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Lone Star- Ron Paul
The American Conservative ^ | June 18, 2007 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

Posted on 06/24/2007 7:47:36 AM PDT by joeu

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To: chaos_5

As much as I hate to admit it, you can NOT have No Gov’t intervention. However, that intervention is necessary to be curtailed to the bounds that intervention was given.

At least someone is actively working to curtail that intervention, instead of ‘compromising and allowing it to continually grow. Can anyone on this forum remember when the last time the Go’v’t reduced its power or intervention?


21 posted on 06/24/2007 9:27:05 AM PDT by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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To: joeu

Excellent article, though very sad how far the republicans have strayed from sanity.


22 posted on 06/24/2007 9:39:34 AM PDT by Old_Right_Patriot
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To: joeu

Oh jeez, not this little twerp again!


23 posted on 06/24/2007 9:44:12 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Dog Gone
I thought that you were in Tom Delay’s old district (the 22nd).
24 posted on 06/24/2007 9:44:27 AM PDT by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: Optimist

Juvenile response.


25 posted on 06/24/2007 9:44:56 AM PDT by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: joeu

Ron Paul, of the Island Nation Isolationist Party.


26 posted on 06/24/2007 9:52:32 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: joeu

http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2007/06/separated_at_br.php

June 22, 2007: Separated at Birth - Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul

On one level you have to laugh that Kucinich and Paul were the only two dissenting votes in a 411-2 Congressional resolution urging the UN Security Council to charge Iran’s president Ahmadinejad under genocide conventions. But it is interesting these particular men stood alone in supposedly principled opposition to the obvious. And I’m sure their supporters would cite these “principles” as being great and idealistic. I’ll leave aside all the usual Neville Chamberlain clichés, because, well, we all know them, and cut to the chase - my view of their true motivations.

I think both of these men became highly-rigid narcissists decades ago. Their entire public personae ... and the attention they crave... are totally dependent on maintaining an inviolable public image. You can invariably predict everything they are going to say, every attitude they take. There is never a surprise, because they are playing roles they have chosen for themselves and for which they were rewarded with public and media attention from years in the past. If they changed their positions and became more reasonable, even in a few areas, they would simply disappear because they no longer fulfilled their roles.

This disappearance, of course, is intolerable to the narcissist. The point - for both Kucinich and Paul- is not to win, but to bask in that reflected glow that justifies their existence. This is also an indication why both do not appear to listen when others talk. To do so would be to have their thought processes challenged and to risk change. What fascinates me in this, however, is that, unlike in national polls where they barely register, a large number of people in their home areas actually voted for the Congressmen. Perhaps Paul and Kucinich have different personalities for the hometown crowd - a kind of sudden practicality - or maybe it’s just earmarks or maybe... those folks back home bask in the glow of the narcissism too. Hey, this famous guy comes from our little town!

Roger L. Simon


27 posted on 06/24/2007 9:58:13 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (...."We're the govt, and we're here to hurt."....)
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To: bamahead; Abram; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
His philosophy is simple: “no government intervention, not in personal life, not in economic life, not in affairs of other nations.”





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28 posted on 06/24/2007 10:26:48 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: chaos_5
"no government intervention, not in personal life, not in economic life, not in affairs of other nations."

Anarchy?

NO. Something WORSE!!!

FREEDOM!

Kill it at all costs!

29 posted on 06/24/2007 10:36:19 AM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now they bleat like sheep for security)
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To: billbears
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30 posted on 06/24/2007 10:51:46 AM PDT by M203M4 (Vote Fruity Giuliani or the terrists will win! Abortion & gun control = price for freedumb!)
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To: RoadGumby
Can anyone on this forum remember when the last time the Go’v’t reduced its power or intervention?

Hey as long as the 'right' party is in charge does it really matter.....

31 posted on 06/24/2007 11:04:47 AM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: joeu
Ron Paul is easy to overlook. He takes the stairs; he does not have an entourage. You can’t hear him coming because he’s wearing plain black tennis shoes. In a bag he carries a can of soup that he will heat for himself in the microwave in his office. Beneath pictures of Austrian economists Frederick Von Hayek and Ludwig Von Mises, he will eat his lunch alone and in peace.


32 posted on 06/24/2007 1:25:49 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (NY Times: "fake but accurate")
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To: billbears

” and interfering in other nations that don’t represent a threat to our borders. “

and not interfering in other nations that DO represent a threat not only to our borders but also our country and its future .


33 posted on 06/24/2007 1:38:55 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: joeu

Some FR people sure love big government,war and more taxes.My how things have changed on this website.Hillary would love you guys!


34 posted on 06/24/2007 1:55:44 PM PDT by taxtruth
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To: joeu

Some FR people sure love big government,war and more taxes.My how things have changed on this website.Hillary would love you guys!


35 posted on 06/24/2007 1:55:48 PM PDT by taxtruth
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To: billbears

I see several posters in this thread that wouldn’t recognize the U.S. Constitution if it jumped up and bit ‘em on the behind. Nor do they seem to care.
Our nation’s founding document is so casually flaunted by the government it originally defined that P.J. O’Rourke’s famous quote comes to mind: The Constitution is no impediment to our form of government.


36 posted on 06/24/2007 2:00:56 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: sushiman
other nations that DO represent a threat not only to our borders but also our country and its future .

And 'conservatives' will provide that list will they? I've seen some protectionists that claim China is a threat. Iran is a threat. Russia could eventually again be a threat (if the administration continues to isolate them on issues where they are willing to work with our government)

Pre-emptive strikes and calling nations that do not necessarily represent a threat to our borders is not conservative. But it is quite Republican

37 posted on 06/24/2007 3:08:19 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears

I was referring to Mexico and SA in general and the illegal hoardes we are allowing to walk in ...


38 posted on 06/24/2007 3:33:01 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: joeu
When asked if any Republican constituents who had initially supported the war have thanked him for his foresight, he shrugs and says, “Some, but not too many. Someone told me once: ‘They never forgive you for being right. They’ll always forgive you for being wrong if you apologize.’”

Talk about hitting the nail on the head.

39 posted on 06/24/2007 4:04:00 PM PDT by JTN ("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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To: Martins kid
Supporting any candidate who cannot beat the Democrat ( most likely Hillary or Obama) is just supporting the Dem.

Well, then I have bad news for you, because right now, no Republican at all has a chance to beat any Democrat for the Presidency. Invading Iraq has made sure of that. The Republican Party has basically doomed itself. No candidate opposed to the Iraq war can win the primary, and no one who supports it can win the general election.

40 posted on 06/24/2007 4:07:09 PM PDT by JTN ("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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