Republicans make me angry

[sbird1]

Ah ha! I tricked you into looking here! ... but not really.

I didn't know if it was just me or not, but I am really upset by the lack of Ron Paul support from conservatives. I don't understand how someone who is so fundamentally responsible for an entire movement could be so ignored and put off. To me, he is the by far the best republican incumbent there is. I'm starting to wonder if Ron Paul wouldn't be better off running under the democratic nomination.

He has one of the most sound economic minds I have heard. I just can't say enough good things about the guy. I was watching The Daily Show this evening and Jon Stewart was talking about the lack of respect and news coverage that Ron Paul is receiving. I don't understand America. Like Jon Stewart said, Fox News should love this guy, but they're totally shelving most things he does. Anyone have any input as to why this is happening like this?

[n00b240]

I agree. The man has got some great ideas. I havent heard anything that I dont like from this guy. Im not sure why more people dont know about him. I would love to see him President of these United States, I cant say that about anyone else in the Republican field

Not quite sure how he would do on a Democratic ticket. I would assume better, even at that, people in general no matter the party affiliation dont seem to know much about him. Blanket media censorship of this man

[stebo0728]

I like Ron Paul too, but unfortunately in the system we've built, he only amounts to the modern equivalent of a Ross Perot. With the party his conservative views may lead to a more leftist candidate winning the nomination. IF he were to actually get the nomination, he would only insure a win for Obama. I hate to even say that, but its the reality. I hate the partisan system we've adopted, with the "party first" mentality. I long for the day when individual values, morals, and ideals rule the day.

[telcoman]

I long for the day when individual values, morals, and ideals rule the day.

When was that?

Telcoman

[IBCoupe]

RON PAUL

[sbird1]

RON PAUL

[Cold_Zero]

Thanks for posting this up. I forgot to make a similar post about this same issue. A certain Political Talk Show (that transmits from a bunker) host and his buddy from the American Spectator has taken aim at Ron Paul, basically calling him a Neoliberal and not conservative:
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/08/2 ... l-re/print#

(I must say the example given in this article of General Washington invading Canada during the Revolutionary War because it was a colony of Britain and the Brits were staging attacks into New York from Canada as being Interventionist is laughable. Or the Protection of Shipping on the Barbary Coast is also laughable. Eisenhower warned of the growing Military Industrial Complex, I think this warning has fallen on deaf ears.
But the best logic in the article is that because Ben Stein is a Jew, because he is a smart guy and because he doesn’t use the term too often, then Ron Paul must be a Jew hater is laughable. If Ben Stein said that Ron Paul was a duck would that make him a duck?)

So the Talk Show that I listen to fired back in their support for Ron Paul’s Paleo Conservatism and decry the growing non conservatism of Neo Conservatism.
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/08/2 ... reed/print

The back and forth attacks between the two show and the spillover on Facebook has made for some pretty good entertainment.

I think there is a good reason why Ron Paul does not get coverage that we think he is due. Because he has neo-conservatives on the Defensive for what they teach/confess/believe.

[Cold_Zero]

RON PAUL

Please tell me we dont agree on something?

[stebo0728]

RON PAUL

Please tell me we dont agree on something?

Cold you remind me of Sheldon Cooper on Big Bang Theory, having problems recognizing sarcasm.

[IBCoupe]

RON PAUL

Please tell me we dont agree on something?

Hard to find a link to an internet meme, so I'll have to explain it: RON PAUL supporters are overly-enthusiastic and have an odd tendency to perform unreliably. RON PAUL is constantly winning informal survey after informal survey, but being that he's yet to win a presidential election, there's obviously something fishy afoot.

It might have something to do with the fact that any time an article appears online regarding RON PAUL, its comments section is flooded with spasmodic "RON PAUL!!!" and "RON PAUL 2012" comments. It's like they've got a rare form of Tourrette's which causes them to uncontrollably respond whenever RON PAUL is discussed, but does not induce such a response when he's actually running for something.

And so, now, rather than discuss RON PAUL's fringe beliefs (either he, a Congressman from Texas*, really believes FEMA should be defunded, or he doesn't and is just lying for the cameras; either way, he really needs to get off the stage), I choose to ridicule his most ridiculous supporters, even if they don't present themselves on this particular thread.

*And since you so patiently read through all of what I just wrote, I feel I should reward you with a few pictures of what 3,500-7,500 acres of Texas might look like right now:

[Cold_Zero]

Please tell me we dont agree on something?

Cold you remind me of Sheldon Cooper on Big Bang Theory, having problems recognizing sarcasm.

Bazinga.
At least you didnt relate me to Wolowitz or Koothrappali. Though if Nico politics forum were The Big Bang Theory TV sitcom would that make IBCoupe Wolowitz? Helio, Koothrappali and you Penny? j.k

[n00b240]

*And since you so patiently read through all of what I just wrote, I feel I should reward you with a few pictures of what 3,500-7,500 acres of Texas might look like right now:[/img]

By which the man tried to get Aid to Texas that would have helped combat the situation earlier this summer. But my amazing Governor Rick Perry decided to turn it down, because he didnt want any handouts from my amazing President Obama. And when the fires were burning Possum Kingdom to a crisp Perry played the partisan card.

