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John O'shea
John O'shea

to say ron Paul won this debate is just utterly insane. I was rooting for Perry but Romney won it hands down - no doubt in my mind.

ron Paul after what he said about marriage - leave to the churches is insane babble. Talk about kicking the can...jeez...

Michael Bacolas Jr.
Michael Bacolas Jr.

People claim that there are "Paul bots". I have actually seen crowds of people supporting Ron Paul. To assume he doesn't have a massive following is foolish. Why is it so hard to admit that we Ron Paul supports like Ron Paul enough to go online and vote for him. Why do ppl claim its only one guy or two? And besides even if i wanted to vote over and over itd be impossible to so it from one IP address. Polls protect themselves from that ever happening, just as with the FOX text poll back in 2007. Stop listening to the media and do your own research and you'll find that Paul is waaaaaaay more popular than given credit. Even Reagan was considered too extreme to get in office. Itll either be Obama again or Paul. RON PAUL 2012!!!

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Have you ever actually read or listened to Ron Paul truly explain the real problem of immigration and how economics is the root of it all? Gotta know the actual problem before you can just spout the same rhetoric that's always been spouted about it.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Better than the clowns he's running against.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

I disagree with you and having seen my own share of this ridiculous "war on terror," I agree with Paul MORE NOW than I would have had I just been a typical outsider who hasn't been to Iraq for 2 years of my life.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

The pessimist in me says that this government has already grown out of control and our country as we know it will fall to economic destitute regardless of who takes over the presidency.

The realist in me says that actually...America might suffer further unemployment and the economy will tank more and recovery will be prolonged through more government intervention...but just as America survived the Great Depression...we can also survive a 2nd Obama term.

I will not rethink my position. As I said...here in Oklahoma...the electoral college will take a 3 to 2 R vs. D vote and turn all 5 of them into R votes. So...the general election really doesn't matter to me because of where I live. That's why I'm so adamant about the primary. I truly believe that anyone besides Ron Paul will turn into a RINO the second they win the primary and then America will be left with that "God-awful" choice we had in 2008..."lesser of two evils." I'm sick of being stuck in that system. I'd RATHER America collapse NOW than prolong its suffering like that.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

I already replied to your other comment criticizing his foreign policy. "Scary?" Are we honestly any "safer" now with homeland security beefed up just a mere step away from full-on cavity searches for anyone who uses not just airlines, but ANY public transportation? Are we honestly any "safer" now with over 100,000 troops risking their life and limb nation-building? Ron Paul's the only one on that stage who's actually BEEN in the military and has any real idea how the military operates and how warfare actually works having served during a war...which like this one...was a losing battle of nation-building. He's been through this before and realizes that just like Vietnam...this "war on terror" won't is just going to drain us as well.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

I already replied to your other comment criticizing his foreign policy. "Scary?" Are we honestly any "safer" now with homeland security beefed up just a mere step away from full-on cavity searches for anyone who uses not just airlines, but ANY public transportation? Are we honestly any "safer" now with over 100,000 troops risking their life and limb nation-building? Ron Paul's the only one on that stage who's actually BEEN in the military and has any real idea how the military operates and how warfare actually works having served during a war...which like this one...was a losing battle of nation-building. He's been through this before and realizes that just like Vietnam...this "war on terror" won't is just going to drain us as well.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Really? Negotiate? When did he say we were going to negotiate with Hamas? I'm pretty sure all I've ever heard him say regarding foreign policy is that we shouldn't be nation-building and we should bring the troops home since our own borders are too open with the thinning of resources being spent overseas. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like having more troops at home protecting ourselves instead of trying to force our way of life on a bunch of brown people seems more productive, more cost-effective, and most importantly...SAFER.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Really? Negotiate? When did he say we were going to negotiate with Hamas? I'm pretty sure all I've ever heard him say regarding foreign policy is that we shouldn't be nation-building and we should bring the troops home since our own borders are too open with the thinning of resources being spent overseas. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like having more troops at home protecting ourselves instead of trying to force our way of life on a bunch of brown people seems more productive, more cost-effective, and most importantly...SAFER.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Perfect example: Oklahoma's "No Sharia Law" law. There's only 15,000 Muslims in a state of over 3,000,000 people and there's never been one single case where Sharia was ever brought up...yet because the media's skull(bleep)ed people to the point where they'll gladly act on their alpha brainwaves instead of slowing down and rationally using beta...they voted overwhelmingly for this.

