Ron Paul Calls Rick Perry ‘Candidate of the Week’

“Candidate of the week” were the AP’s language, not Ron Paul’s and shouldn’t be in quotation marks. Ron Paul said that they should look back at poll numbers after Perry had been vetted and that a number of candidates had shot to the top of the polls only to fall nearly as spectacularly.

Where is Trump, these days?

KJ, Trump dropped out ages ago. I’M wondering where Newt is today? HE still is a declared candidate, and I’m sure he’s still raising campaign cash. Maybe he went on another spending spree at Tiffany’s…..?

Perry is an empty suit… President Obama balanced the Texas state budget and created jobs in Texas not Governor Perry… How could that be? 14.4 B dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; sometimes referred as wasteful Federal spending by Republicans depending in what spin cycle they are in. More than a third of the $787 billion was earmarked for tax cuts and incentives for individuals and businesses on the behalf of Texans. Texans are grateful to President Obama not Governor Perry.

I hope Whiteowlstwo is correct. But, I doubt. Even more predictible than crooked pols are apethetic voters. The folks who post on boards like this (left or right makes no difference) are in a clear minority because we care enough to form an opinion based on more than MSM-TV-TIME.

BTW I am not bashing the anti-pauls either, so long as they are able to at least articulate an argument that supports thier opinions.

But, anyway, since the majority goes for the Media annointed, Paul has a very outside chance at best. That sux.

Since we (those that care one way or the other) are in an obvious minority; Can we get some special privelege?

Rick Perry was the presidential campaign manager for non other than AL GORE. This is why Rick Perry will fall in the polls once voters get to know the truth.

Well – I agree with Paul – this is his run, this run for the Repub. nomination, so support that, or don’t, but this is the run.

There is no point in running a second time on a 3rd party ticket, because we don’t have good democratic processes and it would simply give the impression of diluted support because the laws make it rather difficult to get on the ballot and be a choice.

Americans don’t believe in choice, beyond two choices.

To: phdinprogress

Fact: Ron Paul has been in Congress for 22 years. He also served in the military as a flight surgeon.

Amusing. Ron Paul is the candidate that has mostly been an also-ran!

Thank you Kate for pointing out it’s the Congress that produces legislation and passes it on the President, not the other way around. The media needs to take some responsibility for framing the conversation in such a way we get a stalemate. We need equal pressure on the House, Senate and the President.

Ron Paul is in my mind the most important candidate in the Republican Party and Philosophically speaking may be the Most important Candidate since Ronald Reagan. He represents at last a conservativism that is actually realistic and potent. He represents freedom in ways far different from Republicans before him…..Yes some of what he says is may sound extreme, but only because we are at this point in time so far removed from the optimal world he alludes to as his model. For example the Fema episode of a few days ago…well What Dr. Paul really means is that each state would be better off paying for the amount of aid it will usually need…in essence each state should pay for its own Federal insurance instead of having a huge structure like Fema burning all this cash with very doubtful outcomes….again the level of phiilosophical maturity which he represents is sometimes difficult to understand because it is so distant from our present sorry state of affairs and this sometimes makes this philosophy sound a little extreme, but it really is not. In effect he wants us to take responsibility for our own freedom and wants the United states to move in that direction…..HE IS ALSO AGAINST THESE COSTLY WARS…..AND THIS IRKS THE RULING ELITE WHO ARE VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF CONTINUING THESE WARS EVEN IF THE UNITED STATES IS GOING BROKE TO NO GOOD END DOING SO. Thus Dr. Paul has earned himself an enemy amongst many in the Media….As for Perry…please this man is little more than another George Bush….are you people kidding? DO YOU WANT AN EXPANSION OF THESE WARS? ALONG WITH THEIR COSTS? THEN YOU SHOULD THINK OF PERRY AND BACHMAN BECAUSE THATS WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT AND THAT’S WHY THE MEDIA SUPPORTS THEM…..IF YOU WANT THE WARS TO END AND THIS NATION TO GET BACK TO TAKING CARE OF ITSELF….DR PAUL MAY WELL BE YOUR ONLY OPTION…NO ONE ELSE IS TALKING ON THE SAME LEVEL OF SOBRIETY AS DR PAUL IS NOW DOING…I wish the Media would just let him get his word out…it is very very important.

