Thread: Ron Paul on the Issues

Attack/Expose Romney AND Obama!

Submitted by ronpaulpeace on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 13:44
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At the same time

Both are sponsored by the same people. Both will carry out the same agenda.

Both are liars!

Polls show Ron Paul beats Obama.(with near zero media coverage!)

We are not fighting the GOP or the democratic party.

We are fighting the establishment that ruins this country and the whole world for their benefit!

< Attack and Expose Romney/Obama wherever we can >

WE need to do it. The campaign should do it too!

A Debate Obama vs. Romney:

Romney- Your campaign is funded by a pack of leeches that are bleeding this country dry!
Obama- Yours is funded by the same people! (Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup, JP Morgan, ect)

Romney- You support taxpayer funded bailouts (TARP)
Obama- So do you!

Romney- You support the 'patriot' act!
Obama- So do you!

Romney- You support never-ending war!
Obama- So do you!

Romney- You support the indefinite detention of American citizens without due process!
Obama- So do you!

Romney- You support assassinating American citizens without due process!
Obama- So do you!

Romney- You support government takeover of healthcare!
Obama- So do you! In fact, we modeled our plan after yours!

Romney- I never said my plan would be good for the nation!
Obama- Ummm… that's not what you said on Meet The Press (and several other places)

Romney- You support increased gun control laws!
Obama- Didn't you sign a ban on semi-automatic weapons? Hello pot, my name is kettle!

Romney- You are completely out of touch with ordinary Americans!
Obama- Says the guy who has an elevator for his cars.

Romney has no chance against Obama. Ron Paul has..

Please come up with ideas how we can attack Obama AND Romney at the same time!

This will win us the majority of americans and Ron Paul the power to Restore the country!


Attack/Expose Romney AND Obama! | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012

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rEVOLution in Louisiana, Alaska and Beyond

As encouraging news continues to come out of states like Minnesota, Iowa and other places, we now learn that Ron Paul has won the Louisiana Caucus.

We also learn that the Alaska GOP’s new chair and co-chair are Ron Paul supporters. From Alaska Dispatch:

This weekend, it was the young, sometimes bedraggled but always politically strident and not always so polite, supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul who were certain that if they were in charge of the party, Alaska and the country would be a better place.

And now they’ll get their chance to prove it.

After at least 12 years of the Alaska GOP being run by what those party newcomers call “establishment Republicans,” a new force is taking over:Alaska Republicans voted Russ Millete as the party’s new chairman and Debbie Holland-Brown as co-chair. They are both supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Writes Charles Mahtesian at Politico:

Despite a disappointing third place finish in the March 6 Alaska caucuses, Ron Paul is looking like a winner there: A Paul supporter was voted in as the new GOP chairman Saturday at the state convention.

It’s more evidence of the political maturation of the Paul forces, who are beginning to seize the levers of powers from within state parties.

This is happening all over the country folks. We’re becoming a significant part of, and in some cases we’re taking over, the Republican Party.

I have said many times that no matter what else happens this year, Ron Paul and his movement will be the most important and enduring force to emerge from the 2012 election.

I’m already right, and this is only the beginning…

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Brokered Convention Likely With Paul As Nominee

Romney Nomination in doubt – Brokered Convention likely

April 24, 2012. Des Moines. Two networks yesterday, CNBC and MSNBC, broadcast a little known fact – Ron Paul appears to be winning the Republican nomination for President. When the popular Texas Congressman repeatedly assured supporters that the race was about delegates, not beauty contests, he apparently knew what he was talking about. Now, after three more states locked in delegates to the GOP nominating convention – CO, MN and IA – indicators point to a brokered convention with a possible, even probable, Ron Paul victory.

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appears to be piling up enough delegates to force a brokered convention.

