I’d guess some 10-20% of the Reps really want the US out of Iraq, AND out of Germany, Japan, and other silly adventures. It’s called Isolationism, and it’s what Washington wanted: Peace and Trade with all Nations, entangling alliances with none…

Ron Paul should get those anti-war Rep votes, and he deserves them. But they’re not enough to win, and “America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser”.

But I’ve changed. I think War to stop Genocide is better than allowing genocide in a non-nuclear power country. So while I support Ron Paul in everything else, in his big anti-Iraq war main talking point, I don’t.

But there’s to be a Europeans for Ron Paul event in Bratislava I’ll go to.

Maybe I’ll support Huckabee, or (slick?) Mitt — at least Romney is a personally consistent pro-life, pro-responsibility social conservative. Who has supported more gay rights in the past than seems to in the present.

Go Ron!!!

How’s your net traffic on these articles compared to others?

The fact is, unlike with Ron Paul, everybody with any interest in politics knows them and their policy, specially Republicans. Therefore, whoever is supporting them would certainly have voted for them independent of their physical presence. No one would vote to someone else just because their candidate was not physically present there.

Another possible argument would be their, Giuliani, McCain, F Thompson, supporters chose not to show up because their candidate was not coming. This argument doesn’t hold much weight, because the hardcore supporters would want to come and vote for them anyway, and their popularity is supposed to be so overwhelming that even the “typical” republican activists should have wanted to vote for them whether or not candidates showed up. Remember that the vote is for who you want for president, not who of the candidates “currently present in the poll” that you want for
president.

The sad fact is that the reason Giuliani and McCain have any support at all is that they are CONSTANTLY being mentioned by the media as the front runners. Thus when you conduct a random phone poll, people who are not particularly active in politics know their names and don’t know anyone else’s. But every poll, which people self-select based on their interest in the outcome, from Internet to text-message to straw poll they, Giuliani, McCain, F Thompson, come in dead last relative to R Paul. Basically, the more one knows about them the less attractive they are to the most people.

Furthermore, even if you buy the argument of being there, Iowa, to be known to get vote, the numbers show that Ron Paul spent less number of events in Iowa, 17 events, than McCain, 26 events, and Giuliani, 26 vents. F Thompson is 0. (source: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/tracker/candidates/)

Their, Giuliani, McCain, Thompson, campaign should have had the prediction about Iowa Straw Poll based on some study and that is the real reason, why they were not there. Otherwise, they could not have the excuse of their low numbers and would be very damaging to their campaign.

As a collateral, this shows how Ron Paul support is strong and growing. It was much higher than Giuliani, McCain and F Thompson, the “front runners”. 7x Giuliani, 6.4x Thompson and 13x McCain.

We should Congratulate how Ron Paul did much better than “The Front Runners”.

I think it will get alot hotter, so you RP supporters better learn to hang in there.

In another poll sponsored by the U.S. Military personnel, Ron Paul finished first over ALL the other presidential candidates, receiving the most votes cast (in dollars) of any candidate for the fund raising quarter ending June 30th.

And in another poll, sponsored by YOUTUBE, Ron Paul is the number one Republican candidate. Congressman Paul currently has 25,400+ votes (subscribers) and over 3 million channel views, to Mitt Romney’s 2,700 votes (again subscribers) and some 700K+ channel views. Worthy to note, Congressman Paul tops ALL presidential candidates (from both parties) on the YOUTUBE platform. This is an ongoing poll.

The poll of most traffic to a Republican website in the month of August, again, goes to…you guessed it – Congressman Paul. 44.16% of all web traffic going to a Republican site went to Dr. Paul’s site, followed by 16.13% to Romney’s site (this is out of a mere 10 MILLION USERS) and can’t be compared to the normal polling sample of 400-800 people typically used in the mainstream media’s ‘paid-for’ polls.

Congressman Paul – wins the MySpace.com poll for most friends of any Republican; the Facebook poll for most friends; and has more grass-roots supporters using MeetUp.com than any other candidate.

Summary: Congressman Paul doesn’t do well in the polls that are commissioned and paid for by the mainstream media. On the other hand, in the non-controlled, organic, on-going poll samples on the internet of 10’s of thousands, even 100’s of thousands of voters, Congressman Paul RULES. So, the moral of the story is – don’t be fooled by those so-called ‘polls’ – they just aren’t accurate.

http://www.IHateRonPaul.com – “…they hate us for our FREEDOMS!”

