Ron Paul Defends Romney, Lashes Out at His Critics

“I think they’re unfairly attacking him on that issue because he never really literally said that,” Paul said. “They’ve taken him way out of context. … He wants to fire companies.”

No, he DID literally say that. Maybe he MEANT “fire companies”, but what he literally SAID was “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.” Maybe Paul literally doesn’t know the definition of the word literally.

Paul is that honest he won’t even play the slippery game the rest of them are. He refuses to twist Romney’s words and meanings and use them out of context.

It’s common knowledge that the people that make up Obama’s administration are the exact same ones who are funding Romney’s campaign. How come no one is bringing that up? Everyone is screaming about how they want Obama out, but Romney’s policies are almost exactly the same even according to the Wall Street Journal and he’s funded by the EXACT SAME PEOPLE!

People seriously think Romney is going to be any different than Obama? Are people really that blind and dumb? I can’t believe it.

I am no Mitt fan, but I agree with him. In fact, I fired a person who sold state farm insurance in favor of another person who sold farmers insurance at a more reasonable price. It’s called a free market.

Even though I hate Mitt Romney, Ron Paul is technically right on this. It’s just politics. Bain Capital engaged in extractionary finance — it’s not illegal in this country. I just don’t want a guy like that as president.

ron paul would eliminate the IRS and people laugh at him.
ron paul would privatize Social Securtiy when people are FORCED to pay a tax to a bankrupt-ponzi scheme that states:”in 2014, we begin paying more in benefits than we collect in taxes”.
republicans and democrats hate him because he unites both parties.

It’s not left vs right…..it is government vs you.

and yes, dr. paul is a republican but he had to run for one of two teams……
like the gambinos and the geones’s…..so long as they don’t take each other out, they always maintain power.

vote ron paul. stop laughing. or you get what you deserve.

Easy for Santorum to say since he’s been living off tax payers for most of his adult life. He wouldn’t know corporate inefficiencies unless it meant reductions in his campaign contributions or lobby perks. I don’t like Romney either (or any of the GOP bunch for that matter), but I think A Cynic Reply has it right–inefficient companies can’t retain or create jobs.

It says volumes about Ron Paul’s class and Newt’s total lack thereof.

Free markets for free men!!

This line of attack at Romney is wrong. There are a lot of things to be disagreeable with Mitt about but this isn’t on of them. I applaud Paul for his stance.

@A Cynic: “I wonder if anyone has taken the time to tally up all of the jobs Romney and Bain created versus all of the jobs they destroyed. It would be interesting to see a side by side comparison.”

In the case of restructuring a company, each job that is retained through the restructuring is a job “created”. If Bain laid off 20% of the work force during any given restructuring, then they retained 80% of the jobs, by virtue of not letting the company go out of business.

It’s common knowledge that the people that make up Obama’s administration are the exact same ones who are funding Romney’s campaign. How come no one is bringing that up?
Posted by: PD | January 10, 2012, 3:38 pm.

No one is bringing it up because it isn’t true.

Can’t believe how so many post here are so ignorant of the facts. Romney was comparing Obamacare to private health insurance companies and if they (private cos) do a bad job he can fire them and get another company. With Obamacare you are stuck with the gov service and nothing else. If you don’t know what you are talking about don’t post.

A politician so honest that he doesn’t take a swing at his opponent while he’s down?

Imagine that.
RON PAUL 2012! FTW.

Paul is saying be critical of his policy flip flops, be critical of his lack of trustwortiness, be creitical of what he says he wants to do even, be critical of the policies he put in place in ma, but don’t be critical of stuff he did in business for doing what sometimes has to happen in a free market.

You’re jumping on Mitt for the wrong stuff when there is PLENTY to get on him about that is legitimate and relevant.

