w00t

[screamsndreams]

This is so exciting! Ron Paul came in second on post-debate polls last night.

Could it be that there will be a large-party politician I can actually vote for, and has a chance to win?

Comments

[voland]

Look at the current approval rating. W is at 33%, but our newly elected socialist overlords in congress are at 29%. Dr. Ron Paul will not win the primaries. However I think that if he runs as an independent, he has a chance, in particular if he runs together with a know libertarian leaning democrat.

[athos710]

It would be pretty fantastic if he were to make it onto the ballot. One can only hope. That, and vote in the primaries.

[loganb]

That guy has laudable stances on states' rights, his foreign policy could probably work well if sufficiently tempered, but his economic views are positively nuts! It's no accident that there aren't any major currencies in the world on a gold standard. I'd like to see some sort of rational basis for the stance that we should return to one.

Oh yeah, he should also talk up how great the US economy was back when we had a free market and a gold standard in the late 19th century. The child laborers and others that lived through the deflationary panics of the time might disagree with him.

[screamsndreams]

"It's no accident that there aren't any major currencies in the world on a gold standard."

I'd agree. The better question is, however, what was the purpose. Bonus points if you can expain why.

"The child laborers and others that lived through the deflationary panics of the time might disagree with him."

The child laborers were probably happy to finally be getting noticed, since the wealth of society had grown and its intolerance for such things had grown with it.