Today is a great day. Ron Paul is out of office. Left with zero accomplishments & zero ideas

[graham4anything]

The nation is already in better shape with Ron Paul and Joe Lieberman gone forever from office.

And what a hypocrite Paul proved to be. He is now said to be on the speaker circuit reaping in the big bucks at $50,000 a 45 minute or less speech.
20 speeches a week and he nets 50 million a year.

His fans created a myth that never was.

Of course, his being in office so many years and never being gerrymandered out or defeated showed he was nothing but one of them. Tom DeLay would have gotten rid of him years ago if he really was an irritant.

imho

[Angry Dragon]

1. they took Allen West with them

[CurtEastPoint]

2. And Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Ron Paul was good at adding earmarks.

He would see a bill which he knew was going to pass and add the earmark for projects his district and then turn around and vote against them while claiming he never voted for spending. I like how he traveled first class and did not purchase his tickets for the best price but raised hell about the spending. There needs to be more like him brought to light and get rid of them. He is in another crazy group, don't know how to govern.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Dan Lungren got tossed on the dung heap, too

[Mojorabbit]

5. + a gazillion. nt

[white_wolf]

6. Ron Paul is gone?!

I always thought he had made a pact with Satan in order to stay in officer till death.

[Canuckistanian]

7. You know what I didn't like about him?

The mesmerizing effect he had on people who should have known better.

Paul was practically a full-blown Repub who was a pro-corporate, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant government-hater who just happened to be anti-war and against drug prohibition.

But he screamed "freedom" and "liberty" so often, low-information voters flocked to his fuzzy messages.

There was nothing so "revolutionary" about Paul. He just found a new angle.

[We People]

8. Good points all, Canuckistanian n/t

[Nevernose]

13. His stance on pot

Reminds me of O'Reilly's stance on the death penalty: correct in that one issue, but otherwise a supergiant asshole. A little bit like saying "Hitler had good organizational skills." Technically true, but still a scourge on the race of man.

[Canuckistanian]

14. Exactly n/t

[Retrograde]

9. But Rand Paul is still around

I don't think he would have been elected if it weren't for his father, so I suppose that's some sort of accomplishment for Ron.

[Doremus]

10. 20 speeches a week and he runs through his market in the first month, lol. nt

[mythology]

11. He also came into Congress with no ideas or accompliments

How he became the head of such a loud group is beyond me.

[RomneyLies]

12. "Hoo Ha Cherry Soda"

"I'm a leprechaun farmer who's a gambler"

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[Peace_Sells]

15. Hopefully

this will finally shut up his little cult of fanatical fans. I have never met such a creepy group of people. He's more of a messiah than a politician to them. I'm so tired of how everywhere I go on the internet seeing Ron Paul 2012 and shit. On videos of people like Bill Hicks and George Carlin who were both against corporations and capitalism some idiots always has to post some crap like if Bill Hicks were alive I know he'd vote for Ron Paul and it gets like 60 thumbs up even though it obviously isn't true. Not to mention how even the mildest criticism of Paul ridiculous policies (even his opposition to federal relief to hurricane victims) is met with hostility and name calling and being told you are a sheeple or obamabot.

[calimary]

22. Welcome to DU, Peace_Sells!

People who root for ron paul prove that they are pathetically uninformed. Just plain uninformed. It sounds nice to be against the war and against the war on drugs. Yeah, that's all well and good. But it doesn't stop there. It goes all the way to Nut-bucket Land. But this guy is an anarchist - wants to do away with EVERYTHING. Doesn't want government. AT ALL. Doesn't want regulations. Would yank your Medicare, Social Security, Student Loans, the works - AWAY from you. Worships ayn rand. Useless. With no REAL grasp of reality. Why he should have been ANYWHERE near the reins of power is beyond me. And his fans are in lockstep with him. Proving their ignorance.

I used to think he was like the Harold Stassen of modern-day Presidential elections. Harold Stassen ran for President something like seven times, decades ago. Never got close. Actually became a national joke - so much of one I used to see him referenced in MAD Magazine - "sure, I'll believe that like I believe Harold Stassen will be President some day." ron paul is his rightful heir. Good Riddance to him, too. Go run for president of Somalia, ron. That's your kind of place.

[meow2u3]

16. Not to mention, Mrs. Pruneface, "Mean" Jean Schmidt

To all the teabagger ex-Reps: don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out--unless the Dem who replaced you kicked you there first!

[D23MIURG23]

17. I have some family who are Ron Paul supporters.

Based on what I've seen from them, he is basically the "ethically pure" candidate/politician for left leaning non-conformists who should know better. It amazes me how much a politician can get away with if he proposes ending the drug war, and talks up non-interventionist foreign policy. Those are good things, but not enough to overlook the fact that he is anti-science, anti-choice, a proponent of 19th century economics, and a closet segregationist to boot.

I used to like Paul to some degree before I understood the breadth of his positions. Better to hold my applause until the couple of good things he supports are espoused by someone sane.

[mr_liberal]

18. Now I know what his presidential campaign was about

to raise his profile so he could get higher speaker fees.

[calimary]

19. And "Mean jean schmidt." GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!

Good riddance to bad rubbish! And dan quayle's kid - GONE. Lost his Arizona congressional seat! WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I remember when Jay Leno commented on the ouster of bush1 and his idiot VP dan quayle. quayle went back to Indiana leaving his wife marilyn in the Washington DC area since she was still gainfully employed as a lawyer. He went home to watch the kids. One of his hallmarks as VP was to attack Candice Bergen's hit CBS sitcom, "Murphy Brown," on the "family values" shtick. Bergen played this hard-bitten career-driven TV journalist who got pregnant and wasn't married, and decided to have the baby. It was BIG news on the pop-culture front, and dan-the-ding-dong quayle whined in public about how this was such a terrible role model and blah-blah-blah. Hell, her character decided to keep the baby, idiot, what are you belly-aching about? Should she have had an abortion because she was single, dan? Would THAT have made you happy? GOD what a dunce!!! So he went back home with his tail between his legs to be a stay-at-home parent after Clinton-Gore kicked bush-quayle's butts. And working wife marilyn stayed on the job. And Jay Leno pointed out the irony of how quayle had railed so long and so loudly against single moms. And now he WAS one!

Poetic justice!!! AND it got a huge laugh in his monologue that night!

And now his smarmy kid has been turned out of office too. Awww... just like daddy!

[msanthrope]

20. Fuck Ron Paul! nt

[7wo7rees]

21. Yes it is. So glad to see him be gone. Sad imitation of Ross Perot.

Played to the "patriots". Just sad. But a great day he is gone from the political landscape.