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- Epik, on 02/06/2008, -16/+54That's right! This is only the beginning. The honest man who's strongest belief is in respecting the constitution of the founding fathers gets ignored! The man who wants to be a "weak" president because he understands one person should not have so much power... is called crazy.
The one man who understands economics and foreign policy better than all the rest combined... is called a fool. And on all the frivolous issues like gay marriage, abortion, immigration(the emotional issues), he is honest about his personal positions but says it's not his job to force his views on everyone else. It shouldn't be up to the federal government to make decisions like that at all. Because he believes in a small government for the people, by the people.
What the ***** is so crazy about these positions?
You vote instead for someone who has mentioned staying in Iraq for 100 more years? You vote instead for someone who is in favor of changing the constitution to fit god's views. You vote instead of someone who brazenly says what each audience wants to hear and chuckles at Paul's ideas and calls him a lunatic when top economists and advisors say otherwise.
You vote for a young, charismatic, "multi-cultural" guy thinking he's change just because he can list all the things that are wrong with our nation so passionately. Instead of voting for the candidate who tells us exactly how we can move forward to improve this nation.
I was somewhat heartbroken by the Super Tuesday numbers but on the other hand, I guess it's as much as you could expect from the common people. - dthomasdigital, on 02/06/2008, -22/+44I don't think it's over, it's just the next chapter. Oh and GoatRoper I really do feel sad for you.
- mahsah, on 02/06/2008, -1/+17Ron Paul is Goldwater for the 21st century. PROVE ME WRONG
- gONZObLISS, on 02/06/2008, -12/+27This is a good article to read on a day such as this, God Bless Doctor Paul. There could still be miracles somewhere down the trail, but I'd say the machine pretty well has it wrapped up. Remember Patrick Henry made his first impassioned plea to the Colonists in 1765 with his "If this be treason, make the most of it" address to the House of Burgesses, yet it was another decade before the Revolution started in earnest. Be steadfast, we know what we believe, and why we do so, and that's more than the rest of them can say.
http://chameleonmonarchy.com/2008010540/useful-inf ... - mysticpain, on 02/06/2008, -16/+29This is a great piece! The Ron Paul Revolution IS alive and will continue for generations! RON PAUL!
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -6/+19I am at home
- ggnictee, on 02/06/2008, -6/+19Ron Paul will lose this election. That much is clear. His supporters (and most likely the country) however have won because of him. (Stay with me now, it'll make sense, promise)
Paul's campaign has failed to win enough delegates to be seriously considered as a presidential contender. It has, however, broken the 10 delegate mark. So what does that mean?
1- Paul will get to speak at the republican convention. Paul's message will be heard. Whether you agree with it or not: he gets to talk. A small number of supporters, in defiance of the party and the media, turned into a large number of supporters. And without any of the 'big money' contributors Paul has managed to make a campaign.
This, I think, is Paul's most important contribution to American politics. He has shown the "youth" that every vote does count. Just 4 years ago everyone I talked to said "why vote? it doesn't make a difference." But thanks (in part) to Paul's campaign, it is becoming clear to those new to politics that the small group can make a difference. And even if he doesn't win whoever gets the nomination for both parties has to seriously think about his stances and followers. That tiny group has changed the dialog of the campaign, at least in part.
2- he's brought home to a lot of "conservatives" what the "liberals" have been saying for a long time: fox isn't news. Paul is, arguably, one of the most conservative candidates running, and yet he got more air time on CNN then fox. Many people, who wouldn't otherwise have seen, are beginning to realize that fox isn't fair or balanced, they have a slat that favors their own agenda at the expense of the truth.
3- it's just fun to watch. "google Ron Paul" signs are everywhere. People are excited. People are asking questions about how and why we have certain policies. This is good and healthy.
Paul was the only Republican in any debate to say "lets look back, see how we got here, so that we don't repeat mistakes." he's "fired up" a lot of people to be excited about and active in politics.
With 14 delegates (so far) Ron Paul has effectively lost the election. But with 14 tiny delegates Ron Paul's supporters, 'the revolution' and America in general have won. - mahsah, on 02/06/2008, -1/+12Poor campaign management is causing his downfall. It is one thing to have excellent grassroots support, but you have to return that support to your grassroots!
- sgiffy, on 02/06/2008, -7/+17He was interviewed on various shows and received just as much coverage as someone with 3-5% support should get. The media does not owe RonPaul a hand out.
- dunderballer, on 02/06/2008, -5/+15The campaign, if nothing else, supported a cause a a few core ideas: small government, balanced budgets, no nation building, no allies, no enemies, no war. There will be other Ron Pauls in future elections that will adopt these core ideas and will have a strong support base waiting for him or her. This candidate might not agree with returning to the gold standard, eliminating the federal reserve, eliminating the IRS, and the other more extreme ideas, but it is obvious that Paul's ideas have made a revolution in political thought process in the minds of many young Americans. For this reason, the return of investment for Paul's fund raising may go much further than that of the winning candidate.
