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Ron Paul Reportedly Goes Off On Reporter For Interrupting His Breakfast

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National Journal reporter Beth Reinhard got a chilly reception from Republican frontrunner Ron Paul when she ran into him eating his breakfast all alone at the Des Moines Embassy Suites. Reinhard asked the unaccompanied candidate whether his supporters would support the eventual nominee if it wasn’t him, which drew a sharp retort.

“Right now, the only thing that bothers me is people who don’t respect my privacy enough to leave me alone for five minutes when I’m eating breakfast,” Paul allegedly responded. Reinhard reports the Republican hopeful coldly went back to reading his USA Today.

RELATED: Dick Morris Calls Ron Paul ‘The Most Liberal, Radical Left-Wing Person’ To Run For President In The Last 50 Years

Reinhard was not amused by Paul’s curmudgeonly reply:

Charming. (By the way, if this were to happen to Romney, which it wouldn’t, a SWAT team would immediately surround the reporter to oversee damage control.)

Paul, wearing a white shirt and jeans, insists he doesn’t have time for even one question because he needs to shave before a morning television appearance. A few minutes later, he tries to get the waitress’s attention and fails. Oh bother, he shrugs. And that’s exactly why the people who love the Texas congressman/tea party icon/libertarian standard-bearer love him so intensely. He’s just a cranky old man who wants to eat his eggs in peace before he sets out to save the world.

Paul’s quirky morning routine drew scrutiny on Twitter, such as this snarky response from Washington Post blogger Aaron Blake:

(h/t National Journal)

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  • Anonymous

    Freedommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Thomas Mc

    Only neonazis and ostriches support Ron Paul now. Who would pay to publish and mail a news letter, in his own name, for a decade and a half, without ever even READING one of them? If that’s the way he runs a newsletter, gods help us if he ever gets in the White House!

    It’s seldom that people are wrong about EVERYTHING. Ron Paul says a lot of things that make a lot of sense, and need to be heard. 

    But, I would never, EVER vote for for such a BIGOT!

  • http://twitter.com/mcrblg andrewjbaronsohn

    Let an old man eat his breakfast. He isn’t asking too much.

  • ESN Gent

    Ron Paul 2012!

  • Anonymous

    We know. You would only support the bigot muslim in the White House who isn’t even a citizen, who has stomped and crapped on the Constitution… we get it…    Vote for Obama

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Meanwhile, many hundreds of miles away, Ross Perot sits sadly at a Denny’s wishing someone would notice him.

  • G.Donahue’s associate Slade

    Your m is stuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!

    skyfet. Are you allowed to vote in the MPs there?

  • bugspotter24

    You know what Beth should do? She should ALWAYS “run into Paul while he’s alone”. That way, this criminal propagandist can make up ANYTHING that happened.
    “I ran into Ron Paul today while he was alone killing a newborn baby with his bare hands. I asked him an innocent question about economic policy and his only reply was that he hated black people and jews and America.
    Hey, I’m just an objective reporter reporting the FACTS, so nevermind that there were no witnesses to this exchange, but is THAT the type of candidate we should vote for, a racist, unamerican baby-killer?”

  • bugspotter24

    BWAAAAAA-ha-ha-HAAAAAAA!
    Ok, shill. Thanks for that input.
    (wipes away tear) Oh god, the panicked desperation of criminal propagandists is most amusing now.

  • http://twitter.com/MikeDeGaray Mike DeGaray

    If you looked at all the information available, you would realize he is not a bigot. But you are clearly programmed to believe everything the MSM tell you. I am embarrassed for you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    LEAVE RON ALONE!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/usernamenuse sailing

    you do realize the newsletters went out for 10 years and there are about 8 or 10 passages overall that are bad?  He was practicing medicine, and there was separate management of his newsletter.  Admittedly, his persona was all over it and that is why he took moral responsibility, but the bad statments scattered over the years are at absolute odds with his own actions over 35 years.  
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    He will have peace soon.  FNC is working full bore to ensure his retirement.  

