Forbes own research has listed Fred as the most conservitive candidate in the race, period. Bar None! http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/01/election-candidates-politics-oped-cz_gm_1002thompson.html

Scroll down to candidates and click on each picture. The results are shown for each individual candidate. 

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Your lack of passion for ANY of the candidates on the Republican side is what's frightening, and more telling.  The big elephant in the room that NOBODY here wants to talk about save sarcasmo is that NONE of the candidates for the presidency are true conservatives and thus generate no excitement.  The fact that nobody here is excited about ANY of them is a sign that the Republican party has departed from conservatives, not the other way around.  The consequence of this is that when a candidate such as Ron Paul shows he is willing to stand for conservative principles no matter what, and without compromise, people get excited and passionate about that.  Your statement that sarc's passion is frightening is absurd and sophomoric.  It's better to be passionate about somebody than to be apathetic like you are.  Can you truly say that you are excited about the prospect of a President Giuliani, President McCain, President Romney?  And Fred as a conservative?  He's no Ronald Reagan, and even Reagan didn't cut spending like he should have.  He caved to the Democrats on more than one occasion, including AMNESTY.

Furthermore, you have zero idea how any of our candidates will fare against Hillary Clinton, a not-so-closeted socialist, wife of Slick Willie, and the first Womyn Candidate.  She has so many negatives that I dare say Mickey Mouse could probably get at least 50 percent of the vote against her.  Look what happened to her in the last debate - she stepped in a big pile and lost a third of her lead.  She's not that tough an opponent.  Moreover, many left wing voters like Ron Paul and probably would vote for him over Hillary because he's anti war and wants to legalize mary jane.

Forget 911, I dial 10MM.

I'm once-again just having fun, it's YOU who have your panties in a knot. Ron Paul is the ONLY Republican candidate who can definitely beat Hillary, and that's that. And Libertarians and libertarians didn't overwhelmingly support Perot, I'm the one who mocked his billionaire a$$ by collecting pennies for him when he decided to take politician-welfare. The idea that I'm working to help Hillary is as stupid as the idea that I'd ever vote for Rudy. Telling the facts about Rudy only throws him under the buss because he's a lefty. Your Texas link is a complete non-sequitur, too, I have no idea what you mean by that. You desperately need to get a clue.
JMR

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Which has NOTHING to do with investment incentives beyond the good money people tend to keep. Try to find a wheat penny, a silver dime, or even a pre-1982 copper penny around these days. You won't, except MAYBE for the last item.  That's because of a hobby called coin collecting.  I have many "wheaties", but I'm not keeping them because I fear some ballyhooed depression.  I am keeping them specifically because they are so few, far between, with a unique design on them...the exact same reason I have a specially marked roll of quarters from 1976. 

My father has many of the same things you describe, and again, its not because he fears some economic calamity, but rather, because he is a collector.  He likes to show them off from time to time, and indeed what I know of coin collecting I learned from him. 

Keep digging!

People actually do keep money to hoard and collect.  Keep digging ever more!

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