"Ron Paul sees the world in rose-colored glasses." do you agree?

Dr. Paul is a knight in shining armor, defending Liberty from those that would defile Her. He is quite possibly the bravest man in America, and a fine human being. ( "The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that an optimist believes this is the best of all possible worlds, and a pessimist is afraid they are right". Can't remember who said that.)

Baldwin, Howard Phillips and Barr are all friends since years. Phillips mentioned Barr also during the Kansas CIty convention of the CP positively, while he was making his fiery attack on Keyes as a "neocon." Barr is a traditional conservative, libertarian orientated, and now more libertarian than before.
Alll three of these friends are also personally pro-life and part of the "Religious Right", while Root is pro-choice and not so socially conservative. Kubby would have been better perhaps but not so hot either. I think Dr. Karen Kwiatkowski would have been the perfect VP for Barr and they may well have worked well together.

he probably "sees" the current situation in our countrymore accurately than any other person and I thank him for his accurate perception.

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It's time to bar barr and put root in the root cellar! Come on guys stop with this crap already.

I, along with many others were really disappointed about Root's remarks, not that I ever really trusted him. He clearly does not understand the whole issue yet, and rode on his so called media savyness. Root; record is very well known to me. He did sound different in this interview though:
http://www.libertymaven.c...

I and also many Barry supporters at Denver wished that someone else would be Barr's VP. I was rooting strongly many times for the convention on thirdpartywatch for a Barr-Ruwart ticket. Unfortuantely she did not want it.
Barr is a DIFFERENT person than Root, you cannot compare them at all. Root does not really know anything about politics IMHO and by own admission. Luckily the VP will not play a significant role.

Barr on the other hand is a serious and honest and genuine person. I do trust him. His "conversion" on many issues is NOT recent, he has been fighting the Patriot Act since 2004 (or late 2003), and was first against it. Listen
to the interview in 2005 of Chuck Baldwin with Bob Barr (on Baldwin's site chuckbaldwinlive.com under interviews. There are also other interviews in 2004 and 2005 with Alex Jones and Scott Horton for instance.

I thought I heard on the Alex Jones / Bardwin interview that the Constitution party almost nominated this Root guy too. Why would these 2 supposedly libertarian/ contitution first parties want him to represent them. It makes me really leery of either party. Of course all parties have been pretty much infiltrated.

Root is a chameleon. He may even be a decent guy...but he'd change his tune in exchange for power. In other words, he's a politician.

Why is he still there?

...then: I do not see Dr. Paul as seeing the glass half empty or half full. I see Dr. Paul as seeing the glass as 50% water and 50% air. He is a master strategician, and is not necessarily interested in the short game, if that is all it is. If there is a precedent to be set, then the long game is worth it for him. He is calculated, savvy, and his timing is near perfect. That he comes off naive or quixotic is a misinterpretation of his honesty and persistence. Think of the many interviews where he has slam-dunked the anchors, belying their best efforts to stump him with gossipy trash, polls, and rhetoric. He owns them.

This admirable, yet confusing to some, focus on the distant target is what drew me to Dr. Paul once I discovered his long fight against tyranny.

People like Paul come once or twice in a lifetime in my opinion. No, I am not readying myself for a kool-aide Revolution function...but seriously...someone who has dedicated much of his life to a great cause, undisturbed by the sewage floating around him, it is an inspiring opportunity to realize that the human spirit is alive and well. Except, in this sense, as compared to a stellar artist or gifted athlete, it is a Statesman-politician. A rarety, making him that much more ethereal, unbelievable...a phenomenon.

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He has TOTALLY swallowed the Neocon Islamo-fascist hate pill.

Is he really Barr's vp?

God I hate Root.... he's a dick and he's annoying/egotistical....

I'm guessing you're asking if people agree with you that Ron Paul's beliefs are more optimistic than they should be and that Root is more blind to the misconception that terrorists are only opposed to american prosperity-so he smears Ron Paul.

Ron Paul's view is the best it can be for a man who doesn't see any other leaders who are speaking out against the great evil of the Federal Reserve and the government backed industrial complexes (medical, media, military). I think he plays his suspicions low key and reinforces the common mistrust of our corrupt government, and if you want the majority of people to follow you and the media to cover you then this is the course he should be taking.

Barr and Root aren't getting my vote, Baldwin and Nader and McKinney aren't either. If there's a concerted effort to push all the third party candidates into the 10-20% range then maybe I'll consider joining the operation to gridlock the elections, but otherwise its PAUL ALL THE WAY.

A person can support military intervention and not be a neoconservative. That's not what defines neoconservativism. It depends on the goal of that intervention. If it's to nation build and force democracy into other countries, yes. But if it's perceived necessity for self-defense, no. For instance, Dr. Paul supported military intervention in Afghanistan, but that doesn't make him a neoconservative, because he didn't want them to go into nation building.

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Dr. Paul has been looking through those glasses for more than 30 years now. You'd think he'd have cleaned them often enough through the years to know if the view he's getting is a clear one! I know he knows the difference. Sounds like a "pinkish" comment to me!! (Not as in "gay", but as in a little less than red!)

he comes across when he speaks about Ron Paul. Then there is the old "war on terror" card to be used by the real terrorists that want to take all of our rights away. If this is what the Libertarian party is all about they sound like an extension of what is in office now. I don't trust their agenda no matter how much they talk about liberty and freedom. Talk is cheap. It has nothing to do with rose-colored glasses but with being intelligent enough to know where the problems are created and why. No wonder whenever you ask for specifics from their supporters here you never get any substance just a bunch of mumbo jumbo.

The Barr/Root-bots are caricatures of themselves, just ridiculous.

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candidate is something of a mildly amusing mystery to me. Perhaps it may have had something to do with Dr. Ruwart's supporters walking out. I really don't know. I happened to listen to Mr. Root in the Q&A session that was televised, prior to the delegate voting. He reminded me of a used car salesman; one from whom I would never consider purchasing a car. He probably is, at heart, a very personable individual but his "performance", if it may be called that, did not come through as the most sincere or well-articulated presentation that I've ever seen. As to his remarks concerning Dr. Paul, I suspect that he will live to regret having opened his mouth to allow those words to escape into the public domain.

I have some answers for his questions:

Why do Islamic terrorists and suicide bombers attack and murder thousands of their own people in Iraq?
Why have they killed 300+ people in Pakistan in just the past 2 weeks?
Why do they kill Arab women for not wearing veils?
Why did they murder a champion Iraqi tennis player for the sin of wearing shorts?
Why did they murder any entire Iraqi soccer team for being in the wrong place?
Why do they terrorize Arab parents for sending young girls to school?
Why do they murder their daughters and sisters for refusing arranged marriages?

Answer: NONE OF OUR BUSINESS, NONE OF THESE THINGS HAPPENED HERE!!

Also, somebody needs to tell Root that this isn't a damn democracy!!! I'm getting sick of hearing our Republic being sullied in this fashion.

Also, terrorism is a tactic. you can't have a war against a tactic (Who said that?)

Also, this Root guy is a douchebag, I need to add.

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infiltrated the Libertarian Party. Does barr have to have that douche for vp?

This would be Barr's choice for VP?

: crosses Barr off short list of presidential candidates :

: keeps focused on RP; continues to look into Baldwin :