Brent Budowsky
I agree with some things Paul says, and disagree with others, but the truth of the matter, politically, is that his agenda has moved center stage and his people are highly motivated and this is a serious movement that is underestimated and misunderstood by Washington insiders.
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Give Ron Paul a Nobel Peace prize.
Aristotle on November 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Uhhh..no.
Itchee Dryback on November 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Don’t encourage them, I have enough trouble fending off the panhandling bums.
Bishop on November 3, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Nope.
SG1_Conservative on November 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM
About the last person I could think of as having any input into tonights election.
fourdeucer on November 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM
New polling today has Rand Paul taking the lead in the Kentucky senate race today.
link to Kentucky polling
Spathi on November 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Ron Paul’s entire economic platform should be adopted by the GOP. It won’t be, but it should.
thphilli on November 3, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Put down the Crack Pipe, what an idiot
jp on November 3, 2009 at 9:28 PM
If he`s the real winner, then we`ve actually lost.
ThePrez on November 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM
the Left would love to try to make this narrative true, if they could get the mainstream of GOP to adopt his idiocy it would be the best thing ever to happen to the Dems/Socialist.
could absolutely cream the fruitcake if they ever choose to
jp on November 3, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Maybe and quite possibly SP but absolutely not RP.
fourdeucer on November 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM
You don’t quit; I’ll give you that.
notropis on November 3, 2009 at 9:33 PM
I love Dr. Paul!!!, as a treasury secretary.
abobo on November 3, 2009 at 9:33 PM
The Ron Paul kooks make as much logical sense as crack smokers.
Django on November 3, 2009 at 9:37 PM
which isn’t a narrative the MSM wants to have going.
jp on November 3, 2009 at 9:37 PM
RON PAUL!
RINO in Name Only on November 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Pookie is writing for The Hill now?
LibTired on November 3, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I’m sure the American people will fall behind a guy who wants to shoot the board of governors of the Federal Reserve but apologize to the Iranian mullahs.
I exaggerate but only slightly.
SteveMG on November 3, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Unless the MSM is now Alex Jones.
fourdeucer on November 3, 2009 at 9:44 PM
peski on November 3, 2009 at 9:47 PM
WTF!?! How so?
abobo on November 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM
RON PAUL IS THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT!
He is America’s hero.
Ron Paul is the closest thing we have in America to a REAL HERO and a TRUE CHRISTIAN LEADER like Vladimir Putin!
Ron Paul 2012
The only man who can save America!
MaximusConfessor on November 3, 2009 at 9:51 PM
The real winner of the 2009 elections: Humpbot
Django on November 3, 2009 at 9:52 PM
The tea party message is essentially ron paul’s domestic agenda (barring drug policy of course).
ernesto on November 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM
What, you mean he wouldn’t actually apologize?
OldEnglish on November 3, 2009 at 9:58 PM
I think we should apologize for overthrowing the Iranian government and installing a dictator.
Spathi on November 3, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Jesus, dude, quit inhaling all that crystal meth while you still have a brain.
Percy_Peabody on November 3, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Ron Paul is the only Republican who excites my Lefty, conservative-hating friends. What else needs to be said?
Kensington on November 3, 2009 at 10:05 PM
No, he’d just shoot half the board.
SteveMG on November 3, 2009 at 10:05 PM
MaximusConfessor on November 3, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Coming from the guy who thinks Ayn Rand got her ideas for Atlas Shrugged from the Satanic Bible…though AS was published 12 years prior.
Yeah. You’re a smart one for analysis. But if YOU JUST PUT EVERYTHING IN CAPS IT PROVES YOU’RE RIGHT!
Idiot…
catmman on November 3, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Clinton and Albright already made the admission of our involvement.
In return, the Iranians continued to kill Americans.
SteveMG on November 3, 2009 at 10:12 PM
“Clinton and Albright already made the admission of our involvement.
In return, the Iranians continued to kill Americans.”
They didn’t apologize though we just acknowledged so a formal apology from the president would be better. We need to stop threatening the Iranians.
Spathi on November 3, 2009 at 10:19 PM
It’s not my problem that you are semi illiterate/dyslexic..
I said that Ayn Rand and Anton La Vey were great “buddies”, that they worshipped together and that the Satanic Bible is almost a word for word copy of Ayn Rand’s books.
It’s a FACT.
Ayn Rand was a satanist. Deal with it.
MaximusConfessor on November 3, 2009 at 10:19 PM
This is crazy.
Ron Paul was not a leader in any means on the conservative front.
ckoeber on November 3, 2009 at 10:25 PM
The Mullahs in Iran don’t hate us because we restored the Shah.
It’s not the US government that organizes protests calling for the “Death to Iran.”
