(x-posted) How many GOP presidential candidates does it take to beat Ron Paul?

[benkilpatrick]

In Louisiana...all of them.

Louisiana has a two-part caucus to select GOP national convention delegates; (the primary is basically a beauty pageant). See explanations of how it all works here and here. Various pro-Paul groups around the state were able to amass enough qualified individuals to submit a full slate of delegates - more than any other

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[to_scarlet_hue]

Awesome. I usually vote Democrat when put to it, but I voted for Ron Paul in the Michigan primaries. He's outlasted Fred Thompson too, heheh.

[mmoneurere]

Ron Paul scares me, especially as a libertarian. Anyone who doesn't follow RP's line (shared by the Libertarian Party) that, effectively, only actions by a self-described government can be a threat to liberty should think carefully about someone like Paul who, instead of mitigating the coercive functions of the state, would simply devolve them to select "private" elites.

[7leaguebootdisk]

Better than the kleptocracy we have now.

[mmoneurere]

I'm not quite sure how an unrestrained neo-feudalist kleptocracy is preferable to a kleptocracy bogged down by bureaucracy and the need to at least appear accountable.

[7leaguebootdisk]

Well, at least they'd have to steal on their own, rather than via the government (it has vast amounts of money, and a monopoly on force).

[dumpsterfresh]

Who cares?

[benkilpatrick]

People who are in this to do more than a bit of fashionable posing in hopes of a cookie and a pat on the back.

[dumpsterfresh]

1- I though this was posted to the anarchists community, so I'm sorry for the hasty response.

2- Nevertheless, Ron Paul is a total clown.

3- They always get away with politics as usual.

[to_scarlet_hue]

Can I steal your icon?