Message #3581

[Woody]

I brought up Ron Paul because he has, for decades, been considered a Republican outlier and disruptive, hence his moniker "Doctor No"...and also erstwhile founder of the original Tea Party before the crazies took over, and there's no love lost between establishment Republican leaders and the Tea Party as it now exists.

Ron Paul's primary strategy of co-opting delegates is also considered disruptive by the Republican Party.

And while Republicans are making much of Joe Biden, they're going to let Paul slip in under the radar with his planned calamities.  Or are they?  The Republican Party has already swept Dubya and Akin under their Big Rug (forget the Big Tent), so I guess Ron Paul can be shoved under there too, huh.

Ron Paul was a legitimate candidate for the Republican nomination and remains today a longstanding Republican officeholder.  I think he's a whack but so what?  Your comparing him being at the GOP Convention with Joe Biden's shenanigans is absurd.

And your characterization of Doctor No is overly generous. He's been regarded as disruptive by his own party for about as long as he's held office, but like Akin's position, he is where he is only because of his constituents.  Not to mention that he's got more national support from rogue Republicans than Akin ever had.

Here is what is going to happen regardless of you Ron Paul hysteria.  Romney/Ryan will accept the nomination with little or no disruption from Paul no matter how much you are hoping for it.