Paul's more than just a long-shot candidate, no?

Ron Paul '08. Imagine if he actually gets presidency.... An end to the burning of the Constitution and a return to monetary money. Without the federal reserve, nearly every major problem facing our country ends.

Ron Paul is the only canidate worth voting for. And he isn't a "long shot" as you fools in the "media" like to parrot eachother.

Come on Washington Post... Did you not get the memo? We are past the "Long Shot" phase now. You are supposed to be slandering him and smearing him now.

Jeezz get with the program.

/sarcasm

Ron Paul's far from a long shot. Just wait until the Iowa caucus and NH primary, he'll emerge as a leading candidate.

Wow, I thought Shillery's ad was going to be for Ron Paul too, LOL

Someone needs to remind her husband that robbing the Social Security fund is not balancing the budget.

The globalists are making their move on America, Shillery is a GLOBALIST!

Ron Paul is an American! RP in 08!

You know, that man's a kook! Who in his right mind would support the Constitution? I mean, the rule of law is insane. Those in government shouldn't have any restrictions on their power because they obviously know best. They must be superior because they have so much power. Seriously, look where this country's at - things have never been better!

I really think you should support the status quo by voting for anyone but Ron Paul. That way, we can stay on the same course. Doesn't that sound wonderful?

Ha! Long shot. Thats sooo October.
Its late December now. You are supposed to be smearing.

Haha, Clinton is, wow.

Katrina would have been prevented (to it's extent) if the money was left to the state to put it into the levee system. But no, the federal government decided to take that project on - and failed. Clinton promises to do what? Continue central planning?

And the war? The one that Clinton voted for? Votes for the funding for? Says we must say, then panders to anti-war activist and say "we must go!". She is very pro-war, it's somewhat scary.

And the healthcare system? Right now we have managed healthcare, and more government will somehow make fix it? (VA Hospitals anyone?) We need less bureaucracies - at least with Dennis K. you get a nonforprofit plan.

She scares me.
, and the helpless (a baby presumably lying on a doctor's table in need of health care).

The Goldwater conservative candidate that everyone is looking for.........

Ron Paul

Ron Paul is leading - why isnt that being reported?

If you are going to say Ron Paul's presidential bid is "longshot", give it some substance by attributing to a certain poll and also by sharing the facts.

Maybe something like this "Ron Paul's out with a new TV ad, 'Defender of Freedom,' pitching his conservative record in his seemingly long shot bid due to his scarce fundraising for the quarter."(Which is false.)

OR

Maybe something like this "Ron Paul's out with a new TV ad, 'Defender of Freedom,' pitching his conservative record in his seemingly long shot bid with a much lower attendance at rallies and other campaign functions relative to other candidates". (Which is false.)

OR

Maybe something like this "Ron Paul's out with a new TV ad, 'Defender of Freedom,' pitching his conservative record in his seemingly long shot bid - the _blank_ poll shows him at _blank_% where as his rivals are at _blank_%." (Which may be true.)

I think that sounds much more professional with some meat on those assertions. That is of course if those assertions are true.

The way the Post has this ARTICLE right now sounds too unprofessional because it is blotted with subjectivity. I wouldn't go as far to say it should be considered an editorial piece because everyone is human and slips up sometimes, but still, it would be nice if you clarified the seemingly subjective diction. News is suppose to be objective, correct?

A reader who is encouraged to analyze, comment on, and even challenge washingtonpost.com's articles, blogs, reviews, and multimedia features ----

George

If i was running the Clinton campaign?
i would be whipping Bubbha hard everyday
like the workhorse he could be

Bubbha is his own "Oprah Effect"

i'd keep him working Iowa everday
he's more conservative then Mike Huckabee
it's an excellent contrast
politikally speaking

and i would send Hillary to shore up Hew Hampshire
split her time more in NH
then Iowa
let Bubbha take Iowa

Keep Bubbha out front
(keep on working Hoss!)

(if you really want to be the first lady
you have to keep on working!)

i'm routing for Bubbha!

Ron Paul is winning and the media is still coming to terms with it. You cannot have history's greatest political fundraising candidate labeled as a long shot without us ranting a little, now can you?

With words like "long shot" you'd think that he doesn't stand to raise more than any other GOP candidate this quarter with a staggering $19 Million+. If you'd think that, you'd be wrong.

This is a 6 way GOP race with the pro-war vote split 5 ways.

Ron Paul is going to win. Say it again. Ron Paul is going to WIN. He pulls from all sides: first-time voters, independents, democrats, independents, republicans, libertarians, and our military.

Hillary's says "SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS". The government cannot "solve people's problems". Their job is to protect our rights! Not feed us and cloth us or pay our mortgages. Good lord.

Hillary? Rebuilding the middle class with her donations from Goldman Sachs? The thieves that made billions on the housing bubble, stuck everyone else with their toxic trash bonds and then shorted them on the way down and made billions more? 67 million bonsus for their CEO? And Ron Paul will probably still get more in donations without a penny from these crooks.

Ok, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Calling Ron Paul a longshot is absurd at best and crass at worse. All people in media should stop parroting each other. Think for yourselves for once. A candidate that DEFENDS YOUR PERSONAL RIGHTS more so than anyone in our country's history. How can anyone in good conscience say anything bad about him? I just don't understand this. I truly don't.

