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Originally posted by MITechie
Amazingly, this even made it to the front page of Yahoo! No idea how, but Ron is actually getting coverage- I can't believe it! GO RON!
news.yahoo.com...
Originally posted by StarPeace
Calm down kids.
He still only has 9-13% of support and who knows much of that is people from this site and his fan site flooding polls.
He's still not going to win.
Just over a month till real voting begins.
When he starts losing those early states, and you kids realize that random straw polls with random CITIES don't speak for entire states, and your "savior" will NOT become president.
It will be a great day when your CULT goes away.
To think this is the final time anyone has to deal with the Ron Paul hype and internet spam.
edit on 1-12-2011 by StarPeace because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jheated5
One of the reasons I respect RP is because he doesn't feel the need to put gloves on to take punches at these guys... I guess maybe he feels so strongly about Newt being a disaster that something had to be done IDk... The ad didn't smear him so bad, they could have hit him under the belt with all the major moral and ethical things he's done wrong, so I guess they took the high road....
Originally posted by eLPresidente
On Iran:
I have a former military friend that explains Iran very simply:
Having been a PATRIOT missile defense systems operator and someone whose trained exclusively against Iran for 2 years, I want to reiterate the most important facts in regards to Iran's ACTUAL capabilities:
1) They have absolutely no missile that can reach America. None. It is a complete non-issue.
2) Their missile arsenal predominately consists of Shahab-1 through Shahab-5 missiles, Scud-B and Scud-C. Most of these are IRBMs (Intermediate Range) and none are ICBMs (Inter-Continental).
3) We have sold PATRIOT missile defense systems to Taiwan, Egypt, Germany, South Korea, Greece, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
4) In order for Iran to launch any nuclear payload at Israel, they would have to first defeat the missile defense systems in Iraq, UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, and Israel. Just look at line of sight from Iran to Israel and you'll see it's a foolish argument. Since there is no way for Iran to defeat these systems, their only option would be to overwhelm them. In order to do that, they'd likely have to launch their entire arsenal of missiles, which is essentially impossible due to the amount of logistics that would involve, without clearly setting of early warning WORLDWIDE.
5) We have great early warning systems that would allow us to send in our Air Force to take out most launch locations, prior to launch. Further, any missiles that do launch would then immediately identify launch locations we miss, so it is unlikely they could fire more than one volly from each location. This means that logistically, they not only have to beat our early warning systems, but they'd also have to launch from multiple thousands of locations.
6) Every nuclear payload launched from Iran has a 9/10 probability of being shot down over their own country and would cause widespread nuclear fallout for IRAN itself.
Ultimately, the conclusion is that it's a complete non-issue, unless Iran wants to destroy itself with no guarantee of a mutual-assured destruction of Israel. It would be complete suicide with no achievement.
And what do you deem disengaging from the world? you mean pulling troops and cutting military spending so we can wrap up this $15 trillion debt crisis? Is free market trade and open cultural exchange disengaging from the rest of the world? Where do you get your information from, soldier?
edit on 1-12-2011 by eLPresidente because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by StarPeace
Originally posted by MITechie
Amazingly, this even made it to the front page of Yahoo! No idea how, but Ron is actually getting coverage- I can't believe it! GO RON!
news.yahoo.com...
He was always getting coverage...
The rest of America just don't care.
Because his support is so low some people don't want to accept that. So they came up with the conspiracy theory that he's not getting covered.edit on 1-12-2011 by StarPeace because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CaDreamer
Originally posted by StarPeace
Calm down kids.
He still only has 9-13% of support and who knows much of that is people from this site and his fan site flooding polls.
He's still not going to win.
Just over a month till real voting begins.
When he starts losing those early states, and you kids realize that random straw polls with random CITIES don't speak for entire states, and your "savior" will NOT become president.
It will be a great day when your CULT goes away.
To think this is the final time anyone has to deal with the Ron Paul hype and internet spam.
edit on 1-12-2011 by StarPeace because: (no reason given)
so if by some random chance Mr. Paul gets the nomination i expect YOU to eat those words.
i am curious how the republican establishment will react should Dr. Paul get the nomination, will they sabotage his campaign? will they throw their support behind a man that stands for liberty and justice? or will they continue to tow the neocon line and fall further and further into their descent into obscurity, like the defunct parties of the past.
Originally posted by StarPeace
reply to post by StarPeace
Yeah yeah I know I'm a sheep.
Some child will come along and call me a troll.
Even though this guy only has 9-13% support.
Seems like only people on this site are sheep for Paul...Blind Blind Followers...Baaaaaahedit on 1-12-2011 by StarPeace because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by maddog99
The video shows a bunch of crap. Don’t listen to the so-called journalists, listen to what Newt said and look up his explanation.
Newt has admitted he was wrong about global warming and has proclaimed he doesn’t believe in it. Obama believes in GW. Romney is like Newt – said he belived now he’s doesn’t.
The “right wing social engineering” comment about Medicare was explained. He says he didn’t mean Paul Ryan’s plan was “right wing social engineering” but that he didn’t support drastic, immediate changes in a program that affects so many Americans.
As far as Fanny and Freddie; Newt was a paid advisor to Fanny and Freddie, not a lobbyist. He told them how to get out of trouble and they didn’t follow his advice – they did the exact opposite. Fanny and Freddie have cost the U.S. $317 billion. Newt’s cut to advise them was 0.0005% of what they have cost the country in fraud and abuse. Maybe they brought Newt in just so they could use these cute sound bites for his future presidential bid???
This is a campaign smear tactic by Ron Paul. I understand he’s desperate. With numbers as low as his I’d expect these out of context attacks.