Republican Paul enters 2008 White House race

Yahoo! News ^ | March 12, 2008 | Reuters

[The_Eaglet]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ron Paul (news, bio, voting record), a nine-term congressman from Texas and a former Libertarian Party candidate for the White House, said on Monday he would seek the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

[The_Eaglet]

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[slapshot]

After stabbiing our troops in the back, "he is dead to me".

[LdSentinal]

March 12, 2008?

[RatsDawg]

I would vote for Ron Paul, but he is invested in defeat in Iraq, so I can't.

[Clara Lou]

I could wish him luck, but that would be a waste of a wish--if I wanted to wish him luck.

[jrooney]

We need a warrior when we are at war and not an accountant. Ron Paul is more like an accountant than a warrrior, and he is a coward that turned his back on our troops. If Ron Paul had his way, Saddam would still be in power because he voted against the Iraq war resolution.

[JB in Whitefish]

Wouldn't he AND Duncan Hunter have to relinquish their House seats to run...???

[digger48]

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000583/votes/

[nctexan]

If a tree falls in the forest and no one gives a flip... Did Ron Paul really announce?

[kjo]

Exactly. Extreme Libertarians are at heart, selfish.

[LS]

Guess he and Duncan Hunter and Tancredo can now split that one percent.

[Lakeshark]

Soon he'll crack the all important threshold of greater than .01 per cent name recognition.................

[The_Eaglet]

March 12, 2008?

Please pardon the typo. It should have been 2007.

[The_Eaglet]

After stabbiing our troops in the back, "he is dead to me".

That did not happen, and he is quite alive.

[The_Eaglet]

According to Texas law, Paul would not. I don't know about Hunter.

[dc-zoo]

RP is wasting his time and ours with this foolish announcement.

[italianquaker]

He will soon be walking the same path as that another pres candidate dynamo vislack(sic) and thnx for selling out the troops fella hmmmm

[The_Eaglet]

I consider it a valuable service. He needs a veto pen to stop the waste of our tax dollars.

[JB in Whitefish]

Well, I think the FEDERAL law is that you can't run for two offices at once and Congressmen are ALL up for renewal concurrent with the presidential race to my understanding....

[The_Eaglet]

That's interesting since the Constitution gives state legislatures the authority over elections.

[dc-zoo]

If he has a veto pen and 1% of the vote what good does the pen do him?

[The_Eaglet]

If he gets a veto pen, he will have more that 1% of the vote.

[TonyInOhio]

Ron Who?

I think Ron Burgundy has higher name recognition:

[ConservativeDude]

Wouldn't he AND Duncan Hunter have to relinquish their House seats to run...???



Under Texas law, no. Paul has announced he us running for re-elect to the House simultaneously. This was a law put into place to help LBJ and is referred to, coincidentally, as the "LBJ Law."

Paul will win re-election quit easily.

[deport]

I don't think running concurrently for two offices will be an issue in Ronald Paul's case. He's got to win the primaries first and that isn't going to happen. Paul won't even win the Tx primary, imo.

As a side note, Tx did change their law back in 1959 during the LBJ days to allow him to run for Senator and President at the same time should he have won the nomination. It was also applied to Lloyd Bentsen in 1988 in his VP run. I'm not sure of the statute today.

[EGPWS]

Ron Paul (news, bio, voting record), a nine-term congressman from Texas and a former Libertarian Party candidate for the White House, said on Monday he would seek the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

And will strive for up to a 1% vote taking via voting machine confusion in November.

[The_Eaglet]

I doubt that.

[MovementConservative]

I thought Ron Paul was a Libertarian? What's up with calling him a Republican? Libertarians are pretty foul people, IMO.

[BlackElk]

About all that can be said for paleoPaul is that he has always been pro-life. Of course, Dennis Cuckoocinich used to be pro-life before garnering delusions of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I rank pro-life as my #1 issue but it is not the only issue and there are plenty of pro-lifers available. Cuckoocinich and paleoPaul have indistinguishable foreign policies of surrendering last year or before the war began or whatever. Neither have an American foreign policy and neither are acceptable. Neither are Abercrumble (D-Hawaii) or Weepy Walter Jones (R?-NC) They do hold anti-American press conferences to announce their "bi-partisan" anti-American foreign policy.

If Ron Paul wants to run as a constitutionalist, he can't. The original meaning of the Constitution would recognize that Ron Paul, living in Texas, is a citizen of the CSA and not of the USA.

Conservatism is a LOT more than cheapskatism, however laudable it may be to resist spending other people's money. It also encompasses social conservatism which Paul embraces as to the babies. How does he stand on institutionalizing lavender hoopla as "gay 'marriage?'" It also encompasses manly foreign policy not neo-Neville Chamberlainism. Libertarianism is NOT conservatism and vice versa although there is occasional overlap. Mere materialism, dialectical or otherwise, is NOT conservatism.

[mkjessup]

Well Ron can sure count on the disgruntled and disappointed Baathist vote, since he voted against the liberation of Iraq, and if he had his way, Saddam would still be the smiling, sadistic face of Iraq today and probably closer to an operable nuke to counter his soon-to-be nuke neighbors in Iran.

And Iraqi dissidents would still be getting fed into shredding machines, and Iraqi women would still be taken to Saddam's rape rooms for some cuddle time with Uday and Qusay.

