Posted on 12/27/2011 11:34:33 PM PST by SmithL
The closer the first votes of the 2012 presidential campaign get, the more competitive longtime congressman Ron Paul appears to become.
It's a moment his famously fervent supporters have longed for. Plenty of others are asking: What's Ron Paul about, again?
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The problem with Ron Paul is you never know which day he will show up or which day the cuckoo bird will show up.
I don't think this crackpot has a chance either, but a Paul acceptance speech, or any speech he gave, at the convention would make for some very interesting tv. I think it might be the first time a speaker at a convention would get booed. Or at best, most conventioneers would sit on their hands. But you're right, Paul getting the nomination would be the end of the Republican Party. I won't vote for him.
Paul as Repub candidate would give Obama a sweep of all states in November.
Yeah, Paul is a hopeless moonbat with no hope of winning the Big Enchilada.
But people are desperate for somebody — ANYBODY — who holds strong views on the Constitution and a limited role for the central government. We want a hero, not another paper-shuffler! The Tea Party is eerily quiet, just when we need them to HOWL!
Besides, the media is actively picking off real conservatives and leaving us with second-stringers, again. (Remember John McCain?) Ron Paul is enough of a nut job to fit their requirement for a hopeless candidate that will insure a second round of Obummer socialism.
Any chance Mrs. Cain will let Herman come back out to play?
I posed a question on a different board yesterday, wondering what so many youth saw in Ron Paul, considering he’s quite strongly pro-life and not for any form of racial or social preferences. The answer I received from a liberal friend was they stopped at the “legalization of all drugs” part.
“I posed a question on a different board yesterday, wondering what so many youth saw in Ron Paul, considering he’s quite strongly pro-life and not for any form of racial or social preferences. The answer I received from a liberal friend was they stopped at the “legalization of all drugs” part.”
Perhaps if those same youth would apply themselves, only major in subjects that actually do have job potential (instead of ‘ethnic studies’, ‘gender studies,’ or ‘pop culture influence on society’) and started with community colleges or trade schools they’d have a better chance? Our daughter just graduated with a degree in structural engineering and had the job of her dreams in 2 weeks. We paid more for her parochial school education than for her college tuition (though far less than what the State and Barack’s grandma paid at Punahou).
Our son opted for a more difficult option, piano performance, but still is making more than the average college grad teaching lessons, doing accompaniment gigs, and the occasional church assignment while he waits for his applications for grad school to process.
Boy, that convention idea is a thought isn’t it. Wow.
I hadn’t considered that moment. It would certainly be a powerful one. I’m wondering if he would even get that far. Talk about your open revolt at a convention.
Good call...
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/ron-paul-tells-haaretz-i-am-not-an-anti-semite-1.404208
Q. What was your reaction to your exclusion from the function held by the Republican Jewish Coalition, to which all the rest of the candidates were invited?
Paul: Well, it was a bit surprising and disappointing. I believe that Israel is one of our most important friends in the world. And the views that I hold have many adherents in Israel today. Two of the tenets of a true Zionist are “self-determination” and “self-reliance.” I do not believe we should be Israel’s master but, rather, her friend. We should not be dictating her policies and announcing her negotiating positions before talks with her neighbors have even begun.
Q. The RJC characterized your views on Israel as “misguided and extreme”. Why do you think they view your views in that way?
Paul: I do not know, as I am the one candidate who would respect Israel’s sovereignty and not try to dictate to her about how she should deal with her neighbors. I supported Israel’s right to attack the Iraqi nuclear reactor in the 1980s, and I opposed President Obama’s attempt to dictate Israel’s borders this year.
Q. Do you support completely cutting all foreign aid, including the aid to Israel?
Paul: Yes, I am personally against all foreign aid. We give $3 billion to Israel and $12 billion to her avowed enemies. How does that help Israel? And in return, we act like her master and demand veto power over her foreign policy.
If I were President, such aid would not end until the Congress agreed and voted for it to end, because I would be President as the U.S. Constitution defines it. I am not running for dictator.
But I believe that federal foreign aid is absurd. We’re broke! We are like a man who used to be rich and is in the habit of paying for everybody’s meals and announces at a lavish dinner that he will pay the bill, only to then turn to the fellow sitting nearby and say, “Can I use your credit card? I will pay you back.” It is ridiculous for us to be borrowing money from China and giving it to Pakistan.
I have described foreign aid as taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. I know that many in other nations are hurting, but I also know that the American people are a generous people. While we should end the unconstitutional federal foreign aid program, I would encourage Americans to continue to voluntarily contribute to the needs of other nations.
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