I don't think he's really arguing about the popularity of the decisions. The point is who's ultimately right, and I think the case can be easily made that a broad interpretation of the Constitution creates more problems than it solves.

That's what he gets for having that stupid as fuck name. I wouldn't want to call on Tommy Tom Tommel Thomson either.

You'll be missing him when F. Thompson brings out that goddamn pickup truck.

It isn't his fault. His name just always reminds me of Tommy Tutone.

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That's not ron paul...

In real news, a pollster predicts a 3-5% surge for Paul in the polls:
Basically 18-29 year-olds don't represent a significant enough voting block for pollsters to bother going after since they more often lack landlines and don't really vote anyways. The theory is that Paul is inspiring a lot of young 'ins through the intercats, and once all these bums come home for the summer from college we might see a small surge in numbers for Paul.

Too hot to pander, too cold to poll

"The dryest fish in the lake"

But he makes me want to believe.:niki:

Youtube of Paul talking about Medicare and Nuclear power:

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Basically, at the end of the day, Paul's a libertarian. And libertarianism is just anarchy for rich people.

Anarchy is as anarchy does.

Me too. After the last debate on CNN, I'm totally in. Although it'd take a miracle for him to get the party nod cause he's not as handsome as the mormon and people buy Rudy's/Lois Griffin's approach when he weasles his way out of corners by mentioning "9-11 was bad!"

Actually, its looking like a couple of the "top three" were really nothing more than placeholders for Fred Thompson. Since each of these three men appeal to a slightly different demographic, and then they bow out in deference to the Bush in actor's clothing (ZOMG AN ACTOR LIKE REAGANREAGANREAGANREAGAN... REAGAN), they will likely consolidate a lot of their supporters to the Thompson campaign. Lets just hope that McCain is more senile than we already know, and that Giuliani's self-glorifying aspirations supersede any of these possible political tricks.

I liked how Bill O'Reilly and some other talking head couldn't wait to talk about how "Reaganesque" Fred Thompson is. How much is he like Reagan? Well... uh... he's an actor.

Wanna know more about Ron Paul? Get it from the horse's mouth right over here!

Dude, yesterday while driving into work in an awesome traffic jam a whole bunch of callers starting wailing on CSPAN about Ron Paul and how noone in the media was talking about him, and how Ron has consistently won out in online polls, and showed how noone at CSPAN really knows that much about him because obviously they aren't getting paid to cover Ron Paul. But yeah my dad hadn't even heard of Ron Paul until I was all holy shit over the callers being awesome.

Moon bats who bother calling into CSPAN can be pretty awesome, yeah. The funniest thing is that CSPAN probably has more coverage of Congressman Paul since they actually broadcast the House floor.

This is superficially related to Ron Paul since either he or his people were at the speech, but Andrew Napolitano is endorsing Paul because he loves freedoms that have been violated as outlined:

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The really scary stuff is in Part 4.

Just for fun here's Paul from his 1988 campaign punk'n fatties on the Drug War:

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I saw an ad for Tucker Carlson having Ron Paul on his show tonight. They're advertising it as saying something along the lines of, "Have you heard of this Republican who's raised even more money than Rudy Giuliani for his campaign?"

Oh wow Ron Paul is getting good backing in funds? I thought he was doing terrible there as well. This is good news if so.

Are you sure it was Giuliani, and not John McCain?
Because Paul has definitely raised more funds than the McCain campaign, and now its become clear that they are jumping ship. (Three of the lead staffers are resigning or fired.)
$2.4 million is the estimated total cash on hand for the Paul campaign(as opposed to McCain's $2 mil), and since they've been very stingy, as well as having a strong volunteer support base, this can last them a long while.

In contrast, I saw a recent Gallup poll which registered a whopping zero percent for Paul. Power candidate indeed.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics...llup-poll.html

One does not necessarily relate to the other. McCain has raised around $25 million since the beginning of the year. McCain has also been spending it while slipping behind in the polls.

Now that you mention McCain it might have been, but I really can't say for sure since I saw the ad last night while cooking dinner, so my attention wasn't really 100%.

The standing cash is only impressive insofar as it keeps him in the race, and makes him the leading financial 2nd-Tier despite having no presence in the polls.

Paul's been pretty up front about him having more money because he hasn't spent it.

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Some neat statistics from Q2 filings:

Received the most money from every branch except the Marine Corps, and received almost half of all money donated to Republicans from the military.

Half of all the money is from donations of less than 200 dollars.

He's got more Cash on Hand than all other 6 second-tier candidates combined:

RP: $2,354,855
Other 6: $1,959,358

Obama Girl eat your heart out.