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Eric Bolling: ‘What Percentage Of The Vote Would Ron Paul Get… If He Wasn’t For Legalizing Pot?’

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During today’s The Five, the panel went around the table assessing last night’s Iowa results and the subsequent analysis, particularly Sarah Palin‘s comments on the end of the race, praising Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney but warning the Republican Party that “the worst thing that the GOP machine can do is marginal Ron Paul and his supporters.” Most of the panel agreed, except for Eric Bolling, who argued that his supporters were mostly one-issue voters.

Bob Beckel was the first to react to Palin’s comments, and called them “one of the smartest things that was said” on air last night.” “She’s exactly right… he’s the only one with committed supporters,” Beckel remarked, to which Kimberly Guilfoyle agreed.

Bolling did not, however, suggesting that the only thing Rep. Paul supporters cared about was drugs. “What percentage of the vote would Ron Paul get if he wasn’t a libertarian and he wasn’t for legalizing pot, marijuana, or other drugs?” He dismissed the voters as being “all 25 years old… he talks about foreign policy and their eyes glaze over.”

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  • http://twitter.com/Agonzo1 anthonybgonzalez

    He got 22% last night genius.  They know his policy, not your distorted lie. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/275652/20120103/ron-paul-2012-why-deserves-black-america.htm?cid=2

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul’s biggest blunder would be to run as an Independent because he would take all his votes from the Republican voters which would guarantee a win for Obama. So just remember Ron Paul supporters, if he runs as an Independent and you pull the voting lever for Ron Paul, you really are not voting for Ron Paul but rather Obama.

  • Henry Wood

    My understanding is that Mr. Paul wants the states to be able to decide on whether they want pot and other drugs to be legalized. That isn’t because he or his supporters want to go out and smoke a joint and shoot heroin. It’s because the war on drugs is a complete disaster on several levels.

  • Anonymous

    Correct.

  • Henry Wood

    This assumes that all Ron Paul supporters are brainless sheeple who will automatically vote for the republiklan nominee unless Paul runs as an independent.

    I’m not so sure that is an accurate view of RP supporters.  As a lefty librul type who is angry with Obama for several reasons, but who would never vote for the Corporatist/Christo-Taliban candidate that the republiklans will eventually nominate, I would strongly consider voting for Mr. Paul, even though I disagree with him very strongly on certain issues.

  • Anonymous

    “Pot, marijuana and other drugs.”

    Ok…..

  • Anonymous

    Bolling is a useless opinion for hire.

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans are fearing conservatism more than anything else.

  • Anonymous

    Hey blind follower fellow, I will be voting for Paul whether he is the Republican nominee, 3rd party candidate, or not in the race at at. I will be voting for Paul and Paul alone on principle, even if it means a write in. BTW Romney/Noot/Santorum….all a continuation of the bush obama policy. A vote for them is a vote for Obama. Jeeze you are so focused on getting Obama outta the WH that you don’t see that the whole system is corrupt. Good luck buddy, voters like you have ruined this country. A vote for Santorum/Romney/Noot = More war/more QE/same economy/more anti constitution laws aka NDAA/UNpatriot act/less freedom/more deficits/worse America. And don’t tell be who to vote for, my family has faught in DECLARED wars so I can vote for who ever I want. Go back to sucken your thumb.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Michael/100002314835409 Paul Michael

    The biggest blunder the republicans can do is NOT nominate Ron Paul because he has more support from independents than anyone else in the GOP

  • Anonymous

    There just may not be a bigger ASS on Fox News than this F**K!!!!  Trying way to hard to take over the glen beck role at the Propaganda network!!!

  • Anonymous

    There just may not be a bigger ASS on Fox News than this F**K!!!!  Trying way to hard to take over the glen beck role at the Propaganda network!!!

  • mnolan13

    Bolling shouldn’t have gotten rid of his baseball bat.  The thug look fit Fox News much better than the deer in a headlight look he usually wears on the Five.  He is the best current definition of the Peter Principle.  He doesn’t know crap about conservatism, but somehow managed to get the center seat on a “conservative” talk show.  He’d be more at home on MSNBC.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I get tired of fox dissing Paul all the time.  They should call it the anti-Ron Paul Network.  

