Ron Paul

[GeoMetro]

Ron Paul is pro-life.
He wants to give states the power to overturn Roe v. Wade.
(He is also a doctor, and has delivered many babies.)
Ron Paul is pro-taxcut.
He wants to cut spending too, and get the national debt down to a smaller size.

Ron Paul is the only pro-life person that can win the national election.

I support Dr. Ron Paul.

 

[aReformedPatriot]

Paul is the only one who offers sensible plans for not only protecting the ability of a Christian to worship freely, but also is the only one with a sensible plan to reduce the burden of the Federal government on our wallets. Namely, he doesn't talk about tax-cuts without ever brining up the fact that we need to cut spending. ALL of the other candidates will give prima facie attention to this, but they mainly want to reduce taxes but keep up the spending.

It's too bad that our politicians and our media have us convinced that tax cuts which seemingly benefit the rich are the primary source of economic concern for our nation...

 

[Conspiracy Theory]

Ron Paul voted for hundreds of millions of dollars of pork spending for his district.

 

[GeoMetro]

Dr. Ron Paul is pro-life and he can beat Hillary.

Only he can slay the Hill-da-beast.

No other can slay her.

 

[aReformedPatriot]

Ron Paul voted for hundreds of millions of dollars of pork spending for his district.

Your post is slightly misleading. You're both right and wrong here. When it comes to earmarks Dr. Paul requests funding at the behest of his constituents. The funds he requests are funds already in hand from taxes and result in no increased burden for the taxpayer. However, he always votes against tax increases and always votes to decrease any spending.

About earmark spending Paul's spokesman says this: "Reducing earmarks does not reduce government spending, and it does not prohibit spending upon those things that are earmarked. What people who push earmark reform are doing is they are particularly misleading the public — and I have to presume it's not by accident."

And: "He feels the IRS takes the money and so it's [his] job to make sure money comes back in the district."

I don't know if you know what LewRockwell.com is, but it's a major political blog whose writers support Paul. They are comprised of scholars, pundits, lawyers, etc. One has this to say,

"The charge is that Ron's office has requested various spending grants for his district, at the behest of constituents. The charge is apparently true.


In the same sense, if a constituent is not getting his food stamps, Ron's office--he is a Representative, after all--will try to help.
Neither of these things means that Ron Paul supports federal public works spending or food stamps (though he'd rather see such spending, if it must happen, take place in Texas or Iowa than Iraq or Afghanistan). He votes against all such spending bills, and--of course--has the best record on spending in modern Congressional history."

 

[scraparcs]

Hey, gotta keep the constituents happy. Even if they do support decreased spending, if that means that you defund their cultural amenities, they won't be happy. If you defund their schools, not happy. So you have to keep them happy to get reelected and continue rallying for less spending.

 

[MichaelFJF]

Dr. Ron Paul is pro-life and he can beat Hillary.

Only he can slay the Hill-da-beast.

No other can slay her.

His 2% will beat her?

 

[aReformedPatriot]

His 2% will beat her?

Ahem.. 8% bucko. lol

And yea, I think the man is correct.

 

[GeoMetro]

Ron Paul can get votes from both sides.
If he got the G.O.P. nomination, he could beat Hillary with no problem.

Give the nomination to some other Republican
and see what happens in the main election.

"Hello Mrs. President"

 

[Verv]

Ron Paul is the Ralph Nader of the right wing: a rebel that speaks to the true heart of conservatism in many ways and goes to great lengths to dissociate himself with the mainstream politicians.

If it were three years ago, I would be all about Ron Paul. However, the guy does not have a chance and has the impracticality of any idealist.

No one would cooperate with his agenda as President as the established Congress has higher interests that they serve; he would achieve nothing even if elected.

What makes people think that a Congress full of socialist pro-choice Democrats and borderline theocratic Republicans and big business neo-Cons would be giddy to pass his bills which target everything that they stand for?

It is called the Ron Paul revolution because for all intensive purposes it is. And honestly, it is a revolution that will be impossible to achieve unless local level paleoconservatives were elected with him.

I see no future in Ron Paul.

 

[Kaisersoze]

Ron Paul is pro-life.
He wants to give states the power to overturn Roe v. Wade.
(He is also a doctor, and has delivered many babies.)
Ron Paul is pro-taxcut.
He wants to cut spending too, and get the national debt down to a smaller size.

Ron Paul is the only pro-life person that can win the national election.

I support Dr. Ron Paul.

I'm torn. On one hand I like much of what he says. On the other, I wonder why he is not getting the attention that others are. Does he really stand a chance of winning and if so, where is his support now? What are they waiting on?

