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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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
“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
I wish Country Club Repubs were more libertarian
it’s the big govt repubs that got us in trouble not the more libertarian republicans
you’d think they have bigger fish to fry than a guy who agrees with 95% of the conservative platform.
Tea Partiers at the GOP country club
maybe where you are, but not here
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Right.
To paraphrase Dr. Paul: He can march right out of Congress, the same way he marched in.
Again a corporate will and wisdom is needed, supplied only, I think, by another spiritual Great Awakening.
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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.
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.
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?
And according to the most recent episode of Psych, most of them would be named Ginger.
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