Ron Paul and the Lodestar of Liberty

American Thinker ^ | January 14, 2008 | Bruce Walker

[BlackElk]

PaleoPaulie is a pantload attempting to block the future of our country while he is in service to Al Qaeda.

[texastoo]

I'll take Paul being half-wrong on foreign policy over the other GOP candidates embracing big entitlements, big government, big spending, usurping states' rights, more tax dollars to the UN and Palestinians, more arm sales to the Saudis...anyday.

I read on another thread tonight that the Bush administration is going after private gun ownership. Add that to your list. I don't think Ron Paul would do that.

[BlackElk]

The political establishment cannot knock paleoPaulie on anything but the old racist letters????

I have no idea of whether the paleosurrenderman is a racist or not and I would give him the benefit of the doubt on that.

OTOH, I seem to remember a post or two million in the last year accurately slamming the lying pipsqueak for his cowardly foreign policy, his craven military surrender reflex, his autosmooch of Islamofascist backsides, his lying about nearly everything, his claiming to be pro-life while adamantly opposing any federal effort to stop the baby holocaust, his posing as pro-family while resisting any federal attempt to protect marriage (the real kind of marriage), his running as a libertoonian in 1988 as candidate of the dope users' party, his cramming of Galveston earmarks into appropriations bills passed by his colleagues over his negative vote as he poses for "fiscal conservative" holy pictures etc., etc., etc.

[BlackElk]

Maybe shrimps (federally subsidized by paleoPaulie’s earmarks or not) will whistle and pigs will fly, who knows? Either is as likely as Dr. Demento doing well anywhere now that he has blown New Hampshire.

[BlackElk]

I’ve heard that the moon is made of green cheese but, skeptic that I am, I don’t believe that either.

[Constantine XIII]

What’s wrong with you!?...How can you not like the Packers?

;)

[fortheDeclaration]

What does matter is the Declaration of Independence. The divine endowment of all people with liberty comes directly out of this document of 1776 and it is to this document that serious friends of liberty should look for inspiration and restoration

Amen.

But the Constitution is the rule of law for the United States and limits the power of government here.

As for Israel, she is more then able to handle any threat in her region.

We actually do her more harm then good to her in meddling in her internal affairs.

It would also help her if we stopped funding the Arabs!

[fortheDeclaration]

RP allowed these letters to be published using his name and image....therefore he is responsible for the content.

He has accepted the responsibility for them.

But even that isn't enough for the PC police of the Right!

[fortheDeclaration]

You stick by your candidate. Do you really think military disengagement from the rest of the world is a good thing for the United States? That’s what worries me most about his platform. Some of his other ideas can be appealing but as Commander in Chief he could carry this policy to fruition, and it’s worldwide devastating consequences.

Yes, the regions of the world would handle their own problems, we could save hundreds of billions of dollars that is used to subsidize their defense budgets and U.S. troops won't be used as 'trip-wires' like they are in Korea.

All in all, pretty good consequences.

[kinoxi]

Nice blinders you’ve got there .Unicorns and fuzzy things await in the wake of US withdrawal.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yet Ron Paul is going come charging in on a white horse and abolish SS completely? Oh, and he’s going to eliminate all welfare and entitlements too while he’s at it. Yeah, right. You must be smoking something pretty strong if you think he can get elected on that platform, and you must be clinically brain dead if you think he can accomplish those feats.

Why don't you actually read his proposals?

He has stated that there will be a transition phrase,where young people would be able to opt out of the SS system, while those who have been promised the support will receive it from the savings of some 1trillion dollars we would make by cutting U.S. bases overseas.

Ending SS and the IRS would put a dagger into the heart of the welfare system and end the New Deal.

Ofcourse, neocons have no concern about ending the New Deal and are only concerned about continuing the warfare-welfare state until the United States goes bankrupt.

[fortheDeclaration]

Gee. Nobody understands the Constitution but Ron Paul and his followers. Every single discussion with these people begins with some kind of fevered pitch about not caring or not understanding the Constitution.

I don't hear any of the other candidates discussing it!

[fortheDeclaration]

So you think we should leave Afghanistan and hope for the best. You think we should leave Iraq, and hope for the best. Leave SE Asia And watch curiously as China takes over. Disengage our burgeoning military relationship with India. Leave Australia to the wind. There are too many more to note in one response. You want to abandon all US allies. The consequences of one’s actions are what logical people tend to think about.

Yes, I think we should let those regions handle their own problems.

So now India needs us as well?

Who is threatening Australia?

You left out Iceland!

We must never abandon Iceland!

[fortheDeclaration]

He voted for military intervention outside of our national borders which he now condemns. The term flip flop works for me.

The anti-terrorist war has become nation building, that is why he regrets his vote for action in Afganstian.

Ofcourse, you guys just figure that we can garrison the world for the next 100 years, like we have for the past 60.

[kinoxi]

We had numerous emissaries during the Revolutionary War. This strict internal shove your head up your a$$ interpretation that Ron Paul supports is bogus before it even begins.

[kinoxi]

Who’s side are you on?

[kinoxi]

It sure as hell is not mine.

[fortheDeclaration]

First, if Iran attempted to invade Israel, they would be crushed.

They couldn't even defeat Iraq!

Second, why shouldn't 9/11 be investigated to see where the government failed?

There were calls for an investigation of Pearl Harbor right after it occured as well.

[fortheDeclaration]

Lets just hope that China & Russia never threaten us. If Ron Paul gets his way, they will.

No single nation can conquer us, but we can destroy ourselves by spending ourselves into bankruptsy.

How about a anti-missile defense system?

I haven't heard anthing like that being developed for U.S. protection.

[fortheDeclaration]

Lets just hope that China & Russia never threaten us. If Ron Paul gets his way, they will.

No single nation can conquer us, but we can destroy ourselves by spending ourselves into bankruptcy.

How about a anti-missile defense system?

I haven't heard anything like that being developed for U.S. protection.