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Oct 24, 2011 12:12 AM
pmoney25;943196 wrote:Ron Paul like a boss. How can a conservative not vote for this guy? I really think that the msm media is afraid of paul because they can't use their gotcha questions against him. The only candidate that can fix this country in my opinion.
I would vote for the guy. If when Ohio's primary comes around he stands a chance. Also in the video someone on Paul's make up crew needs to tend to his right eyebrow. It looks like an X. Or maybe it was some sort of subliminal message to put an X next to Paul's name on the ballot.
Oct 24, 2011 12:12am
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Oct 24, 2011 4:44 AM
pmoney25;943196 wrote:Ron Paul like a boss. How can a conservative not vote for this guy? I really think that the msm media is afraid of paul because they can't use their gotcha questions against him. The only candidate that can fix this country in my opinion.
He'll have my vote in the Pennsylvania - no wait - now the Tennessee primary. Friggin Obamanomics.

But when Paul loses the primary to (probably) Romney I'll pull the general election lever for Obama Lite.

No way I'm going to give Obama a chance for four more years.
Oct 24, 2011 4:44am
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Oct 24, 2011 6:29 AM
believer;943279 wrote:He'll have my vote in the Pennsylvania - no wait - now the Tennessee primary. Friggin Obamanomics.

But when Paul loses the primary to (probably) Romney I'll pull the general election lever for Obama Lite.

No way I'm going to give Obama a chance for four more years.
Give him four more years:

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-unveil-housing-plan-campaign-swing-west-064348119.html

and we'll all live in a candy-cane forest with unicorns that will pay our mortgages and student loans. I'm looking forward to the plan, my guess is if you make over US$20,000/year you won't benefit from this cynical vote buying initiative.
Oct 24, 2011 6:29am
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Oct 24, 2011 4:55 PM
Manhattan Buckeye;943302 wrote:Give him four more years and we'll all live in a candy-cane forest with unicorns that will pay our mortgages and student loans. I'm looking forward to the plan, my guess is if you make over US$20,000/year you won't benefit from this cynical vote buying initiative.
Naw you have it all wrong. Obama is simply trying to help the poor, oppressed minions escape the clutches of those dastardly evil Republicans and save the economy from total collapse in a unilateral fashion.

Change we can believe in?
Oct 24, 2011 4:55pm
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Oct 25, 2011 12:30 PM
believer, did you relocate again? How long before we hear from you in Mexico or China?
Oct 25, 2011 12:30pm
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Oct 27, 2011 10:47 PM
We have a Republican congress correct? A 9% approval rating doesn't seem too good. Might this hurt them come election time?
Oct 27, 2011 10:47pm
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Oct 27, 2011 10:49 PM
I Wear Pants;947603 wrote:We have a Republican congress correct? A 9% approval rating doesn't seem too good. Might this hurt them come election time?
No and no. We have a democrat senate and a republican house.
Oct 27, 2011 10:49pm
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Oct 28, 2011 8:31 AM
I Wear Pants;947603 wrote:We have a Republican congress correct? A 9% approval rating doesn't seem too good. Might this hurt them come election time?
Nice big steaming pile of fail...
Oct 28, 2011 8:31am
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Oct 28, 2011 9:48 AM
Cain short film lampoons BHO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSlC7BxmSqY
The newly discovered ad, a nearly four-minute short film titled “He Carried Yellow Flowers,” is Western parody featuring actor Nick Searcy of FX’s “Justified.” ...
Searcy told the Times that he made on his own and later showed it to the candidate. “He watched and he thought it was funny,” Searcy said.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Cain-cowboy-ad-Obama/2011/10/28/id/416055
Oct 28, 2011 9:48am
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Oct 28, 2011 12:16 PM
majorspark;947609 wrote:No and no. We have a democrat senate and a republican house.
I didn't even know we had a Senate. At least not one that dares to pass a budget.
Oct 28, 2011 12:16pm
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Nov 3, 2011 11:26 AM
Herman Cain, BLR soundbite

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Nov 3, 2011 11:26am
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Nov 3, 2011 11:29 AM
jmog;947988 wrote:Nice big steaming pile of fail...
How so? I was asking a question as I don't know if congressional approval ratings effected past elections.
Nov 3, 2011 11:29am
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Nov 3, 2011 12:26 PM
This whole Herman Cain thing is quite baffling. If Perry's camp is involved with leaking that somehow, then someone needs to be fired or Perry should drop out of the race. If his team was truly not involved, then Cain's campaign looks desperate and ill-informed.

Then someone in Perry's campaign suggested that Romney was behind it all, to get his two closest competitors to tangle and take each other out. What a circus.
Nov 3, 2011 12:26pm
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Nov 3, 2011 12:33 PM
Perry and Cain are both buffoons. Romney is a slimy liberal. Newt is the next one the media will push, even though he is as big government and anti-Constitution as they come. Fox will do anything to make sure it doesn't come down to Romney vs. Paul.
Nov 3, 2011 12:33pm
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Nov 3, 2011 1:57 PM
I just don't see why conservatives don't just go all in on Ron Paul. The Tea Party has said that this race is not about foreign policy or social policy but about the budget, the national debt, fiscal policy and monetary policy. Ron Paul is the progenitor of the modern tea party position on all of those issues. Yet, it seems to me that there are conservatives bending over backwards pointing to Paul's age, his quirkiness, his foreign policy, etc. I thought none of that was important in this election???

