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You can't answer this question for yourself?Quote:
Originally Posted by Galileo
Probably...but he was branded crazy and a fringe candidate by the mainstream Republican party. It's ironic that he was essentially preaching the same things they were years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
Years ago? Perhaps about 8.
Bush did everything but head over to the National Archives and shit on the Constitution.
Paul was revered by conservatives once upon a time as the ideal congressman. He was one of the earliest supporters of Ronald Reagan back in 1976. Of course, in the secessionist hotbed that is Texas, Paul took something like 3% of the GOP primary vote (yes, by then the race had been decided, but still).Quote:
Originally Posted by George Walker Bush, 43rd President of the United States
It will take some time for the GOP to recover from the Bush move to Roosevelt/Wilson style progressivism and militarism. It's amusing that McCain was so disdained by 'conservatives' when he differed little substantively from Bush in terms of their view of government.
The weird thing is that on social policy, all of primary candidates, save for Paul, were nothing more than big government advocates, content to continue the status quo.
The GOP needs an insurrection in the worst way. The old guard has led it down the wrong path. Frauds like Dobson, Hannity, and the editorial staffs of The Weekly Standard and National Review need to be shown the door. The government isn't a church and the people don't exist to serve the state as it seeks global domination. Paul has his faults, but I don't see anyone else willing to articulate an alternative view of where we should be headed as a nation in the GOP.
We can have all of the bellyaching about how Obama is leading us to 'socialism', but honestly he's basically continuing where his predecessor left off.
I think the nation will be ready for a non-bailout path soon, but staging the comeback will require the party to become more libertine in matters social. True individualism will still play well, but you need someone credible to deliver that message. Other than Paul I don't see anyone else who can.
Chump got chumped lulz
I cleared up any ambiguity rather quickly lulz
haha still too much pride lollerzQuote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
Was that word too big for you?
Ron Paul SHOULDN'T have been a fringe candidate, if you take the Republicans for their word at what they value.
Essentially.Quote:
Originally Posted by LnGrrrR
nah dude, snl taught me the meaning of that word a long time ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper