[quote]Mick28 wrote:
storey420 wrote:
First of all Mick, I am 31 and have been “in the real world” working for quite some time and am starting my own company as well.
Good luck on that.
Technically I am in college doing an online MBA program while juggling my work. I make quite a good living and although my screen name has 420 in it, no I’m not sitting in my room playing video games or taking bong hits with my zany college buddies.
I too have worked a campaign and that is what turned me away from politics for quite some time.
Sorry, couldn’t tell by your post. It looked like yet another college kid expounding on things he knows nothing about. You leap to such grand conclusions that your post smacked of yet another 20 something pretending to understand the United States political system.
The most important and telling piece of your rebuttal is the glaring fact that you inferred your response which in no way did I say that Paul has a chance. I wish he did, I wish the two party idiocy perpetuated by “people like Mick” would be thrown away
And that last line is what lead me to believe that you were a kid. I’ve never stated that I was a “two party guy”. You “assumed” (which kids do a lot of) that because I was anti-Paul I was against someone running independent of a party. Or I was against someone who was more of a libertarian bent.
You were and are wrong on both counts!
Unless of course you’d like to show me in any of my many posts where I stated such a thing…you can’t.
I’m putting your words in quotes here “respond like someone who can recognize his ass from first base.”
I’m still waiting for you to respond like someone who can recognize his “ass from first base”. You’ve shown me nothing so far but more misinterpretations of what I’ve stated on this thread. The biggest one of course is your insistence that I’m against a third party candidate.
Congratulations for being out in the real world. But in your case you might want to go back to school for a reading comprehension course.
Priceless, now go get your wife(apparently she reads better)
She not only reads better than me, she comprehends what she reads way, way better than you.
Hopefully tooling “Nominal Prospect” will make your life complete.
Just as this post made your life complete?
I’ll repeat something that you might have missed:
I’m not gloating over the fact that Paul can’t win. I’m laughing at Nominal for his starry eyed fucked up over zealous, unrealistic attitude toward the Paul campaign. He carries on like that and I find it amusing. Hey, this is all entertainment anyway right?
And I’ll add you to the list.
Not for being an overzealous Paul supporter, as I don’t think that you are. But for assuming (like a kid) that simply because I don’t think Paul has a chance I automatically fall into the realm of a two party guy and would oppose anyone who marches to a different tune.
As I said earlier, your reading comp sucks.
Now try again.
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I’ll concede the fact that I made an erroneous assumption based on your posts. If you want to know it is stuff like this "Schmucks like Ron Paul will be long gone by the time Florida rolls around, or shortly there after. That means we have to listen to his happy horse shit for about another 7 months.
I’m not trying to offend you. But as you move along in life you are going to find out that not everyone who stands up in front of the people jumping up and down with a few good ideas, and a few shitty ones, is going to lead the next revolution.
This crap has been going on long before you were a gleam in your fathers eye.
I tried to point out a few of them to you: John Anderson, Ross Perot etc. But you insist that this time it’s going to be different. Yet, you never really get around to explaining exactly how this will be different than the others.
For example:
-Does Paul have a great deal of money to try to pull this off? Perot is a billionaire and only captured 19% of the vote.
-Does Paul Posses some sort of extraordinary charisma? No, in fact he lacks even the charisma of a normal man.
-Does Paul have such new and unique ideas that are capturing the hearts and minds of all who listen to him? No he’s now been in a few debates and nothing special has come out of his mouth. And if it had why aren’t all of his followers lifting him up to number one in the polls? Or at least number three?
I honestly like debating political issues. It’s fun, free and it’s better for the brain than tv. So…you and I can keep this up for the next few months until Paul drops out. But for your own piece of mind I suggest that you get the stars out of your eyes and come down to planet earth.
Paul’s a dud bro, it ain’t happening. Unless of course you can specifically point out exactly why this man will somehow miraculously obtain the nomination beating all of the odds."
That make me think that. The two major points that I get from your post are that charisma and money are the two factors that are determinations for who is worthy of a nomination. True? Can’t argue the reality, it is still sad and what holds people into the two party system. I’m sorry but Kerry had negative charisma and GW was about 1 step higher, you know the kind of guy that would be cool to grab a beer with but not to run your company. Neither should have been offered up as a viable option for leader of this country.
I want to reclip this line “-Does Paul have such new and unique ideas that are capturing the hearts and minds of all who listen to him? No he’s now been in a few debates and nothing special has come out of his mouth. And if it had why aren’t all of his followers lifting him up to number one in the polls? Or at least number three?”
You are kidding here right? He is the ONLY one with new and unique ideas, period. Regardless of if you agree with those ideas, they are different from the rest of the pack.