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Ron Paul Goes Full Metal Truther
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Posted on 12/10/2011 3:53:36 PM PST by mnehring

I’ve been waiting for quite a while for Ron Paul to just come out and admit he’s a 9/11 truther. Frankly, I thought it would happen a long time before now. It has taken so long, in fact, that I had started to doubt whether he would ever do it. However, I guess his Iowa polling numbers must have him feeling his oats, because he finally let slip (apologies to those who cannot view the video in IE, we are working to fix the technical issue. Original video may be found here):

And it’s… just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately, before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq. So the war drums beat…

Perfect. Just great. Remember that the less crazy truthers out there don’t get bogged down in scientific nonsense like “fire can’t melt steel.” They don’t necessarily believe that the Bush administration actually put bombs in the WTC to help it come down (although they’re not precisely ruling it out). What they DO believe is that the U.S. government was warned by the Israelis/Saudis/French/whoever that the attacks were coming and deliberately ignored it because they wanted 9/11 to happen so they could go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Ron Paul has now moved from saying that 9/11 was our fault (which was despicable enough) to now saying that it’s something our government actually wanted to happen. Put this up there with Ron Paul’s belief that Southeast Asia got much better after we left Vietnam (a viewpoint doubtless shared by millions of massacred Southeast Asians – but hey, at least we trade with Vietnam now) on the all time list of Ron Paul’s contemptible and publicly-expressed beliefs. Add to this the fact that Ron Paul is a liar and a hypocrite on spending, who has built a career larding up appropriations bills with pork for his home district and then casting meaningless votes against their final passage, and I have to confess that I don’t really see the appeal of Ron Paul to Iowa voters. Well, the Republican ones, at least.



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To: dcwusmc
After I calm down and don’t go off on the zombies who’re celebrating the loss of a good man here.

Don't worry about Captain Kirk. He's still got his girlfriend to keep him company.


121 posted on 12/10/2011 11:43:44 PM PST by death2tyrants
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To: RKBA Democrat
Interestingly, most candidates run for the center. Looks like RP is trying to run with a coalition that tries to unify the outliers. Who knows? It might even work. Strange times to be sure.

The Unitardian Party? Paul/LaRouche 2012?

Maybe we'd all get lucky, and they would end up killing each other over who would get top billing on the ticket.

122 posted on 12/11/2011 12:15:56 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Nobody's bought bot.)
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To: mnehring

I know articles are sometimes deceptive, but I don’t like Ron Paul. That can’t be changed. If his foreign policy was tempered and his overall attitude..the same...I wouldn’t mind him at all.


123 posted on 12/11/2011 12:20:35 AM PST by Rick_Michael ( 'REAL' Conservatives who witch hunt their own, are no better than Obama.)
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To: Rick_Michael

Paul was one of the 5 Repubs voting to repeal DADT. He thinks homosexuals in the military are fine, they have rights, etc etc.

No freaking way would I ever vote for him. I’d choke to death on my own vomit.


124 posted on 12/11/2011 12:30:28 AM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: little jeremiah

I’d rather gouge out my own eyes than vote for RuPaul, Defender of All Things Homosexual.


125 posted on 12/11/2011 1:09:59 AM PST by Absolutely Nobama (Chairman Obama And Ron Paul Are Sure Signs The Republic Is In Serious Trouble. God Help Us All.)
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To: mnehring
I have to confess that I don’t really see the appeal of Ron Paul to Iowa voters. Well, the Republican ones, at least.

Well, Paul is at at an all-time high on Intrade.com. Meanwhile, your RINO is slipping. Just saying...

126 posted on 12/11/2011 1:35:26 AM PST by jmc813
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To: Admin Moderator

Paultards have a forum.

StormFront


127 posted on 12/11/2011 1:37:23 AM PST by NoLibZone (Occupy- Proof we are right - They beg for retrun of morality that the left removed from society.)
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To: mnehring

Thanks for the clarification. I assumed they were all of the Rosie O’Donnell moonbat species.


128 posted on 12/11/2011 1:46:20 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: South40

You’re welcome!


129 posted on 12/11/2011 1:58:43 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: JoeProBono

Hey, Joe.


130 posted on 12/11/2011 2:02:02 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

You have your list of potential zottees? You’re not the only one, LOL!


131 posted on 12/11/2011 2:13:45 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: mnehring
Just because some yahoo can occasionally get the time right by looking at a clock does not make them good presidential leader material. Yeah the Fed needs auditing but so does a whole lot more in Washington DC. Sorry RP no can do on you as a president.
132 posted on 12/11/2011 2:14:22 AM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: South40

I stand corrected. [smiles]


133 posted on 12/11/2011 2:16:13 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: death2tyrants

[nodding, smiles]


134 posted on 12/11/2011 2:59:49 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: ScreamingFist

Yeah, but in CK’s case, I guess this was a sort of last-straw thing. Eventually he just put enough strain on the tripwire and the Admin’s claymore went off...

}:-)4


135 posted on 12/11/2011 5:23:25 AM PST by Moose4 ("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
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To: Captain7seas

The Constitution stays! It’s ours and were keeping it. Ron Paul just goes away.


136 posted on 12/11/2011 6:55:23 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: re_nortex
"..stifling a real discussion of the issues."

Quite the opposite from my perspective.

137 posted on 12/11/2011 7:15:24 AM PST by Designer (Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
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To: Captain Kirk
The true cynics are the neocons who used 9-11 as a pretext to get us into a war, even though the secular Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11. BTW, how’s that pro-Iran fundamentalist regime in Baghdad working out for you?

You should read Douglas Feith's book, War and Decision. It's the book historians will study to understand the Bush administration's reasoning on Iraq after 9-11. Feith was Rumsfeld's undersecretary and considered to be near the center of the "neocon" cabal by Truther types and leftists. The book includes lots of internal memos by Rumsfeld himself where he boils his arguments down to a few bullet points (one of the interesting things is that you see what a master of concision and ordered thinking Rummy was -- his memos rarely went over a few hundred words, even the really important ones). What is obvious is that the administration didn't use 9-11 as a pretext to go to war, and certainly didn't rely on the argument that Saddam was responsible for 9-11.

Instead, the reasons for war were primarily 1) a concern that Saddam would supply WMDs to radical Islamic al Queda types who would be willing to deploy them against the US homeland, and 2) a concern that a second attack involving WMDs would necessitate internal security measures that would seriously infringe individual liberties in order to prevent further attacks. The administration felt that aggressively taking the war abroad while implementing sensible security measures at home would minimize the risk to liberties at home.

138 posted on 12/11/2011 7:16:27 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: jmc813; mnehring
Well, Paul is at at an all-time high on Intrade.com

Right, all the way up to 8!

Unfortunately for the Paul squad, Newt is at 37.

139 posted on 12/11/2011 7:25:49 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: bamahead
"If you read Capn' Kirk's statement rather carefully,"

LOL!

I hope you're not actually expecting this crowd to read something, are you?

They already know everything because they are on FR.

140 posted on 12/11/2011 7:26:55 AM PST by Designer (Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
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