Alex,

You shold read the April 2007 Cover Story in Reason Magazine, titled "BE Afraid of Preident McCain"(the frightening mind of an authoritarian maverick).

This article uses John McCains own books (his own words). And it is some scary stuff.

The only thing Mccain has done very well in life is Being a POW...oh and marrying money. It blows my mind just how little many of his supporters seem to know about him. I actually hope that you are in that category, because if you really know what he stands for, (McCain that is)and you still support him that is frightening.

Should be interesting. I hope McCain does well. I don't dislike Ron Paul, but I dont understand how an antiwar candidate can win in a primary where the majority of the primary voters support the war.

I strongly recommend going to The Economist and reading "The Case for John McCain"

Viva Rudy!! Hispanics want a strong leader that will get results. I am a hispanic-american and every hispanic I know is conservative but they may not know it. Finally, they will hear Republicans debate. I hope Univision will ask them important questions not ridiculous questions like CNN.

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republicanrenaissance.blogspot.c0om/2007/11/protest-candidate-or-only-republican.html

Brought a tear to my eye.

I fully agree with David's as always penetrating analysis, and may I add what might appear to be just a thought experiment - but I am talking about reality - and I wish more people would give consideration to what my below point might mean for them today, especially when the whole system is closer than it ever was to collapse:
In 1945, inadvertently Germany became a libertarian's dream in that the state had lost its might by default, people were left to their own devices, and one man (in the otherwise socialistically minded country), just one man - not unlike Ron Paul: Ludwig Ehrhard, an uncompromising liberal in the original and consistently meaningful sense of the word - saw to it that what policies the state was capable of enforcing would be supportive of a free market.
Result: Germany, in 1945 one of the poorest and most desolate countries in the world, emerged 10 to 15 years later as the third richest country in the world
- only then to allow the state to misappropriate the wealth the people had created of their own accord and to built a road back to socialism...and the Germans today try to figure out why the country is considered the sick man of Europe.
What we have to fear - and the growing number of Ron Paul supporters understand this and act to stop that danger - what we do have to fear is ignorance of the meaning of liberty and the habits of not perceiving, tolerating or actually practising corruption, habits that ensue from this ignorance and that we have been conditioned to carry in us for too long. Including the more or less sublimal belief that the President is or should be some kind of a King.
But unlike Germany, America has a tradition of liberty, rooted in the hearts of millions who will get going at the prospect of taking back their country.
As a European, I find it ludicrous to hear: "all bad things come out of America" (politically speaking).
The contrary is true: "all bad things come out of Europe" - and to sum them up: the paternalist state and the philosophy and the lies that are required to buttress this calamity.
Americans, do export Clinton et al to the Old World where trheir true home is (or simply do not vote for them), get rid of all that European welfare-cum-warfareism so alien to the spirit of your great nation, Americans become yourselves again.
Americans, you severed your ties with the old world when the British betrayed liberty and set out on the path to totalitarian democracy, granting parliament unrestrained power.
Americans, instead you pursued liberty and built the greatest nation ever.
America is still the greatest nation in the world, because she is - notwithstanding her problems and aberrations - by far the largest receptacle of the love of liberty anywhere to be found on the globe.
No other country, no other people in the world are capable of accomplishing the tremendous feat of making liberty the dominant political paradigm of the world.

Americans, I beg you, be yourselves.

Igor
November 12, 2007 2:45 PM

Ron Paul is the only candidate that can turn things around for the usa. I just hope they don't cheat him out of time in this debate. He will probably end up raising more money than any republican candidate in the 4th quarter. I consider someone who raises that much money a top tier candidate.