Republican Ron Paul livens up GOP debate (Concord Monitor Ed board)

Concord Monitor ^ | 10/4/07 | Editorial Board

[traviskicks]

What I find amazing is how Ron Paul supporters are given free reign and carte blanche to relentlessly post propoganda 24/7 while Giuliani supporters have been beaten down here to the point where some have been kicked off the FR website. Its sad.

I think a CM editorial interview with a major Republican candidate is hardly spam.. I'm sorry to hear Guiliani supporters have been banned, but we've lost some Paul supporters here and there too, some perhaps for good reason, others not.

[traviskicks]

ping, talk of banning on this thread, I thought it might excite you.. :)

[GulfBreeze]

“Republican Ron Paul”?????

Are there two Ron Paul’s running now?

[HockeyPop]

“I think a CM editorial interview with a major Republican candidate is hardly spam”

With less than a reported polling # of 4% Paul is hardly a “major” player anywhere other than in your own mind.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Paul would still be a better Commander-in-Chief than the Democrats. I don’t agree with him on Iraq but at least he’ll seal the borders and would wage war and let our troops fight without the politically-correct BS and going to Mother UN.

[lormand]

"I whole heartedly agree with him on that."

At what point in your life did you completely lose your survival skills?

[Et in Arcadia Ego]

His “bridges” comment was witty and, alas, all too true! People should stop dissing, and start listening to, Ron Paul.

[lormand]

"What I find amazing is how Ron Paul supporters are given free reign and carte blanche to relentlessly post propoganda 24/7 while Giuliani supporters have been beaten down here to the point where some have been kicked off the FR website. Its sad."

Count me as one who strongly encourages the purging of suicide-withing threads. I also strongly encourage purging Freerepublic of the last 10 remaining suicide monkeys from this forum as well.

[John D]

Why do they keep calling cut and run a Republican? He is no more a Republican than his cowardly buddy Dennis Kucinich. Republicans want to protect America and are proud of it. Cut and run is anti-American and is only interested in surrendering to the terrorists.

[jmeagan]

*****The “diplomacy” was the threat of war with the US that caused the Russians to back down.

When JFK does it, it’s “diplomacy”, when Bush does it, it’s “hysteria.”*****

Actually part of the deal was that Kennedy agreed to remove some of our missiles which were very close to the Russian border. (In Turkey, I think.)

[John D]

some have argued that Paul may match up better against Hillary than any other Republican Candidate.

And some have even argued that he is not anti-American. Just because some wacko says something like that it does not make it so.

[c-b 1]

If you can’t see the evaporation of the liberty of the next generation, any response to you is pointless.

[HockeyPop]

For me its not the Ron Paul supporters per se that frosts my butt as we are on the same side of the fence of certain issues. Its the RP junior operatives that pollute this website with constant posting of inane propoganda and garbage one expects from Democrats pandering to idiots.

[secretagent]

This is what Ron Paul thinks the US should do: whatever the enemy wants as long as he does not hurt us today.

Paul thinks we needlessly create enemies, and suffer "blowback" from interventions.

Paul did not advocate cooperating with Bin Laden, but rather killing or capturing him via letters of Marque and Reprisal.

[Binti Jua]

He is passionate about his belief in small government, fidelity to the Constitution, faith in the free market and fear of foreign interventionism. He backs a return to the gold standard and the abolishment of the income tax.

That's absolutely insane! How could anyone support such a loon?

I love you all and love your race and your religion, too.

Yours truly,

BJ.

[wideawake]

Paul did not advocate cooperating with Bin Laden, but rather killing or capturing him via letters of Marque and Reprisal.

In other words, he advocated doing absolutely nothing, since letters of marque and reprisal are completely useless instruments that no longer have any application.

[crazyshrink]

What many people fail to realize is that a strong military and the willingness to use it is also diplomacy. It is on the opposite end of the scale from negotiate/surrender.

If lack of military prowess and willingness to use it appropriately was a successful “diplomatic tool”, Switzerland, Fiji, and Iceland would have fixed all world problems decades ago.

[mnehring]

...some have argued that Paul may match up better against Hillary than any other Republican Candidate.

Some also argue that President Bush is a reptilian alien, doesn't make it even remotely true.

[mnehring]

The problem with Paul's blowback comments is that the only way to successfully argue this is to know that Paul has a magic time machine. In the real world, when you are in charge of a country, you have choices to make about what is your national interest. For Saddam, we had to weigh the challenge of Iran running the entire Middle East and holding the West hostage for oil. For the Muhajidin in Afghanistan, we had to weigh supporting those rebels versus the Soviet Union expanding. In both cases, we had no time machine to tell us what would happen, we had the situation at hand to deal with.

IMHO, the 'blowback' argument from is juvenile at best as one can easily look at history and count more non-blowback incidents than blowback.

[mnehring]

letters of marque and reprisal are completely useless instruments that no longer have any application.

We have a $50 Million bounty on Osama's head, no takers yet.