Now With Alex Wagner Panel Looks Into Ron Paul And Romney’s ‘Bromance’

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by Alex Alvarez | 3:32 pm, February 22nd, 2012

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Wednesday’s edition of Now with Alex Wagner took a look at the “positive vibrations” flowing between GOP candidates Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. Host Alex Wagner asked Paul’s national campaign chair Jesse Benton whether — despite the two candidates’ many differences — Ron Paul supporters would consider going to Mitt Romney if Paul is not the nominee.

“I think that’s largely up to Governor Romney and how he wants to try to embrace them,” said Benton. “If he talks to our supporters and talks about how he wants to adopt a more constitutional foreign policy, how he’s open to talking about the federal reserve, and he talks about real cuts in spending, you know, there’s a chance they may come his way, but that’s really, really premature. We’re accumulating delegates; we’re running hard. We still see a strong path to the nomination for Dr. Paul.”

Benton went on to say that the two men built up a mutual respect for one another over the course of their years spent out on the campaign trail.

Later, Wagner and The New Yorker‘s Kelefa Sanneh compared some of Paul’s rhetoric to that of yet another GOP candidate — Rick Santorum. Paul’s talk of “the remnant” and of the United States as a great Democratic experiment undermined by decadence and complacency, Sanneh said, is not too dissimilar from Santorum’s language concerning the U.S. as a “great experiment” under threat by Satan.

Have a look, via MSNBC:

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Charles Ulysses Feney

Ron Paul voters aren’t baseball cards to be bartered at convention!
Only one candidate has a youth movement and momentum,
and there is only one candidate that the Democrats are afraid to face – Ron Paul!!
______________________
Ninety-Nine Monkeys For Ron Paul!

This process by which we select
Our President that we will elect
Has yielded this Year
The neocons worst fear:
The Ron Paul Hundredth Monkey Effect!

No matter how hard the media tries
To make Paul look bad in our eyes
We know his program’s correct
‘Cause we think and walk erect
And know the media only tells lies!

They’re reduced to trying to dissect
Paul on some old newsletter subject
But these media whores
Ignore neocon wars
And the Constitution they never protect.

They speak death to Paul’s message of Life
‘Cause they only know how to sow strife
But now masses reject
CNN’s neocon disrespect
And FOX news is, in reality, the Devil’s wife

So we howl and we hoot at their ire
For we know that their only desire
Is to see America wrecked
But now even presstitutes detect
That Paul’s campaign has unquenchable fire!
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Charles Ulysses Feney
Anonymous

There IS something strange about Ron Paul’s shilling for Romney, first against Gingrich and, now, against Santorum. My assumption is that it’s not just about Paul trading his delegates to Romney in exchange for a plank in the platform and a prime speaking position. I suspect that there is some promise from Romney to Paul to support Rand Paul, either with campaign money or in putting Rand in a position of power. I’d be willing to bet some money that this alliance is about Ron Paul’s son.
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Paul and Romney sitting in a tree…

K-i-s-s-i-n-g….

(forgot how the rest goes)
Anonymous

Admit it, Santorum has been stealing from Dr. Paul’s campaign platform. He’s been doing it more and more these days. Amusing how Santorum tackles the concept of liberty in his speeches. Of course he puts his own ridiculous spin on the subject.

Rick Santorum is proof positive that the higher a monkey climbs, the more of an ass you see.
Centrist79

Lets be realistic Ron Paul is running his campaign for the next election cycle for his son. He is not going to win, but he may sway the conversation.
Anonymous

Where did you get the wrong idea that Paul is “shilling” for Romney? Please provide an example of this “shilling” for Mitt. I hope it wasn’t this show that made you think he was “shilling” for Mitt, because it isn’t a very good show, honestly.
Ken Anderson

I support Ron Paul as my choice for the GOP nominee for president. If he is not the nominee, I will either write him in or vote for the Constitution Party candidate. If Dr. Paul were to throw his support behind another candidate, such as Romney, then Romney may have gained one vote – Dr. Paul’s. The rest of us will make our own choices.
Anonymous

In Iowa and Florida, Ron Paul’s ads went after Gingrich. In the recent advertising, Paul is going after Santorum. Ron Paul never attacks Romney’s record or his principles. Ron Paul and Romney are polar opposites in their approach to government (though they may or may not agree on the Fed- I don’t know Romney’s position on it), yet Ron Paul plays stalking horse for Romney. It makes no sense unless Ron Paul or his son get some benefit from Romney.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

Ron Paul will be doing Mitts dirty work, so he can stay out in front. This is called Republican politics. This is the way we operate inside the beltway. We got some plans up our sleeves.
Joseph Zrnchik

If Romney is correct on an issue, or in this case merely operating according to economic logic and immutable economic laws, Ron Paul, as a teacher, will point out the revolt against reason in making absurd assertions against Romney or against sound economic principles. This is not being done in support of Romney, but in support of economic truths. The problem with Americans is they think government can trump economics. The fact is government can only trump economic law temporarily and at great expenditure and eventual economic ruin. It is a shame that so many Americans are so woefully ignorant of the Dismal Science to think government is the agent for economic growth. The fact is government harms the economy, rewards and bailouts losers and taxes winners.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ONCV5UMSOEQEJ3VRPBR2HAQXN4 Charles

Well, they didn’t ask me. As a Ron Paul supporter, I would not vote for Romney. I’ll move my vote to Gary Johnson and the Libertarians, or, I might just write in Ron Paul.