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?
Now that’s not fair, Kucinich apparently has the ‘it’ factor. Have you seen his wife?
People say that ‘bout me too *wink*.
At least Rudy is NOT on the ACLU payroll and not trying to get meal prayer out of the Naval Academy like Barr
Can you remind me why I used to think Barr was a conservative???
I’m truly puzzled.
Oooooooooo, oooooooooohhhhh, Mistah Kottah!!! Mistah Kottahhhhhh...I know...I know!!!
(Steve raises his hand furiously to get attention!!!)
Barr a follower of R. Paul and fellow libertarians
Oh, man, you are cruel putting the caption UNDER the picture!
I saw what you quoted, then the picture starting to load, and I was SURE I was finally gonna get a look at Dicky Flatt.
I’d say its more than a drift to the center - the GOP today are what the Dems were in the 60’s and 70’s. The Dems are pretty much where they were then, but with more secularized social values.
“um...cause he’s a freakshow?”
Thank you. That seems to sum it up succinctly. I don’t need to read further.
“um...cause he’s a freakshow?”
Um...what a juvenile comment.
“I just discovered that the Libertarian Party is blatantly pro-abortion.”
Is Laura Bush a Libertarian?
Do we currenty have federal funding for abortions?
ROFLMAO!
YES!
Laura Bush could be a Rostafarian for all I care. She isn’t running for president.
The Libertarians, on the other hand, are supposedly about liberty, but they deny liberty to little children by snuffing out their lives before they even start.
Do we currently have federal funding for abortions?
Not that I know of.
But, even if we did, that would have nothing to do with my rejection of the practice, and certain rejection of the Libertarian Party for their pro-abortion policy.
They are a betrayal of their own name.
The betrayal is that you had a Republican controlled government in power and the practice still continues.
Hey, he looks great compared a freaks like B. Hussein and John Sidney McCain. McCain and Cindy are like an exhausted, aging Boris Gudonov and a gray-hair-in-a-bun version of Natasha.
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