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The Restore America Now budget proposal.

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The Restore America Now budget proposal.

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No2statism posted on Sun, Sep 23 2012 8:41 PM

Weren't there a few things in that were un-Austrian (like the inclusion of assumptions about GDP)?  It seems like he didn't have anything to do with it.

Also, which campaign was more directed by him or were they equal in the amount they were directed by him?  I contributed to his 08 campaign and supported him since the first Republican debates in early 07, but he seems like he changed since last time.  It seems like more of his campaign emails were ghostwritten this time while it seemed like he wrote more of them before C4L  At the same time, his 08 campaigners made him seem more paleoist than I think he makes himself out to be... this campaign seemed (to me, at least) much more cosmopolitan.  I would've thought Jack Hunter would've been less involved in this one.  Why was that?  I just realized that there is too much that I missed even though I contributed to both campaigns, followed his ideas, and have been a Facebook group member of his campaign near where I live... even though I should've participated I didn't because I felt like I was too dumb to do anything good and I didn't want to embarrass myself in person in front of more people than I already have and still do.

I was (and still am) pissed at Romney and the Republicans, but now I'm just feeling sorry for Dr. Paul and amazed how the latter actually put up with it.

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No2statism replied on Sat, Sep 29 2012 8:48 AM

Bump... because I'd love to know how and why the campaigns are different or at least be told where to look. 

That said, they really didn't like me at the ronpaulforums and I believe having an active account there is necessary to access a lot of it... that LibertyEagle guy really didn't understand what the Federalists meant because the first rep I got was from him and bad because he told me to go trash the Constitution elsewhere (even though I think I gave a good enough reason for a so-called LibertyEagle to realize he should not like the current supreme legislation).   I also think I was too pro-liberty for a lot of them as well as the fact I made a thread saying I believed Dr. Paul was like a god may have been what got me permabanned from there after like only a month of being there... although I am now realizing Dr. Paul is not perfect even the reason I think he is not very little fault of anything he could help... perhaps he isn't an anarcho-capitalist because he became more of a gradualist over time ... also, he does have a little bit of faulty reasoning like when he wrote (I think anyway) that the "1st Amendment is inherently undemocratic", as it can be somewhat democratic depending on whether democracy is defined as rule by the people or if it simply means majority rule... finally he made it sound like he believed the Federalists' constitution required unanimous consent for first amendment rights to be taken away.  All of that said though, he was tremendously well educated and intelligent before he took office, unlike Johnson who isn't even that educated or intelligible on liberty himself.

I think I am also kind of starting to understand where Clayton is coming from about the elites/TBTP... there was a reason why the elites hated Dr. Paul and didn't promote any more consciously non-pandering "moderate" Republican.  I think the GOP was definitely manipulated and we saw how easily Cain was destroyed by the MSM, although that was mostly due to the MSM's viewers ignorance... I mean, weren't the elites really actually "fair" to Bill Clinton and wasn't Cain kind of funny and also a joke anyway?  Obama is not definitely going to win though, because TBTP may not even be on his side or they could change in a heartbeat.

EDIT:  Sorry if I turned this into a discussion but my question still stands and is far more important to me as of now: )

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