Posted on 05/12/2007 2:23:18 PM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
The condescension to and mockery of the sole Republican candidate who seems to care about individual liberty has begun to tick me off. Chris Matthews can be heard groaning "Oh, God," after Paul spoke of the "original intent" of the Founders with respect to the Constitution. And in the YouTube clip below, Rudy Giuliani actually seems to be guffawing after Paul's defense of habeas corpus. I'm glad Paul's supporters are fighting back on the web. He deserves more respect than he has gotten thus far, not least because compared to the pandering of his competitors, Paul actually seems to believe what he says. And what he says has more to do with conservatism than the crap the rest of them are peddling. Here's a clip worth watching again:
(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...
1780's? I'll take it.
I rise in opposition to this resolution, which I sincerely believe will do more harm than good... It is very clear, reading this resolution objectively, that all the terrorists are on one side and all the victims and the innocents are on the other side. I find this unfair, particularly considering the significantly higher number of civilian casualties among Lebanese civilians. I would rather advocate neutrality rather than picking sides, which is what this resolution does.
Yes, Mr. Paul, the resolution does take sides. It takes the side of peace and freedom over terrorist regimes. That's a problem for you?
This wasn't the first time Paul stood solo on a nay vote for pro-Israel legislation.
In 1997, the Jewish Herald-Voice and the Congressional Quarterly wrote:
Showing a complete disregard for families victimized by the recent terrorist attack in Israel, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was the only congressman to oppose an otherwise unanimous resolution to condemn two terrorist bombings. Paul was the lone dissenter when the House of Representatives adopted a resolution to condemn the tragic bombing that killed 13 people and wounded 170 others in Israel.
Additionally, Paul once suggested in a political newsletter that the Israeli government was one of the most "evil lobbying groups in Washington" (Houston Chronicle, 2/23/97).
In a fundraising letter in 1996, Paul wrote: "It's time that Israel stopped running American foreign policy and draining American taxpayers' wallets." When groups protested to the Republican leadership that Paul was being assigned to the international affairs committee, Paul blamed the Israeli government for the loss of his promised seat.
Thank you.
Amazed? Were you equally amazed when conservatives, such as Hannity and Rush, opposed the Kosovo war when our troops were in harm's way..
I'm not a historian by any stretch of the imagination, but I can't recall any time in the 1780s that the U.S. surrendered to terrorists.
What war? Sullivan went to "this side" after 9/11 and switched to Kerry in early 2004 due to gay marriage. You find the same support for Hitchens on certain issues.
However, I read similar "We Love Ron Paul" articles at Huffington Post, Daily Kos and the DU.
I have a question for you.
What exactly is Ron Paul’s position on illegal immigration?
No surprise from Christ Matthews.
Yes....and? Please translate.
Ron Paul sided with Jewish and Gentile American taxpayers on that one.
Ron Paul is against illegal immigration. He takes a very strong position on this.
You know darn good and well what I’m talking about.
No I don’t. Please shed some light on the matter for the benighted.
Paul: "No. He doesn't need a pardon. But he doesn't need it because he was instrumental in the misinformation that led the Congress and the people to support a war that we didn't need to be in."
Sounds like Paul is saying Libby should spend time in jail for a non-crime he didn't commit. Kind of upside-down, and backwards.
The other day in Austin I saw an SUV with two bumper stickers.
Ron Paul 2008
9/11 Was An Inside Job
He voted against condemning Hezbollah (the only Republican to do so). Had nothing to do with tax dollars. Do we really want a President who can’t see the difference between our ally Israel and our enemy Hezbollah and Islamic terrorists?
And saying Israel controls our foreign policy smacks of anti-Semitism.
You're the one who worships at the altar of Ron Paul.
Why don't you shed some light on his stance on the war?
And none of this politcally correct "end the war" terminology. Say the "s" word. Just say it.
No, none of that matters! All that matters is you have FAITH that finally your new "god" has finally emerged to save you all from the consequences of your own misspent lives! It not your fault! It the fault of the immigrants, Iraq war, Trade Deals, .....(put your pet cause here)...and the Great "Ron Paul" is here to save you and bring forth the utopia!!!!
Paul seems to have just taken a whole lot of talk radio slogans and mindlessly ignorant sound bites and strung them all together to convince the political fringes that meaningless demagoguery, spewed endlessly by Paul to shamelessly pander to their wholly emotion based political bigotries and drama queen teenage style angst, can some how be mistaken for an agenda that can win an election.
This guy will get even less votes the Pat Buchannan got in 2000. But keep wasting your time, your money and your efforts. Keep getting yourselves all in a lather over this loser. It will just make it that much funnier when political reality comes up and slaps you all silly yet again.
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