[mnehring]

I think this is a pretty fair assessment. IMHO, this so called revolution was a self created delusion anyway. They started believing their own spammed polls and they fell into the conspiracy trap believing that some bogeyman was trying to keep their candidate down.

[mnehring]

Ping

[Parley Baer]

The RAT money is drying up.

[Khepri]

More importabntly, does anyone care?...:)

[cripplecreek]

Personally I think too many different factions within the Paul camp decided they didn’t like each other’s company.

[Duchess47]

“a self created delusion....”

Could be. Several fairly intelligent people took time off work this afternoon to go listen to him speak. I would have if possible. I never felt he was a Libertarian, more of an old style Republican.

[Biggirl]

This was an internet deception anyways. Ron Paul is done.

[NautiNurse]

They started believing their own spammed polls and they fell into the conspiracy trap believing that some bogeyman was trying to keep their candidate down.

A succinct and accurate summary.

[Jeff Chandler]

From the second paragraph:

>>...never...never... real ...never really ...never...<<

Weird writing.

[reagan_fanatic]

He’s being abandoned by his democratic supporters in favor of John McCain.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The fact that a libertarian (as opposed to a Socialist or Green Party Candidate or Communist or ...) is polling at 10% in a number of states should be considered to be a generally good thing.

Those who knew that Ron Paul would never succeed should have stood back and applauded his efforts for bringing to the fore some of the key issues that even the Republicans are avoiding.

Instead lots of whack jobs feared that he might actually have a chance and went into massive carpet bombing attacks on him and his ideas.

And this auther is particularly annoying: those of us who aren't dyed-in-the-wool republicans are urged by republicans to work within the party to advance our ideas rather than start third parties and split the conservative/libertarian vote. But this author just wants to talk about how unsuccessful the libertarian party has been, and imply that all libertarianism will always be trounced and everyone who doesn't agree with the republicans should stay in the party AND shut up about their true beliefs.

That's a great strategy for continued republican success! /sarcasm

[tacticalogic]

The venom set in.

[FreePaul]

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.

[paul51]

What Has Happened to Ron Paul?

My guess would be drugs

[John D]

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.

[Filo]

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...

[RightWhale]

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.

[lormand]

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.

[SnakeDoctor]

Spamming internet polls and text message surveys can only take you so far.

H

[Onerom99]

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)

[gridlock]

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...