Ron Paul Primary Results In Michigan, Arizona Don't Deter Candidate

SPRINGFIELD, Va. -- Presidential hopeful Ron Paul is predicting the political revolution he is pushing won't be limited to the Republicans he hopes nominate him and is urging his supporters of all stripes to rally behind his struggling White House bid.

Paul was heading toward twin defeats Tuesday in Arizona's and Michigan's GOP primaries but didn't linger on rivals Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich. Instead, he is pitching his anti-war and anti-Washington themes that motivate a small but fevered segment of the electorate. Paul is telling voters in Virginia that government is too big and is encroaching on Americans' freedoms.

Paul also says the country needs a new foreign policy that focuses on diplomacy over armed conflict. He says the current approach will yield an America-versus-the world scenario that isn't sustainable.

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[radiojunkie]

08:26 PM on 03/04/2012

Ron Paul could moderate his message closer to what president might actually accomplish. Junking the Chevy sounds great but not for a T-Model.

Press Paul supporters on ending the fed and they cave to "auditing the fed". That's all great except for Ron's book, "End The Fed". Too much chaff. How about what the guy reasonably expects to do and less sensationalized stump baloney.

Press Paul supporters on re-instituting the gold standard and it's obvious there's nothing standard past the stump. He needs to get off the ice cream truck and out of the Good Humor suit and start acting like an adult.

[Scoutitout]

02:10 PM on 02/29/2012

Why hasn't Ron Paul sued Lew Rockwell?

[reciprocat]

09:10 AM on 03/02/2012

Lew might talk

[radiojunkie]

08:30 PM on 03/04/2012

Too lucrative to spoil the next conspiracy.

[armchairpickleback]

01:28 PM on 02/29/2012

This country is in need of finacial repair. Every issue that the right or left disagree on really doesn't matter anymore. Within the next 4 years, unless paul is elected and actually CUTS spending, all of the programs that progressives love, will be gone.

[reciprocat]

09:11 AM on 03/02/2012

b.s.

[radiojunkie]

08:31 PM on 03/04/2012

lol. couldn't have said it any better.

[mabinog]

01:01 PM on 03/03/2012

lol, actually cutting spending will not happen with a change of Paul to President, unless of course you think he should be Emperor...............which would not surprise me at all.

[MedullaPancreas]

02:58 AM on 04/15/2012

Have fun with NDAA Obama.

[john lipari]

12:51 PM on 02/29/2012

FOR ALL THOSE WITH ANY QUESTION ABOUT THE FED. PLEASE WATCH THIS!!!

Ron Paul Grills Bernanke on Currencies 2/29/2012

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000076002

[john lipari]

04:03 PM on 02/29/2012

also...check this out...to help you understand...

Professor Murray Sabrin admits Ron Paul MEDIA BLACKOUT by the Federal Reserve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug7skW3eIM4

[radiojunkie]

08:33 PM on 03/04/2012

I like the other one with monkeys flying out of his butt. I can always pretend it's reality.

[john lipari]

12:31 PM on 02/29/2012

Ron Paul's Rally Speech After Michigan and Arizona Primaries 2/28/2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MY4HTQRfGM&feature=player_embedded

[john lipari]

12:30 PM on 02/29/2012

FORBES-

Ron Paul Tells Bernanke He Killed The Dollar, Silver Coin In Hand

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/02/29/ron-paul-tells-bernanke-he-killed-the-dollar-silver-coin-in-hand/

It was Ron Paul, though, who took the day. In what is usually the most heated and interesting exchange of Bernanke’s excursions to Congress, the Fed Chairman was forced to sit down and listen as Ron Paul scolded him for “debasing” the currency and “destroying” the wealth of millions of Americans.

[radiojunkie]

08:36 PM on 03/04/2012

Ron - "If Johnny takes this here silver dollar and stuffs it in his mattress, how long does it take for him to achieve the wealth of a long term, low risk, balanced portfolio?"

Ben - "Which planet does Johnny live."

[Dokkydok]

11:34 AM on 03/05/2012

"no one believes the 2% inflation rate"

Well, that's one way to argue against evidence. But by all means, link me to the Von Mises Institute.

[had410]

12:18 PM on 02/29/2012

Funny thing is, it doesn't really matter what we think or who we vote for, we don't pick the candidate. The delegates vote for the nominee at the convention, and the delegates are picked seperate from the "election". Ron Paul supporters are aggressively eating up the delegate spots, which means he is winning!

Ron Paul 2012!

[reciprocat]

10:21 AM on 03/01/2012

if a delegate votes for someone other than who they are supposed to then that is wrong.

If you think otherwise then you deserve to lose.

[had410]

04:55 PM on 03/01/2012

Some states have uncommitted delegates that can vote for anyone, others have committed delegates that must vote for who they are representing on the first ballot. If no candidate gets 1144 votes, on the second ballot, all delegates can vote for Ron Paul, I mean whomever they want.

[gleitz05]

11:42 AM on 02/29/2012

Ron Paul......supported Pat Buchanan's run for the presidency.