 

[Douger]

I'm torn. On one hand I like much of what he says. On the other, I wonder why he is not getting the attention that others are. Does he really stand a chance of winning and if so, where is his support now? What are they waiting on?

He's polling 8% nationwide. Plus he has lot's of (possibly most) of his support among new Republican party memebers, Libertarians, independents and even Democrats.
Just go ahead and vote for him and we'll all wait see what happens when the results come in.
In the likely case that he doesn't win the nomination, I'm sure his support is big enough to have a large future impact on American politics. A lot of his supporters are already getting ready for the 2008 house and senate elections.

 

[Kaisersoze]

He's polling 8% nationwide. Plus he has lot's of (possibly most) of his support among new Republican party memebers, Libertarians, independents and even Democrats.
Just go ahead and vote for him and we'll all wait see what happens when the results come in.
In the likely case that he doesn't win the nomination, I'm sure his support is big enough to have a large future impact on American politics. A lot of his supporters are already getting ready for the 2008 house and senate elections.

my fear is that if he is not successful as a republican and decides to go third party, then those who you list as supporters may really have a very large impact on national politics - the votes RP may get as a 3rd party candidate would be devastating to Republican candidates and may allow for a much more liberal dem to get in....

 

[Douger]

my fear is that if he is not successful as a republican and decides to go third party, then those who you list as supporters may really have a very large impact on national politics - the votes RP may get as a 3rd party candidate would be devastating to Republican candidates and may allow for a much more liberal dem to get in....

I honestly don't know if what's better for America of these two options
1. GOP gets thrashed and is forced to re-examine its principals while a liberal runs roughshod over American liberties.
or
2. GOP wins and continues to run roughshod over American liberties and killing people overseas.
What happens after the 08 election is pretty uncertain and looking a little scary to me.
What's really most important though is not who gets elected but what you yourself do with your life. Give it to Jesus and others, pray like everything depends on it, and leave the rest to the Lord.

 

[GeoMetro]

Ron Paul is pro-life, and can stop Hillary.

That's all he needs to do.

End of story.

 

[Douger]

Ron Paul is pro-life, and can stop Hillary.

That's all he needs to do.

End of story.

Okay, that's nice. Thank you.

 

[Barren]

my fear is that if he is not successful as a republican and decides to go third party, then those who you list as supporters may really have a very large impact on national politics - the votes RP may get as a 3rd party candidate would be devastating to Republican candidates and may allow for a much more liberal dem to get in....

The lesser of two evils, is still evil. You all have fun voting for Judas Iscariot over the Devil. Myself, I will not vote for Judas. I will vote for John the Baptist even if he has no chance of winning. I will not vote for the lesser of two evils anymore.


To answer your original question, on where he stands...... he is polling 8% nationwide, is going to raise more money then all the Republicans this quarter (ends Dec 31st), he may even get more money this quarter than ANY candidate (from both sides), he has raised more money online in a single day than any candidate in the history of the United States (Nov 5th), and on December 16th he is going to raise more money in one day than any candidate in the history of the world has ever raised in one day.

Oh yeah, and tomorrow the very first Blimp supporting a presidential candidate is taking off from North Carolina, it has his name on it. He has more YouTube subscribers than EVERY candidate combined. More MySpace and Facebook friends than all the other Republicans combined. He has more visitors to his website than EVERY other candidate combined. Ron Paul ranks in the top 10 of most searched for terms on Google.

And he also has 80,000 members in meetup groups across the country who are doing stuff like I do 2-5 hours a day-- mailing hand-written letters to Iowa and New Hampshire, going door-knocking, waving signs on corners, and converting all of our friends and family to Ron Paul.

Ron Paul is going to win. The longer you procrastinate joining the Revolution, the more that you're missing out on.

 

[Richard]

What about his views on Education? He wants to get rid of the Department of Education and leave it all up to the states? That doesn't sound like a good plan. Also, I don't agree with giving states the right to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Pro-Life all the way! Having states that are pro-choice and some that are pro-life would be pointless. I could just walk across the border.

 

[GeoMetro]

One day all the states can be pro-life.
Untill then, let us set a good example.

Yes, some people could walk, but it would give them a chance to think about what they are doing.

 

[Kaisersoze]

What about his views on Education? He wants to get rid of the Department of Education and leave it all up to the states? That doesn't sound like a good plan. Also, I don't agree with giving states the right to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Pro-Life all the way! Having states that are pro-choice and some that are pro-life would be pointless. I could just walk across the border.

keep typing. You're making me consider voting for RP more and more....