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Originally Posted by Mavdog
....a concept btw that fewer and fewer republicans embrace as the philospohy of the party.
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yes, and I believe this was the pertinent point -- the GOP is not the party of "less government, of less taxation, home of the corp of folks who want an "original intent" vision on the constitution." hence....
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Originally Posted by Mavdog
the gop of today is not the party of goldwater, and surely not the party of libertarians either.
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Certainly, which is why a) it's quite unreasonable to say that Paul represents the *purest form* of the party's ideology; and b) it's quite unsurprising that Republicans, by and large, hate Ron Paul -- even those few Republican's who occasionally use his rhetoric are routinely shown to be crass hypocrites.
Which is why I think it's not out of the question that Paul may have *some* (ie, 2%) support come a year from November. There are still more than a few Goldwater style conservatives out there, and they have no political home.
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