“More than that, the Ron Paul Revolutionaries are taking a clear position taken against the politics of celebrity, with its over-coiffed over-coached candidates and complete absence of authenticity. “

That pretty much nails it...Intrinsically (intellegent) people can see right through the coached candidates, speaking from both sides of there mouth...It is a first for many (including myself) to actually see someone genuene up at the podium...I used to think voting and elections was not more than a check of approval for a pick that was already made...and a criminal pick at that....I really really hope I can get the chance in my lifetime to vote for an actual genuine human being......

Love ya Ron Paul....

“So why can’t Ron win? Well, you see, he’s too old”

Yup, you hit the nail on the head Justin.  It is almost the exact same complaint made by left-libertarians...that well, Ron Paul is not cool enough.

Howard Dean, fighting against the Washington Democratic establishment and arguing that he represented the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, gave rise to Barack Obama’s outsider message that is now working so well.

I would argue that unlike the Dean of 04 (definitely does not apply to the Dean of 07) Obama is a complete and total insider .  Its sad so many people are fooled by his phony message, but if you look at his record, he just another Great Society Democrat who wants the government involved in every aspect of your life...he just says it a little more purdy than Hilary does.

“Like Dean, Paul is the wrong messenger. If another, younger, more telegenic libertarian Republican comes along in the future, claiming to represent the Republican wing of the Republican Party, he or she might help redefine the GOP for a generation.”

Sounds to me like the author of this piece wants a more ‘moderate’ libertarian Republican...IE BS libertarianism or Beltway libertarianism.

Sorry....I should edit those posts before I submit them.....;^)

It might not be America’s Next Top Model, but that is about the only reasonable expectation for the pundits great love affair with Fred Thompson (65).  On Law and Order he has a craggy handsomeness that belies his age and decrepitude.  His decrepitude shows clearly when he is without TV makeup.
Ron is the same age as John McCain and much more mentally stable.
The rest of the candidates are all Boomers except for Obama.

the media has really united behind John mcain.  They’re like “he’s making a comeback, the straight talk express is back!”.  not it isn’t.  YOU are the ones who keep talking about him like he’s a top tier cnadidate even though he’s wrong on everything and hugely unpopular with the base, independents and anyone else who could possibly vote.  picture a mcain presidency, it would be a disater on the level of Bush easily.  meaningless nods to liberal and conservative stuff to make him look tough yet sensitive and spending , wars, regulations, and massively enhanced state power.  no torture or earmarks though!!  small consolation

In your critical post on Ron Paul’s new ad, you wrote:

“This new Ron Paul ad is absolutely, outrageously, tragically wrong.”

It’s when I disagree with you, which is rarely, that I realize how consistently hyperbolic you are.  “Tragically”?  “Outrageously”?  Even “absolutely”?  Settle down, please.

Could it be that even Wilson does not realize how totally the US elite—of which he is part—has lost touch with American mainstream?  An important part of this separation seems to be that the elite no longer has any understanding of the traditional moral concept of hypocrisy. 

The term “hypocrite” used to denote a person who pretended to be what s/he in reality was not.  The term is no longer widely used in modern Christianity, but an awareness of the concept still seems to exist, because many people are unhappy when somebody “plays a game” with them. In politics, this emotional reaction can be seen particularly in Hillary Clinton:  just about everybody realizes that what she says has little to do with what she thinks.  Every word is the result of focus-group testing, designed to maximize her acceptability to voters.

Ron Paul, on the other hand, says exactly what he thinks.  You know for certain that this is what the man believes in, and how he will try to act if elected.  Among mainstream Americans, there still seems to exist some kind of an understanding of traditional hypocrisy, because even people who do not agree with all of Paul’s ideas like his a honesty and straighforwardness.  Intriguingly, there is no longer an intellectual understanding that Paul is different because--unlike other candidates--he is not a hypocrite.  Most people just get a feeling that somehow Paul’s honesty is good and morally right.

speaking of wilsons:  no quarter usa is little more than a hillary clinton blog now, and a rather tacky one at that, full of gossip about Barak Obama her arch rival and very little of the expert anaylsis Larry johnson brought to foreign policy issues and which gained the blog it’s readership.  Joe Wilson himself had a hillary shilling op ed there, basically doing to obama what libby and co did to him minus exposing his wife as an undervocer agent.

Bulldoze the beltway!!

Both parties have betrayed American moral and ethical values.  The Republicans say they are pro-life but pro-war and the Democrats say they are anti-war but continue to fund the war. Both have permitted the national debt to increase to 10 Trillion Dollars by the end of Bush’s administration endebting this generation, our children, and grandchildren, and future generations with debt enslavement never seen in world history. In 1776 we fought for our independence because we would not accept taxation without representation. Our children and grandchildren can not vote and have no representation, yet they are being tax to the tune of $30,000 per child without their approval.  We are cheating them of their economic future and that is criminal, immoral, unethical and illegal. President Ron Paul is the only candidate with the voting record that can stop the economic bleeding of Uncle Sam. Your children and grandchildren will thank you for voting for Ron Paul.

“So why can’t Ron win? Well, you see, he’s too old” That`s not why.  He won`t get the GOP nomination because he`s not sufficiently pro-Israel, and would eliminate all foreign aid.

What ‘disgusted’ said.

Yes, Justin, I wasn’t to hot on that new commercial either.  So I took a look at all the other candidates again for about 3 seconds and came scurrying back to Ron.

Ron Paul kicks ass!

Dr. Ron Paul. he knows genes speak. His are the most presidential. Does he have an ape on his back? Go Dr. Ron! The nations best model yet. We hope......

