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It's Ron Paul's world, we can only read about it
WSJ ^ | Oct. 6, 2009 | David Weidner

Posted on 10/06/2009 2:31:59 PM PDT by Palin Republic

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Ron Paul has America hungry.

The former presidential candidate and 11-term Republican congressman from Galveston, Texas, seems to be doing what few have succeeded at: rallying support for radical change in Washington, on Wall Street and in the world.

Paul, who rattled the Republican base with a strong showing in several primaries and caucuses last year, is upping the ante. He has a new and timely book, "End the Fed," and has been making a big media tour, including a stop on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last Tuesday.

"It's hard to enforce the laws when the government participates in fraud," Paul told Stewart.

It's hard not to get excited or encouraged about the way Paul gets people fired up about politics. It's not just the politics, though, it's the kind of politics Paul is talking about: strict lawmaking derived from the constitution, ending trade agreements and national monetary policy.

Anyone would be challenged to get young Americans to care about matters so complex and dull, but Paul does it in the same way Stewart sells world affairs to college stoners: he makes it entertaining -- and he offers hope things can change.

(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antisemite; auditthefed; endthefed; federalreserve; paulestinians; ronpaul; rontards
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To: BlackElk

Dr. Paul is a conservative libertarian.

Gov. Palin is a libertarian conservative.

Rep. Bachmann combines the best of both.

Hope that clears things up.


21 posted on 10/06/2009 3:52:19 PM PDT by Palin Republic (Palin - Bachmann 2012 : Girl Power!)
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To: The Comedian

Amen! The rabid stupidity of some of the anti-Paul posts is stunning! Liberty can only exist in the absence of a powerful state.


22 posted on 10/06/2009 4:06:50 PM PDT by dcgst4
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To: Winged Hussar

I guess all candidates better seek your approval before accepting money from anyone in case someone else’s view offend you.

$500? Sheesh.

That is only an excuse to not support Ron Paul.

What is your real reason?


23 posted on 10/06/2009 4:33:37 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (Kenya? Kenya? Kenya just show us the birth certificate?)
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To: dcgst4
Amen! The rabid stupidity of some of the anti-Paul posts is stunning! Liberty can only exist in the absence of a powerful state.

They'll come out now. The scream of the free living draws the brain-dead anti-Paul zombies to us...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

24 posted on 10/06/2009 5:01:47 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: The Comedian

Hmmm...is that picture from a McCain/Mitt/Rudy rally?


25 posted on 10/06/2009 5:28:27 PM PDT by dcgst4
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To: dcgst4
Hmmm...is that picture from a McCain/Mitt/Rudy rally?

Generic followers led by instinct, I can't tell the specific genus.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

26 posted on 10/06/2009 5:49:26 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I agree with Ron Paul on the audit but he is going to give congress control of the money.

The constitution authorizes only Congress the power of printing money. Kind of settles it for me.

If the Fed was such a great idea, why was it passed after midnight on the last session before a Christmas recess?

27 posted on 10/06/2009 5:55:12 PM PDT by altair (I want him to fail)
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To: BlackElk
You certainly ARE a comedian. We should deport the Galveston treasonweasel to the Islamotyranny of his choice.

Rahm, your limo is here.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

28 posted on 10/06/2009 6:04:52 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Mr. K; Palin Republic
I hope he aligns with Sarah Palin and DOES NOT TRY TO RUN AGAINST HER!

I agree, but I don't think it matters. He has to understand how (un)happy his supporters were with how he campaigned last time. If he actually campaigned and got the message out, that would be a Good Thing. Anything that pushes the campaign away from RINOs like McCain, Romney, Giuliani ... is good.

Secretary of Treasury under a President Palin would be a good combination.

29 posted on 10/06/2009 6:09:11 PM PDT by altair (I want him to fail)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
It’s the equivalent of a racist writing a check into a Salvation Army kettle. But facts don’t matter to the Paul bashers.

Outstanding simile. Of course, it won't stop the illiterate anti-Paulite brigade. Hate is their fuel, stupid is their engine.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

30 posted on 10/06/2009 6:12:35 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: altair

Besides that, at least if congress screws up we can technically vote them out. We are powerless against the unelected, privately controlled federal reserve.


31 posted on 10/06/2009 6:50:37 PM PDT by specsaregood
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To: Palin Republic

I agree with about 90% of Paul’s positions. I disagree with him on foreign policy, severely.


32 posted on 10/06/2009 9:32:58 PM PDT by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: Palin Republic
It does not clear up the obvious fact that paleoPaulie is a relentless enemy of America's interests in foreign affairs, a pusilanimous pipsqueak on matters military, and an all purpose mouthpiece for Al Qaeda. THAT clears things up as to El Run Paulie.

I think far too much of Sarah Palin to see her associated with the Galveston treason weasel. Likewise Michelle Bachmann. This really is not nuclear physics. We are at war. The Galveston birdbrain cannot even muster the manhood to vote to criticize Iran's brutal suppression of Iranians much less their march to nuclear weapons capability. He is actually proud to be the only dissenter. Did Michelle Bachmann join his latest defection from Western Civilization??? Of course not! Did Sarah Palin raise her voice to lionize paleoPaulie as a hero? Hell, no!

Ergo, stop smearing conservative heroines as though they were somehow associated with the cornucopia of mental illnesses afflicting paleoPaulie.

PaleoPaulie should be sent permanently in a straitjacket to Happy Delusions Rest Home along with his supporters.

Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann should continue their careers and hopefully lead the way out of the current disaster of Comrade O.

33 posted on 10/07/2009 4:11:49 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: altair

Secretary of Treasury for Osama bin Laden is more like it.


34 posted on 10/07/2009 4:19:01 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: boop
"...agree with about 90% of Paul’s positions."

Pauls thing with the Fed is loony; the article nailed it:

"...eliminating the Fed would be tantamount to handing over the keys of our financial system to the European Union, China or any foreign economic power with a strong central bank."


35 posted on 10/07/2009 6:03:41 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: BlackElk
Galveston treason weasel.     Galveston birdbrain    paleoPaulie

Ordinarily I prefer to eschew name calling, but your offerings seem appropriate and useful exceptions to my rule.

36 posted on 10/07/2009 6:08:12 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: Eagle Eye

Re: “I guess all candidates better seek your approval before accepting money from anyone in case someone else’s view offend you.

$500? Sheesh.

That is only an excuse to not support Ron Paul.

What is your real reason?”

He knew that the $500 had come from Stormfront, and he knowingly and willfully refused to return it. I held him to the same standard to which I held Barry the Cokehead and Hillary Clinton when they appeared at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (the Black version of the KKK and Stormfront).


37 posted on 10/07/2009 9:57:05 AM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: Jack Black

yes- Supreme Court for certain - next opening AFTER she is press secretary and scares the bejeebers out of the washington ‘press corp’


38 posted on 10/07/2009 1:11:59 PM PDT by Mr. K (THIS ADMINISTRATION IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!!!!!)
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To: expat_panama

Thank you and God bless you and yours.


39 posted on 10/07/2009 1:37:49 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: Winged Hussar

But you see, that reasoning is screwed up and he addressed it. Why should he give the $500 back so that they can spend it promoting their racist agenda? No, take the money and put it to good use promoting liberty.

Keeping the money is nothing like going to a racist event, as you used in your example. Going to such an event is endorsing the viewpoint. Somebody GIVING you money is not.

What does one get by giving the money back? Nothing. It is just grandstanding.


40 posted on 10/07/2009 1:58:05 PM PDT by specsaregood
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