Posted on 07/25/2007 2:56:54 PM PDT by bnelson44
Does he … not know what Alex Jones’s radio show is about? Does he think it’s some sort of “local interest” program? He makes regular appearances on it; isn’t it about time someone clued the great man in?
Audio at link
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Ron Paul: loved by pot legalizers, Gays, conspiracy nuts, and misguided freepers.
Do not mock the great man, the savior of the true believers!!!
The Nazis love to have him on their website too, but we are unfaithful to the conservative cause if we don’t understand it’s just a copyright thing.
Ron Paul: the man that conspiracy-minded crytpo-lesbians-marxists who secretly love Big Brother (and, Oedipus be told, lust after Big Mother) love to hate. His man-teats aint big enough to satisfy the secret inner piglet craving to be suckled at the tax teat and save from freedom, horrible freedom. Jail the Founders, mamma, but jest put a li'l more butter on my bread.
There, I hope that was sweeping and silly enough. I left my big tar brush at home.
Clearly, his local Chamber of Commerce con-men who want the feds to pay for their new headquarters knows RP is no friend of earmarking.
Wants money returned
Paul defended his support of earmarks, which also include numerous water and highway projects in his Gulf Coast district, saying that, although he does not like the current budget process, he wants money returned to his district as funding is doled out nationwide.
"I don't think they should take our money in the first place," he said. "But if they take it, I think we should ask for it back."
The way it works in Paul's office is that local groups and officials from his district make pitches to him for federal funding. The congressman passes along those recommendations to the Appropriations Committee as earmark requests. Paul said he tries to treat everyone equally and rejects few requests. He said it would be unfair "for me to close the door and say this is a bunch of junk."
But in the end, Paul said, he would likely vote against the spending bills even if they included earmarks he sought.
This month in his weekly column, Paul expressed his philosophy about his opposition to proposed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
"Our founding fathers devised a system of governance that limited federal activity very narrowly," he wrote. "When Washington does something it does so at the direct expense of taxpayers."
Paul's support of at least one earmark, the renovation of Edna Theater, was greeted skeptically by a part-owner of the theater, Edna Mayor Joe Hermes. He noted that the congressman often voted against spending bills even when they contained projects for his district.
"Which doesn't make real good sense," Hermes said. The owners have been hoping to convert the shuttered theater, which opened in 1949, into a place the chamber of commerce could use.
"I hope he will not keep to the same pattern as he has in the past and make an effort to see that it actually happens," Hermes said of Paul.
I reckon RP attracts truthers because his inclination is not to tow a typical line. He is perfectly able to offend everybody. He reflects our Constitution, which sets up a system of government to allow any and every kind of thought and religion, but restricts the bounds of federal government. (”No respect, I tell ya.”)
Paul resonates with Constitutional principles much better than a good many presidential candidates to come down the pike over a good many decades. The last thing he would consider is 9-11 as an “inside job.” Too bad so many Freepers are suckers for sound bytes.
After a little more digging, I have decided to just call BS on this remark. And I doubt his bodget votes are ever for show. If more so-called conservative Republicans had joined his sentiment, we would not have the No Dollar Left Behind Bill, and the huge Farm, the Senior Pandering Act/Medicare 'Script Plan, or the largest-ever Energy and Highway bills that passed under Bush's watch.
If other Pubbies had joined RP as a fiscal conservative and voted to trim government's rapacious growth, your grandchildren might be less likely to see the AMT applied to their piggy banks.
Do you love him? You do, don’t you?
“No he did what the only constitutional position is. He represented his constituents by submitting the requests. However he was able to vote against it because he knows the Constitution has no place for it. What would you rather have him do? Tell his constituents no up front? He wouldn’t be doing the first part of his job then would he?”
Ron Paul took the following “Oath of Office” when he joined the House.
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
Looks to me like the first part of his job, the one he swore to do, is “supporting and defending the Constitution”.
Ron Paul: the weirdo candidate.
That sounds nice but I doubt it is very true to life. Paul attracks Truthers because he listens to what they say and doesn’t rebut them. They really think he believes what they believe. That Paul is surprised at this fact shows he isn’t paying much attention to what is going on around him.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED! Guy is spinning faster than the human eye can see now.
Uh, L. Ron? Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
It is a cult. They’re romantically in love with him. All reason has been swept asid.
Xenalyte, I love you, but you gotta get with the program. You're supposed to capitalize Only and True.
Actually, it's "One True Holy Apostolic Constitutionalist."
Hunter and Tancredo are chopped liver, and wouldn't recognize the Constitution if it bit them on the ass.
/sarcasm
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