Ron Paul is not only the GOP’s only hope of winning, but he truly is the best hope for the entire country at this point in history.

Ok, I’ll make a deal with you all: I promise not to give Hillary any consideration at all if you promise to at least give Ron Paul a fair and honest review when making your choice.

Deal?

Hillary was a MILF back in ‘92, but is now useless.

Certainly a better choice than nonwhite Obama and nonguy Hillary!

I submit to you that you are not doing yourself, your kids, or your nation any favors by not seeing past Ron’s age and skin color. If you instead focus on his ideas and principles, the awesome character and superior candidacy of Ron Paul shines bright above the other dim bulbs out there.

That reminds me AGAIN of what a joke the ROE in Iraq are.

“Ron is also about balancing the budget.”
I say the prez should refuse to sign ANY legislation at all before congress sends him a bill saying that the national debt has to be lower at the end of each year than it was at the end of the previous year.
“minimizing our presence abroad.” That’s absolutely necessary!

“Also, the major driver of our ‘increased wealth’ for a long time was real estate and even that was nothing more than price inflation, mainly, and not a true wealth gain as a nation, but now that’s shot to hell too.”
Real estate was a false economy, people buying houses they couldn’t afford, and the Bushies turning a blind eye, till the corporations come beggin’.

Autonut, yeah, we need a libertarian (note the lowercase “l”) in charge.

Ricardo, since you noticed already both parties in the center are image of each other. On the periphery there are differences. The presidential race is selection of the middle of the road. I guarantee you that if Ron Paul is fundamentally right his ideas will be presented by the next occupant of the White House. As a closet libertarian I love everything this guy says about economics and government, but there was never libertarian in charge and I do believe in common intellect of US, even if idiots allowed to vote.

JJT, yeah, I read up on Ron’s foreign policy. He is essentially for commerce and diplomacy and for staying out of activist wars. When it does come to war (should it have to happen), his goal is to conduct the war, kick ass, win, and then leave – and to remain the strongest thing on earth. Not to nation-build as we are doing now (which is precisely opposite of what Bush claimed to be about in 2000).

Ron is also about balancing the budget. Never voted for an “unbalanced” budget and even his desired abolition of the IRS is a goal to strive for, but that he admits can’t happen overnight. By the way, if you eliminate federal income tax, the combined other revenue still come to more than the last budget total that Clinton left in 2000, so it is really not a far-fetched idea.

And about those programs that we pay for now and you are wondering how they will be paid for with no IRS – well we’d save more than the entire IRS tax-take by minimizing our presence abroad and ending the warring/nation-building we have going on now, so the funds will still be there for those social programs if they must occur, as well as a few bucks extra to pay down the federal budget deficit. Still, as such, just take your federal income taxes each year and equate it to a foreign payment because virtually all of those dollars – nearly one trillion of them per year – go overseas to **** with others, which leads to Impulsive’s favorite topic, namely the falling dollar.

The many contributors to the falling dollar (and with it your falling purchasing power and sky-high oil) are key to what Ron Paul wants to fix which will have immense economic benefit domestically as well as to the world. When it comes to politicians Ron is miles ahead of any other in terms of economics, and he can deal the Federal Reserve chairman a badass spanking like no other. Ron will balance the federal budget post haste and with it effectively end the printing presses churning out dollars like they are toilet paper. All those newly printed dollars flowing out of this country right now and into non-productive measures have effectively eroded all confidence in the US currency in international markets as well as quite a few domestic markets. Basically we are not getting anything for our money, true domestic non-service productivity is at a standstill so there’s nothing generating wealth to back up the new greenbacks, and the major thing that is actually driving the “increased spending” is energy inflation and the resultant general price inflation. Also, the major driver of our “increased wealth” for a long time was real estate and even that was nothing more than price inflation, mainly, and not a true wealth gain as a nation, but now that’s shot to hell too.

Ron is out to stop this. It’s a formidable task and to an extent maybe a tough pill to swallow, but look at it this way: if you are badly sick (say with cancer) you may find the doctor who says “take aspirin and drink milk, and eat a candy apple” to be appealing if you kid yourself into believing that will work, but deep down you know the doctor who prescribes chemo is the one who is looking out for you. The only politician prescribing chemo is Ron Paul – the rest are feeding you candy apples and telling you it’ll work just as well.

