2007-11-13 16:29:38 · 13 answers · asked by Naturescent 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
http://www.ronpaulforpresident2008.com/news/
2007-11-13 17:13:03 · update #1
Because mainstream news is censored by the individual or corporations which own them. Rupert Murdock censors Fox News, and their inside memos are slanted to the views they want you to believe, and not based on the truth. In all honesty all this tells me is that the media fears Ron Paul. For he will expose the darkness of all the rats which have controlled the news and the minds of the people for years...it was the Washington Post which helped Rockefeller get his plans and agenda to where they are right now. Ron Paul is not behind any corporation such as Rand, GE, Ford, Fox News, Carnegie Foundation, etc. He does not endorse any lobby group such as Diebold, KBR, or Chase Bank/Rockefeller funded CIA-founded Manhattan Institute . The media cannot control Ron Paul's massive group of national and global supporters so they try to dupe the public by keeping him at the bottom of the polls (what polls are these is what I would like to know?) and slander Ron Paul and call us tin foil hats and spambots. It is because Ron Paul wants to take back America, and give it back to the people and take it away from the corporations and special interest groups, including his platform for a FREE internet. He wants a free internet because they cannot censor what the blogger or Yahoo Answerist will write and this is what has made him such a success. They not only call him a Libertarian, but they have called him an Isolationist which isn't true either. What they should do is just give him his own party - and call it the Constitutionalist Party. Since he is the ONLY one out there who supports and stands 101% behind the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I just hope he is able to be heard in Michigan and Iowa. Great question, by the way...
Peace.
2007-11-13 17:00:50 · answer #1 · answered by kymeth 3 · 5⤊ 4⤋
It is the test of our news media, this lovely internet of ours, a bastion of freedom and an inherently uncontrollable medium of exchange. What is often called the mainstream media, (hereby abbreviated MSM) is an orwellian scam that has for years tried to define 'how everyone thinks' and 'how everyone acts' by it's own devices. Even though anyone with a life outside of the umbilical cord of television can attest to the fact that Ron Paul is the most popular candidate they see, that more people talk about him than all other candidates combined, these corporate media conglomerates want to see him squashed. And why? The answer is complicated. Suffice to say that economics is the answer. Those in power have always feared change, and noone with a clue doubts that the MSM is the tool of those in power. There is not much more to say, I'm afraid. This presidential election will decide whether we truly are the braindead xenophobic morons that spend our lives watching horrible TV shows and getting our news from the same slick reporters we always have(both on the 'net and cable), or whether we are willing to pay allegiance to the decentralized, uncontrollabe, but far superior information dissipation of the internet. That's just my 2cents
2016-04-04 00:07:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that is what he is. He left the Libertarian Party because we have a two-party system and he could not get elected as a Libertarian. But, who really cares? Maybe a Republican that wants to vote for a Republican?
2007-11-13 20:13:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because Ron Paul is a libertarian who belongs to the Republican party.
2007-11-13 17:30:07 · answer #4 · answered by phab_4 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
The word libertarian is a little confusing. When it is capitalized it refers to the Libertarian Party, when in lower case it refers to the political philosophy. A good example would be i can believe in the idea that our nation should be a republic therefor i could be called a republican... but i am not unnecessarily a member of the Republican Party.
2007-11-13 16:36:54 · answer #5 · answered by Felsen 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Other Republicans refer to him as a "Libertarian" because Ron Paul was the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1988.
The news media refers to him as a libertarian because he is from the libertarian faction of the Republican Party (those who have a small government philosophy that shares many elements with the economic part of the Libertarian Party platform).
2007-11-13 16:49:30 · answer #6 · answered by Tmess2 7 · 6⤊ 5⤋
He's a Libertarian who ran as a Republican and won. This is in Texas where most Republicans are small-l libertarians.
Rudy and Mitt and Fred and John are real Republicans. They all have no real opinions or positions of their own, they assume party positions on all the issues. This is one reason why Republican candidate debates are so dull, everyone is on the same side of every question.
Paul is the only 'independent' Republican, the only one who speaks his mind, the only one who criticizes Bush and the war. Because he doesn't feel he has to stick to the Republican party line.
And once you get past that, his ideas are all very libertarian. He believes in privatization of police and fire departments, not just abolishing the federal Dept. of Education but public education altogether, total abolition of regulations on commerce, etc. etc. His views would be considered extreme even for a Republican, because he's not a Republican, he's a Libertarian.
2007-11-13 16:38:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 6⤋
Ron Paul is referred to as a Libertarian by his rivals so that he would not be nominated as a Republican.
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2007-11-13 16:37:55 · answer #8 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 5⤊ 6⤋
i hear you where are the people calling rudy a demacrat , he ran first as a dem and lost , the only one i hear calling him what he is (by there own logic ) is his mom.
"He only became a Republican after he began to get all these jobs from them. He's definitely not a conservative Republican. He thinks he is, but he isn't. He still feels very sorry for the poor." -- Rudy's mother Helen
Nathan Deal (Georgia congressman) -
First elected: 1992
Switched to GOP: April 10, 1995
Career since switch: Re-elected in 1996, '98, '00, '02, '04; still serves (ran unopposed in 2004)
Greg Laughlin (Texas congressman) -
First elected: 1988
Switched to GOP: June 26, 1995
Career since switch: Lost GOP primary runoff to ex-Rep. Ron Paul in 1996
Mike Parker (Mississippi congressman) -
First elected: 1988
Switched to GOP: November 10, 1995
Career since switch: Re-elected in 1996; retired in 1998; unsuccessful GOP nominee for governor in 1999
Jimmy Hayes (Louisiana congressman) -
First elected: 1986
Switched to GOP: Dec. 1, 1995
Career since switch: Gave up House seat in 1996 to run for the Senate, but lost in primary
Virgil Goode (Virginia congressman) -
First elected: 1996
Switched to GOP: April 2002 (became independent in 2000)
Career since switch: Re-elected in 2002, '04; still serves (64% in 2004)
Ralph Hall (Texas congressman) -
First elected: 1980
Switched to GOP: Jan. 3, 2004
Career since switch: Re-elected in 2004 with 68%
Rodney Alexander (Louisiana congressman) -
First elected: 2002
Switched to GOP: Aug. 6, 2004
Career since switch: Re-elected in 2004 with 59%
yet you dont hear anyone bitching about them
ron paul was elected as a republican first
2007-11-13 18:05:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Because they want to confuse people. It is as simple as that. They have totally ignored Ron Paul because they don't want to face the fact that HE is the person that the people want.
2007-11-13 16:35:36 · answer #10 · answered by Fedup Veteran 6 · 9⤊ 7⤋