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What Has Happened to Ron Paul?
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Posted on 01/14/2008 2:28:06 PM PST by mnehring
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To: mnehrling
What Has Happened to Ron Paul?Nothing as far as I can tell. He hasn't changed. People are just getting to listen to him. He doesn't know how bad he sounds when he is rambling about things he doesn't understand. People seem to expect a man with a career in congress to either know something about world affairs or keep his mouth shut.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:41:04 PM PST
by
FreePaul
To: Khepri
He went back on his meds.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:41:05 PM PST
by
JimC214
To: mnehrling
What Has Happened to Ron Paul?My guess would be drugs
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:41:10 PM PST
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: mnehrling
once the movement of the fringe takes hold it is too much to bear for most people.
And cut and run is the fringe of the fringe.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:42:30 PM PST
by
John D
To: mnehrling
One of these days the Libertarian party will field a legitimate candidate. Someone with credentials (Ron Paul had those), charisma and a genuine presence.
At that point the party, while it may not win, will be taken seriously.
The sad part is that the bulk of the libertarian ideals are good and, as an aggregate, the Libertarian party is right more than the Republican party (the democrat party is never right.)
The problem is that some of those areas where libertarians aren’t right can have deadly consequences...
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:42:49 PM PST
by
Filo
(Darwin was right!)
To: Kellis91789
So the question is:
Who will Ron Paul endorse when he quits ?
He probably won’t endorse anyone. He’ll just pout.
Will it help or hurt whoever that is ?
It won’t matter one way or the other. His numbers are so low, it’s no real gain for anyone.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:43:29 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: mnehrling
I am watching Paul forums and they are disappointed at the low fundraising this quarter. There are even a few calls to kill the MLK day fundraiser because the pledges are low and they dont want the embarrassment.
I guess George Soros is tired of wasting his money.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:44:29 PM PST
by
John D
To: mnehrling
There is a reason that the Libertarian Party exists in relative obscurity. More than one. Mostly that the Sixties are hard to explain unless you were there and if you were you might not have clear memories.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:44:30 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: JimC214
I see. They block the secret radio transmissions do they?
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:45:02 PM PST
by
Khepri
(Fred Thompson, he's a hundred miles away son - READY TO STRIKE!)
To: rovenstinez
Ron Paul, in 30 years will get his accolades. Yeah ... when he is dead and gone, and there's no danger of Ron Paul ever being in a position to really screw the pooch for all of us.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:45:37 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: Duchess47
Old style Republicans don’t want to legalize prostitution or drugs.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:45:39 PM PST
by
skr
(How majestic is Thy Name, O Lord, and how mighty are Thy Works!)
To: mnehrling
The anti-war kooks are going over to Obama now, leaving the Paultard revolution in the dust.
Ron Paul 08' was all about "anti-war" and pretty much nothing else.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:46:06 PM PST
by
lormand
(Paultards - The Hemorrhoids of American Politics)
To: mnehrling
Spamming internet polls and text message surveys can only take you so far.
H
To: Duchess47
I never felt he was a Libertarian, more of an old style Republican. I don't know, Ayn Rand's description of the Libertarian party- Anarchist Hippies, seems to fit well with Paul and his ilk.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:48:21 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: mnehrling
Down the road, (20-30 years), I think the Libertarian party has a chance of taking hold as these Paul supporters grow up.. (assuming some of them want to have kids of course)
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:48:51 PM PST
by
Onerom99
To: rovenstinez
"Ron Paul, in 30 years will get his accolades." I hope you live to see how wrong you are.
Ron Paul will always be remembered for his echoing of Al Qaeda propaganda.
His small government stance will be drowned out by the insanity that was his foreign policy views.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:49:33 PM PST
by
lormand
(Paultards - The Hemorrhoids of American Politics)
To: mnehrling
The problem that many didn't really understand is that Paul wasn't preaching anything new. This was the same Libertarian Party line that had been regurgitated over and over in one form of another for election after election... Well, the racist claptrap is somewhat new...
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:50:38 PM PST
by
gridlock
(300 Million Americans will not be elected President in 2008. Hillary Clinton will be one of them.)
To: mnehrling
Ron Paul happened to Ron Paul, and most did not care for what they saw. He has some good ideas, but his shortcomings and head-in-the-sand approach to foreign policy would be a recipe for disaster.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:53:04 PM PST
by
CASchack
To: Filo; doug from upland
The sad part is that the bulk of the libertarian ideals are good and, as an aggregate, the Libertarian party is right more than the Republican party (the democrat party is never right.) The problem is that some of those areas where libertarians arent right can have deadly consequences... Actually, the problem with the Libertarian platform -- particularly in regard to international relations -- is that it pretty much requires everybody to agree to play by the same set of rules.
Once somebody leaves the reservation, however .... libertarian ideals prevent one from taking any sort of pre-emptive action. And thus you're left with stuff like Ron Paul's ultra-stupid comments to our own doug from upland, concerning what he would not do if Nort Korea was determined to be shipping a nuke to Iran.
It's not the only such stupid comment, but our Friend DFU did a fine job of putting it so nicely in the open for all to see.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:53:07 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: skr
Old style Republicans dont want to legalize prostitution or drugs.They also don't try to play word games over issues of the constitutional limits of federal authority with arguments of "legalizing".
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:53:10 PM PST
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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