Posted on 12/29/2012 12:40:59 PM PST by mangonc2
You say that like it's a bad thing, but we haven't had isolationism since WWI. Is it better that we install Muslim governments in Balkans and a Caliphate in the Middle East?
Libertarian maybe... but he is in no way a Conservative.
LLS
I LOVE reading Ron Paul threads!
I’ve never been able to figure out why Michael Jackson is looking daggers at Jar-jar Binks.
Good riddance to this traitor
...this one time at band camp...
As a legislator, he authored approximately 620 pieces of legislation, but only one was passed, the sale of the old U.S. customs house to the Galveston Historical Foundation.
Let's not even get into the method he used to put millions of dollars of pork into every spending bill.
A little taste of the LRon circus ...
LRon Paul Wants Kucinich in his Cabinet
Ron Paul booed during Tea Party debate after Osama bin Laden answer
Ron Paul votes to homosexualize the US Military
Even more idiotic is that these two liberals ranked Jeff Flake #1. Flake was pushing Illegal Alien Amnesty with liberal Democrat Luis Guitteriez...and Flake is also pro open borders....that is not conservative
Ron Paul is 100% correct on the Federal Reserve and a few other things. His foreign policy is fantasy and surrender
I don't disagree, but Rep. Paul had decades to persuade the US Congress and the voters of the US to make the necessary changes, didn't he?
Ron Paul, Conservative? Fiscally, yes. On foreign policy though, he doesn’t understand Islam.
I believe that when we must go to war, we must have a Congressional declaration of war as the Constitution mandates,
It’s amazing how few in the federal government actually support the US Constitution.
Audit the fed
That would be the most important bill passed in my lifetime if it would actually be done.
this has to be some kind of joke article.
The Constitution gives three methods for going to war. Formal declaration (and it doesn't say how it has to be worded), punishing 'piracy and offenses against the laws of nations', and putting down rebellions. We did have Congressional authorization for both Iraq and Afghanistan. Funny thing is Paul says that Iraq wasn't legal because the 'authorization for the use of force' in his mind isn't a declaration of war but he voted for a similarly worded authorization for Afghanistan.
Like most things Paul writes, it was written without any teeth or enforcement methods.
But, then there’s his voting record and floor speeches. And the meaning of is becomes the meaning of was.
Didn’t Congress give authority to Bush to declare war? It seems to me that such an act would have to be done by an amendment to the Constitution to be legal.
This actually came up in the Lincoln movie. There was a very close vote on the amendment that outlawed slavery so the Speaker cast a vote.
Except in ties or exceptionally important matters the speaker usually doesn't register a vote.
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