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There’s a financial crisis well under way in the U.S. None of the candidates are talking about it yet and most of the public is only vaguely aware of it, but in short, the U.S. financial system is close to bankrupt. More than one major bank and pension fund is teetering like the first domino on the verge of insolvency due to overinvestment in mortgage-backed securities and for being counterparties to derivative instruments that are likely to come due in the near future. These are just two examples.

Ron Paul’s proposes a gold-backed dollar and a withdrawal of the U.S. military from all foreign engagements. I don’t agree with his proposals, but they do have a certain plain simplicity that might appeal to angry volters who have seen their savings eroded by inflation and their jobs shipped overseas by the corporations. Hungry, unemployed people who have seen their dreams crumble and who feel that Washington has run roughshod over them may choose Paul as a protest candidate. He could win the convention. Not what I’d want to see, but imagine the drama.

Its early, Ron won’t drop out any time soon. I predict he will be in the top 2 by next month and Fox Jazeera, MSNBC and all the other corporate portals won’t be able to leave him off their coverage like they want to.

Duncan Hunter has dropped out, and if Rudy doesn’t win FL, he’s history too. Fred Thompson is going to bow out soon too as big donors flee to McCain.

Guys gotta remember that Ron Paul is a state high school track champion. He knows all about marathons and he’s a savvy campaigner. This is a brilliant rope-a-dope campaign he’s running – he’s taken all of his hits (the newsletters, guilt-by-association smears) and he’s still in the race.

Vote fraud is a MAJOR problem that needs to be addressed NOW if Ron Paul is to have any chance.

Also, Ron Paul’s ads have been rather wimpy, to put it nicely. He needs to be more aggressive. Maybe a McCain-style shakeup of his campaign staff is in order.

Today was the end of Hunter and the coming end of Thompson and Giuliani, with Huckabee leaving soon as well. That makes it a 3-horse race with Romney and McCain beating on each other and both are easy pickings for Dr. Paul to demolish on their records.

By now the Paul strategy should be obivous. Marshall the forces and resources, while letting the others beat and bloody each other and let the field winnow down on its own, then strike and go on the offensive with the forces and resources that the others have exhausted. This makes Super Tuesday look very interesting.

Go Ron Paul!

We are becoming precinct committeemembers in order to take back the GOP. We will do this even if it takes 4 more years…. we really have nothing to lose!

Today at the Maricopa county republican meeting of precinct committeemembers, it appears that Ron Paul won the straw poll – there were so many Ron Paul supporters there that weren’t part of our meetups that even i was surprised.

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His core supporters may not be a majority but they are loyal to the core and will follow Paul anywhere.

All of these things add up to one thing in my mind: Vice President.

Whoever the nominee turns out to be he would be a FOOL not to run with Paul as his VP. He would instantly get access to all that MONEY and we all know that money talks.

He would get access to Pauls hard core followers. A large percentage of those followers have openly said this is the first time they have voted in years and will not vote for anyone else. The point is that the 10% of the voting public that supports Paul will be guaranteed to vote, donate huge sums of money and, most importantly, get that 100,000 members of Pauls Meetup.com groups to canvass and organize the grass roots.

Think what Paul could do as VP starting with reigning in all that crap that Cheney has done. He would be leader of the Senate and his philosophy would guide it. He would be a major contributor to foreign and economic policy. The VP can have a lot of influence when foreign leaders come to visit.

Most importantly, it would give him a national platform and guaranteed access to the press to spread his philosophy to the people.

Ron Paul for Vice President is a winnable solution that I hope all Paul supporters can get behind. It makes perfect sense.

Mike from Toledo, OH

However “the man” just experienced an ugly stab like feeling of ocular penetration; Dr. Pauls 2nd place finish… watch now as the man uses his one good eye to focus on anything but Dr. Paul.

It will surely be a great day for all REAL Americans.

No more attacks on our personal liberties!

Ron Paul Forever!!

A third party, incorporating Ron Paul’s ideals, but without the negative baggage of the Libertarian Party or Reform Party, would be wonderful. But that would be like pushing a boulder uphill. No one wants to spend the time and money to create a third party. Running Ron Paul as an independent would be expensive and exhausting. But it might be the only way to get to the electoral college. It would be a state-by-state slugfest. It would mean winning the largest states over the existing two parties.

If Ron Paul were to run as an independent, he would have to get 270 or more electoral college votes to win. If he leeches the electoral college votes as an independent, and no one gets 270, the election would be pushed into the Congress, which hasn’t happened since 1828. Then it would be a split right down Democratic-Republican lines.

That scenario would not get Paul the presidency, but it would embolden future challengers who might refute the existing duopoly.

It’s a lot to think about. I don’t think anyone wants to pursue this course until Feb 6.

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It’s not just fox news spinning against the only GOP candidate who wants to leave Iraq, it is other media outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch recently bought the Wall Street Journal.
IMMEDIATELY the wall street journal’s reporting of the GOP left out Ron Paul. Additionally, they started making “opinion” pieces that smeared Paul. They did these tricks last week ON THE SAME DAY. I have pictures of it and will post it on http://curedmyapathy.blogspot.com next week.

I also told the wall street journal that I would not renew my subscription. Like you said, the market will speak. My money is going to start going to other papers.

I dont know whats going to happen, but Paul has a sizeable war chest and another big money bomb on Monday. With the others broke, besides Romney, he stands a good chance have a huge impact. Now that he’s taken second place, I suspect our meetups will continue to grow.

What Im hoping for is that the meetup groups continue to grow and organize for supporters to run for Congress. Regardless what happens, Ron Paul has awakened alot of people.. now that they are meeting each other who knows what is going to happen.

And for the record, if I ever run into Hannity or Frank Luntz, they will never forget meeting me. FOX news is a commie loving, war mongering piece of crap. I hope it goes out of business.. among other things.