{"id":14960,"date":"2010-04-15T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/even-quirky-republican-ron-paul-ties-obama-in-2012-match-up\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:54:00","slug":"even-quirky-republican-ron-paul-ties-obama-in-2012-match-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/even-quirky-republican-ron-paul-ties-obama-in-2012-match-up.php","title":{"rendered":"Even quirky Republican Ron Paul ties Obama in 2012 match-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S8cPpStl3jI\/AAAAAAAAK7s\/SEjl6_w9UUU\/s1600\/jimfryar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a46b5_jimfryar.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>by James Fryar<\/p><p>It has been said often, that anyone in the US can aspire to be president. Today&rsquo;s Rasmussen Poll is a clear indication that this is in fact the case.<\/p><blockquote><p>Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is &ndash; virtually dead even.<\/p><p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2012\/election_2012_barack_obama_42_ron_paul_41\">Rasmussen Reports<\/a> national telephone survey of likely voters finds.<\/p><p>Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>While I tend to find Paul a quirky character, I find myself more often in agreement with him than against. Apart from his weaknesses in foreign policy, mainly in the area of defense I tend to find him pretty sound. It&rsquo;s a pity he seems to follow the leftist garbage line that the US is somehow an &lsquo;empire&rsquo;.<\/p><p>The poll though has him well within any margin of error. I doubt he could maintain the momentum in a real election with the rough and tumble of politics, but it must be a very disquieting time for Democrats when one of the most unlikely guys in Congress can be a threat to them. <\/p><p>It seems clear that if the Republicans can put up a genuinely fiscally conservative socially tolerant libertarian Republican in 2012, Obama is a goner. The slogan, &ldquo;A second term for Jimmy Carter&rdquo; will have been realized.<\/p><p><em>Editor's Note - Jim Fryar is a true Blue Collar Republican. He's an oil rig worker in south central Australia.  He's also a member of the Australia Libertarian Society. His blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/jimunro.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/big-government-dying-ron-paul-even-with.html\">Real World Libertarian<\/a>.  He covers the International Libertarian movement.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a46b5_7828681836623105417-7328294456549979914?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by James FryarIt has been said often, that anyone in the US can aspire to be president. Today&rsquo;s Rasmussen Poll is a clear indication that this is in fact the case.Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/even-quirky-republican-ron-paul-ties-obama-in-2012-match-up.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}