What possum Kingdom used to look like from the air.



A Single home burnt earlier this summer


The 25 percent of Possum Kingdom that didnt get burnt earlier this summer is now getting Burnt. But my Governor seems to think that Texas doesnt need help fighting these fires.

Another post fire shot


At least Ron Paul tried to do something. Fema certainly wont, Joplin cant even get any help from Fema

[IBCoupe]

Joplin has been getting help from FEMA. But because we're not willing to excessively spend, Joplin's gonna have to help itself for now, as FEMA has other disasters to pay for:

[stebo0728]

Bazinga.
At least you didnt relate me to Wolowitz or Koothrappali. Though if Nico politics forum were The Big Bang Theory TV sitcom would that make IBCoupe Wolowitz? Helio, Koothrappali and you Penny? j.k

Nah, I'd be Will Wheaton.

[Cold_Zero]

IBCoupe the second picture from the bottom on your last post is NC 12 South (I suspect it is Mirlo Beach coming into Rodanthe) on Hatteras Island makes me sad to see south OBX in that condition.

[IBCoupe]

Yeah, kinda sucks. Lots of people poo-poo'd the warnings about the hurricane, but I refused to take part in any of those shenanigans.

[Cold_Zero]

I heard some reports of people on Ocracoke who decided to weather the storm. One lady decided to ride out the storm with her young daughter and their house caught on fire in the storm. People are crazy.

[n00b240]

Those stories of people not heeding the warnings are not any fun. In a place like Joplin where there were only seconds of warning does not even begin to compare the days of warnings the east coast had.

People definitely need to listen a bit more to such warnings.

[Cold_Zero]

Catagory 3 Storm bearing down on a small island like Hatteras or Ocracoke and I am gone! Some parts of Hatteras Island are very narrow from ocean to sound. I would prefer to go to the mainland to ride out the storm.

[sbird1]

This thread totally got off topic...

[Cold_Zero]

welcome to nico!

[n00b240]

I guess I forgot about ron paul too

[themadscientist]

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/ ... straw-poll

On Saturday, his 76th birthday, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas won the New Hampshire Young Republicans presidential straw poll.

Paul took 45 percent of the 302 votes cast while former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who is leading in the Granite State, took second place with 10 percent.

“Ron Paul’s message of traditional conservatism -- fiscal restraint, limited government, and strong national defense -- is clearly the future of the Republican Party,” said state Sen. Jim Forsythe, Paul’s New Hampshire chairman who spoke at the event. “The other candidates know that and sound more like him every day. But there are convenient copies, and there’s the real thing.

[sbird1]

[IBCoupe]

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/ ... straw-poll

On Saturday, his 76th birthday, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas won the New Hampshire Young Republicans presidential straw poll.

Paul took 45 percent of the 302 votes cast while former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who is leading in the Granite State, took second place with 10 percent.

“Ron Paul’s message of traditional conservatism -- fiscal restraint, limited government, and strong national defense -- is clearly the future of the Republican Party,” said state Sen. Jim Forsythe, Paul’s New Hampshire chairman who spoke at the event. “The other candidates know that and sound more like him every day. But there are convenient copies, and there’s the real thing.

Ron Paul won an online poll?! For YOUNG REPUBLICANS!?

No way!!!!! Think he'll win any State's primary this time around?

[themadscientist]

He's too real to get the Republican nomination. I keep hoping he says "f*** you posers, I'm heading over to the Libertarian party and I'm taking the real conservatives with me." Now's the year to do it; Obama is weak and the Democrats are running as fast as they can from their record firing race baiting accusations in the air like an Iraqi wedding party and with whack jobs like Bachman seriously in the conversation the Republicans are steering into the skid.

[IBCoupe]

I got about half of that, but you lost me at "race baiting."

[themadscientist]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/c ... ce-baiting

[IBCoupe]

I don't feel like looking very far into it, but the author in your link (and now you, too) attribute race-baiting to Democrats on the basis of two sentences taken out of context from one guy. He even had to explicitly tell us that the guy meant "black Americans" to make it work.

Then he goes on to say that the Jim Crow racists were all democrats, conveniently forgetting that the Dixiecrats vanished and changed affiliation. Seriously, don't let bathroom rags do your thinking for you, TMS. It's not becoming. The Washington Examiner is less reputable than the Washington Times, for God's sake.

[themadscientist]

Oh jeezus f*** jumped up christ on a pogo stick, attempt to get a clue. Here, Huffington Post. That's the f*** bible right? You trust that shrew Arianna Huffington, right?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-wei ... 44212.html

A leading voice in the Congressional Black Caucus told supporters last week that Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers are devastating the black community economically and would be happy to see black people "hanging on a tree."

Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), the CBC whip, told attendees at the CBC's Job Tour visit to Miami that the Tea Party is actively taking steps to keep down the black community and other vulnerable populations.

"This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow," Carson said. "Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens."

"Some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me ... hanging on a tree."

I'm normally not the hotheaded type, but this partisan off and on myopia isn't even close to effective trafficking in s*** and it's insulting to anyone with half a firing neuron to try and pass it by as legitimate discussion. He f*** said it!