He is just plain unelectable. When you watch Paul it is like a little whiny man. Can’t stand him. His son I can listen to but him, no way! He grates on me.

for even acknowledging Ron Paul is alive. Turds draw flies. If you don’t want the flies, don’t invite the turds.

I know a couple of Ron Paul supporters and they are definitely a different breed. Acting like this is inexcusable. I hope they are forced out of the GOP for good.

In other words, since Obama is running unopposed in 2012 (most likely), I’m pretty sure the same type of left wingers that donated to Murkowski will do the same for Paul. Keeping him in the race long enough to do damage to the legit electable candidates during the primaries would be to their advantage. He never even really dropped out of the race officially in 2008 (that I remember), never endoresed McCain, and is an absolute crackpot when it comes to national security/foreign policy.
What a shame, too; I really like Rand a lot. I just hope Rand is quite a bit smarter than his daddy on the world outside of the United States.

Is that I think a good conservative Republican could beat him in his own district. I live 1.5 miles away from him (he lives 2 or 3 houses from my boss) and while his district is certainly conservative, we’re not nuts like his national followers. Someone with the money to throw his BS policies back in his face could take him down.

HF

Although the walking out politely should have been predicted since Rand Paul’s speech was curiously scheduled immediately before the award to Rumsfield. I doubt the organizers would have expected that particular crowd to plan to stay for the next event. As you know, there is a period after each speaker when people come and go, and I do think it was just the number of people not interested in staying, that made the difference there. I can’t imagine why they scheduled it that way, would you have done?

I didn’t come on redstate in the last presidential election. I didn’t know who Ron Paul was until it was nearly time to vote in the primary in my state. I agree some of the people who support him are rude, but I also think just about any popular figure has SOME rude people supporting them.. I don’t agree with calling out against speakers, and I know Ron Paul doesn’t, and specifically asked his supporters to be respectful of other speakers. Which is why I wonder if it was really his supporters who shouted out.

As an aside though, the YAF thing has nothing to do with foreign policy. Their president was the one in the last CPAC who condemned CPAC for allowing GOProud there, booed another speaker who congratulated CPAC for allowing GOProud there, and was, himself, booed off stage. If you look at the youtube, he vowes enmity to Ron Paul’s supporters (the student group) at the end before stalking off stage. Ron Paul’s foreign policy views haven’t changed in 30 years, and YAF gave them their highest award while he held those views.

The guys at Powerline talked about how Ron Paul used to produce a news letter viscously attacking Martin Luther King as well as gay people. Conservatives need to distance themselves from him before he causes real damage.

I think everyone recognizes that there are significant disagreements over foreign policy within the conservative movement. But it is rather startling to read that a front page writer would consider his domestic policy to be “disastrous.”

Bringing this country back to fiscal discipline, reigning in the federal government to be within the confines of the constitution, and restoring sound money is not a set of “disastrous” domestic policies.

However, do not pretend like there are better Republicans when it comes to domestic affairs. Are you suggesting that “conservatives” in the mold of Mitt Romneycare would challenge Ron Paul when it comes to keeping the government small?

I like, and support, Ron Paul. I like, and support, Rand Paul. I like, and support, Gary Johnson. I like, and support, Mike Lee. I like, and support, ANY politician who genuinely wishes to make the government smaller and actually advocates policies to this effect. I greatly dislike politicians who seek to expand the state and take more of other peoples’ stuff.

We are faced with opposition who believe government should be telling us how to live our lives. Is there anyone who better articulates the arguments that defend us from these insidious socialist proposals than Ron Paul?

I ask these questions in a tone of civility. I really like Ron Paul, but it’s not like I like him because he is some sort of deity. I like him he is a great advocate of liberty. It is the ideas that matter. I think you should take a long look at what he says and ask yourself again if it is a bad thing that he is out there saying them..