  • Booberry Pah

    Middle Class Warriors Dine Out for $260
    By Keith Koffler on December 29, 2011, 8:42 am

    President Obama and Michelle had dinner last night at Honolulu’s famed foodie paradise, Alan Wong’s.
    The middle class was not invited.
    I realize the Obamas are wealthy people, and that wealthy people have the
    right to drop $260 of their disposable income on chow. But if you’re
    going to invite Associated Press photographers along to capture your trip to Target and stage photo ops at PetSmart and Best Buy, then I’m going to write about your unpublicized excursion to Alan Wong’s.

    The press pool was not invited in to take photos this time. In fact, others
    were discouraged from doing so too.
    From the pool report:

    Diners have been trying to takes pictures of POTUS, only to be chased off by advance staffers.

    Since when are people not allowed to take pictures?

    http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/12/29/middle-class-warriors-dine-260/

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/HMWZ2BOVLZVWF4A45YHMVZ6LFA Irene

    Beth Reinhart sure sounds pushy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L4AJFQCTOKER7FCFYNEG2UIOKM Buck Kennedy

     I don’t blame him.

    RON PAUL 2012 FOR PEACE, FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY!

  • Anonymous

    I like the “Paul reportedly goes off on reporter”.  Quite the rebuff, “can I eat my breakfast in peace”, how cold and insensitive.  What was he eating?  Kittens?  LMAO!

  • Anonymous

    He’s not a bigot, he’s not a muslim, he IS a citizen, he hasn’t S and Ced on the Constitiution, but you ARE an idiot  OBAMA 2012 ha ha ha

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jesse-Cristie/100003278127823 Jesse Cristie

    stupid site

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul………”And I would have been elected, and gotten away with it if not for you meddling reporters.”

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul couldn’t win a general election if Republicans murdered all the Democrats.  He is about as welcome as a bowl of feces at a nursing home.

  • Anonymous

    lol……..why is your kkkkkkkkkk button stuck? 

    Is it fate or karma or Jesus “Tebow” Christ exposing your klan membership kkk?

  • jason hall

    NDAA, extending the patriot act, SOPA and Torture are what then?

  • Anonymous

    Buddy, you don’t even know what is in the constitution. I bet in high school government class you never got higher than a C and NEVER studied Con Law in college because you didn’t go to college. The only bigot around here is you. So go ahead and show your ignorance on a regular basis. You know all of this is coming down to one thing… the educated vs. the uneducated. Morons v. Normal people. Geez, who would have thought it would all come down to this.

  • Anonymous

    You are right he should be eating his breakfast in peace back in Texas on his porch and not spewing his lunacy throughout the land so uneducated morons latch on to it and belive it as gospel. Go in peace Ron and eat. Just STF up.

  • Anonymous

    Who the hell cares? This forum isn’t even about Sarah Palin!

  • Booberry Pah

    Saying that from MediaiteMatters is a hoot.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I agree with you completely. If everyone does this then he will go away soon.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares… The President and Wife Has Dinner – STOP THE  PRESSES!!!

  • Anonymous

    RON PAUL 2012 FOR WHO GIVES A CRAP ABOUT OUR SOCIETY AS A WHOLE AND OSTRICH MINDSET TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS!

  • Anonymous

    I know for sure Obama was born in Kenya and he is a radical muslim who sides with the terrorists… that is 100% fact.. he is trying to turn this country into a communist country.. that is also a fact..  He hates white people and got support from anti-american leader Rev Wright… and the new black panthers who want to kill white people…  but go vote for him… nice try..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jesse-Cristie/100003278127823 Jesse Cristie

    Don’t get so mad there trying to cover up the truth. It’s about democracy and freedom of press, 2 things you care nothing about.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t interrupt Ron when he’s drinking his Ensure and Metamucil.

  • Anonymous

    LOL!!! I bet you know there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll and we didn’t really land on the moon as well. Please try not to forget to take your meds. You always get this way when you do.

  • Anonymous

    Shhh dont tell them that.  They dont like facts… They must follow the liberal talking points of Ron Paul = Racist…

  • Anonymous

    He’s racist because he demands a heart good breakfast!

