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	<title>Comments on: Ron Paul Finishes 5th In New Hampshire. Is The Revolution Over?</title>
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		<title>By: libertynow</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2008/01/09/ron-paul-finishes-5th-in-new-hampshire-is-the-revolution-over/comment-page-3/#comment-388548</link>
		<dc:creator>libertynow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You must have missed something. The freedom movement started in this country in the 1970s when it became crystal clear to a few that the war machine was in control and that it would be un bound by a gold standard and un bound by the Constution as it invaded beople&#039;s homes with out warrants and imprisioned non violent offenders and those who chose not to fight in Nam. The illusion started fading because people like Ron Paul started poking holes in the vail of order with their pencils and public actions. Now 10% of Americans are waking up to the great lie and it is a sign that the holes are much bigger now and so there is no end to the Revolution Ron Paul is just playing his part to lead the people who are awake to start chipping away at the lies. Soon our movement will multiply and the wall will come down. Every vote for Ron Paul is a victory. Libertarians usualy get .5% of the vote. So Ron Paul is showing a 2000% victory in the battle for freedom which we realize make take another generation to bring the Republic back to its full glory.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You must have missed something. The freedom movement started in this country in the 1970s when it became crystal clear to a few that the war machine was in control and that it would be un bound by a gold standard and un bound by the Constution as it invaded beople&#8217;s homes with out warrants and imprisioned non violent offenders and those who chose not to fight in Nam. The illusion started fading because people like Ron Paul started poking holes in the vail of order with their pencils and public actions. Now 10% of Americans are waking up to the great lie and it is a sign that the holes are much bigger now and so there is no end to the Revolution Ron Paul is just playing his part to lead the people who are awake to start chipping away at the lies. Soon our movement will multiply and the wall will come down. Every vote for Ron Paul is a victory. Libertarians usualy get .5% of the vote. So Ron Paul is showing a 2000% victory in the battle for freedom which we realize make take another generation to bring the Republic back to its full glory.</p>
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		<title>By: Louis Nardozi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Louis Nardozi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When you&#039;re filling your car with $3 gas and buying some $2.65 a dozen eggs, remember who is running on stopping deficit spending. The war for oil is what caused prices for anything that eats grain to skyrocket. When THOSE prices rise, the fresh fruit seller raises his prices again, now you have some nice $5 a pound grapes in the market. Laugh all you want, it&#039;s YOUR money being spent. YOU&#039;RE the one going to pay $250 a week for groceries. Still think Ron Paul sounds like a bad idea? He&#039;s the ONLY candidate, Republican or Democrat that is running on reducing your cost of living. Maybe you have plenty money. Me, I&#039;m not so rich.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you&#8217;re filling your car with $3 gas and buying some $2.65 a dozen eggs, remember who is running on stopping deficit spending. The war for oil is what caused prices for anything that eats grain to skyrocket. When THOSE prices rise, the fresh fruit seller raises his prices again, now you have some nice $5 a pound grapes in the market. Laugh all you want, it&#8217;s YOUR money being spent. YOU&#8217;RE the one going to pay $250 a week for groceries. Still think Ron Paul sounds like a bad idea? He&#8217;s the ONLY candidate, Republican or Democrat that is running on reducing your cost of living. Maybe you have plenty money. Me, I&#8217;m not so rich.</p>
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		<title>By: Gene</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gene</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ron Paul supporters are the only supporters that will show up on Super Tuesday enmass.  Most people have never voted in a primary...until now, and they&#039;ll be Ron Paul votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ron Paul supporters are the only supporters that will show up on Super Tuesday enmass.  Most people have never voted in a primary&#8230;until now, and they&#8217;ll be Ron Paul votes.</p>
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		<title>By: brettrix</title>
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		<dc:creator>brettrix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember it was 14 years between the Tea Party in 1773 and the ratification of the Consitution in 1787 (or thereabouts)

Don&#039;t give up - if you really want to change America we need to become involved in all aspects of the system. See how Wyoming voted without a popular vote? does that really count?

