Posted on 03/10/2009 5:14:19 PM PDT by pissant
Remember Ron Paul? Congressman Ron Paul?
The long-term libertarian-like representative from Texas who's even older than McCain? The guy with a leased blimp who sought the Republican presidential nomination last year and came within something like 1,000 delegates of upsetting the Arizonan.
Paul lasted a lot longer than Romney, who had to write off some $40 million of his own dough.
And Paul's hundreds of thousands of dedicated supporters way-outraised that preacher Huckabee who's now all over Fox News, which, btw, is the network that barred Paul from its New Hampshire GOP debate because he had no chance. Although, to be fair and balanced, Paul had done better in Iowa than Giuliani or that D.A. Thompson guy, what's his name Frank or Fred. Thank goodness Fox protected its viewers from this Texan, who used to be an ob-gyn.
So Paul marched all the way to St. Paul, past that ex-New York mayor, who the mainstream media said was the certain GOP nominee until he wasn't; Giuliani made it only a few hours past Florida.
Here's how silly Ron Paul is: He set a budget for his campaign and lived within it. Flew commercial. Stayed at Super 8's. No motorcades.
In fact, he ended with no deficit, which is how he thinks the federal government should operate.
In point of fact, Paul ended his campaign with a surplus. Can you imagine anything so silly in this day and age?
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
The economic turmoil is just starting to bubble.
Like TARP I and Earmarks?
No, she’d still be your aunt, just with balls
Paul’s predictions are like playing darts with a shotgun.. of course he predicted a downturn, every single FReeper did too.. but he also predicted ‘pinkback currency’ with tracking chips, confiscation of all currency in order to force people to use the tracking chip currency, trilateral commission running the world, $5k per oz gold, etc.. Sure, he predicted it, but frankly, the same credit can be given to tens of thousand of FReepers and they aren’t burdened with all of the hundreds of other nutty predictions that go along with it..
We could just as well say Pissant predicted it.
Oh well. If the LA Times is going to give a small gov’t guy a hearing, I’m all for it.
The monetary base has skyrocketed. The banks pyramid on top of that, so if they start loaning, look out.
“If...” But I thought the premise of the article was that he’s been proven right. The monetary base has increased, but it can decrease too.
***No, she’d still be your aunt, just with balls***
So she would have probably voted for Obama... unless she was born that way.
Why should I bother? I mean, you’ve already daydreamed a response from me that even you could easily attack.
Figures that a Paulestinian’s straw man would be lame.
Ahh, the old "he guessed it right, but his timing was off so he is a complete idiot" canard.
The same "argument" was used against those who warned of the current economic calamity and called it earlier than it happened.
Because people were even more stupid and greedy than anyone could imagine and kept the pyramid rising a couple years longer than any sane person could have guessed, all those prognosticators were a bunch of chicken-little idiots.
Give it a little time, we will have all the inflation anyone (whose placed the correct bets) could ever hope for, and certainly more than anyone can currently imagine.
bump! :)
Fair enough, I just hope they don’t dig too deep when siding Paul with the right or we’ll all look like fools. I wouldn’t be surprised if they pick him out in order to set up him as an image of the Obama opposition to then slap up the pics with him and Black or start posting some of his conspiratorial writings..
The Old Man was right.
Oh sure...Look at what the leadership has done for the past 10 years...They've developed fantastic foreign policies...Look at our genius trade policies. That's done wonders for the American economy...And look how much the world really respects the U.S now.
Not to mention our foreign policy when it comes to our neighbor Mexico. What a great relationship they have cultivated!
Not the shills of the crony capitalists who swarm this site like roaches when the lights go out.
Not the blithering idiots who blame everything on the MSM or Obama or [insert least favorite Democrat here]
Absolutely.
OK, so 99,999 FReepers out of 100,000 predicted it.. Ever ask why the very, left LA Times gives him so much attention? Why Paul over everyone else who called it? Why not Hunter, Thompson, Friedman or Buckley (if you want to go back to historical predictions), etc, etc, etc? What is the difference? Who has the baggage that can be used against the Right?
Bingo,and some here will hide in the basement and post.
lol
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