Result? CAIR files a lawsuit against Oklahoma for specifying Sharia in what could've been just a "no international law" proposal and our state's now going to raise taxes on all of us sooner or later to cover the millions it's spending because of the ignorance of the voters.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Perfect example: Oklahoma's "No Sharia Law" law. There's only 15,000 Muslims in a state of over 3,000,000 people and there's never been one single case where Sharia was ever brought up...yet because the media's skull(bleep)ed people to the point where they'll gladly act on their alpha brainwaves instead of slowing down and rationally using beta...they voted overwhelmingly for this.

Result? CAIR files a lawsuit against Oklahoma for specifying Sharia in what could've been just a "no international law" proposal and our state's now going to raise taxes on all of us sooner or later to cover the millions it's spending because of the ignorance of the voters.

corey mclain
corey mclain

first off u can vote over and over on these online poles, and 2nd straw polls dont mean anything either bro lol srry to say, ron paul can win all those phoney polls he wants, michele bacheman won iowa staw poll and look at her. im srry to say man, but listening to ron paul speak, all sounds like hatred for everyone. he hasnt won any real concrete primarys, not even 1

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Go ahead and try to vote twice in this one. You know what it'll say? It will inform you that you've already voted and it won't count your second click.

Michael Bacolas Jr.
Michael Bacolas Jr.

thats the only way they can discredit Paul. Is with lies. As long as the grassroots keeps doing their part we will win. ;-)

corey mclain
corey mclain

first off u can vote over and over on these online poles, and 2nd straw polls dont mean anything either bro lol srry to say, ron paul can win all those phoney polls he wants, michele bacheman won iowa staw poll and look at her. im srry to say man, but listening to ron paul speak, all sounds like hatred for everyone. he hasnt won any real concrete primarys, not even 1

Proof Negative
Proof Negative

People are saying that every online poll is rigged because Ron Paul won it?

Where are the Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, and Rick Santorum poll riggers???

Just because Rush Limbaugh tells you to not like Ron Paul does not make him worthy of being on stage.

Ron Paul 2012 - stop letting Lamestream Media pick your candidates!

corey mclain
corey mclain

haha wait a sec, u telling me in a poll online, that says ron paul won 94 percent!@!@! in the debate is true hahaaa, u have to be just as crazy as him to believe those numbers r even close to being real. ron paul has very small amount of people who really vote for him, look in last 2 elections he ran in he got less than 8 percent. im telling u his people spam everything, and they dont do it nicly, they r aggressive about spamming everyones serious post

corey mclain
corey mclain

haha wait a sec, u telling me in a poll online, that says ron paul won 94 percent!@!@! in the debate is true hahaaa, u have to be just as crazy as him to believe those numbers r even close to being real. ron paul has very small amount of people who really vote for him, look in last 2 elections he ran in he got less than 8 percent. im telling u his people spam everything, and they dont do it nicly, they r aggressive about spamming everyones serious post

Proof Negative
Proof Negative

People are saying that every online poll is rigged because Ron Paul won it?

Where are the Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachmann, and Rick Santorum poll riggers???

Just because Rush Limbaugh tells you to not like Ron Paul does not make him worthy of being on stage.

Ron Paul 2012 - stop letting Lamestream Media pick your candidates!

corey mclain
corey mclain

im srry to mention about discluding any canidate from these kinda votes or anything, but i perfer to keep ron paul off these kinda votes, cause all his little 6% of his real national support flood these things and we dont really see who the real winner is, everyone knows ron paul didnt win it hahaa, and for ron paul to be over 60 percent in every single online vote is false crap. hes from my state and hes a good rep but im srry, the man is crazy. im not for anyone, but i seriously hate seeing these ron paul spammers, really annoying as hell

NadePaulKuciGravMcKi
NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

the Ron Paul army is inside

yr interwebz stealin' yr mojo

RP sure does get a lot of love!

therightscoop
therightscoop

Sure it's an open poll, and then all these damn ron paul sites link to it and flood the poll. This is exactly what people hate about Ron Paul fans.

