Comments on: new conventional unconventional wisdom on Ron Paul

By: revenire

revenire — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:37:48 +0000

I liked all the times LaRouche qualified for matching funds. I don’t know how he did it given the rules?! Magic I think, Satanic magic — maybe LaRouche does work for Cheney!!

By: James Bowery

James Bowery — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:03:28 +0000

“this company will make money like a bandit with a sock puppet mascot fronting for something that boiled down to adding telephones to a specific goods.”

Yeah, good thing you shorted Google’s stock then huh?

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:28:26 +0000

Technological Triumphantalism. The late 1990s were littered with ipos with “vision statements” on the revolutionary technology that has completely shifted the paradigm, and this company will make money like a bandit with a sock puppet mascot fronting for something that boiled down to adding telephones to a specific goods.

Almost beside the point. I am thinking of concluding my experiment with Ron Paul, and making a point of never mentioning him again.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:36:49 +0000

This time we have a choice. Ron Paul will be the next president of the United States.

By: ilovetheconstitution

ilovetheconstitution — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:37:45 +0000

FYI, he has placed 2nd or 1st in republican straw polls.

In the media polls, they only call people who voted republican last election, the one where most people left and voted democrat just because of the war.

The media polls are also a national average. In those polls, they don’t even list him in most states. Last I seen, in all the polls combined, he had only been listed in 32 states total. So many of those polls even less than that. Getting 0’s for not being listed in half the states, makes it so 50% was about the best he could do. Meanwhile, others like Fred Thompson who isn’t even announced yet, have been listed in polls all the way back in 2005, and is still included in them.

They hadn’t even listed him in Texas media polls last time I looked, his home state. Hardly scientific, and as every other measure of support shows, hardly accurate.

Oh, and BTW, the Iowa rally was the largest rally for a single candidate in Iowas history.

By: James Bowery

James Bowery — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:50:42 +0000

“the Internet is nothing but a tool” is sort of like saying “mass media is nothing but a tool”. In fact, it is less true to say “the Internet is nothing but a tool” since control is less centralized than it is with mass media. No, the Internet is not merely a tool anymore than the Gutenberg Press was merely a tool. It was a revolutionary technology.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:17:11 +0000

I knew that I would get some grief for the “Internet” comment, which I tried to schlep off as what the National Journal was claiming. For the record, the Internet is nothing but a tool. It amplifies the support of Ron Paul beyond its actual support and does not do the same for — say — Rudy McRompson, but you cannot say it is “merely” that.

No, Ron Paul is not going to be the next president.

By: Buckwheat

Buckwheat — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:47:54 +0000

comparing paul to larouche or even dean is facile. paul has struck a deep nerve with the american people because he favors limited government, reining in our foreign policy and returning to sound money (i.e. getting rid of the private criminal institution known as the federal reserve).

it’s not just new hampshire and iowa where he’s going to win.

By: James Bowery

James Bowery — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:28:33 +0000

What about the June 30 Des Moines rally?

I don’t think those were just 1000 keyboard jockeys sitting around in their underwear.

But maybe they were Lyndon Larouche supporters in disguise… or … well, I’m sure you’ll come up with something…