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Ninety-Nine Monkeys For Ron Paul!This process by which we selectOur President that we will electHas yielded this YearThe neocons worst fear:The Ron Paul Hundredth Monkey Effect!No matter how hard the media triesTo make Paul look bad in our eyesWe know his program’s correct‘Cause we think and walk erectAnd know the media only tells lies!They’re reduced to trying to dissectRon on some old newsletter subjectBut these media whoresIgnore neocon warsAnd the Constitution they never protect.They speak death to Paul’s message of Life‘Cause they only know how to sow strifeBut now masses rejectCNN’s neocon disrespectAnd FOX news is really the Devil’s wifeNow we howl and we hoot at their ireFor we know that their only desireIs to see America wreckedBut even media whores detectThat Paul’s campaign has unquenchable fire!______________________Charles Ulysses Feney

  • Anonymous

    Let’s just call this what it is and cut to the brass tacks:This is an establishment media war on liberty and free people. As Paul says, their goal and tactics are not a new idea…

    On Ron Paul
    supporters and the gop

    You are simply wrong. Paul’s
    backers are politically involved and aware like no other group. I put to you,
    the only way one can become a Paul backer is through this personal work in
    today’s consolidated and complicit corporate media environment.

     

    The single issue Ron Paul and his
    supporters advocate is the defense of liberty. The Constitution was devised for
    the sole  the purpose of restraining the
    government. This is not a fact in dispute. It is the fundamental fact that the
    current establishment chooses to ignore at our peril.

     

    Once an individual takes the hour
    or so to cut through the disinformation of an American media they once trusted
    to find the true message of Ron Paul, they are forever awake to the status of
    our country.

     

    No person who has completed this
    process will simply choose another GOP Candidate because they all understand
    clearly that if  Ron Paul is not elected,
    no matter the party in charge we will all be under the increasing control and
    manipulation of the same establishment.  

     

    Finally, in the absence of any
    real change and a return to constitutional liberty the message of Ron Paul will
    only grow, and grow exponentially in the coming years.

     

    In conclusion: The GOP can support
    Paul now or they can lose this election. People who support the message of
    liberty are done selecting between evils. Obama was a last test case.

     

    Ron Paul 2012 America first party
    last.
     

  • Anonymous

    Stop using reason. It confuses too many. Don’t you have a sound bite or something?
     

  • Anonymous

    No, literally voting for Ron Paul.  Wrote him in in 2008 and will do again if I have too.

  • Anonymous

    Smear campaign against Paul on Fox continues. Freedom of press, in the name of “democracy”… it’s getting tired.

  • D L

    What percentage of the vote would Bachmann, Romney, Perry, Gingrich and Santorum get if there weren’t any war drums being beat?

  • Anonymous

    Letting the states legalize weed is one of the few good ideas Paul has. It’s no surprise that the mainstream GOP can’t see their own cognitive dissonance when they promote the government getting out of the way of how one lives, but then say the government should have the right to stop people from taking a “drug” that’s milder and safer than alcohol and smokes. Something like 50 percent of drug cartel profits come from weed. Legalizing would go a long way toward scaling back violence in Mexico. And besides, any high school kid who wants to try weed can find it quicker than an adult, so prohibition has failed. 

    There are plenty of other reasons not to vote for Paul, who has the same disconnect when he claims the federal government should leave us alone but then wants to reverse Roe v. Wade (which he could never do anyway since the President can’t annul laws). 

  • expatpatriot

    Yep, that marijuana thing is just about the only good idea the guy has got. And yes, I’m sure a lot of his support comes from people who agree with that one aspect of his platform while disagreeing with everything else (that they’ve bothered to research).

    It’s like that with a lot of libertarian values: even a broken clock (an analog one, anyway) is right twice a day.

  • Anonymous

    It’s like Beckel read verbatim a comment posted by myself yesterday

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, that whole war on drugs thing has been so successful. And such a good use of tax money. 

