25 reasons Why Ron Paul can win in 2012 (Summary)
25 reasons Why Ron Paul can win in 2012 (Summary)
Here is a summary of what Ron Paul has going for him to win the GOP nomination in 2012:
1) Rand Paul is polling at 44% and is up by 21% in his primary for US Senate in Kentucky. Rand has outfundraised the anointed GOP choice (Trey Grayson) by a 3 to 2 ratio over the past 6 months; $1.8 million to $ 1.2 million. Rand out-polls the likely democrat in the general election by about 15%.
If Rand can win, Ron Paul can win.
2) CPAC Straw Poll; Ron Paul won with 31%, Romney was second with 22%, Palin third at 7%, then Pawlenty at 6%, Mike Pence (congressman from Indiana) 5%, Huckabee 4%. Last year in 2009, Paul had finished tied for third with Palin, while Romney won it ( I can't remember who got 2nd).
When Ron Paul wins nationally promoted straw polls, it creates the perception he can win.
3) Ron Paul just won his House seat primary by a whopping 70%. He won 81% to 11%. Ron Paul will grab more headlines when he wins the general election in November.
This creates the perception Ron can win. The greatest enemy to Ron is the mass media created perception that he can't win.
4) Ron Paul has often been described as irrelevant because he has never sponsored major legislation into law, nor has he ever even gained national media for his legislation. That has now changed. Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill has passed the House with 317 sponsors, and is in the Senate with over 30 sponsors. This legislation is not going away. It will keep Ron Paul in the news during all of this year and 2011 for his legislative work. Rand Paul in the Senate also makes a big difference here.
5) The Tea Party movement backs Ron Paul. The only other leading GOP contender who has any tea party appeal is Sarah Palin. Mitt Romney is a phony and is not fooling anyone.
6) Every four years, we get an age shift in voters. New young voters tend to back Ron Paul, while old voters who have died since 2008 do not support Ron Paul. A four year shift is about 7% of the electorate.
7) Newspapers are against Ron Paul; they are going out of business or their circulation is declining. The Internet supports Ron Paul and it is on the rise.
8) Paul's leading contenders are Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee (if he runs).
All these candidates have weaknesses.
Huckabee has a cushy TV job, and doesn't seem ambitious enough to run.
Palin is widely viewed as unqualified to be president and has less money than Ron Paul.
Romney is a strong candidate, but he is a Mormon which hurts him among Christian conservatives. He was also a pro-abortion liberal governor of Massachusetts who now says he is a pro-life conservative. In other words, he's a phony. He does not anywhere near the organization of Ron Paul.
Pawlenty is the NWO choice for president. But he has low name recognition and is boring. He's also a liberal republican Governor from Minnesota with little appeal for conservatives. He is counting on the NWO media to help him.
9) The Economy; the weak economy plays into Ron Paul's hands to some extent.
10) End the Fed - Ron Paul's book gives him another outlet for his message. Unlike Mitt Romney's book, which is stone cold boring, people actually read Ron Paul's books.
11) Ron Paul is good for TV ratings and is getting a lot of national TV interviews on cable news like Fox, CNN, MSNBC and CNBC. Rand Paul is also getting a lot of national TV interviews.
12) Voters are getting used to Ron Paul's "odd" ideas.
13) Ron Paul is 74, but has the health and spunk of a 60 year old; he's not too old to run for president and serve one term in office.
14) Fund-raising - In the 4th quarter of 2007, Ron Paul was the # 1 GOP fundraiser. This was when he was below 10% in the polls. He will raise a lot more if he is at 15%-30% in the polls. Ron Paul could end up with more money to spend than Mitt Romney.
15) The NWO sets the pecking order when they start to do polls in early 2011. In 2007, Ron Paul was at 1% in these polls. Ron Paul will be at a minimum of 15% in the early 2011 polls, putting him among the viable contenders from the beginning.
16) The Wars in the Middle East - People are getting sick of these wars, and Ron Paul opposes them. Democrats who found out Obama was a phony might support Ron Paul.
