Political Theory

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

John James — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:30:46 GMT

In the comments of the previous link you posted, hence "favorite comment", immediately following your post.

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

Wheylous — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:15:54 GMT

JJ, where does that quote come from?

More Johnson evidence:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/20/johnson-to-run-as-libertarian-party-candidate/

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

John James — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:22:13 GMT

Favorite comment:

"I have to tell you that the Libertarian convention is kind of awesome to watch on CSPAN. It is this amazing mix of Wall Street types, bikers, potheads, professional gamblers, militia types, professors, cowboys- a real freakshow in a lot of ways."

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

Wheylous — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:15:43 GMT

There are more recent articles about it...

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

John James — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:08:57 GMT

Well if you notice, I originally linked to one. You could have just said "no."

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

Wheylous — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:51:07 GMT

If you do a search for "Johnson libertarian switch" you can find some articles, though it appears that he might be slightly reconsidering the decision to switch.

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

John James — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:13:10 GMT

Wheylous:
Johnson I think has already switched to Libertarian.

Do you have any proof of this?

You can't just say "oup...nevermind. I'm Libertarian Party now." There's kind of this matter of paperwork, and FEC filings. I'm not so sure how easy it is to just switch parties...although it could be much easier than I think.

I see no mention of this on his website or his campaign page on Wikipedia. The closest I found is this mention that he'd consider it.

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

Wheylous — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:43:57 GMT

Johnson I think has already switched to Libertarian. Huntsman won't drop out, imho.

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

Aristophanes — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:12:35 GMT

Paul will gain support when Huntsman and Johnson drop out (or move parties) maybe 3 or 4%

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

Wheylous — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:21:55 GMT

Paul has been important, imho, to beginning to audit the Fed. Plus, remember that the House doesn't have filibuster or he might be using it all the time.

You think Gingrich would limit the size of govt? Nah. Perhaps on the surface, but all the juices would remain there. Bush was supposedly conservative but allowed the bailouts through. Plus, Medicare, wars, etc. You know, you've gotta keep your old people happy. They do, after all, vote for you.

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

Eric080 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:50:23 GMT

I love the conservative line about how, "reality will force its hand" when it comes to foreign policy. If only those peace candidates had the information that the public service angel Barack Obama does, he would figure it all out that we really do need to do all of the nasty things we've done in the past. The funny thing about this hypothesis is that it is completely unfalsifiable. Because it's "in the interest of our national security," we could never have the access to the facts that they supposedly do. So technically they could do anything they wanted to if the people didn't analyze the specific instance of behavior for criticism. I think it's safer to ask questions about our "national security" than it is to assume they are angelic disinterested figures merely looking out for us.

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

Wheylous — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:47:01 GMT

Do you support Paul?

Also, I am not sure about comparing RP to a confederate war general :P

Re: Ron Paul speculation question

Wheylous — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:18:43 GMT

If only Paul could get at least half of Huntsman's supporters.