[traviskicks]

"Ron Paul's promise to abolish the IRS on the first day of his taking office is preposterous"

lol, another liberal undergoing cognitive dissonance.

[traviskicks]

ping

[Freedom_no_exceptions]

I had a feeling this was written by a college student.

[counterpunch]

More Ron Paul spam?
I thought Jim Robinson called for an end to that last night.

[RC2]

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.

[inkling]

“Don’t taze me, bro!”

[CJ Wolf]

“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.

[Badeye]

‘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.

[elizabetty]

Ron Paul has a serious problem of not understanding consequences.

His grasp on reality in tenuous, at best.

[George W. Bush]

In a policy that few besides your Ayn Rand Institute types could love, Ron Paul would have us repeg America's currency to the price of gold, economic thinking that was born in the "balance of wealth" days of kings and conquistadors.

Bogus. This is not RP's position. Nor is a unilateral abolishment of the IRS the day he's inaugurated.

Sloppy writing.

[Larry Lucido]

The geek may not get the girl in the end

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.

[uxbridge]

lol, another liberal undergoing cognitive dissonance

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

[Cicero]

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.

[Mr. Silverback]

blind party adherence

It only took 13 words for the author to tell me he's an idiot.

[Grunthor]

But unfortunately, like so many things in today’s attention deficient world, it is too easy to make a snap judgment of Dr. Paul based on his sound bites and YouTube clips.

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So...judging him on his own words is not fair?

[dragnet2]

being "tough on terrorism" to military adventurism throughout the globe has won him quite a few converts and quite a bit more praise from some of the unlikeliest of places. In fact, the poll conducted by Fox News after the most recent Republican debate had 33 percent of respondents granting the victory to Dr. Paul. This came even after moderator Chris Mathews seemed to do everything he could to limit his participation in the debate.

I got a real kick out of all that!

[Martins kid]

Ron Paul is just using up money, energy, and efforts that we should be putting behind candidates that can win.

[Captain Kirk]

Ron Paul ping.

[backtothestreets]

"Though it breaks my aching liberal heart to say it, ..."

We need only wait and watch now for FReepers that side with the author. The author with those words identified himself. His cohorts will identify themselves.

I have not decided who I get my vote for president yet. I am still looking. I do thus far know this, if I make my decision on the merits of strict constitutionalists, personal integrity, honesty, individual liberties, freedom, low taxes, securing our borders, enforcing our laws, coupled with strong opposition to big government, deficit spending and budgeting, Ron Paul is this moment on my short list of qualified candidates.

[Zack Nguyen]

The freedom from hunger and fear that Franklin Delano Roosevelt once promised to the American people is just as important as the freedom to make a buck.

What a ridiculous promise for Roosevelt to make. One that cannot possibly be fulfilled.