Ron Paul Launches Presidential Campaign

[Denny Crane]

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/ron-paul-launches-presidential-campaign-20110425

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, whose outspoken libertarian views and folksy style made him a cult hero during two previous presidential campaigns, will announce on Tuesday that he's going to try a third time.

Paul took 10 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses and 8 percent in New Hampshire’s primary. He finished second, with 14 percent of the vote, in the Nevada caucuses, and eventually finished fourth in the Republican nominating process with 5.6 percent of the total vote. Paul’s campaign book, The Revolution: A Manifesto also reached No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list in 2008.

This would seem to be an ideal year for Paul: Since the last election, the Republican Party has moved much closer to his view on deficit reduction, which made him an early tea party favorite. All of the party's top-tier presidential hopefuls are focusing on lowering debt, government spending, and tax rates, issues Paul has long advocated.

 

[44Thrilla]

he needs to leave the republican party

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

and get a hotel room with Bruno!

 

[barfo]

I will soon announce that I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. It's a game everyone can play. Fun for all ages, 35 and up.

barfo

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Could you or someone else that is interested enough find a link that provides a short summary of his views on the main things? Or just do it yourself.. I haven't had much interest in politics ever but from the little I've researched I think I'm a libertarian..

 

[MARIS61]

Could you or someone else that is interested enough find a link that provides a short summary of his views on the main things? Or just do it yourself.. I haven't had much interest in politics ever but from the little I've researched I think I'm a libertarian..

He can see Cuba from his window.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

he's an old crazy guy.

 

[Denny Crane]

Could you or someone else that is interested enough find a link that provides a short summary of his views on the main things? Or just do it yourself.. I haven't had much interest in politics ever but from the little I've researched I think I'm a libertarian..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

He cant be any worse than Obama!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Donald Trump would be better than Obama.

 

[MrJayremmie]

Donald Trump would be better than Obama.

Trump has no idea how to be a president.

he's an old crazy guy.

Many of his views are not mainstream. I suppose you can say that is crazy.

he needs to leave the republican party

He is far more libertarian, I thought. But I can see the argument that he is a true conservative (unlike them now a days).

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

neither does Obama. He's basically learning on the job. Trump has had more leadership experience than Obama.

 

[MrJayremmie]

neither does Obama. He's basically learning on the job. Trump has had more leadership experience than Obama.

1) Obama has been president for 3 years, I think he has a little more experience than Trump.
2) Obama was at least a senator before his election.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Talking about before he got elected. Senators don't really do that much leading versus the CEO of a major multinational corporation.

 

[MrJayremmie]

Talking about before he got elected. Senators don't really do that much leading versus the CEO of a major multinational corporation.

So we should elect trump now because he almost had the same amount of government experience as Obama in 2008? Why are we talking about 2008? Trump wasn't even running then. Since Obama, according to yourself, did so poory in his first term in office, isn't that reason NOT to elect someone with such little experience?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I'm just saying that Trump is probably better right now than Obama, because Obama is an abject failure. Trump seems to have better ideas and less bullshit, at least to me.

 

[blazerboy30]

So we should elect trump now because he almost had the same amount of government experience as Obama in 2008? Why are we talking about 2008?

Says the guy always wanting to justify Obama's screw-ups with "but Bush did it too!"

 

[MARIS61]

2 words.

"Bizarre combover".

That alone and in itself disqualifies Trump from representing Americans. He seems British to me.

 

[MrJayremmie]

Says the guy always wanting to justify Obama's screw-ups with "but Bush did it too!"

1) Apples and oranges.
2) I can't remember the last time I Okay'd something Obama did because Bush did it.

I'm pretty critical of the president. And I'm just being realistic about Trump.

 

[mook]

I'm registering as a Republican this year (in Idaho the assholes who run this state made it a closed primary system on the Republican side). Then I'm voting for Ron Paul.

I finally realized that my Democratic vote in the general election is fucking worthless in this red state. It's the primaries that matter. Vote Paul. He's a candidate that almost certainly can't win a general presidential election. And even in the ridiculous outside chance he does win, well, I'll take a principled libertarian over a Republican corporate stooge any day.

Side bonus: I'll now be on all the Republican mailing lists. If I'm getting a shit ton of political junk mail that I never read, I might as well get the party I'll never vote for to squander their money on me.

 

[blazerboy30]

I'm registering as a Republican this year (in Idaho the assholes who run this state made it a closed primary system on the Republican side). Then I'm voting for Ron Paul.

