Palin was a sop to the Ron Paul gang

[SoxFan]

http://www.nhinsider.com/keith-murphy/

The author is a member of the "Free State Project", a fringe libertarian group, though Murphy isn't as bonkers as most of them.

The libertarian purists don't care for Palin because of the abortion and religion angle, but the more "Republican" Paulistas love the whole gun-totin' frontier hottie act.

[grannie4peace]

1. we need to keep the aip story going -- jack cafferty mentioned it

& people are posting about it

[DJ13]

2. That theory misses one thing

A large number of Paul supporters support him for two specific reasons:

1) The economy, dealing with the deficits and the Federal Reserve

2) His anti war stance


Neither of those two issues will attract them to Sarah Palin, as she's the total opposite of Ron Paul on those issues.

[SoxFan]

3. I disagree

The Paul supporters I have encountered aren't motivated by the war. It's guns and a free-floating opposition to big gubmint that motivates them. Palin's NRA membership and her phony lip service to fiscal conservatism plays well with these people.

[DJ13]

4. Well, youre talking about diehard Libertarians

But Paul's support encompasses more than that small group, having made a name for himself as a Republican Representative.

I bet he polls more than twice what a traditional Libertarian would, and thats due to his blog where he has railed against the corporate corruption (and the deficits it crates) and the unconstitutionality of the Iraq War for several years.

The people who like him due to his blog arent the kind to want to create a Christian conservative state that diehard Libertarians who would like a Sarah Palin might want.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Heck, she'd be a better fit for Ron Paul or Bob Barr as a Libertarian

than for McCain. Even if she is a Bible-thumper.

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