The sad part is the number of people who are clueless what a PE company is, or what aVC company is, or the difference between the two…but they are still going to weigh in with their opinion. Guaranteed Romney saved and created more jobs than he closed down. Bain doesn’t make it;s money buying companies and closeing them. Nobody does. Bain makes it money by buying companies and restructuring them. Yes, that often times meaning closing unprofitable branches, etc. But it is done to save the company. Sometime you have to amputate the arm to save the patient. Capiche?
I don’t much care for Ron Paul, but he does know more about this stuff than any of Romney’s critics.
Me? I am an investor and realize that there wouldn’t have been anymore Staples without Bain, There wouldn’t have been any more Burger King without Bain, etc, etc…

Lets all give a swift kick in the rear to the TWO PARTY POLITICAL MACHINE and vote for the Distinguished statesman from Texas Ron Paul.

In the NH debate:
Romney says, “We need to do what’s best for AMERICA’S INTERESTS (AKA CORPORATE
INTERESTS, but Romney won’t say that because it sounds dirty. Also Obama said these SAME words before going into Libya and no one knew about it or voted for the invasion. So much for keeping “America” updated and letting us know what OUR interest is before we have a chance to even vote for it.)

Paul says, “We need to do what’s best for the PEOPLE’S INTERESTS”

Gee, which sounds more honest and FOR THE PEOPLE and NOT FOR THE CORPORATIONS???

RON PAUL 2012!! Restore America NOW!!!

A touch of class….I’m not an RP fan (yet) but finally a Gentleman in Politics. Well done Dr. Paul

Ron Paul is so awesome! Keep it up, Dr. Paul! Legalize the Constitution!

This is just the MSM’s way of trying to not be biased and to not make people think that Romney has clear sailing by the MSM. Regardless, it doesn’t matter because everyone knows Romney is a Republican Obama. Vote RON PAUL 2012!!! Restore America NOW!!!

What a bunch of biased viewpoints using half-truths to make a point. EVERY company that is bought out equals jobs saved .. at least for awhile. It’s always a risk buying any company that is going under, hoping to bring it back. But if you can buy a company for 10 cents on the dollar, fire half the people, make it profitable, and sell it for more than it costs to bring it back, you make a profit and jobs are saved. If someone does that 10 times and fails half the time, they are still making money and at least providing the employees with jobs longer than if the company outright failed. *THAT* is how things work, and have been working that way for hundreds of years.

Romney was specifically talking about an insurance company when he made that statement, so anyone who thinks he is talking about people in general is delusional.

Huntsman believes the New World Order is a conspiracy theory and that Hamas was not created by Israel and that that was a conspiracy theory too. Let’s see, GHW Bush and Newt admitted to the New World Order and most senior officials in the military as well as politicians stated that Hamas was indeed created by Israel. Do the research, “Hamas created by Israel”. You will find at least ten links. So who is sane now?

He plots his presidential campaign against Obama while serving as Obama’s man in Beijing.

He is also endorsed by HENRY KISSINGER, which should setoff many alarm bells NOT to vote for him.

Huntsman is about as conservative as Karl Marx. He’s a vehement climate change believer, a firm ally of Harry Reid, has strongly opposed the Tea Party movement and to top it all off, he’s a former Obama administration official.He is described as “Barack Obama’s secret weapon” by some conservatives and is likely to drop out of the GOP race, run as an Independent and take enough votes away from whoever turns out to be the Republican candidate in order to ensure
Obama’s re-election. He even failed to get on the VA, IL and AZ ballots, making him as unelectable as Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum.

Huntsman is going to be used by the MSM, the same way they used Rick Santorum in Iowa. They need someone to derail Ron Paul from first or second place so he doesn’t get near Romney. It’s that simple. Next election in South Carolina, it will be Rick Perry and then Newt again in Florida.

DON’T let the MSM win. DON’T let them choose the candidate for you. Choose the people’s champion. VOTE RON PAUL 2012!! Restore America NOW!!!

Could we see a Romney/Paul ticket in the making? Would send shivers down the spine of Obama. If only Mitt could come round more on Paul’s way of thinking…politics does make for strange bedfellows as the saying goes ;)

first he said he would fire the company. how many of us have stop going to a store because something happened you did not like, or change doctors, because you lost confident in them and even decided you to buy Sony over Philips, its about the ability for people to have choices. Second, if you know anything about the corporate world he has done nothing wrong.

