Posted on 12/18/2007 7:41:42 AM PST by mnehring
YouTube video via Drudge- Ron Paul quote this morning on Fox and Friends- "When fascism comes it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. "
You're supporting an anarchist.
And I think that is the point that Ron Paul was making, anyone can make emotional appeals to God, Family and Country.
I'd like to see a reference for that, if you have one.
I will try to dig one out for you.
But the great fear was that Communism would replace Capitalism (which was seen as failing due to the Depression) and the New Deal was sold as a 'middle way'.
Don't forget that the Unions were heavily controlled by the Communists.
Much of the unrest that occurred during that period was caused by the Communists.
“Ron Paul’s a nutty version of Ross Perot.”
Ron Paul’s a nuttier version of Ross Perot, but he does have a nicer haircut.
Because I’m interested in truth. Because of my fascination with all of the worlds religions, it’s given me an appreciation for all things “different”. Plus, my parents never told me why they’re conservative, so I’d like to know why they would be! If I was looking for a pat on the back and bj, I could certainly go to a libertarian site and chant “Ron Paul ‘08” for a while. But for some reason, I don’t think I’d learn anything.
Yeah, I’m into that whole “learning” thing... haha. It seems like most people think those going for Ron Paul really aren’t, but you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover! :D
It’s sad. I used to admire the hell out of the guy until he went off the deep end.
lol. I really didn’t. I was quite confused because I mentioned that you guys will “grow on me”... So you would be the cancer. Otherwise where you got off on this tangent confuses me even more!
I know the Communists were heavily involved in the unions. I’m having a hard time reconciing the New Deal being presented as anti-communist when FDR was being backed by the Pendergast machine, which relied heavily on union support.
Except none of that is covered under powers granted to the government under the Constitution is it?
Funny, Allegra is over there and so is SandRat (apparently). Maybe we should ask them whether you know what you are talking about? In any event, cut and run is for cowards and I think more of our troops on the ground than to imagine them as cowards. Singing Kumbaya to Islamic terrorists is not the reason for the existence of the US military. You are certainly free to disagree and conservatives are equally free to suggest that you are no more conservative than your paleopipsqueak “hero” paleoPaulie. Pacifist weenieism is NOT conservatism.
This may be jumping a school of sharks.
For me it was back when Ron promoted an isolationist America rather than pursuing and killing her enemies wherever they go.
So, Reagan got likeminded Democrats to vote for him, many who disagreed with us on many issues.
As for the Democrat Party leaving Reagan, hasn't the GOP left its base as well?
Nixon won by the skin of his teeth when George Wallace voters, the vanguard of the future Reagan Democrats, decided that they had had enough of the Great Society and took a last minute flyer on Nixon to stop Humphrey's dangerously effective campaign which was closing fast on Nixon.
Well, he sure beat McGovern, getting almost every State in the Union.
The George Wallace campaign was an appeal to the grass roots who felt neither Party was representing their interests, which can be said for both Parties today.
Ike won because America was worn out with the New Deal and the Fair Deal and did not want to support a pseudo-egghead like Adlai Stevenson for POTUS. Ike was nothing to write home about. Poor general and not much of a president. Ike suffered a nervous breakdown and showed his true colors in denouncing what he called "the military industrial comoplex" when he should have been attacking the welfare state.
Ike ran on the platform of ending the Korean war 'I will visit Korea' and even threatened to use Nukes to end it.
As a President, Ike wasn't too bad and doesn't get enough credit.
His criticism of the 'industrial-military complex was justified since he was always being pressured to increase defense spending when this nation was more then a match for the Soviet Union.
Kennedy ran on the nonsense of a 'missile gap' knowing full well that there was no 'gap' and that the U.S. was way ahead of the Soviets.
Ike saw the the key to America's greatness lie in her economic strength, not wasting it on needless military spending.
Remember that Winston Churchill was defeated in 1945 and that was not a reflection on him but on the weariness of British voters.
It was a reflection on how much socialism had gotten a hold on the British people, who didn't want to end war time controls.
Unlike the Americans who put on a Republican Congress to end the controls which the Democrats were hanging on to.
To compare a despicable twerp such as the paleoPaulie whom we are now experiencing with Ronaldus Maximus is a political atrocity.
No, Ron Paul is making that same broad popular appeal, which is why the elites hate him so fervently.
It’s very sad to me to see the conservative crowd, whom I’ve always been proud to say have both the moral and intellectual high ground, utterly fail to parse simple english.
Paul is saying “beware the false prophets”, that’s exactly what his statement means. For some reason, normally intelligent people lose blood flow to their brain when they hear the word facist.
Huckabee’s platform is “It takes a theocrat to defeat theocratic terrorists”, and he should be called on it, and you guys are the ones that should be doing it. Instead it’s about fear and loathing for a message that this party once stood for.
Very sad indeed.
By itself? No. But then Paul wasn't content simply to condemn politicians' pandering to the religious, was he? No, he had to go and quote a card-carrying socialist, as if that would somehow help his argument!
I'll say it again: Paul fancies himself so far to the right that he often goes full circle and ends up on the far left. And this is just one example of many.
I see nothing wromng with Chucklebees religious appeal or what he is saying. I have big problems with his policies regarding taxes, illegals, defense and crime. His record sucks on these issues.
My what angry rhetoric!
Last I heard Bush had plans of pulling our combat troops out of Iraq, so I guess he must be 'cutting and running'?
As for singing 'Kumbaya to Islamic terrorists' what is the Bush administration doing about Iran?
They are responsible for the deaths of U.S.troops yet there is not retaliation by the Bush administration.
So, with all of the 'chest pounding' the current efforts in the WOT are pretty weak.
And your candidate is going to do what in the WOT?
And one of the goals was getting rid of the Communists from the Unions.
Did he have to do it by hiring them as advisors?
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