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Has Ron Paul Quit?

Lally Singh sends us to the inside-the-Beltway blog Wonkette for a quick take on a letter Ron Paul sent to his supporters. In this analysis, Dr. Paul has basically called it quits. "Late Friday night, Dr. Congressman Ron Paul posted a letter to his fans basically saying it's over, but he will continue talking about his message, and plus it would be completely embarrassing for him if he also lost his congressional seat."

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  1. Re:Real summary. by Surt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In polls, Obama is better against McCain than Hillary. Apparently the racists are even more sexist.

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  2. Goodbye Slashdot, I quit. by Mazrim_Ta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've been reading Slashdot for many many years. But that all ends today after this post. To have Slashdot quote wonkette of all biased sites on a story like this... its ridiculous. I give up. Slashdot has been a troll-haven forever now (they just proved it by linking Wonkette) and is usually 2 weeks behind digg with the news, so there is no longer any point of wasting my time here.. Peace out.

  3. Re:The complete letter... by ksalter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One less fool in the running...up next - the Huckanator and his half brain!

  4. Re:The complete letter... by that+this+is+not+und · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It would be excellent if he now got drummed out of Congress, too.

    Equally so if the other Senators who spending their term in office to run for President lost their seats, too.

    We don't elect and then pay Senators and Congresscritters to run for higher offices.

  5. Re:Real summary. by webmaster404 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only thing which needs protecting in this country is job losses to anti-competitive nations like China and Japan.

    Anti-Competitive? You only need to watch the news for about a minute to see why people are outsourcing jobs, Americans don't want to work. The classic example, the writers strike, now when an entire job class of people just quit their jobs because they don't think they are paid enough, we have a problem. When TV shows try to run without writers and write their own stuff and get fined because of that we have a problem. That attitude along with software patents that China and Japan don't have much of and the DMCA is why China and Japan are ahead of the US. The US has just about 0 technical innovation due to software patents and the DMCA, most innovation is coming from Japan and China and the EU not the US due to our congress's stupidity to not look beyond what MS and the *AA are telling them. In the US anytime you come up with something of interest that you want to market that is a technical product you have to wade through patent after patent that you are trying not to violate and these aren't specific patents, these are patents like "one click shopping" and such, as technology is the way of the future, its only natural that Japan and China have much better economies then the US and it's bureaucratic nonsense and a congress that is swayed by every breath of which ever lobbyist has enough money. The only thing which needs protecting in this country is job losses to anti-competitive nations like China and Japan.
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  6. Re:Big deal? by benzapp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I guess you don't have many friends in Eastern Europe, eh?

    This Wikipedia article is obviously all bullshit then?

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  7. Re:NOT the same old entrenched politics by Necrobruiser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There must be some prisoner surveys or similar which show the effects of violence on adults

    But rather than look for those, you're just going to make some statistics up as you go? You're really just pulling this stuff out of your ass, aren't you?
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  8. If he really is quitting... by kir · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...it's about time! That guy is a whack job. All you Ron Paul supporters are still children. Grow up.

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  9. Re:Real summary. by IntlHarvester · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You probably got all your 'facts' from a UFO site. Anyway you're entirely wrong about everything you listed. Please punch yourself in the groin several times and vow never to vote.

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  10. Re:why? by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I didn't see your foreign policy credits in your post, so I guess I'll just consider you another asshat troll.

    My own credits have to do with staying up on what is going on in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and having some knowledge of the history of US foreign policy vis-a-vis the Middle East and Central Asia, and some knowledge of military history and insurgency.

    None of which Obama - OR Clinton - let alone the nitwit McCain - have demonstrated.

    So fuck off, troll.

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