Paul has more delegates than Rudy at this point as well as the vote count.

never give up - Ron has been doing this for 20 + years - most of us have only become involved in the last 9 months... 

Good Job everyone

We&#039;re All For Paul!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember it was 14 years between the Tea Party in 1773 and the ratification of the Consitution in 1787 (or thereabouts)</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t give up &#8211; if you really want to change America we need to become involved in all aspects of the system. See how Wyoming voted without a popular vote? does that really count?</p>
<p>Paul has more delegates than Rudy at this point as well as the vote count.</p>
<p>never give up &#8211; Ron has been doing this for 20 + years &#8211; most of us have only become involved in the last 9 months&#8230; </p>
<p>Good Job everyone</p>
<p>We&#8217;re All For Paul!</p>
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		<title>By: Sean Scallon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sean Scallon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The question I have for Justin is the same one I asked seven months ago, what do we gain from making a non-major party run? hmm? What? What does 8% in New Hampshire really translate to nationally especially if independent didn&#039;t flock to Paul&#039;s banner? 2%, 4% What&#039;s the point? If you think the media doesn&#039;t pay much attention to Paul now, wait until he&#039;s running this fall on the LP or CP ballots, then you&#039;ll see what a media blackout really is all about. This will be especially true if Mayor Bloomberg decides to run as an independent. 

Having been through that experience with Buchanan in 2000, I can assure you I don&#039;t wish go through another exercise in futility. Yes, Paul&#039;s bid for the GOP nomination was a longshot, you&#039;re not telling us anything we didn&#039;t already know Justin. But we thought it was a shot worth taking to see what would happen. I think its obvious there&#039;s a base of between 8-10 of the vote, a in some states and in others less, within the GOP that likes Dr. Paul&#039;s message. That&#039;s a start. If Paul&#039;s people work themselves into the party apparatus and another candidate comes along in the next who more articulate and better on television than Dr. Paul and if the GOP shut out of power completly, then his views will have a better chance of being adsvancing in party circles. One advantage we do have is time. Most GOP voters are old. Most Paul voters are young.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The question I have for Justin is the same one I asked seven months ago, what do we gain from making a non-major party run? hmm? What? What does 8% in New Hampshire really translate to nationally especially if independent didn&#8217;t flock to Paul&#8217;s banner? 2%, 4% What&#8217;s the point? If you think the media doesn&#8217;t pay much attention to Paul now, wait until he&#8217;s running this fall on the LP or CP ballots, then you&#8217;ll see what a media blackout really is all about. This will be especially true if Mayor Bloomberg decides to run as an independent. </p>
<p>Having been through that experience with Buchanan in 2000, I can assure you I don&#8217;t wish go through another exercise in futility. Yes, Paul&#8217;s bid for the GOP nomination was a longshot, you&#8217;re not telling us anything we didn&#8217;t already know Justin. But we thought it was a shot worth taking to see what would happen. I think its obvious there&#8217;s a base of between 8-10 of the vote, a in some states and in others less, within the GOP that likes Dr. Paul&#8217;s message. That&#8217;s a start. If Paul&#8217;s people work themselves into the party apparatus and another candidate comes along in the next who more articulate and better on television than Dr. Paul and if the GOP shut out of power completly, then his views will have a better chance of being adsvancing in party circles. One advantage we do have is time. Most GOP voters are old. Most Paul voters are young.</p>
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		<title>By: Carole</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carole</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, we Ron Paul supporters are a little let down, but we have been busy since the Primary with the more important matter of sorting out the errors in the New Hampshire voting result.

I am happy to announce the Greenville and Sutton precints in New Hampshire have admitted they omitted Dr. Paul&#039;s votes on the count, having giving him zero votes. Guess they forgot to count them.  Today they were forced to correct those errors by adding 30 and 21 votes respectively. Still checking other figures. This is just two
examples of potential vote fraud and it was an amateurish attempt to deprive him of votes. It is possible the other candidates were hurt/helped by this as well. There are at least two apparent patterns in the vote count that appears to be anomalies. This is my personal observation only, but it is fairly obvious. I believe at least one other candidate was cheated of votes. 

