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Originally Posted by glamourmodels
Dont feel bad sync, the trolls just realize that the "Ron Paul cant win" strategy to discredit him has been thoroughly debunked, so they are switching gears to find other stuff to nitpick him about. Pretty soon the media will say he fathered a love child in a three-way with Elvis and Marilyn Monroe cloned from DNA in some lab. Their desperation is showing. Truthfully, I don't even vote personally so I don't have a dog in this fight, it's just amusing to see the trolls contort themselves into a pretzel to try anything imaginable to smear him any way they can. Even to a casual observer like myself, it's pretty obvious.
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For me it has nothing to do with debunking Paul and throwing his campaign off track. For me it is about honesty. Paul is no different than any other politician. He rails against earmarks, yet year in and year out he is among the house leaders in the amount he requests in earmarks. He is selling his followers a bill of goods. Just go to his site and see where he stands on the issues and ask yourself how many of those things he really could get passed if he were elected. Paul loves to talk a good game, but any president finds out that talking during a campaign and then actually having to follow through on your promises are two very different things.
I have always said that the reason Paul doesn't buy into the system at least for the first round of the game so that he can raise enough money to get elected is because he really doesn't want to win. He knows that I have a better chance of fucking Angelina Jolie than he does of getting most of his ideas to actually come to fruition if he were elected. So he runs, he makes some noise, he raises some money and then. . . and here is the big one. . . he publishes a new book.
There are two things I can almost guarantee. Paul will not win the republican nomination and right about the time the primaries are done Paul will have a new book on the shelves for all the bitter Paul fans to buy. he is a world class marketer. I'm not saying he doesn't believe in what he preaches, but he is smart enough to know that unless he is willing to make some major sacrifices he could never get those policies actually enacted. So he talks and makes great speeches and uses that to cash in and sell books.
If he really wanted to make a difference he would play the game, take the money, say what needed to be said and play the games that needed to be played and win. Then when he got into the White House he could do as he pleased. If his policies were actually good he wouldn't need those powers that be to help him get elected again because the people would love him and if they sucked, he would be a one term president, but at least he would have his shot. But is not going to do that because he likely doesn't really want to win.