Ron Paul’s Head-to-Head Records (Win-Lose-Tie):
Rudy Giuliani 23-3-0
Mitt Romney 15-11-0
Fred Thompson 13-12-0
John McCain 22-3-0
Mike Huckabee 21-3-1
Sam Brownback 22-2-1
Tom Tancredo 23-1-0
Duncan Hunter 22-2-0

…but this guy can’t get any traction in the MSM or national polls?

I mean, it’s Ron Paul’s website, so consider the source. But if Romney and Thompson are the only two real contenders he has, what much better position is that than even “conservative” news (eg, FOX, NRO) would have us believe?

And I have my doubts as to whether Romney’s mormonism or either his or Thompson’s very [socially] liberal records have been made enough of to the GOP’s conservative Christian base. I know several people who were leaning towards Romney who had no clue about his ties to “Western Islam.” Oddly enough, they aren’t so excited about him anymore.

http://www.vdare.com/letters/tl_091507.htm#b2

The people at the Republican grassroots do not support the Bush policies and Ron Paul’s success is partially a release of this frustration.

A few months ago an environmental group was held under the Patriot Act provisions, which were only meant for terrorists. At what point do pretend Libertarians that vote for the current Republican policies need to take cover and hide their heads in shame for their conduct?

(Of course, all of us Texans — or, more precisely, all you Texans and us proud residents of the Republic — know that Perry’s really only saying that because he’s a corporateand foreign-interests shill… makes you wonder about Schwarzenegger, Naploitano, et al. — OK, I don’t wonder; they’re probably just not as brazenly bought-and-paid-for)

Or maybe Paul just hasn’t seen State’s own statistics — the ones where they report that the combined H-1b and L-1 issuances for FY 2006 topped 200,000, or that all combined visas are in the 4-5 MILLION neighborhood annually, or that ICE and the State Dept. have no real way of tracking who stays and who goes when the visas expire, by and large. (Sorry I can’t provide the link; I read the report earlier this week and I can’t find it now) And maybe he doesn’t know anyone whose “tech jobs” (like mechanical engineers) have been off-shored or taken from Americans and given to a foreigner. (Because $30k sans benefits is reasonable and customary for a mechnical RPE, right? Why are there no qualified Americans for that salary?)

No, I think Paul is the clear choice in the GOP; and the Dems aren’t even a blip on the radar screen. From a constitutional standpoint, I find it hard to disagree with him, but hid free-market analysis seems to neglect the fact that consumers can’t consume if they aren’t making any money.

Still, sealing the borders and deporting all offenders — not a pipe dream — will at least solve the lion’s share of the problem. Then we could all turn our attention to the legal immigration invasion.

Societies are created by people, and the diversity in the quality of societies is a function of real differences between groups of people, many of which are probably biologically based and intractable.

As I’ve said before: Freedom, Democracy, Multiculturalism. Pick Two. Even if we drop democracy (as Hoppe would recommend), I think history has shown that Western man lacks the moral courage to take a place of leadership without succumbing to guilt-inducing Marxist arguments that eventually causes him to unravel all of the good in the name of the false god of Equality. The Confederacy was about the only society self-confident enough for such a feat, and I think you see shadows of that today in Texas where native business leaders engage large armies of immigrant labor without feeling any guilt about it. But as they will find out, the Texas of today, unlike the Confederacy, is one-man-one-vote, and what happened to California will eventually happen here if current trends continue.
So libertarians are in a pickle here: open borders makes the sort of free society advocated by libertarians impossible, not in the abstract (which is the favorite destination of most libertarians), but due to the personnel limitations on the ground.

One thing I try to explain to people is that, a free market society, would welcome immigration and legal immigrant workers. Once we get back to a free society where corruption is no more or at a minimum, people with work visas, lets say, would be welcome. Why? Because other jobs like manufacturing and such would boom, leaving other more manual jobs to be open to people willing to do them. I am an arhcitect, so doing farm labor is out of the question. But in this economy, I could get laid off soon for real. So what do i do? No jobs in the paper for architects here at all, I can’t work at a job for 1/3 the wage because some illegals are doing it. So I cant work period!! Thats the problem as I see it. If the economy was booming, hell bring in immagrant workers, but it isnt so we need to have jobs for Americans. And to boot, most came in illegally!!! I hope i made some sense.

What I would l like to see; no benefits!! Of course rounding up all illegals is impossible, but do what you can. Get the economy running at full strength, then open up to LEGAL immigrant workers. And lastly stop ILLEGAL immigration. Make people wait as my granparents did to come here.