Posted on 07/30/2011 12:34:55 PM PDT by evilrooster
This is the third installment in my assessment of the Republican primary lineup.
Ron Paul
Ron Paul is a man of principle. He is a man of character. He is a steadfast advocate for limited government. He is quite possibly the only honest politician in all of Washington, DC.
He is also a stark raving mad lunatic and an off-the-charts, first-class kook. That is what his detractors think, anyway. Unfortunately, Ron Paul does little to change his nuttier than squirrel poop image in either Republican Party circles, the media or among the nation’s voters at large.
Maybe it is because Americans are not accustomed to seeing an actual man of principle. Maybe it is because people are just too cynical. Maybe it is because Ron Paul actually is a fruitcake. Listening to Paul, a most uncharismatic politician if ever there was one, discuss Austrian economics [always at great length] is enough to put any economist to sleep and economists are widely known to be the most boring life forms on this planet and therefore immune to those levels of boredom which are unimaginable – and potentially deadly -- to other life forms.
Long-haired, pot-smoking hippies love Ron Paul. Libertarian, constitutionalist tea partiers who like to dress up in powdered wigs and waistcoats, late at night, when the shades are drawn love Ron Paul. He has captured both extremes and his supporters usually border on the fanatical but Paul can convince no one in the middle of the political spectrum, Republican or otherwise, that he is to be taken seriously.
His views are simple and straightforward. He wants a small, limited federal government. He wants the United States to adopt a non-interventionist foreign policy. He wants to abolish the income tax and the IRS. He wants an end to the failed war on drugs. He wants to close the nation’s open borders.
Some call it common sense. Others call it mentally deranged tomfoolery. I call it the ranting and raving of a man in the political wilderness who actually understands what the founding of this nation was all about. Do I agree with Ron Paul on the issues? Yes, at least on many of them. Would the nation be better off if we actually listened to him once in a while?
Absolutely.
Unfortunately, the man doesn’t stand a chance in the primaries. The nation is just not capable of voting for a principled, honest man devoted to the absurd idea of a limited, Constitutionally-bound federal government. That is, after all, just crazy talk.
For all of his good points he’s still nuttier than squirrel poop.
” The nation is just not capable of voting for a principled, honest man”
Would that be the one who ran on term limits for congress back in the seventies?
Ron Paul is a man of principle. He is a man of character. He is a steadfast advocate for limited government. He is quite possibly the only honest politician in all of Washington, DC.
He is also a stark raving mad lunatic and an off-the-charts, first-class kook.
That’s about correct.
Paul may be nutty but 0bama is slimy.
I’d take nutty any day.
And the only difference is that Obama can actually get elected.
Ron Paul - Nuttier Than Squirrel Poop?
Nuttier than squirrel poop at a Planter’s factory.
In reality he is not crazy, but highly dishonest and unprincipled.
To bad he doesn’t practice what he preaches..
Nuttier than the Porta-Potty at a peanut festival...
A politician in a safe district that after trying to break out into statewide office realizes that his district is going to be as far as he will ever go in elective office, can be as pure as the driven snow.
If you have illusions of grandeur and have to bypass being elected to the Senate or to Governor, then developing a shtick and sticking to it, is in fact mandatory, or else you would never be able to win a cult following that will enrich your lifestyle and attention addiction by tens of millions of dollars over decades, as you remain in that little congressional seat.
Even after he announces that he is retiring, Ron Paul is raking in the millions for his routine, ‘Ron Paul Tour, 2012’.
If you can’t be King, it sure helps some corrupt, lifelong politicians to live like one.
He’s just a right-wing Leftist.
A Leftist is a Leftist and a Leftist by any other name is still a nutbar.
YES.
Even better, the Ron Paul bots will shriek that “photos don’t mean anything!” when pics of RonPaul and the Storm Front characters are shown, or his association with Alex Jones is mentioned, yet they turn around and post pics of Ron Paul with Reagan.
But, if as they say pics don’t mean anything....
Never mind that he called Reagan a failure...
Exactly.
Ron Paul was also one of only 22 votes against The Boner Bill last night. That takes guts.
Well if you are talking about the last 30 or so years, yea, you have a point. But I remember back in 1980...
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