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Originally Posted by rebel23
he has been elected to congress 10 times as a Republican and has been a Republican for over 30 years so he is pretty much "really" a Republican.
Paul is bringing more people to the party all the time, new people, people who dropped out and he is raising more money than any other GOP candidate. he is a GOP sensation
Republicans have run on an anti-war position before. Paul is running on President Bush's foreign policy in 2000, no nation building, no policing of the world, Nixon ran on the same policy, whenever they've ran on this policy the GOP have won elections, instead today they're losing elections like the congres with the opposite policy and the GOP risks putting the Democrats in power for a long time with this stupid foreign policy, it used to be the Democrats who were for the wars and the GOP for non-intervention until the former Democrats took over the Republican party (neocons), Paul will take it back in a true revolution
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1. He is a republican that looks more like a libertarian than anything else. In Texas is is going to be very hard to get elected as anything but a republican. Obviously people like the job he is doing because he is getting reelected. But I if you look at his positions on most issues he is more libertarian than republican. You can dress a duck up in a sheep suit, it doesn't mean it's not still a duck. Here is a quote from CNN, "Paul, who ran for president as a Libertarian in 1988, is the sole Republican candidate to call for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq." Sounds to me like a guy who knows he can't win as a libertarian so he goes with the party that will best help him.
2. I'm not an expert but here is a nice graph
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp it shows that as of Q3 of 2007 paul had raised around 8 million. He said his goal for Q4 was 12 million and he will probably raise around 15-18 that puts him at around 26 million which is still in 4th place on the list and about 1/3rd of what Romney has raised. I wouldn't consider someone who is a sensation on myspace, youtube and facebook a GOP sensation. Many of these supporters are probably not even going to be able vote for him in the primaries because they are either unregistered or registered in the wrong party. We aren't talking about a general election here, we are talking about the republican primary. Remember Howard Dean? He was the internet darling. The guy with all the small campaign contributions and they guy a lot of people picked to win it. Then they found out when called upon to actually get out and vote, the keyboard warriors were busy playing world of warcraft.
3. I understand that republicans have run on anti-war platforms in the past but in most of those cases they were wars started by the opposite party. it is easy to say, " they screwed it up, I'll fix it." It's not so easy to say, "we screwed it up, I'll fix it." Lets not forget that the hard conservative right still believes strongly in the war in Iraq and they are the ones that run the party. Love it or hate it the republican party has sold their souls to the Christian right in order to win elections. They picked their bride and married her, divorcing her won't be so easy.