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(Some Guy) Interesting The three most likely remaining candidates after the next round of dropouts will be McCain, Romney - and Ron Paul   (nolanchart.com) divider line 116
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GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 08:00:16 AM  
the more they mock him, the more they ignore him, the more they dismiss him...

The better I like Dr. Paul

 
Two Dogs Farking [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 08:14:48 AM  
RuPaul

 
Tatsuma [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 09:29:51 AM  
What a retarded article

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 09:40:15 AM  
Rudy in never the fark ever!

 
Churchill2004 [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 09:46:15 AM  
Tatsuma: What a retarded article

As smitty, I agree. The basic point about Ron Paul still being in after the race after it gets whittled down to one or two others is valid, though.

 
HaywoodJablonski [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 10:49:05 AM  
Still has to spend his fundraising dollars. Doesn't mean he actually has a chance

 
Littledogg 2008-01-27 11:05:13 AM  
What happened to Duncan Hunter?

 
hej 2008-01-27 11:06:44 AM  
HaywoodJablonski: Still has to spend his fundraising dollars. Doesn't mean he actually has a chance

I am left a bit curious what will happen to the money he's raised, since he doesn't appear to be spending much of it.

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 11:07:10 AM  
Littledogg: What happened to Duncan Hunter?

He refused to give Ron Paul one of his last names.

 
BoozePenguin 2008-01-27 11:07:36 AM  
www.ismyhomegirl.com

This.

 
HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 11:10:17 AM  
Tatsuma: What a retarded article

Come on Tats, you can do better than that.

 
HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 11:14:37 AM  
Snarfangel: Littledogg: What happened to Duncan Hunter?

He refused to give Ron Paul one of his last names.


And it's going... going.... gone!

 
Weaver95 [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 11:16:46 AM  
If Rudy drops out, then what will Fox news do? They've been ignoring Ron Paul for a month now. With Rudy gone and Paul being one of the last guys standing...they'll finally be FORCED to actually mention him on air.

That alone is worth it.

 
Jaykzo 2008-01-27 11:22:39 AM  
Weaver95: If Rudy drops out, then what will Fox news do? They've been ignoring Ron Paul for a month now. With Rudy gone and Paul being one of the last guys standing...they'll finally be FORCED to actually mention him on air.

That alone is worth it.



You'd think so, right?

After this last debate, though, I've decided that the media is absolutely hellbent on giving him as little coverage as possible, even if it destroys their credibility.

Thursday's debate on MSNBC- Only 5 candidates on stage, and in the two-hour post-debate analysis, they only talked about four of them. They mentioned Giuliani a dozen times, and he's getting demolished by Paul right now. Yet they still completely ignored his entire performance.

And I wonder why when I talk to people about Ron Paul they all say the same thing- "Who?"

 
Jaykzo 2008-01-27 11:26:01 AM  
Ron Paul's personal message to the campaign, after one year from its start.

 
mikeandeichmann 2008-01-27 11:26:50 AM  
Hey guys! There's this great new candidate named Ron Paul you should check out!

Ron Paul.

 
chiett 2008-01-27 11:29:55 AM  
BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!



.
Not even if he was the only name on the ballot.

 
Jaykzo 2008-01-27 11:30:28 AM  
chiett: BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!



.
Not even if he was the only name on the ballot.


You must really hate the constitution

 
Kublai Khan [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 11:32:51 AM  
Churchill2004: Tatsuma: What a retarded article

As smitty, I agree. The basic point about Ron Paul still being in after the race after it gets whittled down to one or two others is valid, though.


So what? You don't get silver medals in this race.

 
HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 11:33:45 AM  
Weaver95: they'll finally be FORCED to actually mention him on air.

That would be worth it.

kaha.home.bresnan.net

 
Jaykzo 2008-01-27 11:35:44 AM  
Kublai Khan: Churchill2004: Tatsuma: What a retarded article

As smitty, I agree. The basic point about Ron Paul still being in after the race after it gets whittled down to one or two others is valid, though.

So what? You don't get silver medals in this race.


You must have missed what his campaign was about...

He'll say it time and time again. He's trying to reverse the direction that this country is moving. Winning the election would be the best way to do this, but it's not the only way.

He's more concerned about the ideas of freedom and constitutional law becoming mainstream than he is about winning this election.

