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- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -46/+419If you want to preserve your freedom, then you need to join the Campaign for Liberty.
It is a non-partisan political action committee.
Get off your ass and DO IT! Stop bitching and make it happen.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/ - dimadin, on 08/31/2008, -14/+236I don't understand you, Americans. Why you need to have only two candidates for presidents, two parties, why it's not possible to be independent?
This is not democracy what you have... - ITandART, on 08/31/2008, -28/+248Remember, "Elections are short term efforts, revolutions are long term projects." People are realizing there's a better way than warfare and welfare. I've met so many great people through the Ron Paul movement. (Including Dr. Paul!) Get involved in your local CFL. (Campaign for Liberty)
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/ - inactive, on 08/31/2008, -53/+232May God bless all who attend or support the movement and protect them.
- theantirobot, on 08/31/2008, -10/+174I wonder why they chose that photo.
- Wongster41, on 08/31/2008, -20/+166FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- n8o8, on 08/31/2008, -18/+147Damn I wish we had Paul instead of McCain. No way Paul would have picked Palin.
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -26/+133might as well, neither mccain or obama is anything to hope for......
- tajitj, on 08/31/2008, -19/+107At least they will talk about something other than more war and enforcing gods word through govt. Dr. Paul is the real deal and is what the Republicans have to become. The Democrats are taking us toward complete socialism. Which is not the best route, although I understand the want to do it.
Only a message of a mcuh smaller Fed govt, foreign policy of nonintervention, and leaving social issues to the states will be able to win. - kemp34, on 08/31/2008, -4/+83Cause it kinda looks like he's thumbing his nose? At the GOP establishment? At the Fed?
- Jamsie567, on 08/31/2008, -8/+85I am flying from California with 15 other patriots in my area.
- yvano, on 08/31/2008, -5/+78as a veteran marine, i support him and no other candidate, his foreign policy just makes sense...everyone else is the same...invade and try to change the world one war at a time...
im sure the next couple of elections will have more people like him, he has opened many eyes to the lies. - jobobshishkabob, on 08/31/2008, -1/+74I agree, the system sucks, but *technically* it is possible to be independent. The only thing is that the American public is too damn ignorant to pay attention to the independents and 3rd parties.
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -6/+71You're quoting his personal beliefs. The difference between Ron Paul and all the other schmucks is that he won't desperately try to force everyone else to live by his beliefs. He won't go against the constitution in order to impose his beliefs.
- PHLAK, on 08/31/2008, -12/+74VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!
- omegaant, on 08/31/2008, -9/+68I will be there - not a big fan of country music, not pro-life, not a real republican either - but RP is one of the few brave politicians who want REAL change, i;e., the end of Iraq war NOW, the end of the military industrial complex, the end of the federal govt. telling schools what to do, the end of the stupid "war on drugs", the end of empire-building, the end of the US owing the federal reserve our land, homes, and children's futures! Now that is change! Dream on, you say? I'm not the only one! Ron Paul rocks!
- tankrunner1123, on 08/31/2008, -4/+61Ron Paul is the only Republican in the party that still adhears to the ideals of Barry Goldwater.
- archaist, on 08/31/2008, -110/+166McCain = Obama
- ijwhelan, on 08/31/2008, -48/+98RON PAUL 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
- cien750hp, on 08/31/2008, -5/+53actually he is for state's rights on abortion. Abortion is too controversial of an issue to be decided at a federal level, and since the constitution does not say anything about abortion, it should be a state issue anyways. He is personally against abortion (he's delivered over 4000 babies in his lifetime), but he does not tell you what to do because it is not his or the governments job.
- hamalicious, on 08/31/2008, -11/+57Join the Campaign for Liberty
100,000 by 2 September
Currently at 91,427. http://www.campaignforliberty.com - rickremixx, on 08/31/2008, -11/+56RON PAUL !!!!!
- Arcueid01, on 08/31/2008, -4/+48I am really bummed that the politics of this country are so damned corrupt. He has no speaking position at the Convention? How can that be true. Are the republican supporters really that blind-eyed? I mean as was said above neither McCain or Obama are anything to hope for. I really would have liked to have seen Paul in the spot that McSuck is in. That way the American people might actually have won instead of private interests such as big oil and big media.
You have my support Dr. Paul and I thank all of those that have supported someone with so much courage, drive, and determination! - asus2000, on 08/31/2008, -0/+43They always choose the worst photo of him, it's the mandate, it's how human persuasion works.
- mahsah, on 08/31/2008, -14/+56I think I'll bless myself, thanks.
- Ymeg, on 08/31/2008, -0/+42America is not a democracy.
- Nothlit, on 08/31/2008, -0/+41And the media ignore them, and it's really difficult for them to get included in the debates.
- john2kx, on 08/31/2008, -3/+43The differences between McCain and Obama are laughably insignificant compared to the differences between both of them and Ron Paul.
Obama and McCain squabble over the most inconsequential, meaningless things most of the time, and they don't offer anything new or substantive that would actually help address America's problems. - jwydra, on 08/31/2008, -7/+46OPEN THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES!