  • Anonymous

    To Get Ron Paul’s Insanity, You Have To Understand Libertarianism
    “Libertarianism is to authentic conservatism what Barack Obama is to 19th century liberalism”
    http://bit.ly/vBBvkk

  • Anonymous

    Mischief Voters Push Paul To Front Of GOP Race
    http://bit.ly/soNidH

    The Ron Paul Campaign and its Neo-Nazi Supporters http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/the_ron_paul_campaign_and_its.html

    The Odd Alliance Supporting Ron Paul
    http://bit.ly/mVkXv1

  • Anonymous

    A Clear Danger from Cannabis (Schizoprenia)
    http://bit.ly/2dyRwB

    Marijuana is not medicine. Somebody had better tell your doctor! http://bit.ly/ed9Acr

  • Anonymous

    I think people vote for Ron Paul because of his common sense about issues. Agree or dont agree about legalizing pot, when Ron Paul talks about why it should be legal it makes absolute sense the government does not need to be in our business. I have had a lot of discussions about this issue and everyone I have talked to all said even if heroin were legal today they would not use it. Alcohol is far more worse than weed and yet none of these hypocritical politicians seem to be worried about alcohol being legal. How many people are killed and injured from drunk driving have you ever heard of someone crashing while driving high, how many people get violent when they drink and do stupid things while the pot smokers are just getting the munchies . Every GOP candidate talks about smaller government but yet they think we cant be responsible enough to choose if people want to try try drugs or not, its all about personal responsibility. And I know of a lot of people who are voting for Ron Paul because of his non interventionist ways not him legalizing drugs. Bolling is just mad because Ron Paul is not a puppet politician like everyone else.

  • Anonymous

    Brush up your short-term memory and then tell us;

    Obama’s Complete List of Historic Firsts http://bit.ly/ipHoXq

  • Anonymous

    You didn’t do your homework and if you morons let Obama win, you can bet payback will cost you dearly.

    To Get Ron Paul’s Insanity, You Have To Understand
    Libertarianism

    “Libertarianism is to authentic conservatism what Barack
    Obama is to 19th century liberalism” http://bit.ly/vBBvkk

    Ron Paul, Where Libertarianism & the Left are Joined at the Heart http://bit.ly/vMn8Jv

    Ron Paul & the Neoliberal Re-education Campaign http://bit.ly/pTbm9wA Quick History
    Of Socialist Ron Paul http://bit.ly/uJxlHi

  • Anonymous

    Over 95% of all crimes are committed under the influence despite the fact that weed will make you more psychotic than you might already be. Therefore, your ‘freedom’ to put into your body whatever you want stops at the point it endangers or intrudes on anyone elses.

    “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.”- Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • Anonymous

    Boiling is mad! 

  • Anonymous

    Dear Winghunter, Thank you for your reply and the links to your sources. I did take the time to look at each. Would you be willing to look at sources a bit broader to reconsider your position? If you have one hour of time I think we might all benefit from you visiting ronpaul2012.com and looking at Paul’s position statements on many of the issues tackled in the blogs you provided. I think you will find some inconsistencies with the facts as they have been presented to you.
    It is my hope that this small effort on your part may raise some questions important to you and offer reasoned solutions in the strong american traditions in which they are rooted.
    One thing I can tell you is the neocons and the Obama Dems offer no protection to your freedoms. Paul is the only alternative we currently have in the field.
    Good luck with your personal journey here and let me know if I can help you further.  I will leave you with this:

    Do the American people really care if Goldman Sachs let’s General Electric (Obama/Biden) or Halliburton (Bush/Cheney “insert Gingrich or Romney and their chosen corporate contractor here”) run the place this time? I guess that’s yet to be seen. But, I can tell you many of us traditionally Non-politicals are fed up with losing the essence of our great country to communists and carpetbaggers alike.

    Ron Paul is offering an alternative to the corporatist model that Eisenhower warned of, and has all but taken over already. A vanished free press has left us with the left and right media outlets complicit in keeping Paul’s message from a waiting public. If not Ron Paul we will surely end up with Clint Webb as president. So you must continue spread the word, educate your busy family, friends, and neighbors to spend an “honest hour” looking at Paul and convey the importance of Ron Paul getting that republican slot. Switch parties if you have to…

  • http://twitter.com/speedyjerry speedyjerry.com

    Does Paul actually say pot should be legal or does he say it should be up to the states to decide?

  • Anonymous

    I’d like to hear more complete guesswork as to the motivation of possible Ron Paul voters. This is really fascinating stuff.

  • Anonymous

    95% of all crimes are committed under the influence? That’s nuts.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how many Romney supporters like Bolling, a 1%er, would vote for him if he was not in favor of lowering the 1% taxes even further.

