Ron Paul holding strong in Iowa

[Vici]

Yeah, there is a lot of overlap between democrat and libertarian ideologies.

You'd be surprised

[JoeChalupa]

Paul had dropped and he could have nipped the whole newsletter fiasco in the bud but no, now he is reaping what he sowed. Santorum just may finish ahead of Paul tonight and give Romney a run for his millions.

[boutons_deux]

you assholes know that about 150K extreme-right wing/religious Taleban voters max are expected to vote today?

150K out of 300M+ Human-Americans.

What a farce (it's actually nothing but money-grubbing by MSM for political ads).

[ChumpDumper]

At least we'll stop getting sound bites of fat Iowans sitting in diners saying stuff like "I like Santorum. He say things."

[Spurminator]

Yet what is and isn’t part of the mainstream is something that political campaigns determine. And the truth is that Paul’s vision reveals—with candor and specificity—what the G.O.P.’s rhetorical hostility to government would mean if it were rigorously put into practice. A minimal state, without welfare provisions for the unemployed. A quarter of a million federal workers—as a first installment—joining those unemployed. Foreign policy and national defense reduced to a few ballistic-missile submarines. The civil-rights legislation of the nineteen-sixties repealed as so much unwarranted government intrusion. As for the financial crisis, Paul would have countenanced no regulation that might have prevented it, no government stabilization of the financial system after it happened, and no special help for working people hurt by it. This is where the logic of government-shrinking leads.

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