What do we need to get past the "long shot" category? I know, another HUGE money bomb set for Jan. 21 to commemorate the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to the struggle for individual liberty. Please contribute:
http://freeatlast2008.com/

I am glad I cancelled my subscription to your paper, it seems like you have forgotten to write and report the truth, it would be our decision to make judgement, not you.

Yeah I hear bookies are running him just Under Guiliani sumthin like 5/2 Paul 6/1 Rudy.

Run Ronnie Run!

Hillary's Christmas ad just might be the one that sinks her campaign.

She gets to be Santa Claus, handing out universal health care, universal pre-K, and an (empty) promise to bring (some of) the troops home.

We get to be the elves, slaving away all year to pay for it all.

Yes it is Long and every pundit will be shot with it.

"Long-shot bid"????

Since when does the candidate raising the most money in the fourth quarter, with more volunteers than the rest of the candidates put together, qualify as a "long shot"????

Dear Washington Post:

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they get angry at you,
then you win.

We are moving into stage 3 now. Get on with the program.

Ah, it is VERY sad. RP doesn't want to FIGHT you. RP wants you to realize he LOVES real people. It's just the lack of real support he's against.

Follow the money. Bookies very seldom Lose Money.

Much have been said and written about the GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, despite what the main-stream media will lead you to believe. And we at OGPaper.com have covered his presidential campaign rather scarcely, due to the fact that we cover the 2008 Elections betting odds and since the very beginning, Ron Paul had odds on winning the Elections closer to Stephen Colbert than Rudy Giuliani. But things have changed and now Ron Paul is listed with odds on winning the Republican nomination at 5/2, trailing only to Rudy Giuliani and 6/1 to become the next U.S. President at the online sportsbook Bodog Sports.

"Ha! Long shot. Thats sooo October.
Its late December now. You are supposed to be smearing."

LOL! WP must not have gotten the "smear" memo!

I have to say, I like Ron Pauls ad much better. Hillarys music is too dramatic for my taste.

Actually, did anyone notice?!!!! The reporter totally confused Ron Pauls music with Hillarys music! Hillary has the patriotic music booming, while Ron Pauls music has piano and violin. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT PRESS!!!!

You indicated that in the Hillary ad, there was a piano heard. There was no piano. There was only a string section, possibly a very small horn section (in the bass register), and a minor percussion section (timpani).

Ron Paul 2008

Ron Paul is the front-runner, not a quote "long shot". Everywhere I go I see his signs, bumper stickers and people...

Hillary Clinton, a new beginning?

I think I just threw up in the back of my throat.

Yeah you keep telling me he's a longshot...and ONE DAY I'll believe ya...

RON PAUL 2008!

I like Hilary no matter what you gun toting red neck KKK lovers say. Now Charlie Peterson you had your say its time go back to knocking up your sister.

Remember that famous photgraph of a triumphant Harry Truman holding the headline "Dewey Wins"? well it's going to happen again. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. C'mom media, get with it! Ron Paul is coming down the home stretch like a rocket! Peter Brock

You like hillary for some other reason than your liberty...you're just a shill

why is this article still incorrect with regard to which music is playing in the background of each ad. If you can't handle accurately reporting this...

Kooks? The only people who vote for Ron Paul are Kooks?

He has more voter support from the military than any other Republican Candidate.

Anyone who calls our military, our sons and daughters who are dying and bleeding in Iraq and Afghanistan kooks is a very very low grade of human being.

Honestly, You don't have to like Ron Paul or vote for him and you can say what you want , the man can take it.

But to call the U.S military kooks for supporting Dr. Ron Paul that's just disgusting..

Birk Vye,

Why are you so assumptive and angry?

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win"
-Gandhi

I looked up "kooky" in the dictionary: having the characteristics of a kook; crazy; eccentric. Then I looked up "eccentric": deviating from a usual or accepted pattern. Change comes from challenging the status quo, does it not? Were the people who fought to abolish slavery kooky, simply because they felt it was RIGHT to deviate from the accepted pattern? Ron Paul is the person who people will, in their hindsight, wish to God they had supported when they had the chance.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win"
-Gandhi

Great post Peter Rand that says it all right there!

I supported Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry... but now I cannot stand the mere image of Hillary for president. I actually cringe everytime I hear her speak. What a cold calculating bi-atch. Ack! Go Ron Paul!

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Stop with the "long shot" already! Voters do not need to be dictated to. Just report the facts and keep your stinkin' opinions to yourself.

Hate to sound like a broken record, but...

When the "Long-Shot" comes in, we'll all win big! ;-)

I can't wait until RON PAUL WINS the GOP primaries, and the naysayers try to make it look like a fluke or that they expected it all along.

Ron Paul is at the top of all the straw polls (the closest thing to actual voting) with over 30%. So... it looks like the "long-shot" is mainstream news outlets maintaining any credibility with real people in terms of discerning political trends.

Really, do you reporters live and work in a closet?