  • 12voltman1

    Did you think Reefer Madness was for real?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    stop FOLLOWING ME!!!

  • Anonymous

    What percentage of the cable audience watches Bolling on the Fox Business Channel?Less than one percent.

    And it’s not the one percent, it’s the feeble-minded and those who are physically unable to turn off their television sets.

  • Anonymous

    Paul does have some good points.

  • Anonymous

    You’re right, but you can’t confuse the rubes with facts!

  • Anonymous

    Let’s get down to brass tacks, here. How much for the ape?

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, I hate to admit it, but Bollings has a point. RP gets a lot of support from the recreational drug community

  • J. Mann

    Funny, the ONE issue I DO have a problem with is the potential of pot getting legalized (it will be up to each state, by the way).  I hate drugs, pot was the gateway drug that helped destroy my brother’s life.
      I am a homeschooling Evangelical Christian, and I believe that Ron Paul is the real deal.  I still want a nation for my children to grow up in.  Please don’t believe the mainstream media and do your own research people.  Everyone else is bought out.  Our country is going bankrupt, yet we keep going to more and more wars.  This might be our last chance to turn things around.

    If you took the time to read the comments, take the time to find out for yourself what he’s really about…..

    http://www.ronpaul2012.com/
     

  • http://twitter.com/TheNewsBuster NewsBuster

    Ron Paul is the only candidate that can beat Obama. 

    As poll after poll shows Paul can get more democrat and independent voter support than any other candidate. And that is what it takes to win an election.

    Paul has a good, solid foreign policy that is based on an understanding of human nature and common sense. Paul is for us having a strong military and national defense and unlike Bush and Obama, won’t pussyfoot around if any one messes with us.

    Paul is the only candidate that has put forth a real sound economic plan.

    Paul knows more about monetary and economic matters than all the other candidates put together. And when the impending financial and economic collapse happens, Paul is the best equipped candidate to handle it. 

    Paul will protect are freedoms and liberties by following the constitution and has a rock solid record in that area. And that’s one of the main reasons the establishment really fears him.

    Paul has not sold his soul to the devil and will not sell this country out. That’s another reason the establishment (military industrial complex, financial terrorists on wall street, crony capitalists, globalists, neocons and the bought and paid for press) doesn’t like Paul.

    On the major issues, Obama can’t beat Paul in any debate, no matter what the subject is.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how it stands up to the dangers of alcohol and nicotine. Heart & liver disease and lung cancer vs. a possible though unverified link to schizophrenia. 

    I’m not endorsing weed, but if society is okay with everyone knocking back a few drinks from time to time, I don’t see that marijuana is worse. 

  • Anonymous

       The republicans don’t want Paul because he is not one of the good old boys and will not play the game. Ron Paul actually wants what is best for the nation. Currently the office of president is no more than a figure head for groups within government who have their own agenda that has nothing to do with the welfare and progression of the American people.
       Also a reminder to the man who posted this article concerning the legalization of marijuana. Many voters are the parents and grand parents of the kids whose lives are being ruined by the criminalization of a plant that has been used by mankind of literally 1000s of years. Criminalization of marijuana has only served the criminal element by putting money in their pocket and has not worked to reduce the use of marijuana among people of all ages. When comparing the use of marijuana to that of alcohol, alcohol is legal yet it is more addictive and contributes more to violent crime and rising health concerns among US citizens than any other illegal drug. Another good thought to write on when it comes to the controversy that surrounds the criminalization of marijuana is quietly unfolding before our eyes. There are currently 17 states and more in the process of becoming medicinal marijuana states where the state government its self is the dealer and complicit with their state licensed users and vendors to promote the use and sales of marijuana which is in direct violation of current federal laws. Imagine what it would be like if the feds went in and arrested the state governments of 17 soon to be 19 states who have medicinal marijuana programs in progress at this time. The legalization of marijuana is coming and it is not because of a few nut jobs it is because so many people use it and there is no scientific or medical evidence to support that it is any worse for human health than the overuse of sugar and various other naturally occurring plants that are in use by people today. Marijuana has been scientifically proven benefits in the treatment and according to recent studies a prevention of certain forms of cancer. The criminalization of marijuana has been no more effective than prohibition of alcohol was. The same reason we ended prohibition of alcohol will be the same reasons that one day marijuana will be legalized. There is no solid reason to prohibit or criminalize marijuana. It does not serve the people to keep those old laws in place and actually serves a negative impact on society on many levels.
    A final thought on all this is the concept of personal freedom. Do people really want a government to police their personal habits. To tell you how many kids you can have, how many cars you can drive, what you can eat, whether you must exercise or not, dictating to you the gender of your partner in a civil union, tell you what is too dangerous for you to try and what is okay for you to try? This list goes on and on. The freedom to choose has always been a staple of the American concept of freedom and represented quite clearly in the constitution of the united states of America. We as Americans or actually or were actually free to be stupid too, or risk our lives how we wanted to. Personal accountability seems to be highly under rated in these modern times.  Do we really want to give up our rights to be free of religion, or our pursuit of personal freedom and happiness? Wake up America and elect Ron Paul so we can at least start back on the path of what our forefathers dreamed that this country would one day be? We are not a socialist society and to become one would certainly be a transition that those who established this free nation  would never have anticipated.
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-P-Ivy/1570621089 Michael P. Ivy

