Ron Paul and the pink slip that could decide the election
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Have you ever woken up in the morning knowing you have to let someone go and just felt sick to your stomach? It’s the worst part of work, isn’t it? Even when it’s absolutely necessary — the money isn’t there or the employee hasn’t been contributing for ages — the emotional pain and mess of sending someone home is every good leader’s bête noire.
To make matters worse, letting someone go is, without doubt the moment when every leader is the most likely to screw up. Really screw up. Because when you fire a person the wrong way — that is, without generosity and respect — you can be sure of two things.
You’ve hurt someone unnecessarily.
And you’ve set up your organization for a future relationship from hell. After all, terminated employees don’t just fade away. They usually reappear, and pretty rapidly, as customers, suppliers, distributors, or in the worst-case scenario, competitors with an ax to grind.
By the way, this is a column about Ron Paul.
Yes, Ron Paul, and here’s why. The maxims of business and politics don’t always overlap, but when it comes to parting ways, they sure do. In business, firing someone incorrectly is a disaster that can haunt you for years. Same in politics.
Now, the GOP isn’t technically going to “fire” Dr. Paul. But look, even Ron Paul knows he’s not going to unpack his suitcases in the Lincoln Bedroom. At some point, his wildly entertaining, Don Quixote-like campaign for the White House is going to run out of time.
And then?
And then, GOP, watch out! Sure, it appears Paul is unlikely to mount a third-party campaign — he’s said so himself. But he’s also unlikely to spend the next few months out on the stump for the nominee, or even in dutiful silence. In fact, you can easily imagine Paul as an outspoken TV commentator from now until November, basically running without running just to keep his ideas in the mix.
But Paul is not really the GOP’s problem. It’s his followers, perhaps as much as 15 percent of the general electorate, many of them young, vocal and highly energized. Like Paul himself, they’re not exactly party regulars. No, Paul and his followers promise to be a lot like that fired employee who, if “handled” incorrectly at farewell, will make it his life’s work to, if not bring your organization down, at least show you how very wrong you were to cut the cord.
The Republican Party would be flat-out careless to let that happen. Dr. Paul’s exit isn’t exactly going to be unexpected. Plus, the GOP leadership has an excellent example of how to correctly part ways right under its nose — in President Obama’s masterful handling in 2008 of Hillary Clinton, a bitter opponent right to the end, and Joe Biden, an early loser in the Democratic primary race. Both of these “terminated” rivals, along with Bill Clinton and his minions, could have easily spent Obama’s general-election campaign and his first term engaged in subterfuge, natter-nattering to the media about the Newbie-in-Chief’s every little misstep. Instead, Hillary Clinton was given a big job and a big jet and the opportunity to become the most popular woman in America. And rather than being trundled back to his commuter seat on the Amtrak to Delaware, the gaffe-ridden Biden was anointed vice-president and given the not-insignificant job of humanizing the more aloof Obama, a role he clearly relishes.
And so it must be with the RNC and Ron Paul. There can be no brush-off. No “Phew, he’s gone. Now let’s get down to business.” No booby prize. Ron Paul needs to be given a role that really means something to him –- a role with influence and voice.
The details of this role are not for us to identify — they can only emerge from the kind of good-faith negotiations that party officials should initiate soon with the candidate. All we can say is, in this kind of setting, as in the best-practice business parting, the “victor” must err on the side of bigheartedness and dignity. Whatever speaking role Dr. Paul wants at the convention, give it to him. If he wants some sort of advisory role in the new administration, the answer is: “Of course.” Like a business leader designing a severance package with a key player, the GOP leadership’s mindset must be: “When he walks out that door, Ron Paul is going to be a friend for life.”
Because if he isn’t, Ron Paul and his followers will make their unhappiness known. And for the mishandling of this defining moment, the GOP will deserve their ire.
Just like any leader who botches goodbye.
Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric for 21 years and is the founder of the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University. Suzy Welch is an author, speaker and the former Editor of the Harvard Business Review.
PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate U.S .Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) makes a point during the Republican presidential candidates debate in Jacksonville, Florida January 26, 2012. REUTERS/Scott Audette
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Dear Jack and Suzy, what makes you think Ron Paul won’t get elected? Because the media and the GOP don’t like the idea of him breaking up the Establishment? Got news for you. Ron Paul will be living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave or America will end. Simple as that. I will gladly cost the GOP the election if they don’t nominate Ron Paul and it will be unconditionally. I either vote for Ron Paul or I vote for Ron Paul. No one or nothing will change my mind. I wish he would go 3rd party. I want the GOP to lose. Piss on the GOP. They are just as bad as the Dumbocrats! He will be POTUS NOT VP. And he will choose his own running mate who’s idea’s align with his own not leftovers Newt, Mitt or Rick. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I don’t see Ron or Rand Paul being offered the job as VP under a ad-MITT-istration, because his foreign policy ideas keep the military-industrial complex from making trillions, so it will not be allowed.
However – I would be willing to bet that Mitt, were he to be elected, might name Ron Treasury Secretary.
This article is dead on. (Can’t beleive I am saying this about a CBS article) The 10-15% of us that support the ideals of returning to a Constitutional Republic, Sound Money and endless pre-emptive wars will be reluctant to vote for a GOP candidate if Rep. Paul is not allowed a role in a Republican Administration or at least our positions are adopted in some way. GOP, you need us. Don’t think we’ll all fall in line in August if one of the other three are nominated.
I’m changing my registration from Independent now so that I can vote for Ron Paul in a primary.
America has been run into the ground by politicians on the take from Wall St financiers, who put their pocketbook and self interests first. They also collude and connive on ways to put US taxpayers on the hook for a foreign policy that does not benefit the USA, and that requires young Americans (the financiers rarely participate) give up their lives in non-productive wars. All of this is about forcing Americans to pay for the whims of the 1%.
@txgadfly Jan 28, 2012
12:16 am EST
Excellent post. What I fail to understand is if those on message boards can see the problems and solutions, why can’t those who hold a degree of power because they were elected or appointed to run our representative republic (aka democracy).
There is a strong case that our country has been hijacked and we no longer have a democracy and those on top understand our dire predicament and are essentially afraid to act. All of which makes it so absolutely important that we have a leader that is not afraid to speak the facts and truth when it comes to liberty, freedom and fiscal responsibility to America. The crony corrupt establishment has come to see this as a threat to their domination.
i can’t believe the overwhelming whining about how the media is to blame. you all sound like mindless little children who have been caught by their parents not doing their homework. rather, playing copy-cat and just word for wording everything instead of researching and interpreting what you have learned. yes, sometimes the media, ALL MEDIA, is prejudiced one way or another. but to blame your inability to grow up and form your own opinions that you farmed yourself is exactly the problem, NOT the media. act like an adult, for once.
Only the GOP’s adoption of Ron Paul’s foreign policy and emphasis on personal liberty will satisfy the new Republicans who support him.
I know you are a very respected and smart guy but I think you fail to realize the anger of American voters and the following the Dr. Paul is enjoying. Romney and Gingrich nor Santorum are the cure for what ails this country, I hope others follow me, because I say it’s Ron Paul or nobody. I am voting for him, write-in vote no matter what. If Obama gets reelected, I don’t care…it doesn’t matter anymore, both parties spend us into oblivion and lie to the people…screw the two party system, screw Obama, Romney and especially big business whose relationship with politicians is the biggest problem.
I had no idea that Joe Biden was “anointed” Vice President. What did our deity tell him?
Hehe ..beautiful. Ron Paul continues to scare people with the constitution. If they are this scared…he must be right about a few things
Fact is current foreign policy has not stopped Iran and the new ability to strike anywhere in the world. N Korea or India or Pakistan…
China’s building aircraft carriers and anti-carrier missiles.
