Comments on: Three Cheers for Three Percent? http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/ Sat, 6 Sep 2008 23:41:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: marty http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-119111 marty Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:40:55 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-119111 Draft Ron Paul Pat Buchanan for third party run http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pn6hqIPe4o http://www.digg.com/politics/Draft_Ron_paul_And_Pat_Buchanan_to_run_third_party Draft Ron Paul Pat Buchanan for third party run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pn6hqIPe4o

http://www.digg.com/politics/Draft_Ron_paul_And_Pat_Buchanan_to_run_third_party

]]> By: Bill K. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-117661 Bill K. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:44:00 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-117661 12:41 What is Ron Paul hiding? Where is the device? Is he the device? Is he trying to prevent the hero John McCain from winning? Answer dammit! 12:42 12:41

What is Ron Paul hiding? Where is the device? Is he the device? Is he trying to prevent the hero John McCain from winning? Answer dammit!

12:42

]]> By: Bill K. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-117652 Bill K. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:32:44 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-117652 Oh yeah those "Red Commie bastards" they are out to conquer the World you know! Socialists have nothing to do with it. It is the "capitalists" who buy the votes for people like McCain. Oh yeah those “Red Commie bastards” they are out to conquer the World you know!

Socialists have nothing to do with it. It is the “capitalists” who buy the votes for people like McCain.

]]> By: Bill K. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-117647 Bill K. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:31:30 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-117647 It might have something to do with his time working at Langley. It might have something to do with his time working at Langley.

]]> By: Eugene Costa http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-115562 Eugene Costa Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:51:24 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-115562 Unless one considers prosecuting criminals "personal, pointed, and negative", one has very little idea what you might mean. Indeed, informing the public about impeachment, and actually carrying it through, seem to me to be not only singularly educational enterprises, but also more constructive than losing a presidential bid. Curiously enough, polls suggest that impeaching Cheney immediately is also what a vast majority of the electorate wants. Paul might actually win many more votes moving in this direction, and perhaps not even lose his bid. So my perplexity. Why has Paul not come out strongly for impeaching Cheney and why has he not made impeachment a central part of his campaign? Moreover, I criticized Kucinich on the same score, though he did make it an item at least, and also had already acted in bringing the motion before the House. Unless one considers prosecuting criminals “personal, pointed, and negative”, one has very little idea what you might mean.

Indeed, informing the public about impeachment, and actually carrying it through, seem to me to be not only singularly educational enterprises, but also more constructive than losing a presidential bid.

Curiously enough, polls suggest that impeaching Cheney immediately is also what a vast majority of the electorate wants.

Paul might actually win many more votes moving in this direction, and perhaps not even lose his bid.

So my perplexity.

Why has Paul not come out strongly for impeaching Cheney and why has he not made impeachment a central part of his campaign?

Moreover, I criticized Kucinich on the same score, though he did make it an item at least, and also had already acted in bringing the motion before the House.

]]> By: Fascist Nation http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114932 Fascist Nation Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:15:40 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114932 Paul's campaign approved commercials all suck! I wish his campaign would hit his anti-war, economic and civil liberties positions exclusively and hard. Take the extreme position so you don't have to cover ground later. Unfortunately, behaving like every other campaign staff, they are afraid of costing Paul votes. Preserve that three percent by not going after the 10 to 30% of Republicans who oppose the war, oppose the Patriot Act, think Bush is a juvenile yet dangerous tyrant and know the fiscally conservative Republicans are anything but. Feb. 1st is another Ron Paul money bomb. Besides preserving that 3% you guys sure have given past donors little to be happy with where their money is going. I doubt you will see ever $2 million. Let Paul be Paul. And if you lack the guts to roll the dice, step aside. There are plenty of ironed assed individuals in the R3VOLution who still remember this is about getting Paul's messages out. Paul’s campaign approved commercials all suck! I wish his campaign would hit his anti-war, economic and civil liberties positions exclusively and hard. Take the extreme position so you don’t have to cover ground later. Unfortunately, behaving like every other campaign staff, they are afraid of costing Paul votes. Preserve that three percent by not going after the 10 to 30% of Republicans who oppose the war, oppose the Patriot Act, think Bush is a juvenile yet dangerous tyrant and know the fiscally conservative Republicans are anything but.

Feb. 1st is another Ron Paul money bomb. Besides preserving that 3% you guys sure have given past donors little to be happy with where their money is going. I doubt you will see ever $2 million. Let Paul be Paul. And if you lack the guts to roll the dice, step aside. There are plenty of ironed assed individuals in the R3VOLution who still remember this is about getting Paul’s messages out.

]]> By: Will http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114411 Will Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:54:42 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114411 Correction: He was completely shut down, not "I" I wasn't there. Correction:
He was completely shut down, not “I”

I wasn’t there.

]]> By: Will http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114408 Will Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:52:11 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114408 Although every time he spoke, pure gold came out, yesterdays debate was a blow the the RP campaign. I was completely shut down by AC 360 (should be AC 180 after yesterday's show). Hand it to Huck who, even though was ignored less than RP, he spoke out about it. He did so at every opportunity. RP just took it. He waved his hand a couple of times to get permission to speak but the AC kept on ignoring him. RP should have been a lot more assertive. Anyway, if RP can't be 4th tomorrow in Maine. He needs to pass at least one or two of the other 3 stooges and win some delegates. on the side. Today I am disappointed in AAAAnold. Although every time he spoke, pure gold came out, yesterdays debate was a blow the the RP campaign. I was completely shut down by AC 360 (should be AC 180 after yesterday’s show).

