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PollM Donating Member (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 07:06 PM
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Is Ron Paul's fundamental message the grass roots of the original Republican Party?
In an Associated Press interview, he said people startled by the $4.3 million take from his volunteer-led fundraising blitz Monday might be surprised on Election Day as well.

"They said if the candidate doesn't call and pander to special interests you can't raise enough money. But here, we found out the campaign is very spontaneous and volunteers are coming," he said.

Is Ron Paul's fundamental message the grass roots of the original Republican Party?
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 07:07 PM
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1. the grass roots of the original Republican Party was opposition to slavery n/t
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 07:08 PM
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3. That's true...
But soon they were co-opted by the 19th century version of the DLC...
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 11:23 AM
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16. Actually it was northern mercantilism.
And always has been, in one form or another.

The principle backers of the GOP have always been the big banks and corporations.

Everyone else has been an addition of convenience.
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cuke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 07:07 PM
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2. No
it's the fundamental message of the wingnuts
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Tejanocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 07:26 PM
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4. His message is more classically "conservative" than any of his rivals
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PollM Donating Member (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 07:31 PM
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6. Ron Paul
That's my point.

Going back to what the party stands for, spending what we have. Fiscal policy is no longer on anyone's plate. It seems that every thing is insignificant because they tend to think in terms of percentage of GDP.
Now it's all about who panders to special interest groups. If he had the looks he would be further along.

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Tejanocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 11:34 AM
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17. Ron Paul = Barry Goldwater 2.0
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brazos121200 Donating Member (626 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 07:26 PM
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5. Ron Paul preaches the same libertarian message and appeals to
same people as Barry Goldwater did back in the 60's. He represents what the Republican Party was before Reagan and later the neocon radicals took it over. Don't look for Ron to have any real chance to get the nomination, he is there strictly for laughs, as far as the Repub powers that be are concerned.
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James Delinis Donating Member (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 08:06 PM
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7. Paul's supporters are terrible people...
...who conspiracy theorize because they don't have the gumption to take politics seriously. I bet if Eric Harris were alive he'd be a Ron Paul supporter.
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PollM Donating Member (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 10:30 PM
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8. Ron Paul
Can you explain why?
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Naturyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 08:05 AM
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14. Making the subject of all your posts simply "Ron Paul"
Plus a very low post count and an apparent support for Paul suggest to me that you're a shill.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 10:48 PM
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9. The Republican party is a coaltion of various groups on the Right
You got the Ron Paul fan club of populist Libertarians, Larry Kudlow-like "the Market is God" Libertarians, right-wing religious fundamentalists, the "there's an Islamofacist hiding under the bed" crowd of pro-war folks, a shrinking number of Nixonian Republicans (e.g. Olympia Snowe), as well as hybrids of these various groups and others which I'm forgetting.

None of them can really claim to be the grass roots more than any other.
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-07-07 11:12 PM
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10. Since Ron Paul is big on "states' rights", then no
Edited on Wed Nov-07-07 11:12 PM by Anarcho-Socialist
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Naturyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 07:28 AM
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11. Ron Paul's economic message is the grassroots of evil. n/t
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 08:01 AM
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12. Ask 43% of DUers...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3688155&mesg_id=3688155
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Naturyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 08:03 AM
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13. That poll is apalling. n/t
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 01:09 PM
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18. It's a poll that illustrates to me...
It's a poll that illustrates to me that we have far fewer progressives on this board than I had previously thought.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 01:14 PM
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20. I think most people would ignore idiotic polls like that.
More troll bait than a real poll.
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Armstead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 08:09 AM
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15. Yes.
Edited on Thu Nov-08-07 08:10 AM by Armstead
Before Jerry Falwell et.al. made a deal with the devil, the GOP didn't really care about social issues,except in a libertarian "leave me alone" sense.

The type of "leave the markets alone" economic libertarianism is what grass roots Republicans believe in. Unfortunately, what happens is that markets are then allowed to follow their natural inclinations, which leads to corporatization and monopolization.

That's a basic problem with Paul's brand of economic libertarianism. It sounds good in theory. But unregulated free markets move from balanced accountability into consolidation and unaccountable corporate fascism.

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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 01:12 PM
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19. No--he's his own animal. And a wackadoodle.
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