Posted on 09/30/2007 5:39:19 AM PDT by jmeagan
Ron Paul doesn't understand his own success. He didn't know his calls for an end to the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education would draw cheers, that his anti-income tax, anti-foreign intervention and libertarian message would resonate. He was reluctant to run for the Republican presidential nomination, he said yesterday: He was convinced it would take another "generation for education" before his message - rooted in Paul's reading of the Constitution - gained traction.
"I have been just dumbfounded about what's happening," Paul said yesterday in Manchester's Veteran's Park, where roughly 500 supporters gathered for a glimpse of the presidential candidate. "I've been talking this way for 30 years. But something, something special is happening."
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I thought I knew what 'success' meant.
Wait while I go look up the definition again as someone must have changed it while I was sleeping.
He’s representative of a giant crock of crap...the demons come out in droves and run up the polls for him, etc to skew the entire landscape for republicans. It’s all bogus.
“It’s all bogus.”
I had nothing to do with this!
I thought I knew what 'success' meant. Wait while I go look up the definition again as someone must have changed it while I was sleeping.
Yeah, I think they meant "psychotic".
“As a lawmaker, he’s chosen not to participate in the congressional pension program.”
When given a choice between socialism quick and socialism slightly slower anyone who proposes we go back to following the constitution will resonate with Americans. One would wish that all our lawmakers would eschew the pension largess.
messianic now equals maniacal
I'm not surprised he's dumbfounded. His whole administration would be one dumbfounded moment after another. ("Now why would those Kenyans set off that bomb in the Sears Tower? We didn't occupy Kenya!")
Just take a look into the glassy eyes of his supporters.
I could get behind anti Federal Reserve, DOE, and income tax positions. Pity the positions come with so much other baggage.
Messiah? Whatever....
Just like Jim Jones.
Yeah the “Demons” also donated a million dollars to his campaign in 6 days.
Some people will eat anything you put in front of them.
In this case its a huge bowl of suck.
And Reverend Moon.
And David Koresh.
A legend in his own mind.
Have you ever heard Dr Paul speak?
Thos are pretty harsh, unfair comparisons you are making about a fine patriot!
Apparently, his point of view is located somewhere in the late 1800’s, before the creation of the Federal Reserve and the events of the 20th century.
Regarding the whole Federal reserve and the fiat money situation. It is really simpler than people realize. Our whole 21st century society is an artifact, a construction of men’s minds. Without the monetary system in place today, 21st century society would be impossible, and life would be intolerable for the vast majority of people - the only direct beneficiary to the elimination of the Federal Reserve and fiat money would be 9th century Islam - that is one of their stated goals.
Ron Paul does not understand the threat caused by a political philosophy that desires to destroy the artifact of modern society - think not? Check out his position on fighting radical Islam. He seems to think that radical Islam was created by US. It has been around for a thousand years, but he has just discovered it, and it is apparently OUR fault.
That point alone disqualifies him as a serious candidate.
In fact, his complete misunderstanding of the international situation and the world we must live in today is enough to disqualify him as a danger to our own country. He should not even be a Congressman with the lack of understanding of the real world we live in that he displays.
The part that should concern all is that his supporters know even less about the world and our society than he does - they claim he makes sense.
He is good for comic relief, though.
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