All right, Internet, I've tolerated your little Ron-Paul-lovefest for just long enough. This is the end. I will now bury every Ron Paul link I see on Digg, and that should keep me quite busy until election day.
Ron Paul's not as interested in building up religion as he is in tearing down government. He may be running as a Republican, but Libertarians are fundamentally different political animals, and I don't think Americans have wrapped their collective head around them yet. Witness the response to the above thinkprogress.org link; in the first five comments, Paul is dismissed as both a Republican and as a liberal.
Paul isn't going to win anything - his ideas don't clash head-to-head with his opponents' the way American voters like them to. But, he's interesting because he's a Libertarian who's made it as a US Congressman and actually managed to participate in national debates.
An excellent point. But, he did run under the Libertarian nomination in 1988, and it got him bupkus. I think he's operating under the idea that most Republicans are really Libertarians at heart. Besides, how does a third-party candidate compete in a two-party system? By running under one of the two blessed parties.
I won't write him in or anything, but I like him because he's a Pro-Life Libertarian. So counting me, that makes a total of about... two of us. :)
Godspeed, my friend. I included a throwaway jab at Paultards "Ron Paul supporters" in an utterly irrelevant piece in our local (Hyde Park, Chicago, IL) paper, and the hatemail is still coming in.
These people know how to Google, and they organize letter-writin' shitstorms like you've never seen.
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Paul isn't going to win anything - his ideas don't clash head-to-head with his opponents' the way American voters like them to. But, he's interesting because he's a Libertarian who's made it as a US Congressman and actually managed to participate in national debates.
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I won't write him in or anything, but I like him because he's a Pro-Life Libertarian. So counting me, that makes a total of about... two of us. :)
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Paultards"Ron Paul supporters" in an utterly irrelevant piece in our local (Hyde Park, Chicago, IL) paper, and the hatemail is still coming in.These people know how to Google, and they organize letter-writin' shitstorms like you've never seen.
—J (long-time listener, fist-time caller)