Dr. Paul’s opponents are desperate to stop Americans from listening to, and subsequently electing Ron Paul. Opponents of liberty falsely present Ron Paul as “unelectable” to the American people, attempting to plant subconscious seeds doubt of “don’t listen to him, don’t vote for him in the primaries or caucuses because he’ll never win”. This strategy is failing as more Americans hear Dr. Paul speak, leading them to contribute to his campaign and vote for him. The American public understands Dr. Paul’s common sense approach and trusts him. The other candidates are clearly in the race to serve their egos and personal agendas. The “Dr. Paul is not electable” rumors are deliberately created and spread solely as a calculated attempt to confuse honest, hard-working American with falsehoods such as “Ron Paul is crazy, anti-women, anti-Israel and anti-blacks. He’s isolationist, he’ll wreck the country, he’s anti-government”. These are simple “control the masses” fear tactics to try and stop Americans from actually listening to Dr. Paul, hearing his logical and intelligent plan and deciding for themselves.
At this point I’d like to see him get nominated so I can watch him debate Obama and ask Obama what does he think he is doing by calling out American citizens for assassination by the government. Would be great entertainment!
“At this point I’d like to see him get nominated so I can watch him debate Obama…”
Indeed, if the MSM wants to add some REAL spice to its “Presidential X-Factor” Reality Show, a rhetorical punch-up between Ron & Barry would really set the ratings on fire…
Of course, as most people who understand Paul’s positions & who have heard him speak will realize, Barry will be the big-time underdog in that match-up. I can only imagine the mud that the Obama camp would have to sling in order to try and stay standing; then again, we’re already used to BS being flung at Paul (*cough*NEWSLETTERS!!!*cough*).
Now that would be television I would watch. “Presidential X-Factor”. And it has to be a live X-Factor. No prerecorded production.
I will assume The X Factor is a television production that is targeting a demographic that is the lowest common denominator of intelligence in a particular age group.
I doubt such a group of viewers would comprehend anything that Ron Paul says.
Not so much X-Factor as Fear Factor…
The irony will be that Ron Paul will have to school a Constitutional Attorney on the Constitution.
Apparently Obama was asleep in law school.
Who will agree, a vote for Ron Paul is a vote for O’Bama? He’s got some great ideas. And, as McCullough stated. he may be our last chance to regain the Bill of Rights. Still, he’s got a couple of major drawbacks.
One is he’s 76 years old! And looks it. Is this nation ready to throw away a young handsome pres for an old man? In a debate, he’d ask the tough questions but O’B would have the right lies. I’m afraid the debates would come down to Nixon vs Kennedy. People who heard the debate thought Nixon won. People who watched the debate thought Kennedy was the winner. Never underestimate the American preference for good-looking politicians.
Second is that Paul is so right leaning he is essentially advocating an isolationist America. Even some of the domestic policies he advocates border on looney town. So, either the Repubs do NOT win the Senate and you have four (more) years of a do nothing Congress and a pres who (like O’B) rules by edict. OR, Repubs DO end up in control of both Houses and America is pulled back to the 19th century.
I like Ron Paul but I fear him. I don’t like O’B but I fear him. The real question is who should we fear most?
I guess you like the idea of a Chancellor Obama. Hope and Change. Seig Heil!
Christ! You’ve obviously never read any of my posts before! Probably the worst thing that can happen is for O’B to win a second term. I was merely pointing out, above, that I believe RP can not be elected and explained a couple of reasons why. What’s really sad is there is no one on the Repub side I prefer to RP.
One is he’s 76 years old! And looks it. Is this nation ready to throw away a young handsome pres for an old man?
Age discrimination is something that I fight every day. I do not understand why older people are considered “washed up” when they are in fact more knowledgeable and experienced than younger people.
Second is that Paul is so right leaning he is essentially advocating an isolationist America.
Ron Paul is advocating a foreign policy that makes sense. — we should stay out of the affairs of sovereign nations.
