10. Ron Paul is a member of al Qaeda CIA sources say 9. Ron Paul spotted with Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton snorting cocaine and drinking booze at a trendy LA nightspot 8. Ron Paul to be indicted for the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman 7. Larry Craig Confession: Ron Paul was my gay lover 6. Ron Paul (aka Juan Valdez) Is an Illegal Mexican immigrant, ICE documents claim 5. AMA accuses Dr. Ron Paul of infecting his patients with HIV during his private practice 4. Congressman Ron Paul arrested for DWI; weapons cache and dead body found in trunk 3. Nude pictures of Ron Paul surface on the internet 2. Ron Paul indicted on federal dog fighting charges 1. Congressman Ron Paul vehemently denies membership in the 8 Tre Gangsta Crip street gang despite mounting evidence
Take your pick.
So the Barbary pirates would have been left alone?
thought crime ping!
Anyone have a photo of Ron Paul with a tinfoil tricorn hat?
I hate to point this ou, but the world has change in the past 200+ years. I wish it were not what it is, but we have to have a strong military presence on the world stage. This is th only big issue I disagree with Rep Paul on, but it is a biggie.
Let’s say that Ron Paul pulls off a miracle and actually TRIPLES his current standing in the polls and garners 9% support in the Republican Primaries. My question is still: WHO CARES?
Let's see.
American citizens would be allowed to spend their hard-earned money wherever they wish across the globe, not told that certain countries are under embargo and thus off limits.
Hmm.
I think it would be safe to describe Thomas Jefferson, the main author of the Declaration of Independence and James Madison, the main author of the Constitution, as Founding Fathers.
Yet Presidents Jefferson and Madison both signed Embargo Acts into law.
More Ron Paul lies.
Ron Paul says America deserved Barbary Pirate attacks, urges surrender.
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I prefer “Rep. Ron Paul: I advocate the same foreign policy the Founding Fathers would. (Ron Paul channels Founding Fathers.)
Noninterventionism, or just good old neutrality as I prefer to call it, made a heck of a lot of sense when your a little third world nation and the big boys are duking it out. It’s better to stay clear and stay neutral.
However when you are the biggest guy on the block and therefor the one everyone would like to take down a peg, well you can’t quite be nuetral in that one.
But the Founding Fathers would be smart enough to adjust their views based on technologies like transoceanic air flight, nuclear and chemical weapons, nuclear submarines, intercontinental and sub-launced ballistic missiles, the internal combustion engine, global oil markets, etc.
They probably would still bear a certain fondness for the tricorner hat though, if that's any consolation to you.
Eric, get prepared for the obligatory photo of Marshall Applewhite.
So, Ron Paul hired John Edwards to channel the dead founding fathers and predict what they ‘would’ have done, even if it completely contradicts what they actually did?
RINO Ron Paul is such a joke.
Yes American Citizens, with Ron Paul, you now can send as much money as you want to North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, its all good.. In the Ron Paul world, there are no enemies, just fluffy bunnies, faeries, and lollypops..
he would be about 200 years behind the times then.
Perhaps he advocates powdered wigs too...
Having followed the Founders' vision for the US in the world, the nation was completely unprepared for WWI -- no guns, ammo, troops, or anything. It took us months to get to a place where we had a credible Army, and we had no shipping to get them to the war, and no artillery to use once they got there.
Following the war, Americans attempted to revert to the Founders' vision once again. We disarmed and pulled back ... and the world became ugly once again. Not through our fault, necessarily, but we ignored what was happening. The one great thing FDR did, was to move in time ... to start the wheels of war moving before we were actually pulled into the war. But we still weren't ready when the war came, and it was a much closer-run thing the second time around.
We almost fell for it again, except that Mr. Truman did the one thing that really mattered, and acted to counter Soviet expansion in Europe. So much for the Founders' vision: real world events had rendered it moot.
What we learned, then, was that the Founders' vision worked fine when the nearest enemy was 2 months away by ship. It was a rather different world when the enemy was 30 minutes away by ballistic missile. Our presence in Europe made sense during the Cold War, and it even makes sense now, though for less pressing reasons. As it does in South Korea.
And now we're in a world the Founders could never have imagined: one where what happens in a place like the Middle East has profound effects on the US.
Mr. Paul does not inhabit reality. Instead, he apparently inhabits a world where everybody plays nice-nice, and nobody has nefarious aims. If the past century taught us nothing else, it taught us the utter stupidity of that assumption.
The Founding Fathers sent an expeditionary force to fight the Barbary Pirates and fought an undeclared naval war with France.
They had NOTHING in common with the pathetically ignorant Neo Isolationist dogmas of the like of Ron Paul
Ron Paul appears to be one of the two candidates of choice at my university (Obama is the other). Someone wrote “Ron Paul is the shit” on the sidewalk in chalk. If I had any chalk of my own I would’ve crossed out “the”...
Fortunately my work was done for me by the scuffing and smearing of the chalk from frequent passerbys. It now reads “RON PAUL (smudge smudge smudge) SHIT!”