…not just the Republican nomination because the others implode, but the November election because the country is tired of Obama. Then what? Given the state of our bought and paid for Congress, will President Ron Paul be able to do anything other than veto whatever comes before him? Will Congress ensure he’s irrelevant?
Would your Uncle Dave vote for him if he runs against Obama? Small fed government, wants the government out of out private lives, anti-interventionist, etc. Those are on my wishlist. He goes too far on a few things, but he’s got my vote!
In a year of flameouts, nonstarters and unfulfilled potential, one Republican presidential candidate is clearly exceeding expectations. His name is Ron Paul.
He is eccentric and sometimes appears a little cranky, but the septuagenarian candidate has done several things that Mitt Romney can’t claim. He has raised more money in this campaign than in his last (Romney has raised more than Paul but less than he did in 2008). He has enlarged his base of support and has risen in the polls over the course of the year.
The media are fond of asking Dr. Paul if he will run as a third party candidate, assuming he will not win the GOP nomination. What needs to be acknowledged is that one of the other candidates will surely run independent or third party if Paul DOES win the nomination, thereby diluting his power to win the presidency.
I registered republican to vote for him in the primary and I will write him in for the general election if he does not get put in by the Libertarian party.
I’m right there with you on that!
I’ve only ever voted 3rd party, in the 12 years I’ve been old enough to vote. However, I registered republican for the primary too.
I feel the same way.
Ron Paul is the last off-ramp on the highway to hell.
Will we turn or burn?
I will vote for him. He is the only honest politician around. He has integrity. Not only that he – is an obstetrician. He is a little eccentric, but smart as hell. He is the only candidate worried about freedom – the others would like to lock up people for terrorism with no trial. They also want to redefine terrorism: Disagreement, protesting, complaining, grandmother traveling etc.
Where can Europeans sign up for voting in a US president?
“honest politician” the ultimate oxymoron. He’s just a better class of hooker no more no less.
I understand your being jaded, who wouldn’t be? But in this particular instance you honestly don’t know that in the hell you are talking about.
Uncle Davie Stalin will not ever vote for Ron Paul, he’s way to much hooked on the big government thing.
Paul’s winning me over. Sort of like a Conservative Libertarian Pat Paulsen.
Problem with RP in office is that it’s a guaranteed failure of the executive branch. Congress will ensure he fails because he’s too anti-establishment.
Today, the Teapublican House is stifling an operational government. Imagine if both sides of Congress work against him.
That may be true, but he would seriously disrupt the current power-elite and have them scrambling. That is about all we can hope for.
sorry, no support from me. the guy doesn’t believe in evolution so I’m not interested in anything he has to say.
If he did become president, he would be assassinated. This is why Obama hasn’t been doing jack shit since he entered office. If Obama ever did do anything in the interest of “the people” and not corporate/lobbyist interests, he’d be shot. Just ask JFK, or his brother RFK who almost became president. Oh and ask MLK about that too while you’re at it.
Republican, Conservative, Democrat, or Liberal, is all MEANINGLESS now because with Obama in office, it doesn’t MATTER who apparently has “the power” since the President apparently no longer has it. Even when Democrats apparently had a majority at the capitol, they got nothing done. Now Republicans are in majority control, and STILL nothing gets done. Oh except losing our constitutionalism rights, that’s all that’s getting done between Senate/Congress vacations every season.
If Bush was reelected for a 3rd term, we’d be in the EXACT same situation right now. It makes no difference which puppet is in the White House; it’s the same people for the past several generations pulling the strings.
Now it’s about corporate greed and special interest lobbyists Vs. the rest of us. So what makes them special? Corporate money that used to be ours until you decided to buy some irrelevant product made by these “…corporations,” advertised and hyped by the media sell outs.
We do not live in a real democracy.
We do not live in a real free market.
It’s a scam.
Keep eating McD’s fries so you’ll end up diabetic and sick and be on Big Pharma’s medications for the rest of your life… SLAVE.
HugsaLot,
That is a rather harsh comment on the post and state of affairs we are in today. There are still some options left for people to work against the powers of the corporation and other corruption. Disrupting the power elite and placing restrictions on them is still possible via amendments and other legal action. ( PLEDGE FOR A DEMOCRATIC AMERICA) and reversal of Buckley v. Valeo).
We have to gobeyond comments and move towards political action.
LL comes up with another howler:
Federal Bureaucracies strengthen corporations. Cut out the bureaucracies and the corporations have to fend for themselves.
Yes, just like the police strengthen criminals. Cut out the police, and the criminals will have to fend for themselves!
How’s the weather in Black-is-White land, LL?
Listen people… Ron Paul wants to abolish the SEC. He wants to let those nice Wall Street people do whatever they want.
Unregulated Wall Street caused the Great Depression and the economic troubles we’re in now.
Ron Paul wants to abolish the EPA. Let those nice corporations dump their toxic wastes wherever they want. And if you have a problem
with that, you can sue Exxon, with their armies of lawyers. Good luck.
We have a large, complex country with large and powerful corporations looking to make a buck any way they can, it’s the capitalist way.
If we don’t protect ourselves from their extremes, we will be back to the days of the Robber Barons, when corporations ruled the land
and we the people were poor, miserable, and screwed. Read your history.
P,
Read your history.
I have. And the “Robber Barons” are the ones who paid for regulations that favored them.
Why do lobbyists spend money on politicians?