Posted on 09/13/2011 6:08:36 PM PDT by NoLibZone
After watching Congressman Ron Paul get booed at Tampa, we were struck with the thought that it could be, in effect, his last address.
The congressman from Texas had been winning his share of the Republican debates by focusing on limited government, constitutional fundamentals, and sound money, the virtues of which are thrown into ever sharper relief with each lunge by the Democrats for federal power.
But the booing he got last night was no small thing, coming as it did when he suggested that al Qaeda had attacked us because America has not only occupied Muslim holy lands at Saudi Arabia but failed to give Palestinian Arabs “fair treatment,” as he put it, and killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
The audience at Tampa made it clear that it would have none of this.
No doubt its sentiment is widely shared throughout the Republican polity and even among Democrats. In Tampa it turned out to be Rick Santorum who called Dr. Paul on the point, rebuffing the Texan’s suggestion that America bears responsibility for the attacks the 10th anniversary of which our country has been marking with such dignity.
The way television debates work, little time was available to stretch out the talk to a discussion of America’s intercourse with the world. This is where the conversation might have turned to one of our own favorite documents, George Washington’s Farewell Address.
Washington’s Farewell —
“I repeat it, therefore,” Washington wrote, “let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.” In other words, Washington was not an absolutist on foreign entanglements. He was for avoiding them where we were able, but for keeping our commitments.
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“Perhaps, but I bet if Ron Paul left the GOP and ran for the nomination of the Libertarian Party he’d win in a walk.”
The Libertarian Party stopped being libertarian when the Marxists took over. So, yeh, I agree Paul could win the nomination for today’s so-called libertarian party, but it’s not the traditional libertarian party anymore. It’s some kind of bastardized Marxist/libertine party.
The libertarian private property tenets may still be in the party plank, but nobody talks about that anymore.
Harry Browne is spinning in his grave.
Ron Paul has always said this crap, yet there are those here on FR who deny it and still support him. Absolute fools!
Sorry, I’m a skitzoid no worth of listening to the backstabber. He’s talks a good talk. But that is about it.
Muslims hate us because they are all members of a psychotic cult who have been trying to dominate the world for over 1400 yrs.
What you said is true. But we have come to be their obsession because we have stood by Israel in the Middle East. They will always hate and murder everyone, including each other. It is their allahish duty.
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