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Tea Party 'Revolution' Targets Ron Paul in GOP Primary
Fox News ^ | February 19, 2010 | By Judson Berger

Posted on 02/19/2010 7:58:47 PM PST by onyx

The Texas congressman who rattled the GOP establishment with his libertarian-leaning outsider run for president has suddenly found himself the target of the anti-incumbent Tea Party movement some credit him with helping inspire.

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To: onyx

Dumb move by the Tea Party

so many candidates to work on, why start w Ron Paul

there may be disagreements, but save the energy

makes me think less of the Tea Party


101 posted on 02/20/2010 1:33:52 AM PST by cowtowney
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To: onyx

“How about strong national defense?”

how about it?

I think trying to defend every cause in the world is too expensive
we are broke
we won’t be able to defend our own borders if we don’t start cutting back

I know he’s off the reservation on the 911 conspiracy stuff but dead right on fiscal policy and I want the Fed audited


102 posted on 02/20/2010 1:45:40 AM PST by cowtowney
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To: onyx

I wish Country Club Repubs were more libertarian
it’s the big govt repubs that got us in trouble not the more libertarian republicans


103 posted on 02/20/2010 1:52:11 AM PST by cowtowney
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To: cowtowney

you’d think they have bigger fish to fry than a guy who agrees with 95% of the conservative platform.


104 posted on 02/20/2010 1:55:38 AM PST by ledzep
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To: ReyTurner; freedumb2003; onyx; Mengerian; Caipirabob; Patton@Bastogne; rintense; no dems; ...

105 posted on 02/20/2010 3:17:09 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: cowtowney
I wish Country Club Repubs were more libertarian

Tea Partiers at the GOP country club


106 posted on 02/20/2010 3:57:21 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
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To: ReyTurner

maybe where you are, but not here


107 posted on 02/20/2010 5:13:27 AM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: cowtowney; onyx
Let's see, in the face O How-Do-You-Like-Me-Now bamarxist who for all appearances hates America and what it stands for, what are the high-visibility conservatives doing?

Getting tangled up in stupid party politics instead of a “Give-Me-Liberty-Or-Give-Me–Death" spirit of putting America first?

What’ve we got - Sarah Palin becoming a GOP faithful campaigning for John They-Can't-Speak-Out-Against-Us-Now McPain and the Tea Party movement possibly wading into the party politics bog, going after a Libertarian who hates big government but has a few goofy ideas.

I’ll repeat an earlier post: Economic libertarianism is a wonderful thing because free market capitalism creates wealth. Why can't we find an economic libertarian (among other things, abolish the IRS in favor of a 10% sales tax) and a Christian Constitutional Conservative? Isn't that what Ronald Reagan was? Seems like that's what our country was all about before the 20th century idiots screwed it up.

We need a spiritual revival and a gut-level housecleaning.

108 posted on 02/20/2010 7:04:16 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

“Why can’t we find an economic libertarian (among other things, abolish the IRS in favor of a 10% sales tax) and a Christian Constitutional Conservative? Isn’t that what Ronald Reagan was?”

Explain exactly what makes a national sales tax NECESSARY if we have any sort of constitutional conservative in office! And on top of that, is a Christian Constitutional Conservative like Scalia, who federally reached out to ban intrastate drug sales in Gonzales v. Reich? Or someone who would not only reverse Roe but impose a ban on abortion federally?

In my view, if you’re a constitutional conservative on the SCOTUS, you’ll certainly let your Christian ideals be known in your opinion, especially where you disagree with the outcome but must uphold the Constitution, and make clear that those ideals don’t guide your legal opinion but the intent of the drafters of the law do, except where the Constitution supersedes federal law (and except where the Founders were similarly guided by Christian ideals, of course, in writing the Constitution). Making up law in the face of the clear guidance of the Tenth Amendment, even in the name of doing right, is inviting the left to do the same when they take over. Cases like Lochner are exactly why there are cases like Roe.


109 posted on 02/20/2010 8:00:09 AM PST by LibertarianInExile (When Republicans don't vote conservative, conservatives don't vote Republican.)
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To: onyx

Sure they’re Tea Party supported. Because, you know, the Tea Party is such a unified, uniform group that it’s endorsed THREE candidates. ROFLMAO!

