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Brit Hume: Ron Paul ‘Has As Much Of A Chance Of Getting Nominated As RuPaul’

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Looks like Brit Hume wasn’t listening to fashion superstar RuPaul this weekend when he went on tour in New Hampshire to clarify that he is not Rep. Ron Paul. Hume’s assessment of the results of the New Hampshire primary today took into consideration Rep. Paul’s second place finish, but continued to argue that Rep. Paul had “as much of a chance as RuPaul” of getting the nomination.

RELATED: RuPaul Is ‘Campaigning’ In New Hampshire To Spread Awareness That He Is Not Ron Paul

“The New Hampshire primary matters, and matters a lot,” Hume noted, considering it “an important win for Mitt Romney, and “the Paul showing is interesting.” “I continue to believe– and I think most observers do– that he has as much of a chance of getting nominated as RuPaul would, so all he does is block the other candidates from trying to overtake Romney,” Hume joked.

He added commentary about the rest of the field in the future. “If you look at this field now and you look ahead and you think, well, who now is in a position to challenge Mitt Romney going forward?” he asked, “the one person with enough national name recognition, and perhaps enough money, and intellectual candlepower who might’ve been able do it would be Newt Gingrich,” but Gingrich, he notes, has been destroyed by the Romney machine.

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  • Pablo

    Oh no you di’int.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LDO6LIQBI2JQ4Q5MWLWBKGKSJY bensanity

    He should’ve said “Jon Huntsman has about as much chance getting elected as Brit Hume.”

  • Henry Wood

    It certainly looks as if FOX has successfully destroyed the Paul campaign.  They hated him so much that they even pretended to care about racism.

  • Bob Saggat

    I suppose if Paul wins Hume would say “he’s just blocking other candidates from having a chance at the nomination”. Just say it Hume, say you hate Ron Paul because the person who signs your paycheck told you to hate him. “Foxy News, fair and balanced”

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Brit failed to mention he’s doing his stand-up act at the Comedy Club this weekend (2 drink minimum)!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000323217268 Bullet Gibson

    Well there you have it. We don’t matter. Brit said so. Now, shut up and do as you’re told! The media says so, and don’t you DARE disagree with them. Or else!

     F**k you Brit.

  • Pablo

    Fox is omnipotent, huh? And irrelevant! I blame Bush.

  • Anonymous

    Actually I agree with him.  Ron Paul is getting about 25% of the vote, which means that 75% of Republican voters prefer candidates who are not what they say they are.  Just like RuPaul.

  • Pablo

    Ron Paul doesn’t think he’s going to win the nomination. That must be because he hates himself and Roger Ailes pays him to do it.

  • Anonymous

    Not anywhere near enough drinks to make him even witty.

  • Anonymous

    No.  Brit got the memo.  He probably did not know who RuPaul was until he got his marching orders.

  • http://www.PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ElectionFraudClickHereNow

    Unelected officials don’t want their funding cut, so the race will look close before they choose their next puppet and we all feel like we had a choice in the election.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You are correct on that one!!

  • Anonymous

    In a perfect world someone should tar and feather Brit Hume.  He’s sold or abandoned his Fourth Estate responsibilities and he needs to answer for it.

    Brit Hume is practicing yellow journalism.

  • Elite Gaming

    Brit Hume proving anyone can be a “journalist”

  • Henry Wood

    I don’t recall saying that Fox was irrelevant.  Far from it.  A good portion of the conservative base have no thoughts except those that are placed in their heads by Fox news propaganda.

  • Anonymous

    Do you realize how stupid that makes you sound? Seriously? For the love of God, they have 5 million viewers out of 330 million citizens, grow up.

  • Anonymous

    I hope Paul 3rd parties and farks up everything for the neocons.

  • Henry Wood

    Fox is a major part of the GOPropaganda misinformation machine.

    The story usually starts on Fox, gets picked up by the various clearchannel wackoes, the fat junkie pedophile, CNN and then suddenly you have tens of millions of parrots screaming “Solyndra” at the top of their lungs.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Ron Paul has no chance. The Romney machine did not destroy Gingrich. Nobody, not “the media,” not Fox News, not unidentified “unelected” power brokers.
    Ron Paul holds beliefs that not more than 25% of the population will ever support. In some areas he appeals to the ultra conservative–small government and distrust of any authority–and other areas that appeal to liberals–no government interference in the private lives of adults means no laws on sexual relations or reproductive choices.  
    Gingrich destroys Gingrich by being Gingrich.
    Huntsman’s clime was inevitable as the others destroy themselves and Ron Paul tops out at the maximum support he will ever get.

  • http://twitter.com/acecatcher26 Jason Jones

    Brit should be taken off the air  imo.  How dare you 

  • http://twitter.com/metallicafan99 Scott Davis

    I can’t believe Brit has the nerve to say something like that, just amazes me at how hard the media tries to discredit and shut down Ron Paul. 

