Posted on 05/05/2009 6:14:34 AM PDT by AmericanHunter
>There’s a growing recognition that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt and morally bankrupt.<
yes.
I admit that at first blush I wrote RP off as an Alex Jones, 9-11 truther nutbag. Then I started to pay attention and realized that he is the ONLY member of congress talking about the Constitution who understands it and MEANS WHAT HE SAYS! I am really sick and tired of the mainstream, vote for the R not the man GOP members who constantly bash RP and those who support him. Those same nitwits thought John (Capt Queeg) McCain was a conservative. Some days I really think RP could have beat Commissar Obama. I want to run for congress just to get to go to one of these lunches. Rock on Ron!
This is encouraging news!
The best thing GOP candidates can do is become economically literate enough to be able to articulate to voters why the central bank has to go so that we can return to sound money. The case desperately needs to be made that capitalism hasn’t failed, centrally planned monetary policy has failed.
The Fed’s perpetual inflation fuels the creation of bubbles, which eventually must burst, usually (as was the case recently with real estate) causing systemic economic chaos. Not to mention that it’s the Fed’s ability to create money out of thin air that has enabled the out of control growth of FedGov.
This is THE winning issue for the GOP, and the path back to a constitutional Republic, but only if they understand it well enough to articulate it and can defend it against the mainstream.
It’s a high mountain to climb, but it’s encouraging that they seem to be starting the journey.
Had they followed him all along, they probably wouldn’t be out of power and bordering on extinction.
It’s good to see these economic issues finally breaking through.
As conservatives, we know that big government doesn’t work. So, why do so many conservatives still believe that big government can successfully run the economy through monetary policy?
Thanks for giving it your best shot.
Where are your fellow neo-con-attack Chihuahua-freepers?
That’s exactly how I felt at first too. Even if I disagree with him, I understand and respect where he’s coming from.
Ping
***Yes he really does win converts among working-class dems and libertarian-leaning independents, especially among younger voters.***
I don’t think this point can be repeated enough. I saw liberals who derided the GOP at every chance they got look at Ron Paul and actually think about Constitutionalism, sound economics, and limited government (at least the libertarian leaning ones). At the very least, they respected him.
VERY good post. Thanks for putting it up here. In the latest spate of discouraging news (Kissinger telling Russia’s leadership that we’ll be disarmed by September and ready to join the New World Order), this is a shot of tonic.
Perhaps not, but it is important to note that he is virtually the only Republican widely respected and admired by young voters.
This is encouraging to me as well. I have wanted the GOP to actually say WHY free markets are better than central planning, not THAT they are better for a long time now.
I think people seriously misunderstand what capitalism is. It isn’t so much a policy so much as it is a lack of a policy, that is letting people interact as they see fit in the marketplace with government acting as the agent that prevents fraud, crime, murder, embezzlement, etc. and protects contracts and property rights.
Capitalism is most certainly not state supported monopolies, price and wage controls, centrally managed money and credit, protective tariffs, heavy regulation and taxation, redistribution based on egalitarianism, etc. And
Capitalism most certainly is not consumerism to the extremes we have seen it. Consumption is only made possible by savings, investment, and production all of which the market determines most efficiently based on consumer preferences, profit and loss, price system, etc. Sure we can live off debt and inflation for a while, but this in no way constitutes a sound, healthy, sustainable, or productive economy.
There’s a growing recognition that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt and morally bankrupt
This article is right on the money, despite the fact there is a certain contingent of FReepers that will be by shortly to post the same asinine "Paulbot, Paultard, Paulie" nonsense.
Dr. Paul is very much a believer in original intent, and IMHO, original intent is the ONLY thing that's going to pull our bacon out of the fire with the policies that the Obomination Administration have coming down the pike!
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All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Very true.
Then Ben said, of course we can't mess with the Fed's independence in regards to monetary policy. Ron said, well of course that's the only thing that matters. What an assclown. Ron that is. LOL!
The Giuliani/McCain/Arnold/Bush crowd shouldn’t worry. These GOP political flirtations with sanity are temporary, only occurring when the GOP is out of power. As soon as the balance of power shifts parties, those in the GOP who are still against big-government will be again completely shunned or denigrated.
Since the Constitution gives Congress the sole right to mint money, I do think that Ron Paul has a point here.
And if the Fed stays independent, what information they give to Congress will be only what information they choose to give to Congress. They'll no more allow themselves to be honestly audited than has Freddy Mae and Fanny Mae.
Congress set up the Fed to be independent. If they no longer want it to be independent, all they need to do is pass another law. But Congressmen shouldn't whine that the Fed is doing what the Congress created them to do.
They'll no more allow themselves to be honestly audited
They are audited. Regularly.
Wait, I always thought that cartoon mocked the rabid Paul detractors rather than his supporters.
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