Posted on 12/04/2011 9:49:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Confirmation of your theory:
A Republican Chooses Not to be Ridiculous: Ron Paul Trumps Trump
http://www.thenation.com/blog/164968/republican-chooses-not-be-ridiculous-ron-paul-trumps-trump
I forgot about that!!
GREAT NEWS!
Much better and vastly improved without either one of those two!
Meaningless and you’re spamming every thread with that online poll.
Let’s keep things honest here - Trump’s doing a debate to keep his name associated with the presidential campaign. We are one blowup away from having Romney as the default Republican nominee, and I’m already hearing from Democrats gloating about the opportunity to put Newt in the White House.
Hope Newt treads carefully, else it’ll be a very interesting presidential election.
Honestly...are we just trying to hand this election to Obama on a silver platter? (shaking my head).
Is he going to have some hot chicks come on stage during the debate? Maybe some bikini clad babes holding up signs with the questions on them?
They are afraid of what a business man moderator would do to them. They’d much prefer the lamestream leftist media.
Yes. Apparently we ARE trying to hand this election to Obama on a silver platter.
We are sleep-walking to disaster if we honestly believe that Romney or Gingrich have the best chance against Obama.
No more moaning about Bob Dole or John McCain if we put up Newt Gingrich or the Well-Lubricated Weathervane against this president.
Axelrod must be rubbing his hands together with glee right now.
It says a lot about the current state of the Republican Party when people would rather hear from Donald ‘Universal healthcare’ Trump, who was a registered Democrat in 2001, and has openly said “I vote for Republicans and I vote for Democrats” than a successful Republican governor, and a long-time Republican congressman.
We are through the looking glass here people.....
And David Gregory isn't? I see no problem with this and if Huntsman can only face David Gregory and can't face Trump, then he probably couldn't face ME!
And they do that best by watching television.
Sad but true.
Good. More time to hear from the real contenders.
Who cares? Imho, Paul and Huntsman add nothing to the debate.
My comment wasn’t supporting Trump’s positions. My comment was only acknowledging Trump’s HUGE celebrity. Please do not mistake honest analysis for advocacy. I don’t want Trump to be President, but I recognize the undeniable exposure for all potential GOP candidates just by showing up to the event. Ron Paul and Huntsman can have their little pity party while everyone else is introducing themselves to a wider audience. Paul is a crybaby and will never be President. Huntsman too.
Ron Paul has a simplistic view of the economy and the world in general. His supporters are the same way. Simple ‘solutions’ for complex problems. It’s not so much Ideology and it is practicality. His policy isn’t practical. In fact, it’s one-sided and obtuse. He also has no executive experience even at his ripe old age, and with that he’s probably too old to be president. His foreign policy would have us ‘isolated’ from a world that China and Russia would dominate. Are we to pretend that’s a world we want to exist in? The answer isn’t complete ‘non-interventionism’ or whatever propaganda term he wants to use to label his Isolationism, the answer is Smart Power. Reagan understood that going to war with ‘everyone’ was too costly and politically dangerous, so that’s why he worked clandestinely, for the most part, with a few exceptions. Our success in dismantling the Soviet Union is the legacy of Ronald Reagan’s ‘smart power’ foreign policy. We also beat back the threat of Communism in our own sphere of influence. That’s the answer for our foreign policy, not complete retreat as Paul and his supporters demand.
Ron Paul’s monetary policy would wreck the economy even worse that it is now if it were implemented. He and his supporters engage in the folly of believing that currency should be a store of value when it isn’t. Currency is a means of exchange and leveraging that currency is more effective in fueling the growth engine of an economy than anything ever tried in history. Just because the world overheated on fiat doesn’t mean we need to go back to archaic fiscal policy. We need sound money and a balanced budget, sure, but a gold standard we do not. Eliminating the Fed is crazy talk. The answer is not the extreme that Ron Paul and his supporters promote, and the answer is not printing our way out of debt. the answer is actually somewhere in the middle but by first implementing pro-growth economic policies.
Just because Ron Paul’s positions resemble simplistic bumper-stickers slogans that quite a few Conservatives may agree with on the face doesn’t mean that they work in the real world all the time. They are idealism. Sure, it would be nice if things could be that way. In reality, though, Ron Paul’s ‘solutions’ are impractical and most will never be implemented, not because of lack of political will, but because 2 + 2 doesn’t equal 5 and no matter how hard you try to make that true, it just isn’t so.
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