He's at 10%in the most recent poll in Iowa (http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/iowa.html) at 3 times Fred Thompson's numbers! How can you keep calling the top money-raising Republican this quarter a "long-shot?" Has the Washington Post no journalistic integrity?

I love this new ad by Senator Clinton. It reveals every problem that Bush has tried to ignore.

I especially like that she showed the debt clock, which was finally turned off during President Clinton's time in office. So much for Republicans and bragging about "fiscal responsibilty." LOL!

A Republican should vote for Ron Paul, if a Republican is going to vote for a Republican.
(Personally, I love Paul's message, but I wouldn't vote for a Republican these days if you paid me.)

Ron Paul all the way to the White House! Finally, a reason to vote.

"longshot?" I'd like to see Hitlery raise six million in one day from someone other than corrupt rich people! This system has got to go!

Ron Paul 2008!

Love H. she was and still is for war with Iraq
she voted for patriotic acts which are restricting our freedoms (why wee will need them any way)
and she is supported by corporate media that mean she is part of establishment (rich people helping rich people)
love you H. you will make sure that rich people get richer an poor poorer love you.

Hey WP, either fix you facts in the story, or delete it from the webpage. You have the music WRONG! Also, your use of "longshot" is an editorial comment, NOT news. Stick to who, what, where, and when. Leave your baseless opinions to yourself, unless its an editorial. That is the extent of the press's job when reporting news.

Hey WP, either fix you facts in the story, or delete it from the webpage. You have the music WRONG! Also, your use of "longshot" is an editorial comment, NOT news. Stick to who, what, where, and when. Leave your baseless opinions to yourself, unless its an editorial. That is the extent of the press's job when reporting news.

Oh yeah, and if you're going to make editorial comments like "longshot" then back it up with some facts. I can see why you didn't back up your statement - there are NO facts to back it up. Ron Paul is all over the place. Ron Paul's rallies are packed (unlike Ghouliani and the others), and he doesn't need to hire Ophra to draw a crowd like Obama (wasn't that a farce). Freedom and Liberty are what draw people to his camp. Not fake promised like the Hildabeast makes. "A new beginning"? Bahh! If the Hildabeast is elected it will be the "New Beginning of the End".

America, you need to WAKE UP and THINK.

Why is the leading Republican fund-raiser called "fringe" and "long-shot"? If Romney, McCain, Giulliani or others had raised 6 million(from the common people) in a day do you think that the MSM would have crowned him as "The Candidate" or would he too be called "long-shot"? Could it be because our News Outlets are all big corporations?

Are the other candidates getting their money from the people or from the big corporations?

Anti-war - Who's making money off the war?

Sound Money - Who makes money off a collapsing economy?

Civil Rights - Who gains if we have less rights as individuals?

Look at our current crop of bought & paid candidates..

AND THINK!

You're so funny! Ron Paul a long-shot? You may want to check the latest Iowa poll.

News Flash:
LONG SHOT journalist Sarah Lovenheim attempts to cover Republican and Democratic frontrunners Ron Paul and Hillary Clinton advertising efforts. Ron Paul spending some of that 20million dollars sent to him by the people in small donations to spread his message of freedom and smaller government while Clinton is spending the millions she recieved from special interestes and big corporations to spread her message of socialism and the growth of the nanny state. Paul a millitary vet who voted aginst the war is bringing together Americans form all sides of the political spectrum with truth.
Democrats who have realized their party has been dishonest about the war and have been uneffective are flocking to Republican Ron Paul who has always stood his ground and had the wisdom to vote aginst big government and war for over 20 years.

It doesn't matter what you call Ron Paul. He still has my vote and my contributions.

The "Smart Revolution" has begun. I am voting Ron Paul!

Looks to me like he's a little more than just a long shot candidate. I'm voting for him and so is everyone that I know.

The Washington Post (Old Media) and all of its ilk are so very irrelevant. People are turning off their TV's and un-subscribing to newspaper subscriptions by the millions every year. The days of corporate shill newspapers and talking heads selecting U.S. Presidents and telling folks what to think are long gone. Ron Paul a long-shot? In case you haven't noticed, there is a revolution going on... and it's REALLY big. If I were you, I would use some of my free time getting my resumé up to date.

BTW. I have never donated to a candidate in my entire sixty-one years of life. I have already maxed out my $2,300.00 donation to Ron Paul. My wife starts on her $2,300.00 in 2008. Ron Paul is a true American hero. I would slit my wrists before voting for Hitlery.

I can't go down the street and rob my neighbors to pay for my "UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE", but if I hire Hillary she will do it for me! She is a thug for hire. Am I exagerating or did dozens of people connected to the Clintons endup dead because they knew too much? Ron Paul breaks all one day fundraising records, probably the 4Q fundraising of the anointed "frontrunners" combined, blimp flying, signs everywhere, wins most straw polls, bigger crowds than all the others combined and still "long shot"? Long shot,long shot, you must believe, long shot! The propaganda machine against Ron Paul is deafening.