Maybe the smartest people aren’t so smart.
“Maybe the smartest people aren’t so smart.” The three stooges made a lot of people look smarter than they actually were. Paul needs Romney, Gingrich and Santorum more than they need him.
I wish this will be a landslide.
If Ron isn’t the nominee, I’m not going to take time off from work to go vote for a Republican big government, pro torture, pro rendition, world domination Socialized medicine war monger scumbag. We’ve got that with Obama.
My America isn’t adult enough for self ownership, private property, sound money and tolerance.
I have serious doubts that Jack Welch ever agonized over the dismissal of any employee, unless it was some personal friend. If you do any research on his “management style” while at GE, it would turn your stomach. Welch is one of the prime examples of everything that is wrong in business, he is the type of greed-driven scumball that this country would be better off without.
In all seriousness, when Jach Welch shuffles off this mortal coil, you will find few mourners amoung the 99%, but possibly quite a few revelers.
Ron Paul would never accept a token position in a compromise government, and that is exactly why his support is so strong, he actually believes in the principles the country was founded on, and he espouses common-sense and honesty.
All four of our children are huge Ron Paul followers, Suzy acknowledged.
derdeutschman wrote,”The three stooges made a lot of people look smarter than they actually were. Paul needs Romney, Gingrich and Santorum more than they need him.”
What’s so unfortunate about Ron Paul is that, for a man who is obviously intelligent and well-informed, he has a few fixed ideas that work only in special imaginary worlds.
The “three stooges” would make the proverbial ham sandwich look good. Nevertheless, Ron Paul really does have some good qualities. But he is too delusional to be a good President.
Obama is a ham sandwich with a lot of dignity and a certain flair. He is still better qualified to be President than any of the Republican candidates. Also, we know he is not likely to do anything really crazy overseas, always a concern with a U.S. President.
Would Ron Paul be satisfied with being the V.P. under Romney? From what I have been reading, they are friendly with each other, even though they disagree with each others’ policies. Would Romney want a pro-industrial hemp V.P.? In 2008, Ron Paul did not endorse a specific candidate. Let’s hope that this time, he will at least back Gary Johnson instead of diluting the power of his endorsement.
It may just be me, but after reading this article and others like it, I started thinking (a crazy thought to some I’m sure), but I wonder about those who are employed by the ones owned by the 1% like mainstream media. What is it that a journalist can do to help a cause or candidate that is right and that they support behind the backs and under the radar from their employers/owners with whom they want or need to maintain employment? To me, this article brought to mind that though it appears it is an attempt to persuade voters away from Ron Paul, I get a sense there may be an underlying message and purposeful intent to encourage the opposite. Keeping RP’s name and message in the mainstream media with articles that allow comments may be a journalist’s only avenue to get Ron Paul’s name even mentioned in mainstream media and their own true unspoken support cleverly noticed. It is an opportunity to educate and challenge research into politics, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. The journalist reminds folks about Ron Paul and the importance of getting his message to resonate throughout the country and the world even if only through his growing mass of supporters. The article even boldly warns their owners, the 1%, that they better be careful how they go about “firing” Ron Paul because if not, the things they don’t want being exposed to the public would be, and that there will be hell to pay, ultimate ruin, for they and those a. It’s actually a brilliant tactic really.
The Project for a New American Century is well underway. There is not much of a matter as to who is the President.
I call the bluff of the Ron Paul bunch about the 3rd party run.
In fact, I recommend that each of you contact the Board of Elections in your states and find out what some one needs to do to run as an Independent in your state or not to register a new party, such as the Ohioans for Ron Paul Party, or the Iowans for Ron Paul Party.
If you cannot gather enough support for a new party in your state, then your threat to vote third party or not vote at all is baseless.
@Dan Farfan You are calling for the creation of the post of Secretary of the Constitution? You are calling for MORE government bureaucracy? So much for Ron Paul being a “small government” libertarian….