You do know those IEDs killing our people in Iraq and Afghanistan were, in part, supplied by the Iranians?
SteveMG on November 3, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Rand Paul will win Kentucky and help send the Neoconservatives back to their caves where they belong.
He’s make an excellent president candidate too.
Spathi on November 3, 2009 at 10:33 PM
SteveMG,
We overthrew their elected government in 1952, and Bush was threatening to invade them for regime change.
Don Rumsfeld wanted to invade 7 countries in 5 years….but it didn’t go as smoothly as he had imagined.
Spathi on November 3, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Not according to the Church of Satan!
abobo on November 3, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Tom Woods of Mises Institute graduated from Harvard with Trey Grayson. He’s no fan either.
Rand is out fund raising the GOP establishment finally. Mitch McConnell may regret his attempt to get rid of Bunning.
Be careful what you wish for Mitch!
Spathi on November 3, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Paul, loser. Bye Paul.
Coronagold on November 3, 2009 at 10:39 PM
The Mullahs don’t give a damned about Mossadegh or his removal. His political party has been oppressed and arrested by the Mullahs since they came into power.
The record of the Iranian regime since 1979 killing Americans and other citizens started long before Bush came to power. Israelis, Egyptians, Frenchmen, British, Jordanians..on and on….
Bush threatened to remove the regime because the regime has been waging war on their neighbors and our allies through proxies.
Look, you think the Mullahs are the aggrieved party here. I don’t.
SteveMG on November 3, 2009 at 10:41 PM
SteveMG,
No I think Bush is a terrorist.
Spathi on November 3, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Rand Paul will win the senate seat in kentucky. Then the American people will have a grand total of six honest and patriotic politicians in congress.
Imagine that, 6 true patriot politicians representing OUR American interests out of 535 members total.
Amazing!
MaximusConfessor on November 3, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Yeah, we know that already. Terrorism is, of course, the deliberate targetting of violence against innocent civilians in order to obtain political goals.
It’s always interesting reading the “history” lessons of Paul supporters. It’s always a recitation of what the US does but never what the other parties do.
It would be like reading a history of the Civil War and reading about the actions only of the North. Or only of the South.
Good day.
SteveMG on November 3, 2009 at 10:49 PM
It’s very disturbing that in a time of fiscal insanity and rampant liberal socialist characters running amok, conservatives would so hate a man whose fight has been for fiscal restraint, lower taxes, and small government. You’d think he’d be a hero on hotair especially with the contempt for big spending liberal RINOs. Yet, the narrative here, at least the majority of the posters who comment on any thread containing his name, is that he is some odious character. I can expect that from the Left. I don’t expect it from the right.
keep the change on November 3, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Attack of the Ronulans!
Rode Werk on November 3, 2009 at 10:58 PM
The real winner is Sarah Palin.
GunRunner on November 3, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Rand is already ahead in the polls, and we’ve barely even started fundraising.
There’s a big one in two days: Remember the 5th of November
The Dean on November 3, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Beirut 1983. Now go be an ignorant jack-a$$ somewhere else.
jdkchem on November 4, 2009 at 12:41 AM
We overthrew a Democratically elected Iranian government to make them live under a dictator who tortured his people into compliance (Bush likes torture too), and we armed Saddam with WMD to use on Iranians.
I can see why they don’t like us.
Spathi on November 4, 2009 at 12:49 AM
The real Ron Paul
jdkchem on November 4, 2009 at 12:50 AM
You’re an idiot and a liar.
jdkchem on November 4, 2009 at 12:51 AM
“You’re an idiot and a liar.”
How so? We know Shaw tortured and dominated the Iranians after the CIA overthrow their Democratically elected government just like Bush likes to torture Iraqis and sheep herders and taxi drivers and whoever else ends up to find their way into his prisons.
Spathi on November 4, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Dude, betcha there’s not an Iranian alive today who isn’t begging to have the Shah back! (except for the mullahs, of course).
The Shah might have been rough on his political enemies, but he couldn’t hold a candle to the butchers of the current régime who will hang you on a crane for being “homosexual.”
And no one-No one-has ever provided real proof that our CIA was involved in the Mossadegh coup.
As for your babbling about Bush, here’s a news flash: Bush is out of office.
Meanwhile, The One has increased renditions and Gitmo is still open for business (Thank God!).
Ron Paul is a Jew-hating Neo-Nazi loon and I’m sure his son isn’t any different.
I hope Trey Grayson gets the GOP nod to run for the Senate in KY.
Jenfidel on November 4, 2009 at 1:22 AM
ron paul may have his head on straight fiscally but he is the worst kind of isolationist leftard on everything else, and i mean EVERYTHING.
homesickamerican on November 4, 2009 at 2:04 AM
I would vote for Benny Hinn before I voted for Ron Paul.
daesleeper on November 4, 2009 at 2:15 AM
Jenfidel,
Really? So let’s leave them alone and let the Iranians decide that instead of invading for a DICK Cheney style regime change.
