Ron Paul, 3rd times the charm?

Today, Congressman Ron Paul made it official. He's running for President, again. But while he's long been considered a fringe candidate, could this time around, be just right? With the country reeling from an economic crisis, a housing bubble that imploded, and weary of fighting non stop wars, opinions are definitely shifting. But what will be the biggest obstacle for Paul? His libertarian ideals, that in some respects, seem rather radical for average Americans? Or the GOP establishment, that's hell bent on keeping the status quo? Alyona and Mike Riggs Associate Editor at Reason Magazine discuss.

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[slewofdamascus]

What is truly sad to me is that people don't realize how enlightened and evolved the Constitution is, it represents the best of what grew out of the Magna Carta and the Common Law. It provides to every individual limitless freedom, limited only by the limits of one's imagination. That limitless sense of what is possible is the essence of what it is to be "free". What is missing today is the truth of our reality. This country was bankrupted in 1933. We have been in receivorship ever since.

[slewofdamascus]

Ron Paul wants to suspend income tax for at least a couple years! Can you imagine a bigger stimulus to the economy? Everyone knows that our incom tax is not used for government spending, it goes straight to the bankers for the payment of interest. Ron Paul wants to take back those trillions that were stolen from the american people during the financial crisis. Ron Paul is a revolutionary who will transform America into the constitutional republic she was meant to be.

[denirio781]

all the problems that she mentions are CAUSED by the government. The government creates the illusion of these problems being inherent in the system while it is the government itself that causes the problems. All RP wants to do is get the gov't out of the way and unleash the "freedom" aspect of our Founding document. People are so blind and ill-informed that they think they need the gov't to save them from themselves. Man it's really pathetic when you think about it.

[BEARARMZ]

@PoliticoNews Nope, i dont care about you life. dont care to know about it either.

[PoliticoNews]

@BEARARMZ I've got a fantastic life. Does that piss you off, too? I've got a really strong feeling it does.

[BEARARMZ]

@PoliticoNews why dont you get a life

[PoliticoNews]

@BEARARMZ Why don't you stop being a pathetic excuse for a human?

[givebirthathome]

@Cashify : ) I certainly hope so. Someone needs to start "Progressives for Paul" (would be me, but there's alot I would need to pick up about net-skills before I could do that), so folks don't think they need to give up their political identities and agree with everything Paul says to support him.

[slewofdamascus]

@bulldog8459 thanks, man.

[bulldog8459]

@slewofdamascus well said

[Cashify]

@LordDyhalto "Right now, it's more important that libertarians provide a viable alternative to a status quo that demands big government regulation of all things under the sun. When the revolution succeeds then the intellectual champions can be sent forth to construct the new system" Yeah, let's not kid ourselves. We have an ifestation of liars, theives and murderers and need to gut the system and set it up so honest people have a chance to get elected. Ron Paul would be an enema.