 
Mr Logo 2008-01-27 11:38:10 AM  
RON PAUL

 
Skanklips 2008-01-27 11:41:20 AM  
RAWN PAUL

 
Skanklips 2008-01-27 11:42:18 AM  
RAAN PALL

 
jafiwam 2008-01-27 11:43:55 AM  
Jaykzo: He's more concerned about the ideas of freedom and constitutional law becoming mainstream than he is about winning this election.

Then he should team up with Ralph Nader and they can lose (idealistically) together.

 
HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 11:44:44 AM  
PALL MALL

*koff*

 
Donald_McRonald 2008-01-27 11:44:55 AM  
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN PAUL!

 
Skanklips 2008-01-27 11:46:04 AM  
LAWN FALL

 
Jennifer 2008-01-27 11:54:53 AM  
They keep trying to sweep Ron Paul under the rug and ignore him. Meanwhile he remains the 800-pound gorilla in the room that refuses to leave. The republican's most formidable weapon the filibuster isn't at their disposal here.

People whine about Barak Obama's treatment with a rarified intensity. Yet Ron Paul has been arguably treated far more poorly and there is barley a whimper of indignation. The stark contrast reveals a malicious element in politics' to serve the unsavory to all our detriment.

Super Tuesday perhaps will be a day of reckoning startling those elements. I for one will have no pity if the arrogant elitists are shook from their slumber. The wake up call is long over due the phone rests in a tomb of dust.

 
Aughsum 2008-01-27 11:59:12 AM  
Ron Paul

on a side not, in the campaign update video.. whos the blonde? is that his daughter? if so he can count on the kucinich's wife/mccains daughter crowd for their support.

 
Hoopy Frood 2008-01-27 12:02:59 PM  
hej: HaywoodJablonski: Still has to spend his fundraising dollars. Doesn't mean he actually has a chance

I am left a bit curious what will happen to the money he's raised, since he doesn't appear to be spending much of it.


If you run on fiscal responsibility, it's probably a good idea not to piss away all your campaign money in the first eight or so states.

 
0Icky0 2008-01-27 12:03:01 PM  
Jaykzo: He's more concerned about the ideas of freedom and constitutional law becoming mainstream than he is about winning this election.

That's like an ugly person saying that beauty is only skin deep.
If he had a chance he wouldn't be saying that.

 
inTheJungle 2008-01-27 12:06:36 PM  
RON FAIL.

 
HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 12:11:10 PM  
0Icky0: That's like an ugly person saying that beauty is only skin deep.
If he had a chance he wouldn't be saying that.


I disagree. For one thing, he's got a chance. I mean, compare his campaign results thus far with Giuliani, and Giuliani still thinks he has a chance.
Paul is saying that the principles that he stands for are more important than he himself, and I agree. Win or not, the man is making an impact on American politics, and changing the way people think. And he's giving a lot of people back the hope that they had given up on.
Even if he loses, you will in the future hear the term "a Ron Paul Republican". Bet on it.

 
Jaykzo 2008-01-27 12:14:13 PM  
0Icky0: Jaykzo: He's more concerned about the ideas of freedom and constitutional law becoming mainstream than he is about winning this election.

That's like an ugly person saying that beauty is only skin deep.
If he had a chance he wouldn't be saying that.


Yeah, you're right. So fark it- Lets just let the federal reserve destroy our dollar to the point that it can't buy a stick of gum.

And lets continue to have our civil liberties slowly eroded away by decades of power-hungry administrations.

And since we don't stand a chance of winning, lets just sit by and watch as our more and more of our family members die overseas defending our "freedom".

 
Shaggy_C 2008-01-27 12:15:21 PM  
Paul will likely have the money to go all the way to the convention; there is the definite possibility that he could be a deal-breaker in a two-way battle between Romney and McCain. Now, the question is - would he actually pledge his delegates to someone else?

 
Aughsum 2008-01-27 12:19:16 PM  
he would not pledge his delegates to anyone who doesnt run on an identical platform as he does.

 
TFer 2008-01-27 12:21:38 PM  

 
We hold these truths to be self-evident 2008-01-27 12:23:55 PM  
If fox "news" had any capacity for fairness it would have happened by now. If this does come down to a three or four way race, don't expect them to give Dr. Paul any more speaking time or less accusation-laced questions. Expect the survival report issue to come up again too. His campaign is going to have to do better than "we don't know and we don't want to either".

Don't be surprised if fox pays a deranged homeless person to be up on stage strapped to a dolly in a face mask and they refer to him as Dr. Paul if they do host another debate.

 
bacccc 2008-01-27 12:24:57 PM  
Nah, let's just go with the candidate we've BEEN TOLD to support. It's worked so well thus far.

