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Could Ron Paul Take Down Sarah Palin?
NY Mag ^ | 12/13/10 | Dan Amira

Posted on 12/13/2010 11:36:14 AM PST by pissant

Long before the tea party movement grabbed half a dozen Senate seats, before its early proponents ever even dreamed of wearing Colonial-era garb in public, there was longtime Texas Republican Ron Paul, the one guy in Congress trying to abolish the Federal Reserve and shrink the government into near nonexistence. Paul won a devoted-bordering-on-cultish following during his 2008 presidential run, one which, obviously, didn't work out. But now Paul is telling the Times that "it’s at least 50-50" that he'll try again in 2012, and this time, with the movement built largely on his libertarian philosophy now a real force in American politics and expected to be decisive in the Republican primaries.

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To: pissant
Go on, pull the other one.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

81 posted on 12/13/2010 1:18:11 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: samtheman
How is “pervert Ron Paul” a “violation of FR’s posting rules”?

An untrue and uncivil statement, a personal attack, etc.

There's a lot of people in the world who are discussed here at FR that I strongly dislike and/or disagree with, but I don't have to make vulgar insults about because I have the ability to make rational, fact-based arguments against them - Paul-bashers are like those people who call others nazis... it's all they got.

82 posted on 12/13/2010 1:23:10 PM PST by LIBERTARIAN JOE (Don't blame me - I voted for Ron Paul!)
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To: LIBERTARIAN JOE

Get real, Ron Paul is a shady lifetime politician that enhances his lifestyle by running a Presidential cult campaign.

The guy can never escape his little district and win an election out of it.


83 posted on 12/13/2010 1:26:15 PM PST by ansel12 (Lonnie, little by little the look of the country changes, because of the men we admire.)
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To: LIBERTARIAN JOE

A personal attack against a poster is one thing (though even that I see all the time here on FR).

A “personal” attack against a public figure is an entirely different matter. Please show me in the FR rules where I can’t say “Ron Paul is a putz” or “Mitt Romney is a schmuck”, or “Barak Obama is an anti-American commie”.


84 posted on 12/13/2010 1:27:35 PM PST by samtheman
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To: LIBERTARIAN JOE

Paul has stated that he thinks that homosexuality should be treated by our military as being equal to heterosexuality. That makes him a pervert.

My statement about the pervert Paul is factual.

It is simply another example of the pervert Paul attacking our National Security and lying about the position of the Founders. Paul claims that the perversion of practicing homosexuality should be open in the military and treated as being equal to heterosexuality. Paul is a pervert.


85 posted on 12/13/2010 1:28:17 PM PST by TheBigIf
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To: pissant
Could Ron Paul Take Down Sarah Palin?

Short answer - no.

86 posted on 12/13/2010 1:31:24 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: pissant
“Could Ron Paul Take Down Sarah Palin?”

LOL.


87 posted on 12/13/2010 1:37:44 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
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To: pissant

THE HAIR DRESSER VS. ANNIE OAKLEY


88 posted on 12/13/2010 1:41:18 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: LIBERTARIAN JOE; Allegra; mnehring; fieldmarshaldj
Non-interventionist??? Isolationist??? No real world difference. Both positions amount to going on autosmooch for Islamofascist butts in the world in which we live.

Pearl Harbor put an end to the isolationism or non-interventionism of Robert Taft the Elder who returned to conventional patriotism thereafter along with Colonel McCormack, John Flynn and the America First Committee generally. Lindbergh volunteered to fight the Nazis and was allowed to do so late in the war. Neville Chamberlain (the British paleoPaulie) was unceremoniously dumped in the trash can of history by Winston Churchill and Parliament and the Tory Party after his disgraceful cowardice at Munich. But for Churchill the Brits would have wound up a goose-stepping and German speaking nation which would not have bothered Chamberlain.

Your definitions from Wikipedia which will post anything, true or not, seem to suggest that non-interventionism amounts to isolationism PLUS plenty of trade deals and diployak.

Personally, I believe that the United States military has generally proven to be a far more effective diplomatic means than any stripe suited diployakking nation betraying aristocrat carving up our interests to get along with the similar good old boys on the other side of the table enjoying caviar, Dom Perignon and exotic taxpayer provided entrees as they take care of one another's privileged personal and family interests at the expense of those of normal citizens.

If there ever was a day for the paleoPaulie cowardice, eccentricity and general insanity masquerading as his foreign policy, it is long gone and it won't be back again.

I wish paleoPaulie well on his one and only area of competence: going after the Federal Reserve Bank. He should chair the subcommittee unless and until the moment he deviates into the avenues of his insanity. Then, he should leave public life.

89 posted on 12/13/2010 1:46:57 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: Liberty Valance

We have an opportunity to form an alliance which can banish RATS from sea to shining sea forever. Paul with fiscon, Sarah with Socon/generalcon, and Petraeus with milcon.

Throw in a few Willaims, Kane, Sowell for — YES!— the concons, and it’s a done deal.


90 posted on 12/13/2010 1:56:17 PM PST by txhurl
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To: LIBERTARIAN JOE

What do you think of this proposal?


91 posted on 12/13/2010 1:57:37 PM PST by txhurl
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To: pissant

In a three rounder, my money’s on Sarah! I’ll bet she packs a punch!

;^)


92 posted on 12/13/2010 1:59:13 PM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty too! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: txhurl

I forgot to rank: Sarah Prez, Petraeus VP, Paul Fed.


93 posted on 12/13/2010 2:06:35 PM PST by txhurl
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To: txhurl

I’m in!


94 posted on 12/13/2010 2:57:54 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: txhurl

I have been of the opinion for six years back to his Fort Campbell days that Petraeus is a Democrat. He was a darling of Rick Atkinson in his book about the start of the Iraq war and I think Rick is a guy who has spent too much time in DC to write good military history.


95 posted on 12/13/2010 3:06:11 PM PST by KC Burke
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To: pissant
Find me one statement I’ve ever made in support of Ron Paul for President. It does not exist.

Oh, you are much smarter than that Piss.

Your posting this thread shows that you prefer Paul over Palin.

Which you do, you have to.

Paul isn't a woman.

You also support Romney,Huckabee, Ginrich and other "men" in the same way and for the same reason in lieu of Sarah Palin a dreaded.....WOMAN!!!

If you don't support Paul, ask the mods to remove this thread. If not, well there you go Piss.

96 posted on 12/13/2010 3:09:43 PM PST by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Syncro

Whatever you imagine there, bloss.


97 posted on 12/13/2010 3:11:34 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
with the movement built largely on his libertarian philosophy now a real force in American politics and expected to be decisive in the Republican primaries.

Bullcrap.

Libertarian does not equal conservative

Tea Party does not equal libertarianism

And, Ron Paul certainly does not equal Sarah Palin. I doubt there's much crossover in supporters for these two at all.

98 posted on 12/13/2010 3:13:25 PM PST by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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To: pissant
You sure support a strange assortment of politicians.

ABP, huh?

99 posted on 12/13/2010 3:27:34 PM PST by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Syncro

Actually, only rock-ribbed Reaganites. No liberaltarians, no amnesty queens, no globalists, no surrender monkeys, no bailout queens, no flipfloppers, and no big government stooges.


100 posted on 12/13/2010 3:32:36 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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