Comments on: Ron Paul On Rush Limbaugh

By: Upton

Upton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:26:12 +0000

J. Harden: ha! I love your comment!

what I mean, I guess, is if Obama as big government is a salient issue in the campaign, which is more likely if we see the economy not turning around.

If Obama is seen as having helped “fix the problem” with big government, the Ron Paul critique would be like Liberace at the playboy mansion…

By: rich

rich — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:07:53 +0000

centrist—Like…
Fiat money and a collapsing dollar
Endless wars (Obama loves them too)
Massive foreign aid
More banker bailouts

Yes, sir,
Lets order more band-aids for them cancer sores…
The root cause of the problem be damned….

By: J. Harden

J. Harden — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:15:10 +0000

If Obama is framed as â€œbig government,â€

You mean like how the Pope is framed a Catholic or how bears are framed to crap in the woods.

By: John Milligan

John Milligan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:48:57 +0000

If the best the Repubs can do in 2012 is Ron Paul or Sarah Palin, then the Dems are in better shape than I thought even if the economy still is clunking along on the bottom then. Obama and the Dems would love to see him in there. The Repubs need to stand for something half-way plausible/implementable (move to the Center) or they are toast.

By: gerryf

gerryf — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:34:33 +0000

counting down to Paul apology…10,9,8,7,6….

(actually, I think Paul is the one guy who will not apologize, I just could not resist–good for him)…

By: Mario Piperni

Mario Piperni — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:49:14 +0000

If one is a conservative, I imagine it must be depressing to watch the current version of the republican party chase its tail in search of itself.

From a liberal perspective, it’s all quite amusing.

By: Upton

Upton — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:02:56 +0000

Ron Paul is an interesting fellow, in a position to capitalize in 2012 if Obama can be made to be seen as failing. If Obama is framed as “big government,” and if that is seen as a failure, Ron Paul may be the most convincing candidate for the Republicans in 2012, he wouldn’t even need to run on an independent ticket.

It’ll be interesting to see how the Republicans move over the next year or two to see if they really have a de facto leader.