Message to Ron Paul: Defend Your Political Turf

By James Buchanan – EURO

The above table shows how New Hampshire voters rate Republican candidates on various issues in a recent poll. The most alarming fact is that Ron Paul is given a zero percent rating on immigration. This is a public relations disaster that needs to be addressed. Phony individuals like Huckabee, Romney and McCain pretending to be “tough on immigration” are the biggest problem.

The good news about Iowa and New Hampshire is that the winners of the primaries are candidates who claim that they want to “secure the borders.” The bad news is that they are liars. The one sincere top tier candidate, who would enforce immigration law, is Ron Paul. Unfortunately, the phonies have stolen the immigration issue from him.

The next obvious question is: What is being done about this? Surely Ron Paul isn’t going to sit around and let other candidates falsely claim that they want to “secure the borders” –stealing the most important issue of the election right out from under him. Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. Ron Paul apparently doesn’t want to criticize a fellow Republican even if it means losing the primary.

Tom Tancredo was the best-known candidate for enforcing immigration law. He got 14 percent of the vote in the Iowa straw poll in August. Following the Iowa straw poll, the political chameleons Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani and even McCain jumped on the anti-illegal immigrant bandwagon. Tancredo’s percentage dropped from 14 percent to 1 percent and never climbed back up. They stole Tancredo’s main issue from him and they put him out of business. (more…)