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Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Gains Popularity on the Internet
Associated Content ^ | May 30, 2007 | C. M. Paulson

Posted on 05/31/2007 12:11:35 AM PDT by The_Eaglet

Dr. Ron Paul has become an internet sensation, according to his website www.RonPaul2008.com. The Ron Paul 2008 site states that he is the most requested Republican candidate on Eventful.com, a site which allows users to request that a person (usually an entertainer) visit their area. In addition, the Ron Paul 2008 site reports that Dr. Paul has twice as many You Tube subscribers as all of the other Republican candidates combined.

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KEYWORDS: 2008; americanpatriot; constitutionalist; notafraud; paulnuts; rino; ronisright; ronpaul; trueamerican; whiners
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To: mimaw
Your candidate appears to believe it. He quoted OBL to back up his position.

Please tell me you are just enjoying a bit of rhetorical flourish. I would like to think more highly of you than to entertain the idea that you truly believe the idiotic nonsense you just stated. Are you genuinely that stupid, or are you just engaging in a bit of hyperbole to make some (as of yet unknown) point?

61 posted on 05/31/2007 10:56:20 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Ron Paul in '08)
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To: wideawake; dighton; martin_fierro; RockinRight; jdm

The “Ron Paul sensation” is more specifically described as a dull throb with attendant drowsiness.


62 posted on 05/31/2007 10:57:09 AM PDT by Petronski (Fred!)
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To: mimaw
I didn’t originate it

Yes you did...

Dr. Paul's stance has always been that if you are going to go to war, declare war. Don't do it via UN mandates.

Duh... Stop attributing to him motives that others have expressed. If you want to bash Pat Buchanan for instance, feel free. Just don't put his words in Dr. Paul's mouth.

Further, go back and re-read what Dr. Paul said. He never stated that he thought we had brought this on ourselves. He said we needed to look at what our Enemy is saying. "Know they enemy" is a good thing to do.

Of course, you'd know that if you were really interested in debate instead of just slandering your betters...

63 posted on 05/31/2007 10:57:16 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: The_Eaglet
Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Gains Popularity on the Internet

Well, so does the "Farting Preacher" but I wouldn't vote for either one of them.

64 posted on 05/31/2007 10:58:13 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://wardsmythe.com)
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To: Petronski
Dr. Ron Paul has become an internet sensation.... Oh really? Got a source? ...according to his website www.RonPaul2008.com. www.youtube.com and wwww.eventful.com.

Fixed your cheap shot for ya. You can pay me later.

65 posted on 05/31/2007 10:59:40 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Ron Paul in '08)
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To: from occupied ga
Where did I say that? I am coming rapidly to the conclusion that you are so busy trying to change the point of my original post because you have no counter argument that you're grasping at strawmen and wildly trying to change the subject to something that you can disagree with .

You implied that referring to the income of company officers was irrelevant because profits go to shareholders.

In this day and age the bulk of high-ranking company officers' compensation is in shares and options on shares.

Usually the largest non-institutional shareholder of a public company is an officer.

66 posted on 05/31/2007 11:00:37 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
The biggest shame on FR is that it has become a showcase for how many statist fascists think they are conservatives just because they wave a flag and support our troops.

You're right - true conservatives burn American flags and undermine our troops.

67 posted on 05/31/2007 11:02:31 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
Cheap shot, or direct quote?

Dr. Ron Paul has become an internet sensation, according to his website www.RonPaul2008.com.

Ah, direct quote. It seems that YOU are the cheap shot artist, all in a desperate attempt to push a nutbar moonbat candidate whose primary role in this election is unintended comic relief.

68 posted on 05/31/2007 11:04:47 AM PDT by Petronski (Fred!)
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To: SonOfEire

I’m with ya!! And get us out the NAU.

:)


69 posted on 05/31/2007 11:06:45 AM PDT by X-Ecutioner (A Ron Paul supporter and a Alex Jones fan)
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To: Dead Corpse
"Know they enemy" is a good thing to do.

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle

But heck what does 3000 year old advice do for us? Compared to the 'wisdom' by the folks at the Weakly Standard and the geniuses in the administration, Sun Tzu is a hasbeen.....

70 posted on 05/31/2007 11:07:11 AM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: wideawake
In this day and age the bulk of high-ranking company officers' compensation is in shares and options on shares.

Usually the largest non-institutional shareholder of a public company is an officer.

