy was two -fold:

      1) A pure (or direct) democracy was seen by him as mob rule through a majority; AND

      2) A constitutional democracy was viewed by him as tyrannical rule. Tyranny exists through an unrestrained exercise of power. Since our Constitution sets up a trilateral system which functions on the basis of separation of powers, tyranny by one, OR BY A MAJORITY, of these three, over another one of the branches, was NOT GIVEN ONE IOTA OF RESPECT BY OUR CONSTITUTION. These three branches have separate — yet complimentary – powers, the cornerstone of a republican form of government. And each are given equal weight in exercising the power of governing as enumerated by our Constitution.

      Given the proper context of our system of governance whereby the legislative branch makes the laws which govern those consented to be governed, the judiciary branch interprets those laws, and the executive enforces the laws, if one or another of these branches exercises control over a function reserved to another, then tyranny has occurred and our republican form of government as guaranteed to us by our Constitution has been breached.

      Thus is the context for the phrase “mob rule”. What occurs on this forum is merely freedom of expression; I personally do not see any “mob” nor certainly any “ruling”.

      Now, how about a point with regard to Dr. Paul’s positions?

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    • readytostand
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:19pm

      @ web w DEBBIE – YOU are one highly intellectual, RUDE SKANK !!! All that name calling kinda turns you on !! Can someone say freak in the house ???

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    • Veritas Libertas
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:08pm

      @Deb
      When in doubt, knock ‘em out!

      @Ready
      Sounds like you like a chick taking charge.

      @Academ
      Pretty obvious, time to STFU & STFD. You’ve been owned!

      It’s funny when “bullies” get called out and cry to all the other kids. I’ve never seen a post referring to supporters of other candidates as Neuters, Sanitoriam Inmates or Romneycons, but I have yet to see one single detractor of Dr. Paul NOT stoop to an unflattering moniker of some sort. When the chips are down and your arguments fail in the face of reason, logic and the U.S. Constitution you play your Pauliebotastinianista card and throw it down heavy like you’ve accomplished great things with name calling. Then you whine for sympathy when you have your ass handed to you. Here‘s the secret you’re missing, it’s not about Ron Paul, it’s about The Constitution of the United States. The defense of Dr. Paul is as consistent as his message of liberty. #Blog that!

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:18am

    The headline sounds like a riddle on a dixie cup.

    SANTORUM 2012

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:29am

      “Why Did Ron Paul Skip CPAC?”

      I don’t know. To get to the other side?

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    • readytostand
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:29am

      Ronnie missed cpac because he couldn’t get his ( flying saucer spacecraft ) started !!

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:48am

      Santorum is making enemies among conservatives very fast!:

      ——————————————————-
      “I’ve got some real concerns about this movement within the Republican party…..the Tea Party movement….to sort of refashion conservatism. And I will vocally and publicly oppose it.”
      -Rick Santorum
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEeHDCsetLc

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    • UnreconstructedLibertarian
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:26pm

      KidCharlemane:

      The more Santorum is emboldened, the more folks will see just how exclusive he is regarding his own version of Utopia. While my disdain for the current usurper in chief is well known, I somehow suspect Santorum would invoke the NDAA against his detractors/dissenters with the same ferocity Obama would if given a second term.

      They are two sides of the same plug nickel, and neither are worth a Continental Damn.

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    • resme
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:28pm

      Jumping candidates already?

      Don’t you dare step out of line again.

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  • 70mach
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:18am

    No when I posted your post was only one I seen!! And I constantly see your post against Dr Paul and Always their to say how pushy his supporters are and how they make him look bad!!:) Just like Time To Ends Post first to Complain about people complaining!!:) LOL

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  • MUSE_FENDERTAMA
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:17am

    I like Santorum except his personality is just like one of those pushover dads at church,
    his Iranian war mongering freaks me out (lets not get troops on the ground, please for the love of god, support the Israelis in cheaper ways like intel), he’s not an individualist, and all of his economic proposals are just right wing demand-side proposals except for his manufacturing stuff.
    We need someone to really cut taxes, really lower the deficit, stop playing the collectivist vs. collectivist game against the democratic party, and realize that the supply side of the economy is just as important as the demand side.

