Ron Paul "jumps the shark" WRT Tea Party.
Posted on 08/28/2010 1:55:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ron Paul has some surprising news for the Tea Party:
You’re being taken for a ride.
At least this is what many libertarians like Ron Paul believe when they see someone like Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin trying to lead the Tea Party at the “restoring honor” rally this weekend. In fact, Ron Paul believes, if you’re looking for real freedom, you should really go back to the core of the constitution and the bill of rights, which Beck and Palin do not fully endorse when you really look at their beliefs. Whether it be Palin’s support for starting more wars or Beck’s beliefs on paying the private Federal Reserve MORE interest on our money by means of a VAT tax.
Ron Paul believes in neither of the above.
Here was Ron Paul’s message to the Tea Party via The New York Times just the other day:
“As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined.”
While the Tea Party will be out supporting Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin this weekend, you wonder how many of them will be in full support of more wars and paying more interest to a group of untouchable and unauditable private bankers otherwise known as the FED? This is precisely what Ron Paul is asking the American public to consider when looking at the Tea Party leaders and see if they really stand for what they believe in.
Ron Paul believes the Tea Party is not about “left” or “right” like a lot of political pundits make it out to be. It’s about the constitution, and limited government.
Ron Paul Supports the Ground Zero Mosque.
There are idiot savants who can do wonderful things with numbers. I wouldn’t hire one to be my accountant though. Ron Paul kind of fits that bill. While he is exceptional on some things, his opinions on others leaves the savant part out.
Well, I’m not arguing that Ron Paul’s positions on all issues are the positions that most freepers like.
Most freepers want to spend a lot of money fighting in the middle east. Ron Paul doesn’t, and a lot of freepers find Ron Paul unacceptable because of it.
But freepers who think that Ron Paul is doing anything unconservative on fiscal, economic, limited government matters are wrong.
Some freepers can also say that traditionally, the Democrats, the Liberals, have been in favor of more war, more military intervention, and the Republicans, the Conservatives were in favor of thinking twice before getting involved in the internal affairs of another country.
But I know that today, the typical Republican, the typical freeper, does want big government in foreign policy. I know that it’s currently very hard for Ron Paul to get votes from freepers who like big government foreign policy.
There is no “big governemtn foreign policy”. The federal government is charged with protecting the citizens of this country, sometimes that entails killing deadenders in other parts of the world. All eminently constitutional.
Ron Paul "jumps the shark" WRT Tea Party.
People in the Galveston area owe more to America than to elect this despicable and demented trash to Congress.
If paleoPaulie is your only hope, then kiss your money goodbye. Conservatism is about a lot more important things than your money.
The fed gov could use different methods to protect the citizens of the country. Big government methods or small government methods.
I’m not arguing that most freepers don’t like big government foreign policy.
He does not vote to spend that money.
Talk all you want about earmarks, but he votes NO to spend the money.
Your RINO buddies vote to spend the money. Ron Paul votes NO.
If the RINOs just voted the way Ron Paul did, there would be no earmarks, because there wouldn’t be money to spend.
Groveling in the dirt? Choosing not to spend billions and billions of dollars on fighting wars in the Middle East is not the same thing as groveling in the dirt.
Ron Paul is pro-life.
Against Roe v Wade, which in case you weren’t paying attention is the one current barrier keeping states from banning abortion.
0% from NARAL.
Pro-Life.
It’s one thing to say that you don’t support Ron Paul because he doesn’t want to spend money on things you like, like big expensive wars in the middle east.
You have a point there, most freepers want to spend a lot of money on expensive wars in the middle east.
But Ron Paul is pro-life, and supports the sanctity of life act. Where are the RINOs you like on that?
Conservativism is mostly about smaller government.
Taking less of my money, yes, in part, but also a government limited in scope to those things explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.
It seems like you think, and a good number of freepers think, that Conservative = what you like.
Banning transfats = ridiculous liberalism
Banning marijuana = good conservativism
Your version of conservativism really doesn’t sell too well except to those who agree with you on everything.
The other thing Beck does is increase the Beck Derangement Syndrome over at MSNBC. But conservatives still need a leader who can explain the alternative to Obama without the negatives. Obama and Gibbs will keep trying to blame Bush for their economic failures.
