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Like Him or Not, Ron Paul Won’t Be The Next President
By admin | January 27, 2008
Whether you like him or not, we all know that his supporters are loud and and loyal. But, I think it’s time that we all admit that Ron Paul is not close enough to the middle to have an impact on politics in the 2008 Presidential Election. In fact, I’m not sure he has had an impact on the democratic or republican platform. In other words, his run for the White House has not really altered the debate at all. He certainly has not brought the republican candidates back to their fiscal base and his strong belief that we should get out of Iraq as fast as possible sounds just like the democrats.
Few republican voters agreed enough with him to change their political stance to reflect his views and there are three democrats who sound just like him on the war. There just is no place in the republican party and the democrats want to spend more on social programs and that just leaves the libertarians and well, they have no shot.
The point of this writing isn’t to bash Ron Paul or his supporters; it’s simply to get the debate off of the now obvious off topic conversation of Ron Paul for president. So what happens to his voters? In my opinion, they are disenfranchised republicans and will vote and democrat. The anti-war passion is strong enough to pull moderate conservatives tired of the way to vote for anyone who will get them out.
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January 27th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Actually he has changed the GOP debate some… there has been some talk about reigning in spending and the issue of the deficit (and borrowing from China).
If you believe a lot of his support will vote democrate, then you don’t understand why his supporters are behind him. For many of us, the war is not our primary issue… it is domestic and econimics that drive us. Something we have nothing in common with Democrates.
I would say what his supporters will do is mixed: some will stay home, some will stick with the GOP, some will go third party… few will go democrate (and those would be the ones only interested in the War issue)
January 27th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Tam,
Thanks for the comment. I would say this - in a republic primary, they are always talking about reigning in spending - it’s a conservative cornerstone so i don’t think Ron Paul has changed that part.
I do understand that economics drive many Paul supporters, but, I contend that his entering the mix has not brought anything new to a primary as all republicans in primaries will talk about fiscal responsibilty.
If his stance on the war were different, his message would have rung quite a bit louder for a lot more voters and he would have had a real impact on the direction the ultimate nominee will have to take.