Tag Archives: Ron Paul

GOP 2012 Favorables/Unfavorables

Nate Silver: It does look like Republicans have some legitimate reason to worry. In the previous five competitive primaries — excluding 2004 for the Republicans, when Mr. Bush won re-nomination uncontested — each party had at least two candidates whose net favorability ratings were in the positive double digits, meaning that their favorables bettered their unfavorables by at least 10 …

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Ron Paul Wins CPAC 2012 Straw Poll

Whackadoodle libertarian Ron Paul, whose supporters swarm CPAC every year, has unsurprisingly won the convention’s 2012 presidential straw poll for the second year in a row. However not to be dismissed in Paul’s win is the effect of the absence of the several major conservative groups who boycotted this year over GOProud. Sarah Palin only got 3%.

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Trump’s CPAC Stump Speech

After spending some time mocking the president, last night Donald Trump announced that loony tunes libertarian Ron Paul is unelectable. Gawker reacts: Trump apparently isn’t very familiar with Republican conferences or early presidential straw polls. If he was, he’d know that saying “Ron Paul cannot get elected” directly to the Paul supporters’ faces is, in the minds of Paul cultists, …

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Romney Leads First GOP 2012 Straw Poll

The results of the first 2012 GOP presidential straw poll are in from New Hampshire. Gingrich, Giuliani, and Santorum all got 3% or less. Donald Trump: 1%.

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GOP House Nominee Stephen Bailey Visits JMG To Attack Rep. Jared Polis Over Saxby Chambliss Comments

“Jared Polis recklessly slandered every Republican and Republican staffer with his comments — guilt by an association not predicated by the bias at issue. This is a logical fallacy and it undermines the moral high ground on this issue. He hurts his cause when there is a valid point to be made and lashes out emotionally and insults innocent people. …

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Rand Paul’s First 2010 Senate Ad

The crazy acorn doesn’t fall far from the Wingnut Tree.

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Quote Of The Day – Ron Paul

“I have received several calls and visits from constituents who, in spite of the heavy investment in their training, have been forced out of the military simply because they were discovered to be homosexual,” Paul said Friday. “To me, this seems like an awful waste. Personal behavior that is disruptive should be subject to military discipline regardless of whether the …

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This Rand Is Your Rand

Rachel Maddow continues her takedown of Rand Paul.

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Rand Paul: Businesses Should Have The Right To Discriminate

The apple doesn’t fall far from the nutty libertarian tree. Rand Paul think that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should be amended to allow businesses the right to deny service to anybody they please. Rachel Maddow takes him down in classic fashion.

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Teagasms For Rand Paul

JMG reader Allen tips us to this teabagger blogger practically wetting himself over Rand Paul’s Senate primary victory. But hey, he’s pretty.

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KENTUCKY: Ron Paul’s Son Wins GOP Senate Primary

And he’s got a message to America from the Tea Party.

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CPAC: Ron Paul Wins 2012 Straw Poll

Loony tune Ron Paul won today’s CPAC straw poll on potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates. CPAC’s annual straw poll is a closely watched indicator of the rising or falling stars of conservative politicians, although its results aren’t necessarily predictive of future electoral success. A libertarian from Texas who has railed against spending and the Federal Reserve, Paul won the Saturday …

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Ron Paul On Health Care Reform

Ron Paul thinks the government has no place interfering in health care. He also says that “some people aren’t necessarily in need” of insurance. Bonus wingnut points for bringing up immigrants.

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Ron Paul’s Openly Gay Campaign Chair Dies Without Insurance

Kent Snyder, libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul’s openly gay campaign chair, has died of pneumonia at age 49. In an ironic twist to Paul’s small government libertarian ideals, Snyder had no health insurance and leaves a $400K medical debt. Both the McCain and Obama campaigns offer full health insurance to campaign staff. Activists belonging to the libertarian wing of the …

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Ron Paul Is Finished

The New Republic today dug up more of Ron Paul’s loathsome old newsletters. They are almost unimaginably offensive and no one is immune as the newsletters attack gays, blacks and Jews with equal relish. From the lengthy New Republic post: The newsletters were particularly obsessed with AIDS, “a politically protected disease thanks to payola and the influence of the homosexual …

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The Ghost Of Racism Past
(And Probably, Present)

A Ron Paul golden oldie is making the rounds on progressive blogs again. From his 1992 newsletter, the Ron Paul Survival Report: Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the …

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Ron Paul Takes Money From Hate Group

Republican candidate Ron Paul has accepted a $500 campaign donation from Don Black, founder and head of Stormfront, a white supremacist organization. A spokesman for Paul said, “If someone with small ideologies happens to contribute money to Ron, thinking he can influence Ron in any way, he’s wasted his money. Ron is going to take the money and try to …

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Sullivan Endorses Ron Paul

Andrew Sullivan has endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination. The great forgotten principles of the current Republican party are freedom and toleration. Paul’s federalism, his deep suspicion of Washington power, his resistance to government spending, debt and inflation, his ability to grasp that not all human problems are soluble, least of all by government: these are principles that made …

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