Effective.

Huckabee puts listeners at ease, and reassures them through clear concepts and a natural, integrated manner of communication (no doubt something well-cultivated as a pastor). He’s not demanding, like a Ron Paul, nor is he as “well-scripted” as Romney, nor as mechanical-squinty like Brownback.

Most importantly, Huckabee convinces many that he is ONE with the FairTax grassroots movement. While many – like Romney, and others, who are invested in the current income tax system – seek to demagog (1) the well-researched FairTax plan, its acceptance in the professional / academic community (2) continues to grow. Failure to enact the FairTax – choosing instead to try to “flatten” a NON-FLATTENABLE income tax system – will result in an irrevocable economic meltdown (3)!

Just take a look at the WEAK response Romney followed Huckabee with on last weekend’s “This Week with Geo. Stephanopoulos (4)”

Here is why the FairTax MUST replace the income tax. It’s:

• SIMPLE, easy to understand
• EFFICIENT, inexpensive to comply with and doesn’t cause less-than-optimal business decisions for tax minimization purposes
• FAIR, loophole free and everyone pays their share
• LOW TAX RATE, achieved by broad base with no exclusions
• PREDICTABLE, doesn’t change, so financial planning is possible
• UNINTRUSIVE, doesn’t intrude into our personal affairs or limit our liberty
• VISIBLE, not hidden from the public in tax-inflated prices or otherwise
• PRODUCTIVE, rewards, rather than penalizes, work and productivity

Its benefits are as follows:

FOR INDIVIDUALS:
• No more tax on income – make as much as you wish
• You receive your full paycheck – no more deductions
• You pay the tax when you buy “at retail” – not “used”
• No more double taxation (e.g. like on current Capital Gains)
• Reduction of “pre-FairTaxed” retail prices by 20%-30%
• Adding back 29.9% FairTax maintains current price levels
• FairTax would constitute 23% portion of new prices
• Every household receives a monthly check, or “pre-bate”
• “Prebate” is “advance payback” for monthly consumption to poverty level
• FairTax’s “prebate” ensures progressivity, poverty protection
• Finally, citizens are knowledgeable of what their tax IS
• Elimination of “parasitic” Income Tax industry
• NO MORE IRS. NO MORE FILING OF TAX RETURNS by individuals
• Those possessing illicit forms of income will ALSO pay the FairTax
• Households have more disposable income to purchase goods
• Savings is bolstered with reduction of interest rates

FOR BUSINESSES:
• Corporate income and payroll taxes revoked under FairTax
• Business compensated for collecting tax at “cash register”
• No more tax-related lawyers, lobbyists on company payrolls
• No more embedded (hidden) income/payroll taxes in prices
• Reduced costs. Competition – not tax policy – drives prices
• Off-shore “tax haven” headquarters can now return to U.S
• No more “favors” from politicians at expense of taxpayers
• Resources go to R&D and study of competition – not taxes
• Marketplace distortions eliminated for fair competition
• US exports increase their share of foreign markets

FOR THE COUNTRY:
• 7% – 13% economic growth projected in the first year of the FairTax
• Jobs return to the U.S.
• Foreign corporations “set up shop” in the U.S.
• Tax system trends are corrected to “enlarge the pie”
• Larger economic “pie,” means thinner tax rate “slices”
• Initial 23% portion of price is pressured downward as “pie”
increases
• No more “closed door” tax deals by politicians and business
• FairTax sets new global standard. Other countries will follow

Action Now FairTax advocacy at: http://snipr.com/scrapthecode

(1) http://snipurl.com/taxpanelrebutted
(2) http://snipurl.com/econsopenletter
(3) http://snipurl.com/meltdowninprogress
(4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW4fa6Z_4Po

Peace be with you.

Tom Tancredo, will be out of the race very soon. He spent lots of cash on Drudge a month ago and now his remarks have returned to haunt him. Sources tell me that Tom is low on cash (I have been to several Tancredo small group meetings). Yet, he still stands by his statement of “Bomb Mecca” Meanwhile short sighted Christians think his comets were fine. But they fail to compare what may happen if Muslims told the world to bomb the birth place of Christ.

Ron Paul finished above MSM predictions and he has a growing base of support and is really the only Republican who can beat Hillary.

The rest of the GOP is full of new world order leaders who will do nothing more then finish bushes plans for the NAU.

