Ron Paul campaigns through the Twilight Zone
“This campaign has a few months left to it,” he said. “It’s not going to end like some people pretend.”
But it’s not going to end with the Republican nomination, a fact that was apparent to outsiders all along, but one that even some of the most zealous Paul supporters are now willing to admit. (Not, they said, that that will stop them from writing in the candidate’s name.) And the Texan’s campaign and career are in their twilight. Paul hasn’t suffered the sort of calamitous fall as Newt Gingrich, who has left his private sector activities in a bankrupt shambles, whose campaign is deep in debt to vendors, and whose candidacy has been reduced to the status of novelty. Paul’s campaign has always ridden a separate track to a destination all its own, and he’s not out of money. He isn’t exactly a protest candidate, though many of his views have been formed in direct protest to trends in mainstream politics. He hasn’t won a state and garners little attention from the media, but turns out large, enthusiastic crowds wherever he goes.
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Ron Paul lives in the Twilight Zone. He guest-hosted CNBC Squawkbox yesterday and was still doing his America-killed-half-a-million-Iraqi-babies nonsense. Depressingly, the Squawkers let him get away with it, as if they didn’t even know it was cowflop.
Maybe they didn’t. That’s even more depressing.
platypus on April 24, 2012 at 7:44 AM
What percentage of black males in Philadelphia does he believe are semi-criminal or entirely criminal?
Trafalgar on April 24, 2012 at 7:48 AM
Ron Paul to gullible followers: send more cash for a GOP nomination I privately know I have no chance to win, so that I can enrich through salaries the family, friends and acquaintances that “work” on my campaign.
TheDriver on April 24, 2012 at 7:48 AM
Romney could win today: NY, PA, DE, CT and MD
Gingrich could win today: DE
Paul could win today: ….
Earth to remaining Paul supporters: even penniless Gingrich is being discussed on the media as having a shot of winning a state today, while Paul isn’t. What’s he even doing with all that money he raised in the first quarter (over ten million) and that money bomb in April?
TheDriver on April 24, 2012 at 7:52 AM
Sarah Falin approves.
In all seriousness, NeoCons, you’ve won the battle. Ron Paul is too old for another campaign and no other candidate is willing to take on you lot. Obama has started MORE occupations that King Bush the Second, for crying out loud?
Go home and have a party with your buddies while you still can…because we’re facing imminent financial ruin. Hope you’re proud of yourselves.
MelonCollie on April 24, 2012 at 8:01 AM
That’s because Newt Gangrene panders to the far-right wingers at least SOME. He’ll at least get a few votes from people who’re (correctly) disgusted by the non-choice between Obama and Romney.
MelonCollie on April 24, 2012 at 8:03 AM
There is Rand Paul. He’s a lot better and more serious of a politician than his father, but at the same time holds almost all of Ron’s views. Hopefully Rand Paul runs in 2016 after Romney’s likely defeat this November.
Rand Paul is Ron Paul without the newsletter baggage for desperate neocons to use.
TheDriver on April 24, 2012 at 8:10 AM
I’d have to agree. Ron’s views are unpopular but correct…but at the same time he got involved in too many things that will instantly turn moderates and light-grade liberals off. And I don’t mean those mold old newsletters.
Rand does not hold ALL of his father’s views, but he knows which ones to keep but not say out loud. This is an unpleasant necessity in politics today; you have to pick your battles. Especially when you’re trying to get elected in the first place, because you have way more power/influence/money/etc. when you’re actually in office.
Best-case scenario right now (IMHO) is Romney wins and either grows a spine or has his feet held to the fire, and then Rand wins in 2016. Rand isn’t Jesus, he can’t raise Uncle Sam from the dead if he gets killed off before he has a chance to run for POTUS.
MelonCollie on April 24, 2012 at 8:19 AM
It would have been difficult to cram that amount of ignorance into an article, but the author managed easily.
Dante on April 24, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Rand Paul has NO chance of becoming POTUS unless he publicly disavows most of his daddy’s opinions. If he doesn’t, then daddy becomes a shadow that follows him everywhere. People will assume the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and therefore his percentage of support will mirror daddy’s.
In other words, hw will have not a chance in h*ll. Stillborn.
platypus on April 24, 2012 at 8:30 AM
That depends on what you mean by ‘publicly disavow’.
To convince you he’d have to swear that he’d never, ever impede the ‘War’ on ‘Terror’ in any way…with one hand on a stack of Bibles, the other hand on a folded American flag, standing under a picture of Ronald Reagan and with the Arlington cemetery as a backdrop.
Most of America won’t have to have nearly as much assurance that he’s not daddy’s mirror image. He can do plenty by just not bringing up some of what Ron says all the time. Especially unpleasant racial truths; those are verboten for basically anyone now.
MelonCollie on April 24, 2012 at 8:36 AM
In all seriousness, I will be glad not to have to listen to you Paulbots incessant whining and badgering. You have been jerks thru-out the primary process, so I already knew you would be piss-poor losers.
When my kids were young and in soccer, and would lose a game-their father and I stressed that to be a good winner, you had to be a good loser. Obviously, your parents never taught you that…Your man never had the ghost of a chance, and now you are blaming “neocons”–a Paulbot’s favorite word–for your loss. Git over it and pull up your big girl panties. We have a country to save, and I’m sure that Dr. Paul–who has always been classy–will be gracious in the end…unlike his followers…
lovingmyUSA on April 24, 2012 at 9:00 AM
You do realize that neoconservatism is an ideology, right?
Dante on April 24, 2012 at 9:02 AM
The only thing he realizes is that “Ah wun and yew lost, hurr hurr. Now shut yer mouth.”
MelonCollie on April 24, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Interesting. So, according to MelonCollie (who for some reason posts as anonymous, not willing to post under his name), if you’re on the Right, you’re either a “NeCon” or like him a left-libertarian Ron Paulists.
There’s no other ideologies under the sun. Sorry, Reagan conservatives, fiscal conservatives, budget hawks, right-libertarians, social conservatives, et.al. You all don’t exist.
It’s only Ron Paulists (Da Man!!) or the evil NeoCons.
ericdondero on April 24, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Well duh, Sherlock…and your newbieness is showing…as anyone who has been around HA for a few years would know I’m a she…
And, as usual, anything said just goes in one hole and out the other with you Paul freaks. So much for knowing how to be a good loser. I would have never replied in such a fashion if you had not provoked it with your bitter whining. I have lost 4 times–Palin, Cain, Perry, and Newt. You never saw me crying and blaming others. But you guys carry on with your little pity party. I hope you have enough kleenex…
lovingmyUSA on April 24, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Uh no.
No Republican is going to win NY, PA, DE, CT, or MD.
tetriskid on April 24, 2012 at 9:52 AM
I grew up in Killadelphia. 90-95% is a conservative figure.
JohnGalt23 on April 24, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Gee, I don’t know… Maybe winning a plurality of the MN delegation to the RNC?
How’d the Open Marriage candidate do there?
JohnGalt23 on April 24, 2012 at 9:56 AM
So you you think Obama is going to win the GOP primary in those first four states, and Rhode Island, today?
TheDriver on April 24, 2012 at 12:58 PM