Share links and thoughts on the Last Great Hope for America here.

Fake News finally admits Paul is the frontrunner in Iowa, and bye, bye Noot. Your fall was inevitable.

http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=17087&title=fox-news-finally-says-ron-paul-is-a-frontrunner-12-28-11

Michele Bachmann’s campaign chairman departs the Bachmann camp for the Paul camp:

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/12/28/sen-sorenson-leaves-bachmann-campaign-endorses-ron-paul/

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s Iowa campaign chairman Kent Sorenson tonight endorsed Ron Paul, one of her rivals in the Iowa caucus race.

“I believe we’re at a turning point in this campaign,” Sorenson said during his surprise announcement this evening at a Ron Paul rally in Des Moines. “… I thought it was my duty to come to his aid, just like he came to my aid during my Senate race, which was a very nasty race.”

I believe I once read that Bachmann attended Paul’s Austrian Economics seminars before, so you’d think that they’d be more inline with one another on many issues. I think her theocratic tendencies and off-her-rocker foreign policy positions will do her in. I predict she’ll quit the race after Iowa.

x, you seem like a somewhat intelligent person, but do you really believe Ron Paul has a snow ball chance in H-E-Double Hockey Sticks of getting the Republican nomination for President? I have to admit some of his ideas are intriguing, but some of them are whack-o, and frankly scare the $hit out of me. I also fear he will split away from the GOP and run as a 3rd party candidate, everyone with a shred of intelligence realize he cannot garner enough votes to win as a 3rd party candidate and if he does run as a 3rd party candidate he will become the Ross Perot of 2012, and thus will guarantee BO a 2nd term.

Viper - 29 December 2011 11:56 AM

x, you seem like a somewhat intelligent person, but do you really believe Ron Paul has a snow ball chance in H-E-Double Hockey Sticks of getting the Republican nomination for President? I have to admit some of his ideas are intriguing, but some of them are whack-o, and frankly scare the $hit out of me. I also fear he will split away from the GOP and run as a 3rd party candidate, everyone with a shred of intelligence realize he cannot garner enough votes to win as a 3rd party candidate and if he does run as a 3rd party candidate he will become the Ross Perot of 2012, and thus will guarantee BO a 2nd term.

Thanks for the backhanded compliment, I guess, but no. I am a realist. Most Americans have been persuaded to vote against their best interests time and time again and won’t change unless and until the media tells them to. I don’t huck for a candidate because I think they have the best chance of winning, I do so because they are the best candidate according to my particular value set. I’m not naive: Ron Paul is part of the controlled opposition. The two party tyranny keeps him there to give us hope. They can poke fun at him, call him a kook, etc., etc.—as long as they can keep us distracted for long enough to take our eyeballs off of them for a bit. Kind of like those kids with low self-esteem make fun of the slow kid in grade school to hide their own shortcomings.

But Paul is the real deal. A true lover of liberty and freedom. Not one who merely pay lip service to such values as both parties have been doing for the last 30 years. He has the cojones to tell truth, even if it hurts the sensibilities of a large part of Americans. I think the adage that “The truth hurts” is apt here. It is sometimes very difficult to come to terms with the truth when you have been lied to for so long.

Paul has already stated he will not run as a 3rd party candidate if he does not win the GOP nomination, so no worries there.

Barry-O will likely have a billion dollars this time around, so there’s little doubt in my mind that he will win a 2nd term. Wall St. is pouring money into Romney this time (Barry didn’t play ball they way they wanted), but I don’t think it will be enough. I think the statistic is that 98% of the time he who has the most money wins in a presidential campaign.

But just out of curiosity, if you please, what ideas of Paul’s do you think are whacko and scare you so?

O M G

As long as Ron Paul is ahead in the polls, Iowa doesn’t matter.

A comparison between the media treatment of Iowa Caucus 2008, where Ron Paul wasn’t leading, and Iowa Caucus 2012, where he is leading. Take note Iowans, the elitist media hates you because you are defenders of the United States Constitution and freedom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soHAOVZzXtA

Ron Paul is a racist, homophobic, conspiracy theory nutjob.

I have no desire for him to take us back to the 1930s. Old asshats like him should do us a favor
and retire.

Examples?

On second thought don’t bother; I’ve heard it all before.

Yawn.

good im glad you know the truth.

Racist Ron Paul.

Shame that it takes WXIX in Cincinnati to bring some integrity to the reporting of these racist allegations. Kudos to the station for not allowing themselves to be steamrolled by the establishment media and mindset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95CagSkXZYc

I give you Ron Paul’s predictions from 2002:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meFjza6BpEA

who are you trying to convince, yourself?

And if Paul can’t manage his newsletter (unaware of content) how can he manage a country??

No snappy comeback? Thats what I thought asshat.

I can’t believe more people applauded than booed O’Bomney’s answer to the NDAA question.

We are so screwed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=FUZoPnYjx0g

Interesting article titled “Libertarian Illusions”...from, of all places, Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/libertarian-illusions_b_1207878.html

That’s not an article. That’s an opinion piece. I wouldn’t look to a noted Keynesian/big government hack like Sachs for a reasonable treatment of free-market economics. His bias shone very brightly in the first paragraph.

Yet political libertarianism is not much of a guide to real-world politics. Modern history has shown that activist democratic governments, ones that provide public goods and help for the poor, do not really threaten liberty.

That’s some good comedy right there.

Hear! Hear! Dr. Paul.

http://www.eutimes.net/2012/01/ron-paul-moves-to-repeal-ndaa-police-state-provisions/

Rep. Ron Paul left the campaign trail on Wednesday to speak on the House floor about the National Defense Authorization Act, which was signed into law on the first day of the new year by Obama.

Paul introduced legislation to strike the NDAA’s Section 1021, the discretionary detention provision authorizing the President to detain persons accused by the government of supporting terrorism.