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul behaves like a human being and some media bimbo gets bent out of shape.  Too bad.  Paul is all about liberty, and part of liberty is the right to be left alone.  The media thinks they own anyone at all newsworthy.

  • Anonymous

    interesting

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    Why didn’t he use room service if he wanted privacy?

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    Wow, I’ve never known anyone to be so delusional. Is that your website? Wow… just wow. 

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    Let the guy eat… the only part that disturbs me at all about this is the “unaccompanied candidate” part. So he snubbed a reporter to finish breakfast.. and hurt her feelings because she was rude. Then the poor guy couldn’t get the attention of a waitress?  Why was he not accompanied? Sounds a bit strange? They have enough security around and in that Hotel? This guy is a National Treasure!
    If not a near extinct species.. an honest man in Washington. You don’t find them anymore!

    Shame, the next President of the USA has no bodyguards or even enough attention for a decent service in his hotel. Just some old guy..  Old Guy smarter than any other candidate or current POTUS..

    Ron Paul 2012 and Beyond

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    WOW!

    All of those condemning facts, and he is still in the White House.
    How did he manage that?
    Whos to blame for not verifying his birthplace?
    Will we be Communists before the 2012 election, or will it take him another 4 years?
    Will we turn over our property willingly, or will it be taken by force?
    What of Wall Street?

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is a certified flake. He is becoming more senile with every presidential run. He has no personality. He should relocate to nice senior center where he can chase the staff and complain because he can’t catch them

  • Anonymous

    It is already a communist country thanks to Obama a Kenyan radical muslim who wants to destroy America..  He hates white people.. even Glenn Beck knows that..

  • WiddleBabyDanielson
  • http://twitter.com/Kattyusa Katty

    If he was so upset with “people who don’t respect my privacy enough to leave me alone for five minutes when I’m eating breakfast….” then why didn’t he call room-service.  If he can’t behave himself in public then what kind of President will he make?

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg
  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    What a REALLY STUPID site.

    He says…holding the White House to account

    but his website is like TMZ with only 1 star.

    HORRIBLE PARTISAN HACK.

  • BooBoo Bear

    I hope that you are joking. Otherwise in 20 years this country is going to be fucked, with people like you running the government.

    As for the subject at hand regarding Ron Paul. If he didn’t want any publicity there is something that he could have easily done.
    R _ _ M    S _ R V _ C _. Care to buy a vowel. Hint there are zero A’s, and zero U’s. But two E’s, one i and two O’s.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Remember the giant sucking sound?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls

    btw
    what bikes do you ride?

  • Anonymous

    “If he can’t behave himself in public then what kind of President will he make?”

    Behave himself in public?  Oy, what is it about Paul that brings out these inane comments? And I don’t even support him for President.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Ahhh… The good old days…

    My city bike is a Cannondale (Optimo 3 Cyclocross), mountain bike is a Klein (Attitude Race).

  • BooBoo Bear

    He’s running for President. If he didn’t want to be bothered, he should have had room service.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    yeah you’re right.. how dare him to want to eat breakfast… shame on him.. now try to get close to Obama or Mitty while they eat..

  • Anonymous

    Reminds me of the time when Obama was running for President and he whined “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”

  • Anonymous

    You are just in denial for sure… look it up and you will find that Obama was born in Kenya to a radical white hating father who was muslim…  stop denying it… it’s gonna spread in 2012   …  Obama never disavowed Rev Wright for hating on America. which tells you something about Obama… he loves radical muslims

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1568582909 Rick Bauer

    Big frigging deal. He just woke and would like to eat his breakfast. If this were Bush, it would have never happened. Why? Because you couldn’t get close to him, only in cases of controlled press conferences.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    I could totally see Ron Paul mowing the White House lawn by himself on
    a Saturday morning if he wins the Presidency.  Say what you want about
    the guy, but he not a typical politician….and that is awesome.

  • Anonymous

    Yet another reason to like Ron Paul, he doesn’t let idiotic, shallow reporters control him.  