We can demand a recount if Dr. Paul so chooses. That is his decision.
Certain anomalies appeared throughout the count for several candidates. So they might have an interest in vote fraud also. The point is that I care even more about truthful elections than I care whether my candidate wins. Well, yes, naturally I want him to succeed. Got to be honest here. :)

This is just one of the problems in our country that Dr. Paul would be very much on top of as President. He is too honest to allow anything but an honest vote count for all candidates.

On Leno the other night he reminded Americans that it would be wrong to censure Mr. Romney on his religious beliefs, that it concerned him that this could happen, adding that only his issues/platform should be a basis for supporting or not supporting him. Several million people heard that message.

As usual Mr. Gardner, you are one more person who just does not get it. It is a bit like the old story one hears of brilliant or somewhat intelligent people who do not know what to do if they have a flat tire, try to change it, and lose the lug nuts. Scratching their heads in despair or panic, an insane asylum inmate comes along and suggests they use one lug nut from each of the other tire rims. &quot;Brilliant!&quot; But why are you in the asylum? Inmate responds, &quot;I&#039;m in here because I&#039;m crazy, not stupid.&quot;

The old newsletter story has been explained many times. The young fellow who tried to slander Dr. Paul with innuendoes also offerred not one concrete fact. Furthermore, Dr. Paul is a great admirer of MLK for his belief in peacable protesting. He is a better friend to Black Americans and the poor, and the middle class than any of the other Republicans or Democrats, because he understands the economy, monetery policy, and foreign policy are robbing them of more and more of their money, destroying the middle class, placing people deeper in poverty such that they cannot escape. He understands that our empire will soon come to an end due to the falling dollar. When that happens we will be vulnerable to attack and being conquered by another country, jsut as we have been doing for so many years. Even China could end up owning us.

He is a better friend to Israel in wanting Israel to have its sovereignty back and stop having to take orders from the US. He would end aid to them, but so would he end aid to all other foreign countries. this alone would benefit Israel since we give their enemies three times as much as we give Israel.

Jews for Ron Paul 2008
http://www.jews4ronpaul.org/advisors.html3

You and others like you need to do a serious reality check. America is on the wrong track and it is going to get a whole lot worse and much sooner than you might think. I have watched it for my entire life as it was incrementally gaining legs and it is very, very close. We must restore our Liberty and the rule of law as set down in our Constitution.

Some of the pictures below on this page are further reason we need Dr. Paul.

Mote: It is impossible to read the words on your widget and almost impossible to hear the numbers. I had to try four time.

