Good grief, Ron Paul = RINO in a major way. The guy is anti-American, soft on crime, soft on abortion, etc. etc. This is the guy that the Paulistianians tout to “save the Republic”? No thanks, not with this guy.
Thanks for the heads up. Ron Paul’s record on abortion is worse than Scott Brown’s. At least Brown holds to a lot of “functional” pro-life positions, even if he mouths platitudes about it being “between a woman and her doctor.” I’ll keep this in mind the next time some holier-than-thou third partyist idiot mouths off about how we’re “supporting RINOs” by being glad that Brown beat Coakley.
Ron Paul’s best line in the debate:
“Your making fun of me?”
Actually, nobody made fun of him, they were all ,(including the moderator) biting their lips to keep from laughing at him.
You know, for better or worse, the only thing that I have ever seen Ron Paul defend and base every single of his arguments upon, is the US Constitution -- maybe to a literal fault -- but that's it. Ron Paul doesn't come up with anything new, it isn't just "his view" -- every single idea that he defends is written in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
So when I hear people ridicule him as "a kook", "a nutcase", etc. -- rather than just wrong --, I just keep thinking that they are also saying that the Founding Fathers were also "loonies" -- or that they think that the Constitution is completely outdated & nearly useless -- or perhaps "a living document".
If that really is the case -- and someone thinks that the Constitution and Bill of Rights really is completely outdated and in need of revision -- then I'd like to see someone with the stones to try and amend & revise it -- and I mean that, float revisions and potential amendments and see how that goes.
Because as far as I know, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is the only contract that we citizens have with our Federal Government -- it's the only thing that we have to hold DC politicians to their part of the bargain, while we hold up our end.
But if people want to continually set the Constitution aside or ignore the parts that are difficult -- and/or label every politician who expects other politicians to follow it in all their decisions, "a nutcase" or "a lunatic" -- then it seems to me that then we deserve what we get from DC.
And I don't have to want Ron Paul for President to see that.
Who’s being ignored? The Austrian free-market economists—the very ones who predicted not only the Great Depression, but the calamity we’re dealing with today. If the crisis was predictable and is explainable, why did no one listen? It’s because too many politicians believed that a free lunch was possible and a new economic paradigm had arrived. But we’ve heard that one before—like the philosopher’s stone that could turn lead into gold. Prosperity without work is a dream of the ages.Ron Paul: The Austrians were Right
Ron Paul opposes Roe Vs. Wade, and wants the states to decide. If he were Governor of Texas, he would vote to ban it (if RVW were struck down). That’s far more anti-abortion than Brown. Look, I favor a 50 state ban, but this would be a huge start.