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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

Paul’s doggedness in advancing the causes of individual responsibility and limited government could intimidate almost anyone who clings to the label “conservative” or “libertarian.” Perhaps that is why he avoids those abused designations and calls himself a “constitutionalist.” 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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: debates; election; gop; ronpaul
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To: SaxxonWoods
June 22, 2007: Separated at Birth - Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul

I've read a lot of stupid commentary on Ron Paul from people who don't like him. This was by far the most stupid yet.

41 posted on 06/24/2007 4:15:36 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: JTN
No candidate opposed to the Iraq war can win the primary, and no one who supports it can win the general election.

I imagine after September we may see a few of the 'electable' candidates start to sway on that. Then you'll have candidates that no longer support the police action but want to keep big government on one side and Rep. Paul on the other. Not even a choice then (although I do wonder how the hawks here will feel about their candidate flipflopping on the issue).

Rep. Paul is probably the only Republican that can beat the Democrat based solely on the polls against the police action in Iraq. Someone that not only advocates limited government but votes that way consistently as well? A hands down winner.

42 posted on 06/24/2007 4:53:17 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: JTN

I disagree. We have 2 - 3 candidates who can win the election....Unless we let our party get split by sideshows and minor candidates who waste our time and sap energy from the party.


43 posted on 06/24/2007 5:15:58 PM PDT by Martins kid
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To: billbears

In your dreams....


44 posted on 06/24/2007 5:16:54 PM PDT by Martins kid
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To: billbears

In your dreams....


45 posted on 06/24/2007 5:16:57 PM PDT by Martins kid
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To: Martins kid

Wait...listen to the Sunday talk shows. You can hear it in the voices of the current Senators. May have to revisit after September. Only an idiot would run for a nationally elected office on a position the majority of the American public disagrees with. Which would actually explain a lot about the majority of the current Republican candidates...


46 posted on 06/24/2007 5:30:18 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: Dog Gone
I'm one and I don't. I sincerely hope he's defeated in the primary next year, or has the guts to not run for re-election while seeking the Presidency.

Surely you can't be serious. OK, he is not Presidential material necesarily. He has about as much chance of winning as you or I. But you have to respect a public serpent who leaves you alone and takes Gubmint off your back. Almost everything our Gubmint does is unconstitutional.

We need 423 more Ron Pauls in our legislature.

47 posted on 06/24/2007 5:30:46 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: chaos_5
Anarchy?

If that's what it takes to get our country back, yes.

48 posted on 06/24/2007 5:35:46 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: joeu

“no government intervention, not in personal life, not in economic life, not in affairs of other nations.”

As set forth by our Constitution.

The only approach that I am willing to support.


49 posted on 06/24/2007 5:38:40 PM PDT by WhiteGuy (GOP Congress - 16,000 earmarks costing US $50 billion in 2006 - PAUL2008)
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To: Martins kid
"Supporting any candidate who cannot beat the Democrat is just supporting the Dem. RP is a waste of time, energy, and money.

BS

Who do you think you are telling ANYONE who to vote for, or against?

Americans can think for themselves.

50 posted on 06/24/2007 5:42:15 PM PDT by WhiteGuy (GOP Congress - 16,000 earmarks costing US $50 billion in 2006 - PAUL2008)
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To: chaos_5
Anarchy?

Liberty, something not seen in the U.S. in generations.

51 posted on 06/24/2007 6:13:50 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Maelstorm
I would rather he advocate very specific roll backs in government largess rather than going off the deep end with a generalist philosophy that makes assumptions that are not and have never been true.

He recognizes that it's too late to work within the system, and too early to just shoot the bastards (stolen from Claire Wolfe).

52 posted on 06/24/2007 6:16:59 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Martins kid
Great.

Politics is now a team sport.

Very little thought about which candidate has the right ideas, just root for your team.

53 posted on 06/24/2007 6:21:57 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: joeu
This whole notion (exhibited countless times on this thread) about voting for who can win, as opposed to whose ideas and philosophy is best for the U.S. is quite amusing.

Reminds me of High School.

54 posted on 06/24/2007 6:31:28 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
"Great.

Politics is now a team sport.

Very little thought about which candidate has the right ideas, just root for your team."

Wry, half-smile.

Designer has learned what it means to "be a team player".

And he will never try it again.

55 posted on 06/24/2007 7:32:59 PM PDT by Designer (I'm just sayin')
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To: Bigg Red
"Admirable. But he still has some loony ideas."

Like what "loony ideas" for instance?

56 posted on 06/24/2007 7:34:30 PM PDT by Designer (I'm just sayin')
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To: Designer

Like what “loony ideas” for instance?

&&
That we brought the September 11 attacks upon ourselves.


57 posted on 06/24/2007 7:45:33 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: SaxxonWoods; Martins kid
His answer was buoyant though laconic: “I want to be president because I have this dream. I’d like to reinstate the Constitution and restore the Republic.”

Well, now, we certainly can't have that, now, can we? Especially not now, when we have this "globalism" thing going so well!

It’s a vision that will inevitably be ridiculed as naïve by the imperial intelligentsia who helped American into this mess.

Yup. Ridicule the man is what I say we should do.

We LIKE having fiat money! yes we do!

We like subverting our stupid old constitution!

Let's hear it for the status quo!

S-T-A-T-U-S QUO!

S-T-A-T-U-S QUO!

S-T-A-T-U-S QUO!

58 posted on 06/24/2007 7:55:23 PM PDT by Designer
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To: Bigg Red
Like what “loony ideas” for instance?

That we brought the September 11 attacks upon ourselves.

If that is your only response, then I think we need more examples of all those supposedly "loony ideas".

Have any others that you might like to discuss?

BTW; just suppose for the sake of arguing that Ron Paul is correct, and those bombings would not have occured if we hadn't been there in the first place; Then whose "loony idea" was it to be over there in the middle east taunting the Arabs into bombing us?

I mean; loony is loony, right?

It's not as if we didn't have any warning, because we had multiple warnings.

If one side says it is loony to irritate the Arabs, and the other side irritates the Arabs anyway, and then says "they bombed us out of the clear blue sky without any provocation" then who is the more loony?

59 posted on 06/25/2007 6:01:27 AM PDT by Designer (Not loony.)
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To: Maelstorm
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

---Article X of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution for the United States

You have got it just backwards. If it is not ALLOWED, it is FORBIDDEN to FedGov, much as you and they want it your way. Dr. Paul is far more correct and knowledgeable than your post makes YOU out to be.

60 posted on 06/25/2007 7:34:33 AM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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