  • Anonymous

    Ok, if he had slammed his fist and cursed her out, there would be a story. His reply was appropriate. He was probably down there eating while his wife used the bathroom. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1448680014 Robert A. Redmond

    If he really doesn’t want to be bothered, then what in the world is he doing running for President of the United States?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    You try campaining, be it Republican or Democrat. It’s grueling and you can’t begrudge any of them.

  • Anonymous

    3 things if we count you.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, but he has great deals on aluminum foil hats.

  • Anonymous

    Clearly, by the article, he’s sewing up the raving lunatic vote.

  • Anonymous

    The Donald, is that you?
    That’s yooge, man. Yooge.

  • Anonymous

    Well, if you say it’s a fact, that settles it.
    Just don’t tell us how you know, that would spoil the fun.

  • Anonymous

    He’s a plant. No one smart enough to turn on a computer would come up with that crap.

  • Anonymous

    Nobrain brian

    What has Obama done in 3 years to reveal evidence of your inane, insane charges? Besides killing bin Ladin.
    Because he had no guarantee of 4 more years, so he would have had to have done a lot of it by now.
    But I’d love to hear your thinking on this. Or what passes for thinking in what passes for your mind.
    And please don’t tell me to look it up myself. I tend to bristle at orders from the uh… rationally challenged.

  • Anonymous

    Some people thought Hitler was a nice guy too? RonPaul is a wackjob and will NEVER get close to being President,much less a VP position! Now the both of u go away please!

  • Anonymous

    Too bad people will react to them and vote against him, anyway. And he sounds like a 19th century isolationist, too.
    But at least you’re here to save the day with your persuasive arguments.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is a disenchanted, bitter old man.

    He is the re-enactment and resurrection of Ross Perot. just look at the initials.

    This sorry piece of crap would like to see nothing more than America on its knees, bowing to his heroes like Castro, Ahmedinajad and the newest version of the mentally Ill clan of Koreans.

    Vote for this guy is a vote for 0bama. 

  • http://twitter.com/PictureDave David Killebrew

    Also, worth noting that Ron Paul didn’t approve of a bill that allows American citizens to be arrested and held without charge or trial on the basis that they COULD be affiliated with a terrorist or potential terrorist.

    The same bill that Obama requested and McCain (remember from 3 years ago?) helped draft.

  • http://twitter.com/PictureDave David Killebrew

    Everything posted in this thread until this point was a big fat FAIL.

  • Anonymous

    The kind who will tell liberal “reporters” to f*ck off just like Obama does to FOX.
    What’s the problem?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Buckles/100000913763806 Dan Buckles

    Ross Perot was telling the American people if you pass NAFTA there will be a giant sucking sound of jobs leaving this country and he was right. What’s Paul saying about jobs? Nothing. He’s running on ideology with no policy. Sorry, there is no libertarian state economically viable in the 21St century for a reason. It doesn’t work………….

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, of course.
    That’s the only possible explanation.
    Or could it be that I’m part of the rational conspiracy?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Never… and I mean Never interrupt an old man while eating his morning bowl of oatmeal!! They will lose it and throw their dentures at you… with no remorse!!

  • Anonymous

    This is no different than reporters not being able to approach Michael Moore for fear of being eaten.

  • Anonymous

    A little better way to understand how the US congress and the Obama government is managing our money…..

    This rather brilliantly cuts thru all the political doublespeak we have become accustomed to hearing.  It puts it into a much better perspective….Why the U.S. was downgraded by Standard & Poor:

    U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000*
    Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000*
    New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000*
    National debt: $14,271,000,000,000*
    Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000

    Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:

    Annual family income: $21,700*
    Money the family spent: $38,200*
    Difference – New debt on the credit card: $16,500*
    Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710*
    Total budget cuts: $385

    Got It ?

    OK now Lesson # 2:

    Here’s another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:
    Let’s say, You come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood….and your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.What do you think you should do ……Raise the ceilings, or pump out the shit?

    Your choice is coming Nov. 2012

     

  • Anonymous

    I’m afraid we’ll raise the ceilings and pump IN the sh*t.

