Almost had my co-worker converted until today

[jenius]

Tell him that the current state of Pakistan is a direct result of U.S. intervention in their country.

 

[PimpBlimp]

I agree with a lot of what has been said in this thread. However, if those people were truly interested in Paul's policies they would have looked them up on the internet. Only a fool would get all of their political information from the idiot tube.

 

[Man from La Mancha]

Just ask them if any of the other candidates have any plans at all that would bring the troops home and stop the war and if these little things about Ron bother them then they want the war to keep killing our troops.

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[piotr1]

Tell him everyone else is CFR and CFR is BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!! 8)

 

[TwiLeXia]

So, I've been lecturing my friend on how great Ron Paul is and at first he was ridiculing his policies but then he slowly started to agree with some of his policies and was on his way to becoming a Ron Paulaholic like me.

I told him to tune in to Meet The Press and when I came back from vacation we could discuss it and he could possibly help me campaign.

So I came back from vacation today and he was really excited to see me and I thought he loved the interview; but he comes up with a smirk and told me that Ron Paul is not getting his support because of the interview.

He thought Ron Paul is running a very naive campaign with his bring the troops home-eliminate-the-irs message and he told me that he is just running to get his name across to the public, not to win because he hasn't even studied the proposals or know the basics about them.He didn't know how much revenue the income tax brings in or how many troops are stationed overseas. His point was that, if a candidate is seriously running on these issues then he would have studied them and would know all the facts. To top it all of, he hated the way he blasted past Republicans including Abe Lincoln, Reagan, and Bush (although he hated Bush, Presidents should not be called "a bum") which reaffirmed his belief that he is just a libertarian with a Republican label. He also didn't buy the earmark explanation. According to him, there is no chance of him becoming the nominee let-alone the presidency because he wants neither.

Anyway, I'm out of ideas on how to try to bring him back into the fold.. should I give up and move on?

Uhh you should ask him, what basis does he have to say that Ron Paul doesn't know the facts? The only reason Ron Paul is gaining such a huge following is because he DOES speak the facts as they are, and doesn't try to twist them for his own means. And you should also get him to grow up about Ron Paul attacking presidents - RP doesn't attack people, what he really does is question why do we accept all these "facts," about Lincoln or Reagan or anyone, no matter how famous or revered they are. Americans dislike it when someone brings down their personal heroes, but seriously, tell your friend to grow the hell up and forget his personal biases and emotions.

The earmark one is a difficult one, I almost thought twice about my support for Ron Paul. But after thinking about it, I realized that Dr. Paul, while knowing that he would perhaps appear a hypocrite, still desired to do something to get the money back to the taxpayers. In essence, RP tried - sort of - to be the Robin Hood of the government, attempting to funnel at least some of the money back to the people he represented. However, by no means does this mean that RP is a hypocrite - while he certainly does bemoan the current state of special interest pork, the only reason he is doing so in the first place is because of our sorry system that is already instituted. You see, Ron Paul may have his ideals about this or that, but even he understands that not everything can be perfect, and that sometimes to fight for the people you have to do something that you yourself do not like. And that is why Ron Paul is the man of the people.

If your friend has doubts about RP being a hypocrite, just tell him about what Dr. Paul said in today's interviews concerning the assassination of Bhutto. The public sentiment is clearly that of intervention - we need to go in and sort out everything for them so that there is no violence. Well guess what - that sounds good and all, but it's NOT GONNA HAPPEN. Americans have a hard time understanding this fact - we aren't God, we don't have the moral authority nor the constitutional right to go into foreign countries and tell them what's right and what's wrong. And that is what Dr. Paul knows - and speaks the truth about. Show your friend some of the interviews of RP today. RP was given extremely hard questions - questions like "even if Pakistan loses nuclear weapons, what would you do?" and clearly, any other politician, whatever his beliefs, would have made some sort of desperate or lame assertion something along the lines of "Oh definitely I think we should do something about it... yada yada yada..." But RP did none of that, he made it clear to the American public that no matter what the public sentiment is, the propaganda that the neoconservatives are handing out, Ron Paul, even while himself being sympathetic to the violence and concerned, will never, ever, support legislation or official intervention by means of the government.

 

[shadowhooch]

Go to this thread.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=63915

Print out that pdf. If your friend won't vote for Ron Paul after reading that, then I pity the fool.