Paul is a BO dream.
Actually, several of those are brilliant conservative insights. Unfortunately the rest are outhouse rat crazy.
What a kook!
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.
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
Right.....because they wouldn't have used some of the money to get more slaves from outside sources.
I think this fence business is designed and may well be used against us and keep us in. In economic turmoil, the people want to leave with their capital and there’s capital controls and there’s people controls. Every time you think about the fence, think about the fences being used against us, keeping us in.
I can understand that there are difficulties in building a border-long fence but this is just crack-pot stuff.
These aren’t as bad as I thought. If this is the worst he has said, and the media go after this, they won’t get very far. OTOH, we don’t really know what he will say next.
He is the Ernest T. Bass of the Republican Party. Nothing but a little pest that just won’t get the message and go away.
I guarantee you that if Ron Paul wins Iowa, the RNC, GOP Elitists, Tea Party Patriots and other Conservatives will close ranks post-haste to stop this mad man. Just hide and watch.
Many folks are somewhat nervous over the fact that Ron Paul has not ruled out a Third Party run for the White House if he loses the GOP nomination. Well, I’m finding out, more and more, that he has a lot of DemocRAT support. Mostly from the anti-war left. Those votes would go to Obozo. So, it’s not the end of the world if Paul-dude does run as a Third Party Candidate.
Two more Ron Paul quotes:
“Hey you damned kids! Get off of my lawn!!!!” and
“I would have gotten away with too if it weren’t for those meddling Tea Partiers!”
I am in violent agreement with number five on Abe Lincoln, (Civil War was the least good way to end slavery.) but no politician can ever survive saying that in America today.
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.
FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO OUR FATHERS BROUGHT FORTH ON THIS CONTINENT A NEW NATION CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY AND DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL •
NOW WE ARE ENGAGED IN A GREAT CIVIL WAR TESTING WHETHER THAT NATION OR ANY NATION SO CONCEIVED AND SO DEDICATED CAN LONG ENDURE • WE ARE MET ON A GREAT BATTLEFIELD OF THAT WAR • WE HAVE COME TO DEDICATE A PORTION OF THAT FIELD AS A FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR THOSE WHO HERE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT THAT NATION MIGHT LIVE • IT IS ALTOGETHER FITTING AND PROPER THAT WE SHOULD DO THIS • BUT IN A LARGER SENSE WE CAN NOT DEDICATE~WE CAN NOT CONSECRATE~WE CAN NOT HALLOW~THIS GROUND • THE BRAVE MEN LIVING AND DEAD WHO STRUGGLED HERE HAVE CONSECRATED IT FAR ABOVE OUR POOR POWER TO ADD OR DETRACT • THE WORLD WILL LITTLE NOTE NOR LONG REMEMBER WHAT WE SAY HERE BUT IT CAN NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID HERE • IT IS FOR US THE LIVING RATHER TO BE DEDICATED HERE TO THE UNFINISHED WORK WHICH THEY WHO FOUGHT HERE HAVE THUS FAR SO NOBLY ADVANCED • IT IS RATHER FOR US TO BE HERE DEDICATED TO THE GREAT TASK REMAINING BEFORE US~THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION~THAT WE HERE HIGHLY RESOLVE THAT THESE DEAD SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN~THAT THIS NATION UNDER GOD SHALL HAVE A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM~AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH •
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NOVEMBER 19, 1863 - GETTYSBUG, PENNSYLVANIA
I’m not a Ron Paul voter, but...in fact most of those quotes I agreed with.
If Romney is the candidate, and RP goes 3rd Party? SORRY, MR. ROMNEY.....
AND: I think RP’s Iowa showing could be the result of a liberal, “Operation Chaos”.
Just want to add that even on the life issue LIBertarianism has skewed his thinking, as when he voted here:
“Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)”
http://activote.ontheissues.org/AVA/Ron_Paul.htm