January 31, 2008 -
As GamePolitics has noted, Yahoo! Games issued a summary this week detailing its view of where the top three candidates from both parties stand on video game issues.
Left out of the Republican mix was Ron Paul. Yahoo! instead rated John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, who are, in fairness, the leading vote-getters at this point in the primary cycle.
The exclusion of Internet favorite Paul left a bad taste in the mouth of at least one Libertarian blogger. In a piece for Nolan Chart, "Big Louie" writes:
In a strange move to... Yahoo Feature article writer Ben Silverman doesn't mention the one candidate who believes in freedom, especially for the digital world (Internet, video games, TV, etc).
What could have they have been thinking? Congressman Paul is the ONLY candidate we can depend on to NOT regulate the Internet and guarantee our First Amendment Rights.
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Or, sorry, I didn't know. I guess that is nore directed atthose supporters who either blindly support or whien about any tiem he wasn't in an article.
The whole system is broken, when a candidate that is still pounding the pavement dose not get fair and equal time. its a god damn insult to the nation and the electoral process.
Perhaps you don't mind if your first amendment rights are taken away, but I'll take that "snowballs chance in hell" of keeping mine.
@ Eric
Actually, that was Huckabee.
If you're Canadian...why does this concern you anyways? I believe you have just admitted that your opinion doesn't matter in this debate.
touch my rights and your dead before you hit the ground. don't think I'll give up so easily.
"While soliciting opinions on the different candidates from others in my office, everyone had the same thing to say about Ron Paul; “Who?”"
Why do you suppose that is, mogbert? Why do you think your little flatass office buddies don't know who Ron Paul is? Is it his fault? Is it his supporters' fault? Why do you think people don't know who Ron Paul is?
Do YOU even know anything about Ron Paul? Actually, better question: do you even vote, or just like to have an opinion?
James A., I hope you are not implying that the Civil War was actually about slavery. Anyone who knows their history will understand that it was about state rights. Slavery was part of the issue but the reason the war started was because the federal government wanted to take rights away from states. I have no idea why Abe Lincoln is celebrated as a hero, he didn't free the slaves. It is a totally preposterous notion and nearly everyone believes it to be true.
-Jes- Actually the rest of the world would vote for Ron Paul. Do a bit of research and you'll find that to be absolutely true.
Fact of the matter is, regardless of how Democrats and Neo-conservative Republicans are similar due to their desire to expand government and reduce civil liberty, Democrats take a LOT more special interest money. They are not going to represent the average citizens, you and I. Democrats are going to serve the people who have given them all that money to win the election. Ron Paul is literally the only candidate that doesn't take special interest money but rather just has a bunch of supporters that organize their own fund raising efforts for him. These million dollar days the Ron Paul supporters are responsible for are from multiple small donations. These are average people giving him what they can, when they can. He'll probably get 2 million today from the people of this country as today is another mini-money bomb day and the 3rd will also be one, because he needs more money to spend for feb 5th.
Ron Paul is unique. He is the only candidate that actually stands out and boy does he stand out. His ideas seem radical and crazy but if you really do some research you'll understand it is much better than the road we are currently traveling. I understand that his platform isn't going to be one everyone will agree with but at least its honest and at least it isn't promoting ideas that have been tried before and don't work at all. You can't just throw money at problems and expect them to go away(Democrats), you can't continue fighting illegal undeclared wars and not expect it to bite you in the ass later(Republicans), you can't solve illegal immigration with amnesty or by building a wall(Democrats/Republicans), and you can't continue to allow the fed print money out of thin air(Democrats/Republicans). When things finally hit bottom, Ron Paul probably won't be around to say "I told you so!". But hopefully his son, Rand Paul, will. The Iraq war will come back to haunt us and we will have a major economic problem(as if we don't already). Just wait and see.
Ron Paul has been predicting that the US will hit bottom for years. In the 80's, 90's and now well into the 2000's. He will be doing it til he gets elected and then, assuming he can get his reforms passed, will make it happen. The gold standard will flat out crush the economy, make most people homeless, throw the world into a depression and thus start who knows how many wars. Judge Ron Paul by what he says, the racist, homophobic and xenophobic stuff that bears his name, and the economic policy he puts forth.
What Ron Paul does show is that there is room for a more libertarian (don't tax, don't spend) GOP than the current tax and spend Republicans. And that is a good thing. You get someone who is, well, sane, and you might have a winner.
How is just printing money out of thin air some how more acceptable than having some kind of asset to back all of your notes? He is sane, it is insane to think we can continue in this system for very much longer. It is a miracle it has lasted this long. He has always said EVENTUALLY IT WILL END. He isn't saying it will in 10 years or 20 years, but eventually if we continue down this road we will have a great fall.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/solicitation.pdf
Let's not forget how closely he works with Gary North, who sold books on how to survive the inevitable diaster of Y2K.
Face it, the guy attracts so many loons because he is one.
What backs gold?
There is nothing more inherent in the value of gold than there is in the value of paper money. It's just the perception that gold has value and nothing about the metal itself. Let's face it, if you are going to hoard any metal for an upcoming war it should be steel. Easy to work, recycle and hard to dent. Steel, at the end of times, is going to be far more valuable than gold.
@Grombar
That's upsetting to think that the IRS would come in with AK-47's and not good, American built M16's. But it wouldn't fit in with the whole commie pinko theme. But it's nice to see the homophobia and anti-semitism in their too.
Let's see Obama said he wouldn't support censorship. He proposed timetables to get us out of the war. And he's black. So there goes all your moronic 'reasons' to not vote democratic (and you act like any republican other than Ron Paul will get us out of the war, preposterous).
June 2009. Sounds reasonable.
There's no logistical way to get our troops out "now." Do you know the process that goes into moving that many troops halfway around the world? Even if we started today, we'd still have men there a year from now.
Terrible Tom said:
I understand that his platform isn’t going to be one everyone will agree with but at least its honest and at least it isn’t promoting ideas that have been tried before and don’t work at all.
Yes it is. He wants exactly the economy we had a hundred years ago, when factories had no regulations and workers slaved away on hazardous machines six-and-a-half days a week for chump change, which they used to rent ramshackle buildings (no building codes) and eat food that wasn't fit for vermin (no FDA).
Ron Paul says that, in a free market, everyone would treat each other fairly even if no one was there to make sure of it. But one look back at the Industrial Revolution is all it takes to prove him wrong.