Posted on 11/11/2007 9:33:22 AM PST by april15Bendovr
Allegra! I have asked you time and again to stop posting pictures of my geek husband on FR, LOL!
Oh, that is awesome! Funniest thing I’ve seen all day, aside from ‘Pancake Bunny,’ of course. :)
Gabz! Check out post #37, LOL!
But he's such a dreamboat!
I think you’ve been in the Sandbox for too long Girl, LOL!
The only Ron Paul thread I remember participating-on to any substantial degree in my memory was the thread making fun of his rambling and nearly incoherent question to Ben Bernanke. I wonder if that “endeared” me to the Paul campaigners here. Their defense of him was equally incoherent.
Darn if that’s not the SAME bunny!
Bite me!
Iwo Jima - don't get mad, it's not worth it. Let them have their fun. Paul's campaign will top $8 million in fundraising today. He's got another Money Bomb scheduled on December 16th. Why do you think they're coming out against Paul? They're scared, IJ. People are very scared and nervous.
That’s Rep. Paul’s primary qualification for his supporters? His fund-raising?
Leni
No, he is right. I was upset with the republicans for not creating a smaller government when they had the chance (94-06, especially 00-06), but I still continued to vote republican.
Excepting foreign policy, Ron Paul stands for everything I thought the Republican Party stood for. If you go back and look at the special order speeches of Newt and his back benchers in the 80’s and early 90’s, you will find a lot of Ron Paul’s talking points.
Now lets get to some of the foreign policies.
The UN. Until recently, there were a lot of conservatives that thought that we should get out of the UN, or at the very least not let the UN dictate any of our actions.
The World Bank. Probably the most disastrous UN agency. It props up socialist governments and get most of its funding from the US.
GATT. Another very detrimental agency to the US. E.g. most of Europe and the rest of the world have VAT taxes that are border adjustable. When we passed a law making our exports similar to border adjustable VAT taxes, GATT rules against us making our exports double taxed.
In general, it used to be abhorrent to any conservative that any international agency would control any of our actions. Or that any of our citizens, in the military, would serve under a foreign commander.
So that brings us to whether or not an interventional or non interventional foreign policy, both politically and militarily is in our best interests. That could be discussed sanely and intellectually, and there are points to be made on both sides.
In my view, a non interventional foreign policy is the best. Look at the difference between the eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere. For all of recorded history, the eastern hemisphere has been in an almost continual state of war. While we don’t have the vast recorded history in the western hemisphere and we know that we had the Aztec and Mayian (sp?) empires, for the most part, the western hemisphere has not had the wars of the eastern hemisphere. I think the last war in the western hemisphere, between western hemisphere countries, was the US-Mexican war back in the 1840’s. Today, there is almost zero chance that one western hemisphere country would attack another western hemisphere country. Is there one South American country that is worried about being attacked by an eastern hemisphere country, or even by its neighbors? Other than Argentina which is worried about being attacked by the US.
So my opinion is that we should disengage from the eastern hemisphere. Let them fight their wars, as long as it doesn’t bother us.
As far as the radical Muslim threat, let the countries most threatened by it deal with it. Islam had Spain at one time and was pushed back to Africa. Kosovo was the site of stopping Islam’s advance into Europe. Russian is not going to let radical Islam advance into its area. India and China are not going to let them advance.
Bring our troops home. We will save a $trillion a year. We will become the most prosperous nation in the world again. The dollar will be strengthened again. Oil will drop back to the $30 per barrel range. Communism/socialism is a failed economic system and the people will eventually over throw those type of governments.
Well I take exception to your comment that we have created a free state. We have been there for 4 years and are not even close to having a government that can control the country.
And I think that any government, created by us, will be doomed to failure, when we leave. That, being the case, we might as well leave now instead of later. Let the Sunni’s, Shite’s and the Kurds fight it out. They have been doing it for 100’s of years.
Bravissimo Maximo Excellensio! (means ‘good stuff’) in Latin.
Very impressive, isn't it?
If those dancing babies aren’t the cheesiest things I have ever viewed, then I don’t know what is. ROFL
“Regarding Ron Paul’s supporters being upset by personal attacks on Dr. Paul, I truly hope they don’t get bent out of shape by a few harmless references to marijuana and George Soros.”
They get bent out of shape for people not clicking their heels together and saying “There’s no one like ron paul” three times at the top of every hour.
And it’s even worse if you expose the truth about him.
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