This nation can no longer afford to pay for military bases all around the globe. We need to learn how to take care of our own country before we take care of other countries. Etc. etc.
I don’t like the look of those teenagers over there.
Second is that Paul is so right leaning he is essentially advocating an isolationist America
Isolationism is the complete pulling back of everything. He is just wanting to bring the military home.
We isolate ourselves when we are not longer friends with other countries, but rulers, through blackmail such as economic sanctions and threats of invasion.
He is advocating a pro-diplomacy stance, culture exchanges, and trade. That is not isolationism.
The GOP is going to have to come to terms with him. If they ignore him, they are isolating his base, of which a non-trivial number will not vote for a GOP candidate other than him. The GOP is between a rock and a hard case. And the media knows it which is why they keep spouting the loony comments.
“I’m afraid the debates would come down to Nixon vs Kennedy. People who heard the debate thought Nixon won. People who watched the debate thought Kennedy was the winner. Never underestimate the American preference for good-looking politicians.”
“The medium is the message”. Shallow Americans do vote on who they “like” irrespective of policy. Sucks for us so I’ll gander that it’ll be Ken doll vs the incumbent.
Marshall Mcluhan
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZF8jej3j5vA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ImaH51F4HBw
The mainstream news service won’t even call Ron Paul “doctor”. Probably out of fear that his superior education (to most of the other candidates) might unduly influence the public’s mind to vote for him. And yet, you can bet if Romney or Perry or Newt were doctorates of anything (like butt kissing), they’d be so addresses. Instead, we hear Governor Romney, or Governor Perry, etc. By rights, Ron ought to be called Congressman Doctor Ron Paul. But instead they’re more likely to call him the Crazy Congressman. Not even “Crazy Ronny”, because that might remind us too much of Ronald Reagan.
Here’s an interesting clip.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SiNnLjXLJq0
And this was the guy who would have been the President, if the voters were so turned off by his running mate, Sarah Palin. What a way to shoot your candidacy in the foot, eh? McCain is clearly a puppet, whose strings often get a bit tangled. And he’s still in Congress, even though he’s easily befuddled during speeches. How does he do, making bills into laws? That should be everyone’s concern. Is there a point when you’re too old to do the damn job? Apparently the GOP doesn’t think so. Nor some of these southern states, who’ve had representatives die while in office. Because they couldn’t think of anyone to replace their aging fossils. Good thing Santa Claus isn’t Republican, cause he’d be a Senator of Alaska, forever.
Santa is Alaskan???
You realize he hires “elves” not “nomes”,,,
Is there a point when you’re too old to do the damn job?
Robert Byrd proved the answer is no.
McCain was a nincompoop and won Republican primaries with whopping 30% votes in winner-take-all states.
He sucked.
The big question is whether he will run as an independent.
We all know he ain’t going to get the nomination, and he has stated he will not run indep so not to make the same mistake of splitting your sides votes.
But if he can be convinced that he was robbed, and knows he will get a lot of democrat votes, he should go for it.
He knows the establishment will continue as is with who ever is in other than him. This is his last chance. Let’s hope he was a pair.
Wow people are sheep.
All those that are for Paul are the mirror duplicates that fell for the hopenosis of Obama.
Ron Paul would be a terrible president. He will either stymie the process of government by vetoing everything or by asking for things the congress would never grant.
If you think we are an an impass now? Elect Paul for a full stop.
He is lying to you. Just like Obama lied. They all do. That is their job. To lie to you so they can be elected and maintain the status quo.
Stop being so gullible and think for yourselves. I know that means turning off your TV and putting down your precious alcohol for awhile.
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So who will you be voting for?
I am guessing you have an appropriate candidate in mind…
Same as last election. A write in for no cofidence.
I cannot vote for any of the evil that come from a corrupt system.
To vote for the lesser evil or not the other guy is to play in their system that changes nothing but faces and names. The plutocrats remain in control no matter who wins.
Only a new constitution will enact real change. And anyone that thinks their vote will count this time after voting for over 50 years abd getting the same thing is either insane or stupid.
