Last debate the border fence was going to be used to keep us in, now we are building B17s. This guy has lost his sanity.
He and his followers are lunatics. Bat sh!t crazy.
I should mention that Santorum’s swat at Paul that elicited the insane comment starts about 2:50 in the video, and Paul’s reply starts about 3:50.
Ron Paul is a NUT!
Even he realized how stupid he sounded after mentioning the poor palestinians
Do you really want to antagonize all of the libertarians? It is going to be a close election. We need everyone we can get to vote for the Republican candidate. We even need some libertarians.
Claiming that a person that has successfully run for and been elected to congress numerous times is a complete loon is itself a completely looney statement.
Ron Paul is a libertarian. As a libertarian he is against neocon Wilsonian idealistic expansionism. What is so wrong about that?
If the only job of a president were domestic policy, Ron Paul would be a good or near great choice. However on foreign policy he somehow doesn’t grasp that devout muslims, i.e., terrorists, want us dead simply because we are not muslims. It has mobbing yo do with what we do or say, it’s who we are
His follower’s are so emotionally invested in the guy, they will not be able to get behind anyone else to defeat BHO... scary people they are...
I am not a Ron Paulie, I am in the bag for Perry at this point.
However, Ron Paul has a point... if we quit dabbling in world politics, stated succinctly to the world that we support Israel & England (which I know Paul wants us to abandon them as well...), and the rest be condemned to the fruits of their own labor (or lack thereof), we’d spend a lot less money on the war machine. And a lot less blood of our young would be fed to that machine. We could annihilate our enemies on the battlefield of the market. Yes, we would need to maintain a powerful military force, but nothing as large as we have now, to protect our homeland. We have the most minerals on the planet when you look at the global surveys, at least in general, and in energy specifically. We don’t need to protect our interests in the Middle East, only our allies.
Imagine that back in 2001, had Bush sent in a small Seal team, quietly eliminated Bin Laden and brought his head back for DNA testing? Imagine in Iraq, had we used intensive intelligence to take out Saddam, and the next three levels of his regime down in one fell swoop? Sure, Iran would have probably stepped into Iraq’s government, but we could have shown the same intense effort at the wanna-be-the-next-Persian-empire-boys, and still never spent near the money we have at this, or the lives our men and women in the military.
Basically, I am all for isolationism in terms of foreign policy. It only gets us screwed in the end, whether we do or don’t act on a global scale. May as well spend less if all we get the same result, either road we take.
I think that is what the Founding Fathers knew as well, too bad we have departed so far from their ideals.
America has forgotten that we don’t need the world, but they do need us and the things we have to offer.
I have even been wondering lately, that if we didn’t have such a robust welfare system, would we even care about illegal immigrants at all? It’s because of our stedfast dedication to socialism, post FDR, that the illegals are able to drain our system. Otherwise, they’d be just like everyone else, since if we weren’t getting freebies, neither would they.
Most of our problems result from the denial of market power & our social nets.
I think once our system eventually falls apart (and it will at the rate we are going), the new constitution can be almost identical to previous one, with the exception that welfare safety nets should be outlawed, and the only money government can claim on individuals or businesses is export or import tariffs.
Probably oversimplified, but we are just going nuts as nation, and on both sides of the aisles.
Why is that moron still in Congress, let alone running for POTUS?
The only thing that wasn't amusing was discovering that he'd put that "blame America" garbage on his website for the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
I'm glad Rick Santorum called L. Ron out on that one.
Ron Paul and Obama agree. Think about that.
I have tried to be libertarian, but just can’t. I have even gone to the website to see if they just aren’t telling it right. I last about 10 minutes and then it’s legalize dope or stop all wars and I have to leave. On a scale of 1 to 10, they usually come in about 6 and Dems about 2. I’ll stay Republican at about an 8. If we just had a Conservative party, maybe I could find a home. I like the Constitution Party, but they get about 7 votes each cycle.
Paul needs to dumb down his rhetoric, but I’m glad he’s on stage nonetheless.
I saw that, and was very pleased to see Santorum take the pathetic Paul to task over that... to hear Paul stammer over “what al-Qaeda said” and how we should react to their wishes — to a loud chorus of boos — was rich. It was a stark reminder that the nutcase Wrong Paul is completely unfit to serve in the White House.
Ther were people in the audience booing and cheering on the exact same points that Paul was making. To give the impression that it wast total disagreement with his views is pure distortion.
Santorum went off on the patriotic and simple mantra that they attacked us because they do not like us because of what we stand for. Paul got into a much more intellectual discussion, saying that Santorum’s interpretation is not how those that attack us feel about it. Paul then provided examples of their thinking. That is when he got booed.
It sounds to me like some in the audience thought Paul was expressing that opinion himself.
This is why a serious thinker can’t run for office. Go for the soundbites Paul, that is all they are capable of listening to.
What about Paul’s question. Do we need 900 military bases around the world. What if we redirected some of those resources and towards defence and spent less on military?
I’ll be glad when that piece of human garbage goes away forever, him and his idiot followers.
For all you moron Paul supporters who blame America for 9/11....
Explain the Muslim terror elsewhere in the world, Spain, London, Bali, Mumbai, etc. etc. etc.
You are a bunch of idiots who will not face the true motivation of the Islamofascists.