<p>Obama won the democrats in Iowa! Yay!</p>
<p>Ron Paul got 10% in Iowa.. in a state where 70% of voters support Bush and 60% are evangelical. 3rd place was a tie of 13%</p>
<p>not too bad</p>
<p>It’s an uphill battle</p>
<p>Let’s see what New Hampshire brings</p>
<p>Ron Paul is not going to win…Mark my words</p>
<p>Anyway, NH will be interesting</p>
<p>It just bothers me that Obama is seen as the candidate of change, yet John Edwards is more progressive on almost every issue. Is Obama considered a change candidate, because he is black? I sure hope not. I like Obama, but compared to Edwards, it isn’t even close in my opinion. </p>
<p>He is a fighter, while Obama is just talking about a vague vision and lots of ideological hope.</p>
<p>Edwards puts it best:
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<p>And John Edwards is magically above this?</p>
<p>“Ron is the way to go. What’s wrong with him?”</p>
<p>He’s pro Gold Standard.</p>
<p>He wants to abolish the IRS, FEMA, The DoE, HomeSec, and the Federal Reserve.</p>
<p>He wants to withdraw from the UN, NATO and the WTO.</p>
<p>He’s Anti-Abortion and wants Roe v Wade overturned.</p>
<p>He’s Anti Same-Sex Adoption.</p>
<p>He wrote [this</a> piece of ****.](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_the_People_Act]this”>Political positions of Ron Paul - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>He wants to issue Letters of Marque.</p>
<p>He opposes birthright citizenship, in direct contravention of the constitution.</p>
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Uhmmm…Yes when he refuses money from lobbyists and spent his professional career protecting Americans against the greed of the insurance companies.</p>
<p>Huckabee scares me. Obviously NO woman would EVER want an abortion. Obviously NO woman would choose to not have a baby. We’re all 5 year olds who were manipulated by doctors. He’s a joke.</p>
<p>flowers and 3am’s, that’s because Huckabee is a southern Baptist minister. They’re all crazy like that (I know, I live in Alabama and am constantly surrounded by them). He scares me too. Ron Paul scares me more though, because of all the reasons GrumFrum listed. </p>
<p>wilmingtonwave, I like John Edwards too! I would definitely vote for him for president as well. I just like Obama better, is all.</p>
<p>I’m going to vomit if I have to listen any more to Edward’s populist diarrhea about “his father” and “the mills.”</p>
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<p>i’ll admit certain tenets of ron paul are ludicrous - for instance, the ‘return to the gold standard’ etc - but if you look into his ideology, you’ll see it’s motivated by a singular cause - to maintain the sanctity of the constitution and bona fide federalism.</p>
<p>i don’t have time to respond to each individual claim, but for example - his insistence on withdrawing from the UN, the WTO, NATO, etc are ultimately beneficial. a non-interventionist foreign policy is necessary to allow some semblance of american soft/hard power to return. honestly, the UN is kind of useless. and it’s not as if we’re a bastion of multilateral cooperation, either. same goes with the WTO/NATO - they’re not beneficial to the united states as a whole. there are other means to the same ends.</p>
<p>I’m 100% behind Ron Paul. His understanding of the issues and his personal integrity are second to none.</p>
<p>It’s time we return to that thing we now only read about in History books-The Constitution.</p>
<p>Romney '08.</p>
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<p>How is it that Obama can use his blackness and Clinton can use her status as a woman to her advantage?</p>
<p>Edwards is a self made man, there is something to be respected in that. I he is going to finish ahead of Hilary in NH which will leave the race to Obama v. Edwards.</p>
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<p>Never stated that I was fine with them using those aspects as an advantage. By the way, Obama sure as hell does not beat you over the head with the fact that he is black. It is the media that puts so much focus on it.</p>
<p>Anyway, I – who am not a populist – am certainly more irritated when I listen to this man, Edwards, in every damn debate and speech tell the SAME story about “the mills” in that god-awful Southern drawl – the SAME story he told in '04.</p>
<p>We get it, Edwards. You made something of yourself despite your humble origins. Here is a cookie. Now be quiet.</p>
<p>Huckabee in the primary, but definitely a Republican in the November election.</p>
<p>Face it, the republicans are setting themselves up for a defeat by nominating anyone other than Ron Paul.</p>
<p>In a country that is 70% anti-war, how can a pro-war candidate win, especially John McCain, who wants us to be in Iraq for 100 years (I don’t see how that is possible without a draft)</p>
<p>I’m a libertarian at heart so I am compelled to go for Ron Paul. What we disagree on is minor compared to the big picture we ultimately have as a vision for this nation.</p>
<p>Until Michael Bloomberg (I) formally/finally announces his candidacy (I am so praying that he will), I most likely will be voting for John McCain. For a while, it was a toss-up between McCain and Mitt Romney; among other things, I completely agree with McCain’s stance on the Iraq War, but at the same time I think Romney’s superb and proven business experience would do our economy wonders. Regardless, unless Bloomberg moves in, I will vote Republican.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t understand John Edwards’ claim that he would “protect the future of the middle class”: this is the man who pays $400 for a haircut and makes $800,000 to make a speech about poverty in America. He could not possibly be more removed from the middle class or lower class. Rarely does one find a politician so astonishingly out of touch with reality.</p>
<p>I voted for Ron Paul in the Primary Election. I support his bid for the Presidency.</p>