[DNA.2012]

Ron Paul is not opposing conservatives positions on social issues; he is saying that social issues should be dealt with exclusively at state level.

[mnehring]

As I’ve stated before in several comments, the Conservative position on issues such as life is a national position. Saying States can regulate away those fundamental rights is liberalism at its finest and creates 50 tyrannies with the authority to trample your rights.

Either rights are fundamental and can’t be ‘dealt with by any government’ or they aren’t rights and you are simply a subject.

[mnehring]

As I’ve stated before in several comments, the Conservative position on issues such as life is a national position. Saying States can regulate away those fundamental rights is liberalism at its finest and creates 50 tyrannies with the authority to trample your rights.

Either rights are fundamental and can’t be ‘dealt with by any government’ or they aren’t rights and you are simply a subject.

[BlackElk]

Ron Paul constantly poses for holy pictures as a pro-lifer and as pro-family guy while consistently REFUSING TO DO ANYTHING about such issues at a national level. The standard Paulistinian party line about the 10th Amendment doesn't cut it while the fedcourts and SCOTUS are busy cramming the infanticide and rump=ranging agendas down our collective throats under the guise of "federal judicial supremacy" so that state legislatures dare not act and will not be able to sustain their legislation (or even statewide initiatives) if they have the normally absent guts to defy the fedcourts and SCOTUS. It is particularly galling to actual pro-lifers who have devoted decades to resistance to federal tyranny to see Ron Paul or anyone else pose as a pro-lifer or as pro-family while being an essential surrender monkey on each issue.

Finally, states' rights is an approach that will not work in any event. The purpose is to crush baby-killing and rump-ranging posing as "marriage" and being subsidized by law. We are either serious or we are not. Serious means insisting on real results. If we take a state's rights approach, at the very least, California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, and several other states will keep "legal" abortion and residents of all states will be facilitated in getting abortions by simply traveling to the nearest baby-killing Mecca. Ditto for gay everything. Thanks but no thanks.

Ron Paul is a fake, a phony and a fraud every time he poses as a social conservative, as a military conservative, and as anything but the useless crackpot that he is.

[fwdude]

Ron Paul is not opposing conservatives positions on social issues; he is saying that social issues should be dealt with exclusively at state level.

Which is impossible when politics at the federal level won't allow states to do just that. The attacks on DOMA come to mind.