Mitt Romney in a panic

The only report announcing the news of another Paul victory yesterday was the Doug Wead Blog. That write-up, which included the headline, ‘Romney in a Panic’, was picked-up and reprinted by a number of independent news outlets like RT News and The Daily Paul. Wead’s conclusion is based on a number of factors. First and foremost, Ron Paul continues to win more delegates than Mitt Romney during each state’s respective slating processes. Additionally, the writer points to drastic, last-minute changes to GOP procedure showing an attempt to limit the Paul vote. Some measures include a new poll tax in Washington and robo-calls in New York telling Republican voters that only Mitt Romney remains in the race.

What has the GOP power-brokers and their candidate in such a panic? In three short words – Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa.

Keep in mind that every major US news outlet continues to show Texas Congressman Ron Paul in last place for the GOP nomination and with only 75 delegates. View Politico's delegate tracker as an example. They show Rep. Paul winning 3 delegates in Colorado, 17 in Minnesota and 1 in Iowa. Those networks however, have based their numbers on which candidate each state’s delegates are pledged or likely to vote for. The more important number is who they actually do vote for. And in that race, the only race that matters, Ron Paul is shocking the political world.

Colorado
As reported by this author last week in the article, ‘Colo, Minn, GOP Delegates chosen – Paul Strategy Working’, the local Colorado Ron Paul campaign teamed up with the remnants of former candidate Rick Santorum’s supporters. Together, they created a fusion slate of delegates to take on front-runner Mitt Romney and throw their collective voting power behind the last challenger remaining, Ron Paul.

Last week, the Paul campaign sent out a press release quoting the Denver Post’s headline proclaiming, ‘Stunning Upset’. The Post was referring to Congressman Paul’s delegate haul in the state party’s selection process. More importantly, the Colorado selection was the first to be conducted since former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum dropped out of the race, leaving it to the final two men standing – Mitt Romney and Ron Paul.

The result, and a possible indicator of things to come, was Colorado Republicans refusing to give Mitt Romney even half their state’s voting delegates. If that trend continues, Mitt Romney cannot mathematically reach the needed 1,144 delegates, at least not on the first ballot.

This author pointed out last week that most of the national media, as well as the Colorado GOP, refuse to acknowledge Rep. Paul’s delegates in Colorado. The state party simply calls Paul’s delegates, “unpledged”. As the Paul campaign, as well as a small handful of other publications pointed out – Ron Paul actually took home 12 Colorado delegates, compared to 16 for Mitt Romney and 8 for Rick Santorum. Together, the anti-Romney delegates outnumber Romney’s 20 to 16.

Minnesota
The independent-leaning state of Minnesota was one that many thought Ron Paul might win outright. While the candidate didn’t win the “beauty contest” as Paul calls it, the libertarian conservative is cleaning up with regard to delegates. Minnesota’s delegate selection process is one of those that happens over the course of a few weeks and occurs locally, as Ron Paul puts it, “one precinct at a time, one delegate at a time.”

A few days ago, the Paul campaign and this author both announced the candidate’s surprise delegate haul in Minnesota. At the time, three major Congressional districts locked in their delegates and Ron Paul carried all three. In the excited words of the candidate himself, Ron Paul exclaimed, “Have you heard the news yet? Yesterday, Minnesota held three district conventions. Our campaign swept all three – winning nine delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa.” Again, read this author’s April 16th column titled, ‘Colo, Minn, GOP Delegates chosen, Paul Strategy Working’ for more information.

Now, just a few days later and with another block of Minnesota GOP delegates being chosen, Ron Paul has guaranteed himself a victory in the state. As confirmed by Rachel Maddow last night and by Ron Paul himself while he was the special guest host of CNBC in the morning, Ron Paul has already locked in 20 of the state’s 40 delegates. 16 of those 40 still remain to be chosen and will be awarded over the coming days. As Paul announced yesterday, and Maddow confirmed last night, 24 Minnesota delegates were chosen through this weekend and 20 of them are Ron Paul’s.

Iowa
In the most stunning and unbelievable example of the Republican Party’s dysfunctional Presidential nominating process this year, the state of Iowa now has its third official winner. As humorously noted last night by Maddow, Newt Gingrich is the only candidate not to have won Iowa.

