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.”
Forget the islamofascists, worry about China!
Here's where McCain fails, along with the Dems. Their inaction and promotion of the status quo on the economy will very soon put us in a place where we can't pay for the war anyway. If they dont' do something about htis Keynesian mess, we're screwed. And not just by the ME, but China, Russia, the UN, etc.
Both!!!
“Its not about bashing him, its that he has no chance to win. Plain and simple.”
Not so plain, not so simple. Conservatives are not going to “win” this election. That shoe has already dropped. Even if by some miracle Sen. McCain ends up getting elected, his governance won’t be significantly different than that of Sen. Clinton.
Under the circumstances, the best thing conservatives can do is to take what small brass rings this election affords us. One possible brass ring is the establishment of a viable third party option for conservatives.
The good Republicans running for other offices should still obviously be supported on their individual merits, but party-line towing for wholly unacceptable candidates like McCain is whorish conduct. Have some self-respect. Folks like that would vote for Hillary Clinton if the ran under the R label (if the D candidate was worse), handing the elections off to MSM pre-selection without a whimper.
Info? You mean like what’s on his website? His platform is very clearly stated.
He’s also got a pretty clean record of consistently voting against big government legislation.
You couldn't be more wrong...Letters of marque and reprisal simply means hiring contractors like BlackWater and others to go after non State terrorists like Osama. Lot cheaper and less political fallout. The U.S. Military is designed to fight Nation-States not widely spread out religious nut cases.
He would not leave our borders open and undefended either.
McCain? People be smart enough not to let the PTB foist this fraud on America...
Ron Paul is right on this but he is wrong on national security.
If you limit National Security to Iraq, that may be true. But our monetary policies are just as much a threat. We cannot continue what we’re doing without consequences. If China unpegs the yuan, we’re screwed- if Saudi Arabia pulls their investments from our banks, we’re screwed. There’s quite a list of other financial vulnerabilities too, which become a security issue. Wars are expensive, especially when you fight with technology.
John McCain, if you can read this, save yourself from a big embarrassment. Drop out now. We will forgive you and move on.
“If you limit National Security to Iraq, that may be true. But our monetary policies are just as much a threat. We cannot continue what we’re doing without consequences. If China unpegs the yuan, we’re screwed- if Saudi Arabia pulls their investments from our banks, we’re screwed. There’s quite a list of other financial vulnerabilities too, which become a security issue. Wars are expensive, especially when you fight with technology.”
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Spot on. To that I add that the terrorists are doing to us pretty much what we did to the Soviets, forcing us to spend enormous amounts of money we have to borrow to keep up an arms race we cannot sustain with Social Security and Medicare going insolvent around 2010, not to mention prescription health care and next up, national health care and the Kyoto blackmail. Old terrorists will die off but new ones enter the ranks. Indefinitely.
I don’t think Paul will get us out of Iraq as fast as he claims. Opposition from Congress and the Joint Chiefs will create tension but it may have the wonderful effect of forcing the Iraqi goverment to find its spine and begin governing. If that were to hapen, it would prove a stroke of political genius. If Paul focuses singlemindedly on Iraqi withdrawl, he risks putting the rest of his agenda at grave risk from a Congress that will likely be quite volatile (a/k/a childish, as per usual).
Finally, by all means end federal involvement in the so-called war on drugs and let the states and the 10th Amendment take it over and start executing on the supply side.
Did I mean that literally or figuratively? You decide.
The 'grassroots' info is what Im curious about. A politician's website is about useless AFAIC, just look at mcromnebee's 'conservative' words.
Im looking for records and the non publicised local info...and his voting RECORD speaks volumes...
If anything RP is a bit too conservative/constructionist for our particular wartime agenda, but unless he is certifiably insane LIKE THE REST OF THE PRESENT FIELD [well maybe theyre just EVIL] hes looking worthy of 'compromise'...
If I ever hold my nose to vote again it will be right, not left...
LFOD...
I think you can pull up his entire record on thomas.loc.gov.
tyvm Ill check this out, but still I’ll seek the homegrown info as well
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