Paul represents real change, and that alone is enough for me.

/baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

 
Shaggy_C 2008-01-27 12:26:36 PM  
TFer: More Sunshine and such as!!

I just looked up the actual question and answer. Did McCain just name drop 20 people instead of answering anything? Geez, I liked the guy in 2000, but he really is a dolt, huh?

 
Donald_McRonald 2008-01-27 12:26:39 PM  
bacccc: Nah, let's just go with the candidate we've BEEN TOLD to support. It's worked so well thus far.

Paul represents real change, and that alone is enough for me.

/baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!


Is there a Godwin equivalent for a Paulite calling someone a sheep or implying as much? It seems to happen in every RP thread.

 
Durendal [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 12:29:41 PM  
s146208017.onlinehome.us

 
HowlingFrog [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 12:30:23 PM  
Donald_McRonald: Is there a Godwin equivalent for a Paulite calling someone a sheep or implying as much? It seems to happen in every RP thread.

A Ronwin?

 
Thorsen 2008-01-27 12:31:46 PM  
I hope Paul decides to run as an independent in the general election if he doesn't win the primary. I don't even care if voting for him would allow that shrew Clinton to get in the White House. I think it is time the republican party actually realized that those of us who are fiscal conservatives and contitutional liberty proponents are more numerous than the crazy ass evangelicals who have control of the party right now.

A note to the democrats .... run a candidate that believes in all of the constitution as well as promotes fiscal conservatism and you can be as left as you want to be on social issues; I would vote for that person.

 
Shaggy_C 2008-01-27 12:39:03 PM  
Thorsen: fiscal conservatism

Sorry, Democrats use a principle called 'Fiscal Responsibility'. Apparently the two have nothing to do with oneanother.

 
Drant 2008-01-27 12:44:37 PM  
Thorsen: I hope Paul decides to run as an independent in the general election if he doesn't win the primary. I don't even care if voting for him would allow that shrew Clinton to get in the White House. I think it is time the republican party actually realized that those of us who are fiscal conservatives and contitutional liberty proponents are more numerous than the crazy ass evangelicals who have control of the party right now.

A note to the democrats .... run a candidate that believes in all of the constitution as well as promotes fiscal conservatism and you can be as left as you want to be on social issues; I would vote for that person.


But fiscal conservatism goes against what democrats believe in. They want everything given to them without having to work for it. Once they see how the government runs things they won't be able to get away fast enough.

 
Guntram Shatterhand 2008-01-27 12:45:27 PM  
Aughsum: he would not pledge his delegates to anyone who doesnt run on an identical platform as he does.

The chances of him going third-party would be insane. Chances are he wouldn't win the election but he would showcase the split between the sects of the Republican Party. Not only would he show the split, but the ensuing war of publicity between the two would effectively destroy the Republican Party for good since they like to play slash-and-burn with everybody who disagrees with them. If Paul keeps going on his own accord, he will use the current Republican playbook to sink the entire ship. Not even the mythical blanket hatred of the 'liberal' would seal the Republicans back together. And if Obama takes the Democratic nomination, the fiscal conservatives could be a semi-permanent addition to the Democratic Party.

This is shaping up to be a very interesting election.

 
MasterThief [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 12:48:14 PM  
Durendal: s146208017.onlinehome.us

*Right Click-> Save As

Thinking of this: (new window) - "I'll let you out if you promise to vote for Ron Paul."

 
RagingHamster 2008-01-27 12:48:36 PM  
Jaykzo: Yeah, you're right. So fark it- Lets just let the federal reserve destroy our dollar to the point that it can't buy a stick of gum.

And lets continue to have our civil liberties slowly eroded away by decades of power-hungry administrations.


Yes, clearly that is the only alternative to a Ron Paul presidency, and exactly what he was suggesting.

Jennifer: Super Tuesday perhaps will be a day of reckoning startling those elements. I for one will have no pity if the arrogant elitists are shook from their slumber. The wake up call is long over due the phone rests in a tomb of dust.

What's with all the theatrics? It sounds ridiculous.

I don't have a problem with Ron Paul; I think he's the most likable and sincere of the Republican candidates, even if some of his ideas are completely lunatic, but some of his supporters seem to be crazier yet. Almost every one I've seen acts like donating $100 and spamming the internet makes them the modern equivalent of soldiers in the American revolution, or they espouse delusions like this article. Ron Paul will not be inevitable even if you pretend that he is.

 
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