    I already supported Ron Paul in my caucus.
    If nothing else, send a message to the establishment for sound economics and liberty by voting for Dr. Paul.
    Ron Paul 2012

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:13pm

      Everything you just said about Santorum was also said about Ronald Reagan when he was emerging as a candidate for the Presidency. Liberals said a Star Wars President would drive us into WWIII with Russia … didn’t happen, did it? You seem to think terrorists want peace … how naive! Santorum believes in peace through strength, just like Reagan.

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  • ThisIsCrowfeatheR
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:17am

    uhhhh, because he’s won the silly straw poll several times and it meant nothing. He has been in Maine making appearances all over the state, he was in Sanford this morning before the caucus opened there, my roommate met him there a few hours ago. Despite the so called “reporter” opinion he has a light schedule, the man is buzzing around Maine like a bee determined to hit every flower. Silly blaze, let me quote RR “there you go again.”

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  • mck05002
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:16am

    Does anyone in Washington consider him an insider….nope..so nope not a terminal politican. And look he’s won 12 elections…guess he’s not a terminal loser! That’s good!

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  • glennrocks
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:08am

    A guy on our local radio said all the Ron Paul supporters are trying to become delegates, so if they have a re-vote they will vote for Ron Paul.

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    • mck05002
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:19am

      I think you must live in my area. It’s going to be a split caucus, so Ron Paul’s playing a smart game. Don’t work harder, work smarter! Grab the delegates and when they have to vote…RP wins hurrah!!

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  • JustPeachy
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:07am

    He forgot.

    (Just kidding! ;-) )

    Really–I AM just kidding. I hope I’m as sharp as RP at his age (and no, I’m NOT a RP supporter).

    In fact,

    Santorum for POTUS 2012. :)

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  • 70mach
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:04am

    LOL :) First post on story ABOUT Ron Paul is look out the crazy RP people are gonna post on this one! And look whos posting ,The RP haters!!

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  • Nobar
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:03am

    Curious isn’t it? He can’t find the time to speak to conservatives even when he is invited to. He won’t talk to the radio hosts, won’t appear at any non-media debates, CPAC, etc. Makes you wonder if his staff is even competent at all (as I suspect he would open up if his staff was replaced).

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:20am

      He has time to talk to Alex Jones.

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    • Shotgun167
      Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:52pm

      He has talked to the radio hosts. They either call him crazy because of some newsletters someone else wrote 20 yrs ago, or they call him crazy because he doesn‘t think we can afford to be the world’s police. Talking to them is a waste of time, when he could go straight to the voters and talk to people who actually want to hear what he has to say.

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:01am

    Paul was right not to go. Who wants associated withe the likes of low lifes A Breitbart and A Coulter.

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    • Smokey_Bojangles
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:25am

      Why Appear on a stage with Politicians that call themselves conservatives,yet support gun control,SOPA,NDAA,The Patriot Act,drug testing for everyone, Slavery for the unemployed,(Without due process,and conviction of a crime as outlined in the constitution) Stop and Frisk Tactics,ETC…..AS they stand in front of a microphone and tell us how bad The Marxist in Chief is for the Constitution?

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    • readytostand
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:43am

      @ Steelhead -Why are you bashing Breit bart ?? are you a godless , weed smoking ,liberal ?? You belong with the DEMIES ! A PATRIOT you are NOT !! YOU paulies are PATHETIC ! YOU act like your such CONSTITUTIONALISTS ! What a JOKE!! It’s all about getting your stupid WEED legalized !!

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    • justangry
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:52am

      Yes it‘s a disgusting breed of R’s there.

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    • OneTermPres
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:34pm

      @ Readytostand

      It is such an amazing thing to constantly read non RP supporters say this is all about legalizing drugs. This shows two things from people like you. First is your lack of intelligence, because as we all know RP thinks this should be a state issue (and in our “democracy” it would be left up to the legislative branch of the state NOT a people’s vote) where most states would vote to keep it illegal OR states such as the “medicinal” marijuana states would have more leeway with their own laws and wouldn’t be infringed upon by the federal government. Secondly, it shows that you have absolutely no understanding of the Constitution and how the “powers” are delegated and the real idea of personal freedoms, liberties and responsibilities.

