I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think maybe we should send some politicians up there.

Ron Paul (via laliberty)

Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It’s true. You’ve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have healthcare and booing a service member in Iraq because they’re gay. That’s not reflective of who we are,

President Barack Obama

Obama says GOP debates ‘not reflective of who we are’ – latimes.com

Because Obama is just so non-partisan, right? C’mon, bro, insulting Republicans isn’t a. winning you any votes or b. making you appear at all messiah-like. So your strategy for 2012 doesn’t match your strategy for 2008, the latter being the best campaign in history (seriously, as a marketing junkie, I am still in awe of that campaign… not the candidate, but the campaign). Should have stuck with the plan: ‘do as the handlers say’. They are very good handlers.

logicallypositive: Let’s take this time to educate the reader on logical fallacies. in specific, here’s a great real-life example of the fallacy of the loaded question. First of all, the question from Wolf Blitzer is pretty damn loaded: it has the implication that Ron Paul wants to somehow let people who don’t have… To be fair, those people claiming that Paul was the one who advocated letting the man die didn’t watch the debate. A good deal of Republicans didn’t watch the debate, so I guarantee you neither did those on the left. It was mainly just us, the libertarians, who are generally ‘over’-informed about the grim state of the world/politics/country. Most people don’t fact-check, so once one leftist with bad intentions posts that claim, the sheep follow (just like they do on the right, without fact-checking). I mainly feel pity for a country of willfully mislead media whores… Then I realize that in their herds, they determine the policies under which I live and I am terrified. On a totally unrelated note, bro: your name has a military of doily keystrokes surrounding it. It’s quite intimidating, yet surprisingly effeminate, making it really, really confusing.

There’s been a lot of stuff going around about Ron Paul supposedly supporting a guy who dies because he can’t afford…

Watching the Republican Debate Tonight

libertyidaho:

was the most disturbing thing i’ve seen in a while. It wasn’t even a debate. It was Perry Vs. Romney battling it out, seeing who can lie and trick the American people best. The others (as much as I can’t stand them) were completely neglected.

Ron Paul was asked completely irrelevant questions like what he thought of FEMA, school lunch, the minimum wage, and others. When every other candidate was asked about foreign policy, he was ignored. When every candidate was asked about health care, Dr. Paul was ignored. When many candidates were asked about the Federal Reserve, he was ignored. 

What was I expecting though? 

The Huffington Post had the most accurate tweet of the night: The winner of the night’s debate is ‘Anyone who didn’t watch.’ 

eltigrechico:

and everybody else on stage just looks at him like he is a man from Mars speaking a language they have never heard before.

Pretty much sums up his entire political career.