1 frist!

2 RON PAUL!

3 I'd take this poll with a haybale-sized grain of salt, Ace.  It's a web poll.

4 Jesus Christ.

5 Ron Paul pwns web polls

6 Ron Paul would repeal ObamaCare if it reached his desk..

So he has that going for him..

7 Mr. Sulu, take us away from the Neutral Zone. We will not enter the Ronulan Empire and violate the Treaty of Common Sense.

8

Dude, e'rbody knows Palin and thinks she's stupid cause of SNL and "women be stupid, lolz" but Bachmann? Not so much. I think she hasn't broken through political junkie status.

Now, when she does break it'll probably be because she's Palinized, but still.

9 We are surely living in interesting times? Or someone please wake me the fuck up!

10 Roadkill Tied With Obama, 50/50!

11 There's a huge IKEA living room staring at me from the sidebar.

12

The Ace of Spades HQ:  Where its Flame thread Wednesday!  All Flame threads all the time!

Though I really can't buy people actually being comfortable with the idea Ron Paul.  I think its because his name doesn't carry any of the negative press coverage that Palin and Bachmann get for the general public to associate with him.  The MFM knows he's a joke so they don't do anything to damage him like they do other candidates.

13 I'm still the frontrunner, fellas. Now if only I existed...

14 Not sayin much when Ham Sammich polls 70 to O'f#ckstick 30

15 Ron Paul has that he wants to reign in the Government going for him and he wants to reduce the Government budget.  That he's nuts is becoming less and less of a liability.

16 Ham sandwich is now capturing a significant portion of the Jewish vote.
 
There be troubled times in BarackyLand.

17 4 Jesus Christ.

Posted by: Sarah Palin (TM) at July 27, 2011 07:11 PM (vU8C3)

Jesus Christ does beat Obama 54/46 but surprisingly you edge him out him on name recognition by 2%.

18 8

Dude, e'rbody knows Palin and thinks she's stupid cause of SNL and "women be stupid, lolz" but Bachmann? Not so much. I think she hasn't broken through political junkie status.

Now, when she does break it'll probably be because she's Palinized, but still.

Posted by: William at July 27, 2011 07:12 PM (77TeU)

Every 2012 candidate should study what happened to Palin in 2008 and be ready to counter it.  They also shouldn't repeat her mistakes, as Palin had a hand in her own "Palinization" (the Katie Couric interview has some bizarre parts). 

Also, don't have a pregnant teenage daughter when you agree to enter the race as that may prove to hurt you later on.

19 Ham/Rye 2012 for the Jewish win!

20

So, my choice is between an aggressively, maliciously incompetent, arrogant communist asshole and 76 year-old, tired, white guy who half the country thinks is a lunatic?

Damn, I think I'd rather have a triumvirate of Paul Krugman, Sarah Palin, and Lyndon LaRouche run the fucking country than have either Paul or Obama as president.

21 Also, don't have a pregnant teenage daughter when you agree to enter the race as that may prove to hurt you later on.

Being smokin' hot doesn't hurt.

22 Being smokin' hot doesn't hurt. Posted by: pep at July 27, 2011 07:20 PM (6TB1Z) you only hurt the ones you love

23 Someone who would post a poll like this must be in the market for my beachfront property in Utah.

24 Web poll less accurate than the Moron polls (which we haven't had in a while)

25 Subtract the 15-24% of Ds who say they'll vote R from each R candidate's vs.-Obama total. Or, buy that Palin gets 20% of Democrats' votes. Your choice.

I think any early poll that shows an R beating Obama by less than 20 signals a pretty much guaranteed electoral-vote win for the O. Your fatalism may vary.

26 They're also 50/50 on who hates the jooos more.

Any one want to chip in on some airfare???  Me an Jesse Ventura want to get out to Colorado and throw pieces of  WTC7, who George Bush personally  blew up, at Michelle Malkin.

27 >>Ham sandwich is now capturing a significant portion of the Jewish vote. Can you imagine the carnage that Pastrami/Rye could do?

28 I got a pole for you all.  Just gimmie yer email addy....

29 I think any early poll that shows an R beating Obama by less than 20 signals a pretty much guaranteed electoral-vote win for the O


say what?

30 Now how did Ron Paul manage a 50/50 split in this poll? Isn't he a "threatening" Republican with no executive experience?

For the moderates he scares off he makes up for in lefty isolationist libertarians who actually don't want socialism.

31 Went to make cape codders, but discovered we're out of vodka (sacrilege, I know!) so we've put some peach schnapps into cran-raspberry juice.  Pretty tasty!  We're deciding between calling it "Wednesday" and "Liquid Pez."

32 I'd tell a pollster
I'd vote for Paul, too. Why? I don't know.

Well if it came down to Paul or 4 more years of Obama.