      RP message has always and will always be those three things. And a man that puts my freedom and liberty before himself and his self interests will always have my vote. RP is the ONLY candidate that actually has a plan to get this country back on track. It is then and only then that we can help other countries. We can’t “stand with Israel” if we are broke. We can‘t continue to police the world on borrowed money and we sure as hell can’t take a stand against other countries when those countries are backed by Russia and China (our debt financier) *the equivalent of going to your bank and ******* off every loan officer and then asking for a loan. Real smart.*

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  • flavsngrace
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:00am

    What I really want to know is this: Will Ron Paul split the conservative vote this year? Dr. Paul has good ideas, along with the other candidates. Neither of them will ever be perfect, but hopefully one of them will win the Presidential Election. If Dr. Paul is NOT the chosen candidate of the Repubs is he going to go rogue, run independent, and split the vote.

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    • OneTermPres
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:48pm

      What exactly does this mean, “Will RP split the Republican vote this year…”? Did he split the vote in the last election? No, so why are the righties so worried about it this time around? As if any of us RP supporters see a difference between BO and MR/NG/RS. They are all the same. Progressives. The only thing needed is to decide how fast you want to get to completely centralized government.

      The other aspect of this is, it doesn’t matter what Republican is put into office. Righties keep saying “if RP is elected how will he get anything passed?” Well the question works the same for the righties. The next President will have the same thing BO does. A Righty house and a lefty Congress. If MR/NG/RS get elected it will be a long time before anything substantial happens because it will be the same bipartisan crap. Where as RP has a better chance of being a middle man between the two parties… because he wants to get rid of things BOTH parties want to get rid of. Either way I see it, I like my country’s chances better with RP than with any of the other 4 Progressives.

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  • cuinsong
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:59am

    Its not that I can’t trust him I’m afraid that he may not respond to an attack on the homeland even if he knows it is imminent . This scares me!! This song was written fore people like Ron P, “Troubled Land” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12095439

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:54am

      And what info do you have that we dont? Ron Paul follows the Constitution. The Constitution allows war when our interests are threatened. He wouldn’t be following the Constitution if he didnt use ever means he could to protect us.

      Now on to the threat. What threat do we have? You think Iran is going to come over and attack us? You think Iran will build a nuke and shoot it at us? No country in the world can attack us. We are the only super power in the world. Our navy, air force, and army are unmatched. We have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world many times over. We have missile defense to protect us from rouge missile firings. Logistically we are very hard country to attack. You either have to go through Canada, Mexico, or a sea landing. None of those options are good.

      Our only real enemy is from within. We will collapse from within just like the Romans and Russians did. Our empire will collapse if we dont fix our financial house.

      How much is your candidate cutting in spending? My candidate cuts a trillion first year.

      Ron Paul 2012. I will vote for him even if I have to write his name in.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 12:22am

      MARTINE
      Are you really that stupid? Please quit voting!
      “Don’t Get Him Started” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11916731

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  • sooner12
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:55am

    I just don‘t trust Paul’s foreign policy views. I like a lot of his domestic ideas. Given the two I can’t support him for president.

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    • OneTermPres
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:58pm

      I keep hearing people “don’t like his foreign policy”. What I don‘t hear is details about his foreign policy that people don’t like. In all seriousness, please elaborate. I have read his books and I think I have a better understanding about it other than what people see in a 1.5min debate response. His policy isn’t that easy to break down to a 1.5min clip.

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    • readytostand
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:45pm

      @ Onetermprez _ You want one example of RON P. , being inept on foreign policy !! Well here you go– (ol Ronnie loves to apoligize to other countries, and claims that all the EVILS of the WORLD that are aimed at AMERICA are our own fault ) THE culture of Islam and SHARIA LAW were not produced by the U.S.A . They would see Ron P. as a weak JOKE !! The best policy for BULLY dictators , is to let them know, if you even look our way , we will LEVEL YOU !! RON REAGAN was STRONG !! RON PAUL IS WEAK !!

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:52am

    Ron Paul supporters are hardly just a “staunchly libertarian” fan base. We are made up from all aspects of the political spectrum be it the far right to the far left and everything in between. We are sick and tired of listening to our elected representatives run on one platform and take the oath to uphold the US Constituton only to violate same oath and campaign platform once taking office.

    We want a return to the limited powers of the federal government enumertated by the US Constition. We believe in fiscal conservatism. We want a candidate with a history of walking the walk instead of merely talking a good game. Voting for the lesser of two evils has brought this country to the tipping point of destruction.

    Restore the US Constition and with it restore liberty while banishing this new totalitarian state.

