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Is Ron Paul our best candidate?
According to these battle results -- it looks like most people react very positively to Ron Paul. Do you think he'll even get the Republican nomination?
I don't think he's "figured out" anything. His website isn't as well done as the other candidates and it's not like he's actually using the internet himself. He seems like a pretty kooky old man to me and I doubt he knows a hell of a lot about technology.
His success on the net is that his policy appeals to nerdy individualists (the stereotypical tech dude) who for the most part have avoided politics in general as groupist coercion. Remember that the tech sector is the only major skilled industry in America not plagued with unionized labor or association groups. Internet workers for the most part work in fairly risky endevours where an expectation of reward/regret to risk is common. It's not like Ron Paul is spouting any new ideas to them.
The Tech industry is one of the most competitive and smart industries around. It's tired of stupidity of the patent system, and is upset about censorship concerns and wiretapping concerns. The whole internet community knows that what makes the internet great is that it is unregulated freedom of information and exchange of ideas. A libertarian ideology goes down quite easily, benefit of liberty is obvious to these people, who make their lives with it.
morn says:
"The Tech industry is one of the most competitive and smart industries around. It's tired of stupidity of the patent system, and is upset about censorship concerns and wiretapping concerns. The whole internet community knows that what makes the internet great is that it is unregulated freedom of information and exchange of ideas. A libertarian ideology goes down quite easily, benefit of liberty is obvious to these people, who make their lives with it."
Precisely, and well put. Though I do not feel that strict libertarianism is without its flaws, but the same holds true for extremism in any faith, ideal, or perspective.
I'm voting for him, too.
This cycle, the dems are up because, for some reason, people against the war think dems will get us out. Hillary and Barack (and everyone else) express dislike of the war, but won't guarantee ever leaving Iraq. If the repubs pick Ron Paul, he take the whole war issue away from the dems and makes it a positive one for the repubs.
Ron would own the debate. That guy is a combination tank and laser in a debate. I would dearly love to see a Ron Paul-Hillary Clinton debate. Now, that's my idea of television!
