Non-partisan analysts say his economic proposals - drastic spending cuts, elimination of the Federal Reserve and a return to the gold standard - would plunge the country back into recession.
"Paul appeals to people whose knowledge of major issues is superficial (and) he sees conspiracies where there are none," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Potomac Research Group, an analysis firm. "If he does well in Iowa, which is likely, it will be an enormous embarrassment to the Republicans."
However, Paul's calls for a dramatically limited government and a hands-off foreign policy are resonating among voters who have grown deeply alienated from Washington after a decade of war and nearly five years of economic malaise.
"Obama got into office and I can't tell the difference between him and Bush," said Deanna Pitman, a homemaker from Bloomfield, Iowa, citing President Barack Obama's support for policies such as the Wall Street bailout and the war in Afghanistan that began under George W. Bush.
I guess every family has a crazy old uncle. :lol
12-26-2011
RandomGuy
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At a campaign stop in this small city of about 7,000, Paul told breast cancer survivor Danielle Lin that insurance companies should not be required to offer coverage to people who are already sick.
"It's sort of like me living on the Gulf Coast, not buying insurance until I see the hurricane," said Paul, whose Galveston-based district was devastated by a hurricane in 2008. "Insurance is supposed to measure risk."
The response left Lin in tears. While her insurance covered her treatment, she said, several of her friends were not so fortunate.
"I watched three friends die because they didn't have insurance," said Lin, a registered Democrat who is looking for a Republican candidate to support this time.
"Nobody can afford private insurance, nobody can. And they're dead."
Ron Paul is fine with your death, if you don't have insurance.
The penalty for being sick and poor will go up even more than it is doing now, under an Paul administration.
Racist or not, he is still an idiot, and arguably ammoral.
12-27-2011
Wild Cobra
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Originally Posted by RandomGuy
Dr. No also voted against the national do not call registry, a vote that got about as much support as the vote to go to war with Japan at the beginning of WW2.
You know what the national registry did? Duped countless millions to add their name and number to a database, which had protections that expired! the protections have to be periodically renewed, else it becomes open season.
12-27-2011
Wild Cobra
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Originally Posted by RandomGuy
Racist or not, he is still an idiot, and arguably ammoral.
No, he has reason for his positions. Just because you don't understand them doesn't make him the idiot. Makes you ignorant of his reasons though, to think him the idiot.
12-27-2011
cheguevara
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Uncut interview:
CNN edited the footage to make it look worse than it was.
wow that is pretty low class. Now I have a different view of CNN.
thanks for posting.
That bitch BTW is married to a CEO of a company that works with the Military Industrial Complex. It shows too
12-27-2011
ChumpDumper
Re: CNN bringing up Racist Ron Paul rumors again
Conspiracy!
12-28-2011
Wild Cobra
Re: CNN bringing up Racist Ron Paul rumors again
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Originally Posted by cheguevara
wow that is pretty low class. Now I have a different view of CNN.
thanks for posting.
That bitch BTW is married to a CEO of a company that works with the Military Industrial Complex. It shows too
Even as the establishments pulls all the punches it can to try to stop Ron Paul’s campaign for the presidency, the GOP hopeful is still the favorite among voters gearing up for the Iowa caucus.
In their latest quiz and the first official offering since the Christmas holiday, the Public Policy Polling firm has published the results of their latest questionnaire, and once again Texas Congressman Ron Paul has the lead among Republicans in Iowa who plan on participating in the upcoming caucus.
Less than a week away, the Iowa caucus is considered a major step in the road to the White House and traditionally plays a large role in how Republicans will advance in the months leading up to Election Day.
According to the latest polling, Ron Paul remains the top contender for the GOP nod in Iowa, beating out former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney by four percentage points. The newest poll, which grabs from data collected between December 26 and 27, puts Paul as the favorite among 24 percent of the voting pool. The last survey, a pre-Christmas quiz conducted between December 16 and 18, also put Paul in the front with 23 percent of the vote.
Rounding out the top five this time are former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who pulled in 13 percent and 11 percent favoritism, respectively.
Paul’s ongoing surge comes despite a smear campaign by the establishment that has tried to discredit the candidate in recent weeks over fear that his ideologies outside of the mainstream Republican Party could actually come to fruition if he takes the White House. While his fellow frontrunners are largely cookie-cutter conservatives, Paul’s stance on foreign policy and defense spending has come under attack since he threw his hat in the ring. Other Republican candidates have launched attacks on Paul in hopes of hurting his run for the nomination, but in recent days the mainstream media has focused on a newsletter penned under the congressman’s name from the 1990s.
According to the mainstream outlets, the context of the quips link Paul as a racist. The candidate has denied writing the material in question, however, and Paul’s supporters have come to his guard. CNN recently aired an interview in which Paul is perpetrated as walking out of an interview after being questioned about the letters, but an unedited version of the exclusive has since surfaced in which Paul is seen being pestered for nearly ten minutes by the network’s Gloria Borger, who tried to take on congressman with other questions, such as asking him if he would stop running ads against his opponents. When Paul said he would not, she asked him, “Why?” When Borger questions Paul over the newsletters, he questions both the legitimacy of the interviewer and the network for not taking his answers as legitimate and for being “confused.”
When Paul finally walks off the interview, Borger apologizes to Paul, and asks the candidate if he understands why she must pose such questions. “I understand how the system works,” responds the congressman.
Although CNN managed to edit the clip to make the candidate appear agitated, his supporters have stood strong. Even Dan Savage, the openly gay writer behind the syndicated Savage Love column (and started of Rick Santorum’s now notorious “Google problem), told Slate, “Ron is older than my father, far less toxic than Santorum and, as he isn't beloved of religious conservatives, he isn't out there stoking the hatreds of our social and political enemies.”
