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?
Ron, two things....
One:
If she’s “country club Republican” then I’m the bloody king of China.
Two:
Never thought I’d say this to Ron, but PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE AND PUT YOUR HANDS OVER YOUR HEAD!!!
"Country club Republican" is an expression, most often negatively intended, used to describe certain members of the United States Republican Party. Some of the characteristics attributed to country club Republicans are: Higher than average income or wealth, lack of sympathy with lower income citizens, and liberal views on abortion, gay rights, and other social issues. [1] They are also said to put less value on religion[2], and to have attended more prestigious colleges than most other Republican Party members. [3]
I guess Ron Paul is smoking pot. It’s the “blue bloods” that hate her.
Ron Paul is a Birchite. Anyone who is friendly to Israel is in on “the Conspiracy.”
Bingo. Although the term is usually "Bircher".
That's their term for themselves. I'm no longer a member, so . . . I say "Birchite."
The JBS is the "blue lodge" of the anti-Semitic movement in America. They officially eschew anti-Semitism, of course (though they are certainly hostile to Israel), so they get lots of decent people as members. Then they expose them to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories via such people as Nesta Webster and Prince Michel Sturdza. Eventually the decent members get the idea that "the Jews" are really behind it all and turn on the JBS. The JBS then kicks them out (refurbishing their "non-anti-Semitic" credentials) and replace them with more decent people. But the point is, once decent people have been turned into anti-Semites. And the JBS couldn't do this if they were openly anti-Semitic.
The JBS has a quasi-official theology (Rushdoonyan "chr*stian reconstructionism") and its interpretation of the Constitution is Jeffersonian strict-constructionism. It's almost as if they believe that the United States is G-d's special country (replacing Israel), that the Founding Fathers were Divinely inspired and the Constitution the Word of G-d. It wouldn't surprise me if they believed the thirteen original colonies were the "restored tribes of Israel." This is a form of national supersessionism not far removed from "identity."
No organization has done more to make anti-Semites than the Birch Society (and again, they couldn't do this if they were openly anti-Semitic). Almost every anti-Semite fo the past fifty years has been a member. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if that old coot who shot up the Holocaust Museum was a member at one time.
The JBS is far more dangerous and evil than openly anti-Semitic organizations because it creates the anti-Semites who then join those organizations. Its "official" non-anti-Semitic position gives it an influence in the decent world that out-and-out anti-Semitic organizations don't and can't have.
The "isolationism" of the JBS is 100% phony. They are "isolationists" only in conflicts that they perceive benefit Jews. They were all for "American meddling" in Central America in the Eighties and defended John Singlaub when he was removed by Jimmy Carter for criticizing the notion that American troops should be pulled from that peninsula. The only situation in which the JBS takes a neutral position between a country under attack by Communists and the Communists who are attacking it is Israel. I was once a chapter leader and had a small library of back issues of their former magazine American Opinion, and they were far more explicit about their anti-Israel animus back in those days (Israel, alone among countries under attack by Communist terrorists, was actually run by "the Conspiracy" and the conflict was "phony").
I hope they rot.
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
How can this man be so wise as to domestic economic policy and basic Constitutional freedoms, and yet be so stupid politically?
I think Ron Paul forget to take his medication this morning. So us supporters are “Country Club Republicans” is he serious. I have never been to a country club, EVER. What a loon this guy is
That’s their term for themselves. I’m no longer a member, so . . . I say “Birchite.”
He didn’t say Sarah was the Country Club type, he said her supporters mostly were. He’s probably referring to those who are big on all these unconstitutional, non-defensive wars. And he’s not an isolationist, he just doesn’t want our military to be expended replacing one corrupt bunch of maniacs with another. He favors completely free trade with all nations, something no pubbie or demo favors nowadays.
Higher than average income or wealth
Oh man, higher then average income, I WISH
What country club do Sarah and her husband Todd belong to? Maybe a salmon fishing country club if there is such a thing
To those who say that RP is wrong on foreign policy, read this:
The Original American Foreign Policy
by Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul375.html
As for RP’s remarks about SP. First of all, he was talking about SP’s supporters, not SP.
Secondly, and more important, read his full remarks:
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25109.html#ixzz0Lj4YMWIh
This piece is a HIT piece on RP because he is challenging the status quo of the bankers who run our govt.
Wake up and smell the coffee folks. The establishment is scared of RP, and some of you are drunk on the kool-aid but don’t even know it.
Here is what we have in the USG:
“Regulatory capture is a term used to refer to situations in which a government regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
The USG has been captured by Goldman Sachs. Read it all here:
“The Great American Bubble Machine”
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they’re about to do it again...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine
There’s the truth. Now, which one of you are willing to look into it.
Get back to me if you can prove me wrong.
Just FYI, defending Ron Paul to me is a waste of your time. I have no patience for 9/11 truthers, and Paul is one.
I do support his bill to audit the Fed, however, and I’m glad to see Jim DeMint pushing a similar bill in the Senate.
Paul blazed the trail for Palin and was even praised by Palin herself. How would he be threatened by her?
Most of Palin's supporters are, indeed, the very people who supported Paul.
Paul is a fool for taking Politico's bait. This is all about driving a wedge among conservatives to fracture Palin.
Reference post 56.
Goobledygook... her supporters are everyday Americans and grassroots "bitter clinger" Conservatives.
Nothing "Country Club" about us.
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