Recent content by Tamasaburo

Especially funny is how in Europe, it seems, "liberal" still means something closer to what it did 100 years ago in the US, with the result that when British political scientists write about "Neo-Liberalism" they are essentially writing about what we call "Neo-Conservatism."

The Libertarian Party's failures are less about them being "libertarian" and more about the realities of a two-party system. Plus, when they began in the 70s, their views were still very radical. I'm in favor of working to try to transform the Republican Party from the inside, but I think the...

It is possible to lie with facts and to create a fiction to tell the truth. If the Ayn Rand Institute is anti-Paul then that is, indeed, lame, but Ayn Rand herself was a great ally of ours. Sure, she wasn't right about everything and she had an unfortunate tendency to encourage a cult of...

Excellent points!

I know this may be heresy, guys, but I would personally be thrilled to see a deal struck for Rand Paul as VP or Ron as Treasury Secretary or maybe both (I would not be satisfied with just a convention speech, though). Yes, I really, really want Ron himself to be president, but barring some...

But what happens then? Do they just call them to remind them to vote for Ron Paul or do they ask them to participate in some more significant way? I feel weird submitting their names when I don't what exactly it's for and what they should expect.

My family lives in New Orleans. I've already told them to go to DeLa Salle High School and vote for slate #7. Is there anything else they can do? This isn't one of those situations where there's a meeting and a bunch of confusion, is there?

I've been extremely disappointed in the Republican higher-ups lately, not just because they're trying to brush Ron under the carpet, but also because from my perspective their treatment of him makes no sense strategically. Even assuming I was not a Ron Paul supporter, but just a steely-eyed...

http://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks.html I watched this recently and it seemed very accurate to me. I've noticed Paul's speeches improving lately, but I think by adopting this strategy or something like it, he could really widen his base of inspired...

Ron Paul IS an "ideas" guy because liberty is a relatively new idea in human history. Had a good run from about 1700 to 1900 in the UK and then in the US. Then we pretty much went back to the all-tyranny-all-the-time channel humanity's been set on since the dawn of time. The ideas of personal...

Totally agree. And, as I said in the other thread: release specifics! Publish a detailed policy plan about how it gets done! Then people can start interviewing him about "the Paul Plan" instead of just hitting the Iran issue over and over. The media eat up having a sort of canned question like...

"Maybe Newt or Mitt should run third party, since they don't have any crossover support. I get tremendous support from Democrats and independents, and they don't, and you can't win without it. I'll beat Obama, the polls show it -- they can't." Especially like this one. Good way to turn this...

Seconded.

Good way to frame it. If there are a few things the Republican base can be counted on to hate, they are: European social welfare, socialism in general, subsidies, and idealistic social engineering experiments. I think Paul has had a lot of success comparing the Federal Reserve's control over...

My sentiments exactly.