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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 03:56 PM
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Poll question: Ron Paul is a "good" Republican?
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 03:57 PM
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1. define "good"
:shrug:

Loyal to his party?
Loyal to true Republican principles?
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 03:59 PM
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2. "Good" as in policies...n/t
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 04:02 PM
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4. Some are good - some are VERY bad. n/t
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Mark E. Smith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 04:01 PM
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3. I don't get this Ron Paul interest here
He's a Republican.

Isn't that bad enough for you?
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 04:05 PM
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5. I was told he was a "good" republican in another post..
I just wanted to see if there were others who felt that way. I vote that there's no such thing.
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 05:08 PM
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11. Unlike Kucinich, he gets credit for being against the war all along
I guess ol' Koochy doesn't count because he's a Democrat. :shrug:
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Hydra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 04:07 PM
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6. He embodies the idea of the gov't in the bathtub
I don't like repubs, but right now the gov't is so big and so invasive that I would support that idea if it was the only way to put a stop to spy satellites looking at us.
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 04:12 PM
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7. The only good Republikkkan these days is. . .well, you know.
:evilfrown:
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 04:28 PM
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8. "Good" really isn't the best word, "reasonable" is more accurate.
He's one of the few republican politicians left that one can find to be a nice, well-meaning person even though one doesn't agree with him on the issues.
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Andrewthedecent Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 04:28 PM
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9. He is honest
That puts him ahead of 99.99% of politicians.
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 04:31 PM
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10. Where is the "Ron Paul is bat shit crazy" option?
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 05:09 PM
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12. Ron Paul is a libertarian
when will people get it?
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 05:12 PM
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13. I think many know it but he's a registered Repub.
;)

He may be right on Iraq but the rest of his platform is scary!! :scared:
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Snarkturian Clone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 05:49 PM
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14. I believe there's such a thing as a good republican.
When I saw that option in the poll I thought to myself, "well, can I think of any?" and I can. The MST3K folks. They've made me laugh thousands of times and I owe them for it. Doesn't make a difference to me that they're RWers.

Another one I can think of is one of my bosses. He's a black republican (something I was told doesn't exist by some users here) and he's a pretty good man, and he's definitely a RWer (spoke to Bush on the phone twice since I've known him. Bush visited my workplace in 2006 but I didn't work there then).
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 05:57 PM
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15. Abraham Lincoln was a good Republican.
Ron Paul wouldn't have fought the Civil War. At least not on the side of the Republic.

Fuck him.
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