  • Anonymous

    “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

  • Anonymous

    If you do interrupt him, he might ruin his Depends.

  • Anonymous

    If he didn’t write the newsletter, it still carried his imprimatur.  Why doesn’t he NAME the NAMES of those who actually wrote the vile remarks?  Who is Ron Paul PROTECTING?

  • Anonymous

    You might be surprised if you realized that Muslims are Ron Paul’s ethnic group of choice.  Reread his statements, e.g. Michele Bachman hates Muslims, Israel was responsible for 9-11, Israel established Hamas, ad infinitum.

  • Anonymous

    He’s a curmudgeon.  As a paid up member of the club, I can tell you he probably enjoyed the opportunity of stepping on the toes of some self-important media bimbo.  I know I would have.  The next time she and some of her ilk think about bothering him, they will think twice.  As Robert A. Heinlein wrote in “Stranger in a Strange Land”, “Harshaw  held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet.”

  • Anonymous

    Don’t tempt them.

  • Anonymous

    Your facts are all wrong and where ever you are getting your information (probably Faux News) is wrong.  YOU ARE IN DENIAL!!  Pres. Obama was born in the U.S., his birth was published in the NEWSPAPER where he was born when he was born.  HE IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.  GET OVER IT!  HE is also a much better president than GWB who held us all hostage and ran the coutnry like a mafioso!

  • Booberry Pah

    You’re saying that on a MediaiteMatters article about Ron Paul eating breakfast. The irony obviously escapes you.

  • Booberry Pah

    Probably a real shitty one based on this:

    WASHINGTON (AFP-EJP)—-Democratic White House contender Barack Obama could not hide his irritation Monday when asked by a reporter what he thought about former president Jimmy Carter’s meeting with Hamas last week.
    “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” the Illinois senator said as he ate
    breakfast in Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to MSNBC television
    pictures. 

    Pressed again for an answer, he replied: “Just let me eat my waffle.”

  • Ken Caudll

    Only the uninformed and statist panderers are against Ron Paul. 

  • Anonymous

    The person who wrote them was Barry soetoro AKA barack saddam hussein obama… a radical muslim who hates america..

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s a radical Muslim Kenyan communist? Seriously what kind of other paranoid delusions do you come up with to fill your day? You know they make anti-schizophrenia drugs that might help with some of that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jesse-Cristie/100003278127823 Jesse Cristie

    You sound like another coward concealing the truth

  • Anonymous

    What truth?
    The crap that you decide to believe?
    Wtf died and left you in charge?
    And wtf are you to call me a coward, you ludicrous clown?
    Or is that the new buzz smear, after “communist” doesn’t work anymore?

  • Anonymous

    His real name is Barry Soetoro and he was sent here by radical extremist muslims to destroy this country..

    stop denying he is a muslim.  Why do you think his name is Hussein?  Ring a bell? Saddam?  He was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia a known terrorist country….  I know you cant accept the truth, but dont deny it…

  • http://www.jobwaltz.com JobWaltz.com

    I’m a Jewish Ron Paul supporter. There are thousands of us.

  • http://www.jobwaltz.com JobWaltz.com

    This “journalist” asked Ron Paul a silly question (“whether his supporters would support the eventual nominee if it wasn’t him”), and deserved the rebuke. If she’d asked a sincere question about something of consequence – foreign policy, monetary policy etc. I’ll bet the good Dr. would have answered politely. 

  • Anonymous

    Why did he not just stay in hir room and order from “room service”?  If they did not have room serice, I am sure one of his aides would gladly have fetched him some breakfast!  The only way to avoid reporters is to stay in bed!

  • Anonymous

    I mentioned room service in an ealier comment, but we do not know if the hotel/motel offered it.

  • Anonymous

    Did the hotel/motel have room service? 

  • Anonymous

    Did the hotel/motel offer room service?  If not, he could have called an “escort” from Craig’s List and told her to fetch him som Egg McMuffins and coffee!

