NRO: Fusion Candidate (Ron Paul)

National Review Online ^ | August 01, 2007 | Todd Seavey

[George W. Bush]

Making the case for Ron Paul. If this isn't an endorsement, I don't know how much closer you can get to it.

This piece answers John Derbyshire's excellent article yesterday. We had a thread here: NR: "That Old-Time Religion".

[George W. Bush]

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NRO Online: Todd Peavey telling the Derb that RP can so win. And why.

[Petronski]

The congressman from Texas has something for all conservatives.

Grape, Berry, Strawberry, Lemonade, Watermelon: There's something for everyone!

[billbears]

But if we want a radically smaller government — precisely that thing that a Republican Congress neglected to do for the last twelve years, which has created the current mood of conservative frustration — we must support Ron Paul. Remember how small government was at the nation’s founding and consider how perhaps even conservatives have since then become de facto socialists, accepting the leviathan state as inevitable. But it’s not inevitable if they vote against it when history hands them that chance.

Words as such we haven't heard from Republicans in a long, long time. Very good to see the NRO is finally giving some, albeit a little, support to an actual conservative candidate instead of trying to convince us faux credentials of another politician

[George W. Bush]

You know you want to vote for him. Succumb to the lure of liberty and small-government! LOL.

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[Migraine]

We have our doctrinal differences within the conservative movement; but I don’t really want to discuss those here. My fear is that columns such as this one might take a single-digit candidate, one with an ego at that, and make him think: “Hmmmm; 3rd Party Run?”. After all, he is from the same state as the last guy who did, and has the same initials. That’s scary because the last guy who did gave us 8 years of BJ and HRC. My nightmare is that HRC might offer this RP a lot of money to go 3rd party and he might just do it, especially with a little encouragement from the likes of Natl Review.

[roses of sharon]

http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/ron_paul_teams_up_with_kucinich_to_end_war.htm

Alex Jones, RP and Kucinich. LOL

[John Farson]

Paul has promised his wife not to run 3rd party. He has pledged to stay within the GOP.

[John Farson]

You know even the possessed seer woman endorsed the disciples of Christ.

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(That word “unfortunately” is a rhetorical master stroke.) But Caldwell is being very unfair to Paul here. You could turn up people like that among the camp followers of any candidate, from any party. Send me out to poke among activists for Giuliani, Clinton, Edwards, or — for sure! — Obama: I’ll come up with worse than that. And around the hard core of Venusians there is always a penumbra of people who are just not quite right in the head. I got talking to a local Ron Paul activist here in my home town the other day. She is a very pleasant and charming lady, but I could hear the distinct rustle of bats in the belfry.

It is a fact, a sad but a true one, that grassroots political activism, the heart and soul of any democracy, attracts a lot of lunatics. I used to be a constituency activist for the Tory party in Kings Cross, London. Of the twenty or so people who turned up regularly to meetings, four or five were noticeably deranged (or, as an elderly fellow-Tory was wont to murmur in my ear when one of these cranks sought the meeting’s attention, “not quite sixteen annas to the rupee”). One or two were barking mad. My favorite was a gent with an Albert Einstein hairstyle and a permanent ferocious glare who, at every darn meeting, would try to advance his pet project for a law against class discrimination. (This was at a time, in the early 1980s, when laws against racial discrimination were being passed, to much controversy.)

--http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDkyYzdkNDNjM2QzMmI1N...

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[mnehring]

Let's all bask in the hypocrisy of Ron Paul's Pork Projects

What is the difference between Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel again?

[trisham]

The author is delusional. Paul is the worst possible opponent to Hillary. He has zero charisma and looks like a deer in the headlights when in front of a camera.

[Petronski]

What is the difference between Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel again?

Hagel can afford Kool-aid?

[Red Badger]

Cold Fusion............

[zencat]

Not a Ron Paul supporter, but I like him in the mix at this point (too much an isolationist). However, I feel adds to the debate about the role of the federal government.

Many times, the debate between the R and the D boil down to how much the feds will do for you:

R = whatever you want
D = everything, regardless of whether you want it

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Paul's statements speak for themselves...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865449/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854076/posts

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst021207.htm

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst022607.htm

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst032607.htm

[John Farson]

Paul voted against all those requests. Earmarks apportion money that has already been appropriated.

You will not find a more fiscally conservative candidate in the race.

[roses of sharon]

LOL, RP doesn’t just benignly attract conspirazoids, he obviously and deliberately travels to where they are, does interviews and regularly speaks to them in their parlance.

It is an excellent way to collect moonbat money, since they fall for anything.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

For all Paul’s constitutional posturing, this ripple of fringe support he’s enjoying comes from his standing as the right’s chief apologist for islamofacism.

There’s a reason the activist left is so sympathetic to Paul’s cause... and it ain’t because he wants smaller government.

It’s a shame. We really could use a true libertarian voice in this race... instead of some stooge for the islamists masquerading as one.

[fireforeffect]

More Fission than Fusion. Unless it is Cold Fusion.

[Wallace T.]

There is a bit of hypocrisy among those who condemn the pork barrel spending of, say, John Murtha or Denny Hastert, yet defend that of Ron Paul. I don’t think that Congressman Paul’s projects are particularly bad: highways, mass transit, and waterways make up most of the earmarks. However, the Constitution does not grant the Federal government the authority to buy buses or dredge ship channels, certainly not from a strict constructionist viewpoint, which Paul claims in other matters. Paul is less of a Constitutional purist than he claims to be.