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Thanks Cursor. I don’t often agree with you, but you got this mostly right.
Except, that I don’t think Paul is lying so that he can get elected to maintain the status quo. I think he is fooling himself (and followers) into thinking that he, as president, can actually change things.
If and only if he were to be elected simultaneously with a congress (at least a House majority) willing to support his goals would he make any progress. Otherwise, you will have what we have now. A president who, in order to be able to say he accomplished something, went along with a health care plan that nobody likes and that has stymied his chances of doing much of anything else.
But, not to worry. The “people” won’t elect Ron Paul.
It would be nice if they would at least listen to him though.
He is doing what they all do.
He says that earmarks are bad and only adds to the deficit, then gets them for his district and states that congress should spend the money.
He says he is against foreign aggression and then supports the measure to attach Afghanistan and then whine he doesn’t like how it is being handled. Then further that by his desire for letters of marque and reprisal. He is still an aggressor, just a covert one like Reagan and Nixon.
He says we should have no foreign entanglements, but to satisfy his desire for hard currency and to remove the fiat system he will allow foreign banks to trade their currency for the US use. We tried that in the 1800s and that failed.
He wants to be president of The Union and yet wants to cede power to the states.
He is just bad all around and so many unsound ideas. But people whom do not know history well or government think he is great. Just goes to show how bad education can make it easy for people selling snake oil.
Obama in 2008 now Paul in 2012.
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These are all sound bites from the Main Stream Media.
Do some actual research behind them.
Otherwise, you’re just another tool of the establishment.
He is the only anti-establishment candidate anywhere.
The establishment is the problem. Sorry other peoples money is about to run out, and monetary inflation is not good. We already tax far too much. What you want 90 per cent levels!!!
RP is the only president that will drastically cut spending, without too much human misery. For those who go for the other GOP spending cut strategy, that will indeed be inhuman.
How can he be anti-establishment when he wants to be the leader of the establishment?
That is like saying I am against the selling of meat and you are a butcher.
It is so sad that people cannot even see how ignorant they are being.
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You don’t know about the fascist corporate control of all recent POTUS’s?
RP is the only independent one who will resist and do some necessary house cleaning.
Who knows what could arise?
End of the corporate personality?
Nationalization of the already taxpayer backed banks?
Glass-stegal as was the original version intact?
Execution of traitor banksters just like China?
Global closure of bases, slashing the military budget along with shutdown of associated logistics business.
Actual destruction of dope crops, mass spraying in afghan and Columbia. Columbia being the one country that should be occupied for mexico’s and usa’s national security.
Ending the global unbalance of trade by refusing any more debt ceiling increases.
Killing the monster that is high finance and bringing back the real true American sense of industry, with real physical economy accounting.
Bringing back the morality of American employment.
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If USA elects Romney who is a hedge fund corporate raider job destoyer, historians are going to scratch their heads on that one.
First we fix the presidency, then we elect a congress that will work with Ron Paul.
I am thinking for myself and have done a lot of research. That said research allows me to tell you that Ron Paul is the best man for the job.
If the man with two first names were elected, and his ideas came to fruition, this would be a different country. The US would be ruled by corporations who dirtied our air and water, made out food and drugs unsafe, owned all of the Commons, while WE THE PEOPLE had to pay for everything, even breathable air!
On the other hand, people of color would get their own water fountains.
Ron Paul. A good reason never to trust anyone with two first names!
You should read his works on these subjects. You couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Please do yourself and your family a favor and do a little research before you propagate these kinds of lies.
I did my homework on him.
No thanks I don’t drink the refreshments handed out by madmen.
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Which books did you read?
I read his platform. That was enough for me.
Hard currency based on precious metals? No thanks we did that and it failed.
Covert aggression against our enemies. Can you say Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
Ceding power to the states, weakening the federal government?
Separatist talk, counter to The Union.
No thanks. No kool-aid for me from Obama or Paul.
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If reading his platform is considered “research” then no wonder you are confused.
