This was not a good year for RP to win the nomination.

[RonPaulFTFW]

It was the perfect year.

The campaign is just run by people who no mind for strategy.

We should have tried to win the left wingers and anti-war crowd, as i've always said.

The proof is in washington. We did better there than anywhere and it's because nobody pandered to the Republican base. People who hate us and won't vote for us. The HQ for Paul is trying to wring blood out of stones when they could easily turn to the left and middle and pull huge amounts of votes.

It's just a lack of understanding. We didn't fight hard enough for early states. We turned down big press talks. We weren't organized and left too much too the grassroots.

 

[Revolution9]

Obama has no chance.

Hillary will go on to defeat McCain in a very close race where smear reaches an all time high.

That is the worst analysis I have heard so far. You bucking for a career on FOX?

Randy

 

[Revolution9]

Where are you getting the idea of a brokered convention?

McCain has the nomination in the bag.

No he doesn't unless you believe the great american dream machine. McCain can be knocked out cold and laid flat on the canvas. The SwiftBoaters start soon and there s some major issues with his capture. He cllaims solitary confinement for six years. His detratcors say he turned and gave his boys to the North Vietnamese. He hugged his torturer and cried tears of joy when they were reunited. Talk about a Dean scream. I have seen sequenced pics of this. I wonder if there is a video.

Randy

 

[Revolution9]

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McCain is in pretty good shape poll wise in the 3 contests on Tuesday so maybe after he sweeps them, all this talk will stop.

Here is the poison you insert. Same thing with every post.. Honey, honey. poison., honey. Yer a shill. Remove the quotes from your sig if you aren't. When I call them around here folks pay attention. Pay attention or prove you are a shill by non-compliance.

Randy

 

[Avalon]

We should have tried to win the left wingers and anti-war crowd, as i've always said.

That's true, but the official campaign couldn't win left wingers this year...face it, between Obama and Hillary everyone's got a choice they like...they're coming out in droves to express it. The only way we would have converted them is to educate them on Hillary and Obama's actual positions and past votes, then show them how RP is much better, and then explain all his "crazy republican" viewpoints that they don't agree with. It can be done, and at least they aren't hostile to us like many republicans, but it's definitely for the grassroots to do. And everyone seemed more interested in posting meaningless comments on the internet or waving signs instead of actually canvassing hardcore, keeping track of all your potentials, and getting out their vote.

 

[AlexMerced]

I was never doing this to win the presidency, but reforming the republican party is a goal that has a lot more influence than the presidency.

Though a presidency is a remote possibility.

This bigger than any office, this is about the heart and minds of humanity

 

[jeff43]

Here is the poison you insert. Same thing with every post.. Honey, honey. poison., honey. Yer a shill. Remove the quotes from your sig if you aren't. When I call them around here folks pay attention. Pay attention or prove you are a shill by non-compliance.

Randy

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/va/virginia_republican_primary-506.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/md/maryland_republican_primary-513.html

McCain is up by 28 and 32 in the latest Virginia polls and 39 in the latest Maryland poll. Virginia and D.C. are both winner take all meaning that McCain picks up 82 delegates there. He's going to pick up 90+ delegates on Tuesday. I posted proof to back up my statements and people are agreeing with me that a brokered convention is a real long shot. I have not been told by the mods to remove my quotes. If they do, I will but then every single person here should be required to remove Ron Paul quotes from their signatures. I posted a completely legitimate post and someone agreed with me. I'm not doing anything wrong here.

 

[ArrestPoliticians]

I was never doing this to win the presidency, but reforming the republican party is a goal that has a lot more influence than the presidency.

Though a presidency is a remote possibility.

This bigger than any office, this is about the heart and minds of humanity

well said.

 

[margomaps]

The last time there was a Democratic House, Senate, and Presidency was during Clinton's first 2 years in office. Ironically, under Clinton we had balanced budgets and a surplus. Under the Republican controlled Presidency, House, and Senate during 2002-2006, we have historic deficits and runaway spending. No wonder people are upset with Republicans.

There was a balanced budget under Clinton. Clinton was not exactly solely responsible for the budget. I believe the balanced budget was far more due to the Republicans (who swept the house and senate in 1994), actually acting like fiscal conservatives and forcing the issue.

As far as a "surplus" -- that's largely a bunch of nonsense. Most of the "surplus" was based on projections based on unrealistic "irrational exuberance", to quote Alan Greenspan. That exuberance resulted in the dot-com bubble bursting just as GWB was taking office. Not that Bush helped matters by leading his party to spend like madmen (domestically and militarily).

The surpluses claimed in the Clinton years is analogous to me claiming I'm going to be a billionaire in 1 year because $100 worth of stock I own went up 5% today. I just got lucky today. Clinton just got lucky in the 90's because of an economic cycle that inflated the dot-com bubble to unrealistic levels.

 

[bcreps85]

Ron Paul would beat Clinton in a fair election.

Obama won't beat Clinton because all of the super delegates have ties to Bill Clinton.

 

[Paul4Prez]

This was the best year ever for Ron Paul to win the nomination, because next time he will be 76 years old. Republicans were in disarray, with Romney, Giuliani, McCain, Thompson, and Huckabee all having major flaws. It was almost a perfect storm -- even the dollar was in rapid decline, underscoring Ron Paul's economic views. Unfortunately, most voters still depend on the media to tell them who is "viable" and who is not, and the media relied solely on random telephone polls of mostly ill-informed and largely undecided voters to make that determination, not objective comparisons of grassroots volunteers, numbers of individual donors, straw poll wins, or crowd size.

 

[spivey378]

the media picks who wins.

the mccain rising was all media fabricated.

whole thing is fixed

"long shot"

"no chance"

then people say "why should i vote for a guy who has no chance" without realizing where this came from

 

[H Roark]

Actually this is the best year for RP to win the nomination. There were/are so many factors adding to his favor, especially with a Hillary / McCain ticket. Alot of it has to do with demographics...

 

[Acidlump]

McCain is unstable and could have a heart-attack or maybe the terrorists will kill him

 

[Mesogen]

I am being realistic and optimistic here but who says it's over? The convention isn't until september and anything can happen between then.

Anything except, say, RP winning the nomination.