Do you want Ron Paul to run in 2012?

[Deldem]

It doesn't matter, he won't really impact things anyway.

[Psychic Octopus]

No

[Lief 🗽]

It's always nice to see him in the debates. It actually makes them worth watching, at least sometimes.

Yeah, remember that one debate where he totally owned Rudy Giuliani on terrorism but the mouth-breathing rednecks in the audience booed him anyway?

Hey, I breathe through my mouth.

Actually so do I now that I think of it.

[pbrower2a]

No. There will be enough fascists running in 2012.

The fascists are already unified behind the Democratic ticket. Obama and Biden are safe.

That's why Ron Paul will have a chance to take them down since the fascists will all be with the Dems already.

Stop using the word fascist so fallaciously, please. If you really understood what fascism is, and what fascism implies, you wouldn't use it in that way. When you've got relatives killed by fascism, it's disgusting to see how shallow and unsensitive people can be.

Anyway, I don't dislike Ron  Paul. I do not agree with some of his views, but he's overall a decent politician and more likable than most of his fellow republicans.

Thank you. It is important that we not misuse the word fascism as a descriptor of every pathological cause and every political personality that we despise. So misusing the word cheapens the intended use of the word to describe regimented, genocidal, dehumanizing regimes that break the bodies of adults while stealing the souls of children and youth.

Maybe the term "conservative dictatorship" is more apt in some cases than is "fascist regime".

[useful idiot]

I would want him to run if he decided to run as an independent instead of through the Republican Party, whose nomination he would never receive, and if Johnson didn't become the Republican nominee.

If he ran as an independent I think he could take a larger percentage of the vote than Nader in 2000, and he'd probably draw from both sides as well as from the Libertarian and Constitution parties, not really playing spoiler for anyone. If he could get into the debates he'd do some damage(in a good way).

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

I would want him to run if he decided to run as an independent instead of through the Republican Party, whose nomination he would never receive, and if Johnson didn't become the Republican nominee.

If he ran as an independent I think he could take a larger percentage of the vote than Nader in 2000, and he'd probably draw from both sides as well as from the Libertarian and Constitution parties, not really playing spoiler for anyone. If he could get into the debates he'd do some damage(in a good way).

I agree. I wished he would have run as an independent in 08, though in retrospect all that would change now is we'd be out one good man in Congress.

[SvenssonRS]

Although I have no antipathy toward Paul any more(I mean, I support his son), I don't desperately want him to run again. It would be essentially pointless, what with Johnson already going through the motions of running. Plus, he'd be too old - the same reason I have a problem with Nader running again.