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Old 02-01-2012, 11:10 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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Originally Posted by WheelintheSky View Post
Exactly, Ron Paul is gaining momentum so people start threads like this.
Reality Check: Santorum Topped Ron Paul.

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You will fail, and so will your politicians and their polices, and we will all laugh at you when you do ...
Yeah, and Ron Paul will get the GOP nomination. Keep it up, don't expect other to go along with your ideas.

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We are not all the same. Many of us support Paul because we support his ideas. Candidates are just men, they come and go. Ideas are immortal, and our ideas will live until the end of time. Many people believe our ideas are absurd but you know what Einstein said about ideas.

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is not hope for it."
The issue is not an absurdity of ideas, but the ignoring of the realities. Ideas are better served when they aren't utopian but consider the real world challenges. A great example of one real world challenge is Ron Paul getting GOP nomination. On paper, he sounds like a great fit to "conservative principles" that is part and parcel of advertisements run under republicanism. But has it translated to success in real world? How long before Ron Paul and his supporters recognize the futility that many of us knew months ago?

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Hey now, unlike you...I am not afraid of showing my face. Look in my profile.
So like Einstein's posts, fail.
When you can't handle them... call them as you would like to see.
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Old 02-01-2012, 11:11 AM
 
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We are not all the same. Many of us support Paul because we support his ideas. Candidates are just men, they come and go.
I can totally respect that, and I agree with some of Ron Paul's idea too albeit usually to a lesser extreme.

However you must concede there is a subset of his supporters who demonstrate an almost cult-like devotion to the man himself, where they can have entire threads trading youtube videos of him set to music etc. or get all giddy about a picture of him from 40 years ago. It is just plain weird.
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Old 02-01-2012, 11:11 AM
 
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Default Someone explain to me how 4th place, 7% showing is not extremely troublesome

How could anyone who does not have blind faith bordering on delusions see this as anything but disastrous?

Ron Paul 116,776 7%

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Old 02-01-2012, 11:13 AM
 
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Yeah, and Ron Paul will get the GOP nomination. Keep it up, don't expect other to go along with your ideas.


I dont expect idiot Americans to do anything but vote their way into inevitable collapse ... I only anticipate your eventual destruction. It is the nature of corruption to destroy itself, and you people are well on your way.
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Old 02-01-2012, 11:14 AM
 
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I can totally respect that, and I agree with some of Ron Paul's idea too albeit usually to a lesser extreme.

However you must concede there is a subset of his supporters who demonstrate an almost cult-like devotion to the man himself, where they can have entire threads trading youtube videos of him set to music etc. or get all giddy about a picture of him from 40 years ago. It is just plain weird.
Any weirder that the Mormons who support Romney? As far as the GOP is concerned, Mormonism is a cult.
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Old 02-01-2012, 11:16 AM
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What?? Engrish prease.
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Old 02-01-2012, 11:18 AM
 
Location: MW
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Any weirder that the Mormons who support Romney? As far as the GOP is concerned, Mormonism is a cult.
Or the idiots who made songs just repeating Obama's name in 2008?
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Old 02-01-2012, 11:19 AM
 
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How could anyone who does not have blind faith bordering on delusions see this as anything but disastrous?
What is this 7% The unemployment rate that Obama will never get down to?

You have to be more specific when you blindly throw out a number
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Old 02-01-2012, 11:21 AM
 
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I dont expect idiot Americans to do anything but vote their way into inevitable collapse ... I only anticipate your eventual destruction. It is the nature of corruption to destroy itself, and you people are well on your way.
please explain what is going to happen. Specifically what is going to happen in this collapse? Is America going to disband and we'll all end up moving to Canada or Europe?
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Old 02-01-2012, 11:21 AM
 
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Or the idiots who made songs just repeating Obama's name in 2008?
Remember Obama's acceptance speech?

"Contrary to popular belief, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton."


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