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Ron Paul Speaks: 'No' on Romney

More than a year after the Iowa Straw Poll helped his surprisingly strong early run for president, the Texas Republican declines to endorse Romney -- or Obama -- for president.

 

Ron Paul Republicans in Iowa are not the only people leery of Mitt Romney. Ron Paul is, too.

The Texas Republican congressman has pointedly refused to endorse his party’s presidential contender. Speaking on CNBC, Paul argued that neither he nor President Barack Obama would make necessary cuts to public spending that would avert a fiscal catastrophe.

See: Aide to Michele Bachmann Files Criminal Complaint Against Ron Paul Supporter

“No,” the iconoclastic Libertarian bluntly told CNBC’s “Futures Now,” when asked about whether he was prepared to endorse Romney. He said the former Massachusetts governor and the president are both captives of similar interests.

 “Both within the establishment where they need the Federal Reserve as lender of last resort to make sure that you take all the risk in the world,” Paul said. He linked the Fed — his favorite foil — and the Washington political establishment together as part of a “one party system” that refuses to make necessary but difficult choices to cut spending.

In August, a Red Iowa survey showed Republicans in the state cautious about Mitt Romney’s chances of defeating President Obama in next month's general election. A big part of the reason may be the former Massachusetts governor's failure to win over Ron Paul supporters, who constitute a significant portion of delegates headed to the Tampa convention.

Paul finished a strong third in the Iowa caucuses behind former Sen. Rick Santorum and Romney.

Related Topics: Mitt Romney and Ron Paul

James

6:18 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Republicans need to kick this dude out there party. If he's not a supporter of the platform then he can join back with libertarians. No need to get mad at me RP people. Could care less what you have to say, but Ron Paul is not a Republican and its stupid that he's even allowed to be apart of the Republican process. By the way I'm an independent. I am huge on loyalty, and Ron Paul is not loyal to the party he says he belongs to. If republicans allow this man to be apart of there process again, or any other fake crossover. I will never vote for a republican again at any level. county State or Federal. I will always vote Democrats

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jeff

6:46 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

James you are obviously not very intelligent. Independent, but will always vote Democrat. You just can't make this stuff up

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Steven Way

6:57 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

This story is about fiscal policy and responsibility and Ron Paul, in that regard, is what the Republicans say they are but obviously are not. If the Republicans are going to continue to claim all of the Libertarian ideals without walking the walk, I think all those Republican posers should quit their own party. Ron Paul is not guilty of anything! If anything, the Republicans are guilty of false advertising.

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jeffd82

7:28 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Maybe Romney should fix his erroneous views on the Fed, instead of us shutting up and putting up.

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Sergei von Postsalot

8:02 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

The Ron Paul 'revolution' is the willfully blind, leading the willfully ignorant. Funny how Ron Paul built his movement with racists who agree with him that business owners shouldn't be 'forced' to serve Black customers, yet Ron Paul and his herd of sheeple apparently believe they should be entitled to all the benefits of membership to a private party to which they are unwelcome and uninvited.

Half of Paulunteers are too socially-liberal and anti-American to be accepted as true Republicans, and the other half are too racist and and illiberal to be accepted by the Democrats. IMO, Ron Paul should start his own party; if his 'Liberty message' is so powerful and persuasive, then the free market will move in his favor, right? Fortunately, however, these moRons are too extreme and insane to attract enough people to build a viable national party, and for that we can all be grateful.

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Asasquatch

11:33 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

That's the problem with republicans in the first place. They try to force everybody to toe the line no matter what the position is. And it works, it got bush elected twice and a ton of his objectives through. That turned out great...

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Tyler

1:21 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

This is the mindset that has happened to the Republican Party over the last few years. If you didn't match the ideals exactly you were forced out, now look where they are... Democrats have a much bigger tent than Republicans and only on a select few issues are they really pushy. I'm not a Ron Paul person but I respect the guy and his foreign policy, it is better than Romney or Obama.

When Obama is re-elected, I think it would be a great gesture if he had a place for Ron Paul in his administration. It won't happen but I think it would show he's willing to work across the isle. Most Ron Paul people I've met are closer to Obama than Romney, so I'd kind of welcome him as a Democrat. Although, I think it's too late for that since this is his last time running.

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Teddy B

4:38 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

Can we please NOT support the god damn ideal of partisan politics? Why does the entire party need to be a hivemind? No reason we need to constantly ostracize people who think differently from the group. This ridiculous ideal of allegiance and loyalty to a political party is the kind of thinking that creates the nationalistic thoughts that fuck up the world currently

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Tess

6:57 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

Since you "could care less" about what we have to say I guess you do care a little...

