And when a tragic 'coincident' shooting occurs, do not learn from other anti-gun fights where your party had its ass handed to it. Simply DOUBLE DOWN.
And when scandal after scandal such as Fast & Furious (MurderGate) and the sacking ot the Libyan embassy (BenghaziGate) emerge, do not accept responsibility or answer any questions. Simply DOUBLE DOWN.
And now Ron Paul. He makes heinous remarks (that don't even have a glancing relationship with reality, by the eway) and dishonors the honored dead, a fine military man. And instead of realizing his mistake and becoming contrite, she SIMPLY DOUBLES DOWN.
This asshat is the reason I cut ALL ties with libertarianism. He is proof that libertarianism flirts far too closely with moonbattery liberalism.
ANYone that seems to capture primarily a youth vote is suspicious in my book
Don’t you all know that Ron Paul’s quote was taken out of context? /PAULBOTISM
Yes, he’s dancing on the edge dangerously close to the rhetoric of the Westboro Baptist Church. Not quite there, but creeping ever close.
His attitude regarding military matters is summed up in these tweets. He’s a man who could always be counted on to ridicule any suggestion of standing up to international bullies. Furthermore, I’ve always gotten the sense that he thinks soldiers are either fools to be pitied or stupid jocks. This why I never even considered him to be a real candidate for president.
Ron Paul is one ugly REMF.
We see the real face of Ron Paul.
Thank goodness no one let him out of the sand box and he finally went away.
Ron Paul twists scripture. He ignores the fact that at His second coming, Christ fully intends to physically destroy all of His enemies. He made that abundantly clear, as does all of scripture. It is not His will that any should perish, but those that continue to reject Him and to follow evil will indeed utterly perish.
That doesn’t sound like a “policy of non-violence” to me.
The early Christians of Asia and Africa either could not or would not defend themselves. They were annihilated.
The Christians of Europe fought, and subsequently brought the Gospel, with its consequent earthly blessings, to the entire world.
“... as Christ preached ...”
Matthew 10:34
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Amazing, isn’t it? I agree with servo1969.
I believe RP served in the AF at some point in time (medical field?).
Ron Paul is detestable. Even his own son has distanced himself from the contemptible old coot.
*******Paul’s son, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has told Breitbart News exclusively, “Chris Kyle was a hero like all Americans who don the uniform to defend our country. Our prayers are with his family during this tragic time.”*********
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/04/Rand-Paul-responds-Ron-Paul
The two-dimensional, broken-clock, collective-member of Congress and the armed forces would qualify for double unintended consequences, per his twisted lunatic logic. There are plenty of swordsmen on the planet willing to hold his head up.
Being a (L), myself, I find his Tweets (and I’m presuming these ARE his Tweets, not some page/intern/etc.) are beyond the pale.
I’ve understood Dr. Paul’s stances in the past, but there was no call for defaming a fallen soldier. Should we be trying to install ‘democracy’ across the globe? No. Do you win wars with the current RoE? No. Are we the World Police? No. But he should have left this poor soldier out of his condemnation for our current policy.
But, to cut ties with the a party because of one man’s stupid tirade....you must be a lone man in the woods by now. With the current GOP, Tokyo Rove, etc., there are damn few parties that still uphold and defend the Constitution. IMHO, you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.
I left the LP for the same reasons.
This asshat is the reason I cut ALL ties with libertarianism. He is proof that libertarianism flirts far too closely with moonbattery liberalism.
Ron Paul's recent comments are indefensible, but why would they occasion the abandonment of a political philosophy? If some republican says something stupid should we all abandon conservatism? When the Westboro Baptists say something stupid should we all abandon Christianity? Sorry, but that really doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Libertarian ideals of laissez-faire economics and the pursuit of limited government which exists to protect the rights of the governed don't cease to be philosophically sound simply because somebody tweeted something stupid.
If I were Rand, I’d have the old man committed or at least disable his twitter acct. He’s been nuts for a long, long time but this is over the top.
(I assume you purposely misused the pronoun ending Paragraph 4?)
As I have stated here, as well. I looked at libertarianism for about 3 years before I saw that they were stupid in the sense of answering a direct attack that the enemy stated was an act of war, and they take nonconservative views towards family issues and abortion, voting more in line with the left than not. Sorry, libertarians, but it just doesn’t cut it. Kyle was not shooting(as a sniper) for the fun of it. He trained to protect his troops against other snipers. You couldn’t even say anything good about him trying to help a fellow soldier, either. How very crass of you, Mr. Paul.
In all fairness, I think RP is less a peacenik than he is an old fashioned isolationist, along the lines of Pat Buchanan.
This has a long and storied American history going way back.
Its first big impulse came with the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection. The US quickly defeated Spain, and booted them out of the Philippines; but it then had to deal with the Muslim “Moro Pirates” in its swampy interior. A nasty, protracted and bloody occupation that taught the US a lot about unconventional warfare.
This gave rise to the Anti-Imperialist League, which lasted from 1898-1902, and at its peak claimed 30,000 members. Their big fear was that the US was following Europe’s failed footsteps in becoming a colonial power.
Then when World War I was ongoing, but the US was not yet involved, the anti-war isolationist movement wanted no part of “European wars” between royal houses, but after the US joined the war, using the excuse of “unrestricted submarine warfare”, the anti-war movement pretty much collapsed into something like Code Pink.
However, inspired by the Russian revolution, socialists of the IWW were eventually able to muster a coalition with the labor unions into a large block, which the US government then split up by getting the cooperation of union leader Samuel Gompers.
After the war, the socialists were still active, since socialist-communism didn’t yet have the horrific reputation it has today. And they were able to apply pressure to significantly downgrade the US military and ignore foreign nations and their strife.
But even with World War II, where opposition to the war was heavily suppressed, there is still an undercurrent with the attitude that “If foreigners want to kill other foreigners, let them. Not our problem.”
All of the kids at Sandy Hook lived by the sword too?
Did all of the babies murdered via abortion incubate by the sword?