Ron Paul formally announces White House candidacy

SmallGovTimes.com ^ | March 12, 2007 | SGT News

[AmishDude]

With two fringe group supporting him, he might get 1.1%.

Dream!

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I tell my 11-year-old stepson I'm gonna pack him off to Insult School if he doesn't learn to put a little more edge on his sarcastic back-talk to his mother and me ~~ And a wonderful role model you are.

You are either devoid of children, or else of humor.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

Ron Paul is and votes anti-war and anti-Patriot Act.

You say that like its a bad thing.

[wku man]

Pompous? I can live with that. Bloviation? I can live with that. Out of control government spending and growth? I can not live with that. Same goes for wide open borders and coastlines, infringing on my RKBA, etc. Tancredo, Paul, Thompson...my vote will go to one of them, or their ilk, and not with Rudy McRomney.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Rodney King]

I'm voting for him too. The disdain he gets from the Giuliani crowd here is further proof the we need a real repbulican in the race.

[from occupied ga]

has anything to do with substance.

What, according to you, has substance? The American Conservative Union, unlike you, feels that there is substance to Ron Paul

[wku man]

So? I'm anti-"Patriot" Act and don't much like the way this war is being "fought" (though I'd like to see a real war against our Muslim enemies begin one day...the sooner the better). I've always thought the "Patriot" Act is too much power in the hands of a government that can and will use it against We the Sheeple. Just wait 'til Hilldebeast or Hussein Osama Obama (or Giuliani) get hold of it...it will be a living nightmare.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Rodney King]

and voted with the Dems.

Which candidate has never agreed with the dems on anything? If you can find one, I'll vote for him/her.

[AU72]

The article didn't say which Party he was running under.

[CindyDawg]

Whoa. I'm not an enemy lol. I just saw the Libertarian part. Ok, I'm with ya now though. I'm supporting Duncan Hunter thru the primaries but I like to know about the others. I'll read this later. My concern is that last vote. I never did hear why?

[Redleg Duke]

He'll get at least 15 or 20 votes...if the asylums allow absentee balloting.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

The article didn't say which Party he was running under.

Congressman Paul is running for the Republican Nomination for President of the United States.

However, the Third Parties of the Right are already lining up behind Ron Paul's candidacy for President. Some of their most important leaders have already declared that they will vote Republican this election -- IF Ron Paul is the Nominee.

Libertarian, Constitution Party Leaders endorse Ron Paul for President

In 2008, I'm voting for the REAGAN REPUBLICAN. I'm voting for former Vietnam Combat Flight Surgeon, and Leader of Ronald Reagan's Electoral Delegation from Texas: In 2008, I'm Voting for RON PAUL!

"The greatest champion of conservative principles we have seen in Congress in the past quarter century."
(David T. Pyne, Esq., Vice President of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies.)

[Artemis Webb]

In the interest of constructive criticism I should point out that Ron Paul looks like a dork.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

In your dreams "Dr. Superior Intellect"

Enjoy President Hitlery's Administration when the conservatives sit at home again on election day. That 2k6 performance by the Republicans was just wonderful, wasn't it?

Get used to being a minority party.

[AmishDude]

Slowly, now...A "Castroesque" speech is one that lasts multiple hours and is a rambling mess.

A speech is "Castroesque" regardless of the substance of the speech.

Shall I explain it with a puppet show now or do you get it?

[The_Eaglet]

Thanks for the flag.

[Equality 7-2521]

Well, I agree with the overall sentiment except that I've never been a Libertarian or a Constitutionalist (although I am both a libertarian and constitutionalist), but have rather been registered independent.

I will say that he could win both the L and C nominations and still win less than 4% of the vote in the general elections. If he were to win the R nomination, he would almost be guaranteed 25%. Win all three and that probably puts him at a guaranteed 30%

Getting the word out to the masses who believe in the things he believes in but have become disenfranchised over the last ? years of big Government Republican/Democrat governing and it's a landslide.

