Ron Paul: I'm the 'Flavor of the Decade'
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Sunday continued the trend of presidential candidates comparing themselves and others to ice cream
A recent poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers by The Des Moines Register has Paul in second place behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
"We've had the flavor up the month up and down so far in this campaign," Paul told CNN's Candy Crowley. "I like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade."
"We keep plodding along on a couple of issues that are really striking a chord with the people. And that is, of course, the wars, the endless wars going on as well as the financial condition of the country."
After Herman Cain rose to the top of some polls in September, failed Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin referred to him, who she called "Herb," as "the flavor of the week."
Within a week, Cain had embraced the idea, saying that "black walnut isn't a flavor of the week."
Cain later told GQ magazine that most of the other Republican candidates were like ice cream too. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was vanilla, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was rocky road and Rep. Michele Bachmann was tutti-frutti.
Paul, however, was "just not an ice cream flavor," Cain said.
Cain suspended his campaign Saturday after at least three women accused him of sexual harassment and another claimed she had been involved in a 13-year affair with the candidate.
Not sure Scope has a mouthwash to take that taste out, but I know Tanqueray does...
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Gonna need a triple shot of that, Fastfeat!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
The Pauls were frozen during a freak meat packing plant accident in the 1850s. They're still very disoriented from the whole thawing process. Which explains why they think they are still part of the Gilded age.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Flavor of the decade? Tastes like shit to me.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
This one is barely 1 year old. Rather presumptuous of Dr. Paul.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Yeah, if you enjoy the taste of shit.
frutti with nuts on top.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
It would be better to have Obama in Bush's 4th term with the whole world as his personal battlefield where he can declare anyone he likes an enemy combatant, including all Americans, and have them killed.
I agree that it would be horrible to have a president who respects the Constitution and who would take his oath honorably, would end the Patriot Act, would bring back habeus corpus, would end the War on Drugs, would deeply audit the Federal Reserve and work to end it's power over our country and would bring all our troops home where they belong and shut down all the unnecessary military bases we have all over the planet.
And to imagine having a president like Ron Paul who would NEVER ALLOW the U.S. military to roam the streets of America arresting citizens namby-pamby renditioning them to Uzbekistan for torture with no charges and no trial! I want to be protected from those terrorists! Especially the "homegrown" variety! They are the WORST!!!
I think Obama is just SWELL!
http://www.chris-floyd.com/
Screw that dopey Ron Paul and his talk of liberty and the Constitution!
Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!!!!!!
(Plus....I just can't WAIT to write that first check to the for-profit insurance exchange!!!! Woo-hoo!)
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Sure, Ron Paul respects the Constitution ... of the Confederate States of America.
Why are you shilling for this racist anti-American nutjob?
In case you aren't aware of Ron Paul's problems, here's a link to a laundry list of them: http://paxamericana.tumblr.com/post/13507194341
You really need to get help for your ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome). You're starting to sound like Glenn Beck.
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" - Red Green
Freedom Ain't Free - Pay Your Share
Nice link Vet.
Abbywood, make no mistake, I am absolutely no fan of Barack Obama. I've personally had enough of his spineless, Third Way, centrist bullshit. He has been a great disappointment, that's for sure (Which is why I recently switched my party affiliation from Democrat to Green). But Ron Paul would be a disaster too. Yes, he's against wars, but not because he hates war so much but because he just doesn't like to see his tax dollars wasted. So it's not like he is guided by any compelling sense of morality. Everything I needed to know about Ron Paul, I learned while watching his interview with Stephen Colbert a year or two ago, where he basically said he would eliminate every government agency (FDA, Education, EPA, Health and Human Services, etc). He's crazy, and he'd be a nightmare if he were to be elected President. Sadly, the candidate I'd enthusiastically vote for doesn't exist (or hasn't made their presence known as of yet), so goddamn our corrupt political system that is giving us this "choice" in 2012.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
That some folks actually believe he would be a better option.
I don't know what happens or what these men( for the time being, although, I suspect the same would apply to women) find out once they take office, that changes them so much? Once they actually find out all that secret info, info that no one is privy too, they all seem to change. As for RP? don't make me laugh. Some of these folks think Obama is a nightmare.Consider the alternative. Yeah, that's right. I said it. Cause deep down inside, we all know what that would mean.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"We've had the flavor up the month up and down so far in this campaign," Paul told CNN's Candy Crowley. "I like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.
He was probably just using terms Candy can relate to.
far left loon >.<
The people... have rights that are universal. The right to peaceful assembly and association ...right to free speech ...to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere. -Pres. Obama, Jan. 28
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I had to take out wee bits and replace them with ellipses, but the content has not suffered. There is a word limit for signatures. It wouldn't fit in its entirety.
far left loon >.<
It's his signature. Discuss it in an open thread, not here.
because he's offered women, as they say in "Cuban," Sabor a Mi (which I'm assuming is Black Walnut...).
I imagine Ron Paul's flavor would taste like Fruit Loops.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
What did one career politician say to another career politician?
Hi, my names Ron Paul.
Why are we fighting conservatives over there when they are already here
Tastes like shit.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Ron , assuming you are making reference to the fact that you are an idiot , I would agree , seems that idiocy is in , the flavor of the decade.
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
using skim milk.
Ed-words
So, what, he's chipotle?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
What decade is he talking about? Sounds like something before Teddy Roosevelt broke the Trusts in the 1890's. He is so far out he makes Republicans think they are Liberals.
ANYONE BUT A REPUBLICAN (and this Dweeb and Son)
He may be ONE flavor, one that's not real popular but someone has to keep cranking out because of some small niche demand... but no way he is THE flavor of any decade.
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