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Serious about Ron Paul[Bruce Bartlett]
The Washington Times ^ | 30 May 2007 | Bruce Bartlett

Posted on 05/30/2007 4:44:20 AM PDT by BGHater

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To: WWTD

Ron Paul ping


41 posted on 05/30/2007 2:33:26 PM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
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To: nin_kasi
Sh*tcanning poison pill bills is not the whole story....

Ron Paul is the MOST pro-gun person in Congress. Always has been...

42 posted on 05/30/2007 2:40:06 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Oberon
Interesting set of "L" words you've got there. You know, "Liberty" is another word that shares the same root as your three. Perhaps you've heard of it?

How about "liberation"? Interesting that "liberalitarians" don't care for that.
43 posted on 05/30/2007 3:22:11 PM PDT by soccermom
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To: soccermom

I was thinking of “libertines,” too.


44 posted on 05/30/2007 3:39:14 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: Irontank

The lectures are getting old. You Ron Paul folks sit for an hour or two or three of indocrination each day and frankly I’m tired of being lectured just because I think a vote for Ron Paul would be a wasted vote, and because I have a life. Frankly I’m sick of hearing about Ron Paul. If his district wants to re-elect him to Congress, no problem. But spending any time, energy , or money on Ron Paul the Great is wasted. He doesn’t have a snowball’s chance. If you all want Hillary, you are going about it the right way by supporting a person who cannot win.


45 posted on 05/30/2007 7:10:33 PM PDT by Martins kid
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To: Irontank
Hmmm...I don’t remember the part of the Constitution that says Americans should toss aside all concept of personal responsibility and use lawyers to fleece their fellow Americans. Liberals. Libertarian. What’s the difference?
46 posted on 05/30/2007 8:11:15 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: BlackElk
If you favor an antiAmerican antiwar....then expect to be insulted....there is no right not to be criticized

Where have I favored anti-Americanism, or been anti-war?

Criticising socialists is an obligation I enjoy. Now I've gone and stepped on your toes. Well....there is no right not to be criticized.

47 posted on 05/31/2007 5:19:32 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: Publius Valerius
We tried that under Clinton. I don't think that we did. As you might recall, one of W.'s planks in the 2000 election was that he wanted to put an end to the "nation building" policies of the Clinton administration.

'Nation' building under Clinton was a U.N. operation.

What we are doing in Iraq is not nation building, but recovery.

No different than we did in Japan and Germany in WW2.

I'm not saying that Paul is totally right, but I think he is closer to right than wrong. I think we have a lot of flawed policies in the Middle East that need to be re-thought.

I would agree with that.

And alot of bad policy came being inconsistent and too weak, not from bombing them.

I do like Ron Pauls 'America's first' policy and if he would focus on that he would do well.

Whatever our foreign policy is, it should benefit U.S. interests both in the short and long term.

48 posted on 05/31/2007 5:46:44 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (We must beat the Democrats or the country will be ruined! -Abe Lincoln)
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To: soccermom

Untrue. We should start by “liberating” our own people FIRST. Put government back on it’s Constitutional leash. Then we can worry about exporting our “Constitutional Republic” instead of pushing Bush’s “democracy”.


49 posted on 05/31/2007 6:29:57 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: laotzu
If you think I am a socialist, fire away.

As to you being antiwar and antiAmerican, if you support paleoPaulie, you are both. If not, perhaps not.

50 posted on 05/31/2007 10:47:02 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: Dead Corpse; nin_kasi

Dead Corpse: I guess PaleoPaulie just does not believe in our using guns against our nation’s enemies, huh????


51 posted on 05/31/2007 10:50:31 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: BlackElk
You'd rather Dr. Paul had voted for a pro-gun bill that contained a Kennedy performance standard for determining "armor piercing" capability of ammo? Or maybe a rider containing language that private gun sales must transact via NICS check?

If you see nothing wrong with either of those, then you are dumber than I could have possibly thought you were...

52 posted on 05/31/2007 10:53:12 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: nin_kasi
Ron Paul

Voted NO on prohibiting product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers. (Oct 2005)

Voted NO on prohibiting suing gunmakers & sellers for gun misuse. (Apr 2003)

Voted NO on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1. (Jun 1999)

****************

Fortunately, he's unelectable.

53 posted on 05/31/2007 10:59:21 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Martins kid
Frankly I’m sick of hearing about Ron Paul.

And yet, here you are, posting on a thread that is clearly about Ron Paul, who is even named in the title. One would think that if you were "sick of hearing of something" you simply wouldn't click on those posts.

54 posted on 05/31/2007 11:06:13 AM PDT by Equality 7-2521
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To: Sam Gamgee
Nice try. The Constitution doesn't say anything about what American's should or shouldn't do. It explicitly lists what the federal government is allowed to do.

No soup for you.

55 posted on 05/31/2007 11:08:38 AM PDT by Equality 7-2521
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To: Irontank
Interventionism (Reagan's rescue of American medical students from the then communist government of Granada by the unilateral exercise of military force or Reagan's bombing of the tents in the Libyan desert containing Qaddafi and his family) is unilateral, military and not crawling around at the feet of enemy dictators squealing in diployak for them to puhleeze be nice to us. It is killing them and their governments and destroying their things.