@CityOfThorns “They spend so much time and effort talking about no gay marriage and no abortion instead of leaving that for the states to decide”
Typical of PaulBots you are too ignorant that you say things and you have no idea that they don’t make any sense.
First of all, Roe v Wade took away the rights for the States to decide on abortion, so your argument is baseless.
Second of all, the gender bender activists claim that the “equal protection clause” in the 14th Amendment also negates the states right to decide. That is what DOMA was all about, which the current resident of the Oval Office conveniently decided is unConstitutional and refuses to defend it, which would mean that by virtue of the “equal protection clause” would mean that Massachusetts alone would be allowed to decide for all the other 29 states, so the point of your argument is moot.
Ron Paul’s supporers are his own worst enemy. He attracts people that are so devoid of reasoning and are so informed that the GOP is best off keeping as far away from him as possible
@magicmann “Ron Paul is the only one that moderate independents or Democrats would support.” OBviously you have never heard of the term “Reagan Democrats”. The problem with the PaulBots is that they are so ignorant, especially of the South, they must all be a both of stuck up Yankees. In the South, everyone is registered as a Democrat, but when it comes to the Presidential election, they always vote for the GOP candidate. Your theory is based on a false premise.
“I think that Dr Paul is more like Andrew Jackson” Andrew Jackson was the architect of the Trail of Tears and ethnic cleansing.
Any talk of writing in Ron Paul, just exposes the ignorance of his supporters in the Constitution. Per the Constitution, only the electors vote for the President. (Hey, if you don’t like it, that’s your problem. The Constitution isn’t for you.) In the general election what you are actually doing is voting for a slate of electors that have been preselected by the paper. A write-in vote is a vote for nobody, because if the name is not on the ballot, there are no electors assigned. The electors are the ones that are actually on the ballot.
If you are that passionate about “writing-in” Ron Paul, then I would suggest that you register a new party in your state, that would have electors that would vote for Ron Paul. If that is too much trouble for you to do, then there isn’t much danger of you writing in Ron Paul
This is a funny article. Jack Welch knows this situation well because all four of his sons are Ron Paul supporters. He realizes that the young generation is sick of these old hacks dumping debt on our backs so you can enjoy entitlement programs we pay for, yet will never receive real benefits from.
The pink slip should go to Jack & Suzy for trying to keep their investments in the military industrial complex safe at the expense of the American people and our Constitution.
Here’s my pinkslip to Jack & Suzy. BuhBye! You are irrelevant.
Good for Congressman Ron Paul – keep giving Jack Welsh & other neo-cons headaches. I’m not young & not old but have been around long enough to say no thank you to the way both parties have ignored the Constitution & Bill of Rights – any Republican but Paul means President Obama will get 4 more years – both parties are being played by the same puppet masters and we know. Strength through community, persuade me some more Jack with your words of wisdom, I think your sons know better than you & Susie.
Judge Andrew Napolitano on the Supreme Court, that is the deal I would make if I was Ron Paul.
Rand Paul as VP doesn’t excite me.
It is not the fault of the media that Ron Paul is failing, again, to capture the nomination. It has been a quadrennial farcical play for Ron Paul to run for the nomination. He tried it as a Libertarian, but when that didn’t work so well, he went with the Republican Party. It is also not the media’s fault that Ron Paul wrote racist material or had racist associates in the early 90s. His opinions about the gold standard, the Federal Reserve, or even what is and is not constitutional speak volumes about his ignorance. Frankly, the man is a crackpot. His understanding of economics, financial transactions, even banking would not wet the bottom of a juice glass.
