I could see it.

The Republican establishment realizes that' None of the Above' is going to beat Obama, so throw the fringe a bone. Nominate RON PAUL for Republican President and Orly Tatiz or some other unelectable nutjob for VP. Get the committed, and committable, to the polls, pulling an R lever. Solidity the hold on the House and probably take the Senate. Continue ruling the country with your co-conspirator Obama while blaming him for all the ugly fallout.

Lemmings => Lemmingade

Lionel Mandrake: DirtyDeadGhostofEbenezerCooke: Nominate RON PAUL for Republican President and Orly Tatiz or some other unelectable nutjob for VP

Palin 2.0?

It is working out better for them than getting McCain elected, aint it?

PC LOAD LETTER: A cult of personality who will not see other opinions, even when presented with blinding evidence that they are wrong.

Meh. Pretty hard to see stuff when you've been blinded, in all fairness.

doczoidberg: I SOOOO hope he ends up spoiling the GOP convention by showing up with a bunch of delegates and forcing the establishment to humor him....

This has to be his plan. I think he wants to take enough delegates to keep Romney or Gingrich from getting enough for the nomination. Then maybe he'll cut some backroom deal for a VP nom in exchange for his support. Then again, it's Ron Paul so who knows?

PC LOAD LETTER: Paultards are dead-end delusional zealots with a staggeringly poor grasp of finance, economics and American History. They are true fundamentalists in every sense of the word. A cult of personality who will not see other opinions, even when presented with blinding evidence that they are wrong. They don't even necessarily want to argue, they want to preach and if you dare say something in contrast, they get upset, not only about you saying something in contrast, but saying ANYTHING AT ALL. I hope Ron Paul continues to fail. The consequences of him actually getting elected and having his "policies" enacted would end the nation, and cause a global meltdown not seen since the collapse of the Minoans

I bet you think Greece's economy is strong...dontcha?

nekom: Congratulations, subby, you guessed his name! Now he has to teach you how to spin straw into gold.

/shamelessly stolen from TDS or Colbert, forget which.

RonPaulsteelskin
He don't know that he can't win

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CravenMorehead: doczoidberg: I SOOOO hope he ends up spoiling the GOP convention by showing up with a bunch of delegates and forcing the establishment to humor him....

This has to be his plan. I think he wants to take enough delegates to keep Romney or Gingrich from getting enough for the nomination. Then maybe he'll cut some backroom deal for a VP nom in exchange for his support. Then again, it's Ron Paul so who knows?

Nah. Honestly, I think he's just pushing to get his brand of libertarianism into the party mainstream by being loud and persistent. He couldn't possibly have ever thought he was going to win any of his runs for president, but this year he's certainly upped his market share.

And I don't agree with RON PAUL! either, but I'd much rather have someone like him in charge of one of the two major parties than the current breed of rabid macaque they've got running the show over there.

I'm not gonna support Paul, but for all the assertions that his policies are crazy, I've never seen a systematic refutation of them. Is there a site I can go to for information about his stances so I can then make my Paultard friends shut the hell up for a while?

WTF Indeed: [k.wigflip.com image 600x387]

Hey, that's good advice!

(Not advice that I usually associate with RON PAUL, though)

Though the Austrian school has been pretty well discredited, I do think Paul at least opens up the conversations about the massive growth of the federal government that makes the rest of the Republican party uncomfortable.

Our political system is such a joke now, what does anyone care if he stays in the race? He's no more loony tunes than the rest of them.

DirtyDeadGhostofEbenezerCooke: I could see it.

The Republican establishment realizes that' None of the Above' is going to beat Obama, so throw the fringe a bone. Nominate RON PAUL for Republican President and Orly Tatiz or some other unelectable nutjob for VP. Get the committed, and committable, to the polls, pulling an R lever. Solidity the hold on the House and probably take the Senate. Continue ruling the country with your co-conspirator Obama while blaming him for all the ugly fallout.

Lemmings => Lemmingade

Eddie Adams from Torrance: MaudlinMutantMollusk: If he really does believe he has a chance to win, then he's also delusional

He doesn't think he can win, he thinks that by staying in, people will come to realize how excellent and not batshiat crazy his ideas are.

He's just reminding the kleptocrats of what used to be called 'The Rockefeller Wing' that the Libertarian Wing of the party is as strong and vibrant as ever.

It's an important and useful role.

It's is still better odds than him actually being elected President

It's is?

Nobody said anything about this yet? Amazing.

Skwishmitten: I'm not gonna support Paul, but for all the assertions that his policies are crazy, I've never seen a systematic refutation of them. Is there a site I can go to for information about his stances so I can then make my Paultard friends shut the hell up for a while?

Hush now, and just swallow the narrative they're pushing. Ron Paul BAD. Ron Paul BAD.

In other news, Gingrich will be holding a press conference instead of doing a concession speech after he loses today. I hope he doesn't drop out. Fat man brings the funny.

Paul would never get most of his ideas through congress. Good. He would perform a useful function though:

HE WOULD VETO STUFF

I do think Paul's economic and social platform is KILLITWITHFIRE bad, but on the other hand his foreign policy is pretty nice. America does need to switch to non-interventionist mode for at least long enough to get its fiscal house in order. And, to be quite frank I think that of all the Republican contenders, a Paul presidency would be the least economically, socially and strategically destructive (and that's saying something).

At the very least, he's the most amusing presidential prospect. He's kind of like the racist great uncle you only see at the holidays, because while the family doesn't go out of their way to see him, he's still old, doesn't have anybody, and family so everyone's obligated to get him out of the home just for the holidays. And, he doesn't really hate anybody per se (except the gooks), he just grew up in a different time and doesn't get how awkward and hateful he comes off as. So, when you come home for Thanksgiving from your first year at undergrad with your new Asian girlfriend, you're half-sick from anxiety and dread she'll run away screaming and file for a restraining order...but on the other hand that lizard part of your brain quivers with barely-restrained glee for when your uncle takes one look at her and tells her to her face how much she looks like the hooker at Madam Ding-Dong's Joy-Joy Love House that would let him fark her in the ass for a dollar and a pack of Lucky Strikes, but then again they all look the same so what's it matter anyway.

MaudlinMutantMollusk:
If he really does believe he has a chance to win, then he's also delusional

I thought that was already implied, given the economic policies he touts.

PC LOAD LETTER: Paultards are dead-end delusional zealots with a staggeringly poor grasp of finance, economics and American History. They are true fundamentalists in every sense of the word. A cult of personality who will not see other opinions, even when presented with blinding evidence that they are wrong. They don't even necessarily want to argue, they want to preach and if you dare say something in contrast, they get upset, not only about you saying something in contrast, but saying ANYTHING AT ALL. I hope Ron Paul continues to fail. The consequences of him actually getting elected and having his "policies" enacted would end the nation, and cause a global meltdown not seen since the collapse of the Minoans

Agreed. I just tend to call those people "The Republican Base" though, not paultards.

I think a lot of Ron Paul's appeal comes from the fact he claims to be the one who can solve everything and he'll never win, so a Paulinista can smugly say that they're not at fault for the current mess because they voted for Ron Paul.

He is in favor of legalizing pot and prostitution.

Problem is, in a Ron Paul America, only the rich can afford to have any hookers and pot. Everyone else is dirt poor and starving, fighting over scraps of food in a totalitarian wasteland of 50 separate Balklanized corporate fiefdoms, some of which have even brought back slavery and witch-burning.