After the primaries (well, maybe after McCain chose Palin) Paul should have endorsed McCain and asked to be his economic adviser. He should have told his supporters to get behind McCain-Palin. I just see an aging Congressman who is completely both junking a wonderful legacy & a historic opportunity to restore the GOP back to their roots. If Paul would have been McCain's economic adviser and been visible on the campaign trail with him Obama wouldn't stand a chance.
Would McCain have accepted that?
Perhaps, with his dislike of earmarks, and his fiscal responsibility. But I don’t know that there aren’t a lot of debts for Sen. McCain to repay.
Nonsense. It doesn't have beans to do with his ego, and anyone who's watched him as much as you have ought to know that. It's just that everything he's been telling us for decades is coming home to roost, and everyone knows it. And as for supporting McCain and becoming his economic adviser, I think rationally we all know or at least suspect that McCain would never have even offered him such a position. He sent out a small token gesture to get him to support his campaign just because he wanted the Ron Paul voting bloc, but do we really think McCain would have been decent enough to offer him the position over the numerous war hawks he could choose for the position? No, of course not.
Paul was right about the economy and right about Islamic terrorism, and he is absolutely right in sticking to his guns and going wall to wall with that message wherever people will let him tell it. If he sold those things out to become a McCain supporter, he'd be no better than all the other Washington sellouts who sacrifice all in the cause of power and position and "the lesser of two evils" (which is an absurd lie.) It would be the worst mistake of his career.
Be it McCain or Obama, this country is going to lose BIG TIME, and we need more Ron Pauls out there refusing to go along with either of them.
We agree! Wow. Time for a drink. :)
I think he understands it better than a lot of persons give him credit for. Remember it was Republican who put a prohibition on a method of dealing with such issues the founders had given us. That RINO POTUS was W's Mentor Gerald Ford.
Bush should have kept his mouth shut and let some SF's and Mercenaries handled the likes of Saddam bin Ladden. We'd be much, much, better off now and saved billions as well.
Paul was never against Letters of Marque and/or Reprisals. Too bad we learned nothing from Russia's mistakes in dealing with bin Ladden.
He's the only politician I know of that can be relied upon to do so.
What on earth are you talking about?
Just my opinion...I don’t know if it is ego, but Paul should consider that clearly anything/anyone is better than Obama. I am concerned about ACORN, Wright/Ayers et. al, Trifecta unirule by Democrats of Executive, Congress, & Legislative Branches, “Truth Squads,” Fairness Doctrine & no opposition media—look at way they attacked Joe Plumber & yet still ahve not done any investigating reporting regarding Biden or Obama; oh then there are the Federal Judge and Supreme Court Appointments that he can make....
Tho the economy is scary, it pales in comparison to the societal damage that “Spread the Wealth” Senator Government can do. I believe everyone who is concerned about these things should get behind McCain, Paul, Republican Talking Heads (Noonan, Crystal, et al), Pumas, and of course the conservative base!
I wish Paul would encourage his followers to hold their nose and vote McCain. Sadly, a vote for Paul is a vote for Obama.
Ego? The man who had to be pressured into seeking the GOP nomination, the man who accepted defeat instead of going 3rd party, which would have kept him very prominently displayed in the national spotlight thru the election cycle, is a man driven by ego?
You don't know Ron Paul very well.
Obama & the Democrats are so fricking dangerous to the nation that I don't think Paul understands this threat just like he doesn't understand Islamic terrorism
He obviously understands the real threats to this nation better than you. Destruction of individual liberty and the economy by out-of-control gov't are the real threats to this nation, not a pissant little marxist and a bunch of 7th century death-cult members.
Paul should have endorsed McCain and asked to be his economic adviser
Yes, he should of went against everything he's believed in, advocated and practiced his entire life to endorse a big-gov't, liberal, socialist and intraventionallist like McCain.
Also, McCain wouldn't offer Paul the position of White House janitor, much less an advisory position in his administration.
I've got to say, EEE, that you are the Dick Morris of FR - your core beliefs seem to change with the day's headlines. First you support the cross-dressing fascist JulieAnnie, then the principled conservative libertarian Ron Paul, then the big-gov't socialist McCain. You sir, are all over the map concerning this election.
Who's next for you? Obammie?
EEE, I am surprised at your statement.
I, and a whole lot of people, did not see one effort put forth to incorporate Ron Paul into the GOP platform. They didn’t want it; and now they will sleep in the bed they made for themselves.
The majority of Americans are sick and tired of the words terrorism, and war. They are just a means to control us, and add to the power and wealth of the elite. When are people going to wake up and see this for what it is.