Do your homework and get informed and turn off fox news, Rush and question many of World Net Dailyies articles as well.

I support Ron Paul 100%…..

Bottom line most of those candidates have been in Iowa since January, Ron Paul declared his run for President late in the game, and only last week – 2 days before the straw poll opened an office in Iowa.

Brownback spent 115 days in Iowa, 100 more days than Ron Paul, why didn’t he win? Romney 89 days, Huckabee 70 days – those are huge amounts of time. They should have done much better than they did.

For the amount of time Ron Paul spent in Iowa he did very well, and per day campaigning versus how many votes he received – he did the best of all the candidate. No excuses, he came in 5th and didn’t win, either did Ronald Reagan.

Up next is the Texas Straw Poll, you can’t buy votes there.

The larger story is the dismal turnout in general. I have never seen the Republican party base or potential GOP voting demographic so apathetic in my life.

Something like 70% of GOP voters have no idea who Ron Paul is in any meaningful way. It is becoming clear, however, that a very large number of that demographic actually respond quite favorably to him once they do merely listen to him and get to learn his story.

This is the last general election cycle that The Republican Party will exist in my opinion. The dissaffected conservatives will begin to migrate away, and the statist conservatives comfortable with government omnipotence will merely find a natural alliance with the socialist left.

Ron Paul would probably save the GOP’s fate ironically, but…

Has anyone researched 1953 coup of Prime Minister Mossedeq in Iran? Anyone take an educated guess on who did it?

Has anyone researched the drug money trail prior to 1989 when we invaded Panama? Keep telling yourself we outsted Manuel Noriega because he was a brut & a savage. I bet you would be shocked to find that the Manuel was CIA and that he was laudering drug money that belonged to the CIA.

What do Americans think Iran-Contra was about? Guns for money, money for drugs, drugs for money, money for guns. It was an illegal business venture by our country. Who paid for the drugs? YOU DID AMERICA……..those of you who like using them. For those who don’t use drugs, you probably think heroin and cocaine isn’t real, much less how dirty your government really is.

I am a Ron-o-phile after months of searching what backs who in the political realm. No suprise on Guiliani’s thoughts on the Dubai Ports Deal to McCain’s Amnesty card for illegal aliens. Even Romney is spending his own money to make himself look good.

I have had it with the fear card. When will we wake up and realize that the Bush administration and some republicans will do anything to weaken us as a nation. Fear is a sign of weakness. Every since 9/11, they have used this as a reasoning to instill fear. I am beginning to wonder about 9/11 and the success this tragedy has given the administraion. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, however PNAC has alot to do with both these events.

Now realistically, if I care to see any Republican win (I question myself every time I hear myself say that) it would have to be Ron Paul. However, what you say above would have to amount to a perfect storm. I don’t see all of these groups coming together in a common cause. I’m a Green party voter, I’d be willing to vote for Ron Paul if only he didn’t espouse some of the more extreme politics of the Republican party, i.e. Pro-life and Social Security privatization, but he does. So I would not vote for Ron Paul.

This country is so politically fractured at the moment that I cannot see any one candidate cinching this election until the final stretch, even then I don’t believe there is going to be a landslide win for a Republican candidate. Concerning the Democrats though, we may well see a landslide win. Either Obama or Clinton might take the election by huge numbers, but again, even the Democratic party is largely divided.

Who knows. Let’s just hope whoever is next can do a better job than Doofus.

I was shocked by two things:
1. McCain, Guiliani and Fred Thompson got LESS that Ron Paul. This should have meant more votes for Paul.
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2. Instead in Iowa 46% of the mainstream votes went to Huckabee, Brownback and Tancredo. This is VERY scary to me. If those 3 folks are mainstream, then we definitely need another river. I hope that middle-America Iowa is not the new average American like it has always been in the past. Does anyone else hear a DRAFT coming like I do?

All this means is that we need to work harder for Ron Paul, write more letters, talk to our friends, do local ads, answer every on-line idiocy about him, put up yard signs, show up for his speechs and personal appearances, AND of course donate more money!

Ron Paul may not win but somewhere out there is the next generation’s Ron Paul. This person needs to be reached and convinced. I personal think Ron Paul is now our only hope to reach that person. Besides you and I both know that he is the best person running in either party. Maybe if we work hard enough we can convince others.

We have a year.

Go Ron Paul!