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The Five: Why Would Ron Paul Fill His Ad With Only Liberal Supporters?

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Today on The Five, the gang discussed Sarah Palin’s talk of possible third party candidates and focused on Ron Paul. After Eric Bolling joked that Paul’s fans may be “too stoned” to make it to the polls, the topic of conversation turned to a recent ad for Paul which featured a number of liberal commentators. The hosts questioned whether it would be effective or simply a turn off.

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The ad, entitled “Believe,” will be airing in New Hampshire and Boston and features Ron Paul supporters talking up the candidate’s strengths and ideals. Amongst them are quotes and sound bites taken from different cable news shows featuring positive quotes from pundits. The issue, however, is that the pundits (Bill Press, Jonathan Alter, and Michael Eric Dyson) are predominantly left-leaning. “I thought I was watching an ad for the New York Times!” joked Greg Gutfeld.

Bolling, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Dana Perino questioned the strategy of putting liberals in an ad for a GOP presidential campaign. Bob Beckel, however, pointed out that, firstly, the pundits weren’t identified in the ad and, secondly, many of Paul’s fans are younger and more socially liberal. But, when asked point blank whether or not the ad would help, Beckel said no. “It’s about as helpful as Herman Cain’s smoking ad.”

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  • Anonymous

    Keep dreaming. I’m going to have a big smile on my face when Ron Paul destroys the competition tomorrow at the Iowa Caucus. Ron Paul – Landslide Victory.

  • Anonymous

    It is really funny watching the scary news network focus its make-crap-up-machine on a Republican the same way they have been going after Obama for 3 years.

    They are nothing if not a well oiled, attack-zombie machine.

  • 12voltman1

    Let’s hope so for Obama’s sake.

  • Anonymous

    Only thing Ron Paul is going to destroy is his depends.

  • Anonymous

    Baggers Romney will be your Nominee and Obama will get re-elected and you will get on with your lives.

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

    Everyone on the fence with Ron Paul needs to check out whyronpaul.com and ronpaulmyths.com

  • Anonymous

    It was an ad in New Hampshire. Which is leaning more liberal these days. Ron Paul has done his homework. The 5 or whatever this stupid show is called, has not.

  • Pablo

    So what are they making up?

  • Anonymous

    That the ad will be a failure

  • Anonymous

    In New Hampshire and Massachusetts? Umm yeah, it’ll work pretty damn well if they’d leave the New York and Washington bubbles. Boston only has the highest college population density on Earth and college kids are Dr. Ron Paul’s biggest supporters.

  • Anonymous

    legs

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    what myths?  Just read what he wrote about hatians.  This is a whole news letter not a quote.
    http://www.tnr.com/sites/default/files/March1993.pdf  

  • Anonymous

    Congratulations!  According to a paranoid schizophrenic, you get to pick the next candidate and run the media.  We always knew you’d go far!  LOL

  • Anonymous

    Well it seems obvious that college kids are the only ones not smart enough yet, due to age and lack of experience, to understand how his wacky ass foreign policy would be suicide for America. I’m all for being less of the world police, but to pull out of everywhere and bury our heads in the sand and ignore other countries actions that will positively endanger our national security is pure loon crazy.

  • Anonymous

    Most media experts (that actually make ads and market and syndicate them) agree that the Ron Paul advertising campaign is one of the  best-produced, brilliantly executed and strategically marketed national political campaigns in recent memory. The ad featured is merely one, targeted to a specific audience for a desired effect. If you look at just his ads, they appear to be well produced, but somewhat schizophrenic. When you realize that in a mass-market campaign, placement, targeting and timing of ads is nearly as important as content  then you can see the incredible planning and care that went into this campaign.

    Of course, people like the corporate-news shills on ‘The Five’ just see the short clip of the commercial, and say “Gee-DUMB! Me No Like’!’ (Of course, Bolling said that BEFORE he saw the ad!).

  • Anonymous

    Why would Ron Paul fill his ad with liberal supporters?  Because liberals are more conservative than Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    Can you imagine what Dr Ron Paul’s free market strategy would do to these regulatory + corporate cabal networks?  Dr Ron Paul represents the death of  MSM as we know it and it’s fascinating to see Matthews and O’Reilly in panic mode. That’s enough to get me to the voting booth!

