Ron Paul.

[Beet]

Can Ron Paul actually win the GOP nomination?

[You kip if you want to...]

No.

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

Considering that his big three opponents are a rapidly declining congresswoman who is more and more being considered Palin lite, a slick politician who could launch a zombie invasion with the skeletons in his closet, and a fellow who exhibits all of the traits of a flavour of the month with the bonus of every third word to the media being a gaffe, yeah, he probably can.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Beet, you are declining. I was hoping for something like Christine O'DonnellRon Paul will be the next SenatorPresident fromof Delawarethe United States

[Grumpier Than Thou]

As a supporter of his....probably not.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I'm waiting for jcl to pop in saying how he will win. I haven't seen him in a while. Did he get banned?

[Mehmentum]

I think he could, but it is rather improbable.  Its not as likely as Bachmann, Perry, or Romney winning, but more likely most of the rest of the field.

[Yelnoc]

I'm waiting for jcl to pop in saying how he will win. I haven't seen him in a while. Did he get banned?

I wouldn't be surprised.  He struck me as a Paulbot in the literal sense of the word (a computer program taking the subject line of a thread, trawling the internet for related sentences, and then posting the results).

[tmthforu94]

Can he? Yes.

[TheGlobalizer]

Yes, but unlikely.

[Joe Biden 2020]

No, and for one reason and it's a reason that nobody has really talked about.  Age.  The man, as revolutionary as he is, is in his mid 70s beating John McCain and Ronald Reagan in the first-term age race.  By the time he got through with his first term, the man would be 80.  He would have to have a younger VP who would be able to stand in at any moment.  We could very well see the 45th and 46th Presidents of the United States were he to be elected.

Plus, I think Ron Paul could be hurt by his son, Rand.  I don't know how well Rand Paul is doing in Kentucky, though, so that question remains a toss-up for me, at least.

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Paul's support is way down in the latest CNN poll.

[Zarn]

Paul's support is way down in the latest CNN poll.

Good news for Paul. Huffington Post had an article arguing that he is one of the front runners.

[tpfkaw]

He can certainly obtain enough support to win.  Whether they'd let him is another matter entirely.

[Qwezos]

Has some good views on foreign policy and civil liberties but needs to drop on all the kooks and racist.

[Mr. Morden]

Yes, I realize this is tacky of me to post this, but I can't help myself....

Can Ron Paul actually win the GOP nomination?

Beet, I'm grasping at straws as here to explain why you posted a thread on Ron Paul when the nominee is so obviously Palin.  Why bother starting a thread about a candidate other than Palin?   

[Beet]

Yes, I realize this is tacky of me to post this, but I can't help myself....

Can Ron Paul actually win the GOP nomination?

Beet, I'm grasping at straws as here to explain why you posted a thread on Ron Paul when the nominee is so obviously Palin.  Why bother starting a thread about a candidate other than Palin?   

Well, Ron Paul probably gets the most "grassroots support". He did well in Iowa, with a steady rise in the polls, unlike the surge/collapse dynamics of the other candidates, and the flat-line for Romney. In New Hampshire, it was a similar story. Now he's rising in the polls in South Carolina.

In the GE, he polls pretty much comparably as Mitt Romney, because he's able to pull in a lot of independents and even some disaffected Democrats with his libertarian position on social issues (which puts him to the left of Obama on a few) and his anti-interventionist position on foreign policy.

The man's no liberal by any means, but one can see why he offers a shakeup of American politics that so m any disaffected voters so desperately want. The only problem is that if his policies actually tried to be implemented, it would be a disaster, but that won't be a problem for him in South Carolina.