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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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 Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:46 am Post subject: Ron Paul, loser again |
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Ron Paul, loser again
For months now the growing thousands of Ron Paul supporters across the country have been saying virtually everywhere they could, including the comments section of this blog by the hundreds, that the media, the polls and the prognosticators were all wrong. There was a conspiracy.
Those Paul supporters were actually correct. The media, the polls and the prognosticators were, indeed, all wrong -- about Barack Obama handily beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary. The media that the Paul camp loves to hate was actually dead-on right about Ron Paul. He was a long shot. He misfired again. And he got pretty much the same share of New Hampshire GOP votes as the progressive polls, that Paulunteers also despise as frauds and fixed, unrepresentative statistical snapshots, had indicated he had all along. |
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/01/ron-paul-loser.html |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for posting that, Joo. The Paulunteers' responses are hilarious. Can anyone spell 'delusional'? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for posting that, Joo. The Paulunteers' responses are hilarious. Can anyone spell 'delusional'? |
Ron Paul lost the Chuck Norris endorsement. It was downhill after that. |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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yes, paul never had a real chance. it is hoped that his message gets out, gains popularity and is then coopted by the central party/parties.
anything is better than rotating dynasties and their machines. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| yes, paul never had a real chance. |
Oh, c'mon. Don't be a quitter. There is a groundswell of support sweeping the country, crossing all age, gender, income and racial lines. Be a believer.
If you can't be a believer at least go on a rant about how the powers that be were so frightened by RP's message that they had to squelch it by ignoring him in the msm. If you really try, you could blame RP's failure on the space lizards. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| mistermasan wrote: |
yes, paul never had a real chance. it is hoped that his message gets out, gains popularity
and is then coopted by the central party/parties.
anything is better than rotating dynasties and their machines. |
You mean: Bush / Klinton / Bush / Klinton ... ??? |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| he didn't win but do you really think that 9% should be considered a failure? what did (bill) clinton poll in the early primaries for the '92 election? i agree that he probably won't win, but that doesn't mean that his effort was a failure... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| he didn't win but do you really think that 9% should be considered a failure? |
Yes, I do. According to his supporters around here, there was a tsunami of support that was sweeping across the country. He collected more money in a single day than any other candidate in history, we were constantly reminded. New Hampshire is a state known for its libertarian attitude.
And all he got was 9%. In fact, he was weaker in New Hampshire than in Iowa. The man has peaked and is in decline.
The only tsunami RP will ever see is when he f**ts in his bathtub. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| he didn't win but do you really think that 9% should be considered a failure? |
Yes, I do. According to his supporters around here, there was a tsunami of support that was sweeping across the country. He collected more money in a single day than any other candidate in history, we were constantly reminded. New Hampshire is a state known for its libertarian attitude.
And all he got was 9%. In fact, he was weaker in New Hampshire than in Iowa. The man has peaked and is in decline.
The only tsunami RP will ever see is when he f**ts in his bathtub. |
No man wait until he gets to his racist survivalist supporters in Montana. He might take 11%. |
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caniff
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:29 am Post subject: |
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I'll admit, I initially thought that RP served a purpose in that he enlivened the debate to some degree in the early going. He certainly whipped up a frothy frenzy amongst some regulars here.
That was all well and good (if eventually very tiresome), but now in light of the course the presidential elections are inevitably taking us, an important question remains:
What will the RP people do with themselves following the imminent demise of Ron's campaign (and the grounding of the blimp)? |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:39 am Post subject: |
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what'll they do? ever see the movie Awakenings with robin williams and deniro? just like that.
and it is a shame. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| What will the RP people do with themselves following the imminent demise of Ron's campaign (and the grounding of the blimp)? |
Part of the answer to that has already appeared in one of IGTG's endless spams: "Did RP really win New Hampshire?" and the one where the woman said the NH returns showed her town had zero votes for RP but she and 3 of her relatives, by gum!, voted for him. These stories, or ones like them, will enter the mythology of the paranoid right wing and outlive all of us. They will be trotted out as facts at random times in the future to confuse future political discussions, probably until the sun goes nova.
I also think these guys are not yet ready to crawl back under their rocks. I think ole Ron is going to run 3rd Party. Either that, or he'll lead the 22nd District of Texas into secession and re-fight the Alamo. |
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igotthisguitar
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Just because someone can't win doesn't mean that they shouldn't run. I hope he runs as an independent.
And if Hillary wins the Dems nomination I hope that Ralph Nader runs. |
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