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Why Do So Many Lunatics Support Ron Paul?
Vanity ^ | 29 November 2011 | Windflier

Posted on 11/28/2011 11:15:55 PM PST by Windflier

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To: Windflier

It really is a shame that there are so many ignorant on the constitution. A nation of uneducated ignorant liberal morons.


61 posted on 11/29/2011 2:18:44 AM PST by crz
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To: golux
There’s another thing I like. In the days of fighting sail, a Letter of Marque and Reprisal was a government license authorizing a person (known as a privateer) to attack and capture enemy vessels, and bring them before admiralty courts for condemnation and sale. Calling the September 11, 2001, attacks an act of “air piracy”, Paul introduced the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001.

Letters of marque and reprisal would have targeted specific terrorist suspects instead of invoking war against a foreign state. Paul reintroduced this legislation as the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007. He voted with the majority for the original Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists in Afghanistan. In April 2009, following the Maersk Alabama hijacking, he proposed issuing letters of marque to combat the problem of piracy in Somalia.


Letters of Marque and Reprisal were government-issued authorizations for piratical acts by the civilians who received one. They were abolished in the 1850’s by the major European powers. Don't expect their reinstatement any time soon. Why anyone would believe the government should be in the business of encouraging piracy is beyond me.

There would be not profit in having a Letter of Marque unless you could commit acts of piracy (A/K/A as stealing other people's stuff) so the idea that they would actually solve anything off the coast of Somalia is laughable, as is the idea they would solve anything anywhere else.

62 posted on 11/29/2011 4:48:46 AM PST by Cheburashka (If life hands you lemons, government regulations will prevent you from making lemonade.)
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To: Windflier
"First stop - Ron Paul."

A few people who would not vote for establishment Republicans under any circumstances, and chose Obummer out of exasperation, no doubt.

63 posted on 11/29/2011 7:28:05 AM PST by Designer (Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
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To: Mycroft Holmes
“Most of them are young, earnest and in search of simple solutions to complex problems. “

Very true. They think the world is a simple place. Kind of like being able to solve complex issues like is done in a one hour television show.

64 posted on 11/29/2011 7:32:25 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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To: crz
"It really is a shame that there are so many ignorant on the constitution. A nation of uneducated ignorant liberal morons."

Worth repeating bump.

65 posted on 11/29/2011 7:34:39 AM PST by Designer (Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
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To: Windflier
"Just what is it about Ron Paul that attracts these nuts?"

Could it be that your're simply more attuned to noticing nuts?

66 posted on 11/29/2011 7:38:16 AM PST by Designer (Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
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To: giotto

The most vehement opposition to Paul is not his position on shrinking government power and spending and restoring individual rights. It is his vision for our military as a homeland security operation rather than a global “peace keeper.”

He has support from those who want a constitutional government restored and he has support from peaceniks who want our military out of the global role it currently plays.
Ofcourse, the neo-nazis are on the bandwagon of withdrawing US military support to Israel because they want Jews dead. They are an active, loud and proud mob in kookville.


67 posted on 11/29/2011 8:40:59 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Windflier

Correct me if I am wrong... but a Libertarian IS an anarchist, more or less...

He is L’tarian with (R) by his name hoping he has a chance :p


68 posted on 11/29/2011 8:56:52 AM PST by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri

small L libertarians are far from anarchy. They are commited to freedom, defense, the Constitution, common law, and capatilism that is true, not the crony capitalism that has taken our country down.

I like more and more what I hear about libertarianism. I am far from a lunatic.


69 posted on 11/29/2011 9:13:06 AM PST by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: golux

I don’t know how Washington, Adams, and Jefferson would be perceived today, but I still have the same opinion I had of Ron Paul today as yesterday and the funniest thing I saw about Paul was his false eyebrows...Was that photoshopped or was it real? If it was for real, the poor man needs medication not the presidency.. Pictures today cannot be taken as real with photoshoping and some are excellent with it.... :O)


70 posted on 11/29/2011 9:28:56 AM PST by goat granny
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To: Designer
Could it be that your're simply more attuned to noticing nuts?

I think I'd be in trouble if I didn't notice them.

71 posted on 11/29/2011 10:03:16 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: goat granny
"..the funniest thing I saw about Paul was his false eyebrows..."

Don't believe everything you see on the internet.

Weird eyebrows are nothing to be overly worried about. Heck, I've got hair growing out of my EARS!!!! Now THAT's weird!

72 posted on 11/29/2011 10:17:30 AM PST by Designer (Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
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To: Designer
Thats why I wondered if the eyebrow incident was real for photoshopped.

I always wondered why when we grow old our hair gets confused....with men it leaves the head and heads for the ears and nose. For women it leaves the head and heads for a mustache and beard..

73 posted on 11/29/2011 10:26:27 AM PST by goat granny
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To: Cheburashka
Why anyone would believe the government should be in the business of encouraging piracy is beyond me. Indeed it is beyond you.
74 posted on 11/29/2011 11:11:13 AM PST by golux
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To: Bikkuri
He is L’tarian with (R) by his name hoping he has a chance

And most Republican voters see that, which is why Paul never garners more than a small percentage of the primary vote.

He needs to run in the Libertarian primary.../sarc

75 posted on 11/29/2011 12:59:35 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

I’m not a nut - and agree with maybe 60% of what he stands for - but the 60% he stands for is so important to correct in our nation - that i support him for POTUS.

Freedom - Fiscal Responsibility - End the Fed


76 posted on 11/29/2011 1:06:06 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote
...the 60% he stands for is so important to correct in our nation - that i support him for POTUS.

Sigh.....and what are you gonna do about him cutting our military down to the size of Guatemala's? A whole lot of good the rest of his agenda will do, when our enemies can finally overwhelm us militarily.

77 posted on 11/29/2011 1:25:25 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Do you have a calculator handy? Until and unless we chop 43% of govt, we are in deficit. Tell me how we make that up?

everything needs to be cut or we will be like Greece and Portugal very soon. We can’t afford a global force for peace anymore. We are broke.


78 posted on 11/29/2011 1:28:53 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Windflier
"Why Do So Many Lunatics Support Ron Paul?"

I'll take "Questions Which Answer Themselves" for $500, Alex."

79 posted on 11/29/2011 1:32:04 PM PST by redhead ("Mongo merely pawn in game of life...")
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To: Windflier; GlockThe Vote

Because he’s a libertarian. GlocktheVote said he supported RP because of RP’s stand on “domestic issues” and “civil rights”. Code words for dope, porn, prostitution and faggot “rights”. “Civil rights” can only mean faggotry, since blacks can sit in the front of the bus and women can vote.


80 posted on 11/29/2011 1:36:41 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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