First, Mitt Romney was forced into the winner’s circle in a crazed, midnight, backroom announcement, even though the votes didn’t warrant it. Whiteout Press was one of the only media outlets in the nation to write about the faulty vote totals and was vindicated two weeks later when the Iowa GOP reversed its decision and awarded the victory in Iowa to Rick Santorum. Read the Whiteout Press article 'Sandorum Won Iowa and didn't say Black' predicting the reversal two weeks before the Iowa GOP reversed its ruling. As a result of the fiasco, the Iowa Republican state chairman resigned. Read the article, ‘Midnight Chaos at Iowa Caucus’ for election night details.

Nothing sums up this weekend’s surprise results like Rachel Maddow’s on-air announcement on MSNBC, “I think Ron Paul just won Iowa.”

The left-leaning political anchor was referring to this weekend’s official awarding of Iowa GOP delegates to the party’s national nominating convention. While the state party has yet to post the results or make any announcement, the results are trickling out on their own, including the Paul campaign and on-air comments on CNBC and MSNBC. Those results show Ron Paul winning the most Iowa GOP delegates, including the new Iowa state party Chairmanship.

Iowa has 28 total delegates to the GOP nominating convention. The national media still shows Ron Paul with only 1 Iowa delegate however. Watch closely over the coming days as the state party quietly changes its totals to show Ron Paul going from 1 delegate to 14 - a full 50 percent of the state’s entire delegation to the nominating convention. And again, many of the remaining delegates are party leaders, elected officials and other super delegates who have yet to assign their votes.

Romney in trouble
The only good news for Mitt Romney is that Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado weren’t the former Governor’s strongest states to begin with. And while the Romney campaign may not be in “panic” mode just yet as some independent reports are suggesting, the candidate and his establishment backers must be concerned. With Mitt Romney failing to capture even half of the delegates from these initial states, he is on course to fight it out for the party nomination at a brokered convention this summer.

The Warren Harding lesson
Many political observers, not just within the Ron Paul campaign, are calling the Texas Congressman’s nomination plan the ‘Harding Strategy’. Referring to the 1920 Republican nominating convention held in Chicago, Warren Harding was at the bottom of a list of 12 potential GOP nominees. Unable to unite behind one candidate during the primary process, the delegates were forced into a brokered convention.

Through the first 6 rounds of delegate voting, Harding didn’t even finish in the top three during any of the votes. But by the 10th vote, Warren Harding walked away with the Republican nomination. He went on to win the general election and become President.

While many political analysts are calling Ron Paul’s current journey a mirror image of Harding’s 1920 trek, others aren’t quite convinced. As the Paul campaign itself continues to point out, only half of the states have voted so far. Nothing’s been decided yet. If nothing else, just when the Republican leadership and the national media have proclaimed Mitt Romney the GOP nominee, Ron Paul’s string of delegate victories this week may force them to do what they were forced to do in Iowa – admit they’re wrong.

Whether or not the Texas Congressman can duplicate Warren Harding’s stunning upset on the way to the White House is another question. But if delegate selections continue on the course they’re on, Mitt Romney will not have enough delegates to win the nomination outright. If that turns out to be the case and the GOP heads into a brokered convention, Ron Paul may have the party right where he wants it. A brokered convention has been his strategy all along.

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Romney Nomination in doubt

Attack Romney/Obama with "Taste Test" amongst average republicans

Attack Romney/Obama with "Taste Test" amongst average republicans


Now imagine a booth set up with multiple topic choices on a large screen behind the booth like "Guns", "health care", "gun rights", "energy", "bailouts".

Joe Republican steps up to the booth to find out what it's about...

Operator: "Hello, sir, welcome. We've set up an experiment, a philosophical taste test for republicans, to help guage the direction of the party. Which topic on our board here would you say is most important to you?"

J: "Hmm. Health care."

The operator shows two quotes labeled option A and option B on the screen under health care. Joe doesn't know who the quotes are from, but he's very likely to notice the "options" are nearly identical and both distasteful regarding universal health care.

Operator: "Which of these options would you say you find most attractive?"

J: "What is this? Neither. Where's the republican?"

