What Has Happened to Ron Paul?

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[mnehring]

I think this is a pretty fair assessment. IMHO, this so called revolution was a self created delusion anyway. They started believing their own spammed polls and they fell into the conspiracy trap believing that some bogeyman was trying to keep their candidate down.

[mnehring]

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[Parley Baer]

The RAT money is drying up.

[nmh]

WHO?

The jokster on the FOC debate?

Why waste bandwidth on him?

Makes no sense. He’s comic relief.

[Khepri]

More importabntly, does anyone care?...:)

[mnehring]

I am watching Paul forums and they are disappointed at the low fundraising this quarter. There are even a few calls to kill the MLK day fundraiser because the pledges are low and they don’t want the embarrassment.

[cripplecreek]

Personally I think too many different factions within the Paul camp decided they didn’t like each other’s company.

[DB]

I care.

The sooner he’s gone the better.

[Duchess47]

“a self created delusion....”

Could be. Several fairly intelligent people took time off work this afternoon to go listen to him speak. I would have if possible. I never felt he was a Libertarian, more of an old style Republican.

[Biggirl]

This was an internet deception anyways. Ron Paul is done.

[NautiNurse]

They started believing their own spammed polls and they fell into the conspiracy trap believing that some bogeyman was trying to keep their candidate down.

A succinct and accurate summary.

[rovenstinez]

They spoke similar jests in 1964 when Barry Goldwater from Arizona ran against Lyndon B. I remember only 8 million Americans were brave enough to put X beside his name. Now many years later people said he really did have some answers for some real dilemas for America, but nobody paid him any mind. Ron Paul, in 30 years will get his accolades. No one is brave enough to really get tough and provide REAL solutions. So Americans will get THE SAME, the same, the same, lo mismo..just more and worse of what they always wanted...spend..spend...tax...tax. Ron Paul wanted to curb this epidemic.

[Kellis91789]

So the question is:

Who will Ron Paul endorse when he quits ?

Will it help or hurt whoever that is ?

[Jeff Chandler]

From the second paragraph:

>>...never...never... real ...never really ...never...<<

Weird writing.

[reagan_fanatic]

He’s being abandoned by his democratic supporters in favor of John McCain.

[NautiNurse]

>>...never...never... real ...never really ...never...<<

It's a conspiracy.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The fact that a libertarian (as opposed to a Socialist or Green Party Candidate or Communist or ...) is polling at 10% in a number of states should be considered to be a generally good thing.

Those who knew that Ron Paul would never succeed should have stood back and applauded his efforts for bringing to the fore some of the key issues that even the Republicans are avoiding.

Instead lots of whack jobs feared that he might actually have a chance and went into massive carpet bombing attacks on him and his ideas.

And this auther is particularly annoying: those of us who aren't dyed-in-the-wool republicans are urged by republicans to work within the party to advance our ideas rather than start third parties and split the conservative/libertarian vote. But this author just wants to talk about how unsuccessful the libertarian party has been, and imply that all libertarianism will always be trounced and everyone who doesn't agree with the republicans should stay in the party AND shut up about their true beliefs.

That's a great strategy for continued republican success! /sarcasm

[tacticalogic]

The venom set in.

[retr0]

Ron Paul went to the same place Clinton’s dot.com “irrational exuberance” bubble did - back to Never-Never Land.

[Khepri]

True. I’ve heard the anti-war mantra outta of him so much it’s losing it’s comedic value....

There are Libertarians that support the war...they call themselves Neolibertarians. Interesting history there. The divide goes back to the Vietnam war debate.