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"Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning, Houston-area congressman who waged a feisty Republican primary campaign for president, is expected on Wednesday to urge supporters to reject the two major-party candidates and vote for any of the four minor-party contenders on the November ballot."
Originally posted by SectionEight
Originally posted by walkinghomer
reply to post by SectionEight
Would you say Ron Paul is a better representative for the Republicans/Conservatives or for Libertarians
None of the above.
Ron Paul represents the 18 to 25 age college student or the kid that lives in his moms basement who hates Bush with a passion, and has Che guerva posters on his wall just like Obama does in his campaign headquarters.
Originally posted by projectvxn
reply to post by Unit541
While I am an Obama supporter, I do like Ron Paul an awful lot. But I am an Obama supporter because of Pauls stance on the Education Department...Which is to dissolve it. You think American schools are suffering now? Get rid of all that federal funding and see what happens.
Then there's his rhetoric about keeping government out off your shoulders but not out of a womans uterus. That spells social unrest for me, and I have about enough of politicians trying to legislate morality as though they had a monopoly on it or something.
You wanted legitimate reason's for not wanting RP as president, there they are. Those are mine. That said, if he did make it to POTUS, I wouldn't worry too much about him executing those policies, as he would have several years of fixing a broken military, a broken economy, broken borders, and broken international relations. He would probably do the ONE THING neither of the two frontrunners would do, prosecute GW Bush like the criminal he is.
Originally posted by '___'eed
Lets be real, this will only take away votes from the real two candidates.
But maybe, just maybe, if Ron Paul gets enough votes, there can be 3-4 parties next year. Can that happen? I don't know.
Originally posted by SectionEight
Originally posted by walkinghomer
reply to post by SectionEight
Would you say Ron Paul is a better representative for the Republicans/Conservatives or for Libertarians
None of the above.
Ron Paul represents the 18 to 25 age college student or the kid that lives in his moms basement who hates Bush with a passion, and has Che guerva posters on his wall just like Obama does in his campaign headquarters.
Originally posted by SectionEight
Originally posted by walkinghomer
reply to post by SectionEight
Would you say Ron Paul is a better representative for the Republicans/Conservatives or for Libertarians
None of the above.
Ron Paul represents the 18 to 25 age college student or the kid that lives in his moms basement who hates Bush with a passion, and has Che guerva posters on his wall just like Obama does in his campaign headquarters.
Originally posted by projectvxn
While I believe you are correct in essence about how the DOE conducts itself within it's own construct it does not mean that we should get rid of it. Nor should it decide what is taught in schools. The DOE in my opinion would benefit from doing regional studies and applying it's policy accordingly to the states individual needs, and only where state law allows.
From 1998 to 2008 FED funding for education made up 30 percent of what Nevada needed to operate its' schools. The rate of growth in the State of Nevada is such that it has outpaced the rest of the nation by 5 percent over the last 25 years. Nevada cannot afford to educate all of these new students on State gaming, sales, and property tax alone, we cannot do it without the FED. And we are still at the bottom of the list in terms of graduation rates, and the levels at which students are being prepared for college.
At the state level one can blame the lack of economic diversification for the effects of our poorly funded education system. But at the same time, our rate of growth for 15 of those 25 years was largely supported and created BY the gaming industry...The problem came when the populations' needs outgrew the rate at which the state could meet those needs.
Not only that, but every tax initiative ever taken to fund education in this state has been redirected to prison development over the last 15 years or so, at the same time our shoddy education system has been producing nothing short of a class of people that are qualified for nothing more than general labor, these things breed criminal environments, and the state has a place to put you should you be among the majority of those left behind. There are many problems at play in the Nevada education system, but without that fed money, education here probably wouldn't exist, it would be casinos and prisons as far as the eye can see.
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And thank you for clearing up Paul's stance on the abortion issue. If it were left at the state level, it would be a step in the right direction.
Originally posted by baseball101
reply to post by CaptGizmo
I saw a post by a few ATSer's stating that they would like to see what ATSer's would vote in the upcoming election seeing if people will really vote like they say they will. This poll is anonymous and only allows people to vote once so just click the one you want and the results will pop up. Enjoy....
p.s. it's on BTS because it wasn't allowed on ATS but nonetheless vote!!!
[edit on 9-9-2008 by baseball101]