"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 09/26/2009 2:18:01 PM PDT by GoldStandard
If you think speeches attacking the U.S. Federal Reserve couldn't excite a Friday night crowd on a college campus, think again.
About 2,000 people -- students and older adults who were in the majority -- filled Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota to cheer libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, as he joined Rep. Michele Bachmann to preach the gospel of a less powerful federal government.
Before Bachmann, R-Minn., introduced Paul, she hailed legislation of his that would require a detailed audit of the Fed. The crowd jumped to its feet and roared approval.
When she described the Fed's actions helping the banking industry as "shrouded in secrecy," one man jumped up and yelled, "Ponzi scheme!"
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Ah, two ad hominem attacks in one sentence!
Sorry, that's all your tokens. I don't waste my time trying to teach pigs to sing.
That's a ridiculous statement. Rep. Paul voted in favor of the War in Afghanistan. Just 'cuz he didn't support Iraq doesn't make him a traitor. He is a good & honest man that we all should be proud of & thankful for.
Cut and run just like your mentor, Ron Paul.
Can’t take the heat of truth, find a cooler forum. Lucianne.com is still around. LOL
Isn't that exactly the same every other overspending poltiicans does?
Ron Paul defends asking for special projects
Texas Republicans criticize spending bill, but help inflate it
"Republican congressmen derided the massive $410 billion spending bill approved by the House of Representatives last week, but some like Houston-area Rep. Ron Paul contributed to its size.""Paul, of Lake Jackson, managed to insert 22 earmarks worth $96.1 million into the bill, leading the Houston delegation, according to an analysis of more than 8,500 congressionally-mandated projects in the bill by the Houston Chronicle.
Take off the rose colored glasses.
And you’re not very funny for a comedian, more like a troll.
That moneys going to be spent anyway as it’s already part of the budget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsRHougwe2g
Don't be fooled by fake grandstanding on earmarks by phonies like McCain.
Stop making sense!
I understand what you are saying. If congress and the executive were all ron pauls we would have a problem.
However, they are not all ron pauls. He is a great influence and pull on the socialist/globalist powers around him in both parties. We need a libertarian cacus in the Republican party like Ron Paul to pants the GOP when they get too full of themselves. We need people who love the constitution and talks about it. We need people who hold the line.
Some say he is a hater. He is not that. He honestly has a constitutional ideology and that is a good and pure thing sorely missing from the political debate and from power.
Then, what's his beef on "fiscal responsibility?"
It's going to spent anyways, right?
It is pure hypocrisy to complain about spending, then contribute to it more than others.
Splitting hairs?
How Ron Paulian
A perfect example of why we are laughed at and overrun: Too many hangers-on with no intellectual or debating capability whatsoever. Parrot, recite, parrot, that's all they can do.
How sad for the Republic.
Because earmarking that money ensures it’ll be used at a local level to benefit the taxpayers as opposed to, building a school in Baghdad that’s just going to get blown up anyway.
Still waiting for that proof of Paul voting for earmarks or an unbalanced budget in general....
Ron Paul’s support for the original resolution to invade Afghanistan was the right decision. His support faded quickly and his opposition today is well known. The fact remains. Paul blames America for 911, not the terroists.
Wake up!
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Well, your dumb remarks aside.
Fact. Ron Paul blames America for 911, not the terrorists. If you remember, he said it at every debate opportunity during the GOP primaries of 2007.
What’s sad is your denial of the facts.
The GOP is filled with Paulistinians as they have already announced their intent to take over the party.
While they do it, but using party resources for Ron Paul following candidates, they contribute nothing back to the party, furthering weakening it and giving Democrats victories.
Take Over the GOP! Join the Republican Liberty Caucus, Ron Paul is a Member!
Play your hair splitting with someone else.
That he inserts them and accepts them speaks for itself, whether he actually votes them or not.
We know which of the three you are. tiny.
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