Ron Paul is like the little pig that built the brick house (with the help of his donor friends). Big bad Rupert Fox can huff and puff but he can't blow down the Paul Revolution. I hope Fox is embarrased by the results in Iowa. It's time big media had a comeuppance! Go Ron Go!

This idea= that even if only one candidate from all the candidates from both parties tells us the truth- that manipulating other countries and killing their people is wrong, that becoming a debtor nation with trillions to be paid by tax payers for generations to come, that the war on drugs does not work, etc. maybe the first time in American history a candidate says what most of us know to be true

BUT we shouldn't vote for him because he is not "electable" !?!?

Than we truly are a population of idiots that do desearve the government we get.

"but I would contend that it's better to fix a broken system than to dismantle it and hope that will fix everything -- especially when one side of the equation (corporate interests) has a disproportionate amount of power."

The disproportionate amount of power that you speak of can only by wielded by those who control your lovely regulatory system of bureaus and agencies. And, guess who uses that system to control their markets.

ABC might as well keep Ron Paul out of their debate, since they managed to keep him out of all of their other "reporting" as well.

but I would contend that it's better to fix a broken system than to dismantle it and hope that will fix everything -- especially when one side of the equation (corporate interests) has a disproportionate amount of power.

How is that equation going to change again? That's right, it's not, not with any of the greedy power whores we call elitists controlling the status quo. Instead, the Establishment reminds us that we should be bickering about issues that only affect subsets of us, you know, the big time wedge issues that keep us distracted while they pilfer everyone else's wealth.

You mean the former lobbyists that end up heading the organizations they used to lobby against?

I believe I addressed that angle by the following: (or, in the case of the Bush administration, neutering)

It's not always the easiest thing to do, but I would contend that it's better to fix a broken system than to dismantle it and hope that will fix everything -- especially when one side of the equation (corporate interests) has a disproportionate amount of power.

When they are busy free-falling past you at terminal velocity?

You mean the former lobbyists that end up heading the organizations they used to lobby against?

"Funny thing about that notion: dissolving (or, in the case of the Bush administration, neutering) the regulatory power of the federal government is just about the best possible thing one could do to ensure the ascendency of said corporate fascist state."

Well said.

"Paul is the only candidate in the GOP lineup who is warning about the corporate fascist state in America."

Funny thing about that notion: dissolving (or, in the case of the Bush administration, neutering) the regulatory power of the federal government is just about the best possible thing one could do to ensure the ascendency of said corporate fascist state.

Anyone with any sense should be able to see that, unless A) they believe that the state governments are sufficiently willing and capable of performing that regulatory role, or B) they believe that the mythical "free market" (you know, the one that would be suddenly wholly owned by those very corporate fascists) is capable of self-regulation.

Good friggin luck with those options.

That is Grade A snark. Bravo, Mr. Madsen.

"Abolish the IRS, the Dept. of Education and basically reduce federal spending to a non-interventionist military only."

Actually, that sounds a lot like Grover Norquist's standard schtick, and it hasn't kept him off the air. I don't believe it is what "we" may find objectionable about Paul's positions that keep him "who?" category for candidates as far as media coverage, but, rather the rhetorical challenge to the Washington consensus crowd, the MIC, the lobbyists, and everyone else feeding at the trough.

If I have to, I can live with McCain, but I could not have Giuliani, the ultra-authoritarian, as my president. I'd sooner move to Canada. I'm enjoying watching him go down in flames. Feels real good. I only wish I could be a fly on the wall as he sobs at night to his latest bimbo wife.

It's that he wants to shrink the federal government enough to drown it.

Abolish the IRS, the Dept. of Education and basically reduce federal spending to a non-interventionist military only. He's an extreme Libertarian, and, being an extreme, is out of touch with about 95% or more of the country.

He has no chance of being elected or being a vice-presidential candidate. He's doing a bit better than Rudy in Iowa but is inconsequential nationally. He does, however, bring a needed outlook to the debates.

Ron Paul was right about the war. He's right about the Constitution. But these fine qualities alone don't make him right for the presidency.

Here's what Wayne Madsen says about the bunch (including Rudy and Paul):

"John McCain is a tool of the neocons. His endorsement by Joe Lieberman speaks volumes about where McCain's money is coming from. Mitt Romney, the "Joe Isuzu" of American politics, is about as open about his beliefs in Mormon cultism as George W. Bush and John Kerry were about their links to the cult of morbidity, the Skull and Bones. Mike Huckabee would become America's first preacher-president. America should rid its political process of the "Christian Mullahs" and "Rabid Rabbis" and not put them and their ilk into the White House. Duncan Hunter should be serving a jail term along with his pal Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Alan Keyes belongs in Maryland's Crownsville Hospital for the Mentally Ill. Fred Thompson, who can't even play a good lawyer on TV, was summed up succinctly by President Nixon: "He's dumb as hell."

As for Rudy Giuliani, how do you spell Mafia? Not your Don Corleone, behind-the beaded-curtains pizzeria-style Mafia. Giuliani's Mafia is more at home with borscht and gefilte fish than with meatballs and spaghetti and much more dangerous: weapons and drug smuggling, nuclear proliferation, blood diamonds, casinos, unscrupulous land development, and 73 Russian and Ukrainian expat billionaire mobsters all traveling unfettered with Israeli passports.

Paul is the only candidate in the GOP lineup who is warning about the corporate fascist state in America. Ideally, his words should be echoed by the Democratic slate of candidates but the Rahm Emanuels, Steny Hoyers, and Nancy Pelosis in that party will not hear of the "F" word."