I will take at face value, for now, the claim that he has the energetic support of a quarter to a third of young people. He might have that support, but apparently the support is not strong enough to translate into primary or caucus wins so perhaps, the level of his support is over blown. Have any of you who support him taken the time to look at his proposals in the harsh light of day and researched how they stack up against reality? Do any of you know what makes him think a gold standard would or could prevent the hyperinflation that he considers as just around the corner? It’s a long corner because he has been predicting it for decades. Germany had hyperinflation at a time when the world was firmly on the gold standard. Do you understand that a gold standard only works when there is a fixed price for gold to which other nations must agree. Gold has no intrinsic value of its own. It is rare, but so what. So are rainy days in the Sahara.
What is his beef with the Federal Reserve? It is not even the first central bank in U.S. history. It is the third or fourth. The others were abolished by some president like Ron Paul and immediately problems were encountered with controlling the currency, transactions between banks became less efficient, and monitoring of the capital markets ceased to be possible and they must be monitored. If they were not monitored, then the banking collapse would not have been noticed until it was far to late to stop or to prevent another Great Depression. Make no mistake, that is the direction towards which our economy was falling.
Someone please try to make a case for Ron Paul that has more factual context that anything I have heard from him, ever.
Well, ignore Ron Paul at your own peril….I am 59, and a republican voter for life…but I will consider voting for one of the other candidates should the GOP not accept His supporters at the convention…..many of my lifetime GOP’ers feel the same and no amount of “spin” by the MSM will change this
Ron Paul is the only one that can save us, all the others are high priced lawyers and banksters looking to line their own pockets. Wall street and Washington are one and the same, that goes for the Republicans and Democrats all one and the same no difference, each is there to line their own pockets and bank accounts. Ron Paul has my vote and I hope he has yours too.
@krpkrpkrp: You are the reason intelligent Ron Paul supporters laugh at mainstream understanding of the law. Your statement, “Typical of PaulBots you are too ignorant that you say things and you have no idea that they don’t make any sense,” aside from the horrific grammar, demonstrates the ignorance of most of the country. You misinterpret both Roe v. Wade and the nuances of the libertarian/Ron Paul position on Marriage. Roe v. Wade did not fully take away states rights on the issue of abortion, merely regulated them. In effect, it legalized 1st and 2nd term abortion while leaving 3rd term abortions to be a state issue; thereby allowing states to put an outright ban on 3rd trimester abortions. Ron Paul is pro-life while I am pro-choice but we both agree the constitution does not address abortion specifically. As a result, without a constitutional ammendment or federal law defining when life begins (at conception or at birth) abortion is inherantly a states’issue under the 9th and 10th ammendments. That is why Ron Paul has been so vocal about getting a national law and/or constitutional ammendment passed in order to institute his Pro-life agenda. Without one, he realizes Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional. Being pro-choice, I would be going about the issue in the same manner as Ron Paul, just from the pro-choice side of the issue.
As for marriage, it is really quite simple to understand and only an ignoramus could complicate it. Marriage is a social institution that has existed long before governments and will exist long after governments. Consequently, whether it is a hetero or homosexual marriage the federal government has no constitutional authority to either allow or disallow same-sex marriages. This is Ron Paul’s stance: marriage is a social not government function and government should not be involved. Giving tax breaks to married couples and while not giving those same breaks to co-habitants amounts to a violation of equal protection under the law as stated in the 14th ammendment.
Please, before you criticise Ron Paul, read the oonstitution.
The Ron Paul Pledge………I will vote Ron Paul, no matter what the GOP outcome, I will write in Ron Paul, 3rd party vote, etc etc etc “NO Matter” A vote for anyone else is just the same as an Obama vote
I stand firm and I will not accept anything less.
Your scenario paints a rosy picture of one in which you let an employee go where you gave a fair shot. This is not that scenario in the slightest. The scenario you and the GOP face now Welch is something more of someone you’ve personally had a vendetta against who has been kind and respectful with you, and you have shown him and his supporters to what lengths you’d go to fire him even if he did nothing wrong, and always played by the rules of fairness even when you NEVER did and were never in a position to fire him anyway.