First, even if Romney is taking liberties with his numbers, there is no WAY he has lost half as many jobs as Obama.

Second, I like to fire people who are giving me bad service or unacceptable products … or simply fire them because someone else is offering something better. Anyone who LIKES crappy service or ridiculous prices SHOULD support government monopolies of industry.

If there is EVER a ROMNEY/PAUL ticket, I would vote 3rd party and would refuse to vote for Ron Paul or support him ever again as he would be a traitor to everything he has stood for as Romney has ALWAYS been. A positive and a negative would make a negative total.

VOTE RON PAUL and RON PAUL ONLY!!!!

Ron Paul speaks the truth, whether it helps him politically or not. This is why I love the man!

As a Romney supporter, I give major props to Santorum and Paul for carrying out their campaigns with dignity and integrity. I will support any of the three over Perry/Gingrich/Huntsman.

In the case of restructuring a company, each job that is retained through the restructuring is a job “created”. If Bain laid off 20% of the work force during any given restructuring, then they retained 80% of the jobs, by virtue of not letting the company go out of business. Posted by: Dave H. | January 10, 2012, 3:55 pm.

Thank you for that. In all the research I’ve done on Bain and Romney, I am not finding anything that specifically states they ONLY took over distressed or bankrupt companies. For example, in 1992, Bain Capital purchased American Pad and Paper, which subsequently laid off 250 workers at an Indiana plant and rehired some after slashing their wages and retirement benefits. Or In 1993, Bain Capital bought the company GST Steel, which later filed for bankruptcy protection and closed a steel plant in Kansas City, and a string of smaller companies also ran into trouble after being acquired by Bain Capital. Nothing I found indicates these companies were bankrupt, or going into bankruptcy. Until after Bain aquired them, that is. Their website states they are a “private investment firm managing approximately $66 billion in assets”. I DID find that, as Governor of Mass,. Romney ranked 47th in job creation. So politically, he wasn’t much of a ‘job creator’.

Good for Ron Paul! He just earned a bunch of brownie points.

@ A CYNIC,

Wow. And you don’t want to have the power to fire people that provide you services? You would rather it be dictated, which is what he was talking about. Don’t act like you don’t know that.

You literally wrote “all of the jobs Romney and Bain created… would be interesting.” You literally wrote that. Was it out of context? Well, apparently that doesn’t matter.

Looks like PD, and maybe Luke and others think 2 wrongs make a right. That if Romney once stuck it to Newt unfairly, misrepresentation and lying to Americans become appropriate responses?

Those who remain against Romney for his work experience are falling into one of Bastiat’s fallacies (the seen vs the unseen), in assuming that what they see is all that exists. All they see is the companies that got sold off, not the ones that bought the pieces and became stronger and hired more people, or made American stockholders more money for their IRA’s, or at least just provided better product/service for consumers.

Oops, looks like I mistakenly shifted the names on posts… I erroneously called out PD and Luke, but I should have called out the ideas of Mike, and perhaps Larry and others. Sorry.

Funny that it was a reporter from ABC News that wrote the original story that took Romney’s words out of context by only reporting a portion of his sentence when the headline read “Romney likes to fire people”. Now it is ABC News that follows up with Ron Paul stating the obvious, that Romney’s words were reported out of context. Worst partisan reporting I have seen this election cycle yet. I’m sure that we can expect more political hit jobs by the three major network news organizations.

Well played, Mauer!

Ron Paul never stops shooting himself in the foot…he just doesn’t know how to play the running-for-president game…he stands up for Romney…he just doesn’t get it…

Ron Paul is a class act. We would do well with him as president.