- jeffiek, on 02/06/2008, -3/+13"they don't want to turn us isolationist,"
NO. The problem is people like you that keep repeating false garbage like this. HE IS NOT ISOLATIONIST. How many times do people have to say this? How many times has he said it himself?
Then they vote for McCain who does support the current foreign policy which IS isolating the US from the rest of the world.
Go figure. - Hortnon, on 02/06/2008, -13/+21That might work, but it also takes into account the same people voting for stories in the same sections with the same keywords over and over again, and also people on each other's friends lists.
Actually, this is just guessing, which is based on Digg's claim that the algorithm depends on diversity in votes. Those're a couple of ways that could be enforced. - NeoConned08, on 02/06/2008, -3/+11The mainstream media can blackout Ron Paul as he is just one man. They cannot, however, stop a million person strong movement from disseminating facts and enlightening the other 55% of the population that doesn't even VOTE using the multiple millions of dollars we have proven we can generate along with the free communications infrastructure called the Internet. All your votes are eventually belong to us :)
- GhostyBoy, on 02/06/2008, -9/+17Why do you have such a hateful little black heart, Herk?
- yatzr, on 02/06/2008, -3/+10Do you honestly think the majority of voters actually know enough about Ron Paul to even disagree with his views?
- mmmmmbiscuits, on 02/06/2008, -17/+24Have a heart--it gets pretty dark down in mom's basement.
- neognostic, on 02/06/2008, -2/+8If his movement has made a drastic change in the landscape, name a single other candidate that has accepted a single one of RP's platforms as his own. Really, I mean it.
BTW Ronald Reagan's economic policies are second only to Bush, so please don't use that as a carrot to encourage us to come to the dark side. - V3n0M, on 02/06/2008, -1/+7The grassroots did as much as we could do with emails, signs, and donations - at some point the campaign has to go through the doors we don't have access to.
- JettaMan, on 02/07/2008, -4/+10Ron Paul's ideas will win out long term. The cat is out of the bag. The freedom meme spreads like wildfire. Hardly anyone today knows what freedom means anymore. They think it means they aren't in jail. Ron Paul is telling everyone what true freedom means.
- Hortnon, on 02/06/2008, -6/+11Question:
Why is this bad? How are they pro-aristocracy? How is the CFR bad?
I've never seen proof of this. - nomorepaul, on 02/06/2008, -7/+12One problem you PaulTards have, is you constantly create false dichotomies It's always vote for Ron Paul or you hate freedom. That's ***** of course. One could just as easily argue that with Ron Paul's disregard for the fourteenth amendment, that under a Ron Paul presidency, a number of minorities would less freedom.
In fact, I am a registered libertarian, one who believes that gays have a constitutional right to marriage, that abortion is a matter best left up to a woman and her doctor, that the separation of church and state is not a myth, that evolution is a great litmus test for testing one's ability to reason, and that the gold standard is an antiquated idea that never worked to begin with.
I suggest instead of tricking yourself into believing all sorts of black and white opinions on why people don't support Ron Paul, I suggest you educate yourself, and get outside your comfort zone for a while and figure out what people are really like. - rmtatum, on 02/06/2008, -5/+10Troll alert!
- card51short, on 02/06/2008, -1/+6*puts on tin foil hat*
To reinstate slavery and take over the world!!!! MUAHAHA!
Seriously, when did we stop becoming the conspiracy theorists? - sdndba, on 02/06/2008, -1/+6I think Dr. Paul could use what is left of his funds (and we can all continue to support him) to help promote stopping the erosion of the US Constitution. And the RP Revolution can also close ranks now and begin to help each other ready to survive the upcoming economic generated problems with advice and support. Continue to support the meet up and even have a huge meet up convention! We can be a very powerful peaceful political movement in the near future, helping to vote in those who follow the constitution and vote out those who do not. And that is a LOT of POWER! Like a Dog Pile on the bad candidate! DOG PILE, DOG PILE! Ah…maybe I’m to idealistic.
- Napoleone, on 02/06/2008, -8/+13I'm only sorry I could not give more. Freedom is priceless.
- MindStalker, on 02/06/2008, -8/+13Did you read the article?
" And Ron Paul had no chance to win this election either. One could see that when he first opened his mouth.
And yet, the words and arguments of Ron Paul are still resonating. They still hang over this election. They are haunting and troubling. They are producing blogs and papers and books and like Goldwater’s revolution they will one day very likely produce their own Ronald Reagan. "
Goldwater did pave the way for the Reagan because his supporters didn't give up. The article makes the argument that Paul's movement has made drastic changes in the political landscape, thats why he won. - chaosium, on 02/06/2008, -8/+13He will buy the prettiest survivalist bunker in the land.
- rmtatum, on 02/06/2008, -6/+11I disagree with the author. Ron Paul did have a chance (and still does) to win. The mainstream media, owned/controlled by the military industrial complex (I'd like to see the trolls debunk this fact.), was instrumental in blacking out Ron Paul's campaign. We must get alternative media into the mainstream. That is, we need freedom promoting newspapers, radio shows, and television news channels. We must deregulate the cable and communications industry. We must abolish the unconstitutional FCC.
