He’s a kook. His kid is a kook.
Paultards are kooks. Kookery all around.
The heavy hitters are starting to come out :)
What makes him think he'll see anything more during this exploration than the last?
Maybe he's going to put a flashlight up his butt BEFORE his head this time??
Great, when ralph nater jumps in it will be like old times.
Seriously, I would vote for Ron over obumber in a heart beat. I just hope it doesn’t come to that, even the Donald would be better then Ron.
General/Chat is a good place for this subject.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2709062/posts
And this from a guy who claims to be the sole supporter of the constitution. F him and the horse he rode in.
RP never saw a jihadist he didn’t like.
This looks like a media matters thread.
...and leaving a fundraising scandal that left one of his staffers in jail and created a long standing rift between the Libertarian Party and Paul and Rockwell.
Wrong Paul is way out in the hinterlands on 9-11, Israel and the repeal of DADT.
It’s fine having him in Congress, but for President...don’t think so.
Libertarians? They’re the ones who believe in open borders? Legalized narcotics? The right of women to murder their unborn children? Faggots as a legitimate (liberated?) lifestyle? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Given the economic state of our nation at this point in time, worrying about a war in Iraq ranks about number 835 on my priority list.
Our domestic affairs are so screwed up that the international ones hardly seem to matter at this point.
I would definiely consider voting for Paul, especially with our current crop of half-baked Republican candidates. Once Pence dropped to the side, it’s not looked good.
He's been ok on domestic issues, but his foreign policy and overt pacifism suck...
I’m watching Paul on Hannity now. He just made an analogy of Muslims to Catholics.
He’s a kook in a lot of ways, but he’s the closest thing we have to a Constitutional conservative, which, at the end of the day, I feel is the most important quality. He believes in a strong defense, not offense. He wants to audit the Fed. He wants to end the failed federal war on drugs, and leave it to the states. He personally is more conservative on social issues than people think, he just doesn’t believe it is the federal gubmint’s job to tell us how to behave.
Having said that, he is too old at 75, and carries the aura of failure having run twice already with miniscule results.
As always, we need people who are willing to cut government in the primaries, and support them. It keeps the bigger names (read Romney, Trump) honest, and at least forces them to make similar promises. Will Romney, et al shrink gubmint? No, they will grow it, just like any big name GOP hack that makes it out of the primaries.
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!”
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...
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?
Paul won’t get the nomination, our hero Romney will!