I mean with all the vote tampering, etc in recent elections, and how it seems that Sen. Paul is by far the rational persons (well, Republicans) pick, he raised more money in 1 day than any other Republican!
How can he lose to a neo-conartist or a socialistic democrat?
2007-11-27 17:14:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Fred- why would terrorists attack you for leaving their country? The blame would be on the neo-cons who started whe whole damn mess (I daresay they hate them a whole lot more than Dr. Paul!)
As for him being a nut... I don't think nutters have ever performed over 1000 baby delivaries.
2007-11-27 17:22:57 · update #1
Commanderbuck- If you check, he's not for cutting & running! He NEVER supported the war.
He's the ONLY Republican to have voted against the war from the very beginning!
He knows how pointless it is and how much of a drain it is on the country!
Seriously now, how can you win a war on *terror*? You can't! It's an excuse for an endless war.
2007-11-27 17:31:30 · update #2
Fred- Do you really think you can win a war on terror? You just keep on piling in endless money & lives until people say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Even if, as Bush said, it ended in decades, how would it end? By pulling out? Or by killing everyone who hates the US?
2007-11-27 17:37:37 · update #3
Geez give me a break- *Congressman* Ron Paul, then. Happy? No.. Didn't think so.. >.> It's not like the media have ever made that mistake..
2007-11-27 18:24:46 · update #4
I was on a flight coming back in and the guy next to me had some gun mags and we stated talking about them and what we had. We were in 1st class and just talking. Then he told me he was the Libertarian state party chairman. We talked some political stuff and then out of the blue he brought up that a survey said no one would care if bill go it.
At this point I going like he must have a problem and it is insane to say that, but did ask whose survey. anyway I pulled out the laptop and did some stuff on purpose. When we landed the guy in front of us. Turned around and really let him have it and said anyone that would make that statement has to be insane and that's why his party wasn't doing good(he said it sorta like that, but I thought i might have to grab the guy).
Later at the luggage wheel I saw the guy and went up and asked him who he was and he turned out to be a baptist preacher and had never heard such garbage.
so not to say anything against anyone as I think people should band together for the good of the country, but I thought that an odd scenario. Never know what will happen, think positvie everybody. Hey , this one will get em going. How about Hawaii in the championship game? Sorry Mele. tAke cre.
2007-11-30 17:30:41 · answer #1 · answered by R J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will be very disappointed, but I have never had any faith in democracy. If you've been around libertarians long, then I'm sure you've heard the Heinlein quote, "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner." Those neo-conartists and socialist democrats (two names for the same thing) win because they own the system and they tell the people what they want to hear. Ron Paul doesn't have either of those tools. He's way too honest for that. He's a political outsider and he tells people what he believes to be true. I hope he wins, but I'm not holding my breath. The grand experiment is a failure and the Republic is dead. -yk
2007-11-28 14:21:11 · answer #2 · answered by Yaakov 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Democracy is an evolving thing, however I would most likely like to leave this country since the alternative to Ron Paul is more liberty being taken and less education for all the dumbed down citizens. way to go federal education.
Lets be honest has one other candidate made any comments on the economic situations developing or are they all on the spend to prosperity kick...1.9 trillion for war and babies are dieing from lack of funding to Medicaid.
There are still places to go that value freedom,Education and have a justice system that works. The US has just had a case of amnesia, a good swift kick in the balls would wake them up to the reality of the US citizens real power. They don't have all the cards... yet. But they will if You don't do Something now!
2007-11-28 03:27:34 · answer #3 · answered by skotkolr 2 · 5⤊ 5⤋
A silly question with lots of even more silly answers.
Let us get it straight,
He cannot possibly be nominated, even if he raised a hundred million. That does not determine the nomination.
The party determines who has the best chance of winning, not high school juniors.
2007-11-28 13:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
My faith in democracy hardly rests on the status of Ron Paul. How can he lose? Before we can ask that question he has to get into a position of being able to compete to win. I give Paul's supporters an "A" for loyalty but an "F" for being realists. The Republicans will never, but never, offer the nomination to Ron Paul. That is a basic fact that none of them wish to accept. They don't like him, don't trust him, and don't think he's one of them. You guys can throw money at Paul, and even get him the slight bump he's had in the polls, but that's a fact not one of you can change. If the man had any sense he'd realize that and give himself a fighting chance by running independently. Did you really say Paul's a Senator? Wow, you really know your candidate don't you lol?
2007-11-28 02:12:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 6⤋
nope not at all. i worked in the 80's to get the libertarian party on the ballot in texas, (ron paul used to be libertarian). the libertarians and ron paul, (now a republican), are basicly unelectable. their strict constitutionist ideas are very sound and in my op, correct. but people in this country cannot relate to such concepts.
what ron paul and the libertarians do is keep these very sound ideas out there and in the day light. that's a very important thing too!
2007-11-28 03:40:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 5⤋
Actually he's probably the only republican that can stop the "Hillary backlash vote". People will vote (even reluctantly) for whatever democrat just to get the heck away from the republican candidates and the neocon mutants of the last 8 years.
Paul is the only candidate who's supported by both parties equally and the only candidate that seems to want to represent the people of the United States for a change. No lobby groups and no special interest groups
ps, he's delivered 4000.
2007-11-28 01:22:32 · answer #7 · answered by TJTB 7 · 8⤊ 10⤋
I will lose all faith in the media ho's. Oh wait, that pretty much happened soon after he announced. If the internet didn't exist, he wouldn't have had a chance.
2007-11-28 01:33:40 · answer #8 · answered by ThomasS 5 · 9⤊ 5⤋
Quite the opposite. It will reinforce that some crazed fanatics on the net who do not even know who thier own candidate is (he is not and never has been a Senator) cannot affect an election.
It will reinforce that Americans are looking for real solutions not sound bites about the evil of government. It will reinforce that we vote looking forward, not pretending that pre-civil war federalism was perfect and 1950s values superior.
It will confirm that a man that polled 0.5% of the vote in 1988 is still not wanted by America and that a man getting less than 5% support from his own party's following cannot win an election.
2007-11-28 01:24:08 · answer #9 · answered by Sageandscholar 7 · 6⤊ 11⤋
you may need to take a math class. numbers are not in his favor. nor is logic. also where is this "vote tampering" you speak of? which one I should say.
How can he lose to a neo-conartist or a socialistic democrat?
interesting ideas in democracy and voting...........
2007-11-28 01:24:52 · answer #10 · answered by Carl P 7 · 5⤊ 8⤋