Ron Paul is making a surprising lead
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If anyone cared about democratic majorities, Ron Paul would probably be nominated for and win the Presidency. He has a platform that resonates with a huge majority of people across all spectrums.
1. No funny banking
2. No unfair business practices
3. Stop military interventions
4. Quit the invasive legal practices, like drug laws
But he will not win because the entire system is built on over opinonated assholes pushing into other peoples lives, spending resources they have no rights to. He gets buried.
Truly, if it was his son running and not him, he’d have the nomination.
Too old and crazy… and image means a lot.
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I know more people voting for Paul than any other candidate. He’s been elected to Congress for three decades already. If he is so unelectable, how the fuck did he manage to pull that off?
“I know more people voting for Paul than any other candidate.”
small sample size. means nothing.
I would tend to agree, but if the GOP wants to win they must seriously consider him.
Are you smoking dope… again?
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The definition of “dope” is someone who trades precious metals but still wants to vote for a CFR-member presidential candidate.
Think harder next time, dummy.
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No one can win the GOP nomination unless they hate homosexuals, deny women the right to abortion, be completely ignorant of science, support the death penalty, hate immigrants (and minorities in general), and think tax raises are the tool of the devil.
Or at least pretend all of those things.
nice back pedal. kinda chickenshit but whatever.
I just thought of all those Republicans who preach against giving homosexuals rights and then are caught in affairs with other men.
Besides, it is obvious to everyone that politicians don’t believe what they say, since they don’t adhere to it. Sorry to have offended you by clarifying my statement.
Jeezus, and to think I thought you were just a misguided ignorant douchebag.
Isn’t your mommy calling you for supper?
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Have we been watching the same GOP debates?
Jake, me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
And leave my mother out of it.
Paul is made out to be a fringe-radical (which to some extent he is, when compared to most historical GOPers). However, as Mr. Cain said,” 1. No funny banking, 2. No unfair business practice, 3. Stop military interventions, 4. Quit the invasive legal practices, like drug laws” resonate with most Americans regardless of political knowledge or philosophy. If he became the GOP nomination my faith in US politics would rise .0001 %. Which is alot. That being said, Ron Paul…I love yah, but thanks for coming out.
I am voting for Paul no matter how the propaganda machine tries to convince everyone they will be throwing their vote away.
Throwing a vote away is to vote for another CFR-member presidential candidate, who is in bed with central bankers. More of the same. May as well vote for Obama if you are going to do that. The poster child of central banker communitarianism.
Ironic, as the truth is losertarians who throw their vote away are just as valuable to the 0bama as are his most faithful adherents.
Again, break out into the real world, and stop making the perfect the enemy of the good.
All the smart-guys who said McCain would be just as bad as the Zero and threw their vote away last time are reaping the whirlwind, today. Some of them are even out of a job.
The world is not ready for a cranky old libertarian that thinks Iran having a nuke is just hunky dory.
Review your U.S. history… the last time we went isolationist didn’t end so well for us either.
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Oh yea, I forgot that you have a lock on the “real world,” whereas — I do not. LOL, so very Alinsky-ish of you.
So you want me to vote for a central banker-humping candidate?
Okay, which paid-for bitch do you want me to vote for?
Taco we all agree that Obama is heavily funded by wall street while Paul is not.
I also agree that Paul would be a great president in domestic policy issues, especially when it comes to financial issues.
but can he win?
more importantly, he recently hinted at running as a third party president if he would not get the nomination.
Taco, do you think he could win a third party candidacy if he can not even win among a pure republican field? how many Obama followers would vote for him?
if he can’t win, all he would do is give Obama a second term.
do you agree or disagree on this last point?
Taco, I want you to vote for the R.
I know that’s asking a lot, but even I’m making a sacrifice here. My guy was Mitch Daniels, or Paul Ryan.
Neither pulled the trigger, so I’m gonna hold my nose AND MAKE SURE OBAMA IS OUT.
That’s how freaking serious this is. We made a huge mistake last time, and we are probably going to have to spend the next four years just undoing all the bad shit this guy has done.
However, if he is re-elected, there’s a good chance we’re permanently at the next stage of the socialist evolution, just like at the end of 20 years of FDR-Truman.
I would rather have a nice retrace to first principles rather than a full blown Revolution, wouldn’t you?
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Go Newt!
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oops! 🙁
More baggage than Michelle Obes on holiday.
Unfortunately, your boy Ron Paul would embrace Arafat (were he still this side of the daisies) today.
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lulz.
Jake,
This is the one subject that I just don’t seem to understand you on. You always seem to disparage him yet he is clearly the only choice for those that understand economics and freedom.
Every single policy or Gov action he advocates is 100% rooted in the principal of freedom. He understands the proper role of Gov is to prevent violence, to prevent fraud, and to enforce property and contract rights but not much more. He understands that Gov intervention, be it in markets or a sovereign nations internal business, is ultimately harmful to us all. He understands that such interventions result in artificial distortions, facilitate corruption and give those in political favor undue advantage. He understands, and at a level matched by only a few, the devastating and regressive nature of inflation; the the fact that it is inherent to a fiat paper money system.
