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Title: Ten Reasons Ron Paul Can't Win
Source: Lew Rockwell
URL Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/eddlem/eddlem18.html
Published: Aug 21, 2007
Author: Tom Eddlem
Post Date: 2007-08-21 06:21:12 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 3157
Comments: 115

It always perturbed me that the wide variety of neocon commentators on television regularly pronounce with such fury and unison that Ron Paul "can’t win" but never give any reasons why he couldn’t win the presidential race.

At first, I assumed that these guys would be denying he had a chance up until and including Ron Paul’s inauguration day. And why shouldn’t I assume that? The pundits probably don’t give any reasons he can’t win, I thought, because there aren’t any.

Then I thought more deeply, and found that there are plenty of reasons why Ron Paul can’t be elected. Here are the ten top reasons why Ron Paul can’t win, in the format of David Letterman’s Top Ten List. My logic is flawless. As Bill O’Reilly would say, "you can’t even argue it."

10. Ron Paul is too popular among people who know where he stands. Instant polling numbers among focus groups watching the debates have his popularity at about 75 percent. But Americans don’t vote for people who are that popular. It’s true that George W. Bush got a little more than 50 percent of the vote in 2004 – just barely – but that was a fluke. Bush’s popularity numbers have since sunk back to the traditional 25–35 percent range. Before 2004, not one of the winners in the last three Presidential campaigns even got 50 percent of the vote. Dubya didn’t even win a plurality of the popular vote in 2000. So it’s a clear modern precedent that in order to become President, you need to be unpopular rather than widely popular. Ron Paul simply can’t win if he remains that popular, and there’s no reason to believe people will begin to hate him.

9. He’s got too much money, and nowhere to spend it. It’s great that Ron Paul’s official campaign is raising nearly as much money as the frontrunners. But it won’t do him any good. What would he spend it on? He doesn’t need to spend it on local campaigning, because he’s already got more than 700 Meetups across the country. (More on that in reason #8). Many of these Meetups are printing bumper stickers, fliers, and yard signs without money from the campaign. They are creating phone banks on their own. A few are even making their own media advertising buys. Therefore, the campaign doesn’t need money for any of these things. So the massive Ron Paul campaign fundraising, while impressive, is superfluous at best. Money simply won’t help.

8. Ron Paul is cheating by harnessing the fervor of an army of volunteers, rather than the method pursued by the other candidates – who must pay a huge campaign staff to get their message out. It’s not fair that Ron Paul has excited volunteers who will spend their own money to get him elected, while the other candidates have to pay lots of people salaries to work for their campaigns. So don’t think that the other candidates won’t cry "foul" when they notice that most of Ron Paul’s campaign contributions are "off the books" in these Meetups. Collectively, the Meetups may be spending more money than the frontrunner campaigns. I noticed this myself recently when I attended a Ron Paul Meetup in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. I got handed a wad of Ron Paul bumper stickers from a guy who printed them up himself. Others passed me self-printed fliers and lapel stickers while the whole group passed the hat to print road signs on their own. Do you really think these expenditures were sent in to the Federal Election Commission as a campaign contribution? I doubt it. "We need a campaign ‘fairness doctrine’ to level the playing field," the other candidates will argue, quite possibly to great effect.

7. Ron Paul tells the truth. Ron Paul has a 20-year career in Congress of always voting the way he’s promised, even sometimes on positions that could hurt him politically (See reason #5 for more on this). He’s honest even when it hurts him, and that’s great. But let’s face it, Americans long ago tired of electing honest presidents. They very much prefer presidents who will lie to us "for your own good." This explains why they elected George "Read my lips, no new taxes" Bush, Bill "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Clinton, and most recently, George "Law enforcement officers need a federal judge's permission to wiretap a foreign terrorist's phone" Bush. Need I elaborate more? The American people long ago tired of honesty! Honesty just doesn’t sell.

6. He’s for lower spending AND lower taxes. Most Americans want lower taxes, so Ron Paul’s halfway there, but they don’t want to cut spending. Americans want a candidate who talks about lower spending but actually increases spending. This explains the Bill "the era of big government is over" Clinton and George "compassionate conservative" Bush presidencies. Of course, Americans also want balanced budgets … and Ron Paul’s philosophy would give them both lower taxes and a balanced budget. But I still think the American people would settle for another candidate who promises to enact a balanced budget precisely four years after the end of his last term – four years after any influence he has over spending ends.