PaleoPaulie prefers to stick America's head in the sand and just make believe that the baaaaaad men aren't there unless he can see them (assuming he thinks they are baaaad in the first place). He is a delusional loon on military and foreign policy. His brain (if any) is where the sun shineth not.
El Run Paulie is dishonest to a fault: cramming his extensive earmarks into every budget while bleating about fiscal conservatism, claiming to be pro-life while whining about how the constitution will not let him DO anything about it a mere 37 years and 50 million sliced,m diced and hamburgerized babies since Roe vs. Wade (courtesy of SCOTUS run amok but, hey whatever we do, don't thwart them with national legislation since the self-deluded "constitutional" experts of the Paulistinian movement may become even more unglued), likewise, Paulie would sit back idly as philosopher king while marriage is deconstructed by people who lack a certain common sense about what goes where. Why should we care UNLESS truthfreedom's portfolio can be augmented.
BTW, it is my experience that the mythical "fiscal conservatism" IS the last refuge of RINO's such as you admire: Murkowski, Collins, Snowe and the typical trash supported by Muffy and Skipper down at the polo club and by the RSCC of Cornyn and others. Profits uber alles while claiming to want gummint neutrality. RINO's are not prolifers and neither (regardless of his disinformation campaigns) is do nothing paleoPaulie. Nor are they or he pro-marriage to protect the institution against lavender make-believe. Nor do they believe in human freedom other than their personal freedom nor does he. It's the I gotta be ME!!!! movement.
AND this RINO was an attorney for 1100 people arrested in what was called Operation Rescue. I did something. So did they (actually they did a lot more and I smart-mouthed prosecutors and judges for them). Sometimes, they even had sit-ins in the courtrooms with their backs to the judges. 30 were convicted out of 1100 arrested. I also found the time to be a state chairman for Reagan.
I don't support Ron El Run Paulie because he is a consummate disgrace, a liar, a fraud, an advocate of a foreign policy of cowardice and a man who wants to wring his handkerchief posing as pro-life while being determined to do absolutely nothing about it. Oh, and I am first interested in a federal ban on abortion. SCOTUS started this holocaust and the central government is obligated to put an end to it. No exceptions for New York, Maryland, Hawaii, and California to become abortion Meccas for the nation.
Finally, if you libertoonians got half as exercised over wasteful domestic spending which consumes multiples of our inadequate military budget, you might have credibility. Instead, you ally with Code Pink and the Americong and those of exotic lifestyle and the babykillers, et al., and give aid and comfort to the radical left. PaleoPaulie seldom opens his yap about the evil of abortion lest he offend his antiwar left pals. He is a surrender monkey in all respects, not just as a mouth for the Blame America First, Last and Always crowd. Fortunately the clock is ticking and he will be gone soon enough. He won't be POTUS at his advanced age and in his mental condition. Nobody cares what he SAYS when he refuses to DO anything while making excuses. He should go home permanently and stop embarrassing himself.
I can even suggest a cheap and low casualty method of warfare against the Islamofascisti. Fill tanker planes with pig blood and remove Mecca, Medina, Tehran, and every city important to them from Islamoworld by dropping the pig blood on those sites. Iowa produces a lot of pork chops and pork roasts and bacon and sausage. The blood has to go somewhere. Why not Islamoworld???? Hit the new Iranian nuclear plant too. Take the Koran and use it against them.
Paul needs to get a clue...yesterday’s rally wasn’t about the TEA Party.
So, ummmm, tell me again how well dishonest, fraudulent, antiAmerican, antimilitary, do nothing on abortion, do nothing to defend marriage and stuff the fedbudget with Galveston pork plays nationally masquerading as "conservatism?"
The minigovernment crowd has a place in the conservative movement but it is hardly as senior partner. Slashing taxes and spending, eliminating bureaucrats, turning BATF into a convenience store, etc., are good but they do not constitute all or even most of conservatism. Accept social and military conservatism or pay higher taxes when most conservatives stay home on election day, bored silly by endless chewing on such compelling topics as the Federal Reserve. Those are your choices. We are not the soulless creatures that call themselves Brit Tories. We have an issue tapestry and not just plain jane muslin.
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