Aren’t there any SANE republicans interested in running? Are there any sane republicans? Just asking. It seems like a moderate republican with no ties to the TP would have a good shot at the WH if s/he could get funding.

Sarah Palin should run—run away from public view, that is. This lady is a public nuisance. It’s about time she goes away.

I’m 51, voted Republican all my life. I became fed up with the Republican party under the 2nd term of W Bush.

I thought the republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility, and small government.
Instead W. grew the deficit. I started to pay more attention to what was going on, and then I heard Ron Paul on YouTube.

Finally here was someone that spoke to my values;
smaller federal government, lets close some of those departments that are redundant.
states rights, the power is supposed to rest in the people’s and states hands.
fiscal responsibility, stop the bailouts and stimulus! Have a balanced budget.
personal responsibility, the nanny state does not make a strong country, strong people do.
militarism, just as Bush spent too much, the Republicans have become a party of war. That is not productive, nor does it make safer.
sincerity, here was a guy that actually voted the way he spoke, and didn’t change his speech depending on who he was talking to.

Peace and Prosperity vs War and Deficits? What’s your choice?
Ron Paul 2012

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew. We must disenthrall ouselves. —Abraham Lincoln—

Disentrall–To free from a controlling force or influence.

RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT.
FAUX NEWS SUX.
DO YOUR RESEARCH.
LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY AND THE CANDIDIATES.
AMERICANS WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.

Ron Paul appears to be the most honest person running for that office today. He’s “telling it like it is”.

What other “runners” are as honest?

Truth is, Americans don’t want to vote using common sense.. They want to vote for whoever someone tells them to vote for. They don’t want to “read up” and learn about anything that is going on but they will loudly jeer if you go against their little “spoon fed” propaganda based viewpoint on life. We ARE sunk. I’m voting for Ron Paul anyway…

Principled. Trustworthy. Educated. Consistent. Honorable. Noble. Truthful. Authentic. Steadfast. Credible. Accurate. Dependable. Honest. Sincere. Factual. Candid. Plainspoken. Reliable. Correct. Wise.

Ron Paul has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

Ron Paul has voted this way for decades, when everyone else from BOTH political parties voted to expand our monstrous federal government, restrict our freedoms and liberties, take lobbyist money in exchange for political favors, engage in unconstitutional wars, and swamp us with trillions in debt.

Ron Paul sets the bar so high, it makes the other political candidates appear like children. No wonder why the political establishment does not like to even acknowledge him, since he makes them all look so bad in comparison. Ron Paul will serve the American People, not the special interests, not the military industrial complex, not big business wall street, and certainly not the political establishment. We need a president who will follow the Constitution and inspire other politicians to do the same; the only politician who has reliably shown he will follow the Constitution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is the Champion of the Constitution. Think the constitution is outdated? It was made with the intention of securing individual freedom. Why is individual Freedom Important? Intellectual freedom is the basis of our democratic system. We expect our people to be self-governors. But to do so responsibly, our citizenry must be well informed. Libraries provide the ideas and information, in a variety of formats, to allow people to inform themselves but alas, I digress.
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. – John Adams
Spread the message far and wide!

And so it begins, the eating of their own. Too bad Paul is so smart. If he were a bit dumber he would have more support among the rank-and-file Teapublicans…

by Searambler
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When the demolition derby took place in 2008 between Obama and Hillary, it was said the Democrats were “eating their own”. And with unemployment at 9.1%, $4.00/gallon gas prices, and a 14 trillion dollar debt we can say that if Obama were any dumber, he’d have an IQ of 1.

Ron Paul reminds me of many of the great leaders in americas past . He is the only candidate who consistently recieves praise from the commenters on these boards,
The only candidate who could stand beside Abraham Lincoln today. If its flash and theatrics america wants they should look to hollywood. In the business of overseeing the interests of our beloved country we should look to the somber and wise. Vote for Ron Paul.

The GOP is using Perry, and one of the ways they are using him is as a way to deflect attention from Ron Paul.

Perry is a child next to Ron Paul. Big, dumb child. Ron Paul 2012!!!