Hand it to Huck who, even though was ignored less than RP, he spoke out about it. He did so at every opportunity.

RP just took it. He waved his hand a couple of times to get permission to speak but the AC kept on ignoring him. RP should have been a lot more assertive.

Anyway, if RP can’t be 4th tomorrow in Maine. He needs to pass at least one or two of the other 3 stooges and win some delegates.

on the side. Today I am disappointed in AAAAnold.

]]> By: notthewayiwoulddoit http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114374 notthewayiwoulddoit Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:11:44 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114374 No one can complain this election cycle that we didn't have good choices available. The voting public has chosen Empire. Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel supporters need to get together to iron out a tolerable governing policy that they all can live with. I think on many issues they see the same problem but have different solutions. We need to use entertainment (such as Indie films) to de-construct the Fox 24ish world view peddled by Bush, Hillary and the rest of the imperial criminal gang. We need to make interventionism a slur, something to be shunned like people have been taught about isolationism. No one can complain this election cycle that we didn’t have good choices available. The voting public has chosen Empire. Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel supporters need to get together to iron out a tolerable governing policy that they all can live with. I think on many issues they see the same problem but have different solutions. We need to use entertainment (such as Indie films) to de-construct the Fox 24ish world view peddled by Bush, Hillary and the rest of the imperial criminal gang. We need to make interventionism a slur, something to be shunned like people have been taught about isolationism.

]]> By: Bob http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114321 Bob Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:50:17 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114321 The ads I've heard are terrible. Ron Paul needs to get right to the heart of the matter. When he mentions the federal reserve he needs to ask the question --- where does a dollar come from?, and then answer it. He has been tenative on this. He then needs to ask McNuts, Mitt, and Huckleberry to tell the people where THEY think a dollar comes from. (Huckleberry's plan for a federal sales tax CAN'T work because the federal reserve needs a tax on income.) The good Doc needs to explain this. Not in an epistle, but in a 30 second sound bite, which he can do. As for the empire, the Doc needs to hammer away at why the US is everywhere --- to protect the private interests of the corporate elites. When the others talk about "energy independence" the Doc should laugh at them to their faces. The reason the US has these bases is to protect the foreign interests (energy) of these elites. Did anyone else notice how clueless McNuts was when Ron Paul asked him an economics question at the Faux News debate? Had it been anyone other than the MSM pet, that candidate would have been run out of the campaign, al a Howard Dean. We need ads that address the specific problems that the US is facing today. The ads I’ve heard are terrible. Ron Paul needs to get right to the heart of the matter. When he mentions the federal reserve he needs to ask the question — where does a dollar come from?, and then answer it. He has been tenative on this. He then needs to ask McNuts, Mitt, and Huckleberry to tell the people where THEY think a dollar comes from. (Huckleberry’s plan for a federal sales tax CAN’T work because the federal reserve needs a tax on income.) The good Doc needs to explain this. Not in an epistle, but in a 30 second sound bite, which he can do. As for the empire, the Doc needs to hammer away at why the US is everywhere — to protect the private interests of the corporate elites. When the others talk about “energy independence” the Doc should laugh at them to their faces. The reason the US has these bases is to protect the foreign interests (energy) of these elites. Did anyone else notice how clueless McNuts was when Ron Paul asked him an economics question at the Faux News debate? Had it been anyone other than the MSM pet, that candidate would have been run out of the campaign, al a Howard Dean. We need ads that address the specific problems that the US is facing today.

]]> By: jack http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114282 jack Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:53:05 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114282 Amen Clifton keep running now and third party later,hopefully with Pat buchanan as VP. Amen Clifton keep running now and third party later,hopefully with Pat buchanan as VP.

]]> By: J. Clifton http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114222 J. Clifton Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:53:13 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/01/30/three-cheers-for-three-percent/#comment-114222 ASSUMING Paul is not going to be elected or that yours is the only 'real' position because you say so, is not and argument, just your opinion. Paul is actually in the best position to expand the visibility of his candidacy, via spending his cash on commercials (his competitors are too broke to do so), while riding the Republican race for a few more months until he BECOMES a household word (which he isn't now). By spring, either we're on our way to a brokered convention, or McCain (or Paul) will have won enough delegates. At that point, he can run 3rd party instead of, or in addition to seeking the GOP nomination. This should lead to Paul getting at least Perot-like numbers in the election, if not an outright victory for the antiwar cause. ASSUMING Paul is not going to be elected or that yours is the only ‘real’ position because you say so, is not and argument, just your opinion. Paul is actually in the best position to expand the visibility of his candidacy, via spending his cash on commercials (his competitors are too broke to do so), while riding the Republican race for a few more months until he BECOMES a household word (which he isn’t now).

By spring, either we’re on our way to a brokered convention, or McCain (or Paul) will have won enough delegates. At that point, he can run 3rd party instead of, or in addition to seeking the GOP nomination. This should lead to Paul getting at least Perot-like numbers in the election, if not an outright victory for the antiwar cause.

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