Why Ron Paul Can Never Be President In 12 Quotes

Townhall.com ^ | December 20, 2011 | John Hawkins

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kaslin.

[driftdiver]

Paul is a BO dream.

[Pan_Yan]

Why Ron Paul Can Never Be President In 12 Quotes

Actually, several of those are brilliant conservative insights. Unfortunately the rest are outhouse rat crazy.

[BuckeyeTexan]

My thoughts exactly. Sometimes Ron Paul borders on genius, sometimes he borders on insanity.

[caver]

What a kook!

[RetroSexual]

My thoughts exactly. Sometimes Ron Paul borders on genius, sometimes he borders on insanity.

Whereas every other candidate only borders on insanity.

Just sayin'...

[nathanbedford]

When talking about Ron Paul's positions we have to decide whether we're talking about his positions from the perspective of electability, constitutionality, conservative values, or reality.

For example, do I think that Medicare and Social Security are unconstitutional? That depends on whether you accept that our court system ultimately determines constitutionality. If so, that and 40 million dead babies since Roe versus Wade are perfectly constitutional. But if you're definition of constitutionality has to do with original intent irrespective of intervening Supreme Court findings of penumbras, you have a different conclusion and a different discussion.

If you're talking about legalizing cocaine, I am for it but I do not think any candidate for it has a ghost of a chance of getting elected. So when we discuss Paul's drug policy, are we talking about it in terms of constitutionality or electability or whether it makes practical sense? I think it makes eminent practical and constitutional sense but very poor electability sense.

If we are talking about his views on why we were attacked on 9/11, and whether we are in danger from a nuclear Iran, I think reality makes him look pretty silly. But when he says that we have not made America safer by our action in Iraq, reality makes him look less silly and, when weighed against the cost, reality makes him look rather wise.

My problem with dealing with Paul bots is that they jump from one criterion to another and we are always jousting with phantoms.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I don’t think any of the other candidates edge so closely to both lines.

[FatherofFive]

I agree with him on #11 - the federal government should not be providing healthcare or retirement plans.

I agree with him on legalizing drugs from a different perspective - we need to legalize drugs to take the money, the crime and the corruption out of the drug trade. The Bill Buckley position.

But he is a kook on so many positions.

[Kaslin]

Just to make sure, who is a kook?

[shelterguy]

“My problem with dealing with Paul bots is that they jump from one criterion to another and we are always jousting with phantoms.””

If you want to see some good comedy just ask a paulbot how the mighty paul will be able to close down all our foreign bases and get rid of all the federal drug laws.

They like to live in a dream world and I suspect to most of them that dream world is in their moms basement.

[caver]

Ron Paul is the kook, not you, if that is what you are thinking. Sorry.

[Kaslin]

Oh okay, that’s who I thought you meant and not the author, and I agree with you

[Idabilly]

5) On Abe Lincoln

I don’t think he was one of our greatest presidents. I mean, he was determined to fight a bloody civil war, which many have argued could have been avoided. For 1/100 the cost of the war, plus 600 thousand lives, enough money would have been available to buy up all the slaves and free them. So, I don’t see that is a good part of our history. Besides, the Civil War was to prove that we had a very, very strong centralized federal government and that’s what it did. It rejected the notion that states were a sovereign nation.

Lincoln was a liberals wet dream!

The power to coerce the States was withheld during the Constitution Convention. Moreover, the right of secession was reserved by the 9th & 10th Amendments.

"If every infraction of a compact of so many parties is to be resisted at once, as a dissolution of it, none can ever be formed which would last one year. We must have patience and longer endurance then with our brethren while under delusion; give them time for reflection and experience of consequences; keep ourselves in a situation to profit by the chapter of accidents; and separate from our companions only when the sole alternatives left, are the dissolution of our Union with them, or submission to a government without limitation of powers. Between these two evils, when we must make a choice, there can be no hesitation."-- Thomas Jefferson

[edpc]

For 1/100 the cost of the war, plus 600 thousand lives, enough money would have been available to buy up all the slaves and free them.

Right.....because they wouldn't have used some of the money to get more slaves from outside sources.

[Idabilly]

Right.....because they wouldn't have used some of the money to get more slaves from outside sources.

When the Constitution was adopted and the Union formed, slavery existed in practically all the States; and it is claimed by the Southern people that its disappearance from the Northern and its development in the Southern States is due to climatic conditions and industrial exigencies rather than to the existence or absence of great moral ideas.

As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.

[Daveinyork]

Maybe there is a fine line between genius and lunacy. Paul seems to straddle that line.

[Daveinyork]

The problem is that Paul straddles the line between genius and lunacy, but the other candidates are clearly on the side of lunacy, at least in their domestic policies.

[normy]

I can see why people like him. I find myself liking him and then hating him. He is very Pat Buchananesque.