GOP's Ron Paul wants all troops home

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

[Fudd Fan]

Posted before I read yours. GMTA, my FRiend~!

[NavyCanDo]

“I swear he sounds like a ranting liberal”

This anti-war “pull our troops out now” cult like following Paul has smells allot like a Lyndon LaRouche campaign. I really doubt his supporters are Republicans or libertarians (little L). These are Tinfoil-hat Internet junkies.

[deport]

I am embarrassed that this weenie is from Texas. The sooner he loses the better.

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I hope that the CD can find a viable alternative candidate that can defeat Paul in the primary. Since his district spreads across many counties I don’t know if there is one candidate who is well enough known to beat him.

I think he’ll be in the Presidential primary until the bitter end much like Keyes was in 2000. Paul doesn’t need a lot of money to continue his run the way his campaign operates. And with fundraisers like the one mentioned in this article of $1,000 a person and the one where he collected over a $100,000 in Dallas a few weeks ago will provide more than ample money for him.

He’ll get some primary support and delegates as the alternate candidate to who ever comes out as the eventual winner but not near enough to have a major impact at the convention. My hope is he’s denied a spot on the rosturm at the convention.

[dfwgator]

Our role is not...to be world policeman."

If we don't do it, someone else will. And I don't think anyone is going to like the results.

We had the luxury of being isolationist in the early part of our history, but technological advances have made it so that isolationism is no longer feasible.

[jrooney]

Yeah “George W. Bush.” A freeper that posts drivel that contrasts things our real POTUS would say. It is a black mark on FR that they awarded this freeper our sitting POTUS’s name. This freeper has no respect or honor for invoking our POTUS’s name while posting some of the nonsense he does and supporting a loon like Ron Paul, who would be better in a straight jacket than in the halls of Congress.

[US at Risk]

Very interesting. From what I can see, his positions are more conservative than liberal on balance, but he's got the college kiddies swooning just because of his opposition to the Iraq war.

The liberal/socialist/pacifist tags are disinformation from the troll patrol that cannot tolerate discussion. As the only anti-war candidate, he's likely to pick up some very strange bedfellows, but a vote's a vote.

[bcsco]

What a coincidence! I want Ron Paul to go home too!! ;.)

Well, if he wants to bring the troops home because they involve us in international affairs, it's only fair we should want him to go home and stop involving himself in our affairs.

[MEGoody]

there is one that is far more disturbing, the creation of a Federal Child Tracking Database. (ala Digital Angel.)

I hadn't heard about that one. It is FAR more disturbing.

[Vanbasten]

“And U.S. troops in Europe?

“I would get them home,” Paul said in an interview Tuesday. “Having them stationed abroad doesn’t serve our national interest, and that goes for forces in Japan and Korea. “

As if we needed further proof that this guy is an idiot when it comes to foreign policy.

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

[mnehring]

Page 10 here:

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/allpolitics/0706/popup.congress.earmarks/pdfs/tx.14.paul.pdf

(note, this is 65 pages of earmark requests just from March 2007 alone for Ron Paul so it may take a while to load.)

[deport]

When I lived in Texas, he was a Libertarian.

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Paul orginally ran and won his CD seat as a Republican. He resigned after 6 yrs [self imposed term limit] and ran as the Libertarian Party Presidential candidate. After losing that he returned to the Republican party and ran again for the CD seat which he won and has held ever since. He runs as a Republican in order to have a chance at being elected is my opinion. Hopefully someone with enough district wide acceptance can unseat him in the primary this time around.

[mnehring]

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[trisham]

Welcome to Free Republic.

[US at Risk]

I might have been able to repect his view in respect to the troops in Iraq, I.E. get then out as soon as possible(assuming we have the situation stable over there), but in the same breath he wants to pull out all our troops around the world.

To say nothing of saying that Iran wasn’t a problem and we should just let them be. This guy is a loon of the highest order.

I agree on the stability issue and am holding for more information. RP is dumb like a fox, making people howl with outrage at his sound bites while others take a deeper look to see what the fuss is about.

He never said Iran wasn't a problem. He has said that historically the US should not have worked with England to depose Mossadeq. I agree with him on this point. In the present day, he feels that there's a good enough balance of power in the ME to contain Iran. I think this is credible, too, especially if we leave Iraq in good shape.

[bcsco]

As the only anti-war candidate, he's likely to pick up some very strange bedfellows, but a vote's a vote.

Uh, huh. Kinda like "The end justifies the means".

[mnehring]

He never said Iran wasn't a problem.

No, I believe his exact words were:
They (Iran) are acting logically and defensively and we have no reason to fear them.

[US at Risk]

Seems very strange to me that some think it is constitutional to allow the taking of innocent life.

IMO, condoning, nay, PROMOTING abortion at the federal level gives states a free pass on this issue. RP talks about actively seeking to overthrow R v. W, which would be a monumental advancement.

[meandog]

I cannot believe I once supported this buffoon.

[Nephi]

...if he has so little in common with the Republican Party.

Constitutional conservatives have so little in common with freerepublic. It took 15 posts before a freeper acknowledged Ron Paul actually follows the constitution. I remember when freerepublic was a conservative forum...of course, that was before Jim Robinson embraced undeclared pre-emptive wars.

[BubbaBasher]

It's time for your medication Ronnie.