Posted on 12/26/2011 2:06:21 PM PST by TBBT
Romney needs Paul to be successful. Romney’s numbers stay the same pretty much no matter what so he needs as many of the ‘not Romney’s’ to split the vote as much as possible. Romney will do better if Paul does better. It also makes people overlook Romney’s flaws when compared to Paul. If Conservatives wake up to how bad Paul is and the vote is less split up, Romney is more likely to go down.
I am troubled by post #34.
I’ll stop causing trouble for a while, while I try to figure out what that’s about. Besides, gotta eat.
Good going at it with y’all anyway. Slow day otherwise.
Merry Christmas FR.
FReegards.
If Romney and Paul were the only 2 left standing, Paul would perform a saint canonizing type miracle...he would make Romney seem almost Reaganesque.
I agree that the ideology in #34 is troubling. At first some may think ‘of course, the government should be completely open’ but then in the consideration of national security some secrets are vital- and Manning directly attacked those vital secrets. What he revealed outed clandestine agents and put a lot of lives at risk. This is more than just exposing corruption, this is about putting service men and women’s lives on the line- people who are fighting for us may have died due to Manning’s leaks.
This is very disturbing.
This comes from the line that some of Paul’s mentors (like Rothbard) crossed where it really is anarchy- the belief there is no need at all for the nation-state. I don’t think Paul goes this far but he certainly makes military and national security issues a gray area in regards to this.
Considering he is applying for the job of Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces, this should be a complete deal killer.
Then you don't have courage in your (supposedly conservative) convictions, just as Paul didn't have the courage to phrase his despicable utterance as a declarative statement.
To every person with the simple courage to call a spade a spade, it's clear that Paul praised that worthless traitor.
I dunno.
On another thread I see on the rotation right now, the topic includes how much hard intelligence was softly landed onto an Iran runway recently.
That’s an intelligence disaster. Manning, I don’t know myself what he divulged. I think Paul was being his usual let it all hand out self.
Paul is a veteran I just learned...
I'm afraid military service says nothing about ideology. George McGovern was a B-24 bomber pilot who flew missions over Germany, missions that inflicted an almost 50% death rate out of all the aircrews that served. Benedict Arnold was an important general without whose vital victories over British forces, these United States might not exist.
BTW, George Bush Senior was the youngest bomber pilot in WWII and barely escaped being eaten by the Japanese after being shot down near Chichi Jima.
Give me a break. Even if you failed to follow the Manning/Wikileaks story when it first broke, you should clearly be able to see from the amount of sparks flying over this, that Paul has committed an egregious transgression of trust in the eyes of most conservatives.
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