Posted on 01/11/2007 4:32:27 PM PST by dogbyte12
Rep. Ron Paul has filed papers in Texas to create a presidential exploratory committee that will allow him to raise money, the Associated Press reported late Thursday. The nine-term congressman from southeast Texas was the Libertarian nominee for president in 1988 and received more than 400,000 votes, the AP reported. This time he plans to run as a Republican.
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You're being kind.
He's somewhere beyond "paralyzed" on defense.
Next to Ron Paul, Jacques Chirac would look like George Patton.
The last I checked, McCain wasn't siding with most of the Democrat party and the handful of Republican appeasers that want to cut and run from Iraq.
Whether you like them or not. Guys like Lieberman, McCain, and President Bush want to finish the job started in Iraq, while folks like you question McCain's judgement, and end up being on the side of the appeasers and the media.
Which is why I am suprised any conservative would consider voting for him.
National defense?
Honor?
Rationale thought?
All of the above?
His attitude on the war is enough for me to not consider him a candidate.
In a country with three hundred million people, there must be ONE republican conservative floating around out there.
He based his vote against awarding the honor for the creator of Peanuts because he said it was unconstitutional.
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I read somewhere that he donates his salary to charity.
OMG< I just saw this and wow, yes it is truly a fine day.
They wouldn't.
Is there any reason why the Constitution shouldn't be amended to authorize one?
I would expect pretty strongly that many Air Force construction projects have appropriations longer than two years. That would be constitutional for the Navy, but not for any other branch of the armed services.
How hard should it have been, before authorizing multi-year appropriations for airplanes and equipment, to pass a Constitutional Amendment specifically saying:
Do people actually support this guy and think he is presidential material? Honestly?
Or is this just another way to split the GOP?
I was trying to come up with something to say about this fool and you beat me. Well said Dog, and you're correct.
Of course this is their guy. It doesn't matter that Ron Paul has said profoundly stupid things that they strongly disagree with, they don't know much about him, and more importantly: He CAN'T WIN.
They want to sit around saying how great they are that they didn't support someone who disagreed with them on anything.
It's the "Don't Blame Me" syndrome. They get a sense of moral superiority over their vote. They use terms like "earn my vote" and are just people who feel impotent. They want to feel powerful and righteous. It's the same mentality that leads to conspiracy theories.
They are the people to whom I've addressed my tagline.
Thank God. I thought you meant RuPaul.
Before the US House of Representatives, March 28, 2006
The top Neo-Con of the twentieth century was Woodrow Wilson. His supposed idealism, symbolized in the slogan “Make the world safe for democracy,” resulted in untold destruction and death across the world for many decades. His deceit and manipulation of the pre-war intelligence from Europe dragged America into an unnecessary conflict that cost the world and us dearly. Without the disastrous Versailles Treaty, World War II could have been averted – and the rise to power of Communists around the world might have been halted.
We seem to never learn from our past mistakes. Today’s neo-cons are as idealistically misled and aggressive in remaking the Middle East as the Wilsonian do-gooders. Even given the horrendous costs of the Iraq War and the unintended consequences that plague us today, the neo-cons are eager to expand their regime-change policy to Iran by force.
The obvious shortcomings of our regime change and occupation of Afghanistan are now readily apparent. The Taliban was ousted from power, but they have regrouped and threaten the delicate stability that now exists in that country. Opium drug production is once again a major operation, with drugs lords controlling a huge area of the country outside Kabul. And now the real nature of the government we created has been revealed in the case of Abdul Rahman, the Muslim who faced a possible death sentence from the Karzai administration for converting to Christianity. Even now that Mr. Rahman is free due to western pressure, his life remains in danger.
Our bombs and guns haven’t changed the fact that the new puppet Afghan government still follows Sharia law. The same loyalty to Sharia exists in Iraq, where we’re trying so hard to stabilize things. And all this is done in the name of spreading democracy.
The sad fact is that even under the despicable rule of Saddam Hussein, Christians were safer in Iraq than they are today. Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister was a practicing Christian. Today thousands of Christians have fled Iraq following our occupation, to countries like Jordan and Syria. Those Christians who have remained in Iraq fear for their lives every day. That should tell us something about the shortcomings of a policy that presumes to make the world safe for democracy.
The Muslim world is not fooled by our talk about spreading democracy and values. The evidence is too overwhelming that we do not hesitate to support dictators and install puppet governments when it serves our interests. When democratic elections result in the elevation of a leader or party not to our liking, we do not hesitate for a minute to undermine that government. This hypocrisy is rarely recognized by the American people. It’s much more comfortable to believe in slogans, to believe that we’re defending our goodness and spreading true liberty. We accept this and believe strongly in the cause, strongly enough to sacrifice many of our sons and daughters, and stupendous amounts of money, to spread our ideals through force.
Pointing out the lack of success is taboo. It seems of little concern to many members of Congress that we lack both the moral right and constitutional authority to impose our will on other nations.
The toughest task is analyzing what we do from their perspective. We should try harder to place ourselves in the shoes of those who live in the Arab countries where our efforts currently are concentrated. We are outraged by a Muslim country that would even consider the death penalty for a Christian convert. But many Muslims see all that we do as a reflection of Western Christianity, which to them includes Europe and America. They see everything in terms of religion.
When our bombs and sanctions kill hundreds of thousands of their citizens, they see it as an attack on their religion by Christians. To them our actions represent a crusade to change their culture and their political systems. They do not see us as having noble intentions. Cynicism and realism tell them we’re involved in the Middle East to secure the oil we need.
Our occupation and influence in the holy lands of the Middle East will always be suspect. This includes all the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Naïvely believing otherwise will guarantee continuing hostilities in Iraq. Our meddling will remain an incitement for radicals to strike us here at home in future terrorist attacks. All the intelligence gathering in the world will serve little purpose if we don’t come to understand exactly why they hate us – despite the good intentions that many Americans hold dear.
March 30, 2006
The notion of using Letters of Marque is not totally without merit. I'll admit it wouldn't be practical as a primary strategy, but would have some interesting features. Privateers wouldn't have all the technology the U.S. military has, but wouldn't be operating under all the same constraints either.
Thanks, deport!
That's all that it amounts to. If he had any courage, conviction, and principle, he'd divorce himself from the Republican party.
He won't make a dent.
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