Posted on 11/28/2011 11:15:55 PM PST by Windflier
However, since most people agree that Ron Paul is a lunatic, and say so, all the other lunatics figure hes got to be the guy to support.
LMFAO!
Thanks, Ronin. The check's in the mail ;-)
I think of Ron Paul as that crazy old uncle that comes to family reunions and once in about every 5 years says something that makes sense...its usually just by accident. The rest of the time he lives in someone’s attic....LOL
It’s not Ron Paul’s stance on the Constitution, taxes, and down-sizing big government that scares conservatives away from Ron Paul. Most of us truly appreciate his positions in those areas.
It’s his 19th century ideas about foreign policy, and his total lack of support for our ally, Israel, that we find so disturbing.
Frankly, I don’t mind the man being a House rep at all - but President? No. Not only does he have a few deal-breakers in his portfolio, but he doesn’t have any of the sort of attributes I look for in a leader.
Saying so does not make it so.
So, what are we down to, out of the original 20 or so? Three or four?
Shame, that.
Gary Johnson is as much of a Libertarian as Ron Paul.
If they would run as what they are (Paul did once) at least I might have some respect for them.
It is pretty easy to dupe the young into supporting Utopia.
I thank God for Ron Paul. I do not know whether he would be a good President. Man, he is terribly bright. And he really, really cares about individual liberty. Did I mention, he is about fifty times smarter and more constitutionally aware than well, you know...
As a physician, Paul routinely lowered fees or worked for free and refused to accept Medicaid or Medicare payments. As a member of Congress, he continues to refuse to sign up for the government pension that he would be entitled to in order to avoid receiving government money, saying it would be “hypocritical and immoral.”
His district lies between Houston and Rockport Texas right on the Gulf of Mexico. About 22 counties.
Most doctors are busybodies, know it alls. This one Ron Paul wants to protect YOUR freedoms.
There’s another thing I like. In the days of fighting sail, a Letter of Marque and Reprisal was a government license authorizing a person (known as a privateer) to attack and capture enemy vessels, and bring them before admiralty courts for condemnation and sale. Calling the September 11, 2001, attacks an act of “air piracy”, Paul introduced the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001.
Letters of marque and reprisal would have targeted specific terrorist suspects instead of invoking war against a foreign state. Paul reintroduced this legislation as the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007. He voted with the majority for the original Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists in Afghanistan. In April 2009, following the Maersk Alabama hijacking, he proposed issuing letters of marque to combat the problem of piracy in Somalia.
So he’s a privateer.
I said NO CHECKS dagnabbit!!!
You can pretty well chalk up the fact that this country has lost the War On Drugs. I think the government really doesn’t care one whit about the outcome of the WOD, just as long as people are doing drugs which gives them justification for throwing them in prison. The government should be fearing the people, yet it’s not.
Dennis Kucinich?
I don't know, but the boiling center mass of Paul supporters will find some other anarchistic figure to follow.
That aside, I actually feel sorry for those conservatives who've honestly looked the man over and have decided that he's worthy of their support. They've got some strange bedfellows.
Speaking for myself, I support most of his ideas, I just don’t think he’s got enough of a base of support to get nominated or elected. I refuse to live in this fantasy world that most Paul-bots live in. Reality states he has a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning.
Sec of Def: “Sir, we're being attacked.”
Ron Paul: “ No, I don't want a Big Mac”.
Just like Gramps.
The pot smokers are pretty much getting slaps on the wrist. As for the rest, I just as soon see people peddling Meth and other hard street drugs behind bars and not in my neighborhood.
Dr. Paul may or or not be smart.
#1. He has brought a lot of “pork” to his district.
#2. He is a Libertarian running on on the Republican ticket.
#3. If he refused Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements...he hurt lots of people. I can’t believe that he discounted or freebied many patients. I’ll have to look, but how long has it been since he was a doctor...and not a politician?
I would like a source that says he has refused a government pension.
Funny, but also a pretty good description of the guy.
It's gotta be pretty hard on his son, Rand. He seems to have his head on straight, and appears to headed for great things in the future.
You're right. Reality does.
And with that noxious generality, you threw away your credibility.
But, it's certified....ain't that ok?
Most doctors I know, don't fit this mold. Most doctors I've been to want to protect my freedoms while while swearing the Hippocratic Oath to protect and save my life and the lives of all their patients. In the age of frivolous lawsuits, the last thing they want to be is "busybody know-it-alls".
[ Just what is it about Ron Paul that attracts these nuts? ]
Ron Paul wants the federal government to stop doing most of what they do..
Anybody with sense wants some of that to happen as well.. just not all of it..
Of course, there are many conservatives that are not really conservatives..
some libertarians are also not anarchists.. most of them..
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