    Ron Paul 2012/Rank Paul 2016 !

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    • justangry
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:05pm

      Will you marry me?

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:34pm

      JUSTANGRY. No cheating…. you’re a concubine… of sorts… for Ron Paul.

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    • justangry
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:20pm

      lol Time2… Doh, I’m busted.. The warden certainly would object, but I’m just SO tired of her wearing my Ron Pay t-shirt as a nighty.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:20pm

      JUSTANGRY. I wouldn’t think a Ron Paul guy would hang with a “Warden.” Would think you‘d be outa’ there like a Texas Jackrabbit!

      Kind of like when Republican posing Paul (LibertarianTexas Jackrabbit)… dissed ‘ol Ronald Reagan (chickens coming home to roost, or something nasty like that in his letter of Resignation), then came skulking back to the GOP for self-serving Libertarian reasons.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:49am

    Ron Paul is no fool. He knows there are NO delegates at CPAC. If you don’t understand this and you think Newt and Santorum can still gain enough delegates to win the nomination, then you don’t know jack about politics or the nomination process.

    Kinda like the BLAZE…They know nothing and say nothing about the eventual brokered Convention. The BLAZE is not a solid news source at all…It supresses the truth about what is coming. Hello brokered Convention. shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you might wake up the BLAZE moron reporters!

    Wake up Sheeple!

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:49am

      Questions to the nice people here who think Paulies attack Nonpauls. How many of you listen to Levin refer to Dr. Paul as rupaul, Glenn and co. calling him a kook, or crazy …., hannity and rush ignore him and cut off anyone that mentions his name ( other than an attack). The term neo-con as ALWAYS been a big turn off for me but the more illogical anti-paul posts i read the more i understand the use of that term.

      @time4chains. Thank You for your service to this country. I appreciate the sacrifices some make for the rest of us. I strongly believe that active and honorable discharge military personal should decide who the Commander in Chief is.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:06pm

      CIRCLED. Then your take on my screen name AND my views would be in conflict and would not qualify me for having a legit vote. Remember, I want you in “chains” right?

      None the less, ty… I think.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:53pm

      @time. hey i’m the Libertarian your views are welcomed. i just might disagree with some. I just think that Dr. Paul is the only candidate that is not for the statis quo. the statis quo being larger and larger government. i no longer think that we should have bases and personal all over the globe. germany and japan can defend themselves. if they need help we can help. i personally would not have stopped with half of korea and i would have taken care of saddam the 1st time and pulling out of afganistan was a mistake.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:10pm

      JUSTANGRY. You DO know… despite what Ron Paul groupies would lead some to think (especially with that easily skewed and easily embellished military donation ruse), that a very large majority… VERY LARGE… majority of us Military folks think Ron Paul is not qualified to be Commander-in-Chief (right along side of Obama, Clinton and Carter) and see him talking out of both sides of his face.

      Ron Paul’s views, who he sides with and endorses on MANY levels are NOT in keeping with the values of our military men and women and IMO opinion… our country. Ron Paul while talking BIG DOGS (just like the left) about our military, also insults it. Maybe not intentionally, but his views and ideology are not in cinc with what we think. Clear thinking military men and women pick up on this. civilians as a whole are completely oblivious to it and belive the hype.

      Ron Paul should STOP touting… we in, former and Retired from the Military are his biggest supporters. It couldn’t be further from the truth. Like the left, he and they are FOS when they supposedly have OUR best interests at heart.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:13pm

      Sorry… above comment was mean’t for you CIRCLED. Had that ANGRY guy on my mind. Ha!

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:52pm

      @time. I know that some military support Paul, i‘m sure that some don’t there has to be some neocons. My point is that if the military active and retired had 1st say on the candidates we would have better candidates. i don’t know if Bush 1 would have made the cut. clinton/ obama definetly NOT. i doubt mccain would have made the grade.

      @time4 chains some of your posting are confusing. when did Paul endorse mckinney or nadar? proof please. Liberty or Chains your choice

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:13pm

      CIRCLED.

      http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/10/ron-paul-endorses-the-third-party-field/

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:29pm

      Oh, Sorry CIRCLED. Bush had a VERY LARGE support base within our Military. I voted for him and I can think of no one who comes to mind (in my circles) who voted for Kerry or Gore.

      My circles and pond ranged into the thousands… and all swam in it for Bush.