  • http://twitter.com/metallicafan99 Scott Davis

    You are right, he should be taken off the air immediately.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul has as much of a chance at the nomination as RuPaul… *YAWN*.. tell us something we didn’t already know.

  • Anonymous

    When Ron Paul get’s the nomination we’re gonna have a little conversation.  Freedom is polular. Ron Paul 2012

  • Anonymous

    More clarity from this discredited media whore. Dr Ron Paul is the only corporate free candidate. Here’s a few bucks presstitute.

  • Anonymous

    *Drink Up* !!

  • Anonymous

    we get it, you guys don’t like Ron Paul and try to belittle him constantly by calling him unelectable. But FNC–why didn’t you say the same thing about Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum or Michelle Bachmann? How on earth are they electable in a general election? 

    Be more fair and balanced towards Ron Paul, please..he’s starting feel alienated.

  • http://twitter.com/Agonzo1 anthonybgonzalez

    what a disgrace

  • jmsptrk

    That’s pretty poor logic. If he were the nominee, the majority of the party would still rally behind him. Less than most other candidates (Huntsman being the exception), but the polls still put his Republican support at 81%. But…. he also pulls 10% of Democrats. And, most importantly, 47% of independents—far better than Obama head to head, and better than the rest of the GOP field.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57355518-503544/poll-among-gop-hopefuls-romney-fares-best-against-obama/

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Ron Paul will win the west.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    It was a degenerate comment by a  degenerate person on a  degenerate  network.
    (but it was also basically a true (albeit hyperbolic) comment)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Why do you think Ron Paul thinks he’s not going to win?

    Please support that statement.

    Because if true, it would show that he is at least somewhat grounded in reality.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    You are CORRECT sir!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    I take issue with the assertion that the Foreign-Owned Xtremist news network is part of the media.

    It’s the PR arm of the New York/Washington establishment wing of the Republican Party as far as I can tell.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    That’s some pretty rose colored analysis.

    If you mean 81 percent of the Republicans who bother to go to the polls, you might be right. But a Ron Paul nomination would likely suppress the Republican vote.

    I agree that it would bring out more “independents”, mostly rightwing Libertarians and Leftwing pacifists.

    Personally, I hope he does get the nomination. Although I think Obama would win in a landslide of historical proportions against Paul, even if he wins he would probably do far less damage to America than Mitt Romney.

    Whereas Romney will double-down on neocon policy and start even more conflicts over trade and strategic oil reserves, Paul could use the power of the presidency to greatly reduce our international military profile. Because the presidency has a lot of power in that area to act unilaterally unless the Congress can find a supermajority to over rule him.

    Because of Paul’s demonstrated incompetency over the past 30 years, I don’t think he would be able to enact his brutal domestic policies. I’d rather not roll the dice and find out, but I just don’t think the public would stand for his draconian maneuvers. His administration would also be filled with rightwing lunatics and thugs who could cause a lot of pain before they and Paul are ultimately impeached.

  • Anonymous

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  • shonangreg

    It is hard to detect when twisted, conservative sarcasm comes from a troll.

  • shonangreg

    It is cute seeing conservatives develop independent thought ;-)

  • shonangreg

    Ouch!

    The Ron Paul wing of the conservatives know this to be true. They’re not given the honey-coated words of poison like the neocons, the evangelicals, and the mass of jiggling-titty followers are.

    As long as you are being catered to by Fox News and salivate when Dr. Ailes rings his Pavlovian bell, their propaganda sounds like freedom.

  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    It’s easy to tell when a mindless progressive is bleating the only thing they have to work with; insults.

  • Pablo

    You think they haven’t? You’re wrong.

  • shonangreg

    I would agree with that, though it is easy to tell when anyone is mindlessly bleating insults against all opposition, be they liberal, conservative, or whathaveyou.

    Funny how you associate progressives with insults. Do you know where you got such conditioning, Pablo?

    Pablo wrote: “It’s easy to tell when a mindless progressive is bleating the only thing they have to work with; insults.”

  • Anonymous

    Gee, it couldn’t be they look at his positions and statements,

  • Anonymous

    If he does get the nomination, the GOP establishment politicians will make sure that Obama the neo-con gets re-elected.

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

    Mitt Romney’s chances similar to those of Tarmo Mitt.

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  • Anonymous

    Those who are screaming for Brit Hume’s skin seem forget that Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Ed Shultz and Martin Bashir have made far more outrageous predictions about pretty much all of the Republican contenders.

  • Anonymous

    From the doctored CPAC footage and beyond, FNC has maintained a condescending attitude towards Ron Paul’s campaign that I feel pales in comparison to their criticisms and coverage of equally unelectable, but more traditionally conservative candidates. 

