Joe Scarborough: Why I voted for Ron Paul

[W_BRANDON]

A half-ass effort to compliment Ron Paul when it doesn't really make a damn anymore = RATINGS

He's just throwing you a bone.

 

[dean.engelhardt]

Great article. The comments attached to the original article make me question republicans.

 

[Southerner]

Lets see, msnbc got rid of Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan, and Joe "says" he is conservative. Any others left there? I don't think so. At least FNC & CNN make an attempt to bring opposing views to the table.

 

[parocks]

He was part of the blackout. I love how Zbigniew Brzezinski's ( NWO conspirator ) daughter looks over Joe's shoulder.

Scarborough was fair then. He tweeted about black this out. He mentioned black this out on his tv show.

 

[JK/SEA]

pointless article and pointless discussion. You either believe Joe voted/protest for Ron, or you didn't. I don't, but whatever.

 

[William R]

Way to go Joe!

 

[W_BRANDON]

Scarborough was fair then. He tweeted about black this out. He mentioned black this out on his tv show.

You just admitted to following Joe Scarsborough on Twitter. Wow. Dude is the epitome of a RINO and did nothing to help Ron Paul or the liberty movement. Morning Joe went out of its way to exclude Ron Paul in their coverage. The worst. But good for you.

 

[Cowlesy]

Yes. He's not consistent by any definition. When I read the headline, the first thing that popped into my head was, "What a strange man he is."

Me. Too.; in respect to your 'strange man' observation.

 

[pen_thief]

Okay. Technically the correct answer is "criticized the way the Osama Bin Laden raid was handled", but shooting the messenger (Joe Scarboro) isn't helpful.

Well I'm not feeling particularly helpful today and I think the article was a shit sandwich. It started out good, it ended good, but it had a massive clump of shit in the middle.

After all, who would vote for a candidate that criticized the killing of Osama bin Laden, blamed U.S. foreign policy for Sept. 11 and wants to abolish Social Security?
Certainly not me.

Do I think a Ron Paul presidency is ever possible? No, I don’t.

So now I’ve cast my protest vote.

This guy is a total douche. I can't believe how much you guys celebrate the people who only voted for Ron because they didn't like the others. I've seen videos of him being cordial to Ron Paul and then hopping aboard the slander wagon with the rest of the MSM.

He's not a Ron Paul supporter by any stretch. Nor are people who take their endorsements back because some people got upset. Screw these half-hearted fairweather lice who ride on the back the movement for their own gain -- I'm talking the John Stewarts and guys like this -- but at the end of the day, would shove Ron Paul down a well if "someone better" came along.

We are totally like the nerd who is sooo happy that the pretty girl even said hello to him.

 

[cheapseats]

...Screw these half-hearted fairweather lice who ride on the back the movement for their own gain...

GRAVY TRAINS R US.

 

[jmdrake]

My point, that you seem to have missed, is that Ron's statement on the OBL raid was in and of itself most unhelpful to his campaign. Oh, it didn't bother me. I don't think OBL was killed in the raid. But at a time when even the most virulent anti-Obama "he's really a Kenyan mooselum" teocon was chest bumping and high fiving Obama for supposedly doing what Bush failed to do....well I just wish Ron had chosen different words.

Well I'm not feeling particularly helpful today and I think the article was a shit sandwich. It started out good, it ended good, but it had a massive clump of shit in the middle.

After all, who would vote for a candidate that criticized the killing of Osama bin Laden, blamed U.S. foreign policy for Sept. 11 and wants to abolish Social Security?
Certainly not me.

Do I think a Ron Paul presidency is ever possible? No, I don’t.

So now I’ve cast my protest vote.

This guy is a total douche. I can't believe how much you guys celebrate the people who only voted for Ron because they didn't like the others. I've seen videos of him being cordial to Ron Paul and then hopping aboard the slander wagon with the rest of the MSM.

He's not a Ron Paul supporter by any stretch. Nor are people who take their endorsements back because some people got upset. Screw these half-hearted fairweather lice who ride on the back the movement for their own gain -- I'm talking the John Stewarts and guys like this -- but at the end of the day, would shove Ron Paul down a well if "someone better" came along.

We are totally like the nerd who is sooo happy that the pretty girl even said hello to him.

 

[jonruh52]

Looking at the comments to the article (I mean the comments on Politico) it seems Politico is neo-con central. I really think us small government folks are in the extreme minority because looking at politico reminds me how easily most Americans are brainwashed into thinking any fascist with an 'R' next to his name is somehow a "conservative". Rome survived for 1300 years so I was hoping the U.S. would last at least for half of that, but holy crap people in this country are dumb.

