Posted on 12/09/2011 10:14:48 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday evening that Bush administration officials were gleeful after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it gave them a pretext to invade Iraq.
"Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq," the Texas Republican told a group of mostly young backers in Iowa. He went on to suggest officials are now setting the stage for an invasion of Iran.
Paul, who was tied for second in this week's CBS News/New York Times poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers, is making a strong push in the Hawkeye state in hopes of scoring an upset victory in the first-in-the-nation January 3 caucuses. Paul volunteers have been working to convince Paul's mostly young supporters - many of whom will be on holiday break from college when the caucuses take place - to be sure to make it to their caucus site.
Paul's libertarian views - on the foreign policy front, he wants to dramatically reduce the U.S. military presence abroad and end all foreign aid - put him at odds with many Republican voters. A poll from Gallup this week found that 62 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters see Paul as an unacceptable nominee.
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I meant that he likes Stormfront peeps, Maxine Waters, Code Pinkos etc - human shaped dung.
Good post. Sometimes it’s difficult to get through to the lumberheads who just, “Don’t want to hear it”, regardless of facts or circumstances.
By "personal Liberty" I assume you mean legalized drugs and prostitution and the homo agenda writ large? Since these are all official Libertarian Party platform issues and RPaul is on board at least with the drugs and fag "rights".
There's a difference - a vast gulf of difference - between "liberty" and "license".
What a disgusting little troll this man is....
Oh, ya know I’m just joshin’. You’ve been a favorite of mine around here for a few years now, despite our differences. Hope you and your family are having a great Xmas season.
"Blowback is the espionage term for unintended consequences of a covert operation" It's not "a Liberal term" or "a Conservative term" -- it's an espionage term. Period.
What do you and your crew live in some fairyland version of America where we have perfectly omniscient, see-all, know-all little foreign policy wonks who see every possible consequence over all time and who never screw up and who never make mistakes that come back to haunt them -- or haunt us? Life doesn't work like that and you'd know that if you were a grown up. Our guys -- even the good ones- screw up, too. Life is messy, get over it.
Just when we were having a nice thread, the gay-obsessed guy has to show up. Do you have nothing better to do on a Friday night?
I guess this shows exactly why Alex Jones has such a big man-crush on Ron Paul.
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Broken Sorrow is far and away the best of NBS.
;-)
This is obscene. Shame on Paul. Bravo, Ari.
You could read it in their faces, even if you didn’t believe anything else.
Goodbye, Rep. Paul.
How well or how badly he is polling is not a defense...
Good luck, I've known several Paul bots on this board, and one thing is for certain, they, including you, are simply nuts.
Just like their crazy uncle of a candidate.
“And you are an intellectually lazy, ad hominem-slinging, slanderer, but I try not to hold that against you. I’ve just guessed it’s all you are capable of — a cognitive deficit that doesn’t allow to think, but instead focuses purely on the emotion of “hating Ron Paul”. It’s so vicious and all-pervasive, it’s almost personal and certainly blinding - -especially in thinking that you are impressing anyone with your “brilliance” on this issue. You’ve offered no facts to counter what the facts — you are just like a monkey slinging poo —very impressive I’m sure to a 2nd grader.”
Good retort. Sorry to be late to the lynch mob: family commitments.
“And that little goblin wants the GOP nomination? Not likely. The first GOP candidate that wouldn’t get my vote.”
Re-examine your premises.
I realize that the few of you who are putting me on the griddle regarding Dr. Paul’s stances are doing that due to the tag line I added the other day out of a feeling of utter desperation!
I was, and am, extremely agitated that our nation, when a true rounded conservative is needed, has to settle for one of the several hacks that call themselves Republicans. Unfortunately today there are several types of Republicans: Conservative, Moderate (they stand for nothing), left and crazy left.
It is a dirty shame that I, along with many of you here, have had to live under 12 presidents who fall into the useless moderate and the left and only one in my lifetime that was worthy: RWR.
That being said, indications are that the current despotic, pathetic excuse for an adult that presently occupies the White Hut, will be replaced by a Republicrat who stands for nothing. What we will be subjected to will be a continuum of FED, EPA, DOE, social experimenting, political correctness and, yes, gorebal warming junk science treachery.
Our nation is in worse shape than at any time in its history. We have, literally, a war going on on our southern border that is unabated. While this nation suffers we have troops stationed in 143 countries. That part is unacceptable. Israel and Taiwan are our only two, true allies. In forsaking either, Mr. Paul is dead wrong. Even though these allies are of extreme importance no US troops are stationed there. Nor is there a sophisticated missile defense system installed in either ally. The reason for that is patently clear: any installation in Israel would infuriate islam (religion of peace), and in Taiwan it would infuriate those money lenders who truly wish us death and destruction.
Paul’s position on the above certainly needs some moderating in respect to the two allies, but those troops and installations in the over 100 spots in the world need to be closed.
Dr. Paul is the only candidate, other than Michelle Bachmann, who has stated publicly that the above mentioned tentacles of our monstrous central socialist government be eliminated. Romney and Gingrich both are globalists who would put the aspirations of a collective gaggle of nations ahead of the security and economic well-being of America.
Find us a candidate who cares. Find us one that will take the drastic action needed to tame and slash this monster ruining our lives and our economy that we call the government.
I’ll wait, albeit not patiently, for either the right candidate to ride in, or for the next revolution to begin.
Rand Paul is part of his father’s campaign.
It undermines his credibility on any issue.
It also explains his odd attacks against Newt Gingrich. (Or Cain, Perry, Bachmann, etc., when they were leading.)
Ron Paul is not just nuts; he’s dangerous.
Rand Paul needs to lose standing especially if his dad runs 3rd party. After all, he is part of his father’s campaign.
Sorry to be late to the Official Ron Paul Supporter Lynch Mob thread.
I won’t bother with defending the “glee” comment made by Rep. Paul. I don’t happen to agree with it.
It just tends to reinforce my belief that Rep. Paul intends to run as a third party candidate in the general election. Neo-cons....who wouldn’t vote for him in a million years anyway...were not the intended audience. You see if Rep. Paul intends to run at all successfully in the general election, he’s going to have to cobble together a coalition that includes folks well outside of traditional gop mainstream.
See-BS, they of the superscripted memos, is a news source of choice of the left. I think he’s trying to attract those on the left that are themselves heartily sick of barky’s foreign policy adventures. He’ll need them if he intends to put together a fringe coalition, which is probably about the only way he could come close to winning. Barky, mittens, and Newt are going to do what they can to win the center. But there are plenty of disparate groups that are being left in the cold by those three candidates. Let’s look at a few of them....
Christian social conservatives. Ron Paul has been working hard to position himself with these folks. Lessee what other choices the Christian social conservatives have to pick from at this point: Barky? Mittens the Mormon? Newt of marital fidelity fame?
Gunnies. Let’s see who they could support. Massachusetts gun control mittens? Fast and furious barky? Newt of gun free school zones and gun bans for those convicted of misdemeanors?
You get the idea. Every ideologue has as many votes as you and I have: one. It’s clearly an unorthodox strategy, but I think that’s where this is going.
My premise is that this was a very stupid thing to say. If he thinks the GOP is evil why is he wasting money in IA?
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