[grumpa]

Libertarianism all boils down to free sex and drugs.

[nomad]

And Republicanism boils down to progressive light, NOT heavy.

[SkyDancer]

Ron Paul's Crazy?

Crazy? I Was Crazy Once!

[JohnKinAK]

Libertarianism all boils down to free sex and drugs.

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No it boils down to the Bill of Rights, for which we can thank our Libertarian founders for.

[muir_redwoods]

The basis for libertarianism is the single precept, "Initiate no force against another". Like the premise of Christianity, it has been misused by many and strictly observed by few. To take taxes from a supposedly free person is to initiate force against that person; to defend oneself is not to initiate force. To arrest some fool for smoking dope is to initiate force in an attept to keep him from making stupid choices. That's none of my business; let the fool smoke dope, that's why they call it that.

You don't have yo agree with it but it doesn't hurt to understand it a bit.

[Old Sarge]

Not quite as nutty and dangerous as his flying spam monkeys!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Ron Paul's libertarianism is insanity? Take a look at what we have already.

The Obama/Cass Sunstein libertarian paternalism

I don't want to miss the opportunity to mention what the behavioral economists loosed upon us by Obama are doing; to wit, the czars and their fetters.

Obama's regulatory czar Cass R. Sunstein writes:

"The idea of libertarian paternalism might seem to be an oxymoron, but it is both possible and legitimate for private and public institutions to affect behavior while also respecting freedom of choice."

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"Often people's preferences are ill-formed . . . In these circumstances, a form of paternalism cannot be avoided [to overcome the decision-makers' limited knowledge and just plain stupidity otherwise known as] bounded rationality . . . libertarian paternalists should attempt to steer people's choices in welfare-promoting directions without eliminating freedom of choice . . . It is also possible to show how a libertarian paternalist might select among the possible options and to assess how much choice to offer." [End of quotes]

IOW Cass R. Sunstein and the Obamanists decide the options from among which you are permitted to choose. You get to be a libertarian! and they get to be the slave masters. What a deal!

BTW, Sunstein has in the past specifically condemned Free Republic as bad for democracy.

[hinckley buzzard]

They talk a good talk, but vices are the only thing they ever seem to be willing to go to war for.

[hinckley buzzard]

They talk a good talk, but vices are the only thing they ever seem to be willing to go to war for.

[hinckley buzzard]

When pressed on this issue and other similar issues, Paul says that the states should have no such laws either!

If this is true, then Ron Paul is a NAMBLA man. Any Paul supporters have any comment on this charge?

[Stepan12]

Libertarianism is far out! A twelve year old girl should be able to live with a pimp, sell her body, and use the proceeds to purchase heroin (after her pimp takes a percentage, that is).

Don Feder suggested that Walt Disney's Goofy cartoon character would vote libertarian if he could.

[Englishman]

The one thing that Jesus really got angry about was hypocrisy. Ron Paul loads bills he knows will pass with pork for his district and then votes against it.
I don't know if he is an anti-semite but his policies would lead to the total isolation of Israel and leave them at the mercy of the nut job islamofacists around them.
It is inconsistent to be against murder and allow abortion.
He is the one candidate who could not be Obama.
If he runs 3rd party we will know for sure he is more interested in himself than the country.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The Ron Paul supporters I’ve met are heavy drug users.

Why wouldn’t they like him?

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•He is an active pork obtainer and sees this as consistent with his other views.

Could be a problem if sharia law is ever imposed here ...

Otherwise, this could have been phrased differently.