This is more garbage stirred up by media, and look how it’s causing more heartburn among right-side voters! Regardless of your choice of candidate, if you are Republican, you probably understood all along what Romney meant. If you are offended by the remark and think he really means that he “loves to fire people”, you are probably a Democrat, in which case you ain’t voting for Romney anyway.
Me? I like the Constitution. I like Ron Paul.

Ron Paul wins again by simply being honest. How can you not like this guy r what he stands for? In fact, his foreign policy, which is where he draws the most criticism, may simply be honesty to a fault in the arena of politics. Driven by the Constitution, I couldn’t ask for a better candidate. The more I read about what Ron Paul says the better he looks for President!

Let’s put this in perspective. Bain Capital bought up companies that were FAILING and turned them around. They were going down, and likely headed for everyone in the company losing their job. For example, let’s suppose a company has 10,000 employees, and all those jobs are in jeopardy. Let’s suppose Bain buys the company and instead of everyone losing their job, 6,000 people are able to stay on and continue. I don’t think it’s fair to say that Bain Capital caused 4,000 people to lose their jobs. A more appropriate statement would be that they saved 6,000 jobs.

I like what RP has done here.

I’m really tired of the old media telling me on how to view canidates, the silly propaganda games they play, the selective story telling and/ or editing. Enough of the bullsh*t. They don’t like RP because he threatens to expose these communist clowns by going after all the fraud, waste, abuse, bad policy, graft, and corruption that they have failed to report on for years (decades). I hope he continues to go after them more often- we are all owed at leasst that.

A CYNIC: “Nothing I found indicates these companies were bankrupt, or going into bankruptcy. Until after Bain aquired them, that is.”

That doesn’t mean they weren’t headed that way. They wouldn’t invest their money with the expectation of it going down the toilet. Sometimes bankruptcy and other such reorganization is just what’s needed to get a company back on their feet. It’s not difficult to understand, unless you are trying to be over-critical. Trying too hard at that . . .

The Left’s attack on Romney regarding this “fireing” comment is pure political SPIN. He was clearly refering to insurance companies. But had it been individuals who provide services that he was refering to–SO WHAT. In a free market you can change Dentists or Hairdressers. You “fire” them and find someone more competent. The Left would like to change the conversation from real issues–like the national debt is now equal to GDP.

Ok, sorry cynic. He didn’t mean that Obama literally wants everyone to be stupid. Obama really doesn’t care one way or the other about that (or any other topic beyond his own career). He meant that the people who tell Obama what to do want everyone to be stupid consumers. And Obama is happy to work with the rest of the sellout “Democrats” and “Republicans” in Washington to make that happen. An educated populace could catch on to the tricks that Washington plays to appease their corporate sponsors. And then they might start trying to vote the sellouts out of office. And that would cause all kinds of trouble!

I have no use for Romney. He is little more than an empty suit (same as Obama) but to beat him up because a group he is associated with goes about salvaging dying businesses is ridiculous. This is just normal business practice. I know it goes against the grain of war mongering neocons and brain dead liberals everywhere, Ron Paul is right on this one, just as he is on most other items.

“Romney did say the words attributed to him, but anyone who reads the line without going back to the full quote will not understand what Romney meant. ”

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!! But, ah… see how the snake comes back to bite you in the butt? This was the same exact strategy the opposition used against the President with Rev. Wright’s comments. His words were taken way out of context and to this day ithe incorrect interpretation sticks with many. Now…if this sticks with Romney (Paul may see this and is trying to help him out) then he may have a problem trying to get the correct interpretation across.

Saying ‘I like to be able to fire people’ is not the same thing as saying ‘I like firing people’.I would have to agree with what Mitt said. If someone is doing a job or a service for me and they are doing it POORLY or in a half ass manner,I would like to be able to fire that person and replace them with someone who could do the job competently.EXAMPLE: I would like to fire prez Obama……

Takin’ the high road. Wise decision. If it’s between Paul and Romney, Paul wins in a landslide. The others are just parasites allowing Romney to win.

we should just make firing illegal, and stick it to the far Right.

