[cripplecreek]

Ron Paul is simply a disaster waiting to happen if he gets the Republican nomination or runs as a third party candidate.

If by some fluke he actually won the white house, congress would find their mojo in a hurry and render him pretty much powerless.

[Shaka]

Ron Paul is batsh*t crazy and is not even a Republican nor a conservative. When you endorse Sheila Jackson Lee for re-election, you pretty much know you are NOT a conservative.

[jazusamo]

Welcome to Free Republic, Bill!

[dragnet2]

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[who_would_fardels_bear]

So your claim is that the only thing as bad as Ron Paul getting the Republican nomination is him running as an independent. Then you use such inflammatory rhetoric in your essay that you basically dare him to run as an independent.

That's not a particularly good strategy.

[SandRat]

Ron Paul the perfect Idiot!

[mnehring]

That pretty much covers it.
Welcome to FR Bill.

[American Constitutionalist]

( Ron Paul: The Perfect Storm )

Does a toilet flush swirl leftward or right ?

[dragnet2]

Those lights are revealing a man whose ideas and actions make him not just eccentric, they make unqualified to lead and a danger to our national security.

Hmmm...National security?

Chertoff, Bush's Homeland Security Chief was found to have people who entered this country illegally, wandering around the inside of his private residence...During war time no less.

Not scary enough?

More Muslims entered the U.S. legally during Bush's term, than in the decade before.

During Bush's term, upwards of 10 million people entered our homeland illegally...During wartime no less.

National security?

[mangonc2]

So...having principles and sticking to them makes Paul a loser and “un-electable”...?

Seriously, the saddest thing is that the Republican Party has been unable to come up with anyone who can even compare with Ron Paul. Obama is unpopular and vulnerable, and Paul is our best hope of defeating him, but then there’s all the Bill Russells out there squashing that thought...

[piytar]

Ron Paul is truther scum who endosed Cynthia McKinney in 2008. How the Hell can any conservative vote for this POS?!

[Grunthor]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/ron-paul-newsletter-interview_n_1167645.html

[Qout]

American military intervention in the oil producing nations of the world has not been particularly helpful in producing energy security. When the US military intervened in Iraq, Iraqi oil production went down. When the US military intervened in Libya, Libyan oil production went down. The US military has pretty much stayed out of Russia and today Russia is the world’s largest oil producer.

Oil producers of the world don’t really look forward to those who say, “I’m from the US government and I’m here to help you.”

[rbmillerjr]

Welcome and great article.

Prepare for numbed out robotronic Paulians to explain the Constitution to you.

[inspector]

Your comments are pretty cogent. Ron Paul has made some arguments that are compelling on the surface but he can't seem to dwell deeper than that. Is he necessarily wrong on the TBTF’s of the world. Having been a former Wall Streeter working in the derivatives markets, I too have been concerned about the overwhelming concentration of banking power into too few hands. Having a child currently enrolled in the United States Military Academy, I am concerned about being involved in too many foreign entanglements. Did we completely forget about the Monroe Doctrine? should we foot the bill for South Korea while they monopolize ship building and have their government subsidize it? What about Europe? They sure expect us to carry their water on a lot of military issues and also pay for it but then attack our major corporations ( Google, Microsoft) on monopolistic charges. Just look at their (Europe) military to gdp spending for some answers. Maybe Eisenhower was right about the Military/Industrial complex; it may have a lot of vested interests that don't necessarily coincide with what is best for our country. What exactly are we going to resolve in Afghanistan? Are we really going to kill all of the Taliban or just most of it? It seems to me, that if they(the Afghani people) want democracy (if that is possible in the Islamic world to begin with)they should be putting forth a bigger effort in doing so. There are a lot of questions sitting out here That Ron Paul has raised to the frontline of discussion. Let's not completely dismiss him.

[Fester Chugabrew]

I am a Ron Paul supporter, but I do not believe he is “the only man who can save our Republic.” Frankly, I do not trust men alone to save our Republic. Do you?

[rlmorel]

"...If you talk to his supporters, you will hear that Ron Paul is the only man who can save our Republic, he is the only candidate who understands the Constitution, and that he is the only one who will fight wasteful government spending and save us from economic catastrophe..."

Wow. I thought I was the only one who heard this same script from the fevered, glassy-eyed faces of Ron Paul supporters. Nice encapsulation.

[Mountain Mary]

Hi Bill,
Are you the Bill Russell from the Russell Brigade?

[MichaelCorleone]

***In the area of national security, Ron Paul has displayed a complete incompetence and a clear lack of understanding and strategic forethought.***

Ron Paul is a nutjob. I bet if he were POTUS during 9/11 he would keep the southern border open so that his ME buddies could easily cross and set up sleeper cells all over the country. And allow millions of illegals to enter this country, suck the system dry and corrupt the culture.

He may even Federalize the TSA under a new, expensive and unecessary layer of bureaucracy and call it DHS so that someday soon sexual assult and humiliation at airports becomes commonplace.

I will go so far to say that Paul would torture the rules of engagement in places like Iraq and Afghanistan so as to put our own at a decided disadvantage, resulting in hundreds of America's best are killed or maimed when they otherwise would not be.

RP would definitely stupid enough to keep us dependent on ME oil, even as the region becomes ever more unstable. Although we have plenty of energy resources right here, not to mention our friends have oil available for sale, Ron Paul would not have the smarts to make the change and afford the U.S. the obvious benefits.

Obviously other Presidents would not be so foolish as to carry out policies like these.

[Proud2BeRight]

Why does Ron Paul want to trample the United States Constitution?