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Originally Posted by Reiker000
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Ron Paul wasn't very popular with traditional conservatives, ...
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Agree with most of the rest of what you said, but here I think you consider traditional conservatives as equal to social conservatives. There are also many of us that are fiscal conservatives that would consider ourselves conservatives. There are also non-interventionists, who look for a more conservative foreign policy. And considering Ron Paul focused primarily on economic issues and foreign policy, I'm not sure how you could say he wasn't popular with conservatives. He also won the CPAC (Conservative PAC) straw polls in 2010 and 2011.
Also, his social policy views weren't strictly conservative, but they were probably moreso than Romney. Keep in mind that many of the religious folks of this country, who you would probably label as social conservative, don't necessarily think the government should be the entity to fight things like drug use.
Old people who want more money spent on government programs that benefit them (medicare and ss) may call themselves conservatives, but there's nothing conservative about supporting these programs.