I disagree with many of his positions but the fact is Ron Paul has not wavered since the Nixon Shock. Every bill that the neo-cons passed that conservatives say "well I wasn't really a big fan of that either, etc." Ron Paul has voted against unlike people like Bachmann, Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor.

This is your chance Conservatives. You have a bunch of John Kerry's competing for the nomination to go against supposedly the most destructive president in the post-war world who is waffling with dismal poll numbers. Ron Paul has been fighting the fight for truly smaller government for half of his life.

If Conservatives are serious about really nominating a "conservative" he's the only serious candidate as far as I can tell.

I of course think it would be a disaster because he will literally veto every bill that comes across his desk that attempts to preserve our social safety nets and would have no qualms about vetoing a raise in the debt ceiling, etc. but this is the man that Conservatives have been waiting for.
Nov 3, 2011 1:57pm
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Nov 3, 2011 2:08 PM
BoatShoes;956460 wrote:I just don't see why conservatives don't just go all in on Ron Paul.
Because when it comes down to it, the majority don't have the stones to vote for a guy who's actually going to change things. The nominee will be Romney, and if he wins(unlikely) we'll see very little real difference as usual. Of course, dems will claim things are worse, republicans will claim things are better but Obama's policies are still hurting us and the cycle will go round and round.

Book it.
Nov 3, 2011 2:08pm
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Nov 3, 2011 2:11 PM
I got stones.
Nov 3, 2011 2:11pm
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Nov 3, 2011 2:12 PM
I am voting for Ron Paul. Too me there really is not another candidate that I can say that I support.

I understand that he won't be able to get everything he wants and I am sure Dr. Paul understands that also. What needs to happen is that the American People need to understand that the Model we are currently on will not last. It will fail. Paul predicted this mess years ago with the Housing Bubble and the result that would happen because of it. My hope is that we can get someone in the White House that understands this and can get the ball rolling to a more prosperous America. The only way to fix this mess is to come to grips that we may have to take one on the chin before things can turn around.
Nov 3, 2011 2:12pm
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Nov 3, 2011 2:14 PM
WebFire;956472 wrote:I got stones.
Me too.
Nov 3, 2011 2:14pm
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Nov 3, 2011 2:33 PM
2kool4skool;956468 wrote:Because when it comes down to it, the majority don't have the stones to vote for a guy who's actually going to change things.
I disagree with this. For all the sham he has been, Barack Obama carried the average joe voter campaigning on "change" and people ate it up. He overcame the Hillary Machine with no experience to speak of talking about "change."
Nov 3, 2011 2:33pm
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Nov 3, 2011 2:46 PM
BoatShoes;956503 wrote:I disagree with this. For all the sham he has been, Barack Obama carried the average joe voter campaigning on "change" and people ate it up. He overcame the Hillary Machine with no experience to speak of talking about "change."
People voted for him because he spoke well. That doesn't take stones.
Nov 3, 2011 2:46pm
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Nov 3, 2011 2:54 PM
People voted for him because the media covered him nonstop and in a positive light. That is the fight Ron Paul is fighting now. All of the major networks are owned by the same banks that own Obama, Romney, Cain, Perry, Gingrich, and company. By pushing for sound money Dr. Paul is threatening their ability to fleece the population by stealing their money whenever they print new money or extend new credit. They are borrowing money for free right now and having a field day speculating and buying treasury bills and making record profits based on nothing. Do you think they want that to come to an end? If the big banks don't like you then the media doesn't like you.
Nov 3, 2011 2:54pm
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Nov 3, 2011 3:12 PM
Cleveland Buck;956529 wrote:People voted for him because the media covered him nonstop and in a positive light. That is the fight Ron Paul is fighting now. All of the major networks are owned by the same banks that own Obama, Romney, Cain, Perry, Gingrich, and company. By pushing for sound money Dr. Paul is threatening their ability to fleece the population by stealing their money whenever they print new money or extend new credit. They are borrowing money for free right now and having a field day speculating and buying treasury bills and making record profits based on nothing. Do you think they want that to come to an end? If the big banks don't like you then the media doesn't like you.
:rolleyes:

Lemme guess...the Rothschilds are going to assassinate Ron Paul soon too just like Andrew Jackson, JFK, etc.
Nov 3, 2011 3:12pm
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Nov 3, 2011 3:21 PM
BoatShoes;956557 wrote::rolleyes:

Lemme guess...the Rothschilds are going to assassinate Ron Paul soon too just like Andrew Jackson, JFK, etc.
I didn't say all that, although it wouldn't surprise me. Why do you think Ron Paul can't get any positive media coverage? The changes Paul is pushing for would end the fascist gravy train for the big banks, and they all do hold places on the boards of these news networks. What better explanation is there?
Nov 3, 2011 3:21pm