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Offline Toad

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Who is Ron Paul?
« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2007, 02:30:42 PM »
He's a Republican that  ran as the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate in 1988.

Also, Michael Badnarik, the 2004 Libertarian Party candidate for President  just endorsed Paul for President.

This from Wiki as well:

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Ron Paul joined the Libertarian Party in 1987 as a lifetime member, a status which he appears never to have renounced. Though only elected to Congress as a Republican, Paul remains on good terms with the Libertarian Party and has addressed its national convention as recently as 2004.


I'm not sure just how Republican he is. Like I said, he's sounding better and better.

This is one of his quotes I like:

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Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

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« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2007, 03:16:16 PM »
Ron Paul sounds like a porn name :D

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« Reply #17 on: May 16, 2007, 04:03:49 PM »
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A third tier nobody who will fade back into the woodwork before the year ends.


I might have been wrong about this guy.
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« Reply #18 on: May 16, 2007, 04:07:08 PM »
told ya...  :P

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« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2007, 04:32:01 PM »
Call me cynical, but the republican institution would not endorse Ron Paul. He's just not enough of a politician. They'd endorse a changling democrat first.

It would be like a mick mobster becoming a made man in the mafia. Aint going to happen.

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« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2007, 05:20:33 PM »
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Call me cynical, but the republican institution would not endorse Ron Paul. He's just not enough of a politician. They'd endorse a changling democrat first.

It would be like a mick mobster becoming a made man in the mafia. Aint going to happen.

at the very least he's shaking things up.  I'm still drinking the kool-aid and think it *might* be possible.  He's the only anti-war republican candidate.  Seems like that'll be the make-or-break issue for him.

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« Reply #21 on: May 16, 2007, 07:00:40 PM »
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I might have been wrong about this guy.


:) :p :D
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« Reply #22 on: May 16, 2007, 08:23:51 PM »
I think Ron Paul is Ru Paul's brother, right?
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« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2007, 08:53:06 PM »
Ron Paul is an isolationist among other things.

Essentially he is a fringe populist attractive to conspiracy and NEW WORLD ORDER loons.

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« Reply #24 on: May 16, 2007, 09:54:05 PM »
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Essentially he is a fringe populist attractive to conspiracy and NEW WORLD ORDER loons.


That line says you either have no idea what he stands for or you are living in a different astral plane.

Of course, it could easily say both.
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« Reply #25 on: May 17, 2007, 08:36:08 AM »
He doesn't stand a chance but I like the fact that he is in the republican party.

I wish more libertarians would join the republican party and change it from within... just as the commies all join the democrat party and change it from within.

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« Reply #26 on: May 17, 2007, 09:07:25 AM »
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didn't watch the video, didja?  money's coming in, he's getting a HUGE amount of grassroot support.


So did Howard Dean and look how far he got.
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« Reply #27 on: May 17, 2007, 09:18:00 AM »
Here's Ron Paul on CNN, pretty much explaining why I would vote for him if given the opportunity. He's not some party hack, like every other candidate that has entered the ring so far. He is honest, doesn't spin to win and respects the range of the BOR unlike both democrats and republicans who pick and choose while they take the rest of our rights away.

And, as unpopular as it is, I agree that our foreign policy relative to the Middle East has been a long-running failure back to the 1950s, at least, and something that didn't improve with the end of the Cold War. Does that mean Al Queda was justified in 9/11 -- no. Nor does Paul agree with that. However, our response via the distracting sideshow in Iraq, our ignorace over tribalism, religion and culture relative to "deomcracy" in the region has made a bad situation far worse.

Given a choice between Paul and Fred Thompson, there would be no choice -- Paul would get my vote. Fred and I only agree, on the 2nd and virtually nothing else.

Give a choice between Hillary and Rudy, neither would get my vote even it meant a Hillary win and a new federal AWB the next day (as if Rudy would care). This broken excuse for a political system we have now has to end. I will no longer support the "lesser of two evils" at the federal level. I will at the state for the time being give the agressive attacks on the 2nd that are not experienced almost anywhere else.

Watch the CNN clip, it's short and to the point: CNN Interview

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« Reply #28 on: May 17, 2007, 01:13:00 PM »
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« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2007, 02:42:31 PM »
huckabee is worth looking into also...he has very constitutional ideas about the second..  I am in complete agreement with him.. he also has sensible ideas on illegal aliens..

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