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
No attacks in 6 years...what has this guy done
“I have several friends both in the Army and the Guard who are currently stationed there and they were the ones who sent me the figures about the support for Ron Paul.”
I don’t doubt you for a second. But enough about the Army of Islam or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Do you have any friend serving with the U.S. military?
Just one problem with that analogy...
Walls usually stand for something real or are at least useful...
Ron Paul is the Tokyo Rose of the war on terror.
In most cases true. But, then there was the Berlin wall once upon a time ;o)
Wow. No blood for oil is the meme now.
Sounds familiar...
Tell ya what, when you stop driving your car, shut off your power and get rid of plastics, ping me and I’ll make time for the monkey movie...
Point taken...
Ron Paul is willing to abdicate our foreign policy to the dictates of bin Laden. He’s not a very pro-American American.
I’m sure that neither of you would act like the Ron Paul supporters at the Texas Straw Poll. You wouldn’t sit in public and refuse to applaud when our troops in Iraq are being praised as their successes are named. Or refuse to applaud when the speaker calls for victory for our troops. You wouldn’t stand to cheer when Paul encourages same sex marriage and turning abortion “back to the states.”
There are consequences to aggression and fraud of the sort that Saddam committed against our Nation. Enforcing those consequences is not aggression.
Ron Paul is a FRAUD who, along with his pal Alex Jones, raises money stained with the blood of our troops by parroting the talking points of our enemies.
Do you believe it is in our economic interest to spend billions setting up democracies in the midst of peoples who don't give a rats behind about the freedoms we enjoy? If you want them to have democracy so badly, why not invite them over here? No we can't do that. We've got borders to protect.
Your reaction to Dr. Paul's stand on the issues is demonstrative of a deeply held ignorance with regard to other lands and peoples, and the manner and degree the principles we espouse might be enjoyed.
Maybe you think these fanatics just woke up one morning and decided to fly passenger planes into our "econnomic interests." Thank God there are people who know better. Dr. Paul happens to be one of them. So is President Bush along with a few other fine Republican candidates for the Office.
His fan club is remarkable, though, because no matter what he says they buy into it. It’s pathetic and yet very amusing. They’re like the communist in the 1930s who were willing to support Stalin even after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Great leader is infallible even when he does the opposite of what he says is his principle. It’s amazing. There should be a lot of case studies done on this phenomena. We’re seeing many give up their free will and putting all of their faith - they identify themselves as followers - in a man who contradicts himself often. It’s a cult.
"By morons, not by the administration or the conservatives that you and your supporters are always portraying as traitors, Ron. Oh, and be sure, Ronnie, to let us know how a gun stops a bomb from blowing the plane in half at 40,000 feet."
The administration was responsible for NOT allowing pilots to be armed, despite TWO laws passed by Congress saying to do it. Your "opinion" has lost its credibility for this post.
Please explain exactly why we SHOULD maintain troops and bases in most every country and continent in the world. WHERE in the Constitution for the United States is the Federal Government authorized to do such a thing? What’s preposterous is the whole notion that the USA can or should be policeman to the world. THAT’S what’s preposterous. Not the notion that OUR military people belong in OUR country unless we are in a country because we are at war with them. YOU are preposterous for even considering such a notion.
I have. More than one.
Article 1, Section 8, Subsections 3 (To regulate commerce with foreign nations), 10 (define and punish offenses against the law of nations), 13 (To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces)...
Article 2, Section 2, Subsection 2 (Treaties with other nations)
Article 6, Subsection 2 (all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land)....
Want me to keep going?
Article 1, Section 8, Subsections 3 (To regulate commerce with foreign nations), 10 (define and punish offenses against the law of nations), 13 (To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces)...
Article 2, Section 2, Subsection 2 (Treaties with other nations)
Article 6, Subsection 2 (all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land)....
Want me to keep going?
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