Posted on 10/15/2007 7:20:30 PM PDT by freedomdefender
The Texas congressman is not likely to be president, but his campaign already represents the most significant pro-freedom movement in recent American history. ...
So how did a 72-year-old grandfather who is self-effacing and slender to the point of looking frail on television (he doesn't in person) become the closest thing to a rock star the Republicans have produced, swarmed for autographs at every appearance? Raised in Pittsburgh, Ron Paul attended Duke medical school, served in the Air Force, and began practicing medicine (he's an OB-GYN) near Houston. Along the way he started reading writers like Ludwig von Mises and Friederich von Hayek and became a strong supporter of free-market economics and the gold standard. ...
His practice in Congress has been to ask himself, before each vote, whether this is a program specifically authorized by the Constitution. If the answer is no, he opposes it including funding for NASA when NASA was in his district. This has earned him the nickname, "Dr. No."
...He also believes the income tax should be abolished, government made significantly smaller, and that the Federal Reserve should be abolished, with the country returning to a gold standard rather than printing fiat money. He is staunchly pro-life and seldom misses a chance to denounce the war on drugs, which he believes is unconstitutional.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
My goodness, they certainly are! It's almost like a Code Pink gathering, all peace and love and no war, etc., etc. etc. I wonder why they didn't invite The Reality Sector of FR?
I guess reality bites...
Well, hurry up now and don your tie-dyed shirt or Star Trek uniform, stoke up the bong and let's join in.
It’s beyond me the level of venom here for Ron Paul yet FR hosts the RLC forum.
Fixed.
Hating Ron Paul to Conservatism is like hating Cancer to a Doctor. Both are highly constructive.
Freepers who support Ron Paul should be treated appropriately.
ewww, I have to hold my nose everytime I click on one of those “ronpaulforum” links.
Is the U.S. Coast Guard federal? Sure it is. So what's the difference if the fed guards our water borders or land borders? None that I can see. To be consistent, he would have to vote against funding the Coast Guard as well. And the Air Force.
But absent federal protection, why aren't the governors doing the job? In that the official organized state militias, (National Guard) have been federalized, who is left to guard our borders? I thought we established government (state and federal) to protect the country, among other reasons, for I'd rather be spending my time pursuing life, liberty and enjoying happiness without having to worry about being invaded. Leave the gun toting to the pros.
On that point, I think I'm more Ron Paul than Ron Paul.
But Alas. Absent any gummint protection, it seems like We the People will have to get involved and put our personal pursuits on the back burner for a while, at least a good portion of us. The times demand it.
(Of course, we have already done that, thanks to the Militiamen volunteers.)
Correction: Militiamen volunteers should be minutemen volunteers.
I AM THERE DUDETTE...
Just got to clock out after I make this latte...
Took a crap on free speech and the first amendment by supporting McCain-Feingold. At the time, most true conservatives (including on this site), were furious.
Voted against impeachment for President Clinton over his perjury. The parsing of his vote during impeachment (yes on obstruction, no on perjury) didn't impress this lawyer.
Leased a red pickup in the 90s while running for the Senate, fooling the people of Tennessee into viewing him as a good ole boy and not a high paid Washington lawyer/lobbyist who prefers travelling in limosines.
Also, my momma always told me (see, I can imitate a homeboy as well - just need some cowboy boots and a pickup truck) that you judge people by the company they keep. Fred Thompson is a member of the globalist socialist utopian "Council on Foreign Relations", where he gets to hang out with fellow globalists like George Soros and the Rockefellers.
He's suggested using the constitution's authorization of marque & reprisal. I don't know if that's adequate, but it is extra-ordinary.
Paul doesn't realize that as long as the world is in termoil worrying about the muzzy threat, we have to get busy and end the threat before we can afford to relax again and get back to pursuing happiness. We have to mobilize as a nation. And no doubt we will have to send our military might abroad.
I can't understand Paul's policy to stay home and un-involved at this time. Maybe in better days isolationism to some degree has a place. But we are at war and the whole world is the battlefield.
Through trial and error, we are succeeding. But I don't know of any other way to succeed against this muzzy kind of insanity except by trial and error.
That's just the way it is, imo. I'm absolutely certain that staying home and hiding in the closet will be fatal. It's time to get in the proper mind set for the task ahead.
Did you really go and look at it? I just counted posts, and out the last 50, fully 41 are Ron Paul. Goes back to Nov 06, and most of the 10 earliest are not RP. I think RLC must mean Libertarian. Which would sort of explain it. Thanks. MF
>I like your tagline.
Thank you. Let’s avoid the mistake of nominating and electing another “front runner”, since they have a miserable track record of...
1) running up the national debt
2) leaving the border open
3) abandoning the unborn
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