17) 2012 is the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, and will gain national attention. Interesting that the president during the War of 1812 was none other than James Madison, the Father of the U.S. Constitution.
James Madison is the ONLY president to follow the Constitution during a major war. Despite an invasion from the British Empire that included the burning of Buffalo and Washington, a siege upon Baltimore, and attack on New Orleans, the capture of Detroit, an Atlantic ocean naval blockade, and a secession movement in Hartford, Connecticut, James Madison never claimed special war powers, arrested dissidents, issued war propaganda, had a draft, or suspended habeas corpus, despite going up against the worlds greatest power with no income tax, no central bank, and not much of an army of navy. And we won it, gaining free trade for all American on the Great Lakes, Atlantic ocean, Mississippi river, West Indies, and Mediterranean Sea.
Word of what James Madison did in the War of 1812 might leak out to the people in 2011 and 2012.
18) A lot of people are getting sick of the war on drugs. Neither Bush or Obama will even consider legalizing medical marijuana, an issue which polls at 80% in favor of.
19) Ron Paul is the only candidate who can talk intelligently about the U.S. Constitution.
20) People are sick of the health care bill, and Ron Paul has credibility in opposing it. Ron Paul is also a medical doctor.
21) The Campaign For Liberty, Ron Paul's PAC, is raising lots of cash and forging many ties with key GOP leaders at the state level.
22) Rand Paul got the endorsements of the Ronald Reagan PAC, Sarah Palin, Steve Forbes, and the Gun Owners of America. Expect to see Ron Paul get some major endorsements, if Rand Paul can.
23) Ron Paul voted against all the bank bailouts.
24) Ron Paul has an army of volunteers that will hit every straw poll, from CPAC to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, to the county GOP straw poll at the annual meeting of John Doe County in all 50 States. He is going to win almost all of them.
25) Ron Paul has enough support to win the Ames Iowa STraw Poll in the summer of 2011. He got 1300 votes in 2007, and needs only about 5000 to win.
Ron Paul also has enough support to win the Southern Republican Leadership Conference Straw Poll on April 11.





















All irrelevant unless
YOU are attending your local district or county GOP meetings and getting elected as county delegate and/or state delegate so you can vote on the national delegate candidates from your state.
OK, it has been a year now,
OK, it has been a year now, how are these arguments standing up?
A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for James Madison.
An additional point to note,
An additional point to note, is that RPs platform is highly personally beneficial to many rich people, once his chances of winning becomes more realistic.
Most people who have gotten rich, have done so by focusing on getting rich; by spending their time and efforts on making money, not engaging in politics for politics sake.
So, in their view, spending time and money on supporting someone who won't win anyway, regardless of his positions, is simply a waste. But, if RP is seen as a realistic contender, people paying millions a year in taxes, are sure to take note of his stand on that issue. And they have lots of resources to devote to supporting someone that wants to relieve them of their tax burden.
Same goes for all kinds of other regulations that the current parties have put in place to extract money for their various constituencies. Those who have gotten rich by means not directly dependent on the current regime, have self interested reasons for supporting a Paul candidacy.
Which is one of the reasons I'm not entirely convinced RP won't be able to break all records for fund raising should he decide to run again. He's really the natural candidate of all wealth creators, whether workers or non parasitic business owners, in their battle to not be fleeced by the bankers, public sector unions, bureaucrats, trial lawyers and other state dependent leeches.
not so
You must be living in a fairy world thinking that they were booing the policies of war.... RP supporters may be booing it for the reasons you cite- but the majority of Republicans boo RP's ideas of ending the wars, and I think you know that.
By the way citing our financial problem may not be enough- you have to realize is being safe more important than to be financially stable? Many will answer no... Most people don't realize the link between finance and the fall of empires- so its not as simple as citing our economic condition to turn them against the war.
"We can be free and alive" - RP
Even Republicans,
are beginning to realize that the wars are not what they want.