And above all else, he is the only intellectually honest politician in the race. Unlike the others, he doesn’t flip flop when it might be in his best interest to do so. His message never waivers, his prescriptions never change for they derive from his study and superior understanding of economics not his career aspirations like with all the others
I think your beef with him is because he’s not a war monger and wants to end our imperialistic, empire building, resource depleting, terrorist creating foreign policies ways or something like that right?
When you’re on the UN Agenda 21 payroll, freedom is just another dirty word.
And conspiracy nuts like Taco Bell don’t help your cause much either.
Geez.
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You were doing well there until the last paragraph.
This is the problem with Libertarians, and while I agree with 95% of their platform, I will never register for their vote-sucking, Democrat-electing party.
As a conservative, and as a Catholic, I believe we live in a fallen world — one that is largely improving, thanks to technology and western civilization, but one that is very prone to massive human error and back-sliding. Suffice it to say — I don’t think humans are perfectable in this world, so I therefore don’t feel good about giving a government too much power to attempt such a folly, as it will only lead to the inevitable corruption of that gov’t.
However, I do believe in a strong defense that protects our way of life and our interests, as I believe we have a pretty good thing going here. Moreover, given the fallability of man, it’s almost certain that there will be attempts to hijack that “good thing” for myriad reasons, most related to that innate failing of mankind.
We’ve had two such attempts even on our own “isolated” shores, and technology draws the world closer every day. There’s not hiding your head in the sand if you are trying to trade in a global world. No one is going to cut you a break because you elected Ron Paul and he says “I’m not going to intervene.”
It’s a naive philososphy and one that can get me and mine killed as surely as a dumb call by the most dovish of Democrats. Count me out.
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Y, I was lucky Bush won 2000. I, “naively,” after reading some materials during college, voted for Harry Brown.
Nope. Even if Paul’s what the Dr. ordered, to quote Trump: “Paul can’t win.”
I would vote for Ron Paul. Here’s the thing Jake. Paul would only be 1/3rd of our gov’t. It is possible he could have a great influence in limiting our gov’t while not being able to completely disable our defense department.
Wood, my greatest problem with Ron Paul right now is not his ideology, but his electability.
I’d vote for him in a second if he were the candidate, however, I couldn’t see him beating the Zero and his billions.
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JG, as you suggest, humans cannot get around making mistakes .. that is how we learn … as they say, when you lose, don’t lose the lesson
no successful person has feared making mistakes .. that is embedded in the process of learning and eventual relative perfection
regarding what you call isolationism, I think it is abundantly clear that our ‘policy’ of intervention has clearly failed and/or has been misused/abused .. so it’s back to the drawing board, iow bringing all troops/bases back to our shores and reevaluating … if that turns out to be a mistake, we will tweak that policy and so on and so forth
that’s all we can do as humans
Part 1 of your comment:
“He understands that Gov intervention, be it in markets or a sovereign nations internal business, is ultimately harmful to us all. He understands that such interventions result in artificial distortions, facilitate corruption and give those in political favor undue advantage. He understands, and at a level matched by only a few, the devastating and regressive nature of inflation; the the fact that it is inherent to a fiat paper money system.”
Sensible positive qualities about your candidate.
Part 2 of your comment:
“he is the only intellectually honest politician in the race. Unlike the others, he doesn’t flip flop when it might be in his best interest to do so. His message never waivers, his prescriptions never change for they derive from his study and superior understanding of economics not his career aspirations like with all the others ”
Same old juvenile, unrealistic, naive and unintelligent hyperbole that the drones of the Ron-Paul-FantasyLand constantly spew. Members of this cult think that their candidate is the only righteous politician (a paragon of virtue, no less) while all others are corrupt and evil. LOL.
And Part 3:
“wants to end our imperialistic, empire building, resource depleting, terrorist creating foreign policies ways ”
Paul blames America for 9/11, and he pretends that if we would just be kinder to the Arabs/Muslims they would never have wanted to harm us, and if we just surrender they will calmly drop their weapons and focus on other things. It is no wonder his followers say things like the above quote. We created terrorists? So it has nothing to do with Dar Al Harb and Dar al Islam? Nothing to do with the concept of jihad? The “surrender and become a whipping boy” strategy has failed stupendously for Israel, so don’t give us that crap!
Terrorist groups do not put weapons down unless their demands are met. In reality, their demands are not anything Paul (or any paul cultist) advocates and you could never achieve appeasing them short of literally committing national suicide or trashing the constitution and all the country stands for. Look it up. Their demands are not realistic. So even your ‘surrender to their demands’ strategy does not make sense, aside from the fact that it’s a proven failure.
If all you are talking about is reducing troop presence in the Middle east, Obama and all the democrat candidates always promise that. But obviously, that’s not all you are talking about, and it’s not all that Paul is talking about.