“...Name just ONE thing that Paul is saying different now than before he started running for President....”
Ron Paul has been running for president since 1988. I don’t know what he said before then and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t either. Ron Paul himself doesn’t really bother me or matter to me. Why should he? He has zero impact on anything that happens or will happen. He doesn’t even seem to have cognizance of most of it.
What is of greater concern to me are the people who follow him. They take almost no stock of political realities. Instead of advocating possible improvements such as tax cuts or better overseas intelligence capabilities or stiffer sentences for drug dealers, things we can really GET, they swing their hands wildly and let their broad brushes smear a serious effort with inane, unrealistic nonsense like “abolishing the IRS” or “Iran doesn’t have an army” or “let’s just legalize heroin.”
You wanted my answer so here’s a news flash: the IRS is not going away; Iran DOES have an army and even if it is less capable than ours it does have trucks and drivers and can drive a nuclear device to Lebanon and hand it off to Hezbollah, who can then move it closer to the target; and, nobody except a handful of people who have read one book by Ayn Rand and sent a check to Ron Paul shortly thereafter (because they now have it ALL figured out) is likely to favor legalizing heroin, ever.
Now, some people either don’t realize this and are dumb, or they do and yet keep pretending they don’t, in which case they are unscrupulous. If you’re arguing that Paul is merely dumb as a box of rocks and still thinks the IRS can be abolished if only he is elected president, well, you’re welcome to that argument.
“I don’t know what he said before then”
You’re not the first person I’ve ask a question like I did with you though you are the first to respond.
First of all I am not a Ron Paul supporter. Shore to shore there are things he talks about will have to come sooner or later for this country to stand on its own 2 feet financially. Beyond our shores I can’t support the guy as I think he’s nucking futs.
I think there is as much chance as the IRS being abolished as heroin being legalized. None. I don’t know if he supports the flat tax but I’m against that simply because I don’t trust the politicians to not raise it as they think it’s needed. Either way the function of the IRS as tax collectors, whatever anybody wants to call it, would still be in effect.
As Tancredo ran on the illegal immigration issue I believe Paul is running on fiscal responsibility. As a country we’re broke with things looking worse as time goes by as nobody will ease up on the throttle towards the financial graveyard. DC is way way out of control and if the reins are not pulled in we are simply not going to live the way we have been. Matter of fact I can guarantee that it will not even get back to where it was any time soon. If fiscal responsibility does not become a political reality we’re sunk. 80% of Americans are against illegal immigration. How many are against the country spending billions and billions of money we don’t have? Very few. Unless Paul’s message is heard and acted on things will only get worse for us financially.