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Voting opened on Aug 18th 2011

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Herr Kremer

He will protect what is left of our liberty. He will protect what is left of our morality. He will encourage accountability of government to the citizens it is supposed to protect. He will discourage increased government intrusion and subjugation of yours and my ability to direct our lives as we see fit. He will support our allies and acknowledge their right to govern their countries as they see fit. If this election is about doing right then Ron Paul is the only choice. If this election is about un-seating President Obama or continuing favoritism and elitism then what difference does it make?


Ron Paul is practical, intelligent, and honest. Currently, the media black out of Paul is illustrating how easy it is to manipulate a nation even in the most dyer of economic climates. This election is far from over. If Paul can find a way to efficiently communicate to the masses who are not politically inclined and lack external motives, he will make a comeback.




with the media black out Of Ron Paul, the public is awaking to their ploy , like in Maine when 20 counties were not included in the count and yet the caucus was called before the count was finished. If you wonder why, it is becsuae the national Party links to the media is more obvious and they wish to effect the outcome by Media, lol. thank god for the Internet. Thruth be told.

concerned greatgrandmother

Ron Paul is the only candidate making sense - we cannot keep going down the rabbit hole - we cannot keep going into other countries at the whim of a "person" or persons without Congress approval - we cannot continue to "give" weapons and money to countries that will turn on us in a dime - we cannot sustain the troops we have deployed today - EVERYONE WAKE UP - PS we cannot keep printing "funny" money - we are borrowing it from China


Dr. Paul and Peter Schiff helped me save my 401K BEFORE the crash! Everybody is afraid of his foreign policy, I don't understand that! So talking, trading and negotiating with people is scary? Israel can take care of Iran, We've invaded or intervened in almost every country in the middle east and we wonder why they hate us. Come on people, wake up! I voted for him in 2008 and will do so again. He is the only one that has the balls to tell us what's really going on, the rest are just talking heads.
The GOP should also know that the Ron Paul people won't hold their nose and vote anymore, it's Ron Paul or not at all!


Nobody should be disqualified for lack of understanding an ideology. I consider this an accepted form of fact finding to determine what people want and need. It may not be in my best interest but that is what Democracy is all about!!!


Ron Paul uses logic and provides solid information. He is correct and clear in his policy and is the only candidate who makes people remember what he said after a debate. Ron Paul is attacked by the establishment because he is genuine and true and poses a threat to the elite who control America.
Many polls show him as a strong candidate to beat Obama and people started to take notice of him and his policies.

Henry Thornton

Ron Paul is dead right about the gold standard - the US Fed has abdicated responsibility for a non-inflationary US dollar as de facto global currency.


I like many of his ideas and am glad they are getting air time... but he won't win the nomination, (and even if he did) couldn't win the election, (and even if he did) he wouldn't be able to pull together a large enough coalition to get anything done.

LibertyVini in reply to Jhanlon475

Any more qualifications in that answer, LOL? I agree, in normal times, you would be right, and the 2007 - 2008 campaign (B.C. - Before Calamity) reflected this. These, however, are not normal times. The Republican party has already resorted to engineered "sloppiness" in the Maine and Nevada primaries to deny Ron two deserved wins, and there is no reason to believe that this will not continue. But it transparently harms them and their "chosen" candidate's legitimacy, and it will probably cost them the election. And they know this. Stay tuned!


I wish the economist would consider Ron Paul also a serious contender. First because he is the only supporter of capitalism, or is it crony capitalism what better suits The Economist, as Ron Paul denounces.

Jonathan in Atlanta

Paul gets a double F on Foreign Policy and Financial Policy. He is an ideologue, purist with no grasp of reality. How readers of this magazine consider him "serious" and Santorum not in two separate polls reflects the pervasive, libertarian fantasy which seems to have infected readers.

Do you have a grasp of the $ being spent in other countries - not only the cost of maintaining the bases - salaries of military, civilain and local nationals - and money to that government for us to just be there? In so many locales that are not a threat \ and least, but not last the amount of $ being given to warring countries that would turn on us in a dime - we are giving them tactical equipment (NEW) and our troops are given Viet Nam vintage equiptment - PLEASE!!!

AJPatraz in reply to Jonathan in Atlanta

You are wrong sir, he does have a very strong grasp of reality. As for foreign policy I participated in the war and I was stationed in Germany for 4 years with a total of 8 years of military service. The Germans did not want us there !!! they just wanted the money. We paid them and hired German workers to construct our post and then we leased it back from them. All the civilian employees .. yes German. The Arabs do not want us there and in my opinion we have no right to be there. Ron Paul knows exactly what he is saying that is the reason the majority of the military supports him. As for the economy … we follow the same agenda year after year same old policies just different management styles. I will borrow a quote from Herman Cain .. “how is that working for you”??

Dear Jonathan in Atlanta.
When the framers and ratifiers of our country stood up to the practicality of England they had an idea. It was called liberty. Men free from the yoke of oppressive, practicality based government. The world became a better place, for a while. Those ideologues did not ignore practice; instead they made practice submissive to ideas. But, practical men have regained control. These practical men are failing. The more practical they become, the more subjugated the citizen becomes until the citizen is a subject. We dance to the tune of the Fed, the Corporation, the numerous in-security agencies all in the name of..?

Simply put, your facts are in error. There is no "Vietnam era equipment" in service. The Gulf War actually consumed the lot of this leftover materiel and the balance was sold to the likes of Turkey, Greece and other peripheral allies. As for maintaining foreign bases, the cost is certainly not zero but far less than Paul claims in his statements.

Kremer, Paul's misplaced faith in the gold standard is born out as delusional in the Eurozone today. A fixation on the common currency is actually hindering the GIPSI's ability to devalue their currency and return to competitiveness.

You espouse the illusory paranoia of the security state with no demonstrable facts. Does the fact that the free interchange of information threaten your civil liberties? Which liberties, precisely, are being threatened? Which specific policy of Paul's would have the most beneficial impact to the nation. Until you can cogently answer these questions, you will forever be labeled as the fringe element.

Paul has failed to connect in this race, even with his base. An ideological purist, he has not won a singal primary and at 73 years old, with a rising son in the senate, will likely fade quietly after the convention AFTER ENDORSING ROMNEY.

I will put money on that.


Mitt Romney is a giant douche, Newt Gingrich is a turd sandwich... both embody the same old keynesian fascist crap that has brought the nation to the brink of bankruptcy and police state. Why nominate either of them?

Our biggest problem and greatest enemy is the US federal government. A Paul presidency would bring congress gridlock and we could all use a rest from the whippings congress has been giving us.


Ron Paul can and will be not only the republican nominee but a serious threat to president Obama in 2012 for several reasons:

1)He is the only nominee with a responsible fiscal policy that gets America away from a borrow and spend solution to a borrow and spend crisis(How many stimuli do we need to try before realizing Keynes may have been mistaken)

2)He advocates a foreign policy that not only is sustainable financially, but provides a safer environment for every american citizen by altering the correct opinion of the Muslim community that Americans intend to police and harm them in their own country.(Would you be a fan of Iraqi people if they drove up and down your street with weapons and held you to a curfew?)

3)Dr. Paul is best equipped to not only repeal the affordable care act but also implement a healthcare policy that brings price controls back to the market and removes the perverse incentives that have plagued that sector for decades.


Ron Paul, though he may be consistent in his views, does not represent the beliefs of the Republican Party. He is an extremist within the party. That said, he is a strong debater and that will do him well. At the end of the day, if he wins, which he may, he will not have the backing of his own party to defeat Mr. Obama



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