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?
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good press? this sounds tongue-in-cheek to me
Maybe the LA Times is finally so desparate that they are willing to try anything ... like telling the truth.
Kook is what the globalists call a constitutional conservative.
but Ron Paul is also 10% insane
I'll take 10% insane over 90% stupid any day.
So that leaves me Ron Paul.
You get Steele, Snowe, Collins, Specter, and McCain.
Feel better?
I’ll never get Snowe, Steele, Collins, McCain and Spectre
We coulda had a Ronald Reagan economic policy with an Obama foreign policy....BUT NOOOO!! The man closest to the Founding Father’s was’nt “conservative” enuff.
The worldwide leftist MSM as well as the leftist political indoctrination in schools at every level worldwide, thanks to worldwide, worsening political correctness, are both major contributors to anti-Americanism.
It's why he couldn't get wide traction in the election, he marginalized himself.
We need solid, articulate leaders, not just people who are right about some things.
I do agree he is making more sense about the right thing to do with the current financial mess than most.
America has degenerated to the point that we don’t deserve Duncan. But oh how I wish Republicans had been more attentive, not distracted by the smiling fool from AZ or the lying gov from Mass.
Kinda nutty (actually, a LOT nutty) to compare Jefferson to the Paulestinian.
Lest we forget so soon, it was the Romney supportyers at FR who derided Duncan for not buttoning his suit coat!
2012 is approaching. Perhaps the gop can be convinced that a red blooded patriotic REAL conservative is the answer.
Blind squirrel. Nut. Discuss...
D1 BUMP
Yeah, that silly Constitutional thing. And keeping within his budget. Etc.
The sad thing is, the right path is considered "on the margins" now.
Someone was trying to convince me Ron Paul had a large earmark attached to the Omnibus Bill but I can find no record of such. Does anyone know if its true?
Not just one, but multiple earmarks attached. As always.
Spends half his time telling the truth and the other half being a truther. Can we hire him half the time?
Oh, and this drunk on the corner downtown told me it was raining today. Damned if the old drunk wasn’t correct!
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