Posted on 02/08/2008 6:42:37 AM PST by ovrtaxt
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks in the eyes of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
The Texas congressman had some harsh words for the GOP presidential frontrunner John McCain, a longtime U.S. Senator, on various issues including what Paul alleged was a one-time alliance with former Vice President and global warming cheerleader Al Gore.
“Now our leading candidate – guess whose position he holds on global warming? Al Gore, he supports the Al Gore bill on global warming.”
Paul spoke to the conservative audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 7 in Washington, D.C.
Paul also pointed out McCain’s partnerships with other Democrats in the past on campaign finance, immigration and taxes.
“Now we have a candidate running for president, who is leading the charge,” Paul said. “One of his best friends is [Sen. Russ] Feingold – campaign finance reform. Another friend of this candidate – his good friend – his name is [Sen. Ted] Kennedy. And then also, his old-time friend – he’s not in the senate right now – Sen. [Tom] Daschle, who used to be his friend on taxes – to increase taxes, not lower them. We need lower taxes.”
Paul also told the audience that if elected, McCain would continue the war, which might mean the reinstitution of the draft.
“And that means, the next generation – the burden is being placed on these young people and that is why the college kids are coming out – because they’re getting ripped off,” Paul said. “We’re undermining their liberties. We’re giving them a foreign policy where it is their lives on the line. The threat of a draft is coming for men and women, as this war is likely to spread. And what have they inherited? Less freedom and a lot of debt.”
Paul, a long-time critic of the war, has vowed to start a pull out if he were to win the election. “On my first day as commander-in-chief, I will direct the Joint Chiefs of Staff and our commanders on the ground to devise and execute a plan to immediately withdraw our troops in the safest manner possible,” he states on his campaign Web site.
An hour earlier, McCain spoke to the same audience and plead for their support if he were to get the Republican nomination. McCain stressed fiscal discipline, but was especially vocal on lower taxes.
“Senator Clinton and Senator Obama will raise your taxes,” McCain said. “I intend to cut them. I will start by making the Bush tax cuts permanent. I will cut corporate tax rates from 35 to 25 percent to keep industries and jobs in this country. I will end the alternate minimum tax and I won’t let a Democratic congress raise your taxes and choke the growth of this economy.”
There, fixed it for you! ;o)
hehehe..you read my mind!
:-)
If RP wasn’t such a kkok, people might listen to some of his good ideas.
Same for McLame, if he wasn’t such an erratic old demented nut, people might listen to him.
BINGO!
I've been suggesting to people who haven't voted yet, to vote for Ron Paul to force a brokered convention and to show that conservatives are NOT going to go lockstep with McCain.
How else does John “stay 100 years in Iraq” McCain plan to have enough troops to continue “the mission”?
Don’t count on it...there are still a lot of RP haters on this site.
Yeah, you’re not a conservative unless you blindly support the war de jure unless a Dem started it.
Wanting a smaller federal govt., lower taxes, spending cuts, individual liberty, aversion to entitlement programs - none of that happens to be part of the equation for a lot of Freepers, unfortunately.
I just hope its not 9 months of “but McCain is better than Hillary/Obama”. Thats why we have McCain in the first place
That patch is already wearing extremely thin. I’ll be surprised if that huge load of BS could really cover 9 months, and it’s really a huge load.
RP wants us to surrender the WOT. He would do nothing about Al Quieda and Iran. This eliminates RP for me right there. At least McCain understands the threats we have from these ghouls (not that I agree with McCains plan to deal with it).
I believe they prefer to bend over and back into an R rather than a D, but I also believe they enjoy the result of either or they wouldn’t continue to allow it.
AMEN!!
No prob! We just start birthing 'em over there.
It'll save on transportation costs too!
I would, however, prefer a rat over Paul.
Wow, so the only thing they both have in common is a desire to end the Iraq war. You’d support a socialist over a fiscal, constitutional and prolife conservative?
That is genuinely crazy.
i dont wanna let troop 'slow bleed' or give back hard fought ground, but if the choice is a liberal/socialist and a 'too conservative' candidate, I ll at least have a choice besides, 'no candidate in this list REPRESENTS my moral/Constitutional values'...
LFOD...
Mcvein or RP ???
LFOD...
See 74... You got any real info???
Agreed. I’m for Ron Paul now, too.
The country club Republicans have left me with no other choice.
Its not about bashing him, its that he has no chance to win. Plain and simple. He’s an anti-war Republican, so he should have just run Republican. His own fault.
You have been misled. Paul is an anti undeclared war Republican. You want to bomb countries, declare war on them. Paul is for declared wars.
BTTT!!! thanks for the ping, CJ
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