I finally realized that my Democratic vote in the general election is fucking worthless in this red state. It's the primaries that matter. Vote Paul. He's a candidate that almost certainly can't win a general presidential election. And even in the ridiculous outside chance he does win, well, I'll take a principled libertarian over a Republican corporate stooge any day.

Side bonus: I'll now be on all the Republican mailing lists. If I'm getting a shit ton of political junk mail that I never read, I might as well get the party I'll never vote for to squander their money on me.

That's the spirit! Let's hope we have a terrible candidate from the opposing party so our party will win! Screw the idea that we should vote for the candidate that is better for the country!

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I will soon announce that I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. It's a game everyone can play. Fun for all ages, 35 and up.

barfo

Please provide your long-form birth certificate.

 

[barfo]

Please provide your long-form birth certificate.

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Birf CERtifikate

This here legal document is all legal and means I wuz borned when I said I was.

sincerely,
Dr. Mi Iz
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[Minstrel]

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Birf CERtifikate

This here legal document is all legal and means I wuz borned when I said I was.

sincerely,
Dr. Mi Iz
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Faked.

 

[mook]

That's the spirit! Let's hope we have a terrible candidate from the opposing party so our party will win! Screw the idea that we should vote for the candidate that is better for the country!

Between Ron Paul and whatever dreck the Republican Party would normally elect in the Bush/McCain mold, Paul is the better candidate for the country. Hence I'll vote for Paul in the primary.

Between Ron Paul and Obama, it's my own opinion that Obama is the better candidate for the country. Hence I'll vote for Obama in the general election.

I'll be casting my vote to get the two best possible candidates in the general election, and then I'll vote to elect the best candidate possible among those two.

So I don't get your point.

 

[barfo]

Faked.

Nonsense. This is the form everyone gets in greater barfistan.

barfo

 

[Minstrel]

Nonsense. This is the form everyone gets in greater barfistan.

Oh okay. I respect your culture. I don't want to be a racist.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/a-non-paul-libertarian-joins-the-republican-fray/

A Non-Paul Libertarian Joins the Republican Fray

When an Albuquerque Journal reporter last went to visit her state’s former governor in Taos, N.M., he answered the door in “boiled-wool slippers and a peace sign T-shirt,” she wrote in a January 2010 column.

“Federal government spending — I’m livid,” the former governor, Gary Johnson, told the reporter, Leslie Linthicum, before amplifying his sentiments with a coarser word. “This whole spending more than you take in, I just think it’s insane.”

On Thursday, on the steps of New Hampshire’s state Capitol, a suit-and-tie-clad Mr. Johnson announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

Mr. Johnson is in favor of legalizing marijuana (a way to weaken Mexican drug cartels) and against continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has said that spending heavily to secure the borders and deport illegal immigrants is not worth the expense. So who invited this hippie to the Tea Party?

Representative Ron Paul, the libertarian standard-bearer, has been encouraging. In June, when speaking to The Daily Caller about his own uncertainty about 2012, Mr. Paul, a Texas Republican, said Mr. Johnson would be the best of the other potential candidates. And as Slate’s Dave Weigel notes, Mr. Johnson hired Mr. Paul’s finance director, Jonathan Bydlak.

Mr. Johnson, governor from 1995 to 2003, has millions of his own money. And he can point to the healthy state of New Mexico’s budget when he left office to establish his clout as a fiscal conservative. Also, it’s not the worst time to be a dark horse. As results of a New York Times/CBS News poll showed on Thursday, Republicans are not exactly enamored with their probable primary menu. (Mr. Johnson did not register in the poll.)

 

[MARIS61]

That's the spirit! Let's hope we have a terrible candidate from the opposing party so our party will win! Screw the idea that we should vote for the candidate that is better for the country!

There are no candidates in the US system, only parties.

I voted for Obama, but in fact all I got was Pelosi and Reid (2 people I would never vote for).

 

[blazerboy30]

Between Ron Paul and whatever dreck the Republican Party would normally elect in the Bush/McCain mold, Paul is the better candidate for the country. Hence I'll vote for Paul in the primary.

Between Ron Paul and Obama, it's my own opinion that Obama is the better candidate for the country. Hence I'll vote for Obama in the general election.

I'll be casting my vote to get the two best possible candidates in the general election, and then I'll vote to elect the best candidate possible among those two.

So I don't get your point.

Really?

Vote Paul. He's a candidate that almost certainly can't win a general presidential election.

Yeah, I can see why it is difficult to get my point.