We are not going happily away, welch. In fact, we extend into your own family home thanks to your wife’s sons. This isn’t the Jessie Jackson campaign where Ron Paul supporters are a cult of personality. You and people like you such as mark levin have also been singled out as people in the GOP who did whatever possible to prevent us getting a fair shake and attacked us AT EVERY TURN to make sure we have no political voice. You made sure to do your damnest to make sure to kick Paul out of the race so bad you didn’t realize we were watching publicly your disgusting behavior to make it happen.
Well we have been watching, and we have been getting angrier at people like you, the GOP leadership, and the media. In the future, things will change as mathematically, we can’t pay our future bills if things keep up like this and 64 Trillion in future liabilities turn into debt as well. Times like this, things can change abruptly. We can wait as it will be easier to deal with you and your kind then. The GOP strength however will die out as time passes and each of your baby boomers die off from their age. We also aren’t going to play your games anymore. We aren’t going to vote for Romney or his ilk. Politically we can grow exponentially; you on the other hand dwindle in political strength as they days pass.
Romney is the same as Obama. We already have no choice in such a match. Why vote for your idiot in the race over the other idiot? Each election year, you and your democrat friends will wane in power. We however will continue to grow.
Give paul the ability to overturn the patriot act and he will be satisfied. Rand can pick up where he left off in 4 years.
Good article but it should go further. The reality is that many of the ideas of Ron Paul – centering on a return to limited government, ending unconstitutional expansions of government from the use of public domain laws to seize private property to turn it over to other private individuals who promise investments yielding more taxes to Obamacare, actually cutting spending instead of cutting the rate of growth of spending, and not spreading our military so thin that we could barely manage to field 150,000 men in Iraq – actually appeal quite widely. Ron Paul gets credit for having some good ideas but as I see him, Ron Paul is not that effective a messenger – he is not really an alpha leader but instead seems nerdy and inneffectual. His ideas could get even more traction if well presented.
Good article but it should go further. The reality is that many of the ideas of Ron Paul – centering on a return to limited government, ending unconstitutional expansions of government from the use of public domain laws to seize private property to turn it over to other private individuals who promise investments yielding more taxes to Obamacare, actually cutting spending instead of cutting the rate of growth of spending, and not spreading our military so thin that we could barely manage to field 150,000 men in Iraq – actually appeal quite widely. Ron Paul gets credit for having some good ideas but as I see him, Ron Paul is not that effective a messenger – he is not really an alpha leader but instead seems nerdy and inneffectual. His ideas could get even more traction if well presented.
Actually it is the rest of the GOP that should recieve their pink slips. Ron Paul is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind for a president. One who would protect and follow the Constitution. Not one other candidate, I am willing to bet, has even read the Constitution.
Oh and @student1776, honestly you really must lose the Ken and Barbie, Hollywood, 90210 mentality. Does it really matter what Ron looks and sounds like?
Great article……you hit the nail right on the head…by there…done that….and came back with an ax..a new business.
I not only will apply with either political party…it happens in interpersonal realtionship of institutions, governemnts, human beings, marrages etc as well. Unlike Joe Biden…put your brain in gear before you start your vocal cords working and make a effor as to how to prceed then sleep on it….before engaging the gear of action (s)!!
Ron Paul is doing just fine….he wants to get to the place that will enable him to insert in the GOP VOTING PROCESS as many of his positions and recommendation on issues as he can and that place will be the convention.
His methodology reminds me of this: “There are those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who WONDER WHAT HAPPENED.” WATCH the process in action and your will learn how and what to improve to “MAKE THINGS HAPPEN for yourself in or out of politics!!!”
Ok, woah, wait a minute. Highlight the integrity/strength of Ron Paul and his supporters while suggesting to offer him a consolation prize… that’s a sneaky way of suggesting he’s just not going to win is it not?
What a shame.