 

[dusman]

Glad that it didn't escape your attention here, Parocks.

I'll reserve any negativity toward Joe. He showed us a lot of respect out there during our NBC protest and he made it pretty obvious he does really like Ron Paul, even if he can't always be true in form on TV. He said he would go on and mention our effort the next morning and he kept his word.

 

[dusman]

You just admitted to following Joe Scarsborough on Twitter. Wow. Dude is the epitome of a RINO and did nothing to help Ron Paul or the liberty movement. Morning Joe went out of its way to exclude Ron Paul in their coverage. The worst. But good for you.

Actually he has gone out of his way to include Ron Paul in coverage. For that, you might want to show at least a hint of respect. One of my favorite media clips from 2007 came from Ron Paul appearing with Joe Scarborough.

There could have been a dozen national anchors whom said they would talk about us in their national coverage after seeing us outside of their studios protesting and I wouldn't have believed them for a second. It says a lot about that person when they actually do and in a pretty positive manner, especially when he could have just as easily ignored us, lied to us, made a mockery of us.

Just my 2 cents from personally meeting him, along with several others on this forum. To a degree, he deserves a small bit of respect for BTO.

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Joe himself said that Ron says anti-Semite stuff at his campaign rallies.

It's all I wanted to add.

 

[Dianne]

Joe Scarborough: Why I voted for Ron Paul

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77335.html


I operate on instinct. So I should not have been surprised by my own gut reaction to the absentee ballot that lay before me on the kitchen table.

I scanned the list for Republican primary candidates and let instinct take over


Mitt Romney? Not on your life. A big government Republican who will say anything to get elected.

Rick Santorum? No way. A pro-life statist who helped George W. Bush double the national debt.

Newt Gingrich? Ideologically unmoored. A champion of liberty one day, a central planner the next.

Ron Paul? Yep. I quickly checked his name and moved on to a far more complex task: fixing my daughter a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

After spending six months analyzing each candidate’s every move for three hours a day, five days a week, it never occurred to me that my decision to vote for the quirky congressman from Texas would happen as fast as a tornado whipping through an Amarillo parking lot. After all, who would vote for a candidate that criticized the killing of Osama bin Laden, blamed U.S. foreign policy for Sept. 11 and wants to abolish Social Security?


Certainly not me.

But I also would never vote for a GOP candidate who was the godfather of Obamacare, or another who added $7 trillion to Medicare’s debt or yet another who bashed Paul Ryan one week and venture capital the next. Faced with this truckload of big government Republicans, I cast my vote for the only candidate who spent his entire public career standing athwart history yelling “stop” to an ever-expanding centralized state.

While Romney was distancing himself from Ronald Reagan, Paul was fighting with Republicans to balance the budget for the first time in a generation. While Santorum was supporting an unprecedented expansion of entitlement spending, Paul was warning of a great recession that would be caused by government interference in the housing market. And while Gingrich was talking about how he would build up the federal government to push his conservative agenda, Congressman Paul spent all his waking hours focused on dismembering that big government beast.


It was the first “protest” vote I’ve ever cast, and it felt … well, it felt good. Suddenly I understood a bit better why the Ross Perot or the Pat Buchanan or the Ralph Nader voters did what they did.

They thought the system was so broken that they couldn’t sit out but also couldn’t stomach voting for a conventional candidate at a time of unconventional problems.

Do I think a Ron Paul presidency is ever possible? No, I don’t. But I do want some of the Pauline virtues of candor and non-poll-tested conviction to play a larger role in our politics.

So now I’ve cast my protest vote. It felt good.

What I really want, though, is a party and a politics that’s commensurate with the problems and possibilities of the country. We’ll get there one day — and then we can focus on progress, not protest.

 

[RonPaulFever]

Fuck you and your "protest vote", you halfwit.

 

[Nubraskan]

Fuck you and your "protest vote", you halfwit.

No wonder we come off as an abrasive bunch.

Our passion is a gift and a curse.

 

[JK/SEA]

Joe is a half wit.

That is all. Any questions?

 

[Nubraskan]

Joe is a half wit.

That is all. Any questions?

Yes.

When you disagree with someone do you always view them as half wits not worth debating? Or do you ever see people as potential converts towards the liberty movement? Like people who voted for Ron Paul (if they aren't already involved).