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Mostly because he's anti war. Vivien Send a noteboard - 18/08/2011 03:26:33 PM
He's also against supporting Israel, which is huge.

On the libertarian thing, it really depends what your idea of libertarian is. He doesn't believe in separation of church and state, he's anti abortion, anti gay marriage, etc. He's not *as much* of a religious nut as the other guys, but that's not saying much.

Just a very simple question. Why does Ron Paul tend to be ignored in the Republican Party and the Tea Party? I got thinking about this after Jon Stewart's segment a couple of days back about this. His primary stances are libertarian conservative, and yet he is constantly downplayed in the Republican debates, he is less favoured in the media compared to Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann, who more or less jumped on the Tea Party bandwagon, when Ron Paul (to keep along with the metaphor) practically built it. Does anyone have a theory on why?

(P.S. Let's keep this civil, peeps. We don't want locked threads. :D )
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Ron Paul - 18/08/2011 01:58:37 AM 485 Views
Mostly defense - 18/08/2011 02:28:39 AM 448 Views
Ron Paul got 10% of Iowa last time and 8% of NH last time - 18/08/2011 02:39:41 AM 313 Views
FWIW, I think most of it is the first part of what Isaac said. - 18/08/2011 03:21:44 AM 408 Views
Well, this ought to get him at least a little attention: - 18/08/2011 08:30:47 AM 460 Views
Mostly because he's anti war. - 18/08/2011 03:26:33 PM 280 Views
I hit submit twice - 18/08/2011 03:39:40 PM 432 Views
Because he's not bought and paid for - 18/08/2011 03:55:49 PM 465 Views
Because libertarianism doesn't rely on religion. - 19/08/2011 04:26:56 PM 322 Views
I was being a smartass but not sarcaastic, I do think Paul is a fanatic *NM* - 20/08/2011 11:41:40 PM 128 Views

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