Thank you for reading this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, we Ron Paul supporters are a little let down, but we have been busy since the Primary with the more important matter of sorting out the errors in the New Hampshire voting result.</p>
<p>I am happy to announce the Greenville and Sutton precints in New Hampshire have admitted they omitted Dr. Paul&#8217;s votes on the count, having giving him zero votes. Guess they forgot to count them.  Today they were forced to correct those errors by adding 30 and 21 votes respectively. Still checking other figures. This is just two<br />
examples of potential vote fraud and it was an amateurish attempt to deprive him of votes. It is possible the other candidates were hurt/helped by this as well. There are at least two apparent patterns in the vote count that appears to be anomalies. This is my personal observation only, but it is fairly obvious. I believe at least one other candidate was cheated of votes. </p>
<p>We can demand a recount if Dr. Paul so chooses. That is his decision.<br />
Certain anomalies appeared throughout the count for several candidates. So they might have an interest in vote fraud also. The point is that I care even more about truthful elections than I care whether my candidate wins. Well, yes, naturally I want him to succeed. Got to be honest here. :)</p>
<p>This is just one of the problems in our country that Dr. Paul would be very much on top of as President. He is too honest to allow anything but an honest vote count for all candidates.</p>
<p>On Leno the other night he reminded Americans that it would be wrong to censure Mr. Romney on his religious beliefs, that it concerned him that this could happen, adding that only his issues/platform should be a basis for supporting or not supporting him. Several million people heard that message.</p>
<p>As usual Mr. Gardner, you are one more person who just does not get it. It is a bit like the old story one hears of brilliant or somewhat intelligent people who do not know what to do if they have a flat tire, try to change it, and lose the lug nuts. Scratching their heads in despair or panic, an insane asylum inmate comes along and suggests they use one lug nut from each of the other tire rims. &#8220;Brilliant!&#8221; But why are you in the asylum? Inmate responds, &#8220;I&#8217;m in here because I&#8217;m crazy, not stupid.&#8221;</p>
<p>The old newsletter story has been explained many times. The young fellow who tried to slander Dr. Paul with innuendoes also offerred not one concrete fact. Furthermore, Dr. Paul is a great admirer of MLK for his belief in peacable protesting. He is a better friend to Black Americans and the poor, and the middle class than any of the other Republicans or Democrats, because he understands the economy, monetery policy, and foreign policy are robbing them of more and more of their money, destroying the middle class, placing people deeper in poverty such that they cannot escape. He understands that our empire will soon come to an end due to the falling dollar. When that happens we will be vulnerable to attack and being conquered by another country, jsut as we have been doing for so many years. Even China could end up owning us.</p>
<p>He is a better friend to Israel in wanting Israel to have its sovereignty back and stop having to take orders from the US. He would end aid to them, but so would he end aid to all other foreign countries. this alone would benefit Israel since we give their enemies three times as much as we give Israel.</p>
<p>Jews for Ron Paul 2008<br />
<a href="http://www.jews4ronpaul.org/advisors.html3" rel="nofollow">http://www.jews4ronpaul.org/advisors.html3</a></p>
<p>You and others like you need to do a serious reality check. America is on the wrong track and it is going to get a whole lot worse and much sooner than you might think. I have watched it for my entire life as it was incrementally gaining legs and it is very, very close. We must restore our Liberty and the rule of law as set down in our Constitution.</p>
<p>Some of the pictures below on this page are further reason we need Dr. Paul.</p>
<p>Mote: It is impossible to read the words on your widget and almost impossible to hear the numbers. I had to try four time.</p>
<p>Thank you for reading this.</p>
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		<title>By: G.Jordan</title>
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		<dc:creator>G.Jordan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What would YOU do, astute journalist Justin Gardner? When your country fails to recognize that Ron Paul is right and is trying to save this country from itself. 

Some of us remember that the founding fathers drafted the constitution to restrain the power of federal government, else it will fall suddenly like the great roman empire.   

I am not accepting the lesser of two evils.  I am for the once in a lifetime leader Ron Paul.  To the end.  You can compromise, for popularity, on donklephant, or whatever.  But its serious to me, and I&#039;m sticking with my man who has never compromised, even when the others laugh at him.  

Our troops aren&#039;t laughing when they donate more to him than anybody else.  

God, we really do need a revolution.  