Well I was 'googling' Ron Paul and came across this editorial. Thank you WP.
(I'm from UK) Thank you for the views of contributors too. I have formed an opinion that the world needs Ron Paul.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/
Follow the money -- See where all the money is coming from to support the candidates then go look here and see Ron Paul's TOP Contributors
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00005906&cycle=2008

#2 US Army $21,018
#3 US Navy $14,105
#6 US Air Force $10,950
US Dept of Defense $5,900

4 of his top ten contributors are in our Military

Support our troops

So what Ron Paul supporting blog directed all of you over here to rant about Paul's campaign status? If this is how you think you get people to believe the "Ron Paul: Frontrunner" myth then you are truly whacked.

Voting Ron Paul period.
Enough said

Ron Paul is currently tied with Rudy for 3rd place in Iowa in the most recent mainstream poll. I believe Paul could very easily take third place. Huckabee and Romney will do very well in Iowa. Remember that Romney spent $22,000 per vote in order to win the straw poll in Iowa. What would be a great surprise is if Paul took second in that state.

We will see who is the long shot when he wins the only poll that really counts. The bookmaking houses have odds of 2-5 now. The old media's attempt to ignore him makes him stronger. Informed primary voters will see his positions and realize why the corporate establishment fears him so much. This election will signal the end of the MSM's ability to steer the primaries and give us false choices.

I tried to post a comment at youtube for that hillary video. "Comment Pending Approval" lol I hate control freaks...

Ron Paul should be our next President. It's laughable for Sarah to be speaking about him as a long-shot. The only long-shot to win is America if we don't start voting for people like Ron Paul.

Is it really necessary to say that he is a long shot candidate every time you mention his name? Have you people ever seen the straw poll results or fund-raising totals?

Long-shot? Is that what you call the guy that's got almost $19 MILLION in the bank from "grassroots" supporters these days-- a long-shot?

Hmmmmmmm, guess the other candidates are nearing obscurity then, given their LACK of financial/grassroots support...

Thank you for reporting this useful information.

I wanted to also say that Ron Paul supporters are extremely self-motivated and require no outside urging from blogs or elsewhere to speak on his behalf.

His platfom of sound monetary policy, non-interventionist military policy and the protection of our civil rights is motivation enough. At least for me it is.

Look guys, the "long shot" stuff is just getting old. When one is the #1 candidate on the internet, has raised more money in the 4th quarter than other Republican candidates, has won the majority of straw polls and every Republican debate, has raised the most money from service men and is the only candidate whom the actual voters (as opposed to people in the %2 secret handshake club) are talking about around the proverbial water cooler..the indication is that one is more than a "long-shot". Have you guys considered that maybe your polling methods are flawed? After all, Pajamas Media admitted to removing Paul from its polls because he kept winning. A video on you tube records one of the television phone polls and mysteriously Paul is not on the list of candidates. Well how can that be considered reliable data?

What concerns me is that should Paul win NH or Iowa (or both), you guys still won't question your polling methods. Instead you'll accuse Ron Paul supporters of "overrepresenting" Paul at the primaries. You'll have to come up with some new media slander word. I suggesting 'Overmassing' or 'Packing'.

I can just see it now:

"Fanatical and dishonest Ron Paul supporters show their true anti-American colors by Packing the polls!"

"Poll Packing, a new strategy thought up by the tiny but vocal group of Paul supporters has experts scrambling to preserve democracy against the threat of organized factionalism."

Try those ones. Nobody will buy it. (Well, my soon-to-be-mother-in-law would probably buy it). But it's worth a shot.

Long shot???? The WP definitely didn't get the smear memo, they didn't even call the Ron Paul supporters the new MSM buzz word -"fans".

The NYT did their smear piece this week, then retracted the entire story yesterday.

Ron Paul's supporters are too well informed for the media to play the lie and apologize game with us. We won't stand for it, and will get the word out about it.

Ron Paul the only real choice for President in 2008!

RP IS a long-shot. if he makes it through the M$M gauntlet, then through the monoparty obstacle course, he'll simply be _shot_.

Ron Paul has my Indpendent vote in the Primary in Massachusetts on February 5th. I switched from Independent to Republican just the other day so I may help this man into the White House. He's the only candidate with a message, a following and the intellect to do what we've not seen in a President since the Founding Fathers!

Long shot? LOL.
http://truthseeds.org/2007/12/26/proof-we-the-people-support-ron-paul/

Man - these commercials couldn't be more different. Where is the PROOF, Hillary? Ron Paul is the only candidate on either side who speaks the TRUTH and makes SENSE. Vote for TRUTH and SENSE. Register Republican in your state so we can get this man on the ballot.

Got my money on the "long shot". America loves an underdog and I imagine after RP is President the media will be thanked second, right behind the people. Thanks for fueling the Ron Paul fire WP. Couldn't do it without you.

I will vote for Ron Paul and 95% of my friends, family and coworkers will as well.

Jimmy Case, "Shillery?" Who's Shillerrrrr .... Oh, you mean The Iron Dingbat. Sorry, it just took me a minute.

Isn't that rich, Sen Clinton is going to help save the middle class. A middle class that is dying thanks to Pres Clinton helping that NAFTA bill along. She states in the debates that she would review every trade deal, trying to steal Ron Paul supporters. Yet, she already reviewed NAFTA two weeks prior and voted to keep it up and going. Sorry Sen Clinton, I've had it with politicians lying to me. You will not be getting my vote with lies just because you have a ve-jay-jay.

