My longshot prediction for the 2012 presidential election: Ron Paul will be the Republican candidate for president
2011 Apr 26, 6:21am 8,811 views 37 comments
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CL
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2011 Apr 29, 6:32am
Wonder how that happened? With his name sounding all French-y. :)
Suppose Ron Paul becomes POTUS.
How long will it take before he becomes co-opted by the Very Serious People (=the corporatist Republican establishment)?
Most of the tea party has been coopted already.
Tell me I’m wrong….
I'd say before the 3rd primary.
terriDeaner
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2011 Apr 30, 6:39am
An interesting quote from a recent nytimes article:
Republicans Are Pursuing a Wider Field for 2012 Race
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/us/politics/01republicans.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The party lacks the establishment-anointed candidate that has led it into every presidential cycle for decades.
HousingWatcher
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2011 Apr 30, 10:05am
Mitt Romeny has a very slim chance of becoming the nominee. I only see him getting the nomination if something devestating comes out about Pawlenty at the last minute.
And no mention of Mitt Romney is complete without a link to a RomneyCare article:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/2011_0412romneycare_a_big_bust/
HousingWatcher
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2011 Apr 30, 10:11am
Nah… I don’t think this will work. He’s a long-established member of the NY financial elite and lives in a gold plated penthouse for crying out loud!
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If it were not for the Time Warner Center in the background, I would have mistaken that photo for one of Saddam's palaces.
HousingWatcher
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2011 Apr 30, 10:14am
The scariest words in the English language:
"This is President Trump. Give me the launch codes."
terriDeaner
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2011 Apr 30, 4:19pm
And no mention of Mitt Romney is complete without a link to a RomneyCare article:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/2011_0412romneycare_a_big_bust/
Nice...
FortWayne
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2011 May 1, 9:41am
i'm saying these quotes are reasonable. attack by the left is a false interpretation of them.
Those blacks that were rioting were pillagers and looters, the only thing that stopped them were hand outs and Koreans with guns. only reason my dads store did not get ransacked was because he had a dog with a loud bark and a shotgun. The same mentally sick (mostly blacks) people that were rioting back then are the same kind that go rioting and pillaging every time Lakers win a championship.
The liberal hit job is when they try to take that reality and make it sound like it is being addressed toward all the blacks that exist when we all know it's not the case and that the statement is only meant for those who are guilty as charged. It's what the ultra left does, takes sentences out of context and plays them to extreme to prove a point.
Vicente
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2012 Feb 26, 1:39am
Folks on these forums have really bad track records when it comes to making predictions.
To be fair, it was qualified with LONG SHOT not dead certain "why can't the rest of you dolts see how obvious the outcome is".
elliemae
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2012 Feb 27, 11:12am
Folks on these forums have really bad track records when it comes to making predictions.
I knew you'd say that.
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Ron Paul is scheduled to announce his formation of a Presidential Exploratory Committee today.
As much as I am loathe to discuss politics these days, I just couldn't resist! Besides, we're not that far off from the 2012 presidential campaign so increased levels of political discussion are inevitable.
Ron Paul Explores, World Reacts
http://reason.com/blog/2011/04/26/ron-paul-explores-world-reacts
And I think his David-and-Goliath bit with that 'Wall Street dandy' Trump will only help to ratchet up his popularity. Especially since Trump is most likely going to go out Perot-style once he's forced to publicly confront everyone he's ever screwed on real estate for the past 40+ years.
Although Paul is not currently the most popular Republican candidate (this varies poll to poll... with Romney currently in the lead... maybe?), there was a head-to-head poll (Paul vs. Obama) done by Rasmussen 2 years ago that put them both at ~41%:
Is Ron Paul Neck in Neck With Obama in 2012?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002497-503544.html
Note, don't read too much into this article, as Nate Silver demonstrated that Rasmussen showed a detectable Republican bias some time ago:
Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/rasmussen-polls-were-biased-and-inaccurate-quinnipiac-surveyusa-performed-strongly/
So is anyone else game? Intrade has Ron Paul pegged at 3.0% for the Republican Nominee in 2012 (For comparison, Trump is at 9% and Romney is at 25.8%):
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=669534
This will make for some great political theater... and C'mon now... even if he could get elected president, he won't REALLY dissolve the Fed!
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