I wish everyone who parrots &quot;we need to win in Iraq first&quot; (including hannity) would define &#039;win.&#039;  I used to identify with the warhawks until I realized that our troops are not being used to defend our country.  They are being used as tools, and its a GD shame.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What would YOU do, astute journalist Justin Gardner? When your country fails to recognize that Ron Paul is right and is trying to save this country from itself. </p>
<p>Some of us remember that the founding fathers drafted the constitution to restrain the power of federal government, else it will fall suddenly like the great roman empire.   </p>
<p>I am not accepting the lesser of two evils.  I am for the once in a lifetime leader Ron Paul.  To the end.  You can compromise, for popularity, on donklephant, or whatever.  But its serious to me, and I&#8217;m sticking with my man who has never compromised, even when the others laugh at him.  </p>
<p>Our troops aren&#8217;t laughing when they donate more to him than anybody else.  </p>
<p>God, we really do need a revolution.  </p>
<p>I wish everyone who parrots &#8220;we need to win in Iraq first&#8221; (including hannity) would define &#8216;win.&#8217;  I used to identify with the warhawks until I realized that our troops are not being used to defend our country.  They are being used as tools, and its a GD shame.</p>
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		<title>By: Keith Mann</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith Mann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look at the issues that we face, if you don&#039;t believe me check into it for yourself Please!!  If you truly care about our children and future, and in their childrens.  His information David Walker He is Comptroller General of the United States, look what he has to say about how much debt American is really in why the government is covering it up.  He&#039;s totally bipartisan as a 15 year term and why the presidential candidates are not speaking about it.  Except for one Ron Paul, and he should bring this up more while he&#039;s campaigning.  Http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/60minutes/main2528226.shtml</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look at the issues that we face, if you don&#8217;t believe me check into it for yourself Please!!  If you truly care about our children and future, and in their childrens.  His information David Walker He is Comptroller General of the United States, look what he has to say about how much debt American is really in why the government is covering it up.  He&#8217;s totally bipartisan as a 15 year term and why the presidential candidates are not speaking about it.  Except for one Ron Paul, and he should bring this up more while he&#8217;s campaigning.  Http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/60minutes/main2528226.shtml</p>
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		<title>By: Divided We Stand United We Fall</title>
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		<dc:creator>Divided We Stand United We Fall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Ronny  - We hardly knew ye....&lt;/strong&gt;

Friends, Americans, Libertarians, lend me your eyes. I come to bury Ron Paul, not to praise him. The good politicians do live after them, the not-so-good should be interred with their bones.... Justin Gardner at Donklephant asks &quot;Is the Revolution Ove...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Ronny  &#8211; We hardly knew ye&#8230;.</strong></p>
<p>Friends, Americans, Libertarians, lend me your eyes. I come to bury Ron Paul, not to praise him. The good politicians do live after them, the not-so-good should be interred with their bones&#8230;. Justin Gardner at Donklephant asks &#8220;Is the Revolution Ove&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It had been, still is, and will continue to be extremely challenging for Paul to win the Republican nomination. New Hampshire, though, was the &quot;Live Free or Die&quot; state in 1964, and that didn&#039;t preclude the voters there from passing over Goldwater (and Rockefeller) to choose Lodge.

His message of states rights, civil liberties, and no war is seemingly out of place among either major party right now. Although the Republicans were the party of smaller government for a few decades, the Republican Party&#039;s first major legislation and president resulted in a vast strengthening of the federal government, curtailment of civil liberties, and more government programs. Of course, with the election of Bush II, the platform was wholly abandoned.

The Democrats, the original party of Jefferson, that paragon of states rights issues, abandoned their limited-government roots by 1912 at the latest with the election of Wilson. From then to the New Deal, Great Society and beyond, the party has stood for more government programs, widening the scope of federal involvement, and subsidies for one group over another. They&#039;ve continued to champion civil rights issues even as their presidents have dutifully signed bills into law which resulted in larger and larger minorities being sent to prison for non-violent offenses.

So, Paul&#039;s message of small government seems to fit with the message of the Republican Party nearly twenty years ago, a platform it held for only a small portion of its existence. It represents the original ideas of Jefferson and others, but the party of Jefferson abandoned those ideas nearly a century ago. Thus, Paul&#039;s message no longer fits into either party&#039;s platform.

Does his message fit with the platform of the Party for Large Government or the Party for Larger Government? And which is which any more?

Maybe Paul&#039;s strategy from here on out should be pointing out the abject philosophical failures that his competition represents. Not the fact that Paul is principled, supported by veterans, a veteran himself, or catching on. Nearly all the other candidates say the same things about themselves. But it&#039;s time to take the gloves off and go after his morally and philosophically bankruptcy of the rest of the field.