I support Ron Paul, but please dont kid yourselves. He IS a "long shot" candidate. Even if you know a million people who support him and will vote to spread his message, there are still 299 million completely lazy and media brainwashed people in the country who will either not vote, or vote for a pre-selected candidate.

Ron Paul will remain a long shot as long as a) the media says so and b) the public allows the media to shape their opinions rather than reporting news with a serious attempt at impartiality. I don't see the American public waking up to the idea of thinking for themselves, so I don't see Ron Paul ever being more than a long shot.

You may call it a "Long Shot" but his campaign and supporters know how long of a shot, the wheather condition, windage and elevation.

Ron Paul is polling even with Guiliani and ahead of Thompson in Iowa and New Hampshire, why don't you refer to them as "long shots"?

Please stop the bias.

A candidate that raised over 6 million dollars online in a single day is still considered a longshot? Maybe they missed the memo...

Calling him a long shot is better than refusing to acknowledge him at all. After "long shot" comes "contender" and them maybe "Mr. President".

Listen he cant poll high if he is not involved in the polls, seems to me if he is on the first page of a poll he wins every time, and the polls only being shown are the ones without him. Last I checked the media was in bed with neocon war/fear mongerers. All I can say is step up and vote and if then they sharade us at the booth again revolt! "UNITY, THATS ONE STANDS TOGETHER"

My sources tell me that the Establishment have already started programming the electroic voting machines away from Ron Paul votes. So don't be too surprised if Ron comes in last.

I am from Arkansas and I can't stand to even look at or listen to Hillary Klinton or Mike Huckleberry. Ron Paul has my vote.
:)

FACT: Ron Paul's out with a new TV ad, "Defender of Freedom," pitching his conservative record in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

OPINION: long-shot

Just report the story and keep your bias to yourselves!

Overwhelming support for presidential candidates other than Ron Paul is surprisingly absent here in the comments section of this article.

Hmm. I wonder why?

Dr. Ron Paul is the only one telling it like it is. for a very very long time 20 plus years ago.
Check this URL: http://forpresidentronpaul.blogspot.com/

This is my opinion as to why this is happening...

Young Americans from all parts of this beautiful country are awakening; he is the only one delivering the message that is reaching all three views, Republican, Democrats and Independents.
Do you know why? Well I do not claim to know all the variables that play into this but I bet the following has a big role and that is young Americans see what is going on with their grandparents, where Medicare is a mess, social security is gone or running out and medication is to the roof.

Then they see their parents struggling to pay the bills and getting by week by week.
Parents and grandparents sharing and commenting among themselves the good old days, talking about the days when this or that used to cost XYZ and when he or she used to work for this or that company and now all is gone.
Then this generation born from 1964 to late 1980 is starting to really feel the pinch.

Yes the pinch of what is to come, it has been building year after year, for decades our government has been making decisions and policies that at that time sounded good, or that it may fix this or that, decisions that had a good burst of economic growth but that in the long run will need to be revised.

It is here now, this generation sees, hears and is starting to feel bad economic policies made decades ago:
-1913 (16th Amendment to the constitution) then congress authorized the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank (Private institution) to control our money.
-1933 - Big year, full of bad policies among the more important are President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102. (Unlawful to own or hold gold) and a joint resolution to abrogated the gold clause on all existing government and private contracts was signed.
-1934 - "Gold Reserve Act" became law. This law took away title to all "Gold Certificates" and vested sole title to the U.S. Treasury.

In sum this and other measurements where executed by our government to end the "Fixed Dollar" and with it the "PAPER ERA BEGAN".
It is 2007 and our government still feels the need to continue feeding this machine, so what does it do? It continues to issue certificates to be purchased by BIG private investors and countries. So with every approval of funding this huge government is making us "We the People" especially this and future generation debtors. Yes, Money out of thin air.

People do not get distracted by your everyday personal or trivial issues, this subject one of many does matter a LOT to you, your loved ones, and ALL of us. We need to be aware of who is going to start to put an end to this otherwise we will end up like many other great countries from the past (Example: Rome, England, Spain, Greece).
Back then they were called Empires and they ended up bankrupt due to bad policies and many, many of their people suffered.
Do not take my word for it... just as I did read the information available in books, archives etc.

I'm finding myself - for the first time ever - BUYING Ron Paul slim jims (flyers) and passing them out. I have bumper stickers for Pete's sake! I'm 30 and have never once voted FOR anyone. I've only voted AGAINST before. I'm going to be standing up for Ron Paul in the NV caucus and so are 10 other people I know. Even if he loses, there will be a record that the American people want their liberty back. Time is running out on freedom. Everyone can see it. Let's do something about it right now.

To all posters who comment on the MSM... There are five main media stations, four are owned by one man, so most MSM is generated through two peoples opinions. So stop beating the brick wall with your head.!.! These two men are protecting their interests, big paid-off Gov, so what comes out of the MSM will not change. Stop recommenting/posting the same outrage over and over! BTW I am a Ron Paul voter and donator. I smerk smuggly when I read the MSM coverage of Ron Paul but I know the MSM will not change its tone, that is why I read the alternative internet coverage to gather the true lay of the land.
Ron Paul 2008

Go Ron Paul!