Erick Erickson of Redstate just tweeted I am all in for Rand Paul.
Spathi on November 4, 2009 at 2:32 AM
R
They need a régime change–badly.
If we find out they have nukes and/or hold them responsible for waging war on us, which they’ve been doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, we should at least bomb them real good, but President Hussein Chamberlain won’t do it…
I don’t hold much for Red State.
Not a compelling endorsement for me.
Nice try, you Stormfront moron.
Jenfidel on November 4, 2009 at 3:01 AM
Jenfidel,
I oppose any Stormfront crap as does Rand Paul. I know you like calling people names who you disagree with like the Littlegreenfootballs website, but most people can see through these ad hominem attacks.
Spathi on November 4, 2009 at 3:06 AM
Jenfidel,
Trey Grayson was a Democrat in 90’s, and was a Clinton delegate for the Democrat presidential election. He crossed over because he thought he could get elected easier as a dem.
You’ll love him.
Spathi on November 4, 2009 at 3:10 AM
Yo Spathi, what’s up man. Getting late, look – even if we were to grant your points, how does fighting yesterday’s enemy keep us alive today? I totally agree with Dr. Paul that military spending, like all spending, must be sut if we are to survive. This we can agree on. I also feel its unwise to champion tough belt-tightening measures for the folks while the Pentagon (big gov) rakes it in. But, the very real levels of waste and fraud in our armed services doesn’t mean that our threats aren’t also very real. And why Iran instead of Native Americans? According to the US Constitution and many legally binging treaties, about 70% of the lower 48 landmass is there’s. Want to make that one up? And its not a diversion, many Indians still want it back and have a case to be made.
abobo on November 4, 2009 at 3:11 AM
It’s the same sinister politics by the modern-day NeoCons. One thing Paul has in common with Ronald Reagan is pushing a message of optimism, while his opponents use hate and divisive politics.
The Dean on November 4, 2009 at 3:12 AM
Dr. Paul is dead on with regards to so much, but he needs to not be so dismissive to the fears of base conservatives. Even if he is correct their all brainwashed by fear mongers, how does stating so bluntly without any sensitivity to very real fears that he claims were manufactured help his cause? Sometimes, style is as important as substance.
abobo on November 4, 2009 at 3:16 AM
48% hey?
I haven’t followed exactly what we owe them, but I bet a lot of U.S. is national Parks. They have that, and it won’t bother me none.
Spathi on November 4, 2009 at 3:21 AM
Well then I guess you win. Night dude, turn the lights off when you’re done.
abobo on November 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM
Ron Paul is a Constitutional illiterate, economic ignoramus and a supporter of the United Nations war against the Jews as evidenced by his vote on the Goldstone Report yesterday. He does not understand any relevant Constitutional history and his theories have no basis in logic or facts. People that support him do it only from emotion and not intelligence or logic, plus there is always room for Jews haters like Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan in American politics
georgealbert on November 4, 2009 at 5:58 AM
catmman on November 3, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Anyone who considers Putin to be a great Christian leader, is not to be taken seriously.
But then ConfessorMaximus and his earlier incarnation, StOlaf have already proven that.
MarkTheGreat on November 4, 2009 at 8:12 AM
This from the guy who declares that all Jews are going to hell, as is anyone who isn’t a member of the Orthodox church.
Your view on reality is suspect.
MarkTheGreat on November 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Actually, anyone who is NOT aware of the fact that Vladimir Putin is a great Christian leader and has a 90% approval rating in Russia, has been living in a cave and is woefully ill informed. Dude you need to take your head out of the sand and realize that the world is a lot bigger than lubbock texas or wherever you are from.
Vladimir Putin is an Orthodox Christian.
Vladimir Putin has made the Orthodox Church the official religion of Russia again.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia teaches Orthodox Christianity in the schools.
Christians have more freedom and protection in Russia than they do in America. That is a Fact!
Putin charged atheists who made an “art” exhibit desecrating the image of Christ, with insulting the religion of Russia.
Putin stops a gay parade in Moscow.
Thankfully most people around the world are NOT as ignorant as you and actually do some research before saying ignorant things.
What is this a joke or are you in your own weird way trying to insult all Christians? There is not a Christian on earth who does not believe that you don’t need the MESSIAH to be saved!
MaximusConfessor on November 4, 2009 at 9:12 AM
The only way that anyone will be saved is by Jesus Christ the Incarnate God and Messiah!
If you reject Jesus Christ you will go to hell. PERIOD.
MaximusConfessor on November 4, 2009 at 9:17 AM