I am so RON PAUL! it isn't funny.

Which is actually what I think most conservatives would have said. The question is why doesn't he scare the squish? Or if he does scare the squish how is he making it up. (My theory)

33 >> I got a pole for you all.  Just gimmie yer email addy.... Posted by: Anthony "The Ween' Weiner Barnstable E Frankenfurter at House of Illrepute dot gov Hit me baby!!11!

34 Not that it will go anywhere but if they do pass Boenher's plan, it will put the ball in the Democrat's court too where Reid will table it..

The US is going into default anyway.  May as well make the Democrats the party of 'No'. while the chairs are being rearranged.

35 Yes to slowing the rate of increase, but no to cutting spending from last years baseline number.

Second derivatives are your friend.. 

36 The only earthly purpose of this poll is to spit-scream at your face "POLLS ARE FUCKING MEANINGLESS". But I guess some people just never get the message.

37 Hell, if Ron can get 50%, I wonder how well Rand would do.

38 How is Paul "always running" in any sense that doesn't apply to Romney or Palin in '12, or McCain in '08, or at least one person in pretty much every other Republican primary? Hell, the GOP usually ends up giving it to the guy whose "turn" it is (the guy who lost the last primary). Nobody remembers his '88 run. People who are comfortable with him today are comfortable with him b/c of his positions, not because he's a fixture.

39 I'll take a Republican House, Republican Senate...and Obama as their personal meat sleeve.

40 Barnstable E Frankenfurter at House of Illrepute dot gov

Hit me baby!!11!

Too Old!!!!  Not to mention, yer a dude.  
Wait...yer still in congress right???  I could be like a staffer right??? 

Well, I hope your Johnson is smaller than my wife's fist or she's gonna be pissed.

41 The Legal Insurection blog has interestig theories on the debt debate.  As for Ron Paul,  when he looks sane compared to Obama and Reid, and more reliable than Boehner, well,  "the times they are a'changing".  I guess I am not the only person who feels like everybody now in control should not be.

42 DMXhemmoroid has spoken. I will ignore.

43 I would vote for Ron Paul in a heartbeat v. Obama Romney or Boehner.

44 That sounds about right in the twilight zone in which we are apparently living.

45 He's a debt hawk who doesn't have the baggage of defending numerous unpopular wars. He also hasn't received much negative press coverage, because he isn't perceived to be a threat. It isn't that surprising.

46 And while conservatives shit all over Romney - he may be our only chance at beating king Obozo.

47 The thing about Ron Paul is that (unlike most of the GOP) people believe that he really wants to cut spending and if given the chance would actually do it. Who else can you truthfully say that about?

48 Ron Paul's in the right place at the right time with the right reputation on fiscal issues, limited government and some specific things like auditing the Fed.  But he's oddly in the same position as a centrist like McCain or Huntsman is in the Republican primary, in that the media won't turn on him until and unless he actually wins that and enters the general.

I've said before, I like having him in the running and in the debates.  Regardless of whether you want Paul specifically as president, it shifts the terms of acceptable debate in the direction we want to go.  And really, anyone on our side who does get beaten out by Paul is probably enough of a Rino they deserve to lose.

49

Ron Paul may be a bit crazy on foreign policy issues, but he is completely sane when it comes to fiscal policy. 

 

 

50 15Ron Paul has that he wants to reign in the Government going for him and he wants to reduce the Government budget. That he's nuts is becoming less and less of a liability.

Posted by: rabidfox at July 27, 2011 07:16 PM (DObxx)

I'm not a Paulbot, but all these other fuckers in Washington must be crazy to think that spending more money means that we will become more solvent. At least Ron Paul isn't nuts when it comes to the existential problem that is our runaway government. 

51

Could it be that the Obamunist is SUCH a domestic disaster that Ron Paul looks awesome? (And frankly, on domestic policy alone, Ron Paul IS awesome)

Could it be that the Obamunist is SUCH a foreign policy disaster that even a naive isolationist fool like Ron Paul looks awesome in comparison?

Could John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and the other Republipussies might learn something from this poll and go back to the original House Cut Cap and Balance plan?

52 Damn single word links in red make it difficult for us red-weak color blind folk to find the friggin' link in your post.

53 If it is even in red ... is it? I can't tell.

54 Speaking of things that are lipstick red..

55 If by always running you mean he ran in the same number of republican presidential primary elections as Romney then yes. Actually I think its that his word is actually credible unlike most candidates. The anti-war lefties like his anti-war stance, and the libertarian right like his free market stance. This makes him a pretty good candidate in the general but a terrible candidate in the primary.

56

If you believe Ron Paul can make it to 50/50 against Barack Obama, or at least close enough to make it a race, and Sarah Palin (just to cite one example) somehow can't...um, wow.