Posted on 02/17/2008 12:37:20 PM PST by goorala
Universal health care is not a libertarian idea, unless you are Ron Paul.
MR. PAUL: The president ran on a program of a humble foreign policy, no nation-building, and no policing of the world. And he changed his tune, and now we are fighting a war, and our foreign operations around the world to maintain our empire is now approaching $1 trillion a year.
MR. BLITZER: Thank you.
MR. PAUL: That’s where the money’s going, and that’s where it has to be cut so we can take care of education and medical cares that are needed here in this country. (Applause.)
I’m leaving the Republican party after my state’s primary. I haven’t decided whether to go Independent or Libertarian. I want the government to stay the hell out of my business and pocketbook, so maybe I’m leaning more toward Libertarian.
At this point, I’ve decided to vote for Ron Paul in the primary. I will never vote for John McCain.
Open borders and abortion... note the “Big L Libertarianism” as opposed to small l.
This is nothing but self promotion from the fool that wrote this.
Legalization of dope again. Meanwhile, tobacco smokers are demonized and harrassed each and every day.
I think what he was saying is that if we didn’t waste our treasure arming/supporting and then invading other countries (the Jack Palance/Wilson of foreign policy), we could think about social programs. At least that’s what it sounded like to me... then again Ron Paul in a soundbyte debate is like Johnny Unitas in a homerun derby.
“We have seen the party of entrepreneurship, small government, and personal freedom become the party of fear, war, and police power.”
Its distressing to witness conservatives give praise to the practice of torture by US servicemen and the removal of habeus corpus rights for US citizens. The Bush bots will one day rue that mindset. Till then, they’ll just oooh and aah on the daily dose threads.
And he's right. In debate after debate, he warned that the GOP was shrinking.
The Republican Party is about to get annihilated this Fall. That's why a lot of Republican Congressmen aren't running for re-election. The writing's on the wall.
What exactly does this Einstein believe constitutes free markets?
WHO IS JOHN MCCAIN, AND WHAT IS HE DOING TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
Obama is drawing crowds of 20,000 plus.The war is popular here at FR. Out in the world nearly 7 of 10 Americans oppose it.
Democrats are showing up to vote 3-1 over Republicans.
iacta alea est
The die is cast.
The neoconservatives will be repudiated this election.
They learned nothing from the elections of 2006....
They can keep the Republican Party.
They won't be able to do much with it though.
“Universal health care is not a libertarian idea, unless you are Ron Paul.”
He never once mentioned Universal health care. Those are your words. Are you aware that our VA is horribly underfunded? Are you?
I think Ron Paul would be supported, even by me, if his foreign policy beliefs weren’t so isolationist.
I predict that the Republican Party will fare better than Free Republic. I predict that this site will end up as a backwater sanctuary for a bunch of drug-addled sour-pusses bitching and moaning that we’re all doomed because we don’t accept Ron Paul as our Lord and Savior.
whaaaa? wtf are the democrats selling? I mean, before they changed the name of it into "hope and change?"
“He believes the 2nd amendment guarantees the individual the right to own firearms”
The author might want to re-think this one. Obama thinks that individuals do have a right to own firearms; but that governments can also impose basically any restrictions on the right that they decide is fitting, up to and including outright bans on gun ownership.
With double-speak like that it kinda makes you wonder if the Obamanation understands the meaning of basic words.
You forgot that Obama is a Constitutional scholar and actually taught Constitutional law.
I doubt McCain would know the difference between the Constitution and Charmin. The Constitution would only be an obstacle to overcome.
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