Posted on 05/19/2007 1:09:38 AM PDT by roger55
Petition Against Ron Paul's Inclusion in Future Republican Presidential Debates Created by Lee Garnett on 16 May 2007 @ 8:13:24 AM
We the undersigned believe that Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, Republican candidate for president, does not represent any significant constituency within the Republican Party and has proven to serve only as a distraction from the serious issues confronted in candidate debates.
The paucity of Paul's support among registered Republicans, the support he draws from external parties which are aggressively opposed to the GOP, as well as his fundamental opposition to many core principles of our party and his apparent inability to understand even simple geopolitical realities, make his continued presence in future debates undesirable.
Congressman Paul's self-confessed belief that President Clinton and 50 years of United States foreign policy on Iraq and Iran was responsible for provoking Al Qaeda to attack the United States on September 11, 2001, are views which are totally inimical to Republican Party principles and are gravely offensive to the vast majority of registered Republicans.
We Republicans do not wish to be associated such views, have a party platform provided for their propagation, or allow them to distort and damage the substantive content of future presidential debates. By forcing the other candidates to confront his unsound and grotesquely anti-American positions on equal terms, Paul lowers the quality and relevance of any debate and thereby does a substantial disservice to Republicans seeking a nominee for their party.
It is not our belief that Congressman Paul isn't entitled to his views, or to have them publicly heard and addressed. But we object strenuously to them being presented in the context of a Republican party presidential debate, for which they are entirely unsuited and broadly unwelcome. They will be better served in a debate over a party's nomination where they are shared by the party membership, such as under the Libertarian National Committee.
Therefore, we the undersigned request Ron Paul's exclusion from invitation to future Republican presidential debates by the Republican National Committee and any relevant media organizations, including Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, NBC, PBS or any party which intends to organize, host or televise future debates between the candidates for a presidential nomination, under the Republican Party's name.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/AgainstRonPaul
Do you support the CFRs agenda? Where are you on the list?
Roster of CFR/Trilateral Commission Members
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/cfr-members.htm
>>Do you support the CFRs agenda? Where are you on the list?
Ha. I’m not a named member of the Trilateral Commission, dgallo. So I don’t appear on this list. For disclosure, I’m a Freemason agent and serve as the Illuminati liaison for the ZOG Super Secret Repression of Ron Paul Directorate (SSRRPD). Hope that clears things up. Perhaps you’ve seen our helicopters recently?
So why 3,000 folks died on 9/11 and we're at war with Iraq is anathema in the Republican circles?
I guess that just leaves us to support "true" Republican qualities like abortion, CFR, amnesty, and gun control. -- Go Rudy!
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>>>So why 3,000 folks died on 9/11 and we’re at war with Iraq is anathema in the Republican circles?
Of course not. But shifting the blame from Al Qaeda to ourselves, that is (or should be) anathema to Republican circles. In nothing more than for the fact that it’s an outright lie that “50 years” of US foreign policy is the motive for a salafist revolutionary group that wants to rebuild the Caliphate and enslave a billion people.
Even the idea of forcing him to shut up is really beyond the pale, and is more suited to a liberal philosophy than a conservative one. We really do believe in freedom of speech on the right, and will live with the consequences of that choice.
Censorship is really reserved for the academic left where their ideas can't stand to be challenged lest they fall apart.
What censorship! He’s not a republican.
How about the petition to the RNC to keep Ron Paul in the debates, currently about 13,000 in just two days.
Thanks for the link. I signed the petition to keep Paul in the debates. The GOP is in trouble and the last thing it should be doing is closing its eyes and ears to dissent.
>>Censorship is really reserved for the academic left where their ideas can’t stand to be challenged lest they fall apart.
This censorship business is a straw man, tcostell. The petition is not advocating censorship. It even explicitly says as much. The petition does not say: “Ron Paul should be silenced, his views have no place in the public arena and he should be forbidden from expressing them.”
Instead the petition recognizes that there are already standards which exist for inclusion/exclusion from debates. Based on that assumption, it then submits that masochistic 9/11 anti-Americanism ought to be one of those standards for exclusion, as much as blaming blacks for their own lynching should be. And at any rate, this only from invitation to future Republican debates.
Paul’s free speech rights are clearly not being questioned. Providing a media platform for his views as a representative of the Republican party, is.
Are you trying to generate sympathy for the guy?
Rudy Giuliani's views have no place in the Republican Party.
Ron Paul's non-interventionist foreign policy dates back to "Mr. Republican" Robert A. Taft himself. His views may be unpopular in these Neo-Conservative times, but at least they have a distinguished Conservative pedigree.
By contrast, Rudy Giuliani's Pro-Abortion, Pro-Homosexual, Pro-Gun Control, Pro-Illegal Immigration policies have NEVER been "Conservative" by ANY stretch of the imagination.
What, me Liberal?
IF ANYONE should be excluded from the Republican Debates, it should be the man(?) who sought, and received, the endorsement of the LIBERAL PARTY of New York -- ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani; NOT the man who was the Leader of Ronald Reagan's Electoral Delegation from Texas -- Congressman Ron Paul.
I bet Ron Paul can spell it out for the American people on illegal immigration. I bet he’s for a 50’ high by 25’ thick concrete wall along the whole southern border.
>>>Are you trying to generate sympathy for the guy?
Nope. I’d just prefer to see a debate that isn’t reduced to the deplorable level where my country is blamed for the actions of her enemies. While such a precondition is impossible in the Democratic Party, it really ought not be too much to ask for the Republican.
A bunch of thin-skinned people who can’t handle even hearing the opinion of anyone that disagrees with them. You want the party to alienate even more voters?
I don’t agree with what Paul siad, but it sure has highlighted for me the completely brain dead attitude of our candidates and party members on the War on Terror. Scary really.
This is a reason for not voting for Paul, but not for keeping him out of a debate in which every other idea he has appeals to large numbers of Republicans.
Each of these candidates has at least one position I consider odious. Duncan Hunter looks great on almost all counts until we find out that he supports that ban on Internet gambling. This early in the campaign, we need to air all these differences so a Republican platform can be decided.
This is an idea that is more representative of Democrats, Communists, Nazis and other totalitarian groups.
I don’t agree with many of his statements, but censorship? I think not!
If we censor him, who’s next?
No thanks.
I agree. Can we eliminate George Bush now???? Definitely need to keep Rooty out of the debates since he is Pro-Abortion, Pro-Illegal Aliens, Anti-Gun, etc. etc.
Just because Ron Paul says “hey, we might want to look at our past before blindly running into the future” you want to kick him out?
I’m not saying I completely agree with him, but a person or country that can’t analyze past mistakes can never grow.
Since when did knee jerk emotion take over the Republican Party? I thought that was the hallmark of the Democrat Party.
Grow up. I don't like Paul, but this is how elections work.
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