What Political Orientation Were You Before Discovering Ron Paul

[Vessol]

Liberal leaning, but mostly apolitical.

Growing up as a teenager I became quite the militant atheist though. I got in tons of debates about that. Looking back at myself, a lot of what I said was silly. I'm an apathetic agnostic now. So I guess I went to caring about religion but not politics, to caring about politics but not religion

 

[speciallyblend]

Liberal leaning, but mostly apolitical.

Growing up as a teenager I became quite the militant atheist though. I got in tons of debates about that. Looking back at myself, a lot of what I said was silly. I'm an apathetic agnostic now. So I guess I went to caring about religion but not politics, to caring about politics but not religion

this has to be the coolest thread i have read in awhile

 

[Liberty_Mike]

Libertarian! I found out about Ron Paul in early 2007 before he declared his candidacy when people were mentioning he might run on Libertarian forums. I was 19 at the time, and had never heard of Ron Paul. I didn't know there were any true libertarian minded patriots that held office at the Federal level. Once I looked his name up on Google, I found out who my real congressman was!

 

[The Dude]

I was a hardcore McCain supporter in 2008 believe it or not. An Iraq war supporter, believed in "strong national defense" even listened to Hannity. After McCain lost in November I began to explore the primaries again via YouTube and began to be interested in political ideologies as a whole. I then bought Revolution: Manifesto and started to be more open to Paulish ideas. Started reading Mises, Hayek, Rand, ect. Three years later and I am a hardcore Libertarian and Ron Paul disciple and not looking back.

 

[Mr.Magnanimous]

I then bought Revolution: Manifesto and started to be more open to Paulish ideas.

Yeah, I've started loaning out my copy of The Revolution. It does a pretty good job of converting people.

 

[Deinonychus]

I was a liberal. I remember learning from my government teacher in high school that Obama was awesome and to vote on him.

Also, we did management vs. union roleplays.

I found an old letter that our teacher told us to write to GWB. I said that we should ban all guns.

Yeah. Things have changed. A lot. lol

 

[Kludge]

I was a liberal. I remember learning from my government teacher in high school that Obama was awesome and to vote on him.

Also, we did management vs. union roleplays.

I found an old letter that our teacher told us to write to GWB. I said that we should ban all guns.

Yeah. Things have changed. A lot. lol

Coincidentally - not too long ago, I found an essay I wrote in 9th grade calling for a ban on all guns, too, while remembering how I'd go on about how great Bush was, "despite his flaws." I also put punctuation outside quotation marks -- that pissed me off most while reading the essay.

 

[Hraggleblarg]

Ugh, I started out so lib, I can't even bear to think about it. Then, I stopped caring about politics and just decided to ignore the massive problems in our country. I'd pay attention, but mostly just followed whatever decisions my mom made.

I heard about Ron Paul during the 08 election and voted for him, but didn't really switch over to the Libertarian party until recently.

 

[dannno]

Green libertarian

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I was an anarcho-capitalist. See kids? Becoming a marxist sympathizer could happen to you too, if you travel down the road of anarchy long enough! Don't do drugs.

A Marxist anarchist saying "don't do drugs"? Now I've heard it all! lolz

 

[heavenlyboy34]

this has to be the coolest thread i have read in awhile

I think your hallucinogen-induced rants make for pretty funny threads too.

 

[PreDeadMan]

went from neocon to... constitutionalist to voluntaryist

 

[cindy25]

conservative Republican

the party changed

 

[JCF]

I guess I was originally a liberal, you can thank my teachers for that though... Was shown all the Michael Moore films, that a long with Al Gore's film I found myself asking my teacher "Why Al Gore could not have been president" (I was politically inept)...

Their simple explanation as to why I should vote democrat?

"Under Clinton more people got rich and under bush they are poorer, so democrats are who you should vote for and I know because I was working in the 90s, you were still a kid".


The same teacher was a major d-bag who black mailed me when I was defiant... At the time my parents were hooked on drugs and I was for the most part afraid of authority figures to the extent that I wouldn't say something about a corrupt teacher so he got off scott free...


But through it all I was very apolitical until the 08' elections and when I found talk radio.

 

[speciallyblend]

I think your hallucinogen-induced rants make for pretty funny threads too.

god forbid we do what Ron Paul asked us to do, join the gop and become a delegate such craziness!

 

[RedStripe]

not worth it lol

 

[speciallyblend]

Ugh, I started out so lib, I can't even bear to think about it. Then, I stopped caring about politics and just decided to ignore the massive problems in our country. I'd pay attention, but mostly just followed whatever decisions my mom made.

I heard about Ron Paul during the 08 election and voted for him, but didn't really switch over to the Libertarian party until recently.

Ron Paul is a republican joining the lp does nothing to secure the nomination for Ron Paul in the gop for 2012. i was lp for 12 yrs joined the gop for Ron Paul. i hope you consider helping Ron Paul get the nomination

 

[Hraggleblarg]

Ron Paul is a republican joining the lp does nothing to secure the nomination for Ron Paul in the gop for 2012. i was lp for 12 yrs joined the gop for Ron Paul. i hope you consider helping Ron Paul get the nomination

I'm registered Independent, so I can vote for whomever I like. I guess what I meant by Libertarian party was that my views are closer to Libertarian than anything else. Sorry about the confusion.

 

[Pennsylvania]

Leftist with democratic party sympathies (lol). Couldn't vote in 2000 but supported Gore, voted for Kerry in 2004 stupidly thinking he'd end the Iraq war. Hadn't heard of Kucinich at that point but really liked him when I finally did. Later heard about Ron Paul and became a constitutionalist, came to RPF and became a libertarian.

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

I was a libertarian far before I heard about Ron Paul. I'm astounded at the numbers in this poll though. Looks like we shouldn't give up on neocons and socialists.

The numbers don't surprise me at all. It has always been a big tent for small government. Most of the sleeping giant identifies themselves as this, or that, in their stupor, but once they awaken few turn into hardcore enemies of liberty...

This thread shows exactly why we can't go writing off Neo-Cons and others.

If some visit this forum with questions, don't flame them out of the site. Don't treat them as idiots and sheeple.

One night I happened on an epic youtube of Ron Paul, I spent the next two hours watching everything RP on youtube. This was after the primaries (I voted Romney). Once I got bit by the RP bug, it took me a while (and a lot of reading) to wholly embrace the philosophy and understand how it works in economics, foreign policy, domestic affairs, etc. It's complicated stuff.

Please, in the future, especially in this election cycle and the 2012 race, let us be hospitable and engaging, and not holier-or-smarter-than-thou. We might actually win this thing.

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I find it interesting that we have full-blown neocons/liberals being converted so quickly... What made us find the way while other neocons/liberals are totally immune to the liberty doctrine?

The presumption that others are "totally immune" is contrary to the results of this poll

I know the poll isn't scientific, but i give it more weight then most polls in msm if i was gop establishment this rfp poll would scare the hell out of me

almost a breath of fresh air seeing how many rpf members were former neo-cons! We are getting somehwere we already knew we have a wide variety here at rpf but seeing the amount of liberals and neo-cons that have switched to our message is alarming in very good ways the current gop should be scared. We are not going away

The neo-con infiltraitors of the GOP should be scared, not the rank and file...

this has to be the coolest thread i have read in awhile

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Green libertarian

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