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Political_outrag ...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/presidential_de ... - gall0wsp0le, on 08/31/2008, -23/+60Paul/Barr 2012
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -4/+40Why is Dr. Ron Paul personally deeply opposed to abortion? His own words describing an incident when he was a resident:
"I walked into an operating room without knowing what I was walking into, and the doctors were performing a C-section. It was actually an abortion by hysterotomy. The woman was probably 6 months along in her pregnancy, and the child she was carrying weighed over 2 pounds. At the time, doctors were no especially sophisticated, for lack of a better term, when it came to killing the baby prior to delivery, so they went ahead with delivery and put the baby in a bucket in the corner of the room. The baby tried to breath and tried to cry, and everyone in the room pretended the baby wasn't there . I was deeply shaken by the experience, and it hit me at that moment just how important the life issue was."" - urgeigh, on 08/31/2008, -1/+34America is not a democracy it's a constitutional republic.
- johndavidjack, on 08/31/2008, -2/+34Because tiger claw always beats paper.
http://www.rockpapersaddam.com/one.html - joebus, on 08/31/2008, -14/+46But he won't try to force his beliefs on you, or on the government because he understands separation between church and state.
- malman4, on 08/31/2008, -1/+32Quite right, it's called a democratic republic.
- Joab, on 08/31/2008, -5/+36Couldn't go. Just donated though.
- emmeron, on 08/31/2008, -14/+44Now, to be correct: Paul > Obama; Paul > McCain. This does not mean McCain = Obama, that's faulty logic.
- Xcel, on 08/31/2008, -7/+36I'm 19 and from Florida. 3 other friend and myself are leaving in an hour. We're driving all night and all day switching every 5 hours to get there. It's a 21 hour drive.
We won't miss this for the world. - emmeron, on 08/31/2008, -0/+28That's not the only thing: there is an amazing system that keeps people struggling to get petitions for every election. It's a systematic way to squander time and resources and limit the voice of those not in the two parties. Further, when someone gets enough votes to not need to petition in the next election, they redistrict (thereby resetting the petitions). I've done work on behalf of the LP for years. It's very frustrating, indeed, to discover the legislature fears our inclusion so much they'll pass new laws ever so often just to keep us out!
- KMye, on 08/31/2008, -1/+28It's because we're stuck with a single-winner electoral system...and no, it's not a very meaningful form of democracy...
- tajitj, on 08/31/2008, -15/+39Paul supporters need to leave the GOP and become Libertarians. The GOP is to far gone.
http://www.lp.org/ - brad3378, on 08/31/2008, -2/+26...........Is popular
- Lith25, on 08/31/2008, -1/+24Aye, as jobob said, most of America is ignorant to whats happening aside from what fox news, or cnn, is feeding them. I'd like to think that with the rise of the internet and a technologically savvy youth, that maybe one day in the future this will turn around, but who knows. If facebook is any representation of what the future holds, then maybe a Ron Paul - like candidate will have a chance eventually.
- FolkTheory, on 08/31/2008, -1/+23no he's not he supports homeschooling, you think he's gonna make sure parents are making their kids say the pledge of allegiance?
- metalgel, on 08/31/2008, -1/+23the independent party will never win. people care too much about claiming themselves democrat or republican. they like to lock themselves into 1 frame of mind, much like choosing a religion to line up with instead of being open minded and spiritual.
- TheGeneral07, on 08/31/2008, -4/+25They are both sellouts (McCain, Obama).
- freebirdj316, on 08/31/2008, -9/+30Wow - Yes! Be Proud, Ron Paul Movement, this is a great day, one of so many in this campaign. History will remember us well.
- anotherjack, on 08/31/2008, -3/+24Hey, every little bit helps.
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -9/+29What the HELL is wrong with pledging your allegiance to the country in which you choose to live????
- rationalist, on 08/31/2008, -2/+22The two parties, usually, support a "big tent" encompassing a wide spectrum of viewpoints. In this, they are similar to parliamentary coalitions, which tend to be bifurcate into left and right (however that is defined for the particular circumstances of each country).
The Democratic Party is still a big-tent party; 20 years ago, the GOP was hijacked by one element of its lunatic fringe, Dominionist Christians, who allied with another lunatic fringe, the neocons, to give power to one of the more traditional "tentpoles" of the party, the oil barons. Together, they purged the party of libertarians, moderates, and just plain reasonable conservatives.
They won the 2000 and 2004 elections (actually, they stole them, but topic for another discussion) by reversing the usual tactic of playing to the middle - they energized the radical Right and created an army of zealot activists (who are beginning to realize they were used and that the powers that be never had any intention of implementing their entire agenda).
There are signs, however, that the Republican Party, at least at the grassroots level, is starting to broaden again as the ideologically rigid constriction at the top begins to crack.
Many predict that, after what promises to be a disastrous 2008 election all the way up and down the ticket, genuine conservatives, along with others who made up the traditional tentpoles of the GOP, will rebel against the theocrat/neocon cabal.
If the GOP doesn't right its Far-Right-listing ship after this election, it may well sink, and another party may take over as standard-bearer of whatever the "Right" means in today's world. A more likely scenario is a reborn GOP, and who knows what it will stand for.
Either way, we're probably looking at twenty years or so of a liberal/progressive resurgence and realignment of our body politic. IMO, that's a good thing. YMMV. -
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