Posted on 05/26/2007 4:47:15 PM PDT by Coleus
Suggestion time: why not just stop posting to any Paul post..let them die due to inaction.
Like the other howling baboons on this thread, you simply rely on what other people have told you to think.
Basic history lesson: FDR pushed the Japanese hard with embargoes and trade sanctions. There is substantial evidence to suggest that he did it to force them to do something overt, thereby giving us a reason to get involved with World War II. The evidence also shows that he vastly underestimated their reaction, thereby resulting in many deaths and loss of military armament. However, his goal was achieved.
I marvel at the empty minds who think everything that happens on the geopolitical stage occurs in a vacuum. I’d be willing to bet you’re one of those people who is proud that we took Saddam out, but who is utterly oblivious to the fact that we put him there in the first place.
Oh, and by the way, I’m not sure what you think “Paul’s stupid theory” is, but I’d be willing to bet that what you think he said is, in fact, not at all what he said. You likely either read what others have said about it, or you clutched at your emotional reaction to parts of what he said and failed to engage your brain to completely understand.
But Shirer nicely points out everywhere along the line the Nazis could have been stopped.
To the person who keeps copying and pasting the Ron Paul list of policies, you may as well just post this:
He opposes regulating the Internet
He opposes regulating the Internet
He opposes regulating the Internet
And, along with Tom Tancredo, that makes him unique. It gives Ron Paul a lot of popularity on...the Internet of all places. :-)
Paul’s view on the Iraq War leaves me unimpressed. It is almost the Noam Chomsky view, although half the conservative state of Wyoming would agree with it.
Since the Iraq War and any hostilities with Iran are expected to be over by January 2009...I am not putting the issue on my top 5 list of priorities.
Maher is about as far left was you can get.
Paul wants to legalize dope.
Paul is a Truther
That is why the far Left, like Maher love him.
Check out the Educating Rudy press conference. Good stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAt6Pf7jZjA
Giuliani will be making a mistake not to debate Paul on TV at least informally. By not doing so, it makes it look like he disagrees with Paul on everything.
The reason why this is more of a mistake for Giuliani than the other candidates, is because Giuliani had been the favorite of the small l libertarians in the Republican Party until the debate.
Ron Paul, by the way, does small l libertarians a tremendous disservice by making it seem like being anti-war is part of that “philosophy”. But Giulani makes a mistake by thinking that Ron Paul is popular with people who would not have voted for Giulani anyway.
Giuliani cannot win the general election without the kind of people who are now into Ron Paul.
If I were a Giuliani advisor, I would coopt some of Ron Paul’s best rhetoric about government staying out of people’s lives and go on TV to complement Paul on some issues, while reminding everyone that Al Qaeda had, and still has, the intention of taking over the world’s oil and ruling the world.
You'll see this happening on a lot of Ron Paul threads.
That's because the FRINOs are more in love with neo-con globalism than actual liberty.
Yeah, and we also want unlimited porn too.
An interesting read is the McCollum Memo from Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum of the Office of Naval Intelligence...who submitted the memo in October 1940 to Navy Captains Walter Anderson and Dudley Knox ...who were both two of the highest-ranking military advisers to FDR. An excerpt from the memo:
It is not believed that in the present state of political opinion the United States government is capable of declaring war against Japan without more ado; and it is barely possible that vigorous action on our part might lead the Japanese to modify their attitude. Therefore, the following course of action is suggested:
A. Make an arrangement with Britain for the use of British bases in the Pacific, particularly Singapore.
B. Make an arrangement with Holland for the use of base facilities and acquisition of supplies in the Dutch East Indies.
C. Give all possible aid to the Chinese government of Chiang-Kai-Shek.
D. Send a division of long range heavy cruisers to the Orient, Philippines, or Singapore.
E. Send two divisions of submarines to the Orient.
F. Keep the main strength of the U.S. fleet now in the Pacific in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands.
G. Insist that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions, particularly oil.
H. Completely embargo all U.S. trade with Japan, in collaboration with a similar embargo imposed by the British Empire.
10. If by these means Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better. At all events we must be fully prepared to accept the threat of war.
The memo was written in October 1940...and by December of '41, all 8 of the recommendations had been implemented. It could be argued that all of the actions proposed were designed to neutralize Japan...which the memo argued was vital to the British effort in Europe...but at the same time, the memo is also proof that high level advisers to FDR were hoping to goad the Japanese into an attack on the US so that they could marginalize the American public's resistance to getting involved in WWII.
Yes, it is. I am glad Paul could make up for some of the time for which he was defrauded in the debate. FOXNews and the SC GOP failed to deliver on that $25,000 entry fee.
“Giuliani will be making a mistake not to debate Paul on TV at least informally. By not doing so, it makes it look like he disagrees with Paul on everything.”
So what?
“And with the Libertarian fetish of less government, I know there would be dark days in America...”
It’s disturbing to see supposed conservatives on a supposedly conservative forum dismissing the concept of limited government as a “Libertarian fetish” that will lead to “dark days in America.”
Is is a good thing you stopped smoking pot. If you wanted to work at my company, you would have failed the drug test. And, if you did work at my company, a random drug test would have guaranteed you the door. However, in a Libertarian world, you would probably be introducing the drug to your children and your pets. Then you would hand someone like your son the keys to the car a ask him to get a rack a beer and not to forget to pick up the meth(a pick-me-up for the fork lift job—or whatever—the next morning). In a Libertarian world there would be no guarantees that we would be safe from you, your family and your pets. We would live in fear that your drug use on and off the job would be a danger to those around you. And we would be justified in our fears because by the fact that you do the drugs it would show that you had no consideration for the lives you threaten around you.
The Libertarian cult is a made to order political system for the narcissist individual who considers only their self-indulgent lifestyle and has no regard about how it will affect those around them. Ron Paul is playing the millions of those affected by our materialistic lifestyle who have abandoned the God of our forefathers and worship the god of self.
If the Libertarian want a candidate for President, why not run Alfred E. Neuman? Did you forget that he has been running for President since 1956? He would be just your style. Here is his latest web site:
http://www.olsoutherner.us/alfred-for-prez.htm
Bill Maher's audience scream for Ron Paul. Case closed.Alex Jones and the 'truthers' fave candidate -
- Case closed.
I suppose most of you intend for this country to again become a ?Free Republic? in the North American Union. Be sure you are carrying your papers for now and later your microchip.Welcome Alex Jones supporter!
Does fire not indeed melt steel?
Giuliani will be making a mistake not to debate Paul on TVHow many years has that nutjob Ron Paul been in congress now?
And what does he have to show for it?
A fully-paid pension and NO accomplishments ...
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