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Jeff Smith

9:38 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

Wow, why can't people learn to use their native language correctly.

Their party not There party.
Couldn't care less not could care less, I can usually care less about most things.

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Marcus

9:57 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

We --- Ron Paul supporters --- instead need to slap you with the truth about what the neo-conservatives have been up to these past few years. Clearly, your confuse on what the RP has been doing to our rights and of course, you could "care-less" in finding out. If you claim to be an "Independent", than why use the word "always" when diciding to vote Democratic? Your straight up Ignorant.

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josh

12:14 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

I agree that Ron Paul does not fit in the party now but that is not due to him changing its the party that has changed. Ron Paul who I don't agree with on many issues has been consistent for 30+ years, and worthy of respect. Its the Republican party that has lost its way .The big tent is gone in favor of the church pews manned by ideological hacks that refuse to remember where they came from. Nixon would be labeled a commie pinko if he was in today's party. I was always a moderate "Rockefeller Republican" but after the 96 election and seeing how the party took such a hard shift to the right I had no place and for those who are not right down the line with little to no way to voice an opinion.

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ObserverNH

5:44 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

Kick him out? It should be the other way around. He supports the platform better than they do... and that is the problem. Why do you people get this backwards all the time? Why should he be loyal to a party that doesn't even abide by their own platform?

Ron Paul is

For sound money, less taxation, no crony capitalism or deficit spending.
He's for constitutional defense, not undeclared wars.
And he's for personal freedoms.
He's also pro-life.

Show me a republican, least of all Romney, who supports these things? Romney can't even TALK about them.

Tim Wurm

6:59 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Ron Paul sticks up for his principals. Ron is right when he says that both parties are essentially the same and neither is willing to put up the real cuts to save the economy. Instead of being responsible, they both rely on the FED for "stimulus" and bailouts, which leads to devaluation of the currency. The Austrian free market economists have stated that by destroying a currency, wealth is moved towards the top (rich), and the poor get poorer. Party loyalty is exactly why we are in such trouble, and exactly why we are forced to put up with mediocre or just plain bad politicians. Their loyalty should be towards the people, not the party. You can't have both since preventing the other party from becoming elected usually comes at a cost for the people. Ron Paul was trying to save the Republican party from what it has become. Which is a bunch of liberal authoritarians whom are very poor at saving money and poor on civil liberties.

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Sergei von Postsalot

7:41 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Getting kinda tired of people claiming there's no difference between the 2 major parties, especially from people who are registered Republicans who signed up for the sole purpose of supporting Republican Ron Paul. Are you aware that Ron Paul gave more than a $million of his 'money bomb' cash to support state Republican Party committees and other Republican House candidates? That's right, money you gave to him, he gave to other Republicans. He didn't give a dime to similarly-minded Democrats, such as Dennis Kucinich (Kucinich wants to cut military, end drug prohibition, and END the fed), or to any Libertarian candidates.

If Ron Paul had any real principle, he would have used his celebrity to build a true 3rd-party movement, but the fact is that he's just another Republican right-wing extremist, using populist language to pander for donations to his sCampaign for LIEberty. Or better yet, he could have campaigned as a political Independent, like Bernie Sanders, for example. But as I said before, Ron Paulsy is just another right-wing Republican bs artist.

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ObserverNH

5:47 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

Well said Tim! Ron Paul is more republican than 99% of all republicans out there.

Sergei von Postsalot

7:21 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Hey Ron Paul: Henry Ford called, and he wants his racist, crackpot-conspiracy newsletters back.

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Mark Kane

2:26 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

Wow.....is that all you got Sergei........lolololololol

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Common Sense

9:50 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

It's funny how you can shut down a person who has been right about everthing he has predicted to happen do your homework on what really goes on in America and then come back and give a meaningful statement(both republicans and democrats have manahed to f.......up the economy)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fred

8:32 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Tyrants love party loyalists
one candidate will destroy America by his foreign policy and the other by his domestic policy ... and we still have idiots defending their party instead of defending the Constitution.

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john galt

8:59 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

today's republicans are so liberal JFK would have called them Communists. God Bless Dr. Paul for being the last remaining conservative voice in the GOP.

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Little L

10:17 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

John Galt wouldn't say God Bless

Bring Back Real Republicans!

10:35 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Poor SerGAY......in the dark. A real Republican party hasn't existed in 30 years. Read the ideals of the original republican party and look at what these Neo Republicans stand for. Ron Paul is the closest we have ever had.

