Was he a serious candidate in 08 and 2012? I dont know if this makes sense but its like modern day libertarians are freaks but in the Ron Paul era they were normal people ? Oldfags please help me understand
>>541188285Never heard of him,Probably just some e-celeb
>>541188285He was the underdog symbol, but no one actually thought he would win.
>>541188285* We wanted an end to the wars * We wanted an end to surveillance * We wanted an end to regulatory capture Very simple.
Semi-serious. People were upset that the banks got bailed out but not the people. Ron Paul wanted to audit the Federal Reserve Bank and got attacked for it. He was called antisemitic of course.
>we never got the ron paul r[EOVL]ution
>>541188285He was like Thomas Massie but without the mysterious death of his wife and sneering at people who have conspiracy theories about the fact that the cause of her death has never been publicly announced. Also without the membership in DeMolay, an offshoot of the Freemasons.
>>541188285>Was he a serious candidate in 08 and 2012?No. I liked him, but guy didn't win a single state, and usually got a single-digit percentage of the vote in primary states. Even if by some weird miracle he won the nomination, can you imagine how badly King Nigger would have destroyed him in 2008? Would have looked like the 1964 Barry Goldwater electoral map.
>>541188544>rEVOLution FtfyDECRIMINALIZE LOVE
Ron Paul should have been our president. the most deserving one i have ever seen in my lifetime. but we didn't deserve him.
>>541188599that was by design. i was there. i saw it happen in real time.
>>541188599So your opinion is that John McCain was a significantly better candidate?
>>541188285He's the attempt of millenials to negotiate with the boomers of the deep state. After the deep state shut Ron Paul down, Trump became the warning shot.
>>541188285I switched to being an independent voter to vote for him back in 2012, I knew he had no shot in my state but I wanted to express my approval
>>541188285another win for millennialchads, we were suppressed because we knew the truth.
>>541188760Yes, actually. I 100% do think John McCain performed better against Obama in the 2008 presidential election than Ron Paul would have.
>>541188757was he robbed of a primary? couldn't get good info on it and sadly even early 2010s stuff online is getting hard to find >>541188760wouldnt the better argument be mitt romney? what was the appeal of this guy post Occupy Wall Street comes across as tone deaf to me
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>>541188947What the fuck
>>541188947well for one thing Ron Paul wouldn't have gone with Palin lol
>>541188953yes. you can't find much good info because that's by design. they black hole'd him. when he started making other politicians look like actual NPC puppet retards in debates, they panicked and SHUT IT DOWN hard. there were many news reports around that time that just completely left out polling numbers, rally dates and interviews with Ron Paul (and only him). people were pissed, but powerless. there is no chance in hell he could have won. even though he deserved to.
>>541188947Damn you're a fucking retard, huh?
>>541188391reminder that trump was never suppressed like thisreminder that trump was on the lolita express just like bill clinton et alreminder that ron paul's final speech to the house was calling them a bunch of degenerate psychopaths
>>541189169>reminder that trump was never suppressed like thisTrump was too well known to suppress.>reminder that trump was on the lolita express just like bill clinton et alNo, he was on Epstein's jet in the 1990s before the island and before it was even known as the Lolita Express. Bill Clinton was on it when it was known as the Lolita Express with people like Kevin Spacey.
>>541188599He got 21 of 25 delegates from Iowa at the convention. I loathe Bernie. But I understand how his lemmings felt when they watched the machinations screw their candidate
>>541188285a man who could have saved us all... but WE turned it down...https://epsteinexposed.com/persons/ron-paul
>>541188285Who else remembers Rob Paul and Newt Gingrich word filters on old /b/
>>541188285>>541188391stormfags belong in a bog and will always be tourists here
Why did Redditors go batshit crazy over Rick Santorum's name?
>>541188285The short answer is that Ron Paul said things that made sense and was giving direction to move more towards industrialization was less reliant on debt and the financial system. Essentially he wanted to put the power back in the hands of the people instead of the finance and billionaire class.
>>541190645OP is disengeuous, there's been an effort here for years to remove the original culture of /pol/ and that includes nonstop attacks on libertarian ideals, because they want to replace with their homoerotic obsession of being dominated by federal authority, same people also attack anime for the same gay reasons, it doesn't fit with their retarded world view
>>541189169>reminder that trump was never suppressed like thiswhat they did to trump during his campaigns was a lot worse, they even tried to assassinate him multiple times
>>541188707the only man in my life time running for president that actually should have won
>>541188285RP Delegates were going to win the Tampa convention but glowniggers just shut it down with a fake hurricane and bussed key delegates around a fully locked down Tampa.
