I think the main reason that he is not being taken seriously is that the media does not take him seriously. It becomes more obvious with every passing day that the media is corrupt.

Here is a short, current example, less than one minute long. Fox News should be ashamed.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sJkfVdMEx5k

For more information on Ron Paul, go to http://www.ronpaullibrary.org.

Ron Paul wins another online poll! this one is even more influential than the fox news debate poll.

Click here.

David: the “implications” of Paul’s suggested policies (btw he’s running for president not dictator) are the same as Reagan and Goldwater. They are debatable and legitimate. Most are certainly not as radical as the Bush preemption policy or the patriot act when you reflect on even only the last 50 years of our history.

Paul is neither accepted mainstream nor establishment which invariably is one and the same. This is the reason for the effort to at one time snub and which now has become a tortured effort to sideline Ron Paul.

It is becoming beyond ridiculous as I listen to Diane Rehm’s show on NPR this morning and a commentator discussing Huckabee saying something to the effect that Huckabee “resoundingly trounced…[feigned struggle]..what’s his name…I can never remember.”

This country and its media (professionals) can do better.

Seriously, I don’t know what all the fuss is about this guy. Anyone sane listening to him would assume he’s got a lockerfull of guns and grenades in his basement, and 3 years of nonperishable foodstuffs. If he gets elected president I think it would be almost as bad of a disaster as Bush has been.

I feel your pain in thinking neither party will do anything but propagate the lobbyist-owned government, but this guy just wants to dismantle the government and replace it with anarchy. Please look to people like Edwards, and to a lesser extent Obama who are trying to be their own people rather than selling out to the corporate lobbyists.

Lolrons!

You can’t have big government and freedom. The left wants big government control of the economy because they do not trust that they would be successful in a free, competitive economy. Those at the receiving end of economic privilege do not want to be forced to earn what they would get without the help of laws rigging the economy in their favor. The moral right wants big government control of personal behavior because they do not trust that others or they themselves will control their own behavior.

Only a small minority want freedom and the responsibility that goes with it, so it is nice to see Ron Paul advocating freedom, but he won’t get too far in the political game.

Thanks for helping out there, Jim S, keep spreading the word!

1. There once was a time when I actually liked Sean Hannity. :(

2. The GOP is on life support. If the Republicans don’t have the wisdom to nominate Ron Paul, the GOP is dead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccurate_claims_or_bias_of_Sean_Hannity#Instances_of_Bias

There is a war on religion.
Eliminate social programs

Really, Justin, it doesn’t take much research to realize why Paul wouldn’t win a general election even if he did win the nomination.

If the courts don’t agree with us, eliminate their jurisdiction over anything we don’t like their decisions on.
Marriage needs defending from the evil of gay rights.
The next one of Paul’s social conservative polemics.
States should have complete control over “social policy”.
Combine the last one with this one and you see where Paul really stands on individual rights.

If the courts don’t agree with us, eliminate their jurisdiction over anything we don’t like their decisions on.
Marriage needs defending from the evil of gay rights.
The next one of Paul’s social conservative polemics.
States should have complete control over “social policy”.
Combine the last one with this one and you see where Paul really stands on individual rights.
There is a war on religion.
Eliminate social programs

Really, Justin, it doesn’t take much research to realize why Paul wouldn’t win a general election even if he did win the nomination.

Grassfire.org just released a 39,000 person scientific poll that shows Ron Paul a VERY close third (within 1% which is the margin of error) to 2nd place Mitt Romney.

Ron Paul is the only republican with the conviction and the voting record to beat ANY democrat hands down. He has voted against the war and funding it since 1998!

Oh how I long to see the debate between Ron and Hillary. She cannot win because she cannot tell the democrats that she didn’s support the now failed war from the beginning, Ron can. She cannot win when she voted FOR the patriot act and Ron did not. She cannot win when she wants to raise your taxes to make the nanny state bigger when she is up against ‘the taxpayers best friend’, Ron Paul.

WAKE UP REPUBLICANS! If you support the war but can’t fathom Hillary in the whitehouse you have NO other choice!

WAKE UP DEMOCRATS! You voted the bums out in 2006 to end the war, and now all but two of your (unfortunately lower tier) candidates are also admitting that they won’t end the war! Did they serve your interests? You voted for them demanding they do something, but they have not.

This time we ALL have someone to vote for, and something to vote against!