      Now Rummy was another story. He wasn’t well liked in our senior ranks both NCO and Officer (contrary to popular thought) He was a buffoon.

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    • mudbitedlite
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:07pm

      @Academia I have yet to see you post a single comment relating to politics on this story. You keep talking about having an intellectual debate and yet you haven’t brought anything to the table except for OMG you people resort to name calling. If you would truly like to have an intellectual debate on policy with no name calling bring up something intellectual. I would love to have an intellectual debate with you on any of Ron Paul’s policies and you can even pick the topic of discussion. Just ignore those “name calling Paulbots” you keep spouting on here. Let all those on here see your intellect for what it is.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:49am

    The simple explanation is that Ron Paul is afraid to get booed for his nonsense. BUT… Ron Paul is NOT a Republican, nor a Conservative. He is a neo-Liberal/quasi-con. Ron Paul knows this deep down inside and has finally come to terms with this. He is a weak-knee’d, self-serving Libertarian using the the Republican Party to further his anti-American agenda just in the same way Obama used the weakest among us to get elected and further HIS anti-American agenda. Those that continue to endorse these two are suspect and should be shunned by true American patriots.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:54am

      Just your name is stupid, much less your statement.

      I know you hate the Constitution and America as it should be. Are you on welfare or sell warfare products. It has to be one of the two…

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    • mck05002
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:05am

      Hey TIME_@_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12 Are you completely unaware that before the 1960s the majority of the Republican party was libertarian or at least libertarian leaning? How quickly we forget or ignore history. So Ron Paul running as a Republican makes perfect sense and is poetic somehow. It sort of shows us how far we have drifted, as he is shunned and mocked by the same party that would have embraced and cheered him a mere 50-60 years ago. His agenda is the most pro-american agenda proposed this election cycle. Perhaps you prefer Romney’s pro-NDAA view on America, Gingrich‘s big gov’t view for America, or Rick’s continued spending view on america…all look so promising. I consider myself very much a true American patriot! But I’m finding myself shunned by those that are blindly following Pat Gray blindly into the abyss. You sir, are allowing yourself to become divided from other well-meaning and strong patriots by your hardheaded comments!

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    • 70mach
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:09am

      @Baddggy Dont reply to this Time_to_end Guy hes a total Idiot!!! Im pretty sure hes a paid troll for the Obama Administration!! Nothing he says has any importance so just skip over hes rhetoric!!

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:15am

      In the eyes of a Ron Paul supporter Pvt. DOGGY… I am what would be called by a pacifist Ron Paul supporter… “on the dole.” I am a Retired Career Soldier/very Senior NCO and have read about your supposed combat exploits on here Pvt. Doggy. I am not usually not in the camp that likes to belittle my fellow Vets, but I see you as a disgruntled Vet for Paul not unlike the faux, record embellishing Adam Kokesh (a mouthpiece for Russia) and the BDU wearing “Tattoo Neck” for Paul.

      Your posts speak for themselves. I couldn’t embarrass you anymore than you embarrass yourself Pvt. DOGGY.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:26am

      MCK. Are you stuck in the ‘60’s like many others in the Dem Party and most of Paul’s supporters… or are you ready to stick your neck out into this big bad world and take the side of America against Radical Islam along with trying to solve our problems here at home? Are you on board MCK?

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:28am

      MACH70. If you don’t like what I have to say… Ron Paul forums (or maybe Stormfront) is the place for you. You can hang out with the Ron Paul butt slappers for liberty and maybe get your own cheeks pinched in the process?

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    • drago
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:41am

      @mcko5002
      “Are you completely unaware that before the 1960s the majority of the republican party was libertarian or at least libertarian leaning” . Really, and you have proof? Considering that the libertarian party started in the home of David Nolan, in 1971, i would think it quite hard for repubs prior to that time to be libertarian or leaning that way.You might want to check your facts before posting something you know nothing about…..moron…

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:07pm

      Ron Paul is not afraid to be booed. He was booed at one of the debates for saying that we should live by the Golden Rule, i.e., treat others how we want to be treated. IMAGINE THAT! Evangelicals supporters of Santorum, Catholic supporters of Newt, and Morman supporters of Romney BOOING the Golden Rule.

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    • mck05002
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:12pm

      TIME_2 Yes I am..and I’m showing my ability to do both by standing with Ron Paul! If you think my comments are mutually exclusive then you don’t understand where RP really stands!

