Posted on 09/26/2007 11:45:25 AM PDT by traviskicks
I like him, but not for President.
They really don't -- it just makes (some of) them feel really good to believe it. Boosts the ego and all. An old and tired tactic.
Exactly...
I did?!? That's news to me. But hey repeat a lie enough and it becomes truth right? Anyway only the 'Paulbots don’t offer any rational civil debate'. Didn't realize an out and out lie fell under 'rational civil debate'.
Kirk said that about Spock.
It's wishful thinking.
If this was truly the case, I guess that means we were all "frightened" of John Kerry in '04. LOL!
That one statement sums up almost the entirety of my problem with RP, bar a couple of nits to pick.
The world doesn't work like this anymore. Protecting our borders is no longer an affair for some well armed men, they cannot stop all modern attack methods and there is no way to effectively protect the entire border physically anyways. I am not just talking about just Mexico either.
We have to be engaged economically, politically and militarily on the world stage. There is no other way in a 21st Century world. Not pursuing our defense in an aggressive and proactive fashion is why we are where we are now.
Fear Ron Paul, no, but what could happen if he rose to the office, yes, I will freely admit the risk scares the hell out of me. We will be blind and helpless until AFTER an attack, then he is all about taking care of what and who would be left.
This is very true. If you go back to Paul threads from five or six months ago, they aren't like what they are now. There was actually attempt to debate until we would get 20 paragraph cut and paste pontifications by Paul from articles he wrote for Lew Rockwell or on his site and the constant claim that he is the only real conservative (sic). The real marginalizing didn't come until we started to hear Paul speak at the debates and people started rabidly making excuses for everything he said. That took him out of the candidate column and into the joke of the day column.
Actually not, he may say this, but when the opportunity came up to vote to put the troops on the border, he voted no (actually, several times.)
“Why do Ron Paul supporters think that disagreeing with their candidate means that people are “frightened” of him?”
Interesting to see Paul supporters using the same tactics as the gay lobby. We can’t merely be of the opinion that he not the man for the job, we have to “phobes” of some sort.
Maybe its a little fear for our kids future, but more like disgust.
As with RP, a disgust that he uses the parlance of the conspraozoid leftists, and uses people like Alex Jones to collect bloodmoney from aiders and abettors of our enemy on the battlefield. And a fear that he is further nuttering up our college kids.
Frightened?
Get over yourself.
I thought he was refering to Spock who did too much LDS in the sixties. My apologies if you aren’t a Star Trek fan.
I’m a strong supporter of Ron Paul, at least on the odd numbered days when he isn’t acting like a loon.
Sorely lacking or invisible?
However, a pet peeve of mine is someone marking on currency and there are Ron Paul supporters in our area (San Antonio) that are using red ink stamps to put his website address on currency. That is against the law and comes under the jurisdiction of the United States Secret Service and they are certainly not afraid of Ron Paul or his supporters. I would suggest that it would not be wise to continue the practice, so if you are a part of the campaign, you might want to mention that to them. Thank you and have a nice day. Civil enough?
The funny part was that they used an old e-mail address I forgot was on here and instead of going to my private e-mail, it went to an e-mail newsgroup on eLearning that I run. This group has over 100 members from around the country and they all saw this as a representative of a Paul supporter. When the Admin of the group e-mailed this person back to ask to please refrain from using that language, the Paul supporter sent them an attacking e-mail.
Paul supporters have far too thin of skin to be playing the political game.
“This piece is not so much about Ron Paul than about the importance of civil, reasoned debate, which in some instances appears sorely lacking, especially on Ron Paul threads...”
It sure didn’t take long for the usual suspects to prove you right.
Just an FYI, here is where the dollar stamps are coming from.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=7671
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/archive/index.php/t-6008.html
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