Anyone running for president is a long shot. How many presidents have there been? But to repeat it again and again with only one candidate only reveals the affiliation of the writer. These people are no longer trusted sources for information, so please let them continue to ruin their image as reporters and destroy their industry. Newspapers are just about finished. If I care to read some stale opinion, I'll look it up online.

how interesting. Naomi Klein just wrote a book called "Shock Therapy." Who would have known that those raging democrats were all capitalizing on financial, political, military crisises here and abroad to promote their goal of corporate socialism all over the world.

Hitlery Clinton? Country will go to hell in a hand basket and she will be on pic-nic. The change she speaks of is called socialism or communisim, tellin me how to live?? RON PAUL for peace, liberty, and prosperty under the supreme law of the land, That is the Constistution, or the use of checks and balances. RON PAUL for the WIN, or hammer and sicle??

RONPAUL2008.com :)

The more I hear he is a long-shot, the more resolved I am to show up and vote for him.

how interesting. Naomi Klein just wrote a book called "The Shock Doctrine." Who would have known that those raging democrats were all capitalizing on financial, political, military crisises here and abroad to promote their goal of corporate socialism all over the world. Those democrat bastards!

Ron Paul has less a chance at winning the Republican nomination than my cat Beastie.

I'm Canadian, i have been following Ron Paul for a couple of years - mainly because of his views on the crumbling USD -people in America need to wake up to the fact their empire is crumbling, financial system is collapsing (starting with the sub prime mortgages), the US debt is growing at a rate that is unfathomable, US dollar is falling against all major currencies, USD printing machine is going to blow up because it's on overdrive, the canadian dollar is at par and climbing-

The US is Canada's largest trading partner, and i do have friends who have moved to the US (thank God they have dual passports)and i do care about our neighbours to the south- so please wake up and vote for Ron Paul.

No US President will be able to stop this -but at least Rons's ideas will stop the bleeding- and the start of rebuilding a nation - that will take generations to repair.

If anyone is unsure of who to vote for. Vote Ron Paul for me since i can't vote and help save America.

God Bless,I mean "help" America

Go..........Ron Paul!

Wow, don't you guys read the internet? Oops! Forgot, my bad....

Nice comeback!

Washington Post controled by who? Long shot 50% of the vote average and clibming!

WE THE PEOPLE

Hillary Clinton: Candidate for the racists at LaRAZA, the new KKK.

Since Ron Paul is polling ahead of Fred Thompson in almost Every poll, how come you don't preface his name with 'long shot' every time he's mentioned? Or is that not in the style book and talking points from your Propaganda master- er... 'Managing Editor'

xtrabiggg

So your going to tell me since I registered on this Wash board Post Blog,every one of my comments are posted with ease, but my last comment isn't?

You are censorship at it's finest. And don't even try telling me that 13 yr olds view this... that is bunk. I didn't even say one bad word, except against you, Washington Post.

Love the shirt that you are in. I'm lovin it. Hear a pin drop. Coke, the real thing. Fresh, Pure, Water.

But this ad is,
Bought and paid for...

by blood, the blood of United States Soldiers over 200 years!

Chew on this.

Well, now that is an advertisment worth dieing for.

Oh what I said earlier, that was sensored was... "Not so much of a long shot now you..."

Let your mind do the walking...

lol, ads they suck.

I got to love the Hilary ad....

I was in Manhatten near ground zero five months after 9/11, there was a STOP sign at like the 38th (or something) intersection, and on the back of it written in black marker it said, "F**K HILARY".

Well, New York City had really spoke to me about Hilary Clinton at THAT time.

I just hope we don't see "F**K Hilary" written on the back of every stop sign in the United States.

DO you want that?

It really doesn't matter.

It will get down to Hitler and Ron Paul.

And then them compromised electronic voting machines will choose our next president.

Line up for your shower.

What to do after Ron Paul??

If Ron Paul gets into the White House, even if that happens--and the odds are 6 to 1 according to the professional bookies--we still have work ahead of us. That work will consist of getting other limited government Jeffersonian libertarian minded way travelers into all of the offices that we can, from dog catchers to the Supreme Court. Democrat,Republican, Libertarian, these are merely titles, what is paramount is that we--those of us that are on fire for, thirst after what Dr. Paul offers--get as many ALLIES into offices to assist ourselves with Freeing ourselves from the near on dictatorship that we labor under at this time.

Think about it for a minute now. If even 1/10th of the effort that we all put into this primary to get Ron Paul into the limelight of the GOP where to be keep alive and reused to get say 500 city councilmen, or county commissioners or what not at the local level, then we would have a true real and solidly based revolution of ideas that could not be stopped.

I am not poo pooing Dr. Paul at all, on the contrary I believe that his chances are fantastic at this time; however if he loses or once he is gone--8 years tops--we need a back up plan to ensure that the gains that we have made are not ephemeral. I believe that the MySpace and MeetUp Groups that have formed around the ideas that this mild mannered man can be the kernel that will sprout into the solidity that we will need to ensure that Freedom is more that just a word.

