A Ky. Ping, Questions for / about Ron Paul, who is running for Bunning Senate Seat next year. 
Posted on 07/19/2009 9:32:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What to make of Ron Paul? The word erratic comes to mind. On domestic spending, he is a righteous guardian of small government, while on foreign affairs he is a dangerous isolationist who believes the world will leave us alone if we just tend to our own knitting. And as far as Sarah Palin and her supporters go, he is a space cadet, apparently.
An interview with Politico published today contains this startling assertion from Paul:
'As for soon-to-be departing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Paul dismisses her supporters as "more establishment, conventional Country-Club type of Republicans."'
This is odd indeed, detached from reality as it is. Sarah Palin is about as far from a country club Republican as one can find. And Texas sources indicate:
And if you were to check the membership rolls of the Lake Jackson Country Club here in Texas, I'd bet real money that you would find the names of Ron Paul and his wife Carol listed as lifetime members.
The assertion of The Pauls belonging to this country club is supported by other bloggers as well. Representative Paul (also an OB/GYN, by the way) should address the question of his alleged country club membership, if he is going to throw around this label.
Could it be that Ron Paul is jealous of Sarah Palin's popular support?
Now, if Congress passed a resolution stating that the Congress hereby "declares war" on drugs, truancy, child molesting, income tax cheating, non-payment of child support, pro-lifers, military veterans or whatever, will that be a "constitutional war" in your imagination? Just because Congress "declares war?" Is anything else required by the constitution? Chapter and Verse please.
Isolationism is dead as the proverbial doornail and not without good reason. Neville Chamberlain is dead and so are his sorry excuses for ideas. Cowardice coupled with American job-killing and American economy killing "free trade schemes" do not constitute a conservative foreign policy or a conservative anything else. AND, do you blame communists or Islamolunacy for anything or is it just fascism and America that are to blame for everything from Eve's offer of that apple to this very moment.
Finally, the paleopipsqueak and his ideological harem would not recognize "real conservatism" if it jumped up and bit them (as it did in last year's primaries).
A Ky. Ping, Questions for / about Ron Paul, who is running for Bunning Senate Seat next year.
There are no flying machines. No one can find a reference in the constitutional text.
Looks like we are again off to the races with the paleopipsqueak gang. Maybe we can get discounts on tri-corner hats and letters of marque and reprisal to infiltrate their ranks. Now, shrimpin' subsidies for Galveston must be a basic right or why would Paulie be earmarking them while posig for holy pictures?
You could be a little less transparent in your attempts to push Romney.
Gotta make quota and pickins have been then lately...
That’s thin, not then...
Actually, paleoPaulie got his cowardly anti-American backside trounced in last year’s primaries and he needn’t think he will do any better in the future. That’s the proof that actual patriots have the upper hand. There is nothing in the constitution (whatever El Ron may think) that suggests a need for magic words in a war resolution.
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Good thing McCain won those primaries, huh? /sarcasm
Also, I have my own GWOT badge, so don’t try your “real patriots” claim on me.
Let me ask you a question though. Do you agree with the expansion of the executive branch powers that we are seeing with the current and previous administrations?
I think so.
Dude you have no flippin' clue.
You are playing word games. Read the resolution, it was a declaration of war.
No, the Constitution does not authorize welfare and they do it anyway. Or a central bank and they do it anyway. Or socialized medicine and they’re about to do that. Congress cannot authorize the president to start a war. Common sense? Let me ask you something - if someone said to you in, say 2000; “Sacrifice your life here and now and Saddam will be removed from power.” Would you do it? Probably not, but we ask that of the military. Tell me, were you in the military? If so, what was your MOS? I was a Forward Observer but I was lucky and ETS’d before the second war started. A lot of folks in my unit weren’t so lucky and leave behind a lot of souls. If you told me that Saddam could still be in power and they could come home, that would sound like a pretty damn good deal to me.
All those other things you mentioned are against the law(s) and have nothing to do with this argument.
Chapter 8: Congress shall have the power to Declare War... No such power exists in the Executive sections.
Isolationism? Ha! RP is the LEAST isolationist person in gov’t. He favors FREE TRADE not those stupid “agreements” that only employ more gov’t bureaucrats.
Communism and Islamofascism are just manifestations of big government. I don’t blame America for anything. I blame fascists and communist minded thinking in our own government for a lot, though.
This neocon thinking isn’t any different than the liberal kool-aid drinkers, twisting the words of the Constitution to mean what you want it to mean.
I read it. Tell me where the Congress declares war.
Then clue me and the rest of the RP supporters in on what we don’t know. Don’t just brush it off with one sentence. A lot of people from my outfit left their souls in Iraq. I have a close relative there now and a friend about to leave. Clue me in on just how many of those we’re fighting are/were members of Al-Qaeda.
We were fighting Al Qaeda backed Sunnis and Al Qaeda themselves in Iraq. Gen. Petraeus called Iraq the central front for Al Qaeda.
For a boatload of Petraeus quotes about Iraq and Al Qaeda that gives a clear indication of how much Al Qaeda was in Iraq, here's a Google search for Petraeus, Iraq and Al Qaeda.
Ron Paul and the Democrats were wrong that we should have left Iraq while Al Qaeda was firmly entrenched there.
Palin could field dress him in under a minute.
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