Okay, I’m not even going to bother making the case that Ron Paul is working with the Romney campaign to discredit the two conservative candidates in this race (Gingrich and Santorum) in order to help guarantee a Mitt Romney candidacy. That argument is laid out very well by Warner Todd Hudson over at Right Pundits and other places. To summarize this though, Mitt Romney is the most progressive candidate, the perceived front runner, and the biggest target since day one. Mitt Romney is also the only candidate not to be attacked by Ron Paul or his Super PAC.
So what’s going on? Well, I actually like Warner Todd Hudson’s guess that Ron Paul is making some sort of deal with the devil for his idiot son’s future in the United States Senate.
Now before some Ron Paul supporters start throwing their own poop around like mad apes with their worn-out rhetoric “Ron Paul doesn’t lie!” “He’s authentic!” and “He’s the kind of person who stands by his values!” … it’s bologna. Ron Paul is as corrupt of a politician as any other that’s been in Washington as long as he has (and much more so in some instances). Just look at all the ear-marks the “candidate of no” has brought home for his district. It’s really ridiculous that this hypocrite has such a brainwashed, extremist following.
So what’s in it for Ron Paul, or Rand Paul? Who cares? Mitt Romney isn’t a man of his word. He’ll end up back stabbing Ron Paul like he would back stab anybody else… but not until after Paul’s delegates are asked to support Romney at the Republican National Convention.
I personally think Ron Paul was promised something would be added to the Republican Party platform (which is really meaningless when you consider how little anybody adheres to it). Maybe Rand Paul will get some additional committee position or support in the 2016 General Election… maybe he was promised there wouldn’t be an establishment primary contender. Some are even thinking the deal was to make Rand Paul the GOP Vice Presidential Candidate in 2012; though I think that’s unlikely. The last thing you want to give Democrats (with the first incumbent black President) is a Republican ticket headed by a man who belonged to a racist church (until God spoke to a Mormon prophet in the 1970s to tell him racism was bad when it might have risk their tax exempt religion status) and a Vice Presidential candidate who said he would have voted against civil rights.
The other possibility is that it was just a campaign calculation. A Mitt Romney supporter isn’t ever going to be tempted to join the Ron Paul bandwagon, and since Ron Paul is running to make brainwashed stooges out of converts instead of running to win (he needed to win Iowa to have any chance); there’s not much of a point attacking Mitt Romney. Conservatives, who are shuffling to Santorum and Gingrich, are still not 100% satisfied with their candidates and are more prone to falling in with a radical, extremist crowd. The absolutist persona Ron Paul’s posse has created for him is really appealing to a lot of conservatives, who are not bothering to look closely at all the loony things he (and especially his supporters) are advocating.
Still, Ron Paul has a big mouth. If there wasn’t some sort of secret pact made with the Romney camp, Ron Paul would have slammed Romney a lot harder several dozen times more in passing by now.
It’s ironic, isn’t it. The conspiracy theory candidate is the candidate involved in a conspiracy.