  • Anonymous

    Did the hotel/motel offer room service?  If not, he could have called an “escort” from Craig’s List and told her to fetch him som Egg McMuffins and coffee

  • Anonymous

    Tennessee

    Maybe he welcomes the opportunity to just be himself.
    An irritable, rude asshole.

  • Anonymous

    Brian, Brian, poor nobrain Brian,

    We can accept the truth,
    We just can’t accept what you say is the truth. Or you saying it.
    And Brian, they’re not the same thing.
    Not even close.
    I asked you earlier to provide evidence of Obama’s nefarious (that’s a big word that you’ll want to get help on) activities, so far.
    But, alas, you didn’t provide any.
    Take heart, though, I’ll give you another chance.
    But hurry, the offer won’t last forever.
    Hold on, there’s more.
    His real name IS Barack Obama. Soetoro was his step-father’s name when they lived in Indonesia. When his mother divorced Soetoro, he went back to Obama. Sinister, huh?

    Anyway, enough excitement for one day. Time for your milk and cookies, and then, it’s bedtime for you, young man.
    You’ve got a busy day tomorrow, writing more ridiculous comments and playing in the sandbox.

  • Anonymous

    Were all shills. We’ve been invaded by the body snatchers. Only you can save us.
     
    Is that how you clowns see it?

  • Anonymous

    You call that ludicrous video, “information”?
    Save your embarrassment for yourself.

  • Anonymous

    This from nobrain brian, a radical lunatic who hates sanity.

  • Anonymous

    “statist panderers ”

    The cult buzz-phrase for anyone you can’t convince, with your pathetic excuse for evidence, and your utter lack of any power of persuasion?

    Here’s a free tip, which might prove helpful in later life, should you ever actually decide to get a life: Shaming people into agreeing with you, rarely works; and then only with those whom you have power or dominance over.
    That would not include me.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul, on the other hand, is NOT a Jewish supporter.
    So what’s that make you? A putz?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    I would imagine someone like Ron Paul or any of the candidates stay in nice hotels that have room service. I highly doubt he stays in a cheap motel without room service.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    So Ron Paul should quit?

  • http://www.jobwaltz.com JobWaltz.com

    A patriot.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    Show me a picture of any President having dinner out and I’ll go along with your logic.

  • Anonymous

    Manufacturing jobs left America, because dolts on the assembly line putting a bolt in a pre-drilled hole every 5 minutes were convinced by their union “brothers” that their job is worth 30, 50 or more dollars per hour.

    Unions kill individualism, unions promote institutionalized non-productive laziness, unions protect and defend useless drags with their putting seniority ahead of personal effort and worth. Unions force diligent and hard-working people to make total clowns of themselves on picket lines. Unions deny a person’s right to work and support his family. Unions deny the right of a person for a secret vote with the threat of a broken leg for not pulling the union’s wagon.

    Unionist believe that a grade 3 dropout is worth more than a college graduate.

    Unions believe that the dues extracted from their members is there to promote ideas that would make Fidel Castro and Kim Jong Ill proud.

    What America needs now is another Ronald Reagan to decertify ALL unions that hold the innocent public hostage.

    That sucking sound was the sound of unions.

    Unions suck!
     

  • Anonymous

    “Ron Paul farts?!?! More news at 11:00!”

  • Anonymous

    Says who? The other Paul lunatics?
    Don’t wrap yourself in the flag and expect to be taken seriously, you self-righteous hypocrite.

  • http://www.jobwaltz.com JobWaltz.com

    What could be more patriotic than supporting the principles defined in the Constitution?

  • Anonymous

    You are either the most misinformed and delusional commenter I’ve ever come across here, or you’re the best and most wonderful troll I’ve ever seen on the internet in general. So, either seek help or keep up the good work.

  • http://twitter.com/hollabingbang Chester

    Independent Ron Paul supporter here, if he doesn’t win the nomination i’m voting 3rd party!

  • Anonymous

    Wow. 5 likes. It’s very impressive that you took the time to sign in six times to like your own comment. Of course, it could be just a coincidence that everyone who liked your comment has either the same avatar, a similar name and/or is known to post that ridiculous website you keep promoting for some reason (you’re either crazy or getting paid for traffic somehow). 

