One positive benefit of Ron Paul's massive losing streak is that the people on facebook who constantly spam about Ron Paul have now shut up, for the most part.

The Paulbots I encounter blame this on the media. booga booga booga

RexTalionis: One positive benefit of Ron Paul's massive losing streak is that the people on facebook who constantly spam about Ron Paul have now shut up, for the most part.

That's not my experience.

RexTalionis: One positive benefit of Ron Paul's massive losing streak is that the people on facebook who constantly spam about Ron Paul have now shut up, for the most part.

I had one friend on facebook just this morning say we should all vote for Ron Paul because she got pat down at the airport.

spcMike: I had one friend on facebook just this morning say we should all vote for Ron Paul because she got pat down at the airport.

dogdaze: That's not my experience.

Okay, okay, so the decrease in Ron Paul spams is only really occurring on my end, it seems. However, I'm still thankful for that.

Ron Paul says "it's hard to say" when or where he might win a caucus or primary this nominating season.

"Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan" is hard to say. I can hardly say it at all, so he's a shoo in there. Maybe he should team up with Herman Cain.

I'm going to the Colorado caucus on Tuesday.

I was thinking Gingrich but I could be convinced to go for Paul if it would mean he'll stay in the race...

Deftoons: A Dark Evil Omen: Deftoons: asmodeus224: /libertarianism is getting its hearing in this election, and it is failing miserably

Yeah, central government economic planning has been doing a stellar job for the country so far.

Look how stupid you are.

Look how quick you go for a terrible playground-level immature ad hominem instead of articulating a smart retort.

"central government economic planning". Nice Soviet wording there. You mean the Fed? Which is effectively the Third Bank of the US? And I take it you know how we killed off the First and Second Banks of the US, only to either revive the next version or turn to fiat currency specifically because Gold and Silver are inadequate for stabilizing economies nor are they adequate for financing large projects (especially wars)?

Replacing the Fed with some idiot Gold/Silver standard mechanism is like replacing welfare with Slavery.

Paul's answer on This Week was telling.

effectively he said "keep on keeping on". This is exactly what he's done for decades with little real result.

How many bills has he authored? Is it more than 310 (i remember that number when I looked it up a few years back -- it could be off).

How many got out of committee and have even gotten to a vote -- 3 -- and 1 has passed (the federal reserve oversight bill?).

He continues to be a stubborn man with crazy conspiracy theories and little support. The support he does get are from neophytes who haven't yet figured out a guy equivocating "constitutional freedom is the answer" when he knows that his version of constitutional freedoms is different from pretty much everyone else. If not neophytes then fringe candidates that can't get any other candidate to take their money.

His answer to "how do you get a win" is similar to his bill authoring tactic, in effect:

I'll wait till people agree with me. I won't budge an inch to east or an inch to the west.

lordaction: fark Ron Paul. If he wins the government won't be able to lock up American citizens indefinitely without a trial.

About 40% of RON PAUL's ideas are good. The rest are ignorant, dangerous, not something that would ever pass a legislature or dishonest and disingenuous.

apeiron242: Ron's is great for getting a list of what's wrong. Once you have that list, send him home and find reasonable solutions. Don't listen to his solutions as they are unhinged.

For instance, the Fed SHOULD be abolished. It should NOT be replaced with a gold backed currency. [..].

Here is where Ron Paul has confused people and led to people like you thinking there are half-truths in his theories.

He's a farking nutter and his shiat is based on nutter mentality.

Good questions to ask:

1) what does the fed do?
2) what existed before it was formed?
3) how did it originally form?
4) why was it formed?
5) what would exist if it was abolished?

let me help you with these (but you should read: The Federal Reserve System):

The fed is a bunch of rich people who help guide the US economy in ways that enables it to grow reasonably and indefinitely.

They have a bunch of tools in their belt like setting the loan practices of banks. They do this because rich people have always set the loan practices of banks and they would do this outside the banking system if provided some leverage in its dealings.

These practices (without federal reserve guidance) caused cyclical rises and falls in the economy purely because when rich people do shiat, it matters.

In the rubble of the 1907 crash congress formed the federal reserve because they understood if they could control SOME of the goals of these rich people they could put such direction to good use for the US economy and probably reduce the number of or lessen the severity of the cyclic economic crashes that had happened up until this point.

I'll leave it to you to decide what would happen if the federal reserve was abolished and how to ensure activities pre-1900 would not be SOP a few days after such an action.