Ron Paul is a class act. And for the person that claims RP supporters are low paid young males, I’m a high paid person in the IT industry with decades of experience, and not so young.

I just like the idea of us following the Constitution, call me crazy.

boo hoo hoo, poor Mitt doesn’t like to be taken out of context, boo hoo hoo-WGAS!…this the same Mitt Romney who used old 2008 campaign footage wayyyyyyyyyyyyy out of context to disparage Obama…spare us Ron, your boy Mitt is too thin skinned and lame…stop the hypocrisy then Mitt, be real, show your authentic self, if you’re able….

well im not a big fan of politics wait no i hate politics i just need too get the answer for mii homework soo can u guys hurry up and count the votes fast!!!! thanxs^_^

This is a smart move politically for Ron Paul. We’ve seen how well such a line of attack has worked for Newt, that is to say not at all.

Out of the 7 candidates currently running for president, including Obama, Ron Paul is the only one who advocates legalizing every drugs there is including cocaine and heroin. None of them except Ron Paul advocate legalizing prostitution, which is why a group called Nevada Prostitues recently endorsed Paul. None of them except Ron Paul advocate repealing the Patriot Act in the name of a silly conspiracy theory, i.e. the government wants to spy on every man, woman and child. This would eliminate the powers that the Justice Department has to fight terrorism. None of them except Ron Paul support major slashes in the defense budget almost eviscerating our military strength. Only two of them, including Ron Paul, are strongly in favor of abortion on demand for any reason and publicly payed for.

No surprise that Ron Paul who is a radical liberal, even more liberal than Obama, would defend another liberal flip-flopper Romney.

“Bain bought companies that were already in trouble….”

That’s not true. They also bought companies which were worth more broken up in parts than as the one established company.

Ron paul has integrity! He will not twist words, even for his own benefit. He can easliy badmouth Romney here, but because Ron is a genuine human being…he treats Romeny with respect, and fairly!
I must admit, I am impressed by this man!
RON PAUL!!!! 2012!!!

@MAX
Thanks for pointing out that Ron wants to repeal the Patriot Act…What a noble idea! Have you now decided to vote for him. I mean here is a man who doesnt even know you, and he is fighting for your rights!
I noticed you mentioned he wlao wants to legalize every drug…. You are doing what the media has been trying to do. Well, lets clear things up! He is (again) fighting for our liberties, our freedoms. Think about this…marijuana was legal when America was founded, Washington grew it, so did Jefferson. Out of out 44 presidents, 12 have smoked it (one didnt inhale…lol) thats 27% of our presidents have smoked it, yet out gov’t claims it makes you crazy! Anyway back to his reasons….we spend billions on the “war on drugs”, yet we (remember the Iran-contra affairs) secretly engage in drugs trafficking too. We spend all this money on a war that will not succeed. So why not educate people, rather than imprison them, because people who do these drugs in their own home, do not hurt you or me. And if they want to do drugs, they will regardless if it is legal or not….and by legalizing it, we can effectively stop the dangerous drug dealers. just like in prohibition…also it is about our civil liberties, and again if drugs were legal, would you start doing drugs Max? Please do not twist his ideas…thats like saying Newt want to murder everyone with his HR4170 bill!

Lots of brainiacs here today! Never have so many said so little with such horrendous ignorance! Wonder if ANY of them actually understand what CAPITALISM is? They probably can’t even spell the word. Guess the Welfare state is more suitable for the “whining” class. And Mitt Romney “is the same as obama” ? What have you people been smoking? Pathetic…GO MITT ROMNEY!

Ron Paul is an honest man. I do not like Romney because he is a liberal. Newt is full of bull and the only one I could support is Santorum and he has no chance to win. Hello third party again for me as I did not vote for McCain as I am a conservative and dislike Rinos and liberals.