“But Paul is not really the GOP’s problem. It’s his followers, ”
No the GOP’s problem is they spend like the liberals they say they oppose. They lost in 06 and 08 because of their liberal ways and they gave us a liberal nominee in John McCain. The GOP has controlled the house for well over a year and has not even made a proposal to freeze spending let alone cut it. Jack, you should know that no company or household can sustain while they finance 40% of their costs and government will soon learn they are no different. And what really makes Jack Welch and his wife really angry, is that his OWN children support Ron Paul. But that makes sense as it is their generation that will have to deal with this debt. Jack, where would our country be today had past generations felt it was acceptable to finance 40% of their government cost at our feet?
Yupp.
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I am not young, but I vote Libertarian or Republican depending on the candidate. No way would I vote for the moralist, nanny-statist Santorum. Not sure about Romney. Gingrich’s ideas are exciting, but everyone seems to think he is an a%*$ole.
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We’re the ones who voted Republican with the TEA Party in 2010 and who voted Chris Christie Governor . . . and the Republicans need us.
Dear, Mr. Jack Welch how about a story on Mitt Romney receiving a pink slip now?
@student1776 and @gnat60 : On the subject of Ron Paul’s appearance: Two words: Gary Johnson.
Libertarians would getting more votes with a tall, gravelly voiced candidate. That may be a “Barbie and Ken” thing, but politics is a large part appearance. And don’t pretend you aren’t affected by appearances.
That said, given how far the ship of state is angled from Ron Paul’s positions, someone too effective in steering the ship his way might be hard to distinguish from a demagogue.
The article is better than most but not quite correct. First of all, we are not Ron Paul “followers” as we consider ourselves masters of out own lives. We believe in and support Dr. Paul because he has shown over a lifetime of service that he is a humble public servant who unquestionably supports the Constitution and our rights.
Also, I do not expect Ron Paul to take a job in any new administration as he (rightfully so) equates Romney with Obama on many issues and therefore deems him unfit for office.
The GOP better wake up as we are not going to vote for anyone but Ron Paul no matter what. None of the other candidates can beat Obama and none of them would be any better. For 15% or more of the country’s voters it’s Paul or no one.
Rob-in-Atlanta – typical gibberish, we’ve heard all the slander BS before and, yawn, we’re a bit tired of your inability to make up something new or interesting. Keep trying though as I suspect with each post you convert even more rational and intelligent people to support Ron Paul and reject the current GOP/DNC handpuppets.
Ron Paul is overly moderate by Republican standards. The Tea-Party has faded so how will the Tea Party faithfuls followers vote? The “independent” category is vague and independent voters sway a lot. So does Ron Paul have a shot at this time or should be wait for Gingrich and Santorum to fold.
Jack Welch – you and your bankster friends just got a pink slip. Guess what? Voting for any of the other Republicans is the same as voting for Obama. I’m not interested. I am also not interested in people who call me names because I support the only candidate that would try to follow the Constitution. I will vote for Paul no matter what, and no other candidate.
Veterans for Paul 2012
Ron Paul is the only Constitutional fiscal conservative on the ticket. The rest just play one on tv.
So much has changed since this first posted. Ron Paul’s ideals are finding there way into the mainstream. Santorum wins 3 states, Newt attacking the Fed. Now if they can only become a little socially liberal Ron Paul could win. He is the real deal. In addition, voting without the noise of Newt showed three differring ideals. Rom is progressive, Rick is Social conservative who claims to be for small Government?, and the ever steady Paul who is Libertarian. Lets have some honest debates! Find it interesting that the ECB wants Greece to cut minimum wage by 22%? Do these actions support Dems thinking or one of the Repubs,?
@Rob in Atlanta, Ben and the Fed. crossed the line when they targetted the currency to a 2% inflation rate. To target anything under 0% is criminal. It should freak out every American. Historically, even at a 0% objective we have seen prices rise. Reported at 2-3% annually, not including food or fuel.#%@$!