Posted on 11/21/2007 6:22:56 PM PST by canuck_conservative
The other main difference is that Ron Paul has no chance of winning. Huckabee does.
And that Ron Paul IS that scary
Common sense says to keep this dude away from the Oval Office. He may not be scarey himself, but his ideas of isolationalism today are.
He is incredibly naive to think that pulling back within our borders will stop terrorist attacks against America and our interests abroad.
Where is that and how does one get out of it?
“But there’s something weird going on when Paul, the small-government constitutionalist, is considered the extremist in the Republican Party, while Huckabee, the statist, is the lovable underdog.”
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Thats what makes Hunter so great. He’s a social conservative and an economic conservative who throws away the worst of libertarianism; blind free-trade.
Paul isn’t a Constitutionalist. Constitutionalists are paleoconservatives, and paleoconservatives want to run the entire government on tariffs (not going to happen).
If the most you can say for him is that “he’s not that scary,” then that’s not much of an endorsement.
When you align yourself with truthers and believe we are responsible for 9/11 then one's other positions on issues becomes irrelevant.
He doesn't believe in the hyper-interventionist, nation building, world's cop, bankrupting our country with endless wars philosophy of Bush.
And guess what? A lot of people don't. Bush's foreign policy is not the traditional Republican position, it's not the constitutional position, the founders warned against it, and it has 'blowback'. And not only that, it is bankrupting our country, and causing us to be resented all over the world.
Paul believes in a strong national defense, the just war theory, and free trade - he is not an isolationist.
I think that 98-99 percent of Paul backers are anti-GWB. Would you agree? They may be wanting the most anti-GWB person, but Tancredo is also very anti-GWB.
But hey, maybe I'm in the minority...I would like to keep this republic, and that "piece of paper" called the constitution and bill of rights.
I got a dollar bill today with “Google RonPaul.com” stamped on it in red. As if I wasn’t already turned off by these loonies...
It would be more fair to say Paul supporters have no appreciable interest in the GWB administration. As to say they are not anti-GWB as much as they are pre-GWB. When their basic positions state the country has been off track for longer than GWB has been alive, GWB doesn’t himself represent more than the facade of the problematic cadre in power that the country faces.
Which is the same thing freepers would say about the Clinton administration.
Paul believes in a strong national defense, the just war theory, and free trade - he is not an isolationist.
All of that is Crap, and directly contradicted by his own public statements.
You Ron Paul supporters are nothing if not consistent. You consistently lie about Ron Paul's positions -- to the point where you don't even pay attention to the man's own words.
Why don't all you Libertarians get your stories straight and tell the same lie, it seems to work for the Democrats. And stop calling yourselves Conservatives or Republicans, you are neither. You are Libertarians, show some self-respect, own it, and be proud of it.
And I'm not a libertarian. (but thanks for assuming) In fact, there are a couple things I disagree with Paul on, he is more libertarian than I am, but since we have gone so far in the other direction, I think only a moron would NOT want someone who is liberty-minded and consistently votes to protect our rights and liberties.
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