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Shane Sklar, the 2006 Democrat sacrifice candidate, speaks out.

Ron Paul raised $1.5M, Sklar raised $500,000.

A long and balanced article, posted here only for Sklar's comments which we haven't seen at FR before.

1 posted on 11/16/2007 11:53:05 PM PST by George W. Bush
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article: 'President Ron Paul? Sklar won't rule it out. "I think people underestimate his political skills all the time," Sklar said. "You can't ever take Ron Paul for granted."'
2 posted on 11/16/2007 11:56:26 PM PST by George W. Bush (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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3 posted on 11/17/2007 2:19:18 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!" -- Jim Robinson, 09/30/07)
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To: George W. Bush
Paul's electoral success has befuddled Democrats. They say he routinely opposes bills that would help his sprawling 14th Congressional District

We could use a lot more Republicans with that kind of courage. This reminds me of how his fellow NYPD detectives couldn't understand why famed NYPD whistleblower Frank Serpico refused to take bribes like the rest of them.

5 posted on 11/17/2007 4:30:35 AM PST by hellbender
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You guys think we need a Turkish thread (from Turkey's most popular daily, kind of like USAToday).

Excerpt:

Dünya
17 November 2007

Doların haline bak

Emre KIZILKAYA

Amerikan Doları’nın dünya çapındaki değer kaybı sürerken, ABD başkanlık seçimlerinin sürpriz aday adayı Ron Paul adına basılan dolarlar ortaya çıktı.

"Ron Paul doları" basan bir şirkete FBI baskın düzenledi. ABD’nin "altın standardına" geri dönmesini isteyen Kongre üyesi Ron Paul, internette en büyük desteği alan Cumhuriyetçi aday. Bir günde internette 4.3 milyon dolar bağış toplayınca herkes Ron Paul’u ciddiye almaya başladı.

ABD Başkanı George W. Bush, geçen hafta "Dolar çok yakında eski gücüne kavuşacak" dedi; ama gidişat hiç de öyle görünmüyor. Gelecek yıl yapılacak ABD başkanlık seçimleri için partilerin adaylarının belirleneceği önseçimler öncesinde, Cumhuriyetçilerin yükselen yıldızı Ron Paul. ABD’nin 1971’de terkettiği "altın standardına" yeniden dönerek, karşılığı olmayan dolar basmayı bırakmayı vaadeden Paul’un internette başlattığı kampanya, önseçimlere günler kala büyük bir başarıya ulaştı.

Irak Savaşı’na karşı çıkan ender Cumhuriyetçi isimlerden olan ve Temsilciler Meclisi’nde Teksas eyaletini temsil eden Ron Paul, son haftalara kadar partisi içinde bile ciddiye alınmıyordu. Geçen hafta sadece 24 saat süren ve resmi kampanyasına bağlı olmayan gönüllüler tarafından yürütülen internet bağış kampanyasında, Paul’un adaylığı için 4.3 milyon dolar toplanarak rekor kırılınca durum değişti.

İNTERNETİN SESİ

Cumhuriyetçilerin en favori aday adayı Rudy Giuliani 47 milyon, Mitt Romney ise 67 milyon dolar bağışla, toplamda 8.3 milyon dolar toplayan Ron Paul’ün önünde. Ancak uzmanlar, diğer adayların aksine, Paul’ün çok daha fazla "sıradan vatandaştan", küçük küçük bağışlar topladığını ve daha büyük bir oy potansiyeline sahip olduğunu vurguluyor. 16 Aralık’a kadar Paul’ün 10 milyon doları aşmasını bekleyen yorumcular da, birçok eyalette Paul’ün sürpriz biçimde önde göründüğünü bildiriyorlar.

Ron Paul’ün hızlı yükselişinde, diğer yedi Cumhuriyetçi adayla yarıştığı televizyon tartışmalarının altısını açık farkla kazanması da etkili oldu. İnternette ismi en çok aranan, Youtube’da videoları en çok izlenen Cumhuriyetçi aday adayının Paul olduğu bildirildi. ABD’de herhangi bir partiye üye olmayan genç internet kullanıcılarını aykırı üslubuyla kendisine bağlayan 72 yaşındaki Paul, son düzlükte yaptığı sürpriz atağı sonuçlandırıp Giuliani ve Romney gibi favorileri geride bırakacak mı?

Hurriyet

LOL! They obviously mention his $4.2M fundraiser and a bit about Liberty Dollars.

They call him "The New Shooting Star of the Republican Party".

I guess we need to start MeetUps in Turkey. And in India too.
12 posted on 11/17/2007 6:03:50 PM PST by George W. Bush (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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To: George W. Bush
Slogans and self congratulatory ranting are not answers. Yet that is all you Paulbots have to offer us.

HERE is an example of an answer a serious Presidential Candidate would give. Notice NONE of Paul’s answers ever fit this format. Instead they are all mindless sloganeering and/or bile filled ranting at everyone and everything.

Slogans are not solutions. Electing a President is serious business and should not be treated like a high school popularity contest. See to answer “how” Paul would have to be saying something like this below. The whole problem with him is his whole campaign is based on misdirection and emotional hysteria, not a serious rational discussion of the issues of the day.

Paul might be taken seriously by thinking people if he said something like this instead of merely spewing slogans.

On Federal Spending. Federal Spending is out of control. To put our fiscal house in order my Administration will work with the Congress to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution. I will work with Congress to abolish base line budgeting, eliminate earmarks, impose strict pay as you go rules for new spending. In my 1st term, I will reduce the federal deficit to zero and return our Govt budget to surplus. To achieve that goal, I will impose a mandatory 2% increase cap on all executive agencies budgets, require a top to bottom review of all agency functions and work with the Congress to reduce or eliminate departments x-y-z.

That is just the 1st step. Serious budget reform can only take place when we reform both the tax code and the systems of entitlements we have created. There has been no serious Social Security or Medicare reform since the systems were created! Obvious a system that is 75 years old in one case, and 40 years old in the other are way over due for an overhaul.

To overhaul these systems I will introduce legislation to the Congress that will privatize the following parts of both the Medicare and Social Security systems...

That is an example of answers that tell us HOW a politician plans to do something. Nothing in PaulÂ’s campaign does any of this. All he does is spew reckless demagoguery based on Talk Radio culled slogans designed to push the emotional hot buttons of a certain fringe segments of the US population Too bad for them we don't elect a President simply for spewing the best sounding rhetoric on this emotional hot button issue or that one. We elect a President on the base of his whole agenda.

17 posted on 11/18/2007 7:35:41 AM PST by MNJohnnie (FUND THE WAR! DEFUND THE PORK! FIX THE ATM!-DO SOMETHING DEMOCRATS!)
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