Ron Paul takes the lead in Iowa.

[Elok]

Quadruple post, for crying out loud...

[Elok]

Grass mud horse, what a server snafu...

[Elok]

I can at least make up three different "multiple post" messages...

[Elok]

So, he's not homophobic, he just refuses to shake hands with gay people or even share a bathroom with one. Makes sense!

[Asher]

I don't think he's homophobic or bigoted, actually. He's just wacky.

If he believes what he wrote, he most definitely is incredibly homophobic. He hates sharing restroom facilities with them gays...

[Zevico]

Here's an interesting opinion article. In the interests of people's sanity I'll just link to it from now on instead of quoting a block of text.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/12/paul-pot-and-paulestinians.html

[Al B. Sure!]

Yeah, I thought that was pretty good

How old are you?



God, you getting a kick out of that bothers me.

So, he's not homophobic, he just refuses to shake hands with gay people or even share a bathroom with one. Makes sense!

Stop spamming, Elok

[C0ckney]

Here's an interesting opinion article. In the interests of people's sanity I'll just link to it from now on instead of quoting a block of text.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011...estinians.html

if you're going to write a hit piece at least make it hard hitting, rather than a load of boring, trite, factually inaccurate, rambling bollocks.

there's nothing even remotely interesting or insightful there.

[Elok]

Stop spamming, Elok

The multiple posts were the result of a server error.

[Dr Strangelove]

Newt never had a ground game and without that it's very hard to get the signatures you need to get on the ballot much less to get out the vote and actually win an election. BTW why is Virginia's primary laws so restrictive? Supposedly they only let a total of three candidates on the ballot for each party. That's hardly fair.

He needed 10,000 valid signatures on a petition. He submitted a petition with more than 11,000 signatures, but not enough of them were valid. Evidently he stuffed his own petition. He may wind up running on the United Russia ballot.

[HalfLotus]

Fair coverage from HuffPo, gasp.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1174298.html

The super PAC supporting Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) in his presidential campaign released a powerful 2-minute web ad this morning designed to hit back at stories about racist comments in newsletters with Paul's name on them that appeared in the 80's and 90's.

The ad, produced by Revolution PAC, stars James Williams, a black man from Matagorda County, Texas. Williams says that when he took his wife -- who is white -- to the hospital in the early 70's, the hospital staff ignored her.

"Then Ron Paul came to my rescue. He just stepped in and went to work with my wife," Williams says, relating the story of how Paul delivered their stillborn child and made sure the Williams family never received a bill.

"He think of one human being just as much as the other. He's just an honest man and that's something we need now in this day and time. It's a lot of politics and no honesty," Williams says, transitioning to a political message. "When you have honesty, well, people will try to do anything to try to blot you out, and that's what they will try to do to him, is blot him out, because he will be honest, and we need more like him.

The ad ends with a plea for donations to help it air on television.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

"Then Ron Paul came to my rescue. He just stepped in and went to work with my wife," Williams says, relating the story of how Paul delivered their stillborn child and made sure the Williams family never received a bill.

It would be extra heart-warming if he was in favour of all such families receiving free medical treatment.

[Felch]

So a politician who buys votes with entitlements impresses you more than a doctor providing free medical care? I support public medical care, but I'd never mistake a policy position for an act of charity.

[HalfLotus]

Would be extra, extra special if liberals understood that the best way for a society to achieve high quality health care is through the market.

[giblets]

Would be neato if people didn't think universal health care and a market are mutually exclusive.