Ron Paul is to be commended for his integrity. We’re lucky to have him as an honest broker in this discussion. He has also impressed me with his respect for the Constitution. Where I stop short of wanting him to be President, however, is when I consider that I have no idea of what he wants for the United States, what path he wants us to take. Yes, I know he seems to always know what our limitations are, and he often points out that we shouldn’t be doing thus and so. But what does he want to accomplish. I get the feeling that he would allow everyone to do whatever they felt like without any objection on his part. Thus every country would have an agenda but us. And their agenda would be to accumulate as much of the wealth and power of our country as they could. And how would they do this? By hook or by crook. Sneakily or by force. At some point in time, it is ever and so, we always have to say, I can’t let you do that. I’m just not certain Ron Paul understands that this is our responsibility, to stand up to the bullies of the world, whether we like it or not. He can be a libertarian but he has to exhibit testosterone.

Turnabout is fair play. Romney’s PACs put out untrue and false information on Newt, so Newt fires back and paints a new portrait of the almighty Mitt. I don’t know if I’ll vote for Newt or not, but Romney was the first to try to take out Newt with misinformation and distortion. The other candidates just joined in the fray. The sad thing is Mitt will probably win the nomination, which is sad, because, once again, the media will pick our candidate. I’m kind of tired of that crap. There are many reasons to not like Romney, but I will ALWAYS vote against the media’s pick. When are the other sheep in this country going to make up their minds without the media’s help?

I will support the nominee no matter which candidate wins. You people who say that you will split the vote if Ron Paul does not win the nomination will give the nomination to BHO once again. Many of you voted for him last time anyhow so it will not matter to you. Most conservatives will not vote 3rd party this time and split the vote, there is too much to lose.

I can’t wait until Paul is president and I can legally do drugs! I’m going to every drug at once!
My parents said I shouldn’t do drugs and showed me lots of evidence that nothing good comes from using but if they’re legal that means I should starting using them at once, like tobacco and alcohol!
So heroin, cocaine, crack, smack, uppers, downers, ludes, pot, meth, acid, crank, opium party the day after the election!
Who is with me?
Oh, and prostitution will be legal, so we can get some prostitutes!

…………. crickets.

Whats amazing is that some individuals believe that would actually happen.

Where are the people that were saying there would be mass shootings every day when ccw passed or the “assault weapons” ban expired? Again, the sad thing is individuals actually believed it.

Capitalism – a system of economics where 12 men decide in secret the value of their (not)federal (with no)reserve notes.

Perhaps Dr. Paul – the most ignored runner-up in living memory – will be VP under President Romney. Maybe that’s why the two of them have been so relatively nice to one another.

Ron Paul supporters are a Godsend to the GOP, whom the Republican leadership should be actively courting and not taking for granted. The young people supporting Ron Paul can be and should be the future of the GOP (Libertarianism is a gateway drug to conservatism).

Unfortunately, it is in the very nature of conservatives (who rightfully own the party) to be clumsy, awkward and just plain bad at politics, and I could easily envision the Republican Party squandering this important opportunity in the same way they lost the black vote back in nineteen sixty something.

Oh, well, that’s how it goes.

Thank you, ABC, for saying that I am posting comments too quickly…and I have not posted a response to this article yet…because you would not allow it!

The frontrunners, who got there by hobbling the competition, start crying and forming a subgang when their noses get bloodied after they picked a fight. We have the icon of corporatism, Romney, teaming up with the antisemitic, abrasive, 9/11 truther with the most reckless and dangerous foreign policy and defense dropping Ron Paul, to sink Santorum and Romney with ugly, vicious, and dishonest attacks.

Frankly, Santorum has been the cleanest candidate and he’s earning my respect. Newt has tarnished himself with his reaction to the rotten attacks that devastated his campaign. Ron Paul has made himself alomost as unattractive as Obama. Romney is looking like a wise-butt with poor sportsmanship.

America has a short memory, but this election seems to be etching itself into those memories we’ll hold even when we can no longer remember our kids names.