Any candidate can portray himself as a nice guy. Paul is a nice guy; his commercials show how much of a nice guy he is. But the competition also puts out commercials saying their nice guys. Maybe some of that November 5/Tea Party campaign cash should be used to show voters that they&#039;re really not nice guys; in fact, they&#039;re corrupt, pandering, war-mongering liars supporting a president whose policies are destroying the Republican Party, the economy, and the image of America around the world.

Go after them once in a while, Dr. Paul. Use the money you&#039;ve been sent to debate your opponents through more combative commercials when they can&#039;t laugh over you or start shouting you down. That&#039;s a tactic that&#039;s been used against you; turnabout is fair play.

He should think about going after Romney&#039;s flip-flopping, McCain&#039;s war-mongering imperialism, Giuliani&#039;s war on civil liberties, and Huckabee&#039;s criminal-releasing tax-increasing record.

The combative anti-Fed stump speech doesn&#039;t have to be put on hold. But Paul should bring that combativeness to the race he&#039;s trying to win.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It had been, still is, and will continue to be extremely challenging for Paul to win the Republican nomination. New Hampshire, though, was the &#8220;Live Free or Die&#8221; state in 1964, and that didn&#8217;t preclude the voters there from passing over Goldwater (and Rockefeller) to choose Lodge.</p>
<p>His message of states rights, civil liberties, and no war is seemingly out of place among either major party right now. Although the Republicans were the party of smaller government for a few decades, the Republican Party&#8217;s first major legislation and president resulted in a vast strengthening of the federal government, curtailment of civil liberties, and more government programs. Of course, with the election of Bush II, the platform was wholly abandoned.</p>
<p>The Democrats, the original party of Jefferson, that paragon of states rights issues, abandoned their limited-government roots by 1912 at the latest with the election of Wilson. From then to the New Deal, Great Society and beyond, the party has stood for more government programs, widening the scope of federal involvement, and subsidies for one group over another. They&#8217;ve continued to champion civil rights issues even as their presidents have dutifully signed bills into law which resulted in larger and larger minorities being sent to prison for non-violent offenses.</p>
<p>So, Paul&#8217;s message of small government seems to fit with the message of the Republican Party nearly twenty years ago, a platform it held for only a small portion of its existence. It represents the original ideas of Jefferson and others, but the party of Jefferson abandoned those ideas nearly a century ago. Thus, Paul&#8217;s message no longer fits into either party&#8217;s platform.</p>
<p>Does his message fit with the platform of the Party for Large Government or the Party for Larger Government? And which is which any more?</p>
<p>Maybe Paul&#8217;s strategy from here on out should be pointing out the abject philosophical failures that his competition represents. Not the fact that Paul is principled, supported by veterans, a veteran himself, or catching on. Nearly all the other candidates say the same things about themselves. But it&#8217;s time to take the gloves off and go after his morally and philosophically bankruptcy of the rest of the field.</p>
<p>Any candidate can portray himself as a nice guy. Paul is a nice guy; his commercials show how much of a nice guy he is. But the competition also puts out commercials saying their nice guys. Maybe some of that November 5/Tea Party campaign cash should be used to show voters that they&#8217;re really not nice guys; in fact, they&#8217;re corrupt, pandering, war-mongering liars supporting a president whose policies are destroying the Republican Party, the economy, and the image of America around the world.</p>
<p>Go after them once in a while, Dr. Paul. Use the money you&#8217;ve been sent to debate your opponents through more combative commercials when they can&#8217;t laugh over you or start shouting you down. That&#8217;s a tactic that&#8217;s been used against you; turnabout is fair play.</p>
<p>He should think about going after Romney&#8217;s flip-flopping, McCain&#8217;s war-mongering imperialism, Giuliani&#8217;s war on civil liberties, and Huckabee&#8217;s criminal-releasing tax-increasing record.</p>
<p>The combative anti-Fed stump speech doesn&#8217;t have to be put on hold. But Paul should bring that combativeness to the race he&#8217;s trying to win.</p>
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		<title>By: Louis Nardozi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Louis Nardozi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, that makes me feel better. Apparently people are still VERY scared of Dr. Paul. I guess they are all aware by now of the vote fraud in Sutton, and they&#039;re scared to DEATH of the recount that will show the GOP&#039;s hand in supressing Dr. Paul.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, that makes me feel better. Apparently people are still VERY scared of Dr. Paul. I guess they are all aware by now of the vote fraud in Sutton, and they&#8217;re scared to DEATH of the recount that will show the GOP&#8217;s hand in supressing Dr. Paul.</p>
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		<title>By: Capt. America</title>
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		<dc:creator>Capt. America</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your Statement:

&quot;Howard Dean turned the entire Dem establishment against the war&quot;

I stopped reading after I read that part

your credibility &lt; 0

This is Stage 3 of the Paul Campaign</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your Statement:</p>
<p>&#8220;Howard Dean turned the entire Dem establishment against the war&#8221;</p>
<p>I stopped reading after I read that part</p>
<p>your credibility &lt; 0</p>
<p>This is Stage 3 of the Paul Campaign</p>
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		<title>By: Trond</title>
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		<dc:creator>Trond</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ron Paul is not important, his message is. And the other candidates needs to listen, whoever ends up with the republican ticket will greatly benefit from an Ron Paul endorsement. I hope Paul continues through Feb 5th, spends all the campain money and then endorse one of the other republican candidates.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ron Paul is not important, his message is. And the other candidates needs to listen, whoever ends up with the republican ticket will greatly benefit from an Ron Paul endorsement. I hope Paul continues through Feb 5th, spends all the campain money and then endorse one of the other republican candidates.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look at Huckabee&#039;s statements on printing money and spending.  Sounds almost exactly like Ron Paul&#039;s website.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look at Huckabee&#8217;s statements on printing money and spending.  Sounds almost exactly like Ron Paul&#8217;s website.</p>
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		<title>By: Rob</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ben, my guess is they&#039;re drinkin rush&#039;s koolaid. I used to look to him for a conservative counterpoint to NPR, but this election season he&#039;s been a mindless Romney shill. Towing the party line does not equal intelligent discourse.

Someone needs to remind him that the philosophy for electing Presidents isn&#039;t the same as the one used for picking horses... at least it shouldn&#039;t be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ben, my guess is they&#8217;re drinkin rush&#8217;s koolaid. I used to look to him for a conservative counterpoint to NPR, but this election season he&#8217;s been a mindless Romney shill. Towing the party line does not equal intelligent discourse.</p>
<p>Someone needs to remind him that the philosophy for electing Presidents isn&#8217;t the same as the one used for picking horses&#8230; at least it shouldn&#8217;t be.</p>
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		<title>By: BenG</title>
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		<dc:creator>BenG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, Rob thanks tor that candid reply, it&#039;s what&#039;s needed in this country - a bit of humility!  To reward your honesty, here&#039;s a good one for ya:
  
My wife, a democrat as long as I&#039;ve known her, saw RP on Meet the Press and immediately said, &quot;Sign me up, i love him, we&#039;re registerin Repub. this time!&quot;  I told this story to my FAR RIGHT family @ the holiday gatherings and they got a nice chuckle out of it. Fiscal conservative? Constitutional purist? Anti welfare state and illegal immigration?  Doesn&#039;t matter - he&#039;s a quack, a nutcase. All they see is that he takes some conservative votes away from this guy, and some indie votes away from that guy. 
So they go the way they came: all for one and one for all - it must be that &#039;with us or against us&#039; attitude that does them in. More n more- we&#039;re against ya!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, Rob thanks tor that candid reply, it&#8217;s what&#8217;s needed in this country &#8211; a bit of humility!  To reward your honesty, here&#8217;s a good one for ya:</p>
<p>My wife, a democrat as long as I&#8217;ve known her, saw RP on Meet the Press and immediately said, &#8220;Sign me up, i love him, we&#8217;re registerin Repub. this time!&#8221;  I told this story to my FAR RIGHT family @ the holiday gatherings and they got a nice chuckle out of it. Fiscal conservative? Constitutional purist? Anti welfare state and illegal immigration?  Doesn&#8217;t matter &#8211; he&#8217;s a quack, a nutcase. All they see is that he takes some conservative votes away from this guy, and some indie votes away from that guy.<br />
So they go the way they came: all for one and one for all &#8211; it must be that &#8216;with us or against us&#8217; attitude that does them in. More n more- we&#8217;re against ya!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Eric</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Two more links that prooves the NH Primary was a fraud:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/010908_district_admits.htm