This year will either be a 1964, when Goldwater won the GOP nomination or it will be a 1960 where Goldwater told conservatives to gorw up and take back their party and get to work. Either way, Ron Paul will be the start of something beautiful.

If you can’t weigh in with slander then you
might try hyperbole.
Ron’s age is one of his strengths.
He is too old and experienced to play games
with this election.
He means business and it scares the bejeevers
out this lazy over confident pack of slobs
establishment.
Go Ron, go!

Mr, Raimondo. Did you intend to make it appear you think the entire AD is absolutely, outrageously, tragically wrong ?

I don’t think any of it is and when radical Muslims are at war against the West I think it perfectly reasonable to end Student Visas to students-nationals in those countries identified as supporters of terrorism.

Mr. Paul did not suggest deporting the students.

And what on earth are you doing writing about attacking a foreign country simply because it has been identified as one which supports terrorism? There are other ways, short of an invasion and occupation, of dealing with foreign countries we know are sponsoring terrorism against the west.

In what way does it make sense to give student visas to citisens of a country sponsoring terror against us and other countries of the west? It is too much of a hassle to decide which are legitimate requests for student visas and which are not.

C’est la vie. Allah wanted them to be born where they were born.

Let those who have previously studied at American Universities teach their own countrymen in their own countries.

<I>collective guilt?” Common sense. Collective suspicion when it comes to Muslims because of their historical orthopraxis.

Anti-Muslim? I certainly hope so; at least in the sense we in the West recognise the danger Muslims immigration represents. Letting Muslims immigrate here will serve the cause of liberty and freedom how?

When we let Baptists, say, immigrate from Baptasia, we do not have to monitor their churches out of fear their clergy is engaged in agitprop to overthrow America.

Paul’s immigration policy is like a wart on a beautiful woman.  And not just the student visa part, all of it.  One can only hope its removed once he’s in office.

As for the rest, I don’t see why people don’t think Ron Paul is up to the task.  Even Paul suggests that in interviews occasionally.  It’s absurd.  He’s clearly the ideal man for the task.  He’s experienced in politics, is intelligent and has clearest ideas. 

The ideas are out there and they’ll spread. So even if he loses, he’ll win.

As a former Marine and Army officer of 3 wars
I do not understand how republicans can accord
John McCain the accolades of being an expert
on war when McCain was a short time pilot and
spent most of the Nam war as a prisoner.

albert- his platform is a joke.  it’s his own brand of compassionate conservatism, which is suceeds mainly in alienating left and right equally.

I agree with Raimondo’s criticism of the Paul ad on border control and stopping illegal immigration. The biggest problem in terms of how it presents the candidate is that there is nothing in it that expresses Paul’s distinctive pro-liberty message. Rather, it sounds like Ron Paul trying to sound like the other candidates. And it blurs the distinction that the candidate has been trying to make between isolationism and non-interventionism. Control of our borders is important, but if I thought it was the most important issue, I would be more inclined to vote for Duncan Hunter than Ron Paul.

Using the word “debate” about an orchestrated political stunt broadcast on Fox, let alone any other media venue is like using the word “lovemaking” at a Nevada Dirt Road Brothel. This is less a denigration of Nevada whorehouses than it is of Fox.

Most New Hampshire skeptics will see this and think it wise to look a little more into what Paul asserts.

Too bad we cant all just kick our tellys in the teeth like Abbey’s Doc Sarvis but then ship them all to inundate Washington under a hybrid Nam Jun Paik Sculpture and Landfill. Actually , maybe Washington already is a Nam Jun Paik sculpture of serial blabbing heads.

Voting in this current election is akin to a drunk quaffing sterno and imagining it to be Vodka.

I just can’t wait to vote and watch the bus careen quicker down the lane.

Pretty funny to consider all the smears they’ve leveled at old man Paul, too.  He’s a conspiracy theorist...a religious nut...an authoritarian...a NEO-NAZI!!!  Funny too, that none of them have caught on in the least.  That is because his actions (i.e. consistency and integrity in policy-making for all of tenure) speak louder than BS words.

I concur with previous bloggers’ calling Justin out for hyperbole bordering on the hysterical.

That said, a 30-second political ad can go into little detail.  I feel confident that Dr. Paul would advocate a list of terrorist-supporting nations that is accurate.  He would undoubtedly replace the foolish and self-serving Bush roster, which demonizes some innocuous and/or inconsequential nations, while excluding “allies” whose support of terrorism and terrorists is blatant, long-standing and beyond debate.  As a previous comment suggests, let men of good will in such nations stay home to influence and educate more men of good will until terrorism is no longer supported by their governments.

The US Constitution is not a suicide pact, but an open-borders policy most certainly is.  Ever the constitutionalist, Dr. Paul demonstrates in the border security campaign ad his devotion to the national government’s primary legitimate purpose: the defense of the United States of America at the frontiers. Moreover, in that context he reiterates his blanket condemnation of the unconstitutional welfare state.

With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we can say that Ron was asking too much of the GOP. Even tho’, as Justin liked to remind us that a majority of IA GOP voters wanted us out of Iraq within a year. Ron was asking far more disturbing questions.

A vote for Ron Paul means the courage to say that we have been fed one lie after another after 9/11. And that just more truth than the GOP or even the bipartisan political elite consensus can handle.

OTOH if he had placed 3rd, the mainstream media would’ve really brought down the million pound shit hammer on him. (Believe me the Don Black contribution would’ve only been the beginning.)

Keep running Ron. And keep marching Paulites!