  • Anonymous

    If you actually watched the 5 today I don’t think they said much of anything at all, it was like 4 straight minutes of drooling during the Ron Paul segment.
    Romney is establishment and every Republican is clinging to him now? WHAT is going on
    http://www.voteforronpaul2012.com/
    Join in the R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution
    http://www.facebook.com/voteforronpaul2012

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TUDFPTFJCG5S2FWPNVFRGYSTXQ Sassan

    Reality is, Ron Paul is not only anti-American but anti-Semitic and anti-humanity. His core followers also tend to be the most vile of individuals and conspiracy theorists including such radical and fanatics as the Nazi Stormfronters, the 9/11 truthers, the Islamic terrorists and their supporters, the Libertarian advocates of child molestation and hard drug legalization, and other enemies of western civilization. I personally hope he wins Iowa so the media finally starts to focus on his fringe and wacky conspiracies, positions, and fanatical ideas and beliefs.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TUDFPTFJCG5S2FWPNVFRGYSTXQ Sassan

    The fact that Ron Paul was the only congressperson to vote against funding for malaria vaccinations in Africa which saves millions of lives a year is also “wise”. Away from the vital humanitarian concerns (as we are a hope and beacon for liberty, freedom, and human rights) imagine the void that this would create in which Islamicists would quickly fill without avoiding an eyeblink. And then, Islamicists would control and run a new terror haven called AFRICA.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TUDFPTFJCG5S2FWPNVFRGYSTXQ Sassan

    I urge people to watch this short video clip with Ron Paul answering a question on “why won’t he come out on the truth about 9/11″. It is astonishing and it makes a rational observer conclude that Ron Paul indeed is a truther. Watch for yourselves: http://youtu.be/3u0tgNUfOL8

  • Anonymous

    Dear Sassan, I’m sorry that Obama, the dear leader turned out to be a blood thirsty drone.

  • 12voltman1

    I made a mistake and feed this troll in the past for comedic effect
    .I broke my own rule. Don’t feed the trolls.

  • Anonymous

    “Why would Ron Paul fill his ads with liberals?”

    Let’s assume thats correct as it certainly is not relevant; it’s because with Ron Paul, it’s always about the message, not the letter behind is name.

  • Trutherator Two

    Islamicists already control and run a new terror haven called Africa, thanks to all the bungling and meddling of the past four administrations, making North Africa safe for the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas) and Libya safe for al Qaeda and for racists who massacred every man, woman, child and baby in one town of 10,000 in Libya.

    –Meantime, smart African economists like Mombasa are begging the West to STOP with the foreign aid already, as in “It’s killing us!” My wife is from Honduras, and how much of the international aid for the poor, or loans for infrastructure, do you think actually go to the poor or to the infrastructure? That’s right NONE!

    The ban on DDT did more to kill ten times more Africans than any stopping of federal money to Africa can do. The doctors working with an epidemic in one case lacked medicines to treat the sick, and then they heard about a local United Nations warehouse full of the stuff, and had to threaten them with publicity to get them to release the medicine.

    At one AIDS conference, the head of one African government department in charge of fighting AIDS in his country, complained they have warehouses full of free condoms but always lacking medicines to treat the sick.

    Ron Paul’s programs would however let the economic prosperity engine fire up a lot of resources that could make Americans once more the premier contributor to programs that actually directly help the poor that need it, like he himself did in his medical practice before government programs.

  • Anonymous

    OMG! This is funny. What a comic relief. 

  • Anonymous

    ‘American public’ you mean? 

  • Erin Wooldridge

    sassan- you are leaving the exact same posts on different websites.  i think they call that- spamming.

  • Erin Wooldridge

    the reason they can’t understand that is that they have no message.  they just want to win and so they only understand things in terms of parties and labels

  • Anonymous

    The real question is, Can you outrun Ron Paul?

  • Anonymous

    That’s because you’re wearing a mask and you’re too stupid to figure out how to take it off.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BYJGBCNJCKC6VZWZBLGUBHJ6NM Denoir

    @BlackFormerDemocratForRonPaul:disqus ………my neighbor’s half-sister makes $67/hour on the laptop. She has been out of work for 8 months but last month her paycheck was $8990 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more on this site http://nutshellurl.com/22i5

  • Anonymous

    The truth hurts.

    Show us where you criticized a Paultard for leaving the same posts on different websites.

    Hint: You can find some on this page.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    .
    computer virus alert.

    Don’t Go There.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-Platt/8112721 Anthony Platt

