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Ron Paul: GOP Should Ask Why U.S. Is On The Wrong Track
CNN.com ^ | November 12, 2008 | Ron Paul

Posted on 11/12/2008 8:31:15 PM PST by SecAmndmt

(CNN) -- The questions now being asked are: Where to go from here and who's to blame for the downfall of the Republican Party?

Too bad the concern for the future of the Republican Party had not been seriously addressed in the year 2000 when the Republicans gained control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency.

Now, in light of the election, many are asking: What is the future of the Republican Party?

But that is the wrong question. The proper question should be: Where is our country heading? There's no doubt that a large majority of Americans believe we're on the wrong track. That's why the candidate demanding "change" won the election. It mattered not that the change offered was no change at all, only a change in the engineer of a runaway train.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: constitution; limitedgovernment; republicanparty; ronpaul
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Once the Republicans were in power, though, the promises faded, and all policies were directed at maintaining or increasing power by trying to whittle away at Democratic strength by acting like big-spending Democrats.

And how many times did Bush use that veto pen of his again? [sarcasm]

21 posted on 11/12/2008 8:53:16 PM PST by Doofer
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To: murphE
Why Ron Paul Would Have Beaten Obama

Thank you!
Great article!

22 posted on 11/12/2008 9:04:28 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: djsherin

And you’re not including all of the obligations he’s rung up that aren’t in that debt (e.g., promised veterans benefits, etc.)

The GOP has shot them through the roof, too!


23 posted on 11/12/2008 9:06:32 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: SecAmndmt

Someone should ask Ron Paul why he hasn’t given the mall Santa Claus his eyebrows back.


24 posted on 11/12/2008 9:06:32 PM PST by Feline_AIDS (Because canine AIDS ain't funny.)
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To: jan in Colorado

ping


25 posted on 11/12/2008 9:07:17 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: weegee

Are you writing about Thomas Jefferson, who couldn’t get Congressional approval, so he didn’t attack the Barbary Pirates without it? It wasn’t until Congress agreed that we went in and cleared up the problem.


26 posted on 11/12/2008 9:08:54 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: murphE

I voted for Paul in the primaries, would do it again in an instant, and agree that he would have been a great nominee with a terrific chance of winning. I just wish he was younger so he could give it another shot in 2012.


27 posted on 11/12/2008 9:13:59 PM PST by frankiep (It's made with bits of real panther...so you know it's good.)
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To: frankiep
I just wish he was younger so he could give it another shot in 2012.

Me too.

28 posted on 11/12/2008 9:15:47 PM PST by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
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To: Old Sarge

This wasn’t any funnier on DU than it is here.


29 posted on 11/12/2008 9:28:41 PM PST by sybilll
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To: frankiep

“I just wish he was younger so he could give it another shot in 2012.”

Wasn’t he on the ballot in most states this time around? How many votes did he get?


30 posted on 11/12/2008 9:29:42 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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To: JSteff

Considering the total media blackout he was up against, not to mention having zero support from the GOP on a national level, he did pretty well. I’m convinced that if he was backed by the GOP and its infrastructure that he would have beaten Hussein quite handily.


31 posted on 11/12/2008 9:35:24 PM PST by frankiep (It's made with bits of real panther...so you know it's good.)
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To: Gondring

Dupe post. But thanks!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130733/posts


32 posted on 11/12/2008 9:44:18 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Gondring

Dupe post. But thanks!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130733/posts


33 posted on 11/12/2008 9:45:35 PM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: weegee

“being on the front line AGAINST Obama’s unconstitutional power grabs “

You may appreciate his vote against the original Patriot Act soon enough.

“P!ssing and moaning about the GOP’s actions in 2001 (Bush was not seated until Jan 20, 2000 and by September 2001 had been distracted) is not going to keep our airwaves free of government intrusion, our nation safe from a nationalized police force, or gun owners safe from being put on a list.”

History is what got us to where we are at today. If we don’t plan on learning from it, nothing will change. Paul has been trying to warn the American people about what we face today, for a very long time. I suggest you read his original Congressional farewell speech ca. 1984. Nothing has changed in the 24 years since then.