I am not really the guy for this. I am a two time loser convict, and not the most eloquent person; however some of you MAY just be the ones that can bring this to fruitation for the betterment of us all. I urge you to think about my idea, of using the energy that has been built up here to build a political foundation that can not only put Ron Paul into the Presidency of the United States of America, but that can put you into what ever local, or state offices that you can do the most good from for the advancement of the ideal.

Thank You for your time.

Answering the call, Ron Paul is my hero!!

TRUST YOUR GOVERNMENT! TRUST THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA! C'mon now, you can't think for yourselves and you know it. How do you know it? Because the government and mainstream media told you so, and you can TRUST them. We need a bigger government and we need to get rid of this crazy internet so that we aren't distracted by all these nuts who don't tell us the same truth that the mainstream media tells us. So do your part and vote for Hillary or Obama or Guiliani or Thompson or Huckabee or Edwards or McCain. BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THINGS BIG AND SMALL . . . DO NOT VOTE FOR RON PAUL! Now go back to sleep.

The one presidential candidate who has been against the Neocon Wars all along, who knows that the economy is about to collapse and immediately wants to recall all of our troops and save $1 trillion a year in taxpayer money, wants much less government, is for family values, and supports legal but not illegal immigration nor amnesty: Dr Ron Paul. The Founding Fathers intended and the US Constitution states that the Federal government only has a right to go to war if Congress declares it. For good reason: the president is not king. The Constitution also provides for protecting the people - that means strong borders and a strong military, but not a military that is used to spread goodness about the world through the barrel of a gun. The best offense is a good defense. By spending less on military manpower and more on technology, we can also soon make the military secrets that the Chinese stole from us rendered obsolete, and provide high tech jobs. We can spend money to support our social obligations at home without bankrupting ourselves further to our Chinese bankers. Ron Paul for president, the other candidates don't have a clue.

Paul is no longer a long shot candidate. He's actually a leading contender. Thank God for that.

Hillary voted for the war and now she's shilling Ron Paul's position? What a fraud she is... depose the Clinton/Bush Dynasty and while we're at it let's impanel a grand jury to reexamine the two carpetbaggers from AK

Vote RON PAUL-honest as the day is long!!!

Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit, believes that Dr. Paul's foreign policy is the only one that makes sense in this dangerous world. Perhaps you know more about geopolitics and terrorism than the former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit does?

Sustainability - Even if it was a good idea to police the world, we couldn't possibly afford to continue doing it. We owe $9 trillion to countries like China and Saudi Arabia, and the debt is growing fast. We have another 70 trillion in committments.

Nine trillion dollars works out to $30,000 of debt for every man, woman, and child in America. And it's growing fast.

I can't sit back and leave this huge debt to my children and my childrens children. Can you?

How could you vote for Clinton?

Clinton gets more money from Pharmacy and Health services then any other candidate. I suppose that is because she is going to present Universal Healthcare that benefits all Americans, not her top Pharmo/Health care contributors. Right? Sure she is wink wink.

She also gets twice as much money from Lobbyists then any other candidate.

But that's not because they know she is easily bought with lobbyist money right? No, of course not, it is because of her experience. It is not because she has made many promises to these lobbyists right? Of course not.
PLEEEZZZZZZ. Do some research.

Here, I will help you out.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.asp?Ind=K02

Bye bye MSM, I can't say we'll miss you..

Ron Paul speaks the truth... the others don't. It's that simple. Go Ron Paul.

Please keep reminding us he's a longshot, lest we forget and vote for him.

Smear, marginalize, outright lie. Just do what it takes.

"WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."
Part 1, Chapter 1, pg. 6. George Orwell 1984

We have heard this before. WE don't beleieve it anymore.

Ron Paul 2008!

The media is so unapologetically crooked that it can only be described as Orwellian.

It's such a cheap and unprofessional jab to describe Ron Paul's candidacy as a "long shot." When will news services remember what their job is supposed to be?

I'm so glad I'm not of the feeble mindset that would allow me to actually believe the crap that is shoveled in the papers and on network news.

How is Hillary Clinton a "new beginning?" If she were to win, and let's even say that she was re-elected. That would mean that at the end of her term, there will have been 28 years of either a Clinton, or a Bush in the white house. I really wouldn't call that change.

I truly fail to see how she can even begin to make such a claim.

God Sent Us a Savior

If our greatest need had been information,
God would have sent us an educator,

If our greatest need had been technology,
God would have sent us a scientist.

If our greatest need had been money,
God would have sent us an economist.

If our greatest need had been pleasure,
God would have sent us an entertainer.

But our greatest need was freedom,
So God sent us Ron Paul.

--Author unknown

Thanks for posting the Ron Paul ad -- I really like it. I love his message and his humility. Not to badmouth all of the other candidates, but they seem to be in it for ego, while Dr. Paul seems to be in it for America. Thanks again.

The big "media's" either have a different agenda looking over their shoulder or are not reporting well. Which is it?

You have a candidate whose super educational information is resonating amongst the population. This cannot be denied. Know other candidate brings to the forefront the "cure" for the governmental cancer that controls this nation. There are no band-aids here.

