Posted on 05/18/2010 4:51:19 PM PDT by Tribune7
Just heard on Fox that Rand Paul won in Ky.
Perpetual no-win "wars" ensure that the bureaucrats in charge have lifetime job security.
Having observed the "war on terror" for the last nine years, I am of the opinion that there is no more intent on the part of the Republicrat Party to WIN that war than there is an intent to win the "war on drugs" or the "war on poverty". Perpetual no-win "wars" ensure that the bureaucrats in charge have lifetime job security.
Chi-townChief, ill assume you have been misinformed:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/ron_paul_911_interviews.htm
So true.
North Korea is an impoverished country and is a threat to no one. South Korea could easily defeat them without our help.
I disagree, they are still subsidized by the Chinese to keep their military state. SKorea would defeat Nkorea but Seoul,Korea would be literally destroyed due to the amount of rockets and artiller the NK’s have close to the capital.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army have defended Korea once and they will do it again.
“China’s economy is so intertwined with the world that it cannot risk major war. There are no ‘threats’ in asia to justify the sort of expenditures taking place.”
I disagree, China is still run by communists. They are just using capitalist means to reach their state communist ends. If you read their own literature in this area you’ll learn they are creating a blue water navy and high tech airpower to become a regional power.
They also claim neutral islands that have oil deposits offshore and have plans to bully Phillipines, Vietnam, Indonesa, Taiwan etc.
Asia has potential to be very unstable in the near future and distant future.
You can’t wish away a future threat with China and we need to be vigilant. Reagan had it right. Peace through strength.
I don’t lie but you’re pretty damn close to it; I guess Paul was just caught up in the heat of the moment, as they say.
Notice that he's not saying that Defense can't be cut; just that as the #1 Priority, it should be cut less than any other budget item.
I agree with his priorities, I just think it's blue-sky dreaming at this point. Not that we shouldn't have Fiscal objectives that we're aiming for; but we're going to need Senator Rand Paul AND a whole lot more DeMints and Coburns if we ever want to see any Federal line-item BESIDES the Defense Budget ever have to tighten its belt (short of total economic breakdown).
I have seven years here, 10 if you count the first three years when my wife and I shared a name. Not once have I ever supported a single item, position or policy advocated by Barack Hussein or his seditious party. If you have evidence to the contrary, show it. And showing that I refuse to support the Pauls under any circumstances isn't evidence that I'm an O-bot, no matter how many times you repeat the lie.
You, on the other hand, support a family that makes common cause with the hard, radical left -- and the Islamist world -- on nearly all matters of foreign policy and national security.
I'd say that those who openly advocate the election of Democrats, qualify pretty well as "The Enemy Within". Troll.
You would say that and you have. Repeatedly. I couldn't care less. I've made my position as clear as I possibly can. Your movement, the Pauls' movement, is 75% right on and 25% lethal. And the lethal elements, the antiwar, anti-Israel, turn a blind eye to the evils of Islam elements, are the things that are attracting the vast majority of your most vocal supporters. The poll spammers, the Stormfronters, the truthers, the college dopers... the people who have been the face of your movement pretty much since its inception. People who couldn't name two of our founders, pass a basic civics test or tell you the first thing about federalism if their lives depended on it. People who go apoplectic at the mere mention of the word "Israel", as they did during Pence's speech at the SRLC last month. They're your allies. They're the ones you're marching hand in hand with right off the cliff. And if you're allowed to hijack the Tea Party movement, it goes with you. It, and any remaining hope of stopping the takeover and destruction of America.
You're supporting Barack Obama's candidate and Barack Obama's party in Kentucky.
I don't care how long you've been here -- you've ended up on the side of Obama in this General Election race. That makes you an enemy of the Republic and a traitor to the cause of Conservatism. Period.
You stick to that talking point, come hell or high water. Doesn’t matter to me.
Your boy did real well on Maddow yesterday. What’d it take him, 24 hours to squeeze a size 12 shoe into his mouth and have to backtrack?
And how convenient that he did on a racial issue (and on the show where he started it all). The “Tea Party” guy, helping to advance the leftist stereotype/lie that Tea Partiers are racists. Kind of what you’d expect stalking horse candidate to do.
Next, they hit him with Chris Hightower. You can see it coming a mile away.
Well... you can’t. But I can. It’s playing out like a bad script.
Uh huh.
We beat your boy Grayson pretty good in the Primary.
And we'll beat your boy Conway in the Generals.
You'll sling your mud, but it won't accomplish anything. Any more than it did in the Primary race.
Only question is, how long will you be around FR to sling it?
Guess we'll see just how welcome Obama-Democrat supporters like you are on Free Republic come November. If not before.
Welcome to the changing of the guard.
24 hours as the nominee, and he’s already gone into the enemy camp and delivered a bazooka for them to shoot him with. Brilliant.
You know who Chris Hightower is? If you don’t, you will.
Jack Conway is my enemy.
Not yours. You're supporting that Obama-Democrat socialist shill.
You know who Chris Hightower is? If you don’t, you will.
Some guy Rand Paul fired from his campaign? Months ago? Never got Grayson much traction.
Looks like you're having to use recycled mud. Not a good sign for you and your Liberal Democrat buddy, Jack Conway.
Stick with your talking point. It’s all you’ve got.
Greyson and the RNC did nothing with the Hightower story. The left will. Especially after the gift Rand gave them on Maddow yesterday.
Don’t think so? Watch.
Looks like you're having to use recycled mud.
Not a good sign for you and your Liberal Democrat buddy, Jack Conway.
I don’t have to do anything. But they will.
Enjoy the show.
I've enjoyed it for the last three months. Laughing at you all the way.
Especially so this Tuesday, when Rand blew out even the most optimistic polling numbers with his actual results.
It's been a great campaign for Paul so far, and his poll numbers just keep getting better.
Welcome to the changing of the guard.
You should hit the abuse button on me right away. Maybe even send a personal letter to Jim Robinson highlighting my egregious posts. Do it.
(Shrugs). If you're committed enough to your principles to loudly declare your support for Obama-Democrat Jack Conway, you'll get yourself banned soon enough.
Or maybe you'll just try to slink by with sniping little attacks on Rand Paul while refusing to openly and broadly declare your support for Jack Conway, thus proving yourself to be a snivelling little coward.
Either way, I win. My popcorn's buttered.
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