Please, do yourself and your family a favor and dig a little deeper. Yes, everything on the surface may be appear to be loony because it goes against the last 100 years of politic that we’ve been indoctrinated to all of our lives. But once you understand the underlying reasoning, nobody can fail to grasp the concepts and how it is our only path forward.
If every other politician running is promoting the same thing, and that thing is nothing more than more of the same, and those same politicians are denigrating Dr. Paul, then perhaps that should be something to consider, too. Surely you don’t think he is the worse than Obama or Romney or any of the others.
Ron Paul. A good reason never to trust anyone with two first names!
So it is the name that is important?
Let’s eliminate all the candidates with weird names …
Toss out Mitt Romney … done.
Toss out Newt Gingrich … done
Toss out Rick Santorum … done
Toss out Rick Perry … (two first names) … done
Toss out Barack Obama … done
Now I am wondering where we will find a candidate with an appropriate name ….
John Smith. That’s it. We must elect John Smith.
Orchi–next time you spy low hanging fruit, avoid them like Loser’s Balls. You’ll find both are jokes.
When I first heard the name Ron Paul, I thought he might be a Pope of the Catholic Church.
He’s been around a long time. I probably thought “Rue Paul”, but you are close enough given both believe in patently offensive dogma.
Ron Paul is a threat to Government waste, fraud and corruption, hence the outcry against him.
Every day more Tea Party folk join him. And the Tea Party is growing.
Ron Paul is a threat to The Union.
Ceding power to the states will make us no better than what was purposed in the Articles of Confederation.
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Then rewrite the Constitution.
The People and States are supposed to have the power, not a bunch of faceless bureaucrats in some concrete tower in DC.
The Tea Party is smoked and butted out. Crumbed. In the ashtray. You’re living in the “intergoogle thingie” age grandpa. Your download speeds are too low. Clear your cache and reboot dude.
Ron Paul is finally the current hotness. Meanwhile his Mittness is starting a general campaign 8 months before the convention. That’s Paul’s opening. If his campaign staff could build a genuine online network they could raise the cash needed by Florida and run all the way through Super Tuesday to Illinois.
Dr. Paul is going to have to trust those young whippersnappers to make this work. Otherwise he’s dead after Florida. The guys who did it for Obama can tell you that it ain’t rocket science.
Teabaggers are chasing the next shiny object. You’re really sinking.
You should have stuck to your original big government principles instead of hitching your wagon to Michele Bachman and the rest of the social engineering bigots.
It would have been a stronger force. Too late, you lose.
The Right pounds the hell out of Obama for cutting a single weapon.
Do they really support Paul’s plan to pull out ALL overseas troops and close all bases?
Rabble Rouser==well said, raising a totally valid concern. Contested on faith by Liberty Loser of course. Double consonant names for both of you? Isn’t that similar to Ayn Rand characters?- – - Oh, sorry, no. That was another comic book series penned by Stan Lee. Same depth, different issues.
No, you see Rouser==Losers in this world believe that WITH laws on the books being violated by Corporations polluting the air and water and food and everything else in the name of profit would if left totally unregulated conform to the morality of those who wish for a clean environment. See–corporations just want a free markeplace so they can voluntarily work in the public good rather than be forced to do so and be made slaves to the public will. See how that works. Very noble those corporations are–if we would just show them more respect, they would return that investment like a gold chip stock. Its our own fault really for passing laws.
This is why losers are losers through and through: can’t tell shit from shinola.
Anyone who really believes that corporations would do the Public good voluntarily, over their sacred profits, I would sell a bridge to, for quite a reasonable price. A very large bridge.
As far as the double consonant name, I was BORN with one, so get off of it!
I think in this day and age four years is too long a term,it should be two.If whoever does a good job turns some things around,let him run eight times.Put up or get out.Love that sign on his desk,I vote for truth.
Un yeah. Most Americans want a 24 hour election cycle.
The GOP are clearly using this election to let their nutcase gadfly candidates run and be done with them.