The last thing the "controllers" of the USA want is any person like Ron Paul getting the nation back on track as a Constitutional "Law of the Land" government. What influence do the brokers that have stock in our excecutive branch and down, have on the media biggies?

If the "big name" candidates would even come close to the fundraising records, visual, internet, and blimp support, you would be all over it like a bank handing out thousand dollar bills by the barrel.

No, something fishy is going on and the media is a part of it. Americans eyes and minds are being opened by a person who just might be considered an American hero about monetary policy and Consitutional behavior.

This is just the start of the second American Revolution. Ron Paul will not have to be President for the Amercian population to rise. It just means that if Paul were to be elected, we rise sooner than later.

Only this one will be won peacefully because we now have the influence of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul. The US armed forces will not fire upon their mother, father, sister, brother, sons, and daughter.

We are the patriots for liberty. You are the loyalists for control.

Good luck to you, you are on the wrong side.

Sincerely,
Tony Matuszak

Bush... Clnton... Bush... Clinton

George H.W. Bush = Ok President.

Willian J. Clinton = Ok President

George W. Bush = Horrible, Horrible President

Hillary R. Clinton = Horrible, Horrible President

See a pattern?

>> ((( Circle the War Wagons >>> The Neo-Criminal Convicts are at it for Real!!! )))

The New Hampshire Republi-Cant Party is really trying to exclude Americas Hero and
Defender of the Constitution DR. Ron Paul from the New Hampshire Debates......

HERE IS THE OFFICIAL WORD FROM NATIONAL:
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/press-releases/94/has-fox-news-excluded-ron-paul

Press Releases › Has Fox News Excluded Ron Paul?

December 28, 2007 10:39 pm EST

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - According to the New Hampshire State Republican Party and an
Associated Press report, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron
Paul will be excluded from an upcoming forum of Republican candidates to be
broadcast by Fox News on January 6, 2008.

"Given Ron Paul's support in New Hampshire and his recent historic fundraising
success, it is outrageous that Dr. Paul would be excluded," said Ron Paul 2008
campaign chairman Kent Snyder. "Dr. Paul has consistently polled higher in New
Hampshire than some of the other candidates who have been invited."

Snyder continued, "Paul supporters should know that we are continuing to make
inquiries with Fox News as to why they have apparently excluded Dr. Paul from this
event."

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Support Ron Paul, for LIBERTY, PEACE AND PROSPERITY!
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Are you a moron? You should at least proofread your biased writing to give it a grain of credibility.

One hundred million voters are connected to the internet. The one hundred million voters choose Ron Paul overwhelmingly in every poll to date. The people have spoken. The primaries will shout the results loud and clear. Ron Paul is the people's choice to be President of the United States.

Hitlery doesn't think Americans are intelligent enough to think for themselves, that's why she is pushing for bigger government. Ron Paul obviously thinks we as Americans can do anything we can set our minds to. So, it seems to me, only idiots would vote for Hitlery or any of the other big government politicians.
Whenever I hear someone calling Ron Paul a left-wing nut, I tell them, only as much as Reagan was, and he won with a landslide vote after being down in the single digits in polls.
But, it will be the same. He'll win the popular vote by a landslide, and once the electoral vote comes in and he hasn't won, it will make everyone definitely stand back and think about our broken system.

Hillary Clinton and her playboy husband are Arkansas gangsters. Many mysterious deaths surround these villains, including but not limited to Ron Brown, Paul Wellstone, Vince Foster, etc... [get the Clinton FREE DVDs from 1-free-dvd.com: Obstruction of Justice, The Mena Connection, The Mena Cover-Up, The Real Crimes of Bill Clinton and many more]. The Clintons are best friends with the Bushes who have been involved in criminal activities for generations---including but not limited to Narcotics Trafficking [1-free-dvd.com has many free films that prove this serious allegation.] Do your research. Hillary is a member of the treasonous CFR. She is pro-BIG GOVERNMENT/NANNY STATE. Nothing will get better with this witch leading our nation. She is DANGEROUS!!!

Please check out the 'Uncounted' documentary at http://www.uncountedthemovie.com

Newsflash for Clinton: Check out the job description for president. Nobody wants you to "solve our problems" -- mostly, they just want you to go away, and take your stupid dog Bubba with you.

Oh, and Ron Paul might as well be on Hillary's team; his position on the Iraq war is shameful.

If the true American's out here, want the TRUE American Ron Paul, why is our media so bias? The media will not let him have the freedom to speech, or speek as an equal with the other republican's in the debate's. He is our only hope, to stop the war, the killing's, send our boys and girls home, and secure our borders. The media will have there day, when the primarys come in, or should I say America will have their way to freedom.
Vote for FREEDOM RON PAUL

The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecution, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war (Revolutionary War) we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion."
Thomas Jefferson

WAKE UP AMERICA! We need real change in this country. Every U.S. Citizen should read Naomi Wolf's new book: The End Of America - Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Vote for Ron Paul!

Ron Paul has my vote in the VA primary Feb.12. As of right now I know 10 people, who had never heard of RP less than 30 days ago, who will do the same.

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