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Ron Paul Loses Support in Home State of Texas, Gains White Supremacist Fans
This post, written by Paddy, originally appeared on Cliff Schecter's Brave New Films Blog
Looks like he may even lose his seat.
While Texan Ron Paul's stock is soaring nationally, there is trouble on the home front. In September, Paul finished third in a straw poll of 1,300 Texas Republican activists who had been delegates to recent Republican conventions.
The congressman corralled just 17 percent of the votes cast, trailing California's Duncan Hunter with 41 percent.
This outcome says Texas Republicans aren't terribly concerned about viability. Otherwise, one of the national front-runners like Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney would have beaten these long-shots. But if they were willing to "waste" their votes on Hunter, why didn't most back a fellow Texan? The truth is that Ron Paul, the angry prophet, has little honor in his own land. He's about to lose his congressional seat.
What endears him to the Paultards doesn't seem to sway his rank and file constituents.
Angst over Paul has been building for years. In 2004, disgruntled Republicans asked me to find encouragement for challengers. We polled his suburban Houston district and found that voters resist his contrarian and stark libertarian perspective that even sells out local interests. When told that "Ron Paul consistently opposes taxpayer funding for NASA and wants to eliminate the agency," 61 percent of Republican primary voters said this information would make them less likely to vote for Paul's reelection. Similarly, a 54 percent majority said they'd be less likely to vote for Paul when told he "was one of only four Republicans in Congress to vote against President Bush's plan to encourage faith-based charities." The list of negatives was long.
He wants to eliminate NASA and he's a Texas congressman? That'll give him alot more time to hang with his White Supremacist and Anti-Semitic friends.
UPDATE: Ron Paul gets Mel Gibson's dad's endorsement. Yikes.
Tagged as: texas, anti-semitism, racism, election08, paul, white supremacist
Paddy is a regular contributor to Cliff Schecter.com.
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