Posted on 07/12/2011 9:20:57 AM PDT by sunmars
LAKE JACKSON — After serving almost 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Ron Paul told The Facts this morning he will not be seeking another term for the District 14 seat.
Paul, 75, will instead focus on his quest for the presidency in 2012.
“I felt it was better that I concentrate on one election,” Paul said. “It’s about that time when I should change tactics.”
His announcement will give enough time for anyone with aspirations for his seat to think about running, he said. Paul didn’t want to wait for filing in the 2012 primary to let people know he wasn’t seeking reelection.
“I didn’t want to hold off until in December,” he said. “I thought it shouldn’t be any later than now.”
Paul has served 12 terms in Congress. District 14 encompasses a 10-county area along the Gulf Coast.
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Ron Paul's foreign policy is George McGovern's foreign policy, i.e., America loses in every category, including economically.
Maybe if one were an actually pro-life (and consistently voted as one), actually pro-family (and consistently voted as one), woman with a lovely face, a great body, an engaging personality and an enthusiastic supporter of the use of our military on an absolutely unilateral basis whenever it serves our purposes whether the world likes it or not, and an honest opponent of earmarks and not some sleazy two-faced liar who arranges mountains of earmarks for the home district, votes against them, but gets them anyway because everyone else votes for those earmarks, maybe, maybe but only if proven more trustworthy than the anti-American paleosurrenderweasel.
I hope not. I’d prefer a Conservative for a change.
Of course you do have that Santelli quote, don’t you? Funny I don’t quite remember it that way, but then again I don’t have my thinking cap on like a paulista.
So you are fine with reckless spending, useless wars, and endless bailouts as long as they come with a good pair of tits.
Very well might be. But, he was the impetus to the national movement! RuePaul is going nowhere....real fast!
>Cigarettes do not harm society.
I think that society would be better off if my father were still alive. He was a very creative, successful entrepreneur. He died at 69 of COPD, brought on by 35 years of chain smoking. Cigarette smoking is a major cause of disability (COPD, cancer). These disabled end up on SS-disability and Medicaid (my father didn’t, but only because of his financial success). Would you claim that this welfare dependency is not a social harm? It would not exist if no one smoked cigarettes.
All of the stories you tell in regard to drugs (crime, familial dissolution, etc) were used to justify Prohibition. Would you consider Prohibition to have been a success or failure?
Would Al Capone, or for that matter, the criminal Kennedy family, have prospered if it had not been for Prohibition?
>>I would assume that drug deaths compared to alcohol deaths would be extremely higher.
No- far more people die, and are killed because of alcohol than all of the “harder” drugs combined.
The stories that the media sensationalizes are designed to get conservatives to support big government. What could be a more negative form of big government that a police state? But that’s what we have. Fast & Furious is the tip of the iceberg.
Here’s a story that is all-too-typical of the War on Drugs:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/07/willie-nelson-faces-jail-after-texas-plea-bargain-falls-through/
Was he selling drugs to minors? No.
Was he holding up a convenience store? Nope.
Was he a danger to anyone? Maybe to himself, but since when does that have any relevance to me or to anyone but him?
By all accounts, he was minding his own business, now facing up to a year in prison because he had the fruit of a specific plant in his possession.
>>But please answer my question, why is George Soros behind
>>every state measure for legalization?
In other words, stop picking apart my argument, and help me attack this strawman?
That is absolutely not true. Ron Paul has never voted for a tax increase.
So you support small government on domestic issues and big government on foreign policy issues?
Well said. Like you I could find a number of reasons to disagree with him but his fidelity to the Constitution and Liberty will definitely be missed.
“...but then again I don’t have my thinking cap on like a paulista.”
No need for ad hominem.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701/Rick_Santelli_s_Shout_Heard_Round_the_World
Quite correct!
BTTT
ad hominen.... ad hominem..... Paulista tag team or have you all just lost ability for self thought? Need to quit smokin those paul-blunts.
Will the space craft be picking him up at that time then???
Surely you can formulate a better response than that.
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