The more the establishment digs in, the more clear it is that they don't understand the forces at work.


The ironic part is that Dr Paul has been telling you people right along what those forces are.


You're not listening.


To him, or us.

It's all spin.

 

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he's a very much non-mainstream candidate and most of his ideas set the established way of doing things on their head. and he's in second place. i'd say that's a big deal.

he's not going to win. but it's clear that the people fed up with the bullshit system of electing clones regardless of party are approaching a critical mass.

 

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Did you ever think that maybe we aren't the blind sheep in the middle that you think you are trying to educate, but rather we have all been on the opposing side all along?

 

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Falling back on a trite excuse that is the built in crutch of any third party candidate is weak and easy.

He's just a bad candidate, because although he has the right general message, but he falls apart when you get to specifics. His followers either can't face up to that, or are willing to live with it, but it's apparent that most people don't want that.

It's surprising because it's not dissimilar from Obama and his "Change" theme, and i'd bet that most Paul followers understood the 'good in general, specifics fail' idea then.

 

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People embrace the establishment. Because they do, the establishment candidates can be wrong about 100 things and that's okay. Everyone has some warts right?

Ron Paul is anti establishment. If people can find 10 things wrong with him, well that just makes him too dangerous to take a chance on.

When people criticize Ron Paul, it's always just about Ron Paul. They never compare him to their establishment candidate because if they did, they'd see that their guy was 10 times worse.

 

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You have to be a liar or a moron to compare Obama to Paul. Paul has been very specific for a long time.


We aren't the ones in denial, you are. You deny that big government is a serious problem. You deny that America has failed at being the worlds policeman. In spite of pretending otherwise, you repeatedly deny that we have fallen prey to corporatists, fascists, military industrial complex, extreme anti American ideals and a nation sliding under the water for having an insurmountable debt burden, the volume of which has never been seen before in human history.

He is helpful to the media in that they can create a story about him that gives them a reason to talk for a couple of the 24 hours they are on air blathering.

Didn't Ron Paul recently say in an interview when asked if he saw himself in the White House "Not really, but we're doing better than we were four years ago"?

He knows he's not destined for the presidency. Right now his best move is to gather up enough delegates to have some leverage at the convention.

 

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ron paul is at best a bridge to the next election. obama got the support of a lot of disenchanted voters. sadly, he turned out to be a clone of everything they were disenchanted with. but ron paul is continuing to build on the disenchantment. maybe in 4 years a real candidate will show up that can do something with all of that.

 

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