Paul Statement to the National Press Club(Endorse all 3rd Parties Nader, McKinney, Baldwin and Barr)

Ron Paul's Campaign for Libtardy ^

[mnehring]

My Response:
Above all, do not join the wrong ideological groups or movements, in order to 'do something.' By 'ideological' (in this context), I mean groups or movements proclaiming some vaguely generalized, undefined (and, usually, contradictory) political goals. (E.g., the Conservative Party, which subordinates reason to faith, and substitutes theocracy for capitalism; or the 'libertarian' hippies, who subordinate reason to whims, and substitute anarchism for capitalism.) To join such groups means to reverse the philosophical hierarchy and to sell out fundamental principles for the sake of some superficial political action which is bound to fail. It means that you help the defeat of your ideas and (hand) the victory to your enemies.

For the record, I shall repeat what I have said many times before: I do not join or endorse any political group or movement. More specifically, I disapprove of, disagree with and have no connection with, the latest aberration of some conservatives, the so-called 'hippies of the right,' who attempt to snare the younger or more careless ones of my readers by claiming simultaneously to be followers of my philosophy and advocates of anarchism. Anyone offering such a combination confesses his inability to understand either. Anarchism is the most irrational, anti-intellectual notion ever spun by the concrete-bound, context-dropping, whim-worshiping fringe of the collectivist movement, where it properly belongs.
- Ayn Rand

[mnehring]

Ping

[mnehring]

Ping,
Looks like he did endorse Cynthia McKinney and her merry band over Palin.

We should have taken a bet.. ahh heck, donate to FR anyway and I’ll match it.

[mnehring]

Ping,
Looks like he did endorse Cynthia McKinney and her merry band over Palin.

We should have taken a bet.. ahh heck, donate to FR anyway and I’ll match it.

[Sybeck1]

And yet he runs as a pubbie for congress?

[mnehring]

I find it interesting this ‘ideological purist’ doesn’t mind endorsing such a rash of conflicting ideologies.

I read someone recently who really hit the nail on the head. He said Paul had long ago abandoned anti-Statist Conservatism and is now just ‘anti-State’.

[Larry Lucido]

Thanks for that quote by Rand. Very good!

[LSUfan]

Ron Paul was, is and always will be nothing but a fraud.

[CJ Wolf]

Shouldn’t that be “Maverick/Barracuda 2008” not ‘mavrick’?

[mortal19440]

You are being kind. He is much worse than a fraud.

[wideawake]

So, will Ron Paul run for Congress as an independent, or will he remain a Republican?

Will he engage in the experiment that he is asking other Americans to make?

It's interesting that the press release admits, not in so many words, that voting third party is the same as not voting.

[mnehring]

Thanks.. sometimes it would help if I take ten seconds to read what I type. :->

[mnehring]

So, will Ron Paul run for Congress as an independent, or will he remain a Republican?

Oh, I'm sure for himself, he will continue to suckle at the Republican teat. You know the old saying, what's good for thee, not for me...

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Anti war dope smokers unite for Ronald Ernest Paul.
***

Real version of “Shrimp Boats”.

Shrimp Boats is a comin,
Their sails are in sight.
Shrimp Boats is a comin,
There will be dancing tonight,

*Ronald Ernest Paul version

Shrimp Boats is a comin,
Their pork is in sight.
Shrimp Boats is a comin,
They will be snorting dope tonight.

[capt. norm]

Only on Ron Paul's home planet does he make sense.

[wideawake]

BTW - the press release beginning with a quote from one of America’s most refined conspiracy theorists was a nice Paul touch.

[mnehring]

BTW - the press release beginning with a quote from one of America’s most refined conspiracy theorists was a nice Paul touch.

:->
I had absolutely nothing to do with that, honest. It is in the source.

[tacticalogic]

I notice the New Deal apologists have a habit of trying to equate maintaining the originally intended limits on the power of the national government to anarchy. Somewhere along the line they got the idea that if the federal government can’t control everything, it can’t control anything.

[mnehring]

I take it by ‘new deal’ apologists, you are now waking up and referring to Paul with his endorsement of folks so left, they fell off the Democrat Party- Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader.

[tacticalogic]

You take it wrong, but you knew that.