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Even Republicans,
are beginning to realize that the wars are not what they want.
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Ron Paul running in 2012 is about...
educating as many people as possible. A win is not just him sitting in the Oval Office.
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I don't think Republican majority will vote for Ron Paul
I think the Republicans are too much into wars that they will not vote for RP... as much as I would like them to- I simply can't ignore this reality. I would love to be wrong-
I think all of our poll winning are superficial- they represent a movement which is energized and due to that a 'majority' in most polls.. but in the real world outside of that energized movement that is able to put a showing in events- we are a minority.
Until we can convert these people to realize the downfalls of our foreign policy, Ron Paul can't win the Republican ticket.
Its hard to do because they almost feel a religious obligation to 'fight them', partly because of Israel.
We have a lot of work to do- don't take these polls to mean much- one thing is for certain our numbers have grown exponentially and in the next election we are bound to do better BUT we're still not there yet- the majority of the Republican base is pro-war and that is the most important issue to many of them.
"We can be free and alive" - RP
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The best response to a pro-war voter
is to talk about the fact that US doesn't have the money anymore to wage wars all across the globe.
Once you get to the money aspect, you don't have to address the reasons for the war, whether it should go on, etc., which may be harder to argue depending on who you're talking with.
This is true only if you
This is true only if you think the voters will continue to be pro-war through 2012.
Frankly, I don't think that is going to happen.
A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for James Madison.
Do you hear the boos?
Don't you hear the boos everytime RP speaks about the wars?
There may have been some 'shift' by some Republicans, but the majority that I see is always booing him for his position.
All that needs to happen is that the other candidates need to scare the people like McCain did by repeating 9/11, terrorists, islamofascist, Muslim terrorist, jihad and other high paying keywords- and there you go. Then you have people voting on the war issue because security is more important than the economy.
Also they are up-to-their necks about 'honor' which to them means to keep fighting- instead of letting the soldiers off of this unjust, unconstitutional war.
I think certainly majority are pro-war today, and my view is that they will remain pro-war through 2012. Economy may become a much much bigger problem by 2012 but that doesn't mean that scare tactics won't push war on the top of the list again.
"We can be free and alive" - RP
also,
the benefits of a non-interventionist foreign policy is often the hardest thing for Republican party-goers to grasp; it was definitely the last brick to fall when i converted my brother to a full on Ron Paul supporter (he identifies himself as a Libertarian-Conservative)
They weren't booing RP's
They weren't booing RP's position, they were booing the bad things that he was talking about. Like the fact that we have 700+ bases in 130+ countries around the world. Boo to that! And cheers to Ron Paul for wanting to bring our soldiers home!
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RON IS UP AGAINST VOTE FRAUD PROBLEMS
BEFORE RON PAUL CAN GET THE NOMINATION IF HE EVEN DECIDES TO RUN IN 2012 IS VOTE FRAUD...PRESIDENTS ARE SELECTED VIA VOTE FRAUD, WITH OR WITHOUT COMPUTERS..THE NETWORKS GET THEIR NUMBERS FROM THOSE THAT CONTROL THE WORLD..IT IS THAT SIMPLE..ONLY VERY HIGH POLLING NUMBERS WEEKS BEFORE COULD FOIL ANY ATTEMPT TO DE-FRAUD HIM..
IF RON PAUL IS TO GET THE NOMINATION, HIS SUPPORTERS MUST COME TOGETHER AND ORGANIZE NOW..
THEIR MUST LARGE NUMBERS OF MONIES DONATED TO EVEN GET TO FIRST BASE..I'M TALKING MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. RON PAUL MUST GET ALOT MORE MONEY FROM SUPPORTERS..THE INTERNET IS GREAT BUT NOT ENOUGH..
MAY OF RON PAUL SUPPORTERS ARE VERY YOUNG STUDENTS OR OUT OF WORK LIBERTARIANS..HE NEEDS TO GET THE OLD RICH SENIOR CITIZENS AND DISGRUNTLED DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDENTS..
