POLL: Should Ron Paul Ignore Obama’s Attempt To Remove Him From The Upcoming Debate? « RunRonPaul.com

POLL: Should Ron Paul Ignore Obama’s Attempt To Remove Him From The Upcoming Debate? « RunRonPaul.com - Trevor Lyman, Aug. 31, 2011:

"Obama has requested a joint session of Congress to deliver a speech on the economy and jobs. The problem is the President has chosen the day of an important and long planned Republican Presidential debate for the session. Obama’s actions would effectively remove Ron Paul and Michelle Bachman from the debate by forcing their attendance to the joint session and making it impossible for them to attend the debate. Some say this is a transparent and shameful tactic on Obama’s part to play politics with the political process.

"Ron Paul is mulling over his options. What do you think he should do?"...

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Why Does Ron Paul Scare You? - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic

Why Does Ron Paul Scare You? - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic Aug. 23, 2011:

Every presidential candidate inspires voters to ask themselves, "If this person is elected, what's the worst that could plausibly happen?".... So I got to thinking. What's the worst thing that could plausibly happen if Ron Paul wins?...

"Don't ask why I chose him. It's obvious. The idea of him in the White House makes a lot of the people reading this post uneasy. Despite my libertarian sympathies, there is even a part of me that has always felt, without ever having thought it through, that putting Paul in the White House would be the biggest gamble of all the possible candidates running in the GOP primary. His tenure might have tremendous upsides: zero imprudently launched wars, a resurgence of civil liberties, more transparency. But he's also a radical who wants to see more fundamental change than any other candidate, he is least beholden to the political establishment, which constrains the behavior of conventional pols, and we've never seen him operate as an executive....

"What's the worst that Ron Paul could do? Try to get America back on the gold standard, only to find that he doesn't have the votes in Congress to do it? I am not just being funny. Though Paul has some radical domestic policy ideas, I just don't see any of them getting passed into law. And in foreign policy and national security matters, the areas where he would exercise the most unchecked discretion, he is the candidate you'd least expect to unwisely provoke or launch a war."

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/why-does-ron-paul-scare-you/243987/
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New book on Ron Paul 2008 campaign.

Billionaire to build new countries at sea

Billionaire to build new countries at sea | The Sun | News - Carl Stroud:

August 25, 2011: "PayPal founder Peter Thiel is funding a project that intends to create new societies governed in a radically different manner from conventional states.

"The communities would be run according to libertarian ideals and be housed on gargantuan ocean platforms ... a 'kind of floating Petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage and few restrictions on weapons'.

"Thiel, 43, who is worth an estimated $1.5 billion — or £910 million — has given £763,000 to the Seasteading Institute planning to build the floating nations.

"The institute is run by Patri Friedman, the grandson of Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman."

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3774868/Billionaire-to-build-new-countries-at-sea.htm


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Ron Paul still critical of US involvement in Libya | Deseret News

Ron Paul still critical of US involvement in Libya | Deseret News - Kevin Freking, Associated Press:

Aug. 28, 2011 - "Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul said Sunday the apparent overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya does not justify U.S. involvement there.... Asked on 'Fox News Sunday' whether getting rid of Gadhafi was a good thing, Paul conceded that it was but added that Gadhafi's departure did not mean the long-term result would be good for the United States. He said that getting rid of Saddam Hussein was also good, but that the long-term result in Iraq has not been a success for the U.S....

"'We have no idea of what's going to come out of Libya. I'm very skeptical,' he said....

"Paul's disdain for government interaction continued with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has worked to help people along the East Coast deal with Hurricane Irene....

"'FEMA has been around since 1978. It has one of the worst reputations for a bureaucracy ever,' Paul said. 'You can't imagine how many calls we get because FEMA is getting in the way and they can't get their checks, they can't get their bailout.'"

Read more: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700174435/Ron-Paul-still-critical-of-US-involvement-in-Libya.html

The Next Debate’s Convenient Qualifications Threshold

The Next Debate’s Convenient Qualifications Threshold - By Katrina Trinko - The Corner - National Review Online:

Aug. 25, 2011 - "The Politico/NBC News debate had an interesting threshold for qualifying candidates: They must be at 4 percent in one of eight national prominent polls of Republicans taken since November 2010....

"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, and Rick Santorum qualified to participate in the September 7 debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Thad McCotter, Buddy Roemer, and Gary Johnson did not qualify....

"Huntsman? Well, his campaign must be breathing a sigh of relief that the threshold was exactly 4 percent because the highest Huntsman has ever been in a reputable national poll is . . . 4 percent.

"In fact, among the polls conducted by Politico and NBC News’s approved pollsters, he’s achieved that rank only once: earlier this month in a CNN/Opinion Research poll.

"But if Politico/NBC News wanted to make sure even the candidates lagging in the polls currently got included, why 4 percent instead of say, 3 percent?

"Maybe because in a May Gallup poll Johnson got 3 percent.

"Apparently, not all of the lagging candidates are considered equally worthy of air time. "

Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275552/next-debates-convenient-qualifications-threshold-katrina-trinko#
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Obama 39%, Paul 38% - Rasmussen Reports™

Obama 39%, Paul 38% - Rasmussen Reports™:

Aug 23, 2011 - "The president and the maverick are running almost dead even in a hypothetical 2012 election matchup.

"Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul earns 38% of the vote to President Obama’s 39% in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters. Fourteen percent (14%) like some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) remain undecided.... Just a month ago, Obama posted a 41% to 37% lead over Paul....

"Paul, [who has] long run afoul of the GOP establishment with his libertarian policy prescriptions, picks up 61% of the Republican vote, while 78% of Democrats fall in behind the president. Voters not affiliated with either of the major political parties prefer the longtime congressman by 10 points – 43% to 33%."

Read more:  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/obama_39_paul_38
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Johnson mingles in Concord | Concord Monitor

Johnson mingles in Concord | Concord Monitor:

"Johnson is about halfway through what his campaign is billing as a 'marathon' nine-day visit to New Hampshire. He spent the weekend on the Seacoast and Monday in the North Country.

"Yesterday, he spoke to the [Concord] Rotary, dropped by Castro's Back Room in downtown Concord and visited with State House Speaker William O'Brien. He finished the day in Loudon....

"Dozens more events are scheduled before he leaves the state Sunday, including another trip to Concord for a forum at NHTI tomorrow night. Such long trips are necessary for Johnson, who has been barred from recent debates because of low poll numbers and who is competing against a broad field of candidates with more money and more name recognition."

Read more: http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/275357/johnson-mingles-in-concord?

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