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But why only a partial refund? I’m guessing RP sees a need to distance himself from troofer scum, but not COMPLETELY disavow them. If he did, his support base would all but disappear.

when you talk of shunning constitutionalists you become the one who wants to split the party.

Sweeper, I don’t think any conservative is against Ron Paul’s small government agenda in general, although most disagree with the degree to which he takes it (we aren’t Libertarians for a reason, you know). You are making a mistake if you think I said we need to “shun constitutionalists.” He attracts the very worst kinds of supporters, and it’s no accident.

SitRep:

Doesn’t he have enough nutty-assed volunteers?

Yes, but he’s also got a lot of salaried employees astroturfing for him.

People like Ron Paul and his supporters aren’t so irrelevant in society, although they may be irrelevant in the election. They need to be shunned.

Talk about nutty. Shunned? Every thing he says should be discarded or just the stuff that doesn’t make it into the party platform? Is there no place in the party for a small government mindset who feels that foreign policy should strictly be for the benefit of this country? You can throw all the David Dukes and Alex Jones at the man you want, but when you talk of shunning constitutionalists you become the one who wants to split the party.
And before you start throwing all the “Paulnuts” BS at me, I am a Rudy supporter who believes in supporting Isreal because it is in the best interest of the US.

To the tune of $1,300. Thats’ right Ronulans. Your “Ron Paul doesn’t believe 9/11 was an inside job” argument just got a whole lot harder to defend.Granted, this could have nothing whatsoever to do with Trutheriness per se’, but the fact Pauls…..

Where, exactly, is this occurring?

The ONLY reason you aren’t seeing them here raising h3ll in the comments is that registration is required to comment. If they could go nuts in the comments here, they would.

Another thing the disaffected undecided voters need to think about before going all in for Ron Paul is, who would he pick to serve in his cabinet? (Obviously, this is theoretical because it isn’t gonna happen.) Troofers like Alex Jones because he owes them for their support? Anti-Semitic thugs like Pat Buchanan (his ideological allies) or Lew Rockwell? John Birch Society conspiracy theorists/anti-Semites (also ideological allies)? David Duke (another notorious Ron Paul supporter)?

People like Ron Paul and his supporters aren’t so irrelevant in society, although they may be irrelevant in the election. They need to be shunned. Just by Ron Paul having what support he does have, he’s emboldened troofers, white supremacists, and all sorts of unsavory characters. He’s lended them a trace of credibility and legitimacy.

This also means all of the nutjobs who support RP are going to think they are gaining legitimacy. Just friggin great.

EXACTLY.

Paul probably has enough of a wacko base that they will cause a dent in the popular vote on election day, but will not carry any electoral votes. This also means all of the nutjobs who support RP are going to think they are gaining legitimacy. Just friggin great.

I really wonder if Paul will pull more votes from Republicans (Libertarians) or the Democrats (Liberals) on election day? I’m guessing the latter because they seem to be more afflicted with BDS, and are therefore more motivated to cast their vote with Paul as a protest against their Democratic nominee (Clinton?) who will not get us out of Iraq like they want.

We are living in strange times and I don’t think Ron Paul’s connection to Truthers and other wacko groups going to diminish but will get worse, much worse.

Yes, that’s true. But in Paul you’re looking at someone who could pose a serious third-party problem for the GOP; whose flirtations with nutjobs are serially ignored by the media; and whose own base appears to contain an unusually high concentration of kooks. He also raised five times the amount Mike Huckabee — who’s allegedly a first-tier candidate now — did last quarter. This isn’t remotely as big as the Hsu scandal but it’s not the mystifying nitpicking of a fringe candidate you’re trying to make it out to be either.

Allahpundit on October 27, 2007 at 2:43 PM

Not only that, Paul is getting national airtime during Republican debates to spew his lunacy as if he was actually a legitimate Republican candidate–instead of a Libertarian, which is where he belongs. That kind of national podium lends him a credibility that he doesn’t deserve, and makes him the problem of anybody that doesn’t want to be associated with Truthers, white supremacists, and the rest of the assorted loons that make up his base.

“The” is, it would seem, anathema to me.

But in Paul you’re looking at someone who could pose a serious third-party problem for the GOP

If it ends up Rudy v Hillary v Paul, does Dobson back one of them, select a 4th candidate or just stay home? I’d bet on “stay home”, but it would likely be a function of the concessions (probably substantial) that he could extract from Rudy.

I write two posts about Paul and suddenly the Paulnuts are miffed.

Where, exactly, is this occurring?

How many posts about Hillary Clinton’s dirty donations have we written? 25?

What a splendid point. And about 24 or, if I’m being charitable, 23 of these were fairly redundant and, therefore, just a tad annoying.

Would not a discussion of the reasons why McCain-Feingold– the existence of which is absolutely the genesis of the dirty fund-raising deeds committed by Clinton 2.0 and others–is an absolutely ridiculous law be more productive?

It is, though, certainly not worth even mentioning, as no discussion of Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act could be even tangentially relevant to 2008 presidential election and, by extension, the funding of its candidates.

I mean, it’s not like both the bill’s co-author, McCain, and one of its strongest proponent’s, District Attorney Arthur Branch, er, Fred Thomson, are running for the nomination of one of this country’s two main political parties.

independents disgruntled by both parties and looking for a protest vote are. If they want to vote for Alex Jones’s pal, fine, but let’s make sure that decision is optimally informed.

Point conceded.
However, that makes in incumbent on the party’s nominee to stand for something tangible and not just against the Dem’s likely nominee.