Ron Paul must think that was quite ok, and his vote to stab our troops over there in the back demonstrates where his priorities are.

If he had any integrity, he would either cease calling himself a Republican, and join up with the 'Rats, who apparently love him.

Ron and Kookcinich should run on the same ticket.

[The_Eaglet]

He ran for Congress as a Republican won.

[The_Eaglet]

He ran for Congress as a Republican won.

[TAdams8591]

Ping! : )

[The_Eaglet]

If Ron Paul wants to run as a constitutionalist, he can't. The original meaning of the Constitution would recognize that Ron Paul, living in Texas, is a citizen of the CSA and not of the USA.

Where do you get that idea?

[The_Eaglet]

Ron Paul must think that was quite ok, and his vote to stab our troops over there in the back demonstrates where his priorities are.

I have not seen any evidence that Paul voted to stab any troops in the back. I did see where he proposed a declaration of war as well as other pro-defense legislation that he supported.

[FreeReign]

Republican Paul enters 2008 White House race

And now for something completely ironic.

Al-Qaeda guide in south Baghdad Ahmad Al-Janabi arrested

As Paul (who wants us to withdraw from Iraq) annouces, our troops fight Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Paul doesn't defend this country.

[mkjessup]

I have not seen any evidence that Paul voted to stab any troops in the back

I am happy to participate in your political education then:

Statement on the Iraq War Resolution
Before the U.S. House of Representatives - February 14, 2007

"This grand debate is welcomed but it could be that this is nothing more than a distraction from the dangerous military confrontation approaching with Iran and supported by many in leadership on both sides of the aisle.

This resolution, unfortunately, does not address the disaster in Iraq. Instead, it seeks to appear opposed to the war while at the same time offering no change of the status quo in Iraq. As such, it is not actually a vote against a troop surge. A real vote against a troop surge is a vote against the coming supplemental appropriation that finances it. I hope all of my colleagues who vote against the surge today will vote against the budgetary surge when it really counts: when we vote on the supplemental."

There you have it pal, he wants to cut funding for our troops in Iraq, just like the 'Rats did in '75 to our allies in South Vietnam, but "he supports the troops"

Ron Paul is a cut n' runner just like that yellow scumbag Jack Murtha.

Another RINO.

Happy to help.

[The_Eaglet]

There was nothing about stabbing troops in the back.

[deport]

If he had any integrity, he would either cease calling himself a Republican,

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Ronald Paul is pretty much like any other politician. He does what is expediate at the time to promote himself and keep in office. He first was elected to Congress under the GOP banner. He honored his term limit pledge and left after three terms, resigned from the GOP and ran for President under the Libertarian Party. He got about 432,000 votes nationwide. Paul then rejoined the GOP and ran for the Congressional seat he resigned from. He came in 2nd in the GOP primary and won it in a runoff against a one termer that had replaced him. Paul is a full time politician, it's in his blood and apparently he likes the benefits of DC.

[mosesdapoet]

A republican sometimes, but a Republican not.

[Austin Willard Wright]

This is amusing. Back in the days, most conservatives were against nation building and Wilsonian wars, they loved Ron Paul and praised him as a heroic defender of libery. Now, because he (unlike them) has stuck to to his guns despite the fact that a Republican in the White House and continues to oppose nation building and Wilsonian wars, many of these same folks are portraying him as the traitor, 'politician," and God knows what else.

[ActionNewsBill]

Back in the days, most conservatives were against nation building and Wilsonian wars, they loved Ron Paul and praised him as a heroic defender of libery.

Now it's "conservative" to be a gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, pro-gay rights Republican like Rudy.

[mkjessup]

There was nothing about stabbing troops in the back.

Oh fer gawdsakes...

"A real vote against a troop surge is a vote against the coming supplemental appropriation that finances it. I hope all of my colleagues who vote against the surge today will vote against the budgetary surge when it really counts: when we vote on the supplemental."

Read that carefully and tell me what YOU think it means, if not stabbing our troops in the back.

[The_Eaglet]

Now it's "conservative" to be a gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, pro-gay rights Republican like Rudy.

The liberal Republicans try to market these positions that way.

[The_Eaglet]

It means cutting spending.

[mysterio]

I'm voting for Ron.

[mkjessup]

Here's another Ron Paul quote to chew on:

"The best approach to Iran, and Syria for that matter, is to heed the advice of the Iraq Study Group Report, which states:

'… the United States should engage directly with Iran and Syria in order to try to obtain their commitment to constructive policies toward Iraq and other regional issues. In engaging with Syria and Iran, the United States should consider incentives, as well as disincentives, in seeking constructive results.'

- Ron Paul, January 15, 2007.

Your guy endorses the Iraq Surrender Group's lil 'study', and the only ingredients missing are the obligatory white flags.

America isn't about to elect Ron Paul anymore than they would elect that coward and traitor Jack Murtha.

[mkjessup]

It means cutting spending

How naive are you?

"cutting spending" - at the expense of WHAT?

What 'surge' do you think Ron Paul is talking about? A 'surge' of FDA funding to investigate mad cow? Or maybe a 'surge' of federal aid to study snow and sleet formation in the Northeast this year?

Open your eyes man!

[The_Eaglet]

Here's another Ron Paul quote to chew on:

Thanks for the quote, regardless of your distortions.