Ron Paul to have full-page ad in USA Today

ironhead

ironhead

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016876.html

Here's a first draft:

http://www.revmark.org/forumfiles/ad.htm

I like it, but I think that the positive qualities/bullet points about Dr. Paul should be in much larger print. I think they could reduce a great deal about the founders - they should just quote Paine and Jefferson with "the government which governs best, governs least" and "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none".

Either way, it's an understatement to describe this ad as remarkable, considering the Ron Paul campaign did not pay for it. Apparently, a wealthy individual supporter paid for the full-page ad in USA Today. Here's to hoping the ad catches the attention of millions of registered voters and has a massive impact!
 
ironhead said:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016876.html

Here's a first draft:

http://www.revmark.org/forumfiles/ad.htm

I like it, but I think that the positive qualities/bullet points about Dr. Paul should be in much larger print. I think they could reduce a great deal about the founders - they should just quote Paine and Jefferson with "the government which governs best, governs least" and "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none".

Either way, it's an understatement to describe this ad as remarkable, considering the Ron Paul campaign did not pay for it. Apparently, a wealthy individual supporter paid for the full-page ad in USA Today. Here's to hoping the ad catches the attention of millions of registered voters and has a massive impact!
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As a former Deaniac, I'm all for the Ron Paul revolution. I also think he is the least dangerous of all of the possible Republicans if he were actually elected president. His foreign policy is certainly less dangerous than that of any other Republican and his more extreme positions (see "fiat money," among others) would never pass Congress regardless of who was in the majority.
 
uscitizen said:
Are libertarians just the ultimate regressive conservatists ?
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Perhaps in your bizarre imagination. Many L's come from the right, that is true - but others come from the left as well.

However, why would you describe a movement as "regressive" when it:

favors the individual over the state
is pro-choice
is anti-death penalty
is against imperialist foreign policy
is ardently pro free speech
favors the freedom of the market over gov't control
is against corporate welfare
is pro-privacy rights
supports the entire Bill of Rights
is against a national draft and selective service
is against legislating morality
is against government encroachment in the bedroom

Yeah, that's highly regressive. Essenitally, you feel that if a mode of thought does not seek to redistribute income in some sort of marxian fashion, then it must be regressive.
 
I mean regressive as in get back to the olden days of the USA before big govt and all the interpretations of the constitution by the supremes and such.
Back when robber barrons could truely flourish ;)
 
ironhead said:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016876.html

Here's a first draft:

http://www.revmark.org/forumfiles/ad.htm

I like it, but I think that the positive qualities/bullet points about Dr. Paul should be in much larger print. I think they could reduce a great deal about the founders - they should just quote Paine and Jefferson with "the government which governs best, governs least" and "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none".

Either way, it's an understatement to describe this ad as remarkable, considering the Ron Paul campaign did not pay for it. Apparently, a wealthy individual supporter paid for the full-page ad in USA Today. Here's to hoping the ad catches the attention of millions of registered voters and has a massive impact!
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I am glad that is just a first draft as the error on it is glaring and makes a great piece amateurish.
 
ironhead said:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016876.html

Here's a first draft:

http://www.revmark.org/forumfiles/ad.htm

I like it, but I think that the positive qualities/bullet points about Dr. Paul should be in much larger print. I think they could reduce a great deal about the founders - they should just quote Paine and Jefferson with "the government which governs best, governs least" and "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none".

Either way, it's an understatement to describe this ad as remarkable, considering the Ron Paul campaign did not pay for it. Apparently, a wealthy individual supporter paid for the full-page ad in USA Today. Here's to hoping the ad catches the attention of millions of registered voters and has a massive impact!
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Paul puts out the some of the most infantile shit I have ever seen from a political candidate. This is laughable, but goes right along with his hand-written fundraising letters and his video ad that looks like a skit from Saturday Night Live.

What a joke
 
RStringfield said:
Another story found on LR.com

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmVkNGYwYzA1ZmJhMDBjOTAxN2IyZjc2YzEwOGUxZjk=

Zogby Predicts Ron Paul Could Get 15 to 18 Percent in New Hampshire

On the Sean Hannity radio program, pollster John Zogby said that Texas Congressman Ron Paul could end up surprising the field - and "embarass a lot of the frontrunners" by wildly exceeding expectations taking 15 to 18 percent in the New Hampshire primary.
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WOW .. he could get 15-18% .. which equals = LOSER BIG TIME.

Who in the fuck touts 15% of the vote as some kind of victory?

ONLY a LOSER would celebrate 15%
 
blackascoal said:
Paul puts out the some of the most infantile shit I have ever seen from a political candidate. This is laughable, but goes right along with his hand-written fundraising letters and his video ad that looks like a skit from Saturday Night Live.

