Posted on 09/07/2007 10:40:07 AM PDT by NapkinUser
Edited on 09/07/2007 2:31:57 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Has this been a hectic and encouraging time! First we got almost 17% in the Texas straw poll, an event set-up to represent the establishment, with very restrictive voting rules. That 17% of the Republican hierarchy would support our views, after a full day of pro-war propaganda, is good news. Then we won the more open Maryland Republican straw poll with 28%. In both cases, as usual, hard-working, well-organized volunteers made all the difference.
The Fox debate was a lot of fun as well. It's true that a few of the network people are not exactly with us on foreign or domestic policy (though one famous guy whispered to me that he is a libertarian), but the audience—with lots of students from the University of New Hampshire—was definitely fair and balanced, as their enthusiastic reaction showed.
My opponents called for more war, more torture, more secret prisons, more eavesdropping, more presidential power. Some seemed to identify the government and the people as if they were one entity. But you and I know that once the government moves beyond its very limited constitutional mandate, it is an opponent of the people, a rip-off operation that takes our money and our freedom and our social peace, and gives us a mess of statist pottage in return.
The government failed miserably on 911 to protect us, despite spending trillions. So the answer was supposed to be the giant, socialist Department of Homeland Security, protecting you and me from taking our toothpaste on the airplane. I was ridiculed for saying that the airlines, which know best how to protect their property, should have been allowed to arm their pilots. But then, you and I really believe in the Second Amendment. It is not just a political slogan for us.
When I discussed the blowback that came from us intervening on the Arabian peninsula, Chris Wallace asked me if I wanted to follow the marching orders of al-Qaeda. I responded that I wanted to follow the marching orders of the Constitution, and not wage undeclared, aggressive wars that cause us only trouble. This is a mystifying to some, of course, but not to more and more Americans.
There was much talk of taxes, and a pledge not to raise rates. But as usual, I was not allowed to discuss my lifelong pledge to abolish the income tax. Just holding the line, when the government takes such vast sums through an illegitimate guilty-until-proven-innocent system, is hardly enough. We need to slash taxes and spending if we are to have a future of prosperity for ourselves and our families.
After the debate, many young people gathered around the stage to discuss our ideas and ask questions about them (and to have me sign their badges). My colleagues got no such response, and after a few moments, "security" ordered me off the stage. Can't have any such demonstration of interest in liberty.
But the young are with us, and so are Americans of every stripe. Even party officials. When one of my opponent said it was OK to lose elections through supporting the Iraq war, that set party people's teeth on edge, and rightly so. The Republican party is shrinking. We need new people. It's either our ideas or President Hillary, and more and more people recognize it.
But the media, and everyone else, will be looking at fundraising totals at the end of this month. They'll judge us by how we do. And we need help to wage what we hope will be a full-scale, 50-state campaign. Please help me head into the next quarter fully armed to do battle for freedom, peace and prosperity. Make your most generous contribution https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/. This Revolution is on the move, but it very much needs your support.
Sincerely,
Ron
My answer to the “Mod” question is simple. It takes a lot of know how and perseverance to run a blog like this. Having said qualities the mods are judged sane.
Do I need to say more? :)
The Mods rule, baby. :)
Let's be crystal clear here. The moderator did not add the red text in the article. L.Ron wrote those words, the moderator made them bold red italic.
If Ron Paul would really be glad to fight against our enemies as long as there was a formal declaration of war, why did he vote for the September 14, 2001 "Authorization for the Use of Military Force," which...
...was not a declaration of war (at least not in the sense of "declaration of war" Ron Paul supporters use on this board).
...was not confined to any particular nation even though we were already sure that Afghanistan was harboring the home organization of the hijackers.
...gave the President authority to choose when to act, something Paul says was unconstitutional when we did it against Iraq.
...by Paul's own admittance, targeted "a group which is not a country."
And why did Paul call the September 14 resolution "[a] clear declaration of war" but claim that the Iraq authorization, which is much more specific, is not a declaration of war?
Seems like he's trying to have it both ways...one has to ask, "why?"
Source is here.
Ron Paul - The Pat Buchanan of 2007!
If Ron Paul would really be glad to fight against our enemies as long as there was a formal declaration of war, why did he vote for the September 14, 2001 "Authorization for the Use of Military Force," which...
...was not a declaration of war (at least not in the sense of "declaration of war" Ron Paul supporters use on this board).
...was not confined to any particular nation even though we were already sure that Afghanistan was harboring the home organization of the hijackers.
...gave the President authority to choose when to act, something Paul says was unconstitutional when we did it against Iraq.
...by Paul's own admittance, targeted "a group which is not a country."
And why did Paul call the September 14 resolution "[a] clear declaration of war" but claim that the Iraq authorization, which is much more specific, is not a declaration of war?
Seems like he's trying to have it both ways...one has to ask, "why?"
Source is here.
McCain/Romney/Giuliani/Thompson: The Bob Doles of 2007!
We know how Dole worked out in 1996. Let's try something new.
If they didn’t have secret signals, how could they weed out the Joooooos?
Sheesh! I didn’t know there was a secret handshake! No wonder they wouldn’t let me in!
Wait, I did have my secret decoder ring with me.
‘Busting an innard!’ Oh, stop, you made me laugh so hard I snorted...
And that would be Ron Paul, right...
Riiight...
As far as the Ron Paul school of "constitutional interpretation" goes, Alexander Hamilton is a "neocon fascist warmonger."
Ron Paul's favored Constitutional theorist? Lysander Spooner - who wrote rambling screeds against the Constitution.
I think you might have momentarily lurched into the brilliant light of reality. Did it hurt?
I have no beef with the mods; I think they do a wonderful job. But if it were my web site, which it’s not, I would have the moderators moderate impartially, and let them post their opinions under their own individual screen names.
Based on my own observation, I was under the impression that was the case here, and this is the first time I’ve seen otherwise, so I’m curious whether this is official or not. Because this isn’t my web site, I want to be clear on the rules so I don’t break them. Izzat so bad?
BRILLIANT!
Sadly.....yep!! Don't try to confuse them with the facts please....You'll just get tired fingers.
Okay, smart guy, what is the appropriate way to ask the mods a question?
“The Admin Moderator highlighted in read one of the passages (just one) in which L.Ron betrays his true nature as an absolute, no-good Goddamn liar.”
“My opponents called for more war, more torture, more secret prisons”
More evidence that if you go far enough to the right, you start passing by those on the left who are coming from the opposite direction. ( I call this the SaxxonWoods’Buchanan principle.)
Facts like RP blames America for the actions of the terrorists?
Facts like RP thinks we should find out what WE did to instigate the 9/11 attacks?
Those facts? (and don't ask for references they have been posted and posted and ....)
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