Wants to eliminate the departments of Education, Interior, Commerce, HUD, and Energy.
Wants to privatize the FAA and TSA.
Wants to cut funding for the FDA by 40%.
Wants to cut funding for the CDC by 20%.
Wants to cut funding for the National Institute of Health by 20%
Wants to cut funding for the EPA by 30%.
Wants to eliminate all foreign aid.
Wants to reduce foreign travel.
Wants to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%.
Wants to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts.
Wants to sell all federal lands and assets.
Voted against the anti-spam bill.
Voted against the Amber Alert System.
Is anti-abortion.
Is against stem cell research.
Is against gender-equal pay.
Is against gay adoption.
Supports legislation to eliminate the distinction between a zygote and a fully formed baby.

Who could ever vote to get this man in the White House?

[john lipari]

12:35 PM on 02/29/2012

101 REASONS TO VOTE FOR RON PAUL...

http://www.reasontofreedom.com/101_reasons_vote_ron_paul.html

[gleitz05]

02:17 PM on 02/29/2012

Terrific....a libertarian web site that gives such reasons as "he supports the constitution" or "he supports the bill of rights". Because everyone else is against them?

[Anteos]

01:24 PM on 02/29/2012

My reasons to voe for him

1. Ending Lobbyist and interest group influence on power
2. Ending foreign wars (without congressional decl of war)
3. Ending the massive security state that has built up since 9/11
4. Ending the PATRIOT ACT/NDAA and other legislation that has infringed civil liberties
5. Closing Guantanamo-ending torture policies/drone strikes and other things that tend to irritate Terrorists as well as normal people.
6. Auditing and limiting the Fed (via appointment of Fed chairman) to stop bailing out vampire squid banks
7. Stop dolling out 3 billion to Israel and aiding and abetting an illegal occupation
8. Stop sending “aid” (mostly military) to Egypt and the other actors on the other side of Israel’s side (around 12 billion)
9. Stop supporting food subsidies for US agribusiness which kills hundreds of thousands in Africa who cannot compete and therefore cannot grow their own food
10. Ending the Drug War and calling an amnesty on the 1 million or so non-violent drug offenders in US prisons

Not a single other candidate is even talking about these festering wounds.

[gleitz05]

02:18 PM on 02/29/2012

Your guy has had a very long career in politics. Please tell me all the things he's managed to accomplish in that time.

[Jerry Jordan]

03:07 PM on 02/29/2012

Based on his legislative history of attaining "zero" accomplishments, I can't imagine how you think he has the skill to accomplish any of the items you listed.

[den1953]

11:26 AM on 02/29/2012

To bad for Rodney Paul he just can't seem to get any respect!

[john lipari]

12:11 PM on 02/29/2012

THEY RESPECT HIM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mahb4rdiuw

[den1953]

10:11 AM on 03/01/2012

To bad his own party wants to throw him under the bus even Fox news is shunning Dr Paul!

[had410]

01:11 PM on 02/29/2012

Not from the media, but in REALITY, this is what he is getting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9iEtZnrb3M&feature=youtu.be

[reciprocat]

10:23 AM on 03/01/2012

do you think anybody other than paullers follows those links?

ah never mind. keep posting :-)

[VPerry24]

11:16 AM on 02/29/2012

People hear a catchy phrase and it sticks with them. I know people who milk the system and yet condemn all others for doing same. One has to question their loyalty. Both parties are essentially the same, using it to divide us for their personal gain but look around, both parties got us where we are today. And while we are at it, why ask how Hitler could take over Germany, just look around, it is happening here now and people are aloof to the NDAA, Patriot Act, drones over the USA and the defense spending that should be called "offense spending."

[reciprocat]

10:26 AM on 03/01/2012

Oh christ. Now we are like Weimar Republic Germany. Nazi analogies... *rolls eyes*

[CSKAP]

11:13 AM on 02/29/2012

A coalition of “Legalize Pot” college students, White supremacists and fabulists wishing to return to the 1700’s will not a President candidate make.
Good for the occasional laugh of course but, with all the attractions from actual Americans as a Sarah Palin Presidency.
I see that “John Lipari” is the duty Paulista today to defend Ron so, fire away.

[john lipari]

12:12 PM on 02/29/2012

YOU'RE NOT WORTH MY TIME

[CSKAP]

12:29 PM on 02/29/2012

Too funny.
“Caps Lock”, it’s over on the left side of the key board, just press it and the little light on the top of the keyboard will go out.
I know how valuable your time must be defending Ron from all the big bad realists.

[Scoutitout]

02:07 PM on 02/29/2012

with pouches of magical libertarian ferry dust

[Jerry Lammers]

11:02 AM on 02/29/2012

Ron Paul is the only candidate who can transform this country into the 'Shining City on a Hill'.

[dfranz]

11:06 AM on 02/29/2012

Ron Paul is the only candidate that can transform the country into Road Warriors

[Jerry Jordan]

11:23 AM on 02/29/2012

By the way, where are his alleged "nothing" tax returns. He has yet to release them although everyone else has.

[reciprocat]

10:27 AM on 03/01/2012

ha!

[Jerry Jordan]

11:21 AM on 02/29/2012

Ron Paul is the only candidate who can transform this country into anarchy and an economic depression.