Could some of his supporters be more civil? Sure. But honestly, I’m not seeing anyone in the GOP generating even one twentieth the excitement (which can border on incivility) in young people as Ron or his son Rand. Really look deep inside at your core beliefs, at what America is about, at what the founders of this country intended – hopefully in each case the answer is a free society based on peace. Ron Paul defends exactly these principles.

I hope that Ron Paul will speak out against those supporters of his who behaved like this.

Seems CPAC has a new acronym — Collective Political Activist Crap.

If Paul folks want broader support, they’ve got to get a clue about who are their enemies and who are their friends…

he cant win a single state so dont worry.
hes the pat buchanan of this era.

we’re gonna end up with o’romney who will lose to the real O in the race.

forget GOProud, the influence of radical Islam, FedEx and all the other CPAC controversies. What really started the once outstanding conservative confab down the road to irrelevance was its infestation by the Ronulans.

- JP

I heard a brief blip on the radio news Thursday, all I heard was that Dick Cheney was booed at CPAC and there was a clip of Dick telling them to sit down and shut up. I didn’t know until now that it was also at Donald Rumsfeld. Does anyone have Dick telling them to shut up? I love Dick Cheney he is a Patriot, and hated for no reason, just like most of the Bush admin.

The Paulites lost me completely. They are a John Birch tumor that should be excised. They are a distraction and intolerant nutjobs. I used to give them some benefit of doubt, but I am now convinced.

Not that I oppose a Gold Standard. Not that we can’t make a fiat currency work either. I’ll give Paul credit for highlighting the problems with the Fed printing its way to prosperity. But fortunately, the folks at the grown-up table have picked up on that and are running with it, thank you for the heads-up.

How long would someone who posted the same thing but replaced Ron Paul’s name with Sarah Palin last before they would be kicked out? There’s disagreeing with someone’s policies, and then there’s

“poor personal hygiene”
“proof that class and breeding aren’t something that you can teach”

which is not only unnecessary but against the rules.

I think I’m starting to swoon, catch me. Now steady me so we can go kick the crap out of those RP weasels.

Was that during the campaign, I saw no campaign signs or bumper stickers for Paul. The Ronulans had crappy, homemade signs or had used windshield markers on their cars. I hate it when people litter the side of streets with campaign signs (of any party) to begin with, but these were even worse.

They were weathered pieces of wood decorated with a sloppy job of black paint. They weren’t mounted on posts in the ground but nailed to trees and telephone poles. I don’t know if the campaign had signs and bumper stickers or not, but I never saw any around here. It was all handmade and a three year old could’ve been more artistic.

Does anybody happen to know if that was a directive from the campaign or something? It was just weird and trashy.

I find it disgusting when conservative supporters act like demosocialists and union thugs by harassing speakers at a conservative event. I guess we have trash in our ranks too.

The Ron Paul robots are the Code Pink of the right.

Ron Paul is not going to make it I hope. If he does than the Republican party is doomed. It will be another John McCain fiasco. We nee a very strong conservative leader. We can’t keep letting these RINO’s into our party. They ahve almost destroyed it. If they continue on their current path Obama wil be the Next president because the Republican Party will divide into the Tea Party and itself. We are not ready for a third party and the vote will be split so badly that the Dem’s wil take it. There is a reason that Sarah didn’t go the CPAC meeting. It is filled with RINO’s. Any republican meeting that has Karl Rove, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney in it is just KRAP.

…why are so many of them so screwed up?

I know a number of these guys (its usually men) personally thru a socio-ethnic group I am involved with.

It is almost a universal truth that every one of them has a totally checkered work history having been fired from or walked out on job after job for what almost always is either trivial issues or “having their principles violated” incidents that are so ridiculous and unwise as to be hysterical – especially when they have a wife and kids.

Their relationship/marital lives are usually pretty much the same as their work history.

