[sticker]

is ru paul also going to kiss chavez’s butt while he is at it. The more quotes I hear from this clown the more I think soros owns him

[doug from upland]

Gee, since the most important issue for me is the defense of this nation, it looks like Ron Paul is working hard to get my vote. Maybe we should turn over to the Chinese all of our anti-missile technology so they will like us more.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Seeking campaign funding from Iran no doubt.

[Brandie]

Ron Paul is an idiot. Ron Paul wants to play nice with Jew haters.

[mjp]

Paul says if the U.S. relieved pressure on Iran, people would breathe a sign of relief, interest rates probably would not go up and oil prices probably would drop.

and we would have peace in our time.Not

[Proud2BeRight]

They’re coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
They’re coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa

[crazyhorse691]

Republican Ron Paul

---

He is definitely the top Republican of choice amongst the Freakazoids here in Portland...sort of a Ralph Nader with personality.

[reagan_fanatic]

BUMP!

[#1CTYankee]

http://www.barbneal.com/wav/trektos/mccoy/mccoy01.wav

[ANGGAPO]

I gather that he has been committed to an asylum someplace?

[G8 Diplomat]

Ron Paul is insane

[tarheelswamprat]

The problem is, since 1979 Iran has been at war with the US via every indirect, asymmetric, plausibly deniable means they could contrive short of an overt declaration of war which would require the US to do the same.

Expressed in Ron Paul’s own self-proclaimed Libertarian terminology, Iran has been the sponsor and impetus for hundreds of incidents of “initiation of force” which have cost thousands of lives.

There is absolutely nothing in the Libertarian doctrine of “non-initiation of force” which mandates that it only applies to force initiated by an overt attack from a nation-state’s armed forces and/or a formal declaration of war a la traditional Westphalian international law doctrine. Paul’s insistence on such is completely arbitrary and self-serving.

The irony is that Ron Paul is not only wrong from a geopolitical perspective, he’s even wrong as a libertarian. His refusal to acknowledge the historical record of Iran’s deadly “initiations of force” by arbitrarily circumscribing the definition and the very meaning of the words is the political equivalent of an addict’s denial of his addiction to his supposed principles.

As Thomas Sowell recently wrote, there is a real problem when we allow our principles to become fetishes.