    No he doesn’t.  I stumped with Paul over central Iowa just to see for myself whether the support was centered around a so-called drug crowd, or whether it was much broader than that.  Hate to break it to you, but, Paul’s support is broad and deep.  The people showing up to townhalls were every day middle class folks with kids in tow, business owners, farmers, and where no age group was any more representative than any other age group.  I think for the media to corner Paul’s support strictly to the drug community is not only an outright lie, but, also underestimates incorrectly the strength in Paul’s broad appeal which I believe will stealthly grow at the expense of other candidates who might share your observation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-P-Ivy/1570621089 Michael P. Ivy

    ………..libertarian values which, as demonstrated here, you apparently know nothing about.

  • Anonymous

    Never said most, but a lot of people like his drug ideas and they do support him.

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    Jesse Ventura already made a fool out of FOX FNC Eric Bolling in public.
    10 years of false flag investigation evidence
    live on-air

  • Anonymous

    He also gets the most supports from Veterans and people actively serving in the military right now. 

  • Anonymous

    are you kidding me, i have never seen a pot smoker getting psychotic, only stuck to a couch watching tv and eating. I even know people who smoke and than work out and have all the energy in the world and their actually funny when you talk to them. Weed in no way compares to alcohol buy yet its perfectly legal. I have tried weed and their was nothing wrong with it. Again its about personal responsibility. I only agree with you that if it endagers or intrudes on someone else than yes that is a problem but the majority of people are smoking weed and doing those other drugs in their own home. I fear drunk drivers more than i do people driving high.

  • Anonymous

    they support him because it makes sense, not because people are excited and are going to line up and do every single drug. The government does not need to be our babysitter.

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans, although I’m rather conservative myself, are known for their blunders. Not letting Ron Paul in the game will mean another huge failure.

    True Ron Paul supporters would not compromise, especially picking the least dangerous NeoCon off that list. They’re all a bit wacky about Iran and they’ve all proven to be untrustworthy with voters’ faith in them.

    Ron Paul is the straight stuff, no fillers, additives, extenders, artificial flavors, preservatives or Washington fertilizer (bullcrap)… he’s the Organic Man..

  • Anonymous

    They out and out lie, switch information, change sound tracks… disgusting excuse for a media source, like CNN..     Trash.

  • Anonymous

    Actually Winghunter, if we go Independent, there’s a good chance we’ll save everyone’s butts from another decade of the war regime.

    Once you actually discard your political programming from the “duopoly” parties, Ron Paul begins to make lots of sense. Of course you won’t agree. You don’t need to, because there are plenty of others getting on board with Ron Paul.

    The links you send are just a snippet of the mounds of propaganda out there right now. Ron Paul has his detractors drinking Red Bull all night long to keep up the smear campaign. If Ron Paul WAS NOT ON TARGET with his anti-war, anti-corruption agenda, those guys wouldn’t be sweating like pigs about it.

    The ferocity of the Paul-phobics tells us he is exactly where he needs to be. Those who protect their “interests” this desperately have lots to hide and lots to lose..

    That old dusty closet in Washington politics with the skeletons in it is about to be opened.

