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Presidential hopeful Ron Paul sees crises ahead for country
Seattle Times ^ | Saturday, September 15, 2007 | David Postman

Posted on 09/17/2007 1:05:51 PM PDT by presidio9

Texas Congressman Ron Paul said in Seattle on Friday that America is approaching an economic and constitutional crisis due to growing debt, bad trade deals and assaults on personal liberty.

And even if he beat all the odds and won the presidency next year, he said, the problem would be beyond what he alone could fix.

"The time is coming. I believe that the great debate is coming," Paul told more than 400 mostly young people who attended his constitutional lecture at Seattle University.

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The lecture was organized by Seattle University law students. What's the appeal of Paul to the young supporters?

"Everything," said Malisa Gurule, a third-year law student who headed the drive to get Paul on campus.

Gurule, 25, said she had never donated to a presidential candidate until she saw Paul in the Republican debates. She's also never voted in a presidential primary or been involved in a caucus, though she says she will do whatever is needed to help Paul get the GOP nomination.

"He's the only person saying something different," she said. "He's not afraid to attack the status quo."

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
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To: pissant

Forgot the </sarc>

Sorry.


21 posted on 09/17/2007 1:27:30 PM PDT by ILS21R
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To: presidio9

Ron Paul supporters marched along side ANSWER this weekend.


22 posted on 09/17/2007 1:28:05 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: lormand
LOL! Pretty much the type I saw down in Iowa.

At some point, the messenger becomes the Message...and Ron Paul has attracted enough zanies...it is almost as if they are trying to discredit the constitutionalist small government view.

23 posted on 09/17/2007 1:30:33 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: presidio9

Hmmmm. I’d probably vote for Paul before I’d vote for Romney. Might vote for Paul before Huckabee just because he seems kind of left wing. Otherwise I’d vote for the other Republican . . .


24 posted on 09/17/2007 1:32:50 PM PDT by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: lormand

It’s good to see that Rosanne is keeping busy after her show went off the air.


25 posted on 09/17/2007 1:34:45 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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To: presidio9

Which crisis will it be?

The OJ crisis I’m seeing 24/7 on TV?

Or the Britney crisis that even Neil Cavuto seems obsessed with?


26 posted on 09/17/2007 1:34:55 PM PDT by airborne (Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: lormand
I dunno. Don't judge a book by the cover. I went out for a time in the early 90s with an alterna-chick who had some very interesting crypto-conservative views. I turned her on to American Spectator (this was back in TAS' tabloid-format days), and such writers as PJ O'Rourke, HL Mencken, Edward Banfield, Robert Nisbet, and Russell Kirk. I gave her a copy of Kirk's Confessions of a Bohemian Tory one year for Christmas, and she would tell people from then on, with a straight face, that she was a bohemian Tory.

She ended up going to work in a number of conservative interest groups, and now heads up a rather prominent one. I won't mention her name, but if you saw her today you would never guess that she once organized raves and that she had piercings in some very nontraditional places...

27 posted on 09/17/2007 1:35:36 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: Paul Ross
Check out Post # 1 from this website which talks about Barry Manilow being a supporter of Ron Paul.

Barry to Elisabeth: Your "View" is Dangerous

"1. Barry go back on and promote Ron Paul!
Barry, since you support Paul, please go on TV somewhere and talk about him!
Posted at 1:32PM on Sep 17th 2007 by Jacob Weishaupt

28 posted on 09/17/2007 1:36:39 PM PDT by lormand (Ron Paul - Surrender/Suicide Monkey for GOP nominee and a steaming POS)
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To: Greg F

Note: “Conservative” and “Libertarian” are as different as “Republican” and “Democrat.” A lot of people on this website don’t seem to understand that.


29 posted on 09/17/2007 1:40:19 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: stubernx98
The only crisis I see ahead is the election of a democrat.
30 posted on 09/17/2007 1:42:22 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: airborne; BJClinton
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
31 posted on 09/17/2007 1:44:36 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: BlackElk

I figure he will run on a third party, the PAAAP (Paul’s Anti-American Appeasement Party). I think it will hurt the democrats more than the Republicans though. The true Republicans who vote, will vote for a pro American who wants to win the war on terror. It is the democrats who want to loose, and they are the only people who would vote for cut and run.


32 posted on 09/17/2007 1:47:21 PM PDT by John D
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To: lormand

GUILTY.


33 posted on 09/17/2007 1:56:24 PM PDT by SIDENET (I don't want to find "common ground" with a bunch of damn leftists.)
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To: vetsvette
“Unfortunately, he’s probably more right than wrong about the future.”

I agree. The NWO crowd will eventually bring this country to it’s knees. Can't have all that pesky personal wealth, sovereignty and freedom getting in the way.

34 posted on 09/17/2007 1:58:37 PM PDT by wolfcreek (tagline on holiday)
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To: presidio9
I tell the lefties who like ron paul, that I would trade them the Iraq War for all the rest of Paul's positions. Would they make the trade with me? I'd accept Paul and his anti-war crap, if they would accept that PLUS his Libertarianism on the rest of the issues. Would they? Could they? They usually fall silent, most dont even know what a Libertarian is.

Someone else wrote that at least Paul is sticking to his principles in opposing the Iraq thing. If that were all he was doing, then I'd say more power to him. But the fact is that he has stepped over the line into moonbatism, and for that, he has lost any shred of support I had for him, and I speak as someone who has voted for him for PRESIDENT in a past national election..

35 posted on 09/17/2007 2:01:24 PM PDT by Paradox (Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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To: presidio9

Corporal punishment back in primary education might help. JMHO


36 posted on 09/17/2007 2:03:32 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: SIDENET

LOL, That conjured up a very disturbing image.


37 posted on 09/17/2007 2:05:45 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: wolfcreek

There were two directions to go when replying to the article. You chose differently than I. I just don’t feel comfortable allowing this guy to address real issues when his fixes are as flawed as his are.

That being said, I agree with your take on this, and the NWO crowd is alive and well even here.


38 posted on 09/17/2007 2:07:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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To: Allegra
Ping for keywords.....

:-)

39 posted on 09/17/2007 2:07:53 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: presidio9

Here at FR, a conservative site, according to founder Jim Robinson, members preferring Ron Paul are currently totaling 5.5% in the poll on the lower right side of the cover page.

Non-members go for Paul at the rate of 20.7

Yet RP gets more threads than any other candidate.

Interesting.


40 posted on 09/17/2007 2:17:27 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (...."We're the govt, and we're here to hurt."....)
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