Is Ron Paul really so crazy? (townhall)

Townhall.com ^ | 10/23/07 | Jason Wharton

[padre35]

My goodness GWB, you’re 90+ posts into this thread, I’m not going to go back and read the whole thing as all of the pictures eat bandwith like a 13 yr old scarfs pizza at a free school lunch buffet.

suffice it to say, Ron Paul is a reminder of Republicanism when it was US oriented, low budget deficit low tax low regulation party.

That is painful to some and they react with hostility even in the face of facts to the contrary.

Complain about high taxes?

Ron Paul wants to eliminate the IRS.

Worried about the Deficit?

Ron Paul’s plan to utilize the metallic standard would make such high debt levels impossible.

Worried about the Role of govt growing in people’s lives?
Ron Paul proposes eliminating several Govt agencies.

He is wrong on Iraq, but then again, he never put on a dress and mimiced Marilyn Monroe, nor has he been divorced, nor has he taken a money for his private gynecology practice.

Yep, sounds like a kook to me, I would much rather have a candidate who was a spokesman for an Abortion Org, or who basically ordered Gay Marrigage be included into state law, or who wants Socialized Medicine or ...

Well, that is enough for now, let another candidate mention the Constitution more often and I will take notice of them.

[padre35]

Actually Eric, “we” the US didn’t provide Saddam with military equipment for the 80-88 war, a few choppers, and dual use biological medium, but not heavy tanks artillery and planes and mortars etc came from France the Soviets and the Germans.

That being said, Ron Paul’s currency plans would crash onto the shore of Petro Dollar/Petro Euro reality.

We have far too much currency and debt floating around the world to ever be able to metalize all of it.

[Eric Blair 2084]

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[George W. Bush]

We have far too much currency and debt floating around the world to ever be able to metalize all of it.

I don't RP has ever suggested we could. America never had a fully gold-backed currency in its entire history. He instead talks in terms of a stabilization of currency and hedging against deflation and the manipulation of currency by unscrupulous pols and banking interests, the disincentive toward savings, how the government monetary policy creates an incentive for people going into debt in a big way (the Eighties, or from 2002-2006 for instance), how the end result is something like the S&L bank bailout in the late Eighties and the subprime problems and massive deflation of the dollar currently.

It really won't do to pretend that these things are not the result of government policy and the actions of the Fed. Many people may conclude that the Fed is necessary but it does have its problems. Among them was causing the Great Depression.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Probably a discussion for a different thread.

[George W. Bush]

dual use biological medium

You mean his seed stock of anthrax? Yes. Can't recall which agency gave it to him though. Seems it was a midwestern university. We've exported a lot of this stuff around the world, not just to Saddam though. Of course, it has prominent warning labels on it, "Only for research. Do not make WMD!" and stuff like that.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Post #50 LOLOLOL. Good one, good one...

[B4Ranch]

Is this your reply to Post #19?

[billbears]

I see the ever shrinking Republican base has chimed in quite extensively over the one conservative running.

I have a question though. If Hillary does win (and she will win if the Republicans post up a pro-war candidate), and she doesn't bring the troops home, are we supposed to be against the police action then (as in Bosnia, etc.) or are 'good' patriots supposed to support Democratic policies?

I suppose we'll see on January 21,2009 when the first elected Republicans start to rail against bad foreign policy choices..

That is if Dr. Paul isn't President...

[padre35]

And the famous photo of Rumsfeld meeting Saddam was Rummy doing his job as special Middle Eastern Negotiator, he traveled the entire region in that capacity.

He also was there to tell Saddam to stop using WMD so heavily, this was after they were used on Kurdish villages that supported a Iranian incursion into Iraq.

[NYC GOP Chick]

For example, who is it that "radicalized" Islam to fight against the Russians? We did! We created Osama Bin Laden.

This is where I stopped reading, because the writer of this slop is ignorant. The reality is that we supported the Afghans, NOT bin laden and his imported Arab jihadists (who hated us as much as they hated the Soviets).

[NYC GOP Chick]

And, yes, he’s batsh!t crazy — but his anti-war lunacy isn’t the only proof.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Is that the Northern Alliance leader who was murdered 2 days before 9/11?

[NYC GOP Chick]

I’m jealous - we only seem to get the LaRouche freaks setting up tables with their badly misspelled handwritten signs. :(

[redgolum]

While I like some of Ron Paul’s ideas, he is about one ton of bricks shy of a full load.

For instance, he was on the radio advocating orders of marque and reprisal to fight terror instead of the US military.

In other words pirating and private armies not under any sort of oversight. Which never works out well.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Don’t underestimate yourself — you’ve been on a roll today! :-D

[George W. Bush]

I have a question though. If Hillary does win (and she will win if the Republicans post up a pro-war candidate), and she doesn't bring the troops home, are we supposed to be against the police action then (as in Bosnia, etc.) or are 'good' patriots supposed to support Democratic policies?

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it, mister!

[George W. Bush]

In other words pirating (...cough...U.S.-funded U.N. troops in Kosovo and elsewhere...cough...) and private armies (...cough...Blackwater and 120 other mercenary army units in Iraq...cough...) not under any sort of oversight.

Fixed a few typos.

Which never works out well.

What'cher point?

[rineaux]

Good article. VERY funny video. I, myself have been against our 20 billion dolllar sale to the Saudi’s. Those weapons will be pointing back at the US and our Miliatry in the regiion.

[redgolum]

My point is that Paul is advocating the same policies he is slamming.

And yes, we should send all the mercs out of Iraq (and yes the Blackwater boys are mercs).