Wilsonianism or internationalism is employing the diployak artists endlessly to negotiate and negotiate what American interests to abandon in exchange for phony and dishonorable "peace" which amounts to nothing more than temporary cease fire to allow the enemy to catch up. Far from being an interventionist, Wilson argued that WWI was the "war to end all wars." Sounds wimpy enough to be almost paleoPaulieism.

If you do not understand the difference, then you are eagerly displaying your ignorance.

We did not and do not need a League of Nations or a United Nations. We probably could manage without the pantywaists who populate the State Department. Put the money into beefing up the military where results are obtainable.

Pre-emptive warfare is a noble and practical policy. We live in a craven world in which some lip service is paid to the UN. In the last analysis, the UN was not in charge of the Iraq War and we ignored the protests of the corrupt Security Council members and toppled Saddam Hussein. Whether our motive was said to be that Saddam was a vegetarian (probably wasn't) or that he had WMD (probably did and we should search in Syria) or that he wore his beret wrong does not move me in the slightest. It took a while to stop dithering and to see to it that Hans Blix's stalling act (which WAS a UN project) came to an end along with Saddam's regime. Nonetheless, we did what needed doing to Saddam, Uday and Kucay. We ought to beef up our military, care less about "nation-building" and do what needs doing wherever it needs doing (Venezuela? as one example).

If I should ever be tempted to be insulted, I shall recall that you are of a mind or something to support paleoPaulie the superwimp as a measure of how irrelevant your opinions are.

Do I get the impression that country C is Israel and you are no fan of Israel?

56 posted on 05/31/2007 11:27:39 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: Dead Corpse; trisham

Dead Corpse: I would far prefer that you review #53 for more examples of the follies of paleoPaulie, this time on guns. Your opinions of my intelligence, given that you are a paleoPaulie cheerleader, are no more relevant or accurate than paleopaulie’s pantywaist foreign and military policy delusions or his imagined status and pretensions as constitutionalist without portfolio.


57 posted on 05/31/2007 11:57:25 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: BlackElk
Nice attempt at slander... Dr. Paul is the only one on Congress that approves of getting rid of all firearms laws going back to the NFA of '34. You'd know this if you were even remotely interested in honest debate.

He voted against those particular bills, out of hundreds, as they either had poison pill riders attached, or extended government authority beyond Constitutional boundaries.

Which about five minutes and a google search would have proven out for you. IF, as I said, you were even remotely honest...

58 posted on 05/31/2007 12:29:00 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: BGHater

Folks, we are being spammed.
WE are experiencing part of the Dog Paul* Internet Drive.
This is getting ridiculous.
How many Dog Paul* stories can we see per day here?
Why does JimRob block Rudy supporters but not Dog Paul* ones - who could do a lot more damage in 2008?
I say let him be honest - run as a Libertarian - he is NOT a Republican!

(*because on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog...)


59 posted on 05/31/2007 12:42:33 PM PDT by Shazolene
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To: Shazolene
I feel immigration is the one main issue. If Bush-Kennedy-McCain, etc. get their way. Their won’t be a recognizable United States left to fight for. The Dems & Socialist will have won, and all of our opinions here will be in the total minority.

Conservatives will become a quaint and powerless movement.

Therefore, I am for ANY candidate that is against illegal immigration! That is the ONE critical thing I look for.

Also, since we are only in the debate stage, favoring one candidate over another now, (even the non "media anointed" candidates) isn't going to get Hitlery elected - so we should do our shopping with as many options open as possible NOW, before we get stuck with a RINO that will turn all of us OFF.

So all this bitchiness here made me go to Paul’s website to see what he says about immigration, and here it is - judge for yourself...

Issues

Border Security and Immigration Reform
The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked. This is my six point plan:

Physically secure our borders and coastlines. We must do whatever it takes to control entry into our country before we undertake complicated immigration reform proposals.

Enforce visa rules. Immigration officials must track visa holders and deport anyone who overstays their visa or otherwise violates U.S. law. This is especially important when we recall that a number of 9/11 terrorists had expired visas.

No amnesty. Estimates suggest that 10 to 20 million people are in our country illegally. That’s a lot of people to reward for breaking our laws.

No welfare for illegal aliens. Americans have welcomed immigrants who seek opportunity, work hard, and play by the rules. But taxpayers should not pay for illegal immigrants who use hospitals, clinics, schools, roads, and social services.

End birthright citizenship. As long as illegal immigrants know their children born here will be citizens, the incentive to enter the U.S. illegally will remain strong.

Pass true immigration reform. The current system is incoherent and unfair. But current reform proposals would allow up to 60 million more immigrants into our country, according to the Heritage Foundation. This is insanity. Legal immigrants from all countries should face the same rules and waiting periods.

60 posted on 05/31/2007 12:59:35 PM PDT by nyrenegade (fighting the tidal wave of socialism - and I live in New York!)
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