  • Anonymous

    You like yourself a lot. 

  • Anonymous

    I’m so glad you liked your own comment. 

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    now THAT is a gangsta endorsement!

  • Anonymous

    It certainly was a mistake for him to ‘go off’ but good Lord the media outa show a little courtesy and allow him an uninterrupted breakfast (unlikely with the so many in the media’s high opinion of themselves).  As an ’everyday conservative’ Ron Paul never appealed to me…a bit nutty. In an ‘it takes a lot of opinions to make the world go ’round perspective’ he raises intriguing concepts but again too far out for me.  

  • Anonymous

    Again, you’re wrapping yourself in the flag, in a self-serving display of manufactured patriotism.
    Who, besides you and your peeps, say you’re defending the Constitution?
    You’re defending your interpretation of it. No more than that.
    Plus, you’re in bed with some of the worst elements in our society.

  • Booberry Pah

    Will 58,800,000 do?
    http://goo.gl/M2yeq

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Revol-Ution/100002759474390 Revol Ution

    LOL

    just a cranky old man?
    I guess that all those young celebrities that hate getting their privacy invaded by reporters are just cranky old men too

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_42KTZIH34XIJ2OU5OWWMGF3AWU julien alien

    You forgot that she never carries a camera or a simple recording device that can be bought at Radio shack for 20$Some reporting indeed!Guffaw.

  • Anonymous

    In other crucial news, Gingrich farted in a crowded elevator then laughed out loud.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/edingsteve Steve Messi

    Ron Paul is not a republican per say, he is a constitutionalist. Now, rewrite your article with the proper description of the man; and, realize how dumb, moronic, and ignorant you are.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000273883636 John Campanella

    When Paul haters aren’t busy marinating in ignorance they are claiming how non-intervention is isolationism. Explaining how free trade and self defense is not isolationism, you say that sanctions and installing dictators is what isolates.

    “Texas Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul is not a racist and is being smeared as one because he is a clear threat to the political establishment” – Nelson Linder, Austin president of the NAACP.”

    http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/12/24/ron-paul-no-racist-naacp-austin-president/

    Covering their ears while chanting ‘la-la, isolationist, I can’t hear you’ you remember to expect the same amount of intellect when responding to charges of racism: ZERO.

    Ron Paul owes his economic philosophy (Austrian Economics) to Jewish scholars like Ludwig Von Mises and praises MLK for his libertarian principle of non-aggression. As a doctor, he treated patients of all colors for free:

    http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2011/12/video-in-1972-ron-paul-helped-mixed.html

    Either there is such a thing as a racist man with Jewish heroes OR corporate owned media is recycling smears in order to stop a man who’s very presence condemns the sellout politicians who own them.

    They know that as President, the troops would be home day ONE, along with non-violent drug offenders which, sadly, many of whom are minorities. They know that if Paul is President, the party is OVER.

    I suggest you do some honest research before you are fooled into empowering another fraud.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000273883636 John Campanella

    He reauthorized the Patriot Act and signed NDAA into law. He also accepts the power to assassinate American citizens, without a trail.

    “he hasn’t S and Ced on the Constitiution, but you ARE an idiot  OBAMA 2012 ha ha ha.”

    So sad …

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000273883636 John Campanella

    It’s called mental gymnastics, it’s how the moronic survive intellectual debate. That and the racist card.

    Indefinite detention and torture! Illegal wars! Obama 2012! Unbelievable.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000273883636 John Campanella

    When Paul haters aren’t busy marinating in ignorance they are claiming how non-intervention is isolationism. Explaining how free trade and self defense is not isolationism, you say that sanctions and installing dictators is what isolates.

    “Texas Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul is not a racist and is being smeared as one because he is a clear threat to the political establishment” – Nelson Linder, Austin president of the NAACP.”

    http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/12/24/ron-paul-no-racist-naacp-austin-president/

    Covering their ears while chanting ‘la-la, isolationist, I can’t hear you’ you remember to expect the same amount of intellect when responding to charges of racism: ZERO.

