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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:03 PM
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Ron Paul is doing surprisingly well, he has 11%, much higher than the polls placed him.
The best part of that is that the total fascist, Rudy Giuliani, is only at 3%! HAHAHA!

He's doing even worse than Paul!
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:04 PM
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1. If he comes in 4th, he can participate in the NH debate, I think. nt
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ORDagnabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:05 PM
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2. is there a link? thanks
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:06 PM
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3. Good, that will freak out the Puke establishment.
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:11 PM
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4. He's the choice for the far-right
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:17 PM
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5. and left
anti-war gop.
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:29 PM
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8. The anti-war GOP is not necessarily "left"
being against the Iraq War is not necessarily a left position, it depends on the ideological justification.

For example, some anti-war GOPers are foaming-mouth xenophobes and anti-Semites and put the war down to a plot by "Da Joooos"

For Ron Paul, his opinions on the war are part of a wider ideological worldview which hinges on isolationism and withdrawal from multi-state organisations such as the United Nations. In his view, US revenue is best spent by eliminating taxation on the wealthy, eliminating social services, and using the security state to establish Christianity as government policy and enforce a severe social conservatism onto the US' people.

Ron Paul supporters are a mixture of the fascist right, economic right-libertarians who feel unaffected by his scary social agenda, and voters susceptible to right-populist messages who give him a pass on his social agenda due to him being a "maverick".

Paul's anti-neocon stance should not be taken as a good thing either. Paul's version of christo-fascist mercantilism is not necessarily better than monopoly-market neoconservatism.
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 10:07 PM
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9. well, vs bushlite/dlc
gop left could just mean anti-drug war.:shrug:
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RL3AO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:18 PM
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6. He was expected to do better than the polls.
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demo dutch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 09:23 PM
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7. Shows you that polls are complete BS!!
Edited on Thu Jan-03-08 09:23 PM by demo dutch
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