Ron Paul isn’t in any trouble from the right. RINOs, yes. Right, no.


110 posted on 02/20/2010 8:01:35 AM PST by LibertarianInExile (When Republicans don't vote conservative, conservatives don't vote Republican.)
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To: LibertarianInExile
We're close I think. A fully-dimensional approach I think embodies the economic ideas of Milton Friedman and Adam Smith and the Constitutional ideas of Judge Robert Bork.

Government should be completely out of the free-market economy. Our government should be limited based on the original intent of the Constitution. Sometimes I think libertarians secretly want to bore through the powers we delegated to the government in the Constitution.

The IRS needs to be abolished. The best way I've heard to fund a limited government is a sales tax. Tariffs would do the same thing, I suppose, but it also a tax. Either way, the wealth created from these moves would be the greatest "anti-poverty" program the world has ever seen, because of course, government creates poverty while caplitalism creates wealth.

Preserving the non-political nature of the law while dealing with rouge SCOTUS Justices who invent constitutional law from the bench is doable but would require a corporate will and wisdom I’m not sure we have.

As I posted earlier, our country needs a spiritual revival and a gut-level housecleaning.

111 posted on 02/20/2010 8:56:08 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: onyx

Right.

To paraphrase Dr. Paul: He can march right out of Congress, the same way he marched in.


112 posted on 02/20/2010 8:57:49 AM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org (I've got a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.) (RIA)
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To: LibertarianInExile
To add to these comments...most government activity or lack thereof should be at the state and local level where the people have direct control. Most of the Cabinet should be abolished along with all of the executive regulatory agencies that act as the extra (un) constitutional fourth branch of government subverting the separation of powers by giving the President power to legislate.

Again a corporate will and wisdom is needed, supplied only, I think, by another spiritual Great Awakening.

113 posted on 02/20/2010 9:15:53 AM PST by Jim W N
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114 posted on 02/20/2010 10:25:58 AM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: darkwing104

IATZ.


115 posted on 02/20/2010 10:31:16 AM PST by reaganaut (- "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: ReyTurner

If the Tea Party wants to stand against a Truther from the Ward Churchill school of foreign policy who can’t even run a newsletter, I’m all for it.

I join the founder of this site in inviting all Paul dupes to kiss my butt.


116 posted on 02/20/2010 10:40:30 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right, we're free, we'll fight and you'll see!)
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To: ChrisInAR

Yep, another 2 years of that voice saying, “Put this theater renovation earmark in the budget so I can vote against it while knowingfull well it will get funded, would ya?”

Another 2 years of a voice saying that a bunch of Islamists putting a kiloton of combat power into an American office building on a Tuesday morning is our fault.

Another 2 years of the Truther two step.

Another 2 years of gullible people worshipping a guy as a supercompetent, supeprincipled Washington outsider when he’s been inside the Beltway for decades and can’t even run a newsletter.

Another Washington fixture who charges to the front of the conservative movement to declare himself the only legitimate leader.

Yeah, we so need that.


117 posted on 02/20/2010 10:56:07 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right, we're free, we'll fight and you'll see!)
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To: onyx

118 posted on 02/20/2010 11:01:26 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right, we're free, we'll fight and you'll see!)
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To: Always Right
I am not sure why the tea party would target Ron Paul. You may not agree with everything thing about him, but on the core issue of smaller government you have to like him.

Except he doesn't believe in that, really.

The way things work with Paul is he plays the DC game, but votes "no" on spending he knows will pass. Back in '08 there was thread here on FR about all the earmarks he had requested in the past year, and they were for stuff no one calling themselves a conservative (much less "Dr. No") should be putting in a bill. Millions to advertise texas shrimp, a theater renovation...stuff that no government body really has any business doing, much less the federa; government.

So Paul puts these earmarks in, then votes against a budget containing them that he knows will pass overwhelmingly. It's all a game, and why should we be surprised if he palys the game well after decades inside the Beltway?

119 posted on 02/20/2010 11:09:40 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right, we're free, we'll fight and you'll see!)
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To: freedumb2003

And according to the most recent episode of Psych, most of them would be named Ginger.


120 posted on 02/20/2010 11:10:52 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right, we're free, we'll fight and you'll see!)
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