CA36GTP- Seriously, consider what I said and look at what what Ron Pauls proposing. Literally most of the stuff Ron Paul is running for are things that have been taken away in the past 10 years. I hate it when people pass him off as having “childish views” when they are things that are agreed with by millions…

I’d rather have a somewhat realistic president, with views that millions of common people agree with than some twit whose had his hands in oil since his great Grandfather that has realistic, but limited views and walks on a line stretched so fine.

ricardohead- I’m happy to see another Ron Paul supporter.

jjt- So if you think he’s right, why not support him?

autonut: “US had small government until JFK came to town, but both parties endorsed big spending sprees at the cost to taxpayers.” Glad you recognize both parties, but let’s point some of the blame at the guy who spent more than every POTUS before him combined. Yes, Bonzo himself, Ronald Reagan. OH NO HE DIDN’T! HE DID NOT JUST GO THERE!

RicardoHead: “Even when they bitch about the overbearing government, when given the chance to vote for a person like Ron Paul they run and hide under the heavy rocks of the Dems or the GOP … the difference between the parties and their platforms is effectively zip.”
Straight truth there. That’s why we need to go outside the two-party system. Get the right guy at top, who bans all these earmarks, and refuses to sign bull**** like that bankruptcy law or endorse a mortgage bailout, and the Donkeys and elephants will get their minds right fast.

Paul’s best feature, to me, is his foreign policy of nonintervention. I say let the Jews and Arabs solve their own problems, let Chavez do whatever he wants to, and if anybody threatens America, nuke that ass!

Impulsive: It’s going to happen organically. One company just has to be the first to jump in the pool.

Commodore: “I am talking about the issues that we need a president for. The economy, the war, immigration, healthcare, and all that sort of thing. I am not sure Ron Paul will do much good in those areas. I have heard random things about Ron Paul wanting to abolish the IRS and that sort of thing, but what will he do in Iraq? On the border? What will he do for healthcare and the economy?”

Good questions.

autonut: “Cars of 60’s were called muscle cars, but any subcompact of today outrun it 0-60 with less fuel and better quality.”
As much as I love the ‘70 Chevelle SS 454, I have to agree with that. Certainly the fuel and handling parts.
I tend to pedal all the time, but you may be right. I almost always ride more than three miles.

Sad to say, but the gas engine is on its last limbs. I just hope that someone creates good electric or hydrogen cars that are actually fun to drive before gas engines die.

jjt, you should not break sweat for 3 miles on the bike

‘Deanster’, you wouldn’t be in pain at the pump if CAFE was in effect since ‘90 with an incremental raising of fuel efficiency every year or two. Unfortunately, at the pace the automakers are going, you might get to 15 mpg by ‘15 in your Wrangler, at which point gas prices will be $7/gallon. But don’t listen to me, everyone here is right … let the market decide. Then again, I’m pretty sure there won’t be a market for Wranglers in ‘15 running at 15 mpg since Chrysler won’t build for a market of 1500 vehicles.

I never wanted to have kids, but quite frankly before I’d ever want to subject my progeny to the ****ty world into which these people are selling this country out, I’d rather go childless. Even my father openly admits that if he knew the country was going to go to cowardly **** as fast as it has, he would have not had kids to put up with it. He doesn’t say that because he has some problem with kids (or me) but rather as an admission of the disappointment his generation has been to the nation, and more so with my generation. You got it – since JFK – 50 years of national pussification.

Commodore, Ron Paul is no “revolutionary” in some modern sense, but rather in an old fashioned sense that draws strength from his age: namely in a traditional, Constitutional sense.

That means the federal government quits meddling in your affairs, just as the Constitution intended it to be. That means the government won’t be directly or indirectly coercing you to drive something you dont want. That means you have your choice to do as YOU please and not as Hillary or Mitt or Barack or Huckabee or that hairy-pitted bulldyke in the Prius wants. Yes, personal choice, and not government-directed coercion. It’s how we were meant to live Constitutionally, and it’s an idea that appeals to a lot of younger, older, and ethnically mixed people. An idea whose time has come BACK – not a revolution, but a return of what we were guaranteed until the feds siezed ever more power in the past 100 years (to the point where it is sickening).

How anyone of you can object to a candidate who actually wants to let you choose how to live is beyond me. Every candidate but Ron Paul is there to tell you exactly what you should do in life; only Ron Paul wants you to decide your affairs. The only thing I can conclude about those who dislike or fear a man like Ron Paul is that you are too chicken**** to make a real decision on your own, and too chicken**** to allow others to do the same, because under Paul’s ideas you can band together with like-minded cowards and invoke a set of rules to live by as a group that you freely adopt, but under any other candidate your life is pre-determined and the majority of rules are imposed from above. You may not like the rules that are imposed, but by voting for control freaks you are buying into the system of being subjected to intense control. By voting for Paul you are voting not to buy into that system.

Freedom is not a revolutionary idea. If we don’t change direction soon, however, any return to freedom will require a revolution later. Your choice. I get railed on for allegedly not thinking about future generations because I have no kids, but you cowards are selling out the future generations for the convenience of appeasing your cowardice.