5. Ron Paul is a man of principle. Ron Paul is known for voting against pork even for his own congressional district. He voted against the Iraq war even when the American people were backing it in polling by three-to-one margins. He’s the "1" in more 434-1 votes than all of the rest of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives put together. He doesn’t take congressional pay raises or participate in the generous congressional pension system. While that might lead some people to think it would attract voters to his candidacy, it actually hurts him. Despite the fact that his campaign rallies regularly draw more supporters than any other candidate, these huge crowds have made him a very, very lonely man. Crowds are isolating psychological phenomena. Getting the biggest crowds at rallies only exaggerates the loneliness that people always have in crowds. Psychologically speaking, he can’t take any more of the loneliness of those crowds. No one could. That’s why the other candidates have limited themselves to smaller crowds of mostly salaried campaign officials and government employees.

4. Ron Paul has peaked. He wins first or second place in all of the online polls, so his expectations have been raised too high for him to win a primary. Ron Paul has already lost the expectations game, unless he can somehow pull out 274.8 percent or more of the total vote in the Iowa primary. I’m no mathematical expert, but my accountant tells me it’s mathematically impossible for Ron Paul to pull in that kind of a vote.

3. He’s been against the Iraq war from the start. You might think that taking a position against the Iraq war from the start would help a candidate in a campaign where the American people oppose the war by a two-to-one margin or more. But the truth is, the American people don’t want a know-it-all candidate who has demonstrated foresight. They want a dumb bumbler that they can make fun of; it’s the same social phenomena that caused people to watch the old Jerry Springer show. They want a president who can’t pronounce "nuclear," preferably one who physically resembles a simian.

Also, and perhaps more importantly, the troops are about to pull out a dramatic victory from Iraq. Not with the current surge, but with the post-surge surge. The fact that Ron Paul is raking in more campaign contributions from veterans than any other candidate should not be taken as a sign that the troops want out of there. The troops aren’t voting with their wallets, they’re just getting tanned, rested and ready for the final surge. The campaign contributions are a diversional maneuver designed to draw out al Qaeda fighters, and those weapons of mass destruction Sean Hannity says were secretly stored in Syria. The post-surge surge will also expose the mystery behind Area 51, end world hunger and cure male-pattern baldness. This issue will be a loser for any anti-war candidate in short order. Just wait and see.

2. Ron Paul’s a medical doctor, OB/GYN, and a graduate of Duke Medical School, but not a government health care management professional. Therefore, no American could possibly take him seriously when he gives his opinion on medicine. It’s a good thing that Dr. Paul has not been given an opportunity to comment on any question about health care in any of the Presidential debates, because the other candidates’ expertise on medicine would blow him away. It’s only a matter of time before they embarrass him.

Other candidates like Mitt Romney have experience as part of a "management team" capable of delivering a "wide range of services." Ron Paul has only ensured proper health care for a few thousand individual people. The other candidates know that government policy can deliver much better health care for less cost than country doctors. Take, for example, Boston’s "Big Dig." The Big Dig, the depression of Boston’s central artery, is the largest public works project in history at $15 billion and counting. This could never have been accomplished by the private sector, and the Big Dig construction is almost finished after 10 years and going only 800 percent over budget. It’s true the Big Dig has already killed a motorist who was crushed by the falling three-ton concrete blocks used as ceiling tiles. (How could anyone possibly have foreseen such an outcome from an innovative design of precariously fastening concrete ceiling tiles?) But the truth is that we need government to bring the same cost controls and safety controls of the Big Dig to health care. Ron Paul just doesn’t understand this vital macroeconomic point.

1. George Stephanopoulos says Ron Paul can’t win. George Stephanopoulos may only stand nine inches tall without television camera tricks, but that’s because he’s the only documented Greek Leprechaun in modern history. He therefore wields powerful clairvoyance powers that can shape the future. That explains Bill Clinton’s election and reelection over the seemingly unstoppable Bob Dole. If you don’t have George Stephanopoulos on your side, your cause is hopeless. Fortunately for Boston Red Sox fans, Stephanopoulos withdrew his longstanding "The Red Sox can never win the World Series" edict in October 2004.

Let’s face it, the evidence against a Ron Paul victory is overwhelming. Dr. Paul will never be the "front-Ron-ner." At least, not until he takes his oath of office at his inauguration.

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#25. To: Cynicom (#21)

I have already met half-dozen Democrats voting for Ron Paul. They are all young educated career types, who get all their news from the World Wide Web. They know he was against the war in Iraq from the start. They are somewhat fiscally conservative and are pro-choice, but understand his argument for states' rights.

Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!

robin  posted on  2007-08-21   10:16:56 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: Mister Clean (#20)

No, the #1 reason Ron Paul can't win is because he can't get the Republican nomination.

You are up early Sink.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-21   10:17:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: palo verde (#17)

There are a range of views on abortion, but in these critical times I'd guess only 2% of our citizens would base their vote for President solely on that

Always remember: It is in critical times that the owl calls to the breathless moon when the field mouse urinates on the forest floor.

Anonymous Dead Indian  posted on  2007-08-21   10:18:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Cynicom (#21)

I posted to someone here the other day that I had asked a friend if he could vote for Paul and his answer, "I am a democrat".

I remember that.

I guess that it's easier than thinking.

Is your friend happy with the way our ruling elite have taken us lately?

Join the Ron Paul Revolution

Lod  posted on  2007-08-21   10:19:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Cynicom (#24)

I watched justin.tv in Iowa. You should have seen the way Romney wastes his $$. He paid $2200 per vote there. He bought 10,000 tickets. Romney is not going to waste all his personal wealth, and he wasted millions in Iowa.

Ron Paul's campaign is run by young, passionate volunteers. Romney has paid staff; very bored paid staff.

Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!

robin  posted on  2007-08-21   10:19:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: Cynicom (#18)

If you well recall, single issue campaigns, LBJ ran one, namely Goldwater would A-bomb the world and as a result LBJ had the largest vote plurality of any president ever

yes I remember that
my dad had voted 3rd party his whole life
but he fell for that propaganda about Goldwater
and campaigned for LBJ

don't forget Cynicom
those of us who believed Ron Paul would win the Oval Office from the instant he announced his candidacy
did so because we have faith in our fellow citizens
and faith in truth
and because we knew it was absolutely necessary to get Ron Paul in the Oval Office to save our country

I just don't know if past elections are a guide to what is happening now
and what the outcome now will be

everything feels new to me
Love, Palo

darling electing Ron Paul our President is a bona fide revolution!!
this is what we are engaged in now
and we will win

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   10:20:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: robin (#25)

I have already met half-dozen Democrats voting for Ron Paul. They are all young educated career types, who get all their news from the World Wide Web. They know he was against the war in Iraq from the start. They are somewhat fiscally conservative and are pro-choice, but understand his argument for states' rights.

robin...

That is encouraging.

Statistics have shown in the past that only about 3 per cent of the electorate actually vote the candidate not for a party.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-21   10:21:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Cynicom (#26)

You are up early Sink.

Deep in your heart, you know I'm right.

Mister Clean  posted on  2007-08-21   10:24:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: palo verde (#30)

my dad had voted 3rd party his whole life but he fell for that propaganda about Goldwater and campaigned for LBJ

At the time I was employed by the Federal gubmint and in my facility, I was the ONLY one that supported and voted for Goldwater. After the election I was the butt of a lot of criticism. Later as we watched the weekly unloading of bodies from Vietnam it was impossible to find anyone of my friends that voted for LBJ.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-21   10:26:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Mister Clean (#32)

Deep in your heart, you know I'm right.

Deep in my heart, I know you are a dimwit.


Enemies of the Republic

Critter  posted on  2007-08-21   10:26:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Critter (#34)

Deep in my heart, I know you are a dimwit.

Ron Paul won't win a single GOP primary.

If Ron Paul really wants to make a difference he'll abandon the GOP and launch a 3rd party run because that's the only way he'll get anywhere.

Seeking the Republican nomination guarantees failure.

Mister Clean  posted on  2007-08-21   10:29:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: Mister Clean (#32)

Deep in your heart, you know I'm right.

Did I say I disagreed?

I am a realist, one that never gives up hope.

There are too many people spreading negativism, in actuality giving up before the process begins.

I supported Goldwater and I was right, that satisfies me, the rest of Americans that voted that SOB LBJ have to live with it. I voted for this current SOB and have to live with it.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-21   10:31:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Mister Clean (#35)

If Ron Paul really wants to make a difference he'll abandon the GOP and launch a 3rd party run because that's the only way he'll get anywhere.

I prefer he run third party.

Perot received 20,000,000 million votes and he was a squirrel.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-21   10:32:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Cynicom (#36)

I am a realist, one that never gives up hope.

You can't be much of a realist if you hope Ron Paul can get the GOP nomination.

It boils down to numbers. There clearly are not enough REGISTERED REPUBLICANS to hand Paul the GOP nomination.

Mister Clean  posted on  2007-08-21   10:34:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Cynicom (#37)

I prefer he run third party.

