This is interesting:
Ron Paul’s Army Won’t Be Easily Broken
When Sarah Palin, during the post Iowa media spin feast, warned GOP leaders to not “marginalize” the Ron Paul supporters, she was looking ahead to the greatest challenge faced by whoever captures the nomination.
The Republican leaders in DC loathe Ron Paul, and they loathe the thousands of mostly young activists he is bringing into the GOP. Like similar waves of activists in the past the insiders’ goal is to see their tide of enthusiasm break and dissipate like foam on a beach.
I do believe that Palin was the last chance for the Republican Party to pull itself together. She was popular with Social Conservatives, the TEAs, and libertarians.
I’m hoping she will get back into politics if the opportunity presents itself. In the mean time there is Ron Paul.
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She is not, however, popular with the Mandarins. And she talks kinda funny.
For the Mandarins, this will simply not do.
I’m absolutely praying for a “brokered” GOP convention, where a bunch of weary, drunk Mandarins slip up and nominate Palin for President, then wake up the next day and say “My God, What Have We Done?” My response would be “The right thing, for once.”
And then it will get ugly.
She is right. The GOP had better find a way to reconcile with the young libertarian leaning Republicans. If they don’t, the party has no future.
A genuine libertarian candidate would be superb. Ron Paul is not that candidate.
T,
I’m not looking to get there all at once. I just want to move things in the right direction. RP is the best vehicle for that at this time IMO.
I’m pretty sure I’m no longer conservative or Republican anymore. There are many, many kids out there as M. describes, and they aren’t going to wait forever.
Might be the GOP is really dying.
I like what Ron Paul says about the Constitution.
That’s all. Everything else is disaster from his mouth.
Trying to talk to Paul supporters is uncomfortably like trying to talk to Lady Hester Random.
Darleen,
So true. And yet Ron is the only one talking Constitution. So if you want to send a Constitution message…..
Sorry, Simon, but wanting the trains to run on time isn’t enough.
Darleen,
That is not much help. Any suggestions on who should be supported?
I think we need to remember that it’s going to be a project of decades to restore the Republic–unless we want to go the route of revolution, which is messy and noisy and tends to make the dogs bark excessively at night.
We got here through 100 years of incrementalism. Conservative/libertarian/classical-liberals need to start figuring out how to use incrementalism to unwind the state, because the alternative is really, really noisy.
There is no such thing as a “good enough” libertarian candidate because the rough patches of such a candidate are immediately used to confirm the idea that libertarians are impractical loons.
That is Ron Paul’s effect on non-libertarian voters… such as myself.
Isolationism? Really? In the post-9/11 age of Internet and Jet Blue?
BD,
Military power is dependent on economic power. If we don’t get our economic house in order foreign policy will be of approximately zero importance. Which is how I’m rating it for this election.