A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for freedom from more of the same!

You shouldn’t call them the doltish duo. Alan Colmes actually seems supportive of Dr. Paul. It might just be because he gets under Hannity’s skin so much, but so what. He’s not biased against the good Dr. Please don’t offend people who are on our side.

Although If Paul wins I’d presume the Grassy Knowl would be revisited.

RON PAUL 08 keep up the hard work.

Third party? Been there, done that. So what if we do get 10 percent in a three-way race, what does that prove? We’ve still lost in the end and more than likely swung the race to the pro-war candidate (or perhaps the MOST pro-war candidate.) The GOP is a hollow shell. It supporters are getting older by the minute. That’s why RP does so well in these online and text polls, because half of Republican voters have no idea what “texting” means. Even if RP falls short of the GOP nomination, there’s an organized movement out there now just waiting to take over decrpeit party apparatuses in the next four years.

As I said before, there’s a reason why you call yourself donkelphant, because two major-party system and that’s the way it is like or not.

If the Republicans want to WIN; If the Republicans don’t want Hillary, they better start thinking, “This Ron Paul fella has some powerful stuff here with the US Constitution.” and support him. He’dVice 40000 make an excellent president working to give us back our rights and trade with other nations in products besides spent arms and ammo against furture customers.

I think it is good tactically for Ron Paul to stay in the Republican primary as long as possible and wring as much publicity out of it as possible. If he pulled out now to make an indepedent or third party run, he would be getting zero coverage.

Instead, he is front page news for his dust-up with Huckabee last night. Given that he is the only anti-war Republican, I think he could pull double digits in some primaries and maybe even place in a few of them. That will give him momentum to launch a third party run.

I think Ron Paul has far better odds in the general election than he does in the Republican primary. That will be especially true after Hillary falls for the upcoming Patreaus white wash and votes George Bush another blank check. Thrown in an independent run by Bloomberg or Gore to split the Democratic vote, and we could conceivably have a President Paul.

read up on ballot access laws

especially: “sore loser laws”

It’s the GOP or nothing for Dr Paul

Oh I think they take him very seriously - they realize he is a threat and they are doing everything they can to sabotage him.

Because the mainstream Republican party wishes to marginalize his message. Ron Paul’s policies seem to be radical and genuine. Radical in the sense that he wishes to enact and stand for the very things Republicans say they stand for but actually haven’t for a long time. That scares Republicans. The Republican party doesn’t stand for what it “supposedly” used to stand for, less government, less meddling and good values. Now it’s just a big orgy of corruption with guys that buttons on their jackets that say: “Republicans stand for Values and Family’s.” When in reality they stand for increasing the size of government, increasing the hand-outs to their constituents. In short the emperor has no clothes on.

I hold out that open primaries can win the day. Come March if the nomination is not possible, the Meet-Up group organization can be quickly coalesced into a nation-wide organization for an independent run. No 3rd party required. An independent campaign a la Ross Perot can work.

Still, I am flying my flag and sending my dollars until proven otherwise.

If in San Francisco, Ron Paul can cross party lines than the Republicans need to understand his platform. Republicans better start wising up to a candidate that can bring back the respect and admiration of our nation. People I haven’t even talked to about Ron Paul know and support him and all it takes is a little patience in this campaign and we will see more movement.

That said,
you just fell for the biggest fallacy of the year if you sincerely believe
those 3% poll figures. Contrast those numbers with the visible flesh-and-blood figures you see springing into view.
It is no longer 3 spammers in the basement, and it never was.

The pollsters are not exactly lying but they have red-lined the machine
this time and when it breaks there will be a lot of pieces to pick up.
They are targeting people they know lay outside of Ron Paul’s support base,
but after today this will be monumentally difficult to continue.

I do believe there is a lot of support for the ideas that Ron Paul espouses. It is the type of thing you hear talk of in backyard barbecues.

But no one thinks it could ever come to pass. It is just a faint dream. Perhaps people on the Internet who are able to live in a world slightly askew from the “reality” of America are able to grab onto the dream more readily.

And the pundits by and large are not interested in political theory. They want to handicap the race. Of course, a lot of it is self-fulfilling prophecy. And so everyone gets real excited that Fred Thompson is entering the race. How totally unexciting that should be in a sane world.

~Becky

because that’s where this man is headed. nothin can stop it now.