Perot received 20,000,000 million votes and he was a squirrel.

I'd bet that Ron Paul could get a lot more votes than Perot if he ran 3rd party.

But that would mean leaving the GOP first.

Mister Clean  posted on  2007-08-21   10:36:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Cynicom, robin, lodwick, all (#21)

I posted to someone here the other day that I had asked a friend if he could vote for Paul and his answer, "I am a democrat".

some Democrats will vote for Ron Pual
some won't
I think it is too early to determine the numbers

It will be interesting to see if the Dems cancel the Presidential debates
because no candidate of theirs can last in the ring with Ron Paul for 5 seconds

however if the Dems don't cancel the Prez debates
a lot of cross-over votes will come from that

Letting Ron Paul stand side-to-side with any Dem
only the most close minded Dem would choose the Dem

IMHO

Love, Palo

on the forum I was on before this one, a wonderful poster there reported
"everyone under 30 is voting for Ron Paul"

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   10:38:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Mister Clean (#38)

You can't be much of a realist if you hope Ron Paul can get the GOP nomination.

Sink, your comprehension is lagging. Hope for the process, for our country, Paul is the vehicle.

Again as above, I prefer third party but that is not for me to say.

Too many people have that "party loyalty" bag they drag around. As i wrote above, only three percent vote out of party in a two horse race. If you were reading above, I said Perot received 20,000,000 votes in a THREE MAN CAMPAIGN.

In a two party, the sheep vote party, given a third party choice, "millions vote the man not the party".

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-21   10:43:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: Cynicom (#41)

Sink, your comprehension is lagging. Hope for the process, for our country, Paul is the vehicle.

Again as above, I prefer third party but that is not for me to say.

Well, Mr. Realist, right now Ron Paul is seeking the Republican nomination not a 3rd party run.

There is no realistic chance he'll get the Republican nomination.

Ron Paul isn't much of a vehicle for hope if he's on a dead end path.

Mister Clean  posted on  2007-08-21   10:47:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: Mister Clean (#42)

You are acting as if you know that he will not opt to run as a 3rd party candidate if he does not show well in the early GOP primaries? Maybe he will.

But for now he is running as a republican, so I registered as a republican in NY so I can vote for him in the primary if he gets that far.

Now run along and spread your negative BS elsewhere, please.


Enemies of the Republic

Critter  posted on  2007-08-21   10:51:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: Cynicom (#21)

" I am a Democrat".

Cynicom,

Your right, alot of people are like that, spoke to a person after Sen. Mendez was elected in NJ, she was surprised about his record, the only reason she voted for him was because he was a Dem.

exdem

exdem2000  posted on  2007-08-21   10:53:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Critter (#43)

You are acting as if you know that he will not opt to run as a 3rd party candidate if he does not show well in the early GOP primaries? Maybe he will.

Isn't he also running for another term in Congress while running for the GOP nomination?

If so, the chances are even greater that he will not forsake the GOP for a 3rd party run for president.

Mister Clean  posted on  2007-08-21   10:55:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: robin, lodwick, all (#25)

I have already met half-dozen Democrats voting for Ron Paul.
They are all young educated career types, who get all their news from the World Wide Web.
They know he was against the war in Iraq from the start.
They are somewhat fiscally conservative and are pro-choice, but understand his argument for states' rights

O Robin thank you for this post
I have been hearing the same report from others
it is great news!!

Love, Palo

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:00:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: Critter, Cynicom, All (#43)

I think it's best for Ron not to run as 3rd party candidate

it's best as it is
he is GOP Congressman running on GOP ticket for Prez
and I think he will win the ticket and the Presidency
Love, Palo

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:06:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: exdem2000 (#44)

yes I agree with you, a lot are like that
but hopefully not all
Love, Palo

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:08:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: Cynicom (#41)

In a two party, the sheep vote party, given a third party choice, "millions vote the man not the party".

I simply don't believe our fellow citizens are sheep
they have minds
Not everyone I know is voting for Ron Paul, they each have their own reason for voting for a Dem
their reasons are meaningful to them, but not to me
but viva free thought and free vote
Love, Palo

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:12:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: exdem2000 (#44)

Your right, alot of people are like that,

dem...

Years ago I once registered as a Communist just because I was sick of labels.

It did turn a few heads.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-21   11:13:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: palo verde (#49)

I simply don't believe our fellow citizens are sheep they have minds

Agreed...they do have minds.

But do they use them????

