earthworm
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Nope, the voting isn't even close. Clearly Ron Paul is held in higher regards than Obama.
By whom?
Isolationists?
Racists?
Also, Ikari, hate to burst your bubble but internet polls on a message board don't really mean...um....much of anything other than telling what that message board thinks, and even that's not really true since not everyone visits and its an anonymous poll which means people can vote over and over and over again and as was seen whe comparing the Primary results to internet results in 2008 Ron Paul people have no problem showing up in droves...online.
Well I guess you have the hyperbole and intellectual dishonesty tied up there. gg
Hobo,
I think you're altering your argument slightly. You didn't ask for a solution to discriminatory business practices, instead, you asked for a solution to socially ingrained bigotry and racial discrimination. I don't think anyone stopped being a bigot because of the Civil Rights Act, and I don't think overt racial discrimination could have been eliminated from private businesses unless the majority of the populace actually supported such a measure.
If the 2012 Election was today, and Ron Paul was the Republican candidate, would you vote him into office?
Or........
Would you re-elect Barack Obama?
Who would you vote for and why?
I'd vote for Sarah Palin LOOOOOONG before I vote for Ron Paul.
My God man, why?
Loaded question. I'd vote for a jar of mustard if it ran against Obama.
I am not in love with Ron Paul. I don't like his foreign policy. His domestic policies are pretty good though, and when I determine who I vote for I usually go 70/30 domestic over foreign.
I'd vote for Ron Paul, but he'd have to give up the "cantankerous old man" persona. Nobody wants to vote for a man who looks like the angry gray-haired next door neighbor who yelled at kids walking on his lawn.
Where did you get that vibe? Ron Paul, to me, looks more like a sweet Ol' Grandpa rather than an evil Ebenezer Scrooge. I think you're thinking of Fred Thompson.
Palin isn't as actively dumb as Paul.
Elijah, you realize you are responding to posts from almost a year ago?
just like socialismJust like communism :lol:
Are you serious? Elaborate, please. Dumbness is in the eyes of the beholder, but Paul is a doctor as well as a congressional representative. I can't imagine a man who became a doctor and spent more than twenty years delivering babies could be "dumb." At the very least, not in comparison to Palin. Palin's statements are downright stupid. She's the female version of G.W.B. And I imagine Palin has more racism in her little pinky toe than Paul has in his entire body.
Paul is a whiz on classical economic theory. You may think classical economists like Friedman and Hayek and Says are "dumb" but it's only because you're confusing the concept of intelligence with the concept of values. You may hold similar values as Palin in several areas, but it's not the same when considering their intelligence.
Palin lives in something closer to the real world.
I'd vote for Ron Paul, and I hope he does get the Republican ticket. He would truly bring change to Washington. No more deals behind closed doors, favorable treatment to lobbyists, etc. He would be honest and forthright with the American public. Our foreign policy could be totally revamped (as it should), power given back to the states, waste would be cut, and there would not be the partisanship we have come to expect in the oval office.
As for everyone concerned about his domestic policy... He wouldn't control legislation so he'd just end up vetoing all the crap Congress tried to get passed. Doesn't sound bad to me.
Palin lives in something closer to the real world.
I hope you guys get paid for moderating.
Not a penny.
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