Ron Paul For US President: Thats what Bob Novak Wants
Filed under: News, Politics | By: Roy
Posted on: August 1, 2007 | 48 Comments
When Bob Novak was asked about the 2008 US Presidential Elections, he dismissed the front-runners for the Presidency and said he would like to see Ron Paul win the US Presidential Elections next year.
Bob Novak was asked about the Republican presidential candidates but he didn’t have anything good to say about the current top-tier field of Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and John McCain.
However although he said he thought he expects Fred Thompson to forward, he expressed a liking for Texas congressman Ron Paul. “He’s a very engaging person… I’d like to see him as president,” Novak said. “Can you imagine him at the United Nations?”
What do you think of Bob Novak’s comments on Ron Paul?
Who do you think will win the 2008 US Presidential Elections?
Do you want Ron Paul to win?
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Ron Paul never blamed America for anything. Please do yourself a favor and go to YouTube and watch the debate again, and this time listen to what he says. He blamed a failed foreign policy, he blamed a lack of foresight and clear ‘big picture’ thinking about what we do and how the rest of the world sees us.
Personally I think Ron Paul is the only real mainstream candidate. I don’t hear my friends talking about abortion or gays in the military or any of the other nonsense that both democrats and republicans constantly regurgitate. Real people are talking about what Ron Paul talks about… That should tell you something.
Dondero, for those who don’t know, is a war-mongering wife-swapper who has headed such campaigns as “Libertarians for Bush,” and perhaps even worse, “Libertarians for Lieberman.” Now he supports the anti-gun, pro-war, anti-civil liberties, big-government campaign of Rudy Giuliani…
Read all about it…
http://capitalistdove.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/eric-dondero-bashes-ron-paul-in-the-new-york-times/
You are correct. At least half-correct.
In Ron Paul’s first response to the question, he gave a good philosophically non-interventionist response. No problem with that. That’s his view. I disagree with it. Fine by me.
No, the problem was with Wendoll Goller’s follow-up. Wendoll gave Ron Paul a softball. He gave him a complete opportunity to clarify his statement so as not to imply that America was to blame for the 9/11 attacks.
What did Ron Paul choose to do?
Go on a further tirade about side issues, and how “our interventions in the Middle East” were to blame for the attacks.
Shameful! Absolutely Shameful!!
It was not Ron Paul’s original response. It was the second that was the problem.
Eric, the polls are meaningless at this point and the night is still young, so to speak. Millions of people haven’t even heard his name yet, much less know his stance on any of the issues.
But that’s what the 24,000 strong meetup groups are working on, right now, as we speak. He will be heard, and when he is heard, he is supported, almost unanimously.
I guess it’s a FREEDOM thing…
Eric
Here is an article on the polls for you to consider:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski84.html
Are you the same Eric Dondero who worked for Dr. Paul for 10 years? Why would you work so long for such a “fringe candidate?” Also, I have heard Dr. Paul state many times that he absolutely does not blame America. Our policy is flawed. The facts (confirmed by the CIA, Wolfowitz and common sense) are that when we build bases, bomb countries, invoke sanctions and behave in all sorts of other imperialistic ways, there are consequences. It drives the nut-cases in the middle east even more crazy and they attack us. Do you think it is wise to ignore that reality?
Also, your polling data is false. The latest AP/Ipsos poll has Giuliani at 21% which is less than the 25% garnered by the “other, none of the above is worth my vote” category. By the way Ron Paul was not included on that poll. By the way, Giuliani’s 21% is way down from the 37% he had in March. It is far from over. The more Americans hear and learn about Giuliani, the less we like him. Why else do you think he is dodging the debates?
Eric,
You are probably correct in that Rudy will eventually get the nomination. He has the more money and more support from his own party and the media. And with Rudy’s nomination is further proof how the GOP has lost its way. Rudy is a liberal in many aspects; abortion, gun control, big government spending and gay rights. The GOP has enough election issues in 08. Nominating Rudy will insure Hillary as our next President because he ailenates so much of the core conservatives that are the real ba$e of the GOP party.
I never left the republican party, it left me. Nominating a liberal like Rudy is further proof of this.
Yes, I am the same Eric Dondero that worked for Ron Paul for over 12 years. Here’s my RP resume’:
1987/88 - Peraonal Travel Aide/Advance Man, Ron Paul Libertarian for President (Ron Paul and I campaigned in over 40 states including Alaska for almost 2 years.)
1992 - Campaign Coordinator, Ron Paul for President, GOP Primary
1995/96 - Ron Paul for Congress Campaign Coordinator
1997-2003 - Senior District Aide, US Congressman Ron Paul )R-TX), Freeport, TX
Here’s a bit of news for you and other Ron Paul fans. He wasn’t “Anti-War non-interventionist” in the past. In fact, when he first ran for Congress in 1996 he was totally red, white and blue, Pro-Troops, Pro-Military. (Part of our District included areas close to a San Antonio Air Force Base and included hardcore Patriotic Conservative Victoria).
Ron was even a friend with Gov. Bush, and supported him for President in 2000, speaking for him at at least two fundraisers - Wharton and Corpus Christi. I was right there with him.
Today Ron Paul is Anti-War, cause he knows that the Liberal Media is stridently Anti-War. Thus, he can gain a huge amount of free publicity for his Gold Standard, “The Markets going to Crash” Economic viewpoints - what he really cares about in life.
It’s a pretty smart political calculation. What’s rather amusing is seeing how many of his fanatical supporters he’s fleeced.
So let’s test the accuracy of this loser Eric Dondero.
In the first days of 1995, just weeks after the Republican landslide, Paul traveled to Washington and, through DeLay, made contact with the Texas Republican delegation. He told them he could beat the Democratic incumbent Greg Laughlin in the reconfigured Gulf Coast district that now included his home. Republicans had their own ideas. In June 1995, Laughlin announced he would run in the next election as a Republican. Laughlin says he had discussed switching parties with Newt Gingrich, the next speaker, before the Republicans even took power. Paul suspects to this day that the Republicans wooed Laughlin to head off his candidacy. Whatever happened, it didn’t work. Paul challenged Laughlin in the primary.
“At first, we kind of blew him off,” recalls the longtime Texas political consultant Royal Masset. “ ‘Oh, there’s Ron Paul!’ But very quickly, we realized he was getting far more money than anybody.” Much of it came from out of state, from the free-market network Paul built up while far from Congress. His candidacy was a problem not just for Laughlin. It also threatened to halt the stream of prominent Democrats then switching parties — for what sane incumbent would switch if he couldn’t be assured the Republican nomination? The result was a heavily funded effort by the National Republican Congressional Committee to defeat Paul in the primary. The National Rifle Association made an independent expenditure against him. Former President George H.W. Bush, Gov. George W. Bush and both Republican senators endorsed Laughlin. Paul had only two prominent backers: the tax activist Steve Forbes and the pitcher Nolan Ryan, Paul’s constituent and old friend, who cut a number of ads for him. They were enough. Paul edged Laughlin in a runoff and won an equally narrow general election.
Republican opposition may not have made Paul distrust the party, but beating its network with his own homemade one revealed that he didn’t necessarily need the party either. Paul looks back on that race and sees something in common with his quixotic bid for the presidency. “I always think that if I do things like that and get clobbered, I can excuse myself,” he says.
http://raggedthots.blogspot.com/2007/07/ron-paul-george-no-ringo.html
So Eric, “Ron was even a friend with Gov. Bush”, huh.
You are so full of shit your eyes are brown.
How come messages that point out that Eric “Judas” Dondero got FIRED by Ron Paul keep getting deleted?