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Old 11-19-2011, 02:08 PM
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GOP outsider Ron Paul gaining traction in Iowa - Yahoo! News

Would be nice to have a Pittsburgher in office for a change, don't you think?
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Old 11-19-2011, 02:09 PM
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From wiki: "A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Paul is a graduate of Gettysburg College and Duke University School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree. He served as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force from 1963 until 1968. He worked as an obstetrician and gynecologist during the 1960s and 1970s, delivering more than 4,000 babies, before entering politics during 1976."
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Old 11-19-2011, 02:11 PM
 
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I wonder if he would make any effort to connect to this region if he would get the nominee to be President? I have never heard of him even visiting this area in the past few years.
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Old 11-19-2011, 02:13 PM
 
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Dr. Paul seems like too much of a curmudgeon to actually win the election.

He'd probably win locally, we did elect Sophie Masloff, but nationwide I don't think so.
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Old 11-19-2011, 02:16 PM
 
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GOP outsider Ron Paul gaining traction in Iowa - Yahoo! News

Would be nice to have a Pittsburgher in office for a change, don't you think?
Sure, if he weren't bonkers.
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Old 11-19-2011, 02:23 PM
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Sure, if he weren't bonkers.
Who is better running? Be careful, I have lots of ammo.
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Old 11-19-2011, 02:43 PM
 
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I'm sorry but none of the Repub Candidates can beat Obama.....Romney would bring the closest race just because he isn't totally insane like the others. Even then the Hard Right just will not vote for him because he had liberal tendencies, the man isn't genuine about anything he will say what he needs to, to get into office (think Used Car Salesman) and its very transparent to even the dumbest of the voters.
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Old 11-19-2011, 02:49 PM
 
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He doesn't have a real chance at winning because he can't speak coherently when he gets excited. Not "presidential" enough.
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Old 11-19-2011, 02:58 PM
 
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Who is better running? Be careful, I have lots of ammo.
L O freaking L to the bolded. I'm not thrilled with this cycle's crop of candidates, but Paul's paleoconservative foreign policies, in conjunction with his gilded age-inspired fiscal master plan and hands-off-to-a-fault domestic platform, are an ill-founded (not to mention, completely unpragmatic) attempt to turn back time to the late 1800s, when isolationism, starving the poor, and a tiny federal government was socially and economically sustainable. I agree with some of his individual positions, but everything smooshed together is just objectively batspit.

Granted, Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan is even more idiotic. But in Cain's case, "9-9-9" is, in all likelihood, nothing more than a catchy strategy of seducing voters. Paul is a true believer, and would actually attempt to go through with his vision of overhauling America according to his hyper-libertarian standards. Most of the time, when political candidates make outlandish promises, it's nothing more than a cynical ploy to attract fickle, uninformed voters. Paul actually believes his own rhetoric. I respect him for his convictions, but that's what makes him so dangerous. Oh well. Not like he has a snowball's chance in hell of winning anyway.
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Old 11-19-2011, 03:03 PM
 
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I'm sorry but none of the Repub Candidates can beat Obama...
Nobody needs to "beat" Barack Obama necessarily. All Obama needs to do is self-destruct, and he's doing a damn good job of that.

As for the person who said that Ron Paul is "bonkers," he's certainly no more so than Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, or any of the evangelical Protestants who prefer those three.
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