  • jmsptrk

    I don’t doubt they’ll spare no expense.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ElectionFraudProofClickHere

    Ron Paul is a threat to people who trample the Constitution in an effort to try and control everything. Unelected officials have taken over Washington and are orchestrating the daily news. 90% of the comments and replies you’re reading online come from an NSA software program spamming the internet. Comments are created before the stories are ever reported. The oldest, first, highest, best, and most popular rated comments are all propaganda. They are conducting Psy-ops (psychological operations) for domestic spying. They have 1000′s of handles and are determined to bury the truth and attack anyone leaking it.

    The next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out.

  • Anonymous

    Brit should know.  RuPaul used to date Sandy in the 1980s.

  • jmsptrk

    It’s perfectly in line with a number of other polls that show, as a worst case scenario, Paul could lose up to 9% of the (Republican) vote to Obama. (And if you think that Obama is not going to face the same problem (of a suppressed base) after the policies he has enacted, you’re only fooling yourself.) Meanwhile, most of these same polls also show that Obama could lose up to 11% to Paul from the Dems. Sounds like a wash to me. 
    “Obama’s support among liberals drops 11 points with Paul in a three-way race against Romney, with Paul winning more than a quarter of liberal voters.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/poll-paul-as-third-party-candidate-could-doom-gop-in-2012/2011/12/13/gIQAvviF6O_blog.htmlAnd Paul beats Obama among Independents. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/01/09/cbs-poll-independents-prefer-ron-paul-vs-obama/So you can call it whatever you’d like—it’s nice to see that you’ve kept your childlike imagination, that the world hasn’t knocked it out of you yet—but it’s not going to change the facts as they are now. 

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/Q7LNZCYMGVIHMZTMNHCYGYXUOM Alex

    Ol’ Droopy Dog with his deeply insightful commentary. Yawn.  The problem for him and all establishment GOP’ers is that people are getting tired of the status quo, two-faced, non-issue facing,  lobbyist politicians.   Ron Paul’s popularity is a sign.  It doesn’t matter if he wins the nomination, the game has shifted and will not return to the days of old. 

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    MEANWHILE (From a major newspaper)

    New Hampshire lawmakers question Obama’s citizenship
    President Obama is on the Democratic ballot for New Hampshire’s
    primary on Tuesday, despite the efforts of some Republican state
    legislators who argue the president doesn’t qualify as a “natural-born
    citizen.”

    Mr. Rappaport is working on the matter with California attorney Orly
    Taitz, who is pursuing a similar complaint in Georgia state courts. In
    that case, a judge last week denied a motion by the Obama
    administration to have one of Ms. Taitz’s challenges to the president’s
    ballot eligibility dismissed.

    “Thank you God!!!” she wrote on her website after the ruling. “I can
    now depose Obama and everybody else involved without any impediment.”
    A hearing on the complaint in Georgia is set for Jan. 26 in Fulton County.
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/9/new-hampshire-lawmakers-question-obamas-citizenshi/

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    Meanwhile, on the Democratic Side

    Aleister at AmericanGlob.com notices, “Democrats had a primary in New
    Hampshire tonight too and Obama lost votes to a guy called Vermin
    Supreme. Yes. Obama lost New Hampshire Democratic votes to a guy who
    wears a rubber boot on his head.”

    By Wednesday morning, Vermin Supreme had 813 votes.

    FROM: newsletters@nationalreview.com |

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

    That’s almost as bad as selecting Rex Grossman as quarterback… but not quite.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    Ron Paul knows he will not win but he will have the power to influence the Republican primary with delegates. He’s running as a ideologue and his son will run for President next time around. As more people understand how libertarian policies will hurt the middle class, they will vote with their feet…..We have a large economy and we need a large government to regulate it. If you don’t protect your industries, well, see what happens to the jobs? They leave…………for the third world.There is no such thing as a free market, period.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7SNFGZKB77IL4N56HS5DW2BHGE Lutesman

    Britt Hume has been a fav of mine for years.But he underestimates Ron Paul supporters.They are young and are concerned about the national debt they are receiving.C’mon Brett,you are sounding like the establishment.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7SNFGZKB77IL4N56HS5DW2BHGE Lutesman

    Ron Paul brings up uncomfortable truths.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Rice/100002853695823 Bill Rice

    nothing like insulting right back.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Rice/100002853695823 Bill Rice

    A comedy club that obviously is scraping the bottom of the barrel,

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Rice/100002853695823 Bill Rice

    You mean Rupert Murdick.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Rice/100002853695823 Bill Rice

    Don’t forget to add part owners from Saudi Arabia.

  • Anonymous

    Are you kidding? Fox is the HUB of GOP propaganda..

