Posted on 11/11/2007 12:39:35 PM PST by PlainOleAmerican
I hate wasting this much press time on Ron Paul. But the Paul campaign is becoming a real threat to the Republican primary process and if allowed to continue, he will take votes away from the most conservative Republican candidates in the party, not the most liberal. This is bad for the party and the country.
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So, how Republican is Republican candidate Ron Paul?
If he’s funded largely by anti-war leftists, from Democrat stronghold districts and counting on Democrats, Libertarians and members of the Green Party to win the Republican nomination, not very…
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Since Paul has no chance whatsoever, it's a risk-free investment. They're not trying to get the guy elected. They're trying to finance a sustained third-party effort that will siphon 2-5% of the vote away from the GOP candidate.
Anecdotes dude, anecdotes.
I’d have to back track. Sometimes I lose track myself...
No harm, no foul though. At the end of the day, most of us here on on the same team. We’re just deciding our game plan.
I'll agree that, in what I have heard, RP over-simplifies the terrorist acts involved in 9-11; his prhase "11 thugs" rang false with me. It was 11 members of some quasi-national mafia. His statement showed either a willful or an ignorant misunderstanding of the organization behind the act.
That said, the term "War on terror" rings about as false as the term "hate crime" with me. You can't have a war on an emotion. I would rather use the term "war on enemies of the United States."
That would keep front and center the imperatives that we identify who they are, what they did or are doing, who is funding them, how they threaten the USA, and what their motives are. It would also help define measurable finish lines in our overseas conflicts.
You need to identify an enemy's motives to find their weaknesses - especially important when you are dealing with suicide bombers who don't even seem to value their own lives. But the bombers are usually stooges for puppet masters who'd wimper if they cut themselves shaving. Unless you want to keep cutting off a new hydra head every few years, I think answering these questions and changing the cultural "cradle" of the recruits is important. I agree with GWB that a true message of freedom and the priority of self over government is important. By its nature the nature of man as defined in the Declaration of Independence transcends government and is the antidote to the Middle East pot-stirrers, among others.
Well now lets don’t go overboard, I don’t know if Paul and his minions are that much fun...
I’ll bet they already do...
Ron Paul wingnuts are now accusing conservatives of being DUmmies, now I've seen everything!
Hell, we could use some antidotes being posted.
We’re trying, but nothing seems to work.
I have only seen one campaign group alienate so many people so fast. That was Howard Deans internet techi group in 2004. I strongly suspect that it is largely the same group supporting RP. The same group that spammed last seasons American Idol votes to keep a non-singer on the show till the end, just for fun.
Ayn Rand was a strong anti-Communist, as would befit a refugee from the USSR, and her heirs are advocates of a strong defense who recognize the threat from Islamic militancy. Back in the 1970s, Rothbard, the intellectual father of the pro-Ron Paul faction of libertarians, began cooperating with several New Leftists and others in condemning American imperialism, seeing American foreign policy and corporate interests, rather than Communist plans for world domination, as the main threat to world peace.
As conservatives have factions, such as free marketers, defense advocates, moral conservatives, etc., so do libertarians. It is wrong to see them all as computer nerds, druggies, and other marginal social types. As for Ron Paul, while he may cite Jefferson and Patrick Henry, his most important influence is not these men of the 18th Century, but one of the 20th Century, Murray Rothbard.
Prove it.
What are you talking about? They've got their mom's old minivan, her Visa card, some homemade RINO Paul signs and a bong, what could possibly be more fun?
Career politicians are very seldom (if ever) conservative...
Fine, anti-American Pinkos.
Yep.
His support for Giuliani wasn’t something I learned of until AFTER I decided Dondero was an opportunist. Did you even look at the article I linked?
You are really missing the point.
It is NOT a matter of going back in time to that technology. The taxes did not allow those things to happen. We are not great because of taxes. We are great because of our liberty.
That list just shows how much we have lost to government and that is a shame and that liberty is what I’d like to return to.
C'mon wagglebutt. It was important enough to ping Jim Robinson so prove either of those personal attacks.
Who cares what they say? There is not a chance in the world of Paul winning the GOP nomination.
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