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T H E T E R R Y R E P O R T 2012
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Facts first, logic always, truth before everything
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Ron Paul is kind of the un-candidate. He’s the candidate you love if “integrity” is more important than what he is actually saying. He’s the candidate you love if you want to hear that things are simple, they can be straightened out with a few, bold strokes and things will start to be fine again.
Paul has no chance of being elected president. The only way I could imagine it is if he were a third party candidates and the Republican and Democrat candidates somehow or another canceled themselves out in the stupid Electoral College vote totals. Otherwise, Paul is out there to try to make people feel good, to give them something to believe in and to cause trouble for the more establishment candidates. He is a protest candidate, a protest against the status quo. If he were to get elected by some miracle, he would collapse the American super state down to the size of Argentina or Brazil and some people would think this would be a good idea, until they lost their jobs and found that most of the people around them had lost their jobs, too.
We have a bunch of Republican radicals running for president calling themselves conservative. What Ron Paul proves is that someone younger, better spoken and with a touch of moderation in some of his views could actually be elected president on some kind of libertarian platform, even though it is in no danger of happening this year.
2.16.12
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From an NY Times profile of Ron Paul:
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But for the silver hair, the baggy eyes and the grandchildren, the 76-year-old man running for president today, carrying the torch for a gold-based currency, agitating to “end the Fed”, €ť warning of threats to personal freedom and prophesying imminent economic collapse, is almost indistinguishable from the Ron Paul of half a century ago.
Supporters and detractors often marvel at his consistency since entering politics in 1974, citing it as evidence of either levelheadedness or lunacy.
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