Those Crazy Paulistas Just Won't Shut Up

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1. Paul followers would rather fight within the system.  Would that Ralph Nader and his followers had taken this road.  The history books might have told an entirely different story.

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   1. I’m reminded of the Boshevik-Menshevik party manuevering. A small, vanguard party can seize power, and then claim to be the majority.

      Ideological vs pragmatic strategies.

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      1. I didn’t think we had pollsters who could remember those days 😉

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2. “Would Paul fanatics really just rather see the GOP lose if their man is not the nominee?”

   I’d say yes.  I know a number of Paul supporters, and they don’t much care whether Mitt Romney or Barack Obama wins this election.  They are just interested in convincing as many people as possible that there’s are a bunch of Paul supporters out there, in the hopes they will be taken more seriously in the future.

   I’m not sure if the Paul crowd is the same as what the modern “tea party” movement turned into, either.  They played a huge part in starting the movement, to be sure, but the tea party these days is just standard Rush Limbaugh brand insane conservatism.

   Granted, Paul himself shares a lot of social positions with the insane Limbaugh crowd.  His supporters, though, seem gifted with selective hearing, and able to ignore that and pretend he’s going to be a very different kind of politician in the future.

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   1. the Paulistas are Ron Paul supporters first, and I doubt that being a loyal Republican even comes in second or third.  I’m guessing that Republicans active in county parties around Colorado have seen this same phenomenon.  It’s not likely the Paulistas are ever going to rally around Romney or other more conventional Republican candidates.  

      The Party has been so hungry for numbers and support from wherever they can get it, that they now run the risk of the extremists actually taking control at the local level in many places.  It’s about power and control, nothing else.

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3. Wasn’t it  just weeks ago hat some chess-playa Libertarians were positing that Uncle Ron was playing a measured game to improve the lot of his seed?  Uncle Ron would step aside or pledge his dels to Mittens once he got something in return.  Ron wouldn’t take a Veep seat but would like to see Rand go a little further in delivering the crazee to DC.

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   1. she was unknown, a blank canvass, and she came out like gangbusters in Minneapolis with the mean and nasty rhetoric.

      The base went fucking nuts, with the shots at Obama, the line about the lipstick, makin’ fun of “community organizers”, and just the fact that here was this charismatic woman saying all this vitriolic “Dirty Harry” tough guy stuff that repubs always fawn over , fall for, and snort up like nose candy.

      Paul’s kid wouldn’t do that.

      Yeah, he’s mean and vile enough, but while Palin pulled off being unqualified for literally 4 weeks before the inevitable meltdown when interviewed by legit media, Paul’s a known dolt.

      Cocooned in a safe District in a safe state, he’s pulled gaffes by the dozen on faux, every speech has been an extreme anti Federal diatribe, and his racial prejudices are legendary. Now the gay baiting and taunting, what’s next?

      Sure, the crazed lunatics at the republican convention and the 32% that still admit republican tendencies will love him, but the moderates? Indies?

      I’ll hope Rand Paul is mittens’ running mate, but it’s too good to believe.    

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4. The more they shout that Romney is a “white Obama,” the more Romney gains support from independents.

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