Friday, March 16, 2012

Growing conservative anger toward Ron Paul about his romance with Mitt Romney



THE HILL | Brent Budowsky | March 16, 2012
The perception of a secret side deal between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney is now creating a major backlash from conservatives and relegating the Paul campaign to third-tier status. While major media have begun withdrawing embeds and reducing coverage of the Paul campaign,

conservatives are increasingly angry with Paul (and Gingrich) for helping Romney. I never thought I would say this, but Rick Perry has been acting like a far more honorable and consistent conservative than Paul, who may well be engaging in old-style politics backroom behavior.

I have been warning about this for weeks. Paul owes his supporters and donors a full public explanation of his relationship with Romney. Paul and Romney both owe the public a full disclosure of any secret deals or undisclosed conversations between them.

The issue is making Paul almost irrelevant. If Romney needs Paul's small number of delegates to be nominated, he is in very big trouble because Paul does not have many delegates. If Ron Paul believes that Rand Paul will be on a Romney ticket, there is a better chance that I will be named starting pitcher for the New York Yankees on opening day.

The dominant trend in Republicans politics is huge pressure from conservatives on Newt Gingrich to drop out and support Rick Santorum, and growing conservative anger toward Paul, whose candidacy and conduct are now seen as major assets for Romney.

It is unfortunate that many major media are withdrawing coverage of the Paul campaign, though it is very understandable in light of Paul's conduct that is making him appear like a gadfly whose major function is to help Romney be nominated.

Paul has a very limited amount of time left to restore some purpose to his campaign. He is very close to being marginalized into insignificance. His romance with Romney is destroying his candidacy and creating a growing anger and backlash against him from conservatives. His behavior is damaging his own credibility and doing long-term damage to Rand, with the broader conservative movement that does not want Romney and does not appreciate Romney enablers.





3 comments:

  1. Your full of it is all I got to say

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  2. this is what you want. Ron Paul supporters to believe. we are doing far better in delegate then the media and GOP are letting on. drawing over 1000 plus to every event in every rally looks to me like Paul is gaining ground you did see that many coming out in 08 and you don't see it with any other candidate but Ron Paul so I would say hog wash..to you blog.. Please stop supporting the status quo!

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  3. THE ESTABLISHMENT = POLITICIANS FROM BOTH PARTIES THAT PRETEND TO OPPOSE EACH OTHER BUT SECRETLY AGREE ON ALL MATTERS IN ORDER TO KEEP THE STATUS QUO. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 2 PARTIES IN WASHINGTON DC? NOTHING BUT THE RHETORIC. THEY STRIVE TO ACHIEVE THE SAME THINGS BUT GO ABOUT IT BY USING DIFFERENT WORDS. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH ONE IS IN POWER AT THE TIME BECAUSE THEY WORK TOGETHER ...TO KEEP THE POWER OVER THE PEOPLE SO THEY CAN GOVERN WITH IMPUNITY UNTIL THE PEOPLE NO LONGER HAVE A VOICE AND THEY HAVE TOTAL CONTROL. STATUS QUO IS IMPORTANT IN ORDER TO PREVENT CHANGE AND HAVING THEIR POWER CHALLENGED. IN ORDER TO HAVE CHANGE THERE MUST BE ACTION TAKEN, OTHERWISE WE WILL PAY FOR OUR IDLENESS UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT IS IN CONTROL OF OUR EVERY MOVE AND WE HAVE NO RIGHTS AND NO WAY TO FIGHT BACK. KEEP IN MIND THE MSM IS PART OF THE ESTABLISHMENT. THEY DO NOT ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH AND RARELY TELLS YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, THEY TELL YOU WHAT "THEY" WANT YOU TO HEAR.

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