- MindStalker, on 02/06/2008, -1/+5Ronald Reagan as President and Ronald Reagan pre-election are somewhat different things. If you watch his speeches from the 60s he was for DRASTIC cuts in government. HE didn't live up to his promises, but those promises and those speeches are what got him elected.
- srodolff, on 02/06/2008, -16/+20You have just won second prize in a beauty contest; collect $10.
- sgiffy, on 02/06/2008, -2/+6I thinks its a pretty reasonable inference. Paul supports have been running ads, flying a blimp, spamming the internet, talking to their friends, demonstrating, etc, for many months now and his support has not budged. Even in states where he had as huge a presence as most other candidates and where caucuses were used, he still did pretty poorly.
Not sure how much more one needs to safely say that his message does not resonate with people. - dreamcore, on 02/07/2008, -0/+4"Isolationism is a foreign policy which combines a non-interventionist military policy and a political policy of economic nationalism (protectionism). ... Isolationism is not to be confused with the non-interventionist philosophy and foreign policy of the libertarian world view, which espouses unrestricted free trade and freedom of travel for individuals to all countries."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism
"A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries."
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride - Hortnon, on 02/06/2008, -2/+6You think we're going away? I know for a fact I'm not going to stop visiting Digg when Paul finally gives up.
- FyreGoddess, on 02/06/2008, -2/+6Corrosionx, you need to rethink that statement. If you recall correctly, you'll realize that people only started trolling the Ron Paul threads when the inundation of duplicate stories and contentless blogspam started to get out of control.
Nearly every single one of us started off being civil and attempting to have rational debate. - GhostyBoy, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4Eliminating the federal reserve, or legalizing competing currencies was the best part of his platform. That's a ***** long term solution.
- Hortnon, on 02/06/2008, -4/+7I'll admit to that if you admit you're a slave to your own delusions and to the Cult of Ron.
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -2/+5Come on Hortnon! You know it is only a good thing when Ron Paul suggests it (like it is a novel idea). When others want open trade, they are EVIL!!!!
- chaosium, on 02/06/2008, -6/+9Paultards don't understand what a "lie of omission" means.
- sgiffy, on 02/06/2008, -9/+12But by gaming the internet they'll be able to build support and win primaries. Oh wait...
- Smoove, on 02/06/2008, -6/+9May your chains rest lightly upon you, and may history forget that you belong to the same species as we.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 02/06/2008, -3/+6Even in New York State he was at the TOP of the ballot, (and McCain at the bottom) and he still lost big time.
- nakani, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4No, just move those government programs to state level instead of federal level.
Remember, the federal government's power is enumerated by the constitution. If you want to increase its size that's fine, just pass an amendment. - Hortnon, on 02/06/2008, -2/+5Open trade between geographically close, economically strong nations is just smart.
What I want proof of is that they are bad. Saying they are bad is not the same as proving they are bad. - inactive, on 02/06/2008, -9/+12What are you going to do now that Ron Paul's humiliation is complete? Let me guess, 9/11 truther movement. Right? Or maybe chem-trails or fluoride in the water. There's just about zero market for loons today unless you go work for Alex Jones but he's already overstocked with morons.
- Smoove, on 02/06/2008, -6/+8RTFA
- Smoove, on 02/06/2008, -9/+11The laugh is on you, Herk: you are jubilant over your own enslavement.
We knew all along what a long shot RP was--and we knew that people like you are exactly the problem: people who prefer to be enslaved. People who love their chains, and kiss the whip. - BigRedDSP, on 02/06/2008, -3/+5Fact check, nowhere will you find that I said Obama is my candidate, mainly because he's not. So real quick, don't be a tool and instantly assume things, it makes an...... well, we all know how that saying goes. Maybe I'm actually a supporter of your beloved candidate, I'm not, but I could be with how much you know about my political loyalties. The reality of my comment is not damaging your candidate or supporting any other, it was just pointing out that you can't preach democracy and the constitution and then say things like "common people" it makes you a hypocrite and a prick. Godd job trying to deflect the issue though, maybe you do have a future in politics.
- NeoConned08, on 02/06/2008, -2/+4ron paul voted against amending the constitution banning gay marriage. He'd let the states decide on abortion. He doesn't pander his religion and no where do i see him trying to subvert the constitution with it or subvert the Constitutional power of the SCOTUS. Actually, i don't see ANY relative proof or links to back up what you say :) Troll :)
- katie212, on 02/06/2008, -3/+5And I suppose people should listen to what someone that goes by the name of nomorepaul has to say? You spend your life (or lack thereof) burying Ron Paul articles and you are educated. and have critical thinking skills and intelligence? yeah, ok and your candidate is going to get elected...and Santa Claus is real...and the Easter bunny is...and.... Etc. get in line...your chosen socialist beggars breadline that is you uneducated socialist twit germ.
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