Ron Paul is not a threat at all.
He looks good in polls because lots of young people love him.
Problem is, those young folks don’t turn out the vote, so polls are meaningless.
I was going to post a comment, but since you’ve posted 27 threads without a single reply to anybody, I guess you really don’t care what we have to say.
You’re just here to feed off the traffic.
Go ahead - prove me wrong.
Maybe it is the dopers who think he will legalize drugs. Do they not know he has never done anything the entire time he has been in Washington? What makes them think he will do something now?
Ron Paul knows that he will not be the Republican candidate, regardless of how things turn out in Iowa. (Not every state has Iowa-style caucuses where Paul’s supporters can bully the outcome.)
So why does he run?
Perhaps he is an issues candidate, hoping to simply have his opinions heard on a wider platform. I can respect that. Government is too big, the Fed is past it’s sell-by date, and while I completely disagree with his foreign policy positions, he has the right to speak out. Issues candidates are fine as long as they know when to get out and quit dividing the party.
Or maybe he doesn’t mind dividing the party and is simply trying to raise his profile before launching a third-party run. If that is the case, then he might as well switch parties and campaign for Obama right now, because pretty much any of the potential third-party plays out there will do nothing more than secure a second term for Obama and his “end of America” plans. I regularly think it would be nice to see a viable third party in American politics, but it may take a generation for something like that to take root. And Ron Paul is not the kind of visionary who can pull that off.
Perhaps he really believes he can win. If that is the case it is hard for me to see him as anything other than delusionalnot the kind of trait I am looking for in a candidate.
Congratulations.
Ron Paul is the anti-Federalist candidate..and that matches the mood of the country....
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No. It’s a reverse Operation Chaos (”Anonymous”/DailyPOS/HuffPOS/college morons from another state), but they won’t show on caucus night.
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