  • Anonymous

    Pablo, try listening to Ron Paul a little more carefully without just extracting what you “wanted” to hear. He is a very humble guy, and he doesn’t wear his ego on his sleeve. If he just “proclaimed” that he will be nominated and elected, he’s likely to get left behind. He knows he has an uphill climb and he doesn’t get cocky about anything.

    Heard of the Tortoise and the Hare?

    Ron Paul knows what he’s up against. Barry Dalton, below my comment here, hits it right on the head. Ron Paul is grounded on reality, but at the same time he knows he must work hard for anything he ends up with. His money, his connections, his nice hair and suits won’t cut it (because he has none of it). He has to be the real deal.

  • Anonymous

    That’s the correct attitude to have… do we need any more cocky privileged idiots in the White House, or do we need someone who sees it as a tough job? I like Ron Paul’s attitude..it’s very real.

  • Anonymous

    More like “fall over” comedy… from napping on the bar stools.

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s the PR arm of the War Machine..  Here’s an interesting tidbit.. FOX is supposedly a Christian-ish media network, from what I’ve seen.

    Why do they have some of the most heinous, ridiculous, risque programming on TV?
    I think it’s just an Oligarchy-funded counterweight to the liberal media.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t get out much Shonangreg?

  • Anonymous

    And you are thinking that the damage Ron Paul could do would rival anything our current royalty would do in the next four years? That’s funny Barry.

    In case you hadn’t noticed, both “sides” are closing in on our sovereignty and ability to determine our own destinies. Neither “party” is what they were even 50 years ago, but one thing is for sure… behind closed doors they are one.

    I’ll risk a little kookiness with Ron Paul rather than drink that mystery cocktail served up to us every four years. We’re all being duped.. you know that, right?

    Don’t forget.. if President Ron Paul were giving his speeches, his State of The Union, he’d be firing up the population to get off its ass and be more proactive with government AND business. I’m not a cow, are you a cow? Why are we being led rather than looking at we’re going?

    Grassroots power must be grown again or this society is done. Ron Paul is the guy to encourage us to take some initiative in enforcing some public policies like nailing private enterprise when it’s screwing the public. Government has given us some of the most corrupt business and public policy scams ever created, through our “regulatory system” which is nothing more than an Oligarchy buying off both the Left and the Right to get further into the consumer’s pocket or sidestep environmental issues. How’s that been working for us? Can you spell Monsanto, etc, etc..?

    Call him wacky, call him dangerous, but you can’t call him a panderer or the typical politician. I’m willing to take the chance on his abilities to cross the standard barriers… which are imaginary anyway..

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul resonates with a lot of people who are looking through the political trash to find something of value. There IS no value to the public in our current system, unless you’re talking about entitlements, but those aren’t free…

    It’s time to take out the trash, and unfortunately that involves the status quo… Republican AND Democrat. The clock needs to be reset, it will cause Maalox and Depends sales to skyrocket for a while, but hey… we’re worth it, right? It’ll be like going to drug rehab..

    Time to sober up..

  • Anonymous

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  • shonangreg

    Oh, don’t take me wrong. I respect conservatism. It is in no way inferior to liberalism. However, conservatives in America have not had a functioning, what-you-see-is-what-you-get party in decades. The religious extremists, the racists, the neo-cons, etc., in league with the “news” entertainers Murdoch and Rush took over the party. Now conservatives in America grow up with very little guidance. It is like growing up in a fundamentalist church. Many intelligent people never escape.

    Now the congregation is beginning to see the stink ain’t coming from RINOs in their midst. It is your pulpit exuding that odor.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Not my dream. I’m not sleeping.
    Reality.
    Ron Paul is not going to win any primary or caucus. His most basic fault is that he is stuck in the mentality of the Great Depression.
    In summary, I do not believe.

  • Anonymous

    Has anyone really taken Brit Hume seriously in years?

  • jmsptrk

    Pretty much nailed it. Excellent post.

  • jmsptrk

    Yep. A nation addicts, and none of them want to get clean.

  • Anonymous

    If left unchecked, the religious NeoCons would take us back to the Middle Ages and the Crusades.

    Religious dictatorships… 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Devon-Linger/100000023154701 Gary Devon Linger

    Ron Paul in reality will never get anywhere close to being president but by running his beliefs are out there for all to hear and come to know. When the shit really hits the fan people can look back with remorse over how easily they were brain washed by the BS the corporate media and establishment politicians have fed them.

     Ron Paul is the first person that has shared similar beliefs with me and to me he is what being a conservative is really about. Plus the man does not play to the crowd and be what he thinks people want to be to be. He does not pander and when it is all said and done, right or wrong we know Dr. Paul is no sell out. That means more to me than having to agree on all the issues.

    As far as Ron Paul’s foreign policy beliefs. People can think he is far outside the mainstream and is nutty as a loon all they want but mark my words they will one day regret their line of thinking fed to them by the media and the establishment politicians.

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