Re: Ron Paul for president.
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Dec 12, 2007, 4:23 AM
the web is not enough. look how much it helped howard dean. old people, most of whom do not know what the internet is, vote much more reliably than the youtube generation.
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Re: Ron Paul for president.
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Dec 13, 2007, 4:40 AM
Who is better than Dr. Paul? Yes perhaps the web is not enough. We are doing more though, but it is difficult to beat the established media. Cash alone will not do it when news and basicly almost everything you see on tv is financed by these sleezy individuals. I support the honest canidate. Oh well..rather be out there doing something rather than bitchin and doing nothing..
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Re: Ron Paul for president.
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Dec 13, 2007, 5:48 AM
i gotta say delgr, Ron Paul has looked pretty bad in recent televised debates and on talk shows and such. Those things are critical in forming opinions for a majority of people. Look at Huckabee, he was pretty much written off by main stream media, but has had strong showings in debates and local campaigns and is now a frontrunner in some places. Ron Paul does not have that sort of charisma and frankly he often sounds a little nuts on camera.
Unfortunately, it's rarely about the issues. I know some well educated Democrats that strongly favored Richardson -- but same problem, he is just not strong on camera although his resume and experience is impressive.
Oh well, it will be interesting to see what happens.
Re: Ron Paul for president.
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Dec 15, 2007, 12:47 AM
Politics is the art of the possible. With millions of dollars and hundred of thousands of grass roots supporters now, Dr. Paul would indeed appear to have a chance. We can say this much about the man...his thoughts exist in writing in hundreds of essays going back at least thirty years...so we know where he stands on any issue.
The other candidates, except for the televangelist (Huckabee) are polished graduates of prominent law schools. If one is satisfied with the status quo...then one law school graduate candidate would appear to be as good as another.
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Re: Ron Paul for president.
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Jan 27, 2008, 12:45 AM
We are young, we like freedom and all that Ron Paul stands for.
The reason that libertarianism gets a bad rap is that mostly OLD people vote, and the government is set up to take care of old people, with free health care, free meds, and free money every month. The poor, lazy, and many other people NEED the government to keep them in the lifestyle they have grown used to. In most of the world these people live a very poor life, and the ones who earn money are rewarded richly. That is what libertarianism is about, let people go for it, and if they are successful or not they pay the price. But in america, where 30% of the people get money from the government on a regular basis it will be very hard.
Re: Ron Paul for president.
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Jan 27, 2008, 7:11 PM
So ok, lets starve the old, and the poor, or better yet we could shuffle them off into gas chambers and make fertilizer out of them. That way it will only cost us the processing expense, and we would probably recoup that in fertilizer sales. Plus none of them will be hanging around dragging the economy down any longer.
Oh wait, you say that the elderly would be taken care of by local charitable contributions? Well why is it that you don’t consider the element of your tax contribution that supports the poor a charitable contribution then? And what if a town were filled with a load of libertarians who had better things to do with their hard earned dollars than to take care of the worthless? I suppose those people would just have to crawl in a hole and die. That way the only trouble anyone would have to take is to shovel some dirt in over them before getting back to taking care of their own precious prosperity.
I just wish that sarcasm was more efficiently text worthy.
Jeez!!! I am sounding like a freaking liberal! EEEEEK!!! I will never vote for those pork- barreled, constitution-bending, tax-mongering, pro-baby-killers, no way. I am not a liberal. Then what the crap am I? Is that chocolate or…Oh wait a sec, I have my head up my arse. Hey, looky there, peanuts!
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Re: Ron Paul for president.
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Jan 28, 2008, 3:26 PM
I personally would not vote for Ron Paul but I do think he was shut out by the networks unfairly and have no desire to quiet his supporters.
That being said, there are about a million other places on the internet to discuss politics, and we already have enough things to fight with each other about with just Pente
So if things get out of hand on this thread I will close it.
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Re: Ron Paul for president.
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Jun 27, 2008, 4:04 AM
Thanks Awakening, It is interesting to see how many Dr. Paul supporters there are on this sight. Of course certain individuals will always disagree with freedom minded individuals and support socialist and communist political ideas. "wealth redistribution" However the republic of the U.S.A. was founded on free minded individuals. Too bad the leftists brainwash these people into thinking that the federal government is out there to take care of them from cradle to grave. Rather than just taking care of themselves. It would do many much good to study the constitution.
