Ron Paul, the looney Libertarian who has twice ran for president and never even came close to the Oval Office, other than a visit, has come out attacking Alaska’s soon to be former governor, Sarah Palin.
Although I consider Paul to be a whiny nutcase, primarily on his foreign policies and advocacy of stripping America of sound security measures, he was the last one I thought would become infected with Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Sarah Plain stands straight and speaks forcefully, compared to Paul’s whiny performances in the debates last year. Still they share some similarities in independence from the party, both being somewhat mavericks.
Shortly after being selected as John McCain’s Vice Presidential choice, Mrs. Palin was asked about Paul in an MTV interview. She said of him,
“He's a good guy. He’s so independent. He’s independent of the party machine. I’m like, ‘Right on, so am I.’ ”
In return, Paul is quoted in a Politico article dismissing Mrs. Palin’s supporters as
“more establishment, conventional Country-Club type of Republicans.”
On Mrs. Palin herself, he states,
“I wonder whether she’s energizing the 15-20 year olds. That would be a question I would have. Because she doesn’t talk about the Federal Reserve and some of these issues. She doesn’t talk too much about personal liberties, civil liberties, getting rid of drug laws, attacking the war on drugs, punishing people who torture.”
No, she instead addresses real issues facing the nation. In her announcement speech on her resignation from the governor’s office of Alaska, she spoke of Energy independence and national security, fiscal restraint, smaller government, and local control have being her priorities and that they will remain her priorities.
Country Club Republican is a derogatory expression used towards Republicans considered to have higher than average income or wealth, lack of sympathy with lower income citizens, and liberal views on abortion, gay rights, and other social issues.
Asked by John Stossel in December 2007, “Should gays be allowed to marry?” Paul answered, “sure.”
Sarah Palin says marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Paul advocate legalizing drugs, Sarah Palin does not.
By definition, Paul is more of a “Country Club Republican” than any Palin supporter I know, my wife and I included.
Ron Paul made a lot of noise in the 2008 campaigns. He raised a lot of money and misled a lot of people. But he could only gather some 35 delegates. He did even poorer when he ran as a Libertarian candidate in 1988.
For him to now come out attacking Sarah Palin, who isn’t even running a campaign currently, tells me he is as jealous as can be of her success and fame while he fades away into the morass of political irrelevancy, regardless of what his glassy eyed, brainwashed supporters might think.
Sarah Palin energized conservatives in America like few other people have. She faced unprecedented attacks against her family and herself, all because she is a woman of strength and character who would shake up the “good old boy” network Ron Paul slinks around in.
Paul rails against earmarks in bills, but then inserted 22 earmarks worth $96.1 million into an Omnibus bill earlier this year, making him the number one Republican to receive earmarks.
It is little wonder the country rejected a candidate who is as much of a hypocrite as Paul or one who is passing into obscurity and decides he must trash a woman who is twice the man he will ever be.
Sometimes I don’t know who is the bigger loon, Paul or that relatively small number of starry-eyed, in your face, bloviators who worship his ever word and think they will be able to sell their rejected ideology by high jacking the Republican Party.
Attacking Sarah Palin and alienating conservatives will only appeal to that very Country Club Republican sect Paul accuses us of being. It sure won’t gain him any support amongst rank and file Republicans.
If it isn’t jealousy, it’s fear. Fear that she will clean his clock should both decide to run in 2012, when Paul will be a feeble 76 year old and Sarah a spry 48 year old.
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3 comments:
The fading Ron Paul probably looked around and saw that the way to get some attention, and good press is to trash Sarah Palin, and her supporters.
As looney as Paul can be on foreign issues, his comments were uncalled for and out of line.
Then again, that's why his campaigns never went anywhere, either.
Unlike Paul, sitting in a bought-and-paid for position in the Corrupt Congress, Palin had to watch what she said - who knows how many more ethics complaints would have been filed against her had she spoken out about the nonsense going on at the Federal Reserve.
All he's done is prove he's no better than the rest of his Dummycrap and so-called Republican counterparts.
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