Posted on 07/01/2008 2:19:51 PM PDT by mnehring
According to Ron Paul Henchman and alleged erstwhile ghostwriter Lew Rockwell (broke link, Lew Rockwell not welcome on Free Republic), you can blame Dicky Flatt’s buddy, Phil Gramm: …I was involved in that campaign, when Reagan broke his moronic “11th Commandment” to speak ill of fellow Republican Ron Paul, and such figures as Karl Rove and Paul Weyrich conspired to wage a very nasty campaign against Ron. In true Republican dirty-tricks fashion, Ron’s campaign office was even burglarized and his mailing list and other documents stolen. The power-elite had annointed (sic) the Philster, and would brook no grassroots opposition. Ron, of course, ran a hard and heroic campaign, complete with brilliant antiwar ads.
Wow! Bush’s Brain was controlling the party way back then? It also seems a bit ironic for Rockwell to call Reagan’s 11th Commandment “moronic” then whine about him breaking it. Then Llewellyn all but states it was Rove and Weyrich that broke into Paul’s campaign office, a pretty bold claim. And what war was Paul running anti-war ads against in 1984?
The Rockster was responding to comments made by Spencer J. Hahn on why he can never forgive Gramm for stealing Ron Paul’s chance of serving in the Senate alongside Barry Goldwater: Let us not forget that it was that Democrat turncoat, Phil Gramm, who defeated Ron Paul in the 1984 Republican Senate primary. Had Ron Paul won the primary, he would have won the general election, and become the true conscience of the Senate. I often wonder what would have been if Ron Paul had been in the Senate to filibuster every unconstitutional bill. He almost certainly would have been a presidential candidate (as Gramm was in 1996), and likely would have been taken more seriously by the MSM.
So there you have it, folks. The reason no one takes Ron Paul seriously is because Phil Gramm beat him in the primary in 1984. Oh, and Halliburton.
I thought Libertarians were all about personal responsibility?
If your "pro-life", then I'm a garden gnome.
I'm actually in the same boat. If it's Jindal or Sanford, I'm holding the ol' nose, drinking a lot of John Daniels, and then voting for McCain. If not, I'm holding the ol' nose, drinking a lot of John Daniels and voting for Barr.
Yes, how said. ;^)
It is seemingly beyond people like you to understand how you can support ‘A’, because you don’t want ‘B’. Me saying something like “If it comes down to Hitlery vs Giuliani, I going Giulliani 150%” does not make me a “Giuliani fan”.
You are clueless here. Before McCain was the nominee, I called him McInsane for years here. But now since the choice is him or The Marxist, you’ll find me defending McCain also. As I said, this concept/strategy is way, way over your head.
Aren’t they cute when they are enraged?
“paleo” 350 times yet. Ah, hell “paleo 350,000 times!
PaleoPaulie shirks any rezponsibility for stopping the slaughter and you think that is El Run Paulie standing up for the unborn. No more excuses. No more delays. End abortion now.
Coming from you, this means nothing.
I take it you didn’t like Fred Thompson?
That post made no sense.
Jindal would be good, but I’m thinking that the Dems in La are trying to set him up to look bad.
They absolutely are, but it won't work. Bobby is a genuinely good man. A good friend of mine was an aide of his in Congress and she assured me that he is the real deal. She also has been open about how other people she's worked for were really jerks despite good public perception, so I believe her when it comes to Jindal.
He is definitely near the top of my list.
I like Steele, Blackwell, Hunter, Kasich, Cheney (again :>), Pence, Santorum, Palin,
Despite his faults I am pleased to see Paul bringing up issues that mainstream Republicans have long forgotten about. I’ll take a Ron Paul, Bob Barr or Chuck Baldwin anyday over the same old, big government Republicans the GOP has been serving us for the past 20 years.
To whit: With Roe V Wade being an extra-Constitutional judicial legislative act, with Planned Parenthood receiving Federal dollars, and with the medical industry getting Federal "ok" for procedures like prophylactic abortion.
All of which would go away under Libertarian policies despite the lying bloviation expressed by the Libertarian haters on this thread.
As President Bush stated, "Yer' either with us, or yer' against us".
A pro-choice plank will not make the above go away.
“And your constant misrepresentation of the LP Party plank is pathetic.”
Normally I agree with what you post, but in a 2004 third party presidential forum, Badnarik told a college audience that although there is strong disagreement within the party, the LP is pro-choice. I’d be happy to learn that their position has changed.
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