So our work is cut out for us no matter how we register.

[AmishDude]

In your dreams "Dr. Superior Intellect"

Just because I'm smarter than you...

Enjoy President Hitlery's Administration when the conservatives sit at home again on election day.

Gee. I thought you already stayed home. You guys have been staying home since 1980 when the LP pulled its best numbers against Reagan when the usual LP folks came together with the low-tax liberals to break the 1% barrier.

What I really don't understand is that you think that you benefit somehow from this strategy. Follow me on this: You stay home. By staying home, you ensure that your political polar opposite takes office. This somehow pleases you. Then, when the next election comes 'round, you threaten again to withhold support because of the insufficient purity of your allies' views or performance in office.

But if they aren't sufficiently pure, do you not think that you will be hurt most by the election of your political polar opposite?

I submit that this strategy only makes sense if you are dishonest about your true political intentions.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Whoa. I'm not an enemy lol. I just saw the Libertarian part. Ok, I'm with ya now though. I'm supporting Duncan Hunter thru the primaries but I like to know about the others.

I don't consider you the "enemy". I respect Congressman Hunter a lot on several important issues. He's probably my "third choice" after Paul and Tancredo.

I'm just, as a fiscal conservative, very uncomfortable with Hunter's penchant for huge Government Pork-Barrel Spending -- as bad as the Republican Congress has been on Government Spending, Hunter's abysmal ratings from the National Taxpayer Union have been bringing the average Republican rating in the House down. He voted 0 out of 19 on the Flake Anti-Pork Amendments (favoring the infamous "bridge to nowhere" and every single other Federal pork-barrel earmark) as compared to Ron Paul's perfect 19 out of 19 score in opposing Federal Spending... it's just hard for me to feel enthusiastic about a guy who blows through taxpayer money like it's his own personal lottery winnings, when we're already putting our children and grandchilden hundreds of billions of dollars into MORE debt every year.

In addition, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church has been at the vanguard of homeschooling, private schooling, and establishing uniquely Christian colleges. As an Orthodox Presbyterian, I am deeply concerned for the historic independence of the Christian Church.

Ron Paul is the ONLY socially-conservative Candidate defending the independence of the Christian Church against Federal "Faith-Based Socialism: "Government funding of religious organizations will transform them into adjuncts of the federal welfare state, more concerned about obeying federal rules and regulations than fulfilling the obligations of their faith." – Ron Paul (source). Every other so-called "social conservative" candidate, including Duncan Hunter, actually FAVORS this underhanded Orwellian Federal assault on the Freedom of the Christian Church.

For the sake of the Independence and Purity of the Church, Christian Conservatives must support Ron Paul.

I'll read this later. My concern is that last vote. I never did hear why?

Ron Paul is voting against continued US support for the Government of Iraq. I believe that his position is correct.

As I have said, the ruling government of Iraq is dominated by the psychopathic gang of murderers known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Islamic Al Dawa Party, who are the very same Islamic Terrorist Parties which bombed the US & French Embassies in Kuwait, and murdered 241 United States Marines in Beirut in 1983. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, of the Al Dawa Party, was the Bureau Chief of the Al Dawa Party's terrorist "Jihad Office" in Damascus in the 1980s and was thus heavily responsible for Al Dawa operations in Beirut, while parliament member Jamal Jafaar Mohammed of his ruling coalition is one of the "Kuwait 17", still under a Kuwaiti death sentence (in absentia) for his direct involvement in the vicious attack on the US Embassy in Kuwait!

So, let me ask you a question: Given that the 2002 State of the Union Address established that the United States MUST NOT lend support to Nations which "harbor terrorists", do you believe that the Federal Government should continue to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American Lives to prop up an Iraqi Government which is dominated by Anti-American Terrorists?

If not, then Ron Paul is the only Principled Conservative choice.

Best, OP

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Please add me to the Ron Paul list.

I'd like to see a Paul/Hunter or Hunter/Paul ticket. They're the only two worth looking at right now that have announced.