Oh, Ron Paul was going to lose?

hsmith · 11-08-2006, 12:29 AM

Not with 64% of the vote he isn't

CNN.com - Elections 2006

Ardentfrost · 11-08-2006, 01:03 AM

Who said he was going to lose?

hsmith · 11-08-2006, 01:07 AM

just thorgrim

Ron Paul in re-election trouble

AVengeance · 11-08-2006, 09:50 AM

Ron Paul- a TRUE PATRIOT! Yay!

lew · 11-08-2006, 10:01 AM

I was just wondering if he was going to win.

I'm so happy.

Scrum · 11-08-2006, 10:04 AM

Is this the libertarian in the Republican party?

lew · 11-08-2006, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

Is this the libertarian in the Republican party?

Yes.

He is an excellent paleolibertarian. He posts on lewrockwell.com

Scrum · 11-08-2006, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by lew

Yes.

He is an excellent paleolibertarian. He posts on lewrockwell.com

Glad he got reelected.

The Republicans need more people like him.

It's a shame he doesn't run Libertarian though. It would be good exposure for the party.

lew · 11-08-2006, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

Glad he got reelected.

The Republicans need more people like him.

It's a shame he doesn't run Libertarian though. It would be good exposure for the party.

He used too. He ran for President for the LP in the 80s.

However, he saw he wasn't getting elected and he also didn't like some of the direction the LP was going under "neolibertarians." So, he went back to Republican. But he's still very much a "small l" libertarian.

AVengeance · 11-08-2006, 01:19 PM

Libertarian-conservatives like him need to take the republican party back from the borrow-and-spend neocons running the show now.

Thorgrim · 11-08-2006, 01:43 PM

I said he was in trouble, if you looked at my house forecasting thread you'd see he wasn't even on the 3rd/4th tier list, things changed

I didn't feel the need to make a big post saying "rumors i suggested might have a chance later no longer seem probable"

after losing in TX-22, at least libertarians have a quasi-victory in keeping Ron Paul as someone who shuns the libertarian party label, and now he can bask in minority status

Ardentfrost · 11-08-2006, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by Thorgrim

I said he was in trouble, if you looked at my house forecasting thread you'd see he wasn't even on the 3rd/4th tier list, things changed

I didn't feel the need to make a big post saying "rumors i suggested might have a chance later no longer seem probable"

after losing in TX-22, at least libertarians have a quasi-victory in keeping Ron Paul as someone who shuns the libertarian party label, and now he can bask in minority status

I don't see Ron Paul staying in congress as a win for libertarians, I see it as a win for personal liberties. He supports libertarian ideals, but I'm happy with ANYONE who does that, no matter what party they're a member of.

Maybe you think the big L's want a lot of political power (like the dems and reps), and perhaps they do... but any little L isn't about that. Any method that succeeds in reducing federal power a A-OK in my book.

Thorgrim · 11-08-2006, 01:51 PM

I think they want some voices (plural) in Congress

I can't imagine any Libertarian on this board saying it wouldn't be a huge goal to gain seats in Congress to change the way the US government works from the inside, rather than just making newsgroup posts

Anyway, TX-22, an ultra-conservative district, had a DEMOCRAT that was brand new and unknown how he'd really vote, and then a Libertarian, and thats basically it...you had to write in for a republican with a hyphen that people didn't even know that well

EXCELLENT shot for the Libertarians, they should have won that race by 20pts

The Libertarian, 2nd on the ballot, got 6% of the vote, Lampson (D) got well over 50% of the vote

Sad, if thats the best the liberarians can do, looks like another 10 years of political irrelevancy in Congress

Ardentfrost · 11-08-2006, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by Thorgrim

I think they want some voices (plural) in Congress

I can't imagine any Libertarian on this board saying it wouldn't be a huge goal to gain seats in Congress to change the way the US government works from the inside, rather than just making newsgroup posts

Anyway, TX-22, an ultra-conservative district, had a DEMOCRAT that was brand new and unknown how he'd really vote, and then a Libertarian, and thats basically it...you had to write in for a republican with a hyphen that people didn't even know that well

EXCELLENT shot for the Libertarians, they should have won that race by 20pts

The Libertarian, 2nd on the ballot, got 6% of the vote, Lampson (D) got well over 50% of the vote

Sad, if thats the best the liberarians can do, looks like another 10 years of political irrelevancy in Congress

I'll admit I'd like to see some libertarians up in congress eventually, but I don't see how that's going to happen before libs get more involved at the state level. That should really be the focus for now (and the point of the free state project, for one).