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Sarah Love

10:50 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Sergei, you have no clue what you are talking....You know who is racist is our current president, he said in his own book...Also lieing bout his religion and everything else.....Ron Paul is not racist, that goes against his who concept of what he preaches...Liberty is not for hate,....

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Sarah Love

10:56 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012

Ron Paul has supporters of all backgrounds and even different parties from democraits, independents to Republicans and so on. He would of swept this election if he was the nomination against obama....What you sound like, is that you are getting your information from the misleading mainstream news....Who don't report on news they should, and with the news they do...they edited....KNOWLEDGE IS POWER...don't be blind....common sense, use it....

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fuckRP

1:06 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

not really, his fiscal policy has no support among economists, his foreign policy is willfully ignorant of current globalism, and he is 30 years behind on social issues. "Knowledge is power", take a high school economics course.

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Joe Dygas

7:57 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

RP is a complete ignorant idiot whose only appeal to simpletons is free drugs!

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James

12:21 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

good, then start your own party. You can call it the Libertarian Party. and keep out of the republican and demacratic parties snce you dont belong

Joe Jones

6:19 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

Doesnt matter who wins at this point we are doomed either way!

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terrible

7:18 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

ANY independent or moderate conservative should be voting Democrat this year!

Cutting rampant spending is good (Obama has done more of that than any president in the last 30 years), tweaking the Fed so that it's less of a scam is good.

But NEVER vote for anyone who doesn't understand how our economy works (Paul) or who's lying to you about how it works so that he and his friends can rob it (Romney). Romney's "tax plan" is a smash-and-grab that will crash our economy. Paul's ideology would crash it FASTER.

Obama implemented conservative principles (Bush's bailouts) and TURNED A PROFIT for the Federal Government.

All the republican partisan cheerleaders whined about how there was a "government takeover" of GM, but they didn't follow up -- the Federal Government saved the company with a massive influx of cash (yes, YOUR tax dollars!) but then they used their share and the agreement to turn the company around.

GM is profitable again, and they HAVE BOUGHT THEIR SHARES BACK FROM YOU / i.e. the government -- we, the taxpayers?

MADE A PROFIT.

Ron Paul would have let the company, its employees, all the customers who still have warranties, all the dealerships, and all THEIR employees.. just fail. Unemployment, Teamsters out of work, MASS HYSTERIA.

Mitt Romney would mean higher unemployment, and more middle class families becoming poor. But Ron Paul would mean the return of the Hooverville.

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Joe Dygas

7:52 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

Ha Ha, you have been sucking the cool aid for so long, you haven't noticed you have become a complete left wing idiot. GM still owes the taxpayers countless billions. It is not the purpose of the federal gov't to bail out failing car companies just to pay off their union thugs. Same goes for school teachers and the nefarious NEA. A pox on the unions and their democratic allies. They are the rodents of the political system.

Joe Dygas

7:48 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

Ron Paul is the proverbial sore loser just like gingrich. His ideas are so far out of the solar system that he is the political equivalent of one of those comets that returns every 10,000 years. Re election of obama will be far more devastating to the country than Romney. The medical profession mantra is "Do NO Harm," ... Obama has been systematically destroying the country and needs to be replace. If Ron Paul's ideas were so good, why did he not even win several primary states. A Sore Loser with weird ideas.

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Deb Belt

9:30 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

Just a reminder commenters: No profanity. I deleted a couple of this morning's comments because of they contained some whoppers. Please debate all you want on the site, just keep it clean. Thanks

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Luke

9:30 am on Monday, October 15, 2012

This is for James; it would be of a benefit to you to actually do some research before you start talking because when you don't you just sound extreamly ignorant, and or unintelligent to those people who obviously have more common sense and who know more about politics than you do! In other words, or lamine terms so that you JAMES can understand, please leave your uneducated thoughts to yourself!!

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James

12:05 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

BAM!!!!!! Here come the Paul Bots!!!!! lol go caucus with the dems and screw with there party now. lol

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ObserverNH

5:50 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

Why would we do that ? We are the original tea party constitutionalist conservatives and we are more republican than the republicans.

BugsPotter

1:27 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

President Paul isn't just saying No to Obamney, shills; he's also saying No to Rombama.
So take your false left-right-DEM-REP paradigm propaganda and cram it up your a** because no one's buying it except your other collaborating shills and traitors to the Republic such as yourselves.
Much appreciated, thank you.

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ObserverNH

5:49 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012

So tired of the 'right wing extremist, racist' nonsense. BLAH BLAH BLAH... It's the constitution buddy, and it's our government, and we are a republic, not a subject of the UN, so there.

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