Ha! Stephanopoulos and Ron Paul exchange....

[MonkeyFunk]

GS: What's success for you in this campaign?
RP: What's success? Well... to win.
GS: That's not gonna happen.
RP: You know absolutely? You wanna bet every cent in your pocket?
GS: Yes

[sakabatou]

1. Did that actually happen?

[MonkeyFunk]

2. Yes

on "This Week" this morning.

[TwilightGardener]

3. LOL! George tells the truth. Paul is delusional if he thinks he's going to win.

He's right on the war, but the rest of him is all whack-job.

[tridim]

4. I would say Mittens, Rudolph and Freddie are also delusional if they think they can win.

[TwilightGardener]

5. You mean the nomination, or the general?

[tridim]

6. General.. I assumed that's what Ron Paul was talking about. nt

[MonkeyFunk]

7. well

I'd say Romney, Giuliani and Thompson are all contendors, who COULD win the nomination, and thus, might win the general. They're in a different league than Paul.

[aasleka]

8. !

Ron Paul is a old school Republican, i may not agree with all of his ideas but he has my respect. Paul and Hagel would be a dangerous ticket.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. But the point is that Paul

has absolutely no chance of securing the nomination, much less winning the general. I don't think a Paul/Hagel ticket would be a threat at all.

[TwilightGardener]

11. Paul/Hagel would never happen. I think Paul's too far right, even for Chuckie.

I think Bloomberg/Hagel might be more of a threat, but it's hard to say.

[Bullet1987]

12. They're all contenders because they all speak for the establishment...

Paul has given the finger to the establishment so many times, there's no way in hell this guy gets the nomination. Just read his essay on neocons...called NeoCONNED!! Google it...

[MonkeyFunk]

13. no thanks

I don't really give a shit about anything Ron Paul has to say. Just because he hates neocons, it doesn't mean I agree with him on anything else.

[Bullet1987]

18. I didn't say you had to agree with him...I'm telling you why he won't get the

nomination. The same reason people like Kucinich won't get it on our side.

[MonkeyFunk]

21. people like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich don't get nominated

because they're fringe candidates. It's not that their ideas are so dangerous the media shuts them out.

They just don't represent a very large segment of the population - they represent the fringe.

[ShortnFiery]

9. Yes, but for Stephanopoulos, that was a pretty safe bet.

;) :hi:

[ClassWarfare2008]

15. Yeah, but the fact that he IS right on the war

Might just attract a lot of voters that in any other election wouldn't have considered him at all. There are some Republicans out there who really believe that Chimpy's worst "sin" was the fact that he spent too much money. The fact that he spent it murdering people and destroying a sovereign nation is irrelevant to them. Paul's embrace of the Libertarian fairytale appeals to that crowd. Of course they don't look at the health care crisis, and energy companies like ENRON and realize the severe consequences of privatizing everything, because they're sold on the fairytale. And in fairytales, it's never the heroes who eat the poison apples.

[sallyseven]

14. I saw the exchange it is true.

GS is a fool. How dare he say that. Does he think the guy is in this for the hell of it? Ron Paul is making some sense not that I think he can win but he shouldn't be made sport of.

[MonkeyFunk]

16. He said it because it's absolutely true...

he has no obligation to pretend that all candidates are equal.

[Bullet1987]

19. It may be true...

but I sure hope you don't condone the lopsided view the Media has on Presidential candidates.

[MonkeyFunk]

20. I would condemn him if

he pretended Ron Paul had a serious chance at winning.

[Joe the Revelator]

22. Its for the voters to decide what canidates are "equal"...

... not the media.

[MonkeyFunk]

23. It would be ridiculous to claim

that anybody who announces for President is equal to the likes of Clinton, Obama or even Giuliani or Thompson.

There are literally dozens of declared candidates you've never ever even heard of. Should they all be given equal attention? That would be silly.

[Joe the Revelator]

25. If they were able to raise more money then a former front runner?

Hell yeah, why not? I'm all about more voices in the debate, not less.

[MonkeyFunk]

26. Ron Paul didn't raise more than McCain

in fact, McCain out-raised him almost 5-1.

Ron Paul has more cash on hand - because he doesn't really have an organization to spend it on.

[blondeatlast]

17. *snork* (as in, at once a giggle and a snark!)

:rofl:

[MissMarple]

24. To win...what, exactly? Did he specify?

I'm just asking, not being specious. It's just that many of these guys realized, at some level, that they cannot win. They are on a different mission.

[mitchum]

27. If they had come to blows, I would have enjoyed seeing a fight to the death...

that ended in a draw