(ThyBlackMan.com) Ron Paul appeared on an early morning Fox News Television Show with Chris Wallace as host. (See embedded links below)
When asked by Chris Wallace about support for other GOP candidates if he is not the candidate for 2012, Paul answered with a wordy ‘NO’. Ron Paul declares that he may not endorse either of the candidates….,
“If they believe in expanding the wars, if they don’t believe in looking at the Federal Reserve, if they don’t believe in real cuts, if they don’t believe in deregulation and a better tax system, it would defy everything I believe in,” he said.
Supporting a candidate without those libertarian views on small government would be like telling his supporters that “all we’ve done is for naught,” he said.
“It would disagree with everything that we do,” Ron Paul added.
Watch Paul’s response to Fox News’s Chris Wallace. (Video)
When asked if he would run as a 3rd party candidate, Ron Paul answer
ed, that he would not.
While Straw Polls are nohting more than ‘popularity’ contests, Ron Paul won an Illinois ‘straw Poll with 52% of the vote.
I will admit to not viewing the entire Fox New show this morning. Even without the viewing, I wonder how the candidate who is down in the polls reacts to certain questions. For Instance, Wallace asked Paul about supporting another candidate should he fail to win the nomination. How should a candidate answer such a question? “I would support Herman Cain, if I do not take the nomination.” Do you see the futility in Wallace’s question? No intelligent candidate would respond to such a question.
Ron Paul, a modern-day enigma.
I am not a Ron Paul supporter. I am very much against most libertarian views whether those views be conservative or liberal libertarian views. Yet. I will readily admit that Paul’s views on the wars directly coincide with my views. Views that he most espouse do not coincide with my views but his convictions are admirable.
Candidate ‘convictions’ is an area in politics that often fluctuates. Candidates most definitely ‘speak to audiences’. It is a basic tenet of public speaking: audience centrism. Political candidates use ‘hyperbolic speak’ more than any group of modern-day speakers. Example, Newt Gingrich is a master at ‘strategic hyperbolic speak’. He will go on stage with an audience of wealthy supporters in Georgia and comment about ‘Obama as a welfare President”. Gingrich would probably not deliver such a comment if invited to appear at a middle class speaking engagement in Appalachia or in any large urban area.
Ron Paul? Regardless of audience would make his comments and stand for the applause or the boos.
An even more stark example of Ron Paul’s convictions. Candidate Santorum made one of his commonly inane comments about Muslims and the wars. Paul took exception to Santorum’s comments by saying (paraphrase) all Muslims are not bad people and carpeting condemnation is not ‘right’. He received a chorus of boos but he was unflappable in finishing his statement. I doubt the other eight candidates would have spoken against Santorum’s blanket and insensitive remarks.
As previously written, Ron Paul’s views and positions do not mesh with views I think are critical for a fair an equitable political environment, but his persistent adherence to his convictions is very much noteworthy. Especially in an environment where we have Michelle Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Herman Cain.
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