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-21   11:15:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: Critter, all (#43)

(Critter) for now Ron Paul is running as a republican,
so I registered as a republican in NY so I can vote for him in the primary ...

excellent!

it's best to register as Republican early
in my State (AZ) you have to be Registered 6 weeks before the primary, to be eligible to vote in primary
I do not know the rule in other States

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:16:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: palo verde (#49)

Germans had free minds.

Dr. Goebbels just made sure that most of the information that they got favored the outcomes he wanted.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-08-21   11:17:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Cynicom (#51)

(Palo) Our fellow citizens are not sheep, they have minds

(Cynicom) Agreed...they do have minds.
But do they use them????

I am the last one to throw rocks at others
I was ideological leftist/liberal my whole life till I woke up in '98
and decided to put truth ahead of my ideology

I have full faith our citizens will come thru
and put Ron Paul in the Oval Office
Love, Palo

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:22:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: palo verde (#54)

I have full faith our citizens will come thru

palo...

Faith is a wonderful thing.

School of hard knocks rules in politics. Politics is a dirty business, note I said business.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-08-21   11:24:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: Mister Clean (#20)

No, the #1 reason Ron Paul can't win is because he can't get the Republican nomination.

An assertion which you don't bother to explain in the rest of this thread.

Seems to me you are another example of just the thing the piece at the top of the thread is about.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-08-21   11:26:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: aristeides (#53)

Germans had free minds.

Dr. Goebbels just made sure that most of the information that they got favored the outcomes he wanted.

Germany was in the grip of a terrible Depression
so fear filled the minds of many Germans
fear makes it impossible to think straight

we have internet
plus people do have the luxury to pay close attention

I don't think now is the time when what happened in Germany will be replicated here
altho if, God forbid, Ron Paul is not in the Oval Office come Jan 20 2009
we will have police state and fascism here

Love, Palo

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:29:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: aristeides (#56)

An assertion which you don't bother to explain in the rest of this thread.

See post #38.

There are not enough REGISTERED REPUBLICANS out there to give Ron Paul the REPUBLICAN nomination.

If there were, he would be doing much better in the polls.

Most Republicans will vote for whomever Limbaugh and Hannity push most.

Mister Clean  posted on  2007-08-21   11:30:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: Cynicom (#55)

(Palo) I have full faith our citizens will come thru

(Cynicom) palo...

Faith is a wonderful thing.

School of hard knocks rules in politics. Politics is a dirty business, note I said business.

power elites wanting to keep their power is always a dirty business

but we did succeed in having an American revolution here
and the Indians succeeded in freeing themselves from the British rule too

and there is no reason why we cannot succeed in putting Ron Paul in the Oval Office
in fact we will succeed
Love, Palo

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:35:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: Cynicom (#50)

Years ago I once registered as a Communist just because I was sick of labels.

It did turn a few heads.

I give you a lot of credit for that, Cynicom
Love, Palo

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:36:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#61. To: Mister Clean (#58)

There are not enough REGISTERED REPUBLICANS out there to give Ron Paul the REPUBLICAN nomination

Just because you won't vote for Ron Paul doesn't mean others won't
Why don't we wait till all the primaries are over
to see how the vote went

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:39:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#62. To: Mister Clean (#58)

What does the number of registered Republicans have to do with whether or not Ron Paul can win the nomination?

Are you saying there will always be enough phony votes to outweigh the number of registered Republicans who vote for Paul?

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-08-21   11:41:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: palo verde (#61)

Just because you won't vote for Ron Paul doesn't mean others won't Why don't we wait till all the primaries are over to see how the vote went

#1. I'm not a registered Republican.

#2. If Ron Paul were popular among registered Republicans, he'd be higher up in the polls.

#3. Registered Republicans are going to vote for whomever Limbaugh and Hannity tell them to.

Mister Clean  posted on  2007-08-21   11:42:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: Mister Clean (#63)

Registered Republicans are going to vote for whomever Limbaugh and Hannity tell them to

I am a Registered Republican
and I am going to vote for Ron Paul

palo verde  posted on  2007-08-21   11:44:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#65. To: aristeides (#62)

What does the number of registered Republicans have to do with whether or not Ron Paul can win the nomination?

Are you saying there will always be enough phony votes to outweigh the number of registered Republicans who vote for Paul?

I'm saying most registered Republicans are not going to vote for Ron Paul.

They're going to vote for Rudy, Fred or Mitt as the polls show.

There's no evidence Ron Paul has much support within the GOP rank and file.

Mister Clean  posted on  2007-08-21   11:44:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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