Ron Paul to make another "important announcement" tomorrow

[Phony Moderate]

From his Facebook page:

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http://www.facebook.com/ronpaul

[Badger]

Hmmm....wonder what it'll be. I better check the "RONPAUL2012" website to figure it out.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

What an attention whore.

[Phony Moderate]

"Important announcement" seems to be becoming a bit of a catchphrase for Ron Paul.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

He's quitting and forceing Rand to run.

[Mechaman]

I'd bet a nickel that he'll drop out of the race and endorse Gary Johnson.

[Cincinnatus]

I'd bet a nickel that he'll drop out of the race and endorse Gary Johnson.

Accepted.

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

I'd bet a nickel that he'll drop out of the race and endorse Gary Johnson.

Also accepted.

Johnson looked like a complete puppet in the debate; Ron had to back him up to make him look even marginally serious. Plus, his pro-choice stance makes it nigh impossible to win the nomination. Ron Paul dropping out and backing Johnson is a bit of a silly USElectionAtlas idea, like Mitch Daniels winning the nomination or John Thune.

[Mechaman]

I'd bet a nickel that he'll drop out of the race and endorse Gary Johnson.

Also accepted.

Johnson looked like a complete puppet in the debate; Ron had to back him up to make him look even marginally serious. Plus, his pro-choice stance makes it nigh impossible to win the nomination. Ron Paul dropping out and backing Johnson is a bit of a silly USElectionAtlas idea, like Mitch Daniels winning the nomination or John Thune.

Emphasis on the "nickel".

[feeblepizza]

I'd bet a nickel that he'll drop out of the race and endorse Gary Johnson.

Accepted.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Probaly going into full campaign mode.

[Joe Biden 2020]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/12/breaking-ron-paul-to-run-for-president/?hpt=Sbin

He's in.

[Cincinnatus]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/12/ron-paul-ordered-bin-laden-raid/

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Bit of a stretch there.  So, if he was President, Osama would still be living next to a Pakistan military base supplying orders to Al Qaeda operatives. 

[Hash]

I though he'd announce he would accept gay sex with Bruno.

[feeblepizza]

I though he'd announce he would accept gay sex with Bruno.

Maybe that's his next "important announcement."

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/12/ron-paul-ordered-bin-laden-raid/

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Bit of a stretch there.  So, if he was President, Osama would still be living next to a Pakistan military base supplying orders to Al Qaeda operatives. 

Actually, the point was that the US was violating Pakistan's sovereignty by showing up with choppers out of the blue and blowing things up. The difference here would be that a President Paul would have let the Pakistanis know ahead of time. Though it wouldn't have been an issue since President Paul would have actually issued letters of marque and reprisal against Bin Laden and friends, requiring no boots on the ground in Afghanistan and far less expenditure (a billion dollars could probably have had enough assassins after him to leave him either dead or constantly on the run within a month).

[The Mikado]

Because that 50 million bounty we put on his head worked so well.  Anyone remember the story of that American bounty hunter, Jack...Idema, was it? That went over to Afghanistan to try to find him and get the prize money, and ended up kidnapping a bunch of random Afghanis and locking them in his Kabul basement?  That's the sort of person your marque would attract.

[Lambsbread]

I'd bet a nickel that he'll drop out of the race and endorse Gary Johnson.

Unacceptable.

[Likely Voter]

anyone else getting a bit tired of the announcement announcements?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

anyone else getting a bit tired of the announcement announcements?

Yep...No suspense at all. Gingrich has announced 3 times...

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

Because that 50 million bounty we put on his head worked so well.  Anyone remember the story of that American bounty hunter, Jack...Idema, was it? That went over to Afghanistan to try to find him and get the prize money, and ended up kidnapping a bunch of random Afghanis and locking them in his Kabul basement?  That's the sort of person your marque would attract.

If Afghanistan wasn't bombed and occupied, it would be Afghans and the Taliban doing the hunting.

[Joe Republic]

Because that 50 million bounty we put on his head worked so well.  Anyone remember the story of that American bounty hunter, Jack...Idema, was it? That went over to Afghanistan to try to find him and get the prize money, and ended up kidnapping a bunch of random Afghanis and locking them in his Kabul basement?  That's the sort of person your marque would attract.

If Afghanistan wasn't bombed and occupied, it would be Afghans and the Taliban doing the hunting.

The Taliban?  Hunting Bin Laden?  Look, I know you would only have been a toddler at the time, but you might want to research the background to the current war in Afghanistan before making misguided statements like that.

[Cincinnatus]

Because that 50 million bounty we put on his head worked so well.  Anyone remember the story of that American bounty hunter, Jack...Idema, was it? That went over to Afghanistan to try to find him and get the prize money, and ended up kidnapping a bunch of random Afghanis and locking them in his Kabul basement?  That's the sort of person your marque would attract.

If Afghanistan wasn't bombed and occupied, it would be Afghans and the Taliban doing the hunting.

The Taliban?  Hunting Bin Laden?  Look, I know you would only have been a toddler at the time, but you might want to research the background to the current war in Afghanistan before using misguided analogies like that.

Don't doubt him.  Your opposing facts don't jive with his fanatical approach.  Yeah, we wanted Bin Laden dead for ages, yet the Taliban did nothing.  ModernBourbon, do you really think if we hadn't invaded, some bounty would matter to them?  You seem to underestimate their deep seeded hate for everything we stand for.

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

Because that 50 million bounty we put on his head worked so well.  Anyone remember the story of that American bounty hunter, Jack...Idema, was it? That went over to Afghanistan to try to find him and get the prize money, and ended up kidnapping a bunch of random Afghanis and locking them in his Kabul basement?  That's the sort of person your marque would attract.

If Afghanistan wasn't bombed and occupied, it would be Afghans and the Taliban doing the hunting.

The Taliban?  Hunting Bin Laden?  Look, I know you would only have been a toddler at the time, but you might want to research the background to the current war in Afghanistan before using misguided analogies like that.

Don't doubt him.  Your opposing facts don't jive with his fanatical approach.  Yeah, we wanted Bin Laden dead for ages, yet the Taliban did nothing.  ModernBourbon, do you really think if we hadn't invaded, some bounty would matter to them?  You seem to underestimate their deep seeded hate for everything we stand for.

"THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM"

Come on, do you really think they are hating the US for no reason? The Taliban DIDN'T hate the US (up until getting bombed, anyway). They actually offered to turn him over at one point, but the US wasn't interested in negotiating. But I suppose that doesn't fit into the whole "Taliban = Al Qaeda = EVILDOERS" story.

[The Mikado]

The problem with the bounty is two-pronged: one, the very rational belief that anyone in Afghanistan that tried to meet it by capturing or killing bin Laden would immediately open himself up to violent reprisal and wouldn't live long enough to see that 50 million, lessening the bounty's worth, and secondly, that given the areas he was in, the local population themselves would protect him from discovery and help hide him.  Even though you are right that the Taliban proposed handing bin Laden over in Sept. 2001 (though it would not accept disbanding Al Qaeda in Afghanistan), bin Laden had enough sympathizers around that he would have easily been tipped off and been able to go to ground.

Furthermore, the Afghan war didn't just produce bin Laden.  From Abu Zubaydah to Ramzi bin-al-Shibh to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the US has found and captured or killed essentially all of the leadership of the original al Qaeda organization, which, for all practical purposes, is dead (leaving behind numerous copycat successor organizations that have borrowed its name).