Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/08/2008 6:42:37 AM PST by ovrtaxt
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks in the eyes of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
The Texas congressman had some harsh words for the GOP presidential frontrunner John McCain, a longtime U.S. Senator, on various issues including what Paul alleged was a one-time alliance with former Vice President and global warming cheerleader Al Gore.
“Now our leading candidate – guess whose position he holds on global warming? Al Gore, he supports the Al Gore bill on global warming.”
Paul spoke to the conservative audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 7 in Washington, D.C.
Paul also pointed out McCain’s partnerships with other Democrats in the past on campaign finance, immigration and taxes.
“Now we have a candidate running for president, who is leading the charge,” Paul said. “One of his best friends is [Sen. Russ] Feingold – campaign finance reform. Another friend of this candidate – his good friend – his name is [Sen. Ted] Kennedy. And then also, his old-time friend – he’s not in the senate right now – Sen. [Tom] Daschle, who used to be his friend on taxes – to increase taxes, not lower them. We need lower taxes.”
Paul also told the audience that if elected, McCain would continue the war, which might mean the reinstitution of the draft.
“And that means, the next generation – the burden is being placed on these young people and that is why the college kids are coming out – because they’re getting ripped off,” Paul said. “We’re undermining their liberties. We’re giving them a foreign policy where it is their lives on the line. The threat of a draft is coming for men and women, as this war is likely to spread. And what have they inherited? Less freedom and a lot of debt.”
Paul, a long-time critic of the war, has vowed to start a pull out if he were to win the election. “On my first day as commander-in-chief, I will direct the Joint Chiefs of Staff and our commanders on the ground to devise and execute a plan to immediately withdraw our troops in the safest manner possible,” he states on his campaign Web site.
An hour earlier, McCain spoke to the same audience and plead for their support if he were to get the Republican nomination. McCain stressed fiscal discipline, but was especially vocal on lower taxes.
“Senator Clinton and Senator Obama will raise your taxes,” McCain said. “I intend to cut them. I will start by making the Bush tax cuts permanent. I will cut corporate tax rates from 35 to 25 percent to keep industries and jobs in this country. I will end the alternate minimum tax and I won’t let a Democratic congress raise your taxes and choke the growth of this economy.”
He has always been on a third party. Him masquerading as a Republican has been a fraud all along.
let freedom Ping!
“RP is spot on, this time. But his position on Iraq and national security is a deal breaker.”
National security begins at home and what we are getting is socialism if we don’t fix it and soon our position on Iraq won’t mean crap anyway...
“- He is totally inefective (sic) in Congress”
In my book that would be a plus as a president, given the other choices. Just think, we could spend the next 4 years getting absolutely nothing done, which is better then continuing to slide down this well of socialism.
Hell, I've been to France, but that doesn't make me a socialist!
You've been brainwashed. Buchanan is for America first not Israel, Korea, Formosa, Kosovo, Kuwait, England or any other country. Anyone who puts American interests before Israel maybe anti-semitic to those who put Israel before America.
If Ron Paul is correct, that our fiscal policy will be our doom.
The Islamofacists will never have to strike the American homeland again. All they need to do is scare our current crop of politicians into believing an attack is imminent. We’ll spend ourselves into oblivion.
We've seen this many times here, but consider this:
If Ron Paul is correct on everything else, then might he also be correct on the "WOT" as well?
It is very difficult to try to name one issue that everyone will agree is the most important.
Some say the "WOT".
Some will say it is abortion.
for others, it is the economy, gun control, education, taxes, or whatever.
Ron Paul (and me) take the position that we must address the real root cause of America's problems, and act to eliminate it.
FYI: I can sort of lump it all together under a few descriptive terms; globalists,and socialists. These people are in our midst, and they are the most powerful people on the planet.
Have you ever considered that they are the primary enemy? Put a stop to their subversive activities, and the terrorists will have far less support.
As someone else said, this has completely become Bizarro World.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want - and they deserve to get it good and hard."....H.L. Mencken
Ron Paul is not weak on the WOT. Most conservatives haven’t taken the time to fully understand his position.
You cannot fight a loose collection of thugs that have no direct tie to a nation state as if they were a nation state. When an worldwide estimated 20 thousand thugs can keep your entire army tied up, you are going to lose that conflict because your economy can’t possibly sustain the war.
After 9/11, Ron Paul introduced a bill for a Letter of Marque and Reprisal that was both a constitutional and logically correct way to pursue an organization like Al Qaeda. This strategy would have used our strength — our system of free enterprise — against Al Qaeda. Republicans used to believe in freedom and free enterprise. Bush has treated our freedom as the problem and proceeded to attack it as if somehow Bush attacking our freedom is better than Al Qaeda doing the same. Ron Paul’s strategy would have unleashed the creativity of the United States to pursue Osama bin Laden — almost certainly saving hundreds of billions of dollars and probably actually capturing bin Laden in the process.
And just how does pointing out that the draft is a real possibility with a widened war make someone a “nutbag?” Please enlighten us. Thanks in advance.
So it’s McCainiac, the Rat-lite, for you? Or is there another, genuinely conservative choice we haven’t seen yet????? Or do you plan to do the really HARD thing and vote for the genuine Rat, whichever it is?
>Have you ever considered that they are the primary enemy? Put a stop to their subversive activities, and the terrorists will have far less support.<
Keep talking, you’re making sense to me.
There are NO choices for November at this point. No remaining candidates in either party, including the liberals and the kook.
I may vote against the hildebeast or I may sit out and not let my vote be counted for any liberal. I will definitely vote for the conservatives for the House, Senate, state and local races. I would, however, prefer a rat over Paul.
Bingo.
In case you haven't realized it yet, FR is loaded with many faux conservatives. Conservatism scares them...what they really seek is authoritarianism.
What...and believe that borrowing $1,500,000,000,000 from China while leaving our borders wide open is more of a threat than Mooky?
That $10,000 per American family is a bit pricey for the return we get for Iraq, and that the same money could have been spent better?
Nah. It's much more comfortable to keep our heads in the sand.
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