Operator: "Sorry sir. These might be your only options. Mitt Romney or Barrack Obama.".

The operator reveals the quote source on the screen and pauses to let the info sink in.

In the ad you show a montage of these quotes and reactions, then you show the second part of the experiment.

O: "Well, there is another choice."

Operator reveals Options A, B, and C.

J: "There. Option C... Who is that?"

O: "Sir, that is Ron Paul."

Operator reveals all three quotes on the screen. The same reveal and reaction for each topic.

End of ad.

Let’s Win Arkansas: Anonymous Donor Donates $1,500, now raised to $2500! My donors are FIRED-UP by our results in LA.

Submitted by Dr.K.Research on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 22:25
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Arkansas

Great news: I have a guarantee of $2,500 to use for SB mailings in Arkansas. The money kicks in WHEN we match it. My donors are FIRED-UP by our results in LA. Let’s show them what we can do and match their funds quickly.

More could be coming!!

I know a lot of people in Arkansas who are pro-Ron Paul, including several owners of health food stores. Let's combine mailings with canvassing and calls. With Santorum out of the race, we can open even more eyes.

After hitting the streets all over the country, I am convinced about one thing. It’s that if you show enough Americans about Dr. Paul’s message, you will win plenty of converts.

Let’s use one of our most powerful tools, the Super Brochure, to win the upcoming states. We can win Arkansas. We just have to combine the canvassing, with direct mail, and, finally, confirming the vote. So, let's get out the vote through direct mail--buy your precincts, now:

Arkansas Super Brochure Mailings are up | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012

We also have the tools, now, to confirm the vote. That kicks our strategy up another notch. We can get out the vote AND make sure it counts.

So, calling all Arkansas voters and activists, make sure you get those votes recorded in the most powerful way possible, with a signed affidavit:

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Vote, but also count the vote. Absentee and early voters, go get your affidavit notarized and upload it to the site.

So, buy any precincts you can afford. Then, post your matching donations, here. As soon as it hits $1500, the other kicks in: $3000, unbelievable!!

See also this post on the DP: “Dr. K…one of the biggest reasons Schuyler County hit #1 in New York State with 30% of the votes was the thousands of Super Brochures that you sent.”

This group did a combo of mailings plus canvassing.

Note: see also this latest research showing positive effects of this direct mail piece in CT, which is impressive considering the media black-out, Super Brochure results for Connecticut

For those who may still have some question about the effectiveness of direct mail for Ron Paul see these two DP posts:

BREAKING NEWS: Super Brochure Turns Out the Vote: Proof | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012

BREAKING NEWS: Super Brochure Turns Out the Vote: Proof | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012

UPDATE: $1500.00 in mailings have already been purchased, so the other $1500 will kick in. You'll see it on the ticker. Now, we have to match another 1K to get those matching funds. We have been promised $3000 more, generously, from our friend in Canada and his relative. If that kicks in, that makes $5500 already: incredible!!

Let

Steve Forbes: Romney should listen to Paul on Monetary Policy



I don't think Steve Forbes supports Ron Paul for President (He suggests he should run for Chairman of the Fed instead of President). But he does admit he is the best candidate when it comes to Monetary policy! And frankly, I respect Forbes opinion when it comes to economic issues, but I could care less what he thinks about foreign policy or social issues. So I viewed his comments as a positive.

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Weekend Listening - Ernest Hancock Destroys Mark Potok Of The Southern Poverty Law Center

Submitted by vincebodie on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 13:58 Daily Paul Liberty Forum

Wow, Ernie lays it all on the line in this interview!
- If you're against what the gubmit is doing you're racist! (drones killing innocent people, wars on raw milk and organic farms, spying on everyone via the governet, etc.)
- If you're against using force to create your desired outcome, you're evil!
- If you're against being put on a list for your views, you're obviously guilty!
And so on... GREAT interview Ernie! Potok runs away with his tail between his legs before the interview is even over!
04-03-12 -- Mark Potok - Patrick Byrne - (MP3 & Video Loaded)

(click the yellow "Play" button)

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