>>541188285he was a big deal. ron paul was the only candidate that actually gave smart people hope
>>541191399He knows where too many of the bodies are buried to be allowed to be President. Only the time travel program nepo babies get to play President.
>>541188285He was my first vote, bless Grandpa Paul
>>541188285>modern day libertarians are freaksWhat libertarians are you talking about? You realize Ron Paul is still alive, yes? https://www.youtube.com/@RonPaulLibertyReport/videos
>>541188285At the time, Ron Paul was the only prominent figure on the right offering an alternative to Neocon bullshit. Young conservatives flocked to him but the party crushed him and foisted Mitt Romney on us, who then lost to Obama because even Neocons thought Romney was a stupid little faggot.
>>541188707Pat Buchanan would have been a far superior President to Ron Paul.
>>541189169In 2016, we loved Trump for fighting and not just bowing out like Ron Paul seemed to do.
>>541188285It was his 91st birthday yesterday. He never wavered or flip-floped on his views. They are built on principles, not feelings and poles. Long after he is gone, something can come along that no one ever imagined and I could tell you Ron Paul's stance because its BUILT ON PRICIPLES NOT PANDERING!!!His last run for President they continued their long pattern of saying he couldnt win. The republicans canceled 3 districts primary voting in Maine because of snow. Nothing gets canceled in Maine because of snow. If these districts were allowed to have their votes counted Ron Paul would have won Maine, early in the primary season and taken away their only attack on him.He predicted everything that was coming in the 90s.
>>541188757I was with you. Just commented above that he would have won Maine early in the primary season but they canceled his 3 strongest districts voting for snow... in FUCKING MAINE!
>>541188285Libertarianism is pozzed from the beginning. Made by jews. Literally just anarcho-communism for American individualistic culture. These are the people who traditionally latched onto it, as a pure reactionary movement. Both parties suck and we need smaller government. That’s all normie libertarianism is.Partisanship itself is pozzed. I think Ron Paul has always been a conspiracy theorist revolutionary managing his power level and using libertarian party as a vehicle
>>541189066Palin was unironically the only reason McCain did as well as he did. The republicans blamed Palin but when she was initially picked she provided a enormous boost to McCain putting him almost even with Obama.The media pretended the things Tina Fey said on SNL were real Palin quotes which tanked her ratings and the republican establishment didn't do shit to defend her.
>>541194604Correct. Palin's actual record in office up to the point was pretty great, but from the time she was chosen as VP candidate, her life was turned upside down and she was made "the new terrible person", and she never really recovered.
>>541194604The left/media reaction caused it. It was a red pilling event. Palin was not a good politician, she was a normal small town mom and regular person. Everyone in Heartland America knows women just like her. And the way they mocked her for just that, it was mean-spirited and venomous about her small-town family oriented cheerful suburban Mom demeanor. It was just blatant elitism and pure urban jewish disdain for middle America on display for everyone
>>541191399>smart people >thinking a third party candidate has a chance I don’t think so m8
>>541188285He was basically the Bernie Sanders of the Repulicans, he is the reason that libertarians became a thing. The main thing is he was ABSOLUTELY correct about NAFTA. I knew a girl that worked for his campaign, she had some health issues, he paid for everything gave her time off whatever she needed. When both parties are scared of you then you are doing something right.
>>541188285He was the only person I ever voted for or will ever vote for as president.
>>541193523you loved him because the media kept putting him in front of you while crying about itit was baby's first reverse psychology
>>541188285libertarians have always been freaks and have never held any real power in any branch of government. ron paul was popular because he was sort-of normal and could speak on camera about common sense ideas instead of demanding the age of consent be erased along with drivers licenses.
>>541189986The cope is palpable.
>>541188285/new/ was all for Ron Paul. Ron Paul ya'll!
>>541190076Bernie and Ron have much more in common than they do different. Both are concerned with opposing tyranny and imperialism, and promoting liberty. Both would like a balanced (or at least moreso balanced) budget and stronger currency. Both are honest supporters of the middle class rather than panderers.Having a different outlook a country’s medical/insurance system is a relatively small thing to differ about.
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>>541190847^ /pol/ and really most of the early mid90s-2010s internet was heavily civil libertarian.Reddit was similarly libertarian but also very obama and freshmen critical theory. Time flies.
>>541197312>deepthroating an old literal kike who never accomplished anything of consequence during his decades in office
