# What's wrong with Ron Paul?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-ron-paul/600153>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 19, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-ron-paul/600153 "2011-10-19T16:08:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-ron-paul/600153/61 "2011-10-20T18:31:14Z")

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They’re imaginary.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-ron-paul/600153/62 "2011-10-20T19:05:48Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> They’re imaginary.

I know Ayn Rand was . . .

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**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-ron-paul/600153/63 "2011-10-20T19:14:29Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> I know Ayn Rand was . . .

What, imaginary or a libertarian? Because I’m pretty sure she was neither.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-ron-paul/600153/64 "2011-10-25T03:38:09Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Or a prequel . . . There’s a cover story in the October 2012 _Harper’s_ [“Pennies from Heaven: How Mormon economics shape the G.O.P.,”](http://harpers.org/archive/2011/10/0083637) by Chris Lehmann, the which I can’t seem to find a link a nonsubscriber can read but I skimmed it on the magazine-rack and the 'Net-buzz on it is fun to watch . . . Summary is, Mormons are more hardcore Wealth-Gospelers than any Calvinist and seem to have actually pushed the GOP even more furtherer along that way.

Not that [Perry’s religion](http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/12104/biblical_capitalism) is any bit better in that regard. :rolleyes:

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