What a joke
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You think that Ad is more infantile than the Reps and Dems constantly stomping their feet and trying to blame each other for the monstrous hole they have us in?

Is it infantile that he will actually tell you where he stands on an issue? Whereas the leading Reps and Dems are stumbling all over themselves to figure out what the position-of-the-day is?
 
blackascoal said:
WOW .. he could get 15-18% .. which equals = LOSER BIG TIME.

Who in the fuck touts 15% of the vote as some kind of victory?

ONLY a LOSER would celebrate 15%
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When you are polling at 2-5%... 15-18 would be a victory. Especially when the primary has a field of 8-9 people. No one is suggesting he would celebrate those percentages in a head-to-head contest.
 
Superfreak said:
Do you really understand so little about libertarians?
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No, I understand them

Economically, they tend to be conservative
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Disagree. I would characterize them - the true activists - as ultra conservative, indeed reactionary. Ron Paul's dream is to eliminate public education, eliminate the New Deal and all its reforms, and make the federal goverment small enough to drown in a bathtub by restricting it to the alleged "enumerated rights" in Article II of the constitution.

Socially, they tend to moderate to liberal.
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That would be a misleading characterization of Ron Paul, who is pro-capital punishment, anti-abortion, anti-choice, and is weak or absent on gay rights issues. Libertarian activists generally make rhetorical noises about social justice and some liberal causes, but their focus is on shrinking the federal goverment to its status in 1796, or on taxes, regulation, and property rights. Go on CATO, and tell me which way they are weighted: towards reactionary ecnomic theory? Or towards social justice for gays, minorities, and women?

It is about the individual and states rights.
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States rights is the same code word that neoconfederate and economic reactionaries use, with respect to the 1960 civil rights laws, and federal oversight of interstate commerce, environment, and workers rights.
 
Superfreak said:
You think that Ad is more infantile than the Reps and Dems constantly stomping their feet and trying to blame each other for the monstrous hole they have us in?

Is it infantile that he will actually tell you where he stands on an issue? Whereas the leading Reps and Dems are stumbling all over themselves to figure out what the position-of-the-day is?
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Dude, he tells you where he stands on the issues .. he doesn't tell me shit.

I have ZERO problem with you cheering on his lunatic policies or your belief in a failed politican who has never led anything.

How about this .. this clown has no chance of be elected nationally .. he's already tried that before ..

What's your point?
 
Superfreak said:
When you are polling at 2-5%... 15-18 would be a victory. Especially when the primary has a field of 8-9 people. No one is suggesting he would celebrate those percentages in a head-to-head contest.
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That 15% MAY come in New Hampshire according to Zogby .. which makes him a monumental loser by any standard.

Is that the point of all these daily Ron Paul threads .. we MIGHT get 15%?

Amazing
 
blackascoal said:
Dude, he tells you where he stands on the issues .. he doesn't tell me shit.

I have ZERO problem with you cheering on his lunatic policies or your belief in a failed politican who has never led anything.

How about this .. this clown has no chance of be elected nationally .. he's already tried that before ..

What's your point?
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The point was nothing more than this...

Calling that ad infantile is ridiculous. He states where he stands. I agree he has little to no chance of winning. But he behaves in a far better manner than most of the other candidates.
 
blackascoal said:
That 15% MAY come in New Hampshire according to Zogby .. which makes him a monumental loser by any standard.

Is that the point of all these daily Ron Paul threads .. we MIGHT get 15%?

Amazing
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15% in a primary race is not "a monumental loser" by any standard. You are just throwing out any credibility you might have as a rational critic with silly comments such as this.
 
blackascoal said:
That 15% MAY come in New Hampshire according to Zogby .. which makes him a monumental loser by any standard.

Is that the point of all these daily Ron Paul threads .. we MIGHT get 15%?

Amazing
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Stop. Think. If you have 8 candidates on the primary ballot.... 12.5% would be average. If you are polling at 5% and you end up with 15%, that is indeed a victory. If he can pull in 15-18% with seven other candidates in the field he would likely place second or third. Which for him would be a win.

What part of that is so hard for you to comprehend? We are NOT talking about a one-on-one showing.
 
blackascoal said:
Dude, he tells you where he stands on the issues .. he doesn't tell me shit.

I have ZERO problem with you cheering on his lunatic policies or your belief in a failed politican who has never led anything.

How about this .. this clown has no chance of be elected nationally .. he's already tried that before ..

What's your point?
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Nader definetely has no chance, what would you think if all of us kept making fun of you for your support of him?
IF you're honest, you'll admit it's nothing but being childish and knock it off.
 
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