I think we now know who the real conservatives are in the Republican primaries, at least when it comes to business. Ron Paul called the liberal Republicans out – Gingrich, Huntsman, Perry. Ron Paul was absolutely right in his defense of private markets and capitalism. He pointed to those who really know nothing about free markets – yes Gingrich, Huntsman, Perry – none of you know how the free market works. You have never managed a business, and being a consultant to Freddie Mac is not managing a business, Mr. Gingrich. Trash talking free markets like the three of them did show their leftist leanings. If they get elected, they will trash the private sector like Obama, but perhaps not as bad. Regulations will be on the table with the three of them.

Thank you Congressman Paul for your astuteness and study of Austrian free market theory and Von Mises. Give Romney a copy of Von Mises’ Human Action. This is a good read for anyone wanting to know abut free markets and how they work.

I now know where my vote is going.

Spot on Jdub. Ron Paul is so principled that he comes to his strongest opponents defense. He could have stayed silent and hoped to gain support from this. He is the only candidate that will have the vigilance to follow through on making REAL cuts in government spending. We can’t afford another president to play the typical DC game. Only Ron Paul sees the impending debt bomb and dollar collapse. He has the vision to deal with it.

No One But Paul!!!

A CYNIC said: “It’s common knowledge that the people that make up Obama’s administration are the exact same ones who are funding Romney’s campaign. How come no one is bringing that up? Everyone is screaming about how they want Obama out, but Romney’s policies are almost exactly the same even according to the Wall Street Journal and he’s funded by the EXACT SAME PEOPLE!”

Proof, source please.

I’ve been waiting for someone honest and smart enough to defend the idea of restructuring failing companies. When a company is failing that means that the economic resources embodied in that company are being squandered….they’re being used to produce things which the public doesn’t want, or they’re producing them so inefficiently that the value of the resources consumed exceeds the value of the output. By destroying (yes, destroying) these companies the valuable scarce economic resources are freed up to be put to a use that the public (the market) values. This is sort of like Obama complaining about ATMs displacing bank tellers, or Jesse Jackson Jr. complaining that Kindle and Nook are destroying bookstore jobs. You can’t fight the market: economic resources need to be free to be applied to their most valuable use.

Mitts a chickenhawk. just like Newt.

To whom it may concern,
Paul supporters will not be manipulated. We will not support a GOP candidate other than Paul. Enough of the war mongering.

Liberal animals, we will defeat Barry in 2012. Romney will win the election and the left will be removed from power for a generation. Nothing you can do about it!!:))))

Ty Cobb
I am all for Ron Paul but if he doesn’t win the nomination and goes third party(which I doubt he would), I will not support him. This all or nothing attitude is not productive. Do you think the big government politicians take their ball and go home if they don’t get their way? They work in incremental progressive steps.
Another Obama term would decimate the country. Paul Ryan needs a republican in the White House. I wouldn’t mind seeing Ron Paul as Treasurey Secretary or Fed Chairman if he doesn’t win.

Bruce
Come on, you’re smart enough to know that a serious politician must operate within one of the two parties. He is also operating within a flawed system, a system he is trying to change. It is practically him alone that has been sounding the alarm about the Federal Reserve.

“Are people really that blind and dumb?”
Is that a trick question? A couple of quotes for thought:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State” & “what good fortune for governments that the people do not think.”
This election is not about the eonomy but rather about economics, namely Keynesian economics that has allowed the Government to beome the behemoth that it was not intended to be and as such, we are all suffering the “unintended consequences.”

VW Paul said: “I really really really really really really hope Paul either gets the nomination or that Romney gets it and Paul runs as a third party. Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope.”

You want assurance that Obama will win I see.

Buzz
Not me. That was posted by CMBAT. Your name appears below your comment.

More reason to vote for RP. Who else would defend another politician/candidate.

No bad seed bears good fruit. Ron Paul is the only viable seed. If you collect money from special interest, you’re a bad seed. You CANNOT have the people’s best interest at heart when you collect money from special interest groups. Why is there even a debate about who is the best candidate?
BAD SEED = NO POTENTIAL FOR GOOD. WAKE UP!!