The spouse gets sick of being in eternal financial chaos because of their husband’s poor choices and lack of responsibility – crusades/ego come before doing his job, she is sick of being continually publicly embarrassed by their husband’s political and personal obsessions causes conflicts with family and friends, or she gets tired of getting slapped around by a control freak with anger-management issues or a substance problem.

Due to their over-the-top obsession with government they will try to find all sorts of crazy tricks to avoid being legally identified and trying to reject the IRS and other government agencies (in the case of some of their spouses – also trying to hoodwink Immigration rules to get the spouse legal papers).

While many of us are sympathetic with the basic ideas on our government’s corruption, we are not willing to risk jail and to have our lives a running catastrophe of lousy jobs, bad living conditions, and unending chaos just to avoid having a “legal identity” (being a slave to the Matrix).

AND THE IDIOCY OF THE 911 TRUTHER CONSPIRACY IS THE HOLY GRAIL FOR THESE GUYS!!!!

A topuch more sanity and a little more time knuckling down and trying to make a living while devoting less energy playing Don Quixote would help a lot of these guys.

Ok, first off, one person saying Israel paid us off to invade Iraq is NOT an Anti-Semitic remark. However I do not think it should have been yelled by that person.

Why does this article not mention that Ron Paul was booed when he won the straw poll. Everyone knew he was going to win. You can’t jump on the Paul supporters booing Cheney and Rumsfield and not condemn those that booed Ron Paul. (and who in the world made the schedule with Rand Paul speaking before the award)

And No Ron Paul supporters were paid to be there. Yes, the Young Americans for Liberty offers $11 tickets to there members, but that is not paying for them to be there, just discounted tickets. (and from what I hear, Romney did the same thing)

CPAC is a joke because they gave Rumsfield an award, I would have been there and booed too. Cheney is not a conservative and is a hypocrite.

I personally blame Cheney for the reasons we have Obama as president.

And no, why would you endorse someone who does not represent your views. Specially one who has voted against Veteran bills, supports a foreign policy that is bankrupting our country and has a poor economic policies too. That is why Paul did not endorse McCain and why I didn’t vote for him either.

Paul may not be able to control who follows and supports. He may not even have any control in their disruption of events, anti-semitic chants and over the top protests. Paul could speak out against the types of protests CPAC saw this weekend, along with telling his followers to tone down their inane rhetoric.

Even Bill Clinton had the class and courage to stand up against over-the-top 9/11 truthers. It’s a sad day when the words class and courage are used in the same sentence as Clinton, but the fact remains; Clinton stood up to nuts on his side of the political aisle, what is Ron Paul’s excuse?

calling people names, like “mouth breather” and making reference to their personal hygiene, then you step into the arena of the liberals. You lump all of a group together as you do the Ron Paul supporters and is the same as saying all blacks are lazy, all Jews are greedy, all liberals are abortionists, all conservatives are Christian psychopaths. Is that really the impression you want to give?
I don’t care about Ron Paul one way or the other, I used to support him but found more to disagree with than agree with but I virulently disagree with your assessment of his followers. Some of them may be idiots and some of them may be liberal plants, you don’t know. You should err on the side of caution and follow your own blog comment box “Be respectful”

“Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country.”

-The great Ronald Reagan

This attitude towards Ron Paul isn’t much different than the attitude the establishment GOP had towards Barry Goldwater when him and his supporters had to fight tooth and nail to get the nomination. The principles of the Old Right are returning & I fail to see why many fear that idea.

Because no one I know who was there heard such a thing and it isn’t on any of the clips I’ve seen.

I’m wondering if it is like those ‘racist remarks’ purportedly thrown at the Black Caucus during the Kill the Bill Rally in DC — totally fabricated by someone spreading it for the advantage of a particular spin. But I wasn’t there, and if you have a youtube of that or something, I’d watch it.

I agree heckling invited speakers is out of line, even if they didn’t say that, and if those were Ron Paul supporters, they should have followed his request and been respectful of all speakers. I am just unable to find any record of those words actually being yelled by anyone.