Posted on 07/21/2007 5:10:41 PM PDT by neverdem
The Antiwar, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Drug-Enforcement -Administration, Anti-Medicare Candidacy of Dr. Ron Paul
Whipping westward across Manhattan in a limousine sent by Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” Ron Paul, the 10-term Texas congressman and long-shot Republican presidential candidate, is being briefed. Paul has only the most tenuous familiarity with Comedy Central. He has never heard of “The Daily Show.” His press secretary, Jesse Benton, is trying to explain who its host, Jon Stewart, is. “He’s an affable gentleman,” Benton says, “and he’s very smart. What I’m getting from the pre-interview is, he’s sympathetic.”
Paul nods.
“GQ wants to profile you on Thursday,” Benton continues. “I think it’s worth doing.”
“GTU?” the candidate replies.
“GQ. It’s a men’s magazine.”
“Don’t know much about that,” Paul says.
Thin to the point of gauntness, polite to the point of daintiness, Ron Paul is a 71-year-old great-grandfather, a small-town doctor, a self-educated policy intellectual and a formidable stander on constitutional principle. In normal times, Paul might be — indeed, has been — the kind of person who is summoned onto cable television around April 15 to ventilate about whether the federal income tax violates the Constitution. But Paul has in recent weeks become a sensation in magazines he doesn’t read, on Web sites he has never visited and on television shows he has never watched.
Alone among Republican candidates for the presidency, Paul has always opposed the Iraq war. He blames “a dozen or two neocons who got control of our foreign policy,” chief among them Vice President Dick Cheney and the former Bush advisers Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, for the debacle. On the assumption that a bad situation could get worse if the war spreads into Iran, he has a simple plan. It is: “Just leave.” During a May debate in South Carolina, he suggested...
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
he IS out to lunch on foreign policy but i for one would vote for him for his domestic issues and trust that his foreign policy would work out.
I guess you don’t want our country to be defended by unpaid volunteers armed with pitchforks and blunderbusses?
Remember that when some jihadist is slitting your throat with a rusty blade after reading Ron Paul’s Administration as being even weaker against Islam than Clinton’s.
I check in on his show from time to time just to see if I'm missing something but I don't remember ever laughing at anything he'd said.
Now, Stephen Colbert I find immensely funny. It's just too bad his schtick is that of a Liberal portraying a Conservative. Carroll O'Connor made it work flawlessly as Archie Bunker but Colbert often lets his Liberal slip show and that ruins it.
I would think that the proper libertarian position would be, that terrorists cannot pose much threat to a society where every man is armed.
Ron Paul being right about a couple of things is what makes him so dangerous.
Hear me on this Paulophiles: he is a deluded, elitist, quasi-intellectual, effeminate wussy. His world has not existed since the 1940s. And it certainly can’t exist post-9-11.
Grow up, and vote for a grown-up.
That is not even close to the truth. I will vote for Ron Paul and I love the U.S. Constitution. I love the United States of America to the extent that it conforms to the Constitution.
The possibility of a Ron Paul presidency scares the bejeebers out of the "situational ethics" crowd.
Ron Paul was slandered by that rumor site Politico and NRO exposed the lie that Ron Paul said 9/11 was an inside job.
Paul realizes that gun laws are unconstitutional and anti-liberty. Let Jihad Joe come and try to cut my head off when I’m not prohibited by the government from acquiring the weapons I best see fit to use to defend myself. There is no reason whatsoever that the federal government should have any firearms laws. State governments should then be allowed to compete for residents with their laws. I’d live in a state with no gun laws.
It’s about freedom and liberty versus the “safety” of being a house slave on the government’s plantation.
I guess some on the left find Jon Stewart funny. I haven't watched him for years. Ratings is all that counts.
I talked to Ron Paul’s supporters today and
they are down the line 9/11 hoax idiots.
They think the planes were remote control into the bldgs.
And their views go on beyond any form of reality.
Well, I'm sure Ron Paul gave them those opinions. I like Ron Paul and I know who did 9/11. It was a group of 19 followers of the "Religion of Peace", as Jorge calls it.
Guilt by tenuous association is a lame way to discount Ron Paul and a lame substitute for actually reading what he writes to learn about him.
For the people who say he is bad about foreign policy, I want to know what's wrong with making America a fortress that people don't want to attack instead of a collection of scared sheep bleating for "safety".
Ron Paul is right about every issue except the issue of the age. Too bad: That is all history will remember.
Here’s a “situational ethic” for you, kool-aid drinker:
How about we don’t surrender to Al-Qaida in Iraq?
That’s THE most important issue these days, and St. Paul would give us another decade of post-vietnam enemy expansionism, mass-murder of our friends and collaborators, and would insure the dominance of Iran in the Persian Gulf. That’s good grown-up thinking you’ve got going on there.
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich were on the losing end of a
411 to 2 vote that reaffirmed America’s partnership with
Israel and urged the UN to censure Ahmadinejad of Iran for
his remarks about destroying Israel and prevent him from
obtaining the nuclear weapons.
Ron Paul & Dennis Kucinich, how typical
Two peas in a pod.
Wow. Case closed. I think I need say no more.
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