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[RLENT]

Why is it so many of you are Delusional to belive that if Paul were to become president a switch gets flipped and all of a sudden he gets things done.

Here's a few words/concepts you should become familiar with:

Popular Mandate

Bully Pulpit

 

[davekc]

Ok so I dont see ron paul as the guy to beable to pull this country from the brink.I see him just as I see the rest a liar and a guy who has a lot of bad ideas and you think I dont like freedom?Thats funny.Paul says he is going to cut 1 trillion right off the bat.We all know that is not going to happen as the president does not make the budget congress does.yet he keeps saying this is something he is going to do.Let him veto it both houses of congress votes again and with 2/3 voting for ir it passes with out Paul.Paul would become to known as the most powerless president in the countrys history.


Paul says he will end the fed.Yet if you dig I have posted it here befor Paul also says he knows this is not something that can happen.Paul has sponcerd over 600 bills yet only one of them has ever become a law.Why is it so many of you are Delusional to belive that if Paul were to become president a switch gets flipped and all of a sudden he gets things done.

Having sponsored or co-sponsored 620 bills with only one that passed is a legitimate concern. His ability to be taken seriously would be tested. This is also a place that his competitors will go to discredit him. Gingrich is really the only one on a federal level that got a few things done while working with the opposition.
The bad news is he had some major trip ups along the way.
Santorum is making that claim as well, but his involvement is on a smaller scale.

 

[RLENT]

Having sponsored or co-sponsored 620 bills with only one that passed is a legitimate concern.

That's certainly one way of looking at it ..... however to "flip it", the contrarian view would be to ask:

Since it is Congress (along with the Executive) that has managed to place us in the untenable situation we are in, and since Dr. Paul is not in the mainstream there (thankfully), and indeed votes against the insanity which has brought us to where we currently are, is it not at least a possibility that this accrues to his benefit ?

I think if you poll the electorate you would find that the vast majority of people do not feel as though that a lack of additional new laws is a major problem - in fact, it will be likely the reverse: we already have way too much law as it is.

And if there is any law that we ought to following (for blood) it's the Constitution.

His ability to be taken seriously would be tested.

Indeed.

But what do you think would happen to his ability if won with a significant mandate ?

What if he won in a landslide ?

What message would that send to Congress ?

How would they react ?

By telling the American people to go pizz off ?

This is also a place that his competitors will go to discredit him.

Of course they will (having little in the way of real ammo) - but they should expect to get it "flipped" back on them

Gingrich is really the only one on a federal level that got a few things done while working with the opposition.

Yup - but he also has a record of backstabbing those he's worked with.

Dr. Paul doesn't - if anything quite the reverse.

The bad news is he had some major trip ups along the way.

Actually, that's the good news - because it means he will likely never be president

Newt may make it to (and through) NH, but own personal history of doing himself in does not bode well for his chances beyond that ...

One only has to look at what he's done to himself in the campaign so far to get an idea of the problem ..... and a preview into what awaits Newt by virtue of his own hand (or mouth)

Santorum is making that claim as well, but his involvement is on a smaller scale.

Rick's problem is that he has a very limited appeal to those outside of his base, as evidenced by his long-term poll numbers ....... his views are so far out of the mainstream that he would stand absolutely no chance of prevailing in the general election ....