    Ron Paul is supported principally by the educated. The fact is, we are winning the online war. We’re beating the naysayers and the propagandists. I don’t fit and have never fit into the Democratic or Republican party mold like many of my age, and like many intellectuals. Voting intelligently means voting for two things: likely policy outcomes of a candidate winning, and making meaningful distinctions between ideologies and candidates.
    1) The educated realize that the government is essentially co-opted by money and power interests, from the NAACP to the SPLC and the lawyer parasites around Washington making a killing off perpetuating the myth of a dominant WASP elite that has long disappeared, while nobly battling for high sums and high settlements, this non-existent specter at every turn, right down to the banks and the MIC. Ron Paul is superior in this regard to the other candidates. He’s beholden to no one. That’s good for the American people and subtracts from the democratic deficit. Educated people perceive this. Sure, we could hope for a constitutional amendment mandating publicly financed elections, but honestly, Ron Paul is superior, perhaps not to the ideal, but at least to the others, given his independence and character. That’s a meaningful distinction.
    2) Race is not as big an issue for most Americans, especially in the younger generation, as it was in the past. There are a lot of reasons for this. One is simply that we are a more multicultural society, and individual identities cut across, and in substantial ways, racial lines. Hard racism is a lot less common than it once was, and that’s not a bad thing. We perhaps reluctantly acknowledge that many in the power structure are really less interested in the plight of the lower classes, of every color, than they are exploiting the concept of racism to serve their own interests. The Newsletter “controversy” is a salient example of that fact. Paul isn’t a racist. It’s obvious to see for any impartial observer. Yeah, he’s a minarchist, but not a racist. He’s broadly a supporter of equal rights on all fronts, just not imposing laws to ensure equal outcomes. The current American trajectory is very bad for all Americans, minorities included. We aren’t going back to Jim Crow or segregation any time soon. That isn’t a “likely outcome”. But if we import any more third world immigrants, national bankruptcy and the collapse of the welfare state might very well be a likely outcome. Again, that’s bad for all Americans, minorities included.
    3) As a generation, we are adamantly opposed to the expansion of state power. We recognize the police state as becoming a grave risk to Americans down the road. We trust Ron Paul not to use the state against us in abusive or tyrannical ways and indeed to roll back some of the infringements on our constitutional liberties. We don’t trust the state as a group, nor should we. Perhaps a few too many unsettling run-ins with power crazed badges at a younger age, at democratic protests against the financial criminals they have become mercenaries defending, or the fascists who ban “leaves”? That’s a relatively conservative, liberty based position that a strong plurality without power agree upon. This is in fact a place libertarian socialists (Chomsky) and libertarian capitalists (Paul) converge. We trust the military even less than we trust the rest of the government; unlike the field of Republican statists, war criminals, and war profiteers and even many democrats with the same stripes. Can we trust any of the other candidates to protect our liberties or to respect our bodily autonomy and integrity down the road, if there are no limits on their powers? Or can we expect more drug laws, more Patriot Acts, and more torture, and as a natural logical extension, less freedom for the people? It is no surprise we are concerned about this development and are therefore seeking politicians who aren’t beholden to the power structure and its own rationally impoverished, but fundamentally coercive justification of its unjustified but predictable expansion of power, at our expense, under the pretense of keeping us safe from a few idiots running around in the desert with shoe bombs, that are supposedly a grave threat to every American, everywhere, all the time. Paul is the only anti-war candidate. That isn’t lost on us.
    4) We are in an economic firestorm, and Obama’s policies are not doing the trick. I am all ears to another solution, as long as it doesn’t entail any more crony capitalism, and more stimulus promoting propaganda, but Paul is at least talking about punishing the people who provided 16 trillion dollars in secret bailouts around the globe, at the dollar’s and the taxpayer’s expense. Who else even discusses this stuff?
    Objective Americans see these things. I left my conservative roots behind me a long time ago. I’m a pretty environmentally friendly guy, and my views on free trade are fairly skeptical as well, because if other nations don’t protect their citizens by ensuring humane wages, those low wages, coupled with ample low-skilled labor pool, will drive our own down, produce massive outsourcing outcomes, and in the end, I’d say are morally indefensible for anyone to promote. But are other candidates less supportive of free-trade policies? No. So, like other educated people, I think Paul is superior in every way to the other Republicans, and probably even Obama. Ron Paul 2012. I’d like to keep elite propaganda, sentiment, and tyranny, in the PNC building and the Pentagon, on CNN and at Fox. It should stay far, far away from the White House.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-Platt/8112721 Anthony Platt

    “I want to play it… (because I’m a vulgar propagandist)”. : )

  • Anonymous

     Dr Paul is about REAL change.  This, of course, makes the Establishments entirely rabid. 

  • http://twitter.com/jeff_r0x Jeff Cosgrove

    Why did Ron Paul use liberals endorsing him?  Because he’s already talking to America, not just the GOP.  He has the ear of the independents and is aiming this video at them, not for the ridiculous Five on FOX pundits, aka Boiling over.

    Note to Eric and crew:Ron Paul doesn’t need you like the other zombie candidates do.  His support doesn’t need propping up by the media.

  • http://twitter.com/jeff_r0x Jeff Cosgrove

    It’s funny that the media naysayers want to marginalize Paul supporters as “stoners.”  Sorry.  Not here.  Small business owner, Christian, hubby and father of one (and counting).

    And to the prostiNewt’s dismay, we are actually very “decent Americans.”

  • http://twitter.com/jeff_r0x Jeff Cosgrove

    They want to elect Romney or Santorum (maybe even Hunstman next week?) so we can “find out what is in them.”

  • http://twitter.com/jeff_r0x Jeff Cosgrove

    Maybe the federal government has no Constitutional business funding a vaccine for Africa, however noble it may seem.  Perhaps the crony- controlled FDA could be dissolved so that better vaccines could be created by, AND administered by the PRIVATE SECTOR.

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