Posted on 09/21/2007 8:51:19 AM PDT by traviskicks
lol, another liberal undergoing cognitive dissonance.
ping
I had a feeling this was written by a college student.
More Ron Paul spam?
I thought Jim Robinson called for an end to that last night.
Maybe what we should do here is........instead of allowing the Republican and Democratic party pick who we will vote for is have the candidate from both parties, the top three, have a debate. All of them on the same stage, answering the same questions. Make it a three hour debate. Let them get tired debating and you will see different answers. Let them each push their hot buttons by answering serious questions.
“Don’t taze me, bro!”
eh? You’re not buying into ‘End Times Crusader’s’ blacklist of Paul supporters in preparation for the mass banning are you? :)
“The tragic collapse in July of a Minnesota bridge and its subsequent investigation proved that many areas of America require more oversight and funding, not less.”
Events like this would just go from being Bush’s fault to Paul’s fault.
“More Ron Paul spam?”
Ok. Overlook the rest of the article. What are your thoughts on the second paragraph from the end?
‘The geek may not get the girl in the end, but he can teach a thing or two to the jock.’
Indeed, like how to get Stormfront’s total support according to polling data out of Oregon noted today in the forum.
“More Ron Paul spam?
I thought Jim Robinson called for an end to that last night.”
counterpunch: I think there is some FR rule that you should copy those you are talking about.
Well said.
eh? Youre not buying into End Times Crusaders blacklist of Paul supporters in preparation for the mass banning are you? :)No, I'm talking about this post here:
Not a Ron Paul fan by any means, but the "geek" DID get the girl and has been married 50 years, with children and grandchildren. Not bad at all. I don't want him as president or even as a nominee but he has been a good congressman and a good citizen, my profound disagreements on defense notwithstanding.
The dissonance here are these two lines of the article. First, the writer opines:
The dismantling of America's regulatory system and the dramatic decrease in our government's bureaucracy, Paul proposes, would be an unmitigated disaster up and down the line
Then, he writes:
Though it breaks my aching liberal heart to say it, America's military superiority, and subsequently the defense of the Constitution and the liberty that we all love (and for which Dr. Paul is a true champion), can no longer be funded by import duties and excise taxes as it was in the days of Franklin and Jefferson
Now...I know is shocks people who've never read the Constitution or the Federalist before...but that federal regulatory system...the dismantling of which the writer believes would be an unmitigated disaster...nearly all of it (maybe all of it)...was put into place without any Constitutional authority. Any President truly interested in defending the Constitution and liberty would begin dismantling the entire federal regulatory system the moment he took office
I think Ron Paul has a place in congress, and I’ve always said so. We need gadflies, to use the image employed by Socrates to describe his function in Athens.
Gadflies serve an important purpose, but they don’t make good presidents.
It only took 13 words for the author to tell me he's an idiot.
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