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Libertarian Hero Ron Paul Launches 2012 Presidential Campaign
The Blaze ^ | 25 Apr 2011 | Emily Esfahani Smith

Posted on 04/25/2011 6:04:34 PM PDT by mandaladon

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To: death2tyrants

Did he say they were similar? Is he insane?


41 posted on 04/25/2011 6:46:04 PM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

I know far too many leftists who tout Ron Paul to ever give him consideration in any vote.


42 posted on 04/25/2011 6:49:17 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: MrEdd

I heard you the first time. I’m not voting for Obama nor am I enabling him to win in any way. period. If you want to, go ahead. I served too btw.


43 posted on 04/25/2011 6:50:43 PM PDT by RC one (Donald Trump-I'm listening.)
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To: humblegunner

If Ron’s a kook then we need 535 kooks in congress.


44 posted on 04/25/2011 6:51:03 PM PDT by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!)
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To: taxtruth

Ah. So it’s safe to assume you support Trump?


45 posted on 04/25/2011 6:58:26 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: RC one

Not voting for Obama does not require voting for a different whackjob or liberal.


46 posted on 04/25/2011 6:58:31 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: samiam1972

He seemed to be trying to explain his support for the ground zero mosque. Ie, opposing the ground zero mosque is ‘guilt by association’ blah blah blah...


47 posted on 04/25/2011 6:58:38 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: CaliforniaCon

Him standing on a podium next to Douglas Kucinich was his “jump the shark” moment for me.


48 posted on 04/25/2011 6:59:56 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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To: mandaladon
Libertarian Hero Ron Paul Launches 2028 Presidential Campaign

According to the Holographic Journal, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas will be running for president in 2028:

Rep. Ron Paul, (Ayn Rand Alliance-Tejas, whose outspoken libertarian views and folksy style made him a cult hero during the 1988, 2008, 2012, 2020, and 2024 campaigns, will announce on Tuesday that he’s going to try a sixth time.

Sources close to Paul, who although bedridden, blind, and deaf, is now in his 20th term in the House, said he will unveil an cybernetic leadership team in Iowa, and campaign via projecting his image and voice into voters through a special occular implant chip available at the Ron Paul for President online store.

Paul, 93, will now set the record for oldest major party primary hopeful, beating out Harold Stassen who ran for a final time in 2000 at age 92. Although Paul always finishes in single digits, supporters remain euthesiastic that Paul will finally enter the White House at age 94 next year. Paul fired up the crowd at his campaign kick off speech, telling a reporter who questioned why he had been in Congress for 20 terms that “term limits are unconstitutional!” to a round of thunderous applause. When further questioned, he then added “Hell, the whole dang constitution itself is unconstitutional!” Paul clarified by stating the Constitution is only constitutional when people interpret it the way he does. Paul's campaign manager, Peaches Geldof, who at age 39 wasn't even born when Paul made his first Presidential run, defended his unique take on the constitution. “Dr. Paul is the one who invented the constitution, of course, he told the founding fathers what to write. He gets to decide what's constitutional and what's not. If you disagree with that method of determining the constitutional status of anything, then you're also unconstitutional!”

49 posted on 04/25/2011 7:04:54 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: RC one

Great summary. I agree.


50 posted on 04/25/2011 7:05:19 PM PDT by riri
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To: mandaladon

Always thought of him as a kook! Today, not so sure... He seems to have been right on many economic strategies...

Have to say that today - might just give him a look unless serious candidates actually emerge. Does NOT seem likely since they are mostly non confrontational assholes...

Yeah, that does enclose almost all of them... a real shame isn’t it? I do exclude Cain, Watts, and a very few others...

Isn’t it a shame that the only reliable contestants are black? Seems that the whities have withdrawn into their shells and won’t say anything bad about Obama...

Yeah, the world is going to hell in your handbasket and we are just worried about how much it will hold...


51 posted on 04/25/2011 7:06:11 PM PDT by Deagle
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52 posted on 04/25/2011 7:21:08 PM PDT by mirkwood (Palin- West 2012)
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To: mandaladon

Don’t forget that Paul is loopy enough that Jesse Ventura endorsed him and offered to run as his VP. Is there any ticket which could be formed with a weaker grasp on reality?


53 posted on 04/25/2011 7:33:07 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
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To: MrEdd

I seriously doubt he will get the nomination anyways so it really isn’t worth getting worked up over. If it happens, we’ll all have to deal with it however we feel best represents us. personally, I find Mitt “draft dodging chickenhawk” Romney more offensive than Paul. Missionary work my a**.


54 posted on 04/25/2011 7:36:45 PM PDT by RC one (Donald Trump-I'm listening.)
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To: RC one

I’m at the even as I type at webster hall in nyc. Peter schiff rocked the house.


55 posted on 04/25/2011 7:39:52 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (F U B O ! ! !)
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To: RC one

“If he gets the nomination,...”

Good lord we will be in a pickle if it comes to that!


56 posted on 04/25/2011 8:24:42 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (More politicians can't fix what politicians have created. Trump for POTUS.)
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To: mandaladon

Paul won’t get the nomination, our hero Romney will!


57 posted on 04/25/2011 8:27:49 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: mandaladon

Wonderful!

Four more years of Obama. :-(

Paul and his followers are kooks that will split the vote again, if not actively campaign against whoever the GOP nominee is out of spite.


58 posted on 04/25/2011 9:24:24 PM PDT by DakotaRed (Why not just pass a law requiring criminals to obey the laws?)
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; campaignPete R-CT; sickoflibs; fieldmarshaldj; techno; BillyBoy

okay, here is the RonPaul thread.
1. Come in with your obligatory negative message.
2. How does this effect the race?

Is he really draining away votes from anybody else? Would his supporters go for Sarah? Maybe some of them.

Obviously, Gov Johnson is undermined.

Should we expect his movement will be half of what it was last time because the novelty wore off? And the dreamers who thought he could do well .... half of them have sobered up? Too bad the debates will give the wretch a platform.


59 posted on 04/25/2011 10:09:14 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Palin '12 begins in '11. In western New Hampshire pour moi.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

How does it effect it ? It doesn’t. The “High Times” wing of the GOP ain’t exactly an overwhelming percentage.


60 posted on 04/25/2011 10:44:57 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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