new poll shows 4-way tie as ron paul moves into the TOP tier
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57324938-503544/new-poll-shows-4-way-tie-in-iowa-as-ron-paul-moves-to-top-tier/ not youtube CBS news!!!
The Stupid Party Prepares to Lose Again
"There is the stupid party. And there is the evil party. I am proud to be a member of the stupid party." — attributed to Sam Francis.
As the Baloo cartoon indicates, Obama has made an outrageous mess of things, and just about anybody should be able to beat him, right? All a Republican candidate has to do, really, is keep pointing out Obama's screwups and make it clear that the Republican will be different. Or even indicate that he'll just tone down the screwups and mess things up in a more moderate fashion than Obama has.
But don't count the electoral votes just yet. There's one overwhelmingly big issue that the Republicans can crash and burn on, and that's yet another stupid war, this time with Iran. Now, before you rush to tell me, I've very well aware that Obama's running even more wars right now than Bush ever managed, but that doesn't matter. The MAG (Media, Academia, Government) remains solidly in the Obama camp, and they will continue to portray him as a peaceful, moderate guy, despite all his military adventuring, and portray the Republicans as the guys who start evil wars. And the Republican candidates seem to be trying to prove them right. They've been falling all over each other, each trying to sound more belligerent toward the world in general and Iran in particular than all the others. Their reaction to the flap about Netanyahu the Liar is instructive. Israel, or the people currently in charge of it at least, would love for us to cripple Iran for them so they can continue to do whatever they damn please in the region without worrying about going too far and getting seriously attacked.
Now, I don't know if Newt or Romney or any of them really give a damn about Iran and its alleged nuclear weapons plans, but they certainly give a damn about the money and media influence of the Israel lobby. And that seems to be more important to them than the concerns of rank-and-file Americans. So will they sacrifice themselves, their party, and ensure four more years of Obamugabe out of their fealty to a foreign country.
Oh, there's an exception. Ron Paul, who thinks any American military action should be in the interest of America, and not Israel or Paraguay or Kosovo or whoever, pointedly does not participate in all this armchair generaling. He thinks the Middle East should work out its own problems, and we should use our energy and resources to work out our own. And that's why I remain a Ron Paul supporter, no matter how much the liberals and neocons trash him.
And, as is so often the case, Pat Buchanan feels pretty much the same way I do about all this. Read his latest on the subject HERE or HERE. Or even HERE.
And, tangentially, some comments on this by Jerry Pournelle.
now before you go off half cocked, just remember who the GOP put up against obama in 2008. Seriously did anybody really believe McCain had a snowballs chance!!! Be honest with yourself on this. So with that said, do you want to see the GOP repeat history and turn a one term president into a two term president!!! Now, you can continue to believe the media, but ron paul has a huge following from across the party spectrum, he has libertarians, third parties, democrats and the most are republicans(he his a republican). So if he ran as a libertarian he would lose the republicans who refuse to vote outside their party(like team bully) even if the republican is the worst choice. who do you have besides paul, flip flopping romney, try to touch their goodies cain or I can't remember what I'm going to do in office(if he's already forgetting his campaign promises what chance is there he'll remember them in office) and they 're all saying about the same thing, war, spending and debt!!!!( because you can not have a war with out spending and since the government does not have it's own cash flow it has to take it, make it or borrow it! Really how much more debt, spending and borrowing can this nation handle!!!! millions of jobs and homes lost! when will it stop, when will we stop our imperial ways and focus on fixing America!!!