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    • mck05002
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:22pm

      Drago Libertarian principles were around long before the 1970s. Just because that’s when they got a name, doesn‘t mean that’s when they were created. Pretty sure the Founding Fathers were following Libertarian principles..they sure talked about liberty a lot…And let’s look at Coolidge, he was a pretty Libertarian guy. He said, “Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.” Ohhh sounds a little libertarian to me. The republican party was very libertarian, then it was co-opted by the religious right and neo-cons and we ended up with the modern GOP…moron…

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:38pm

      Like the Ron Paul groupies like to write…

      See here, watch this…

      The+Founders+Were+No+Libertarians+|+Frum+Forum http://www.frumforum.com/the-founders-were-no-libertarians

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    • readytostand
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:00pm

      One question to all R. PAUL supporters ?? If R . P does not get REP. nomination, then what ?? Will you not stand behind the other candidate ! Or will you stay home in NOV. ? Or will you vote for OBAMA again ? For instance SANTORUM is the oposite of OBAMA !! Will you vote for the conservative ? We shall see your true colors than !! HMMM!

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:53pm

      Lt Col Doggy if you please time to end. You POS

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:19pm

      LTC? Okay BADDOGgY… I guess you calling another poster here a pedophile for disparaging Ron Paul just caused you to lose your military bearing right?

      I‘m thinking lotsa’ beer and lotsa’ disgust over never making it to Full Bird would make a man NOT an Officer and a Gentleman to fellow Americans. I can handle salty talk, and use it quite regularly… but you are on another level BAD.

      But what I’m really thinking is… you are Full-’o-Bull… jus‘ sayin’ DOGGY.

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  • TPartyXpress
    Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:41am

    Ron Paul is a terminal loner. We cannot trust him.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:52am

      What is your proof? Do you or have you even studied Dr Paul? I can answer for you…No you have not. What a foolish statement. If you do your homework you would retract that statement and not look like an idiot.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:00am

      BADOGGY. From what I’ve read from you over the past couple of months, you might be more into the study of beer can labels.

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    • mck05002
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:12am

      So we can trust Romney who is a terminal flip-flopper. Gingrich who is a terminal liar and snake and Rick who is a terminal politician. Oh yes, your logic is astounding!

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    • Nobar
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:14am

      @MCK05002 so Ron‘s 12 terms doesn’t qualify as a terminal politician?

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    • mck05002
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:23am

      Does anyone in Washington consider him an insider….nope..so nope not a terminal politican. And look he’s won 12 elections…guess he’s not a terminal loser! That’s good!

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:45am

      MCK. Paul’s district in Texas had no real idea who they were voting for. By all accounts… he‘s was just a nice earmark kinda’ guy. There is a reason why he kept getting re-elected in his district. Same reason why Barbara Boxer, Cynthia McKinney, and the “Island tipping over guy” get, or keep getting elected in their districts. Want me to spell it out for you?

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:47am

      MCK. And States… I should add.

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    • mck05002
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:09pm

      TIME_2 Please oh please spell it out for me! So everyone in his district is incompetent or an idiot? Are you seriously comparing Ron Paul to Barbara Boxer and Cynthia McKinney? Earmarks..hmmm…blindly follow Pat Gray much? So I‘m going to guess that you don’t deduct your mortgage from your taxes, because that is specifically bringing money back from the federal gov’t to the individual and it seems that you are against that with your earmark comments.

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      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:27pm

      MCK. You can ignore the real truth, or you can spin for Paul. Bet you believe that Ron Paul REALLY wins all the on-line polls… right? Tell me why Ron Paul would support and endorse Cynthia McKinney for POTUS. Because she’s a true patriot like Pvt. Bradley Manning? Why would Ron Paul endorse an anti-capitalist like Ralph Nader? Just a couple of examples… but I won’t bore you with that. Okay?

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:38pm

      “Ron Paul is a terminal loner. We cannot trust him.”

      Married for over 50 years to the same woman is the definition of a terminal loner? Married for over 50 years to the same woman is the definition of not trustworthy?

      Up is down; right is wrong; and stupid is smart is the impression I get of the mind-set of otherwise “perfectly normal” people.

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 1:00pm

      Isaiah 5:20
      Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 3:10pm

      Amen.

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