Ron Paul will never be president

I'm going to get a lot of flack from ron paul supporters, but I don't care. The facts are this: ron paul is simply the same old right-wing, conservative crap that has been ruining this country for years. And while I agree with his drug and war policies, there are aspects of him that keeps him from ever becoming accepted in the mainstream.

Let's start with the company he keeps. President Obama was accused of "palling around with terrorists" and his relationship with Jeremiah Wright was questioned. If that's the case, then Congressman paul's got some splainin' to do.

That guy in the middle there? His name is Don Black. He runs a little site called "Stormfront". What is it? It's one of the largest neo-nazi/neo-fascist/white supremacist websites on the internet. What is Congressman Paul doing associating with him, you ask? Well, that's something I'd like to know, too. But the fact he pals around with known racists should drive any middle-of-the-road voter away.

There's also some guy named Alex Jones, shown here:

Yeah, real mean, buddy. Anyway, he's one of the most popular conspiracy theorists in the country. He's the biggest proponent of the "9/11 Truth movement", which basically says that the government was behind 9/11. First off the, Bush administration was too incompetent to manage hurricane relief, much less pull of a terrorist attack on its own country, but I digress. Congressman Paul has appeared on the Alex Jones Show several times (I'm not sure exactly how many times). This also means many of Jones's listeners are Ron Paul supporters and vice-versa. Time Magazine has something about this from 2007 (thanks to Screw Loose Change):

But Paul's popularity can't necessarily be explained by a previously undetected craving for gold-standard debates on college campuses. His message, even if packaged in obscure economic lectures, is that there is something very corrupt, very Halliburton-Blackwatery going on with our military-industrial complex, and that can attract some pretty weird followers. At the Iowa State event, a student stood outside in a tricornered hat and Revolutionary War–era suit, ringing a bell. Representative Tom Tancredo, another long-shot G.O.P. candidate, tells me that after a debate in New Hampshire, one of his staffers walked up to a guy in a shark costume and asked him if he was a Ron Paul supporter. "No. They're all nuts," replied the shark. "I'm just a guy in a shark suit." There is a subset of Paul supporters who believe 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government. And there are anarchists as well: They've picked Nov. 5, Guy Fawkes Day, for a fund-raising drive. 

The line "There is a subset of Paul supporters who believe 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government." should be indicative of what kind of people are supporting him. If you go on YouTube and look at any video of the Congressman, either pro-, or anti-, his followers are there, spouting some pretty heavy stuff. I'll give you an example from this video:

another fascist libtard revising history. What church, what priest? You have 0 answers you liar! Do you agree that the top two killers in world history were atheists? Are you atleast wise enough to concur that #3 killer Hitler abandoned God, was shacked up, and lived an alternative vegetarian lifestyle? The [censored for user's privacy] smackdown starts now!

Okay, that's one quote, and it's not quite indicative of his supporters, but you get the general idea.

This on the other hand, might be:

He's right, "glee" is the proper word to describe the Bush administration's reaction to 9/11. Anyone who disputes this can go read page 28 of the official document "The National Security Strategy Of The United States Of America [for 2002]", wherein the attacks are officially described as having opened up "vast, new opportunities" for the government.

What kind of cold-blooded monsters would see the murder of 3000 people on U.S. soil as a good thing? The monsters who run the U.S., that's who.

They are so rabid they make Turkish football (soccer) fans look like a wine and cheese crowd. Any criticism of him is taken as a personal offense. And I've had to deal with them myself. I reckon they're going to come and yell at me, too.

So, this is the first part of my little opinion piece on why Congressman Ron Paul won't be popular with the masses. And believe me, this is just the start. I'll have a few more posts up soon about his company, polices and those newsletters everyone's talking about. He could still win the Iowa Caucuses, but I doubt he'll win the nomination or the presidency.