Posted on 02/08/2008 6:42:37 AM PST by ovrtaxt
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks in the eyes of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
The Texas congressman had some harsh words for the GOP presidential frontrunner John McCain, a longtime U.S. Senator, on various issues including what Paul alleged was a one-time alliance with former Vice President and global warming cheerleader Al Gore.
“Now our leading candidate – guess whose position he holds on global warming? Al Gore, he supports the Al Gore bill on global warming.”
Paul spoke to the conservative audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 7 in Washington, D.C.
Paul also pointed out McCain’s partnerships with other Democrats in the past on campaign finance, immigration and taxes.
“Now we have a candidate running for president, who is leading the charge,” Paul said. “One of his best friends is [Sen. Russ] Feingold – campaign finance reform. Another friend of this candidate – his good friend – his name is [Sen. Ted] Kennedy. And then also, his old-time friend – he’s not in the senate right now – Sen. [Tom] Daschle, who used to be his friend on taxes – to increase taxes, not lower them. We need lower taxes.”
Paul also told the audience that if elected, McCain would continue the war, which might mean the reinstitution of the draft.
“And that means, the next generation – the burden is being placed on these young people and that is why the college kids are coming out – because they’re getting ripped off,” Paul said. “We’re undermining their liberties. We’re giving them a foreign policy where it is their lives on the line. The threat of a draft is coming for men and women, as this war is likely to spread. And what have they inherited? Less freedom and a lot of debt.”
Paul, a long-time critic of the war, has vowed to start a pull out if he were to win the election. “On my first day as commander-in-chief, I will direct the Joint Chiefs of Staff and our commanders on the ground to devise and execute a plan to immediately withdraw our troops in the safest manner possible,” he states on his campaign Web site.
An hour earlier, McCain spoke to the same audience and plead for their support if he were to get the Republican nomination. McCain stressed fiscal discipline, but was especially vocal on lower taxes.
“Senator Clinton and Senator Obama will raise your taxes,” McCain said. “I intend to cut them. I will start by making the Bush tax cuts permanent. I will cut corporate tax rates from 35 to 25 percent to keep industries and jobs in this country. I will end the alternate minimum tax and I won’t let a Democratic congress raise your taxes and choke the growth of this economy.”
“Waiting for all the RP bashers to come.....”
The neo-cons and sunshine conservatives can’t seem to handle an actual conservative being in the race. I also disagree with Rep. Paul on the WOT. But I’ll take the 80% of a loaf that he offers versus the 20% that the McCain/Clinton ticket offers.
And the fun begins...
Ron Paul is now the most conservative candidate remaining.
He is isn’t he. lol. I guess 22 April I will have to give some consideration. He is pretty loopy but goodness what is the alternative.
So who do you suggest? If you say McCain, I’ll just laugh.
“Now everyone on here who called Ron Paul a kook suddenly love him...”
I doubt that. But given that we’re facing a McCain/Clinton ticket thisNovember, folks who scoffed at him initially are now taking a second look. I personally expect that he will run on a third party ticket, and if he does so I will support him. He isn’t a “perfect” candidate, and I think he is wrong on lot with regard to the WOT, but he is a far better candidate than the alternative.
Welcome to Bizarro world! I’ve been there for a few weeks myself.
“Still with the Ron Paul thing. FLASH!!! He lost!!But he’s still taking donations, so send in another check.”
Here’s another news flash. The reason he’s still taking donations is because he’s likely going to run on a third party ticket. It does him no harm and a lot of good to stay on the GOP ticket as long as possible.
The neo-cons and sunshine conservatives can’t seem to handle an actual conservative being in the race. I also disagree with Rep. Paul on the WOT. But I’ll take the 80% of a loaf that he offers versus the 20% that the McCain/Clinton ticket offers.
His supporters claim he is strong on Nat Security and taxes...but he has a history of being weak on those, too
I just hope its not 9 months of “but McCain is better than Hillary/Obama”. Thats why we have McCain in the first place
I want to love him. I really do. He is so right on so many issues. But he is so wrong on the WOT I can’t support him.
McCain is wrong on so many issues I will never vote for him.
My only hope, and it is a small one, is that the WOT will be over by November and I can then vote for Paul. Seems unlikely though.
Paul makes sense on this.
“Good analogy...though I think McCain offers less than 20% of the loaf.”
I’m being generous.
“I just hope its not 9 months of “but McCain is better than Hillary/Obama”. Thats why we have McCain in the first place.”
You’ve just summed up the election strategy for the GOP for 2008: vote for us, we’re slightly less awful than the alternative.
So who do you suggest? If you say McCain, I’ll just laugh.
RP is spot on, this time. But his position on Iraq and national security is a deal breaker.
LOL, exactly...
Perfect description ....... great tagline material!
I also think that if Huckabee stays in the race (I'm not sure why he would), it's possible that Paul could pull enough support from the former Romney people to have enough delegates at the convention where he *might* have some influence. It's a long shot, but it's possible. Romney dropping out helps Paul a lot.
The guy has zero chance of winning yet he is still taking gullible supporters’ money. Sounds like he would be real good at handling the economy. Just because we are down to three rotten choices, it’s not time to start touting the looniest one.
Paul is:
- Dangerous on terrorism.
- Wrong on Iraq.
- Doesn’t think Iran has a military.
- Wrong on drug control.
- Soft on criminals.
- Doesn’t want a border fence and hopes the problem will go away without federal welfare.
- He is a conspiracy theory nut.
- He has proven his ineptness by allowing racist nesletters to be published under his name for decades.
- He is totally inefective in Congress
And the Paulbots wonder why us normal Freepers think he is a nutbag!
He’s still a loon on the war. But on the rest he’s right on, I’ll give you that.
We hear the same refrain every Presidential election cycle; anyone but Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore and now Billary, while the Federal Leviathan grows exponentially under Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and Bush.
Is it me, or does the rank and file of the Republican Party realize their own party has baited them into socialism or do they just prefer statist sodomy from Republicans rather than Democrats? Long lives the Ron Paul Revolution...
“It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
—-Samuel Adams
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