BOTTOMLINE...RON PAUL NEEDS MORE AND MORE EXPOSURE..THERE ARE STILL MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE NEVER HEARD OF HIM..
REMEMBER, IF "THEY" TAKE THE INTERNET DOWN RON PAUL IS COOKED.. MOST OF HIS SUPPORT RIGHT NOW COMES FROM THOSE THAT DON'T OWN TV SETS AND DEPEND ON THE INTERNET AND THAT IS JUST WHAT "THEY ARE PLANNING BEFORE THE NEXT PRIMARY SEASON..
Internet Momentum
The main stream media is trying like hell to be relevant when it's pretty clear that they are in a losing battle. Who the hell cares what the main stream media has to say anymore? The only way they will be able to stop this movement is to attempt to shut down the dissemination of information over the web. This is also why I would believe it has taken this long for Dr. Paul to reach his much deserved recognition. It has been squashed by MSM for as long as they could. The FED corruption 'cat is outta the bag' and it's only so long that they can keep up the charade.
And when the FCC decides to
And when the FCC decides to reclassify the internet as a "public utility", they'll have all they need to give control back to the mainstreamers.
I am out of touch with most Americans precisely because I am not out of touch with reality.
Or when "impartial" content gateways no longer are.....
http://zenpundit.com/?p=3391
#29 He is such a sweet
#29 He is such a sweet husband to his wife.
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26. Ron Paul is honest.
27. Ron Paul is consistent with a 30 year voting record of consistency.
28. Ron Paul will lower taxes, and if given sufficient time, end the IRS.
OK, so Ron tied for first. One down, 24 to go.
OK, so Ron tied for first. One down, 24 to go.
A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for James Madison.
Three little videos...
To keep the Mitt out of the running -
The Real Romney -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
Mitt wants to work with the socialists - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jzno_apP1Q
He was an indy during the Reagan years -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pVqZzHm3Z4
Fellow Veterans, This Is A Call To Arms!
http://www.facebook.com/events/192677970828185/
February 20, 2012 - Veterans For Ron Paul March on D.C.!
Why RP CANNOT win
Unless he uses his bully pullpit to address this massive vote fraud system, how can he win?
All they do is throw a few levers, lie in your face about the Iowa caucus results, etc.
Here is a video on why South Carolina is so critical for Ron Paul to help to work on, in challenging their unconstitutional system, yet he has not done so-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REfVcc-4Zrk
If you would like to network, here is a Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=330511401199&ref=ts
If we don't address this, we are not going to see an election victory.
They stole Buchanan's victory in Iowa.
They stole Medina's true result in Texas.
They will do the same thing with RP, unless we get focused on this. It is more important than any campaign. IMHO
Agreed
I'll vote. But I'm in Ohio... We have a habit of "missing votes" out here.
Amen
End of discussion.
We addressed election fraud on a daily basis on this forum.....
during the Presidential Primaries and then later the Presidential Elections. That being said, you are absolutely correct in that Election Fraud via Diebold, etc. has been and will continue to be a serious obstacle to victory without some sort of bipartisan citizenry oversight committee. One neutral group to oversee the counting of the ballots, per se. The one organization which presently tallies the votes for all national elections, Voters News Service ( which are owned by three of the four major news networks" ABC, NBC, and CBS-- FOX may be involved now, I'm not sure), has never been audited and refuses to allow any type of oversight while vote counting takes place, citizenry or otherwise. This is why election fraud via electronic voting machines continues to be a significant problem which must be effectively dealt and done away with.
Hate to be a downer....but
I can give you 1 really big reason why he can't win...
VOTE FRAUD!
That is the reality we face.
You assume
that winning is equated with him being president. This is about a revolution in the hearts and minds of the people.
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If enough people vote for
If enough people vote for him, even vote fraud won't stop him.
I am out of touch with most Americans precisely because I am not out of touch with reality.
A good point.
:-)
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