    RON PAUL 2012

    We’re not worried about your scorn and we’re not worried about Obama winning.. this “king” we hired in 2008 and the current crop of NeoCons have lots in common. Ron Paul is a threat to both factions.

    Awareness is a great thing.. and we’ve started a grass fire in the grass roots.

  • Anonymous

    I know a few people who support him mainly because of his drug stand. As well as most people won’t own up to it

  • Anonymous

    Truthers, bigots, crackpots, crackheads, and druggies, Paul’s mystery base

  • Anonymous

    What difference does it make ? Santorum, Gingrich and Romney are not any different than Obama. It’s Paul or nothing. The Democratis and Republican establishments are corrupt and have taken turns destroying our country No more establishment candidates. This country needs an independent owned only by the people. Both major parties have  caused our problems and raped the tax payers, started unnecessary wars, caused inflation, passed restrictive regulations and sent our jobs overseas. The trash collector has more common sense and honesty than most of the people in Washington.

  • Anonymous

    When the nation is sick, it needs a doctor.

  • Anonymous

    You forgot to mention the military, vets, educated people, patriots, sensable citizens and anybody that has a brain.

  • Anonymous

    I can sum it up in two words, common sense. or try this, personal responsibility. non interference, abiding  by our Constitution.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OQMQBZCRPG2UGSG7BDDNYXZKDM j0

    First of all, Ron Paul is NOT for legalizing pot, so Eric Bolling should actually report the TRUTH for once.  Ron Paul is for STATES to decide whether they want it legalized in their state or not.  He doesn’t want the Fed Gov. to make that decision….so, what’s wrong with that??  NOTHING, ERIC BOLLING!!  Start reporting FACTS instead of your stupid take on things…

  • Anonymous

    What part of “HE CAN NOT BEAT OBAMA IN THE GENERAL ELECTION” so hard for you staunch Paul supporters to understand?????????

  • Sean Eberly

    Romney is no better than Obama…might as well take a shot and fall down than to lay my cards to Mittens.

  • Anthony Platt

    This man is an absolute fool. He is utterly intolerable. He’s the kind of person who, if he was in your immediate family, you wouldn’t even invite to your Christmas dinner. He oozes douche. Here’s my article on the month-long media blitz against Paul:
    http://adplattypus.blogspot.com/2012/01/ron-paul-media-blitz.html

  • Woman.For.Paul. Now

    Ron Paul a 12 term congressman whom has NEVER ONCE
    voted to increase taxes, has had consistent policy positions from the
    start. The other candidates simply say what the voters want to hear. Ron
    Paul warned us about the housing bubble, the debt crisis, the collapse
    of the US dollar, the high employment and recessions; basically, the
    entire collapse of our economy. He is the only candidate who can get us
    out of our mess.

    Ron Paul is a patriot who has honorably served his country as a
    flight surgeon, defends both the constitution and civil liberties, and
    is for peace and prosperity. Paul has the wisdom, foresight, honesty and
    integrity to be president.

    Mitt Romney does not where he stands on any issue; Rick Perry does not know very much; John Huntsman
    has worked for Democrats for many years; Rick Santorum is an extremist;
    and Newt Gingrich is philosophically unanchored, an unstable element.

    America Needs Ron Paul.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ravholly Rav Holly

    Oh, man…all Ron Paul supporters are 25yr old kids who don’t know any better. To dumb, not enough life experience to actually understand the way the world works. LMAO…I’m 42, and all my friends who are Ron Paul supporters..NOT one of them are under 30yrs old. FOX, and company, as usual you don’t have a CLUE!

  • Anonymous

    This guy (Bolling) misunderstands.  The reason for the ground swell behind Paul is that his supporters have found common ground specifically in his foreign policy.  That’s the one thing that unites them.  
    That is to say Bolling said Paul’s supporters are one issue voters.  He’s wrong; they are two issue voters: either pro-marijuana and anti-war, or anti-welfare and anti-war.  Now these are gross generalizations, but there is a unity of feeling in the Paul camp, and it’s not in regard to his drug policy or even the Fed, but his calls to end these endless wars. That’s the one thing that sincerely unites the end the Fedders and the potheads and gives Paul a base of devoted supporters, even outside of these two generalized groups. 

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