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Monday, December 3, 2007 12:00 AM

Ron Paul is a baby elephant

From around the country, Ron Paul's followers are descending on New Hampshire to go door-to-door for their man. But what do they really want?

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  • Monday, December 3, 2007 06:58 PM

    Priorities

    Ok, for everyone that cries about corporate power whenever reducing federal government power is mentioned, visualize the following: Government is a big magnet that attracts corporate corruption. The magnetic force is the power that we give them. Eventually this government-corporate blend grows so powerful and indistinguishable that what we get is corporate fascism, one big machine that sucks wealth and power from the people to the leaders. If you limit the power of government, you limit the ability of corporations to be a part of this unholy beast. This is not the free market. This is money sucked out of our pockets and used to finance wars, drug prohibition, government surveillance, and all of the other crap that is stripping our liberty and our bank accounts and making the rest of the world hate us. There are only two viable candidates that are standing up to this crap, Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. We can all bring up this issue or that issue that we disagree with, we can slander either of them, but right now supporting what they stand for is much more important that this bickering, and although I expected it from the party of Guiliani, I'm really disappointed with the Democrats and their griping about Ron Paul's stance on issues that aren't that important right now.

    So if you are a Democrat who believes in the Constitution and the rights of the individual that are rapidly being stripped away support Kucinich and shut up about Paul. I don't hear Paul supporters bothering to bash Kucinich, because most of them are intelligent enough to see that he is with them on the CRITICAL issues we are facing RIGHT NOW.

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