Incidentally, do you find it curious that no one in the Republican leadership is demanding that Obama produce a birth certificate? Is it not of critical legal importance?


34 posted on 11/12/2008 10:06:00 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: LifeComesFirst
"I disagree with him on monetary policy and am less laissez faire in some ways (Friedman, Hayek, and Sowell are my economic homeboys) but I want him to stick around; we need more like him."

And, Look what I found.

35 posted on 11/12/2008 10:09:30 PM PST by redhead (ALASKA; Step out of the bus, and into the food chain)
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To: murphE

“Ron Paul didn’t win because he wasn’t allowed to win.”

Let me guess...Lord Zod, right?

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36 posted on 11/12/2008 11:01:57 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Charter Member, 56 Million Club)
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To: frankiep

“GOP on a national level, he did pretty well. “

Maybe I am wrong, but didn’t he get like 1% of the vote.

Something in his message was not good enough for the voting public.


37 posted on 11/12/2008 11:19:00 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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To: JSteff

Yeah, because everyone went for McCain on the grounds that he was ‘electable’.

I guess we found out how electable McCain was-loses in a landslide to a far left inexperienced Dem with terrorist connections! That’s really electable right there, aren’t you all glad you voted for McCain or some other party hack!


38 posted on 11/13/2008 12:40:14 AM PST by ConservativeJen
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To: murphE
PaleoPaulie did not win because Republicans and other patriots will not stomach the treasonous little phony and weasel or anyone else like him as POTUS. El Run Paul is great at playing philosopher wannabe and at holding dishonest press conferences claiming to be pro-life and what not while opposing any truly effective effort to defend our nation from its enemies and the unborn from the killers' scalpels and suction machines. If the Al Qaeda apologist of Galveston imagines that leaving abortion to the states after 35 years of SCOTUS sponsored 50 million murders on demand by hiding behind a curtain of pseudo-constitutional ignorance, eccentricity and utter impracticality is a worthy answer, then it must be a response to an uncommonly stupid question even in Paulieworld.

Republican solutions:

Foreign policy: Mercilessly slaughter our Islamofascist enemies.

Abortion: SCOTUS must recognize personhood for the unborn under the 14th Amendment and then apply the equal protection clause to stop the states from preserving the likes of NYC, Los Angeles and Chicago as Meccas of babykilling. If you ban abortion in Nebraska or Mississippi but let it flourish in pro-abort venues, then you don't ban abortion effectively. You slice a small number off the death toll. Each life is worth saving. Nonetheless, you cannot morally pick and choose and effectively give the OK to the vast numbers of abortions that would be preserved by a "federalist" answer that does not really care what happens to or for the babies so long as it happens under state jurisdiction. This is a matter of substance and not of mere procedure.

As to the party: Excommunicate (politically)the paleos, purge Paulie, resist any attempt to have a "big tent" that welcomes pro-aborts and lavender queens and you can recognize the "big tent" motive whenever the David Brooks or other elitist footstools start whining about stripping the GOP of social issues in favor of an exclusive and elitist single-minded agenda of upper-bracket tax cutting and business, business, business. God, guns, babies, marriage, killing our nation's enemies, de-funding and abolition of gummint skewels, cutting the payroll taxes of those of modest means (Reagan Democrats) and many other issues should come first.

Ron Paul lost because he garnered a pathetic handful of votes and was rightfully repudiated by the overwhelming majority of Republicans. If somehow his supporters got him nominated, he would have gotten routed and there would have been a real third party. Fortunately that was quite unnecessary. Unfortunately, the Demonrats nominated and elected another Al Qaeda answer man in B. Hussein Obama. Fortunately, elections have not been abolished yet and Obama, Reid and Pelosi are not likely to have an easy time of it hereafter. Nor will it be an easy time for the Paulistinian fringenuts and spaghetti spines. America will likely come back but the Paulistinians won't.

Our country is out of the meaningful foreign policy business for the next four years. Bibi Netanyahu will have to be elected in Israel and will have to do what we should have done.

39 posted on 11/13/2008 2:03:04 AM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: BlackElk

Yawn. Don’t you have some kittens to drown or something?


40 posted on 11/13/2008 4:18:21 AM PST by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
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