That is the way it SHOULD work. Corporate reality is something far different. One of the suggested reforms for corporations is a mandated percentage of stock owned by officers and a corporate salary tied to the stock price of the cmpany. I am not saying I agree with those remedies, but it is interesting to note that they are projected cures for the inflated corporate salaries we have in the USA.

71 posted on 05/31/2007 11:14:32 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Ron Paul in '08)
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To: billbears
Human nature changes. The Constitution is outdated. Liberalism is the "new" Conservatism...

Bunch of stuff like that floating around out there these days. Fortunately, anyone with a room temp IQ or higher doesn't believe a word of it...

72 posted on 05/31/2007 11:15:27 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: wideawake
You're right - true conservatives burn American flags and undermine our troops.

No. True conservatives:
1 support our troops,
2wave the flag and
3 demand government accountability, rather than just brainlessly believing anything that comes out of a politicians mouth.

Statists hold to two of these three. Guess which one of the three they are too stupid to figure out?

73 posted on 05/31/2007 11:19:39 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Ron Paul in '08)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
That is the way it SHOULD work. Corporate reality is something far different.

Well, reality intervenes.

Corporate officers are at a distinct disadvantage from other shareholders because their inside knowledge prevents them from trading their stock as freely as a regular investor.

Say the balloon payment is due on my summer home in two weeks and I just found out that my company lost a contract - which we cannot disclose to the larger market for competitive purposes until we announce earnings in a month's time.

If I sell shares now to pay for it, I am risking a ruinous legal investigation for insider trading.

74 posted on 05/31/2007 11:20:29 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Petronski
The “Ron Paul sensation” is more specifically described as a dull throb with attendant drowsiness.

Maybe he's the Viagra candidate.

"If your candidacy experiences a surge lasting more than four hours, seek immediate medical help."

75 posted on 05/31/2007 11:23:18 AM PDT by jdm (One of these days, I'm going to get rich doing something, but it probably won't be this.)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp
I guess I’d have to say my point is I’m not willing to give a platform to the out of Iraq crowd. I think more American deaths have occurred because either out of malice or stupidity the congress and the media have given sustenance to OBL’s claims that America doesn’t have the stomach to win. However you feel about the war we are there and we have to win. Somalia brought us Khobar Towers, USS Cole as well as the embassy bombings and 9/11, it’s too late in the game for an isolationist policy. Is your man Paul going to vote with the dems on their terrorist bill of rights they are crafting?
76 posted on 05/31/2007 11:23:52 AM PDT by mimaw
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To: The_Eaglet
And the Internet is the only lace he's really popular.
77 posted on 05/31/2007 11:25:38 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Petronski
Dr. Ron Paul has become an internet sensation, according to his website www.RonPaul2008.com.

If you could exercise that prodigious research engine to read the next sentence....? We will wait........,

Cheap shot, or direct partial quote.

Fixed it again for ya. Now the question reads as it should and is a tautology, as it should be.

It seems that YOU are the cheap shot artist, all in a desperate attempt to push a nutbar moonbat candidate

I love you too, sunshine.

Frothingly yours,

DoP

78 posted on 05/31/2007 11:26:47 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Ron Paul in '08)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp

It was a direct quote, though you tried to lie to the contrary.


79 posted on 05/31/2007 11:29:40 AM PDT by Petronski (Fred!)
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To: LeoWindhorse
I guess that goes to show what a flakey place the Internet can be

"Flakey?" Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo are the only two announced candidates in either party, who have even shown familiarity with what our written Federal Constitution, actually says. If Paul is "flakey," what are the others?

Each of the candidates holds, or has held elective office. Each has sworn to uphold the Constitution. Yet only Paul and Tancredo, actually look to the Constitution as a litmus test for whether policies are acceptable or not. Remember, the Constitution creates the Federal Government. It has no existence--no legal or moral existence, outside the Constitution.

The others remind one of an "architect," trying to build castles in the sky. It won't scan.

Paul is one of the only two announced candidates, in either party, who is clearly not "flakey." And when some of his detractors finally find the courage to debate the issues, his numbers are really going to soar. On the other hand, he already has enough grass roots support, that if the poseurs running against him try to ignore him, they are going to get a jolt that they will not soon forget.

William Flax

80 posted on 05/31/2007 11:39:05 AM PDT by Ohioan
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