    Ron Paul owes his economic philosophy (Austrian Economics) to Jewish scholars like Ludwig Von Mises and praises MLK for his libertarian principle of non-aggression. As a doctor, he treated patients of all colors for free:

    http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2011/12/video-in-1972-ron-paul-helped-mixed.html

    Either there is such a thing as a racist man with Jewish heroes OR corporate owned media is recycling smears in order to stop a man who’s very presence condemns the sellout politicians who own them.

    They know that as President, the troops would be home day ONE, along with non-violent drug offenders which, sadly, many of whom are minorities. They know that if Paul is President, the party is OVER.

    I suggest you do some honest research before you are fooled into empowering another fraud.

  • Anonymous

    Fact from DOJ:

    52% of all  homicides are committed by blacks. 
    Are facts racist?

  • Anonymous

    That is such a lame job. I just love how the crazy people call Ron Paul names since they cannot find anything bad about him.

  • Anonymous

    There goes the name calling again when someone has nothing on Ron Paul. Calling him names jsut shows you have nothing to critique…or you don’t know anything about him factually.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is 2012 is funny.

  • Anonymous

    I just love it when the people call others Crazy when they cannot defend themselves.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UE4EPYVK4W4H5LMWQXI7ACBFJ4 Totenkopf

     Isolationist includes no trade.

    He wants to open up trade with Cuba.

    That information is readily available.

    That would mean Ron Paul isn’t an isolationist.

    Facts suck, don’t they?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UE4EPYVK4W4H5LMWQXI7ACBFJ4 Totenkopf

     James B. Powell.

    :P

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UE4EPYVK4W4H5LMWQXI7ACBFJ4 Totenkopf

     Zionism means an independent Israel.

    Israel says she doesn’t need our help.

    An Israel dependent on America is an Israel with no sovereignty.

    I suppose, assuming that you live on your own, that your mother somehow forsaken you?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UE4EPYVK4W4H5LMWQXI7ACBFJ4 Totenkopf

    So because reporters have tasteless and unprofessional tact in approaching someone for an interview, Ron Paul is a cranky old man who should’ve ordered room service if he wanted privacy?

    Don’t want someone all up in your business 24/7?  Hole yourself up in your room.

    Then they’ll talk about what an “anti-social hermit” you are, and question your capacity to function in a social setting, such as golf-outings, Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies, and meetings with figureheads of other countries that end up dead after being “overthrown” by “rebels” after nuclear disarms.

  • Anonymous

    “Facts suck, don’t they? ”

    Apparently.
    Which is probably why you ignore them.

    “Isolationist includes no trade.”

    No, it doesn’t.
    Is it possible that you could make a more absurd statement, or was that your masterwork?

    It basically means that we don’t involve ourselves in affairs involving other countries. Like we did in WW2, but were averse to in the 30s. Which, some say, allowed conditions to grow to the point that war was unavoidable.It has nothing to do with trade. Intentionally.

    Any more misinformation coming?

  • Anonymous

    “Israel says she doesn’t need our help.”

    Not true, Israel need fighter planes, and other expensive arms with which she can defend herself.
    And diplomatic support and involvement on the world stage.

    And Israel is more concerned about survival than sovereignity, at this point. And of your definition of it.

    Your twisting the facts to fit your inane dogma, and lack completely, any powers of persuasion.
    Or any awareness of the necessity for same.

    Btw, it’s been 3 weeks.
    That’s the best you could do, in all that time?
    Really?
    Why even bother?
     .

  • Anonymous

    Hey kids:  Pick up your toys and head on home.  Say goodbye to Mr. Paul.  It’s time to let the adults play.  The Children’s Crusade is over.

  • Anonymous

    Try Harold Stassen on for size.

  • Anonymous

    And your point is what? Does defending one looney bird by justifying it with another? You must lean a lot to the liberal side. Just call Paul what he is: A senile nutcake…end of story.

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    Princeton67atCoxdotnet wrote, in response to Balmy:
    Try Harold Stassen on for size.
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