http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/090108Fraud.htm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two more links that prooves the NH Primary was a fraud:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/010908_district_admits.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/010908_district_admits.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/090108Fraud.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/090108Fraud.htm</a></p>
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		<title>By: Grizzle</title>
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		<dc:creator>Grizzle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t think the story was expected to hurt him that much. It was just intended to ensure Giuliani did not loose to him a second time (Kirchick is a Giuliani supporter). That&#039;s exactly what happened. Giuliani beat Paul by the smallest of margins.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think the story was expected to hurt him that much. It was just intended to ensure Giuliani did not loose to him a second time (Kirchick is a Giuliani supporter). That&#8217;s exactly what happened. Giuliani beat Paul by the smallest of margins.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;It&#039;s not those who vote who decide, it&#039;s those who counts the votes.&quot; - Joseph Stalin

Want proof:
http://thewalk.com/wp/2008/01/09/ron-paul-votes-not-counted-in-new-hampshire-district/

http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=721

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_melinda__080109_99_ways_to_steal_ele.htm

http://generationtwixter.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-hampshire-primaries-voter-fraud.html

Give it up for electronic voting machines, where your votes don&#039;t count anymore.

Who&#039;s side are you on, Justin, the people our the corrupted establishment.
If you don&#039;t report on the vote frauds, then I&#039;ll have my answer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not those who vote who decide, it&#8217;s those who counts the votes.&#8221; &#8211; Joseph Stalin</p>
<p>Want proof:<br />
<a href="http://thewalk.com/wp/2008/01/09/ron-paul-votes-not-counted-in-new-hampshire-district/" rel="nofollow">http://thewalk.com/wp/2008/01/09/ron-paul-votes-not-counted-in-new-hampshire-district/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=721" rel="nofollow">http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=721</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_melinda__080109_99_ways_to_steal_ele.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_melinda__080109_99_ways_to_steal_ele.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://generationtwixter.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-hampshire-primaries-voter-fraud.html" rel="nofollow">http://generationtwixter.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-hampshire-primaries-voter-fraud.html</a></p>
<p>Give it up for electronic voting machines, where your votes don&#8217;t count anymore.</p>
<p>Who&#8217;s side are you on, Justin, the people our the corrupted establishment.<br />
If you don&#8217;t report on the vote frauds, then I&#8217;ll have my answer.</p>
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		<title>By: Hudson Brown</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hudson Brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ron Paul will lose, the constitution will lose, we the people will lose and itâ€™s sad. From the beginning of time man has struggled against tyranny and greed and it seams we always lose. Why? Itâ€™s meant to happen, itâ€™s our destiny. This country will fall as all countries do but we that understand must remember, â€œno one can destroy our beliefs, our dreams, our faithâ€. Prepare yourselves and cradle those you love soon comes the time for all to suffer. Never forget, there is no end only transformation to a time and place that knows no end. HAVE FAITH, BELIEVEâ€¦.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ron Paul will lose, the constitution will lose, we the people will lose and itâ€™s sad. From the beginning of time man has struggled against tyranny and greed and it seams we always lose. Why? Itâ€™s meant to happen, itâ€™s our destiny. This country will fall as all countries do but we that understand must remember, â€œno one can destroy our beliefs, our dreams, our faithâ€. Prepare yourselves and cradle those you love soon comes the time for all to suffer. Never forget, there is no end only transformation to a time and place that knows no end. HAVE FAITH, BELIEVEâ€¦.</p>
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