Posted by Robert* on Wed, Sep 14, 2011, at 9:30 PM:
Of course this poll is open for anyone to vote and there is no way to limit a person to one vote. (And I have very little faith in polls in the first place.) But I can understand that many who are inclined to vote with the tea party feel they owe something to Ron Paul. I will take it with a grain of salt. It is still fourteen months until the election and many things can change. Most people are busy with their own lives and not caught up in politics as yet.
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Ron Pauls crazy supporters will always ruin his chances.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Wed, Sep 14, 2011, at 9:46 PM
Ron is great! Except for that whole Iran deserves to have Nukes thing....
-- Posted by John in Jackson on Wed, Sep 14, 2011, at 9:53 PM
And, of course, Iran has never threatened Isreal! Why of course not, EOS. Heavens no!
-- Posted by voyager on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 7:22 AM
I would say that as a sovereign country, like it or not, Iran has as much right to "nukes" as any other sovereign country.
-- Posted by FreedomFadingFast on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 10:02 AM
The prominent Iranian nut job has made several speeches promising to annilate the Jews. Maybe that is not the official Iranian stance.
Given the birth rates of the mid east, the Arabs need only wait for the Jewish population to fade away until the country is too insignificant for favor of US policy.
-- Posted by Old John on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 10:19 AM
"February 25, 2010
"If the Zionist regime wants to repeat its past mistakes, this will constitute its demise and annihilation...With Allah's help the new Middle East will be a Middle East without Zionists and Imperialists."
(At a news conference in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.)
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 11:47 AM
"Earlier, Ahmadinejad told a French television station that the confrontation that took place on the Turkish flotilla's flagship "shows that it [Israel] has no room in the region and no one is ready to live alongside it."
"[We] will change many issues in the world and mark the final countdown for Israel's existence," Ahmadinejad said."
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 11:50 AM
BC, At least we both recognize the Iranian nut job is Ahmadinejad.
-- Posted by Old John on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 12:37 PM
EOS-
I think your analogy using Cape and Jackson is a little flawed. Here, let me fix it for you.
It would be like if Cape started rounding up Jacksonites living in Cape and in the nearby rezoned districts and started executing them and St. Louis came to their rescue. Understandably many Jacksonites are now fearful of living within Cape's borders and flee, however the surrounding counties and cities are soon overwhelmed by refuges and close their boarders leaving the Jacksonites no place else to go but back to their homeland. However Jackson has been annexed by Scott City and Chaffee, they want to live in Jackson but not next to Jacksonites. . So St. Louis splits Jackson in two, giving half back to the returning Jacksonites and allowing the people of Scott City and Chaffee to continue living in Jackson while maintaining their separation from the Jacksonites.
There, I fixed it.
-- Posted by DADES on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 2:05 PM
Ron Paul started the first Tea Party December 16, 2007.
So, say what you want, Ron Paul best represents the Tea Party which the GOP has all but hi-jacked!
-- Posted by swift on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 3:39 PM
Uh, Swift, Ron Paul is a member of the GOP...
Ron Paul had Tea Party events, but he did not 'found' the Tea Party.
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 4:14 PM
But Shapley, he is a libertarian populist member of the GOP. He's definitely not status quo. If there were modern Tea Party events before '07, I'd like to know. Man, you've got me wondering now! LOL
-- Posted by swift on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 5:24 PM
-- Posted by swift on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 5:28 PM
Gee, I guess I should think first before throwing a stone a pond of smooth water, ripple effects you know.
If there was an easy answer to all this someone like Bazooka Joe would have put it in a gum wrapper by now.
Ron Paul doesn't as far as I know claim to represent the tea party.
-- Posted by Old John on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 8:42 PM
Swift wrote:
"If there were modern Tea Party events before '07"
But, if you read the Tea Party invitation you posted, Ron Paul's '07 event wasn't a 'modern tea party event', it was just an old fashioned fundraiser with a different. Instead of throwing tea into the sea, he says, you'll have your chance to throw money at Ron Paul. That's hardly the idea behind the modern tea party events.
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 8:58 PM
Ok, just to be "fair". Who best respreents the Socialist (i.e., Democratic) Party?
-- Posted by voyager on Fri, Sep 16, 2011, at 4:55 PM
Tea parties may be a bit like car shows in that not all the people attending like all the cars shown. But they all have a general liking for cars.
Car shows may be a bit like tea parties in that not all the people attending like all the ideas presented but have a common interest in representation more directly from the people.
At the car show, there is always a few cars that almost everyone there likes and are the focus of the next day's media coverage of the event.
At the tea parties there seems to a few ideas that most people seem to connect with and should be the fous of the next day's media coverage of the event.
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Sep 17, 2011, at 4:46 PM
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Of course this poll is open for anyone to vote and there is no way to limit a person to one vote. (And I have very little faith in polls in the first place.) But I can understand that many who are inclined to vote with the tea party feel they owe something to Ron Paul. I will take it with a grain of salt. It is still fourteen months until the election and many things can change. Most people are busy with their own lives and not caught up in politics as yet.
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