GOP's Ron Paul wants all troops home

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 09/12/07 | JOEL CONNELLY

[Iwo Jima]

Murder is not a proper focus of the federal government.

[Petronski]

...but pre-emptive, undeclared wars are unconstitutional and therefore, not conservative.

The constitution does not speak to pre-emptiveness in warmaking. If an undeclared war happens, be sure to let me know.

[dcwusmc]

Except on federal property, Congress is NOT authorized to make murder a federal crime. If you believe otherwise, please provide the specific article and section which grants fedgov that authority. Read the provisions of the Tenth amendment before you go looking.

[mnehring]

I didn't quote, just gave my sense from speeches viewed over the last few days, since I became interested in this guy.

That explains it.. Ron Paul is a political Rorschach test .. people don't want to vote for Ron Paul, they want to vote for themselves.. that is why they all explain away what Paul says or does with their own views/belief...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This will be his last term

Yeah, you GOP party hacks have been preaching gloom and doom on Paul's seat ever since he returned to Congress in 1997, even supporting RINOs against him. In TX, Paul can run for President and his Congressional seat simultaneously, so I'm sure he'll be assured of a job no matter what happens in the presidential race.

[bcsco]

Some of the anti-Paul posters here are much the same. Their minds are made up.

Goes both ways.

To them, Ron Paul is nothing short of the Anti-Christ...

Nope. Just very misguided on foreign policy to the point of being dangerous to the nation.

Fortunately, the web doesn’t transmit spittle or their posts would be as wet as the shirt of that idiot protestor who spent several minutes making a fool of himself.

Are you through spitting now?

[Petronski]

It is a neo-con globalist forum where dissent from war-mongering, nation building and policing the world is met with vitriolic attacks and invitations to leave, rather than reasoned discussion.

Reasoned discussion?

Your stream of consciousness sounds the latest al Jazeera broadcast from bin Laden.

[Iwo Jima]

The Republican party has tried time and time again to defeat Ron Paul even if it means that a Democrat takes the seat. So far they have been woefully unsuccessful.

Here's hoping that they continue to be so.

I was in a real estate office in his district recently. They had his latest newsletter posted. They love him. But then it is a very conservative district. You would expect true conservatives to love him.

[avacado]

" Yeah, you GOP party hacks have been preaching gloom and doom on Paul's seat ever since he returned to Congress in 1997, ..."

Huh? I haven't been preaching anything and especially anything about Ron Paul since 1997! Get a hold of yourself son.

Now that Ron Paul is "out of the closet" there is no way Texans in his district are going to reelect him... He's a MOONBAT!

[bray]

You say paranoid like its a bad thing?? To think that this is not an internet campaign by the DNC is a bit naive. 3/4 of these people are in the HilaryCare HQ.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Jim Robinson]

Don’t rush me, lib.

[Sam's Army]

"I'm sure he'll be assured of a job no matter what happens in the presidential race.

Call me a risk taker, but I predict he will not win the Presidency in 2008.

[Iwo Jima]

I disagree with your opinion that we have no alternative but to become the world’s policemen. And so do the American people. It’s the biggest electoral loser that I can think of.

[bcsco]

Who knew Rowan and Martin were workin the boards here at FR?

Arte Johnson played by Ron Paul. Wonder if he still has that tricycle?

[ccmay]

Except, of course, that Ron paul is an enemy of the US Constitution.

Whatever else he may be, he is not an enemy of the Constitution. I don't see any way I could support him, but I definitely like his insistence on following the plain language of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

why is it that the people who bray the loudest about defending the Constitution always adopt the arguments of the radical Anti-Federalists - the original sworn enemies of the US Constitution

The Anti-Federalists opposed the Constitution because it didn't have a Bill of Rights. Thanks to the Massachusetts Compromise and other state ratification agreements, the Anti-Federalists achieved that goal, and we have benefited from their foresight ever since. If you think we would have been better off sticking with the original un-amended Constitution, feel free to say so explicitly, but don't expect to find much support here or anywhere else in the political spectrum.

-ccm

[John D]

The Republican party has tried time and time again to defeat Ron Paul even if it means that a Democrat takes the seat.

What difference would it make. One cowardly anti-American takes a seat from another cowardly anti-American.

[dfwgator]

It’s not about elections, or what is “popular,” it’s about doing the right thing. And the world is safer because we are the world’s policeman, like it or not.

[Iwo Jima]

When you become president, you cannot summarily deny decades of commitments made by those whom you may not have agreed with.< br>

You have to start reversing decades of an insane foreign policy somewhere. Why do you think that we should have troops stationed in Japan or Korea?

I would bring them home ASAP and put them on the southern border.

[takenoprisoner]

“Paul is not a man for campaign conversions...”

One of the best lines in the article.

[Petronski]

To think that this is not an internet campaign by the DNC is a bit naive. 3/4 of these people are in the HilaryCare HQ.

Personally, I think you ought to name names or STFU.

Which FR posters are in the "HilaryCare HQ?"