[pepper701]

03:48 PM on 02/29/2012

I think we are already there! It never ceases to amaze me with how little people pay attention to what really matters.

[Pherdnut]

10:52 AM on 02/29/2012

How can anybody favor a blanket deregulationist at a time when corporations are continuing to have the run of things after torpedoing our economy by setting a disastrous plan in motion and then investing against its success? What could the states do about corporate misbehavior if corps could just threaten to uproot jobs and move them to another state any time they tried to do something about it? Opt-out educational funding? Like impoverished minority communities aren't screwed enough as it is. That would put us on course for a class divide not seen in the world since czarist Russia and a race divide not seen since Jim Crowe. Forget the newsletters that they'll just deny anyway. RP's ideas are absurd and so are his supporters. News flash: free market capitalism is an oxymoron. It is in most sectors a very practical system but it's not magic or self-policing. It takes regulation to promote competition over abuse. It takes a central authority with some teeth to maintain and enforce those regulations.

[turbobore]

11:17 AM on 02/29/2012

We have more regulation than ever before and more regulations are passed every year at all levels of government and yet you want even more. When will you people realize that it is the regulations that are causing the problems?

[Pherdnut]

01:02 AM on 03/01/2012

I'm sure some do cause problems. Removing the vast majority of legislation that restricts corporations however, hardly strikes me as a well-thought-out position.

[Kenneth G Fulp]

12:26 PM on 02/29/2012

Regulations already exist. Due to Crony-Capitalism there is rampant Corruption. Enforce the laws already on the books and the Crony aspect is removed and you have true competition. Billions of dollars have been thrown at the educational system and it is not improved. Wasted capital. Dr. Paul believe the states and local districts can handle a problem such as this and a massive black hole federal system is not the answer; history supports him. You are dismissive and out of context in your writing.

[Pherdnut]

12:55 AM on 03/01/2012

They do not exist. Corporations are citizens now. The media is allowed to own multiple outlets in the same regions allowing them to basically give themselves glowing reviews on their own work or create pretend-conflict where there once wasn't any. Dismissive mine arse. How does shrinking government help us solve this problem? I threw out some concrete logic, you challenged none of it and then called me dismissive.

[realpolitic]

10:27 AM on 02/29/2012

Paul is Mr. 12%.  His libertarian ideas appeal to the very young, college age crowd and if this avenue helps them get interested in politics it is worth it.  In all honesty and although I have taken economics courses, I have no idea what Paul's complaints about the Fed are founded on, his weird dedication to a gold standard, and his crazy talk about the "debasement " of our currency and how hyper-inflation is soon coming.  It all sounds more than a little kooky to me, but it is what makes Paul be Paul.  I wonder what his role in Congress is with such a dedication to a strange ideology that makes him a cast a "no" vote to almost all legislation.

[john lipari]

10:36 AM on 02/29/2012

you have no idea what his complaints about the fed are founded on? jesus!!! lord help all of us.

THIS FOLKS IS THE MIND OF AN ANTI RON PAUL PERSON.

[realpolitic]

10:46 AM on 02/29/2012

Yes, thanks for making his objections to the Fed much clearer. Your post is the usual mush I hear from the d

[joekel]

10:51 AM on 02/29/2012

anti choice and anti gay - wrong paul is a kook.

[john lipari]

10:39 AM on 02/29/2012

Ron Paul Asks Ben Bernanke: How Do You Define a Dollar?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgXCBetCYVo

[realpolitic]

11:27 AM on 02/29/2012

Good question!

[dawntoduskcm]

09:07 PM on 02/29/2012

Thank you for the link! f&f.

[lisaman]

09:50 AM on 02/29/2012

Because he, like his supporters is delusional when it comes to his chances.

[john lipari]

10:43 AM on 02/29/2012

RON PAUL beating obama 43-41 in rasmussen poll. ron paul beating obama in arizona, virginia, ohio and iowa. 2nd place in absolute delegates and a growing crowd of supporters...i like his chances.

[joekel]

10:52 AM on 02/29/2012

prove it

[dfranz]

11:08 AM on 02/29/2012

I admire your persistance Don Quxiote

[Kenneth G Fulp]

12:30 PM on 02/29/2012

Interesting. You say, "Vote for your best interests or shut up". Yet, when supporters of Dr, Paul speak out about their beliefs, you name call and denigrate. Bigot. How's that for name calling?

[lisaman]

01:01 PM on 02/29/2012

Really, you take that personally? Then I must apologize because it wasn't meant as a personal assault. What you may have missed is that I said, "delusional WHEN IT COMES to his chances." I did not mean that to say anyone who supports him is delusional. I can not tell you how many times I have tried to converse with one of his supporters only to be treated rather rudely, like being called a bigot. I hope that isn't true. I have family who are mostly republicans and I would never consider making them believe I thought I was the only one who had the answers. But kudos for calling me out, I should be more careful that I may not make my meaning clear. If you believe that Paul has your best interests at heart, then good for you. I just really do not. Not my best interests or those of this country as a whole. So, we disagree but it does not have to be personal. Have a very nice day.