Based on my poll results, Rick Perry is the true winner.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Great debaters don't make great leaders. If you're going to go by polls anyway...there have been phone polls done just in Texas that showed Ron Paul with higher scores than Perry...in Perry's own state. Just some food for thought.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Great debaters don't make great leaders. If you're going to go by polls anyway...there have been phone polls done just in Texas that showed Ron Paul with higher scores than Perry...in Perry's own state. Just some food for thought.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

I don't even have a basement. Thanks, Marti.

Winston
Winston

douchebag, ur crazy uncle ru paul has been in washington for 4 decades. He is the problem... Cult followers make me puke

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Would've been worse had any of his opponents been in his spot for that long.

Winston
Winston

ru paultards screwing any online poll becuz they r attention whores.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Yeah...my one vote being the only vote that thing allows me to make, even if I wanted to "screw" the online poll makes me an "attention whore." C'mon now.

Yvonne Hooks Harrell
Yvonne Hooks Harrell

Seeing that over half of the candidates took their answers from Ron Paul's playbook, answers they'd never have come up with on their own, knowing his ideas are gaining support, one can only surmise, that yes, Ron Paul won the debate.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

Every small government idea that has appeared in the past few years has been plagiarized from Paul. Many of the same people who were had absolutely no problem spending and voting for bills without reading them during Bush's administration are ONLY NOW talking about "Hey...we need to knock this off."

Yvonne Hooks Harrell
Yvonne Hooks Harrell

Seeing that over half of the candidates took their answers from Ron Paul's playbook, answers they'd never have come up with on their own, knowing his ideas are gaining support, one can only surmise, that yes, Ron Paul won the debate.

Winston
Winston

ru paultards screwing any online poll becuz they r attention whores.

Salvatore Anello
Salvatore Anello

Look at the results on the top of the page, then look in the mirror. That is how you rig a pole. Now, go try to get the real numbers up and get some repect behind your efforts and let's really have a discussion.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

That makes no sense whatsoever. A poll is only that anyway...especially online. Little kids and felons can vote in this thing, if they want to. I think the only reason Scoop bothered including Ron Paul this time is because so many of us decided to rack up his poll with people like Gingrich and Huntsman just to drive the point home.

Salvatore Anello
Salvatore Anello

So, let me get this staight. If you can't rig the poll with Ron Paul votes, then you will rig it for votes for someone else. Hmm, thanks for ending this discussion with a big win for me.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

WHY NOT put someone else's name in there, if our guy isn't on there? To leave our guy out makes the poll just as worthless as if we actually stayed out of it.

It's just an online poll anyway. If this were something that was going to have a serious and real outcome such as...oh...I don't know...the actual primary or presidential election...then MAYBE you could cry and whine and complain like a child about how we're "rigging" it. THEN, though...you bear the burden of proof that we "cheated," which getting lots of supporters to come vote on something or someone does no such thing.

Winston
Winston

ru paul is a communist

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

You said this last time...but you never answered my question. HOW? In what way, shape, form or fashion is he a "communist?" What big government, big labor, anti-free market stuff has he supported?

Salvatore Anello
Salvatore Anello

Look at the results on the top of the page, then look in the mirror. That is how you rig a pole. Now, go try to get the real numbers up and get some repect behind your efforts and let's really have a discussion.

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

Just to point out something, posting here is a privilege, not a right. The First Amendment protects you from the government.

Orange Shaman
Orange Shaman

The point is to stop nation-building...and he's expressed his hatred for FEMA before too. He wants to give disaster relief money directly to the people who actually need it...not the contractors who spend entirely too long rebuilding roads and bridges.