Paul Has 'No Intention' of Making Third-Party Bid

The Washington Post ^ | 01/06/08 | Jose Antonio Vargas

[JSDude1]

Both Guiliani and Romney are (or have been pro-abortion), pro tax, pro spending (burocracy), anti-second amendment, and pro sodomy! That qualifies them as ~Democracts~ Lite in my book, as I am sure MANY (if not MOST) other Republicans will agree with me on!

[rb22982]

Ron Paul wouldn’t legalize drugs per se so much as turn it back over as a state’s right issue which it should be. Besides, we’ve spent around a trillion dollars in the war on drugs in the last 50 years and haven’t reduced usage at all. If they really wanted to get serious about drugs they’d really do border enforcement.

[JSDude1]

I’d be fine with Hunter, Thompson or Ron Paul.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“Ron Paul and his supporters really only to end the War on Drugs. “

There is no war on drugs.

Only a war on Americans.

Prohibition has caused more problems than it purports to solve. Especially turning police into paramilitary organizations, the concept of property seizure, erosion of privacy, and it’s illegality funding well armed criminal syndicates.

Milton Friedman wrote extensively on the subject. If you’re interested in hearing a right-wing critique of it, read what he wrote.

[ksen]

And I suspect he will.

I hope he does.

[rb22982]

He said he’s 99.99% sure he won’t run.

[VeniVidiVici]

Go to his website and find one thing besides the Iraq war that isn’t a conservative position.

So, you agree with his assessment of calling Fox "warmongers"? That fits right in with the Democrats all boycotting Fox.

The whole thing is ludicrous. Hell, most here thing Fox is too liberal! He's just showing his true stripes with this statement as far as I'm concerned.

[Baladas]

You don’t understand the GOP base then - Mike Huckabee’s stance on drugs is what this party embraces, and this is not a major issue this year.

[rb22982]

No, I don’t agree, and I don’t want him as CinC but he’s far more conservative overall than all but Thompson & Hunter running for President.

[rb22982]

I understand the GOP base just fine. I'm talking about from a conservative position. The drug war was always a liberal issue to control starting with Roosevelt and then with FDR. They even had to pack in the supreme court to allow it with the Commerce Clause(why do you think alcohol took an amendment but we now do not?). Furthermore, if the WoD was actually succeeding, I'd be happy to support it.

You are correct it's not a big issue, which is why last I checked it's not even on Ron Paul's 2008 website.

[rb22982]

Make that Woodrow Wilson and then FDR in post 30.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Or maybe the Fox News reporters realize he belongs in a Democrat debate, not a Republican one...

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“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”

—Ronald Reagan
Source: Reason Magazine, Jul. 1, 1975