The great debate

SgtMajor · Post by **SgtMajor** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:33 pm

Its a shame Ron Paul is so blacked out by the media, the man is intelligent, patriotic and very well spoken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO6XufRYWkk...feature=related

SgtMajor · Post by **SgtMajor** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:36 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHGxO1XhwkU...feature=related

lexaal · Post by **lexaal** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:45 pm

I vote for Arnold.

SgtMajor · Post by **SgtMajor** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:49 pm

lexaal wrote:QUOTE (lexaal @ Aug 10 2012, 01:45 PM) I vote for Arnold.

He's Austrian, vote for one of the three mentioned :l

germloucks · Post by **germloucks** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:52 pm

Ron Paul may be smart, and may have some popular roots in counter-culture but not a broad enough political base (or platform). Ron Paul is like George McGovern in that respect, when George ran against Nixon in '72. He was a counter culture candidate. He wanted an immediate pullout to Vietnam (sound familiar?) as well as the end to the war on drugs and prison reform etc.

McGovern lost badly, despite beating out the main bourgeoisie candidates for the Democratic nomination. This lesson holds true today. There is no point in covering Ron Paul, and people should stop whining about it. He doesnt have anything to offer us.

SgtMajor · Post by **SgtMajor** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:57 pm

germloucks wrote:QUOTE (germloucks @ Aug 10 2012, 01:52 PM) Ron Paul may be smart, and may have some popular roots in counter-culture but not a broad enough political base (or platform). Ron Paul is like George McGovern in that respect, when George ran against Nixon in '72. He was a counter culture candidate. He wanted an immediate pullout to Vietnam (sound familiar?) as well as the end to the war on drugs and prison reform etc.

McGovern lost badly, despite beating out the main bourgeoisie candidates for the Democratic nomination. This lesson holds true today. There is no point in covering Ron Paul, and people should stop whining about it. He doesnt have anything to offer us.

Counter culture? The man wants to pull out kids out of the war man! Can't you understand that? He was drafted, with a wife and 2 daughters and accepted the draft, he served. He knows what its like. Broad political base? He has been serving for how many years? Just because he doesn't paint his face red or blue does that automatically erase him from the political platform?

Do you really think democrats and republicans are different at this very moment?

Wow, I might be a former political science major but I wouldn't know.

NightRychune · Post by **NightRychune** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:22 pm

ron paul's narrative isn't the narrative of the moneyed elite that pays for elections

so, yes, he is irrelevant

fuzzylunkin1 · Post by **fuzzylunkin1** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:44 pm

Jeeze... I'm thinking Obama just so Mitt Romney doesn't get elected.

It's really sad when you don't like any of the options.

Elzam_ · Post by **Elzam_** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:34 pm

Democracy - Rule by the lesser of several evils.

Post by **Dome** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:53 pm

Obama in a landslide.