Ron Paul: “I haven’t decided” whether I’ll support Mitt Romney if he’s the nominee
posted at 8:12 pm on April 2, 2012 by Tina Korbe
For all the talk of an alliance between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, the Texas Congressman doesn’t sound particularly sold on the presumptive frontrunner. On two occasions this weekend, Paul expressed his hesitancy toward the former Massachusetts governor. CNSNews.com reports:
On Monday, asked if he could support the Republican nominee, whoever it may be – Paul told WMAL radio in Washington, “I haven’t decided.” …
“Which Republican other than myself would look into the Federal Reserve?” Paul asked.
Appearing Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Paul told host Bob Schieffer something similar when Schieffer asked if Paul would support Romney.
“Well, I–I haven’t made that decision yet. I’m still campaigning,” Paul said.
Schieffer repeated, “You haven’t made the decision on whether you would support Mitt Romney if he gets the nomination?”
“No, I have not,” Paul responded. …
Paul also insisted that he has no plans to run as a third party candidate. And he said he finds it hard to imagine himself as Romney’s running mate.
This is consistent with Ron Paul’s presentation of himself in the primaries up to this point, and it’s even consistent with the theory that he’s refraining from attacking Romney because he doesn’t want to hurt his son Rand Paul’s chances within the GOP. Paul prides himself on his unconventional views, on his role outside the Republican mainstream as the leader of his own movement, the Ron Paul revolution. He doesn’t need to endorse Mitt Romney or overtly support him in any way to maintain friendly ties with the Romneys and so ensure that a GOP nominee or President Romney would look favorably on the junior senator from Kentucky. Instead, he just needs to avoid outright attacks, which he has primarily done. Meanwhile, neither the Romneys nor the Pauls are reserved about the friendship that has grown up among them as a result of the primary process. In the same CBS interview, Paul admitted he likes Mitt Romney as a person. “I find him a dignified person,” Paul said, in what was obviously high praise for the man he says he still might not support as the nominee.
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Now there’s a dusty old name…I haven’t seen that sketch for at least ten years. Still remember it was funny!
MelonCollie on March 16, 2013 at 7:35 AM
Cheers:)
There is some amazing irony in your commentary – someone who sounds remarkably like a spoiled child calling me “juvenile” and “deliberately obtuse” for not being able to make sense of your delusional fantasies. I’ll have to leave it to others to make sense of your blatherings – which begin with the false premise- that the narcissistic Marxist grifter Obama and Romney are like ideological fraternal twins. It then wanders off into something I can’t comprehend. I gather it has something to do with being pissed off that Sarah Palin didn’t run as a third party Tea Party candidate, and thus being left with no choice but to stomp your foot, pick up your ball, and stay home? Or maybe you had Ron Paul in mind? Who the hell knows. I’m not going to waste any more time trying to make sense of your nonsensical ‘analysis’.
Buy Danish on March 16, 2013 at 8:37 AM
Romney did not rise to the occasion in the election, so why expect him to do so here?
Sherman1864 on March 16, 2013 at 11:40 AM
He lost by 3%, not a blow out, but a loss is a loss. He is a good and accomplished man who would have been a far better president than Obama who had no real accomplishments before his political life began. Romney isn’t a conservative and maybe that is why he lost but he is a respectable and humble man.
Dollayo on March 17, 2013 at 2:05 AM
He should be sorry he lost because he passed on the opportunity to unseat the Liar of Benghazi (oh, yes, where is that report now? What has the admnistration discovered?).
In a sense, this lack of political judgment disqualified him. We should have known not to nominate a person unable to beat McCain.
virgo on March 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM
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