Posted on 04/08/2010 2:01:58 PM PDT by Christian_Capitalist
Wow, the old Reagan attack, voting for President Harry Truman in 1948 is a heck of a lot different than being a Democrat and voting against an incumbent Republican, and voting for Bill Clinton in 1992, after the 1960s and after the Reagan Revolution and after Roe V Wade.
That is one of my pet peeves when the Romney people try that comparison, there is no comparison.
Post a link or recant. i know for a fact that Ron Paul said no such thing.
And while we're on the subject Sparky, it is Rand Paul, NOT Ron Paul who is running for the Republican Senate Nomination in Kentucky.
Nice try at obfuscation. George Soros is proud of you.
I guess you know that this is a thread about the Kentucky Senate race right, only Kentuckians can vote, and Rand Paul has a large lead among the statewide voters.
November 19, 2009
BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts.
“Foreign terrorists do not deserve the protections of our Constitution,” said Dr. Paul. “These thugs should stand before military tribunals and be kept off American soil. I will always fight to keep Kentucky safe and that starts with cracking down on our enemies.”
I live in Kentucky, I am not a "truther", and I'm a registered Republican (for now). I plan to vote for Rand Paul. I'm tired of politics as usual, and the good-old-boy system. Like Sarah Palin - Rand Paul is not part of the elitist establishment - he has great conservative viewpoints that are direly needed right now, especially when it comes to economics.
The same people come on these threads and get downright nasty up in your face if you support Rand Paul. They are pathetic and really don't have any truthful talking points, just calling names. They are not very convincing, apparently - as Rand Paul is leading in the polls. Kentuckians aren't stupid - we don't need these outsiders telling us the way things are - we can figure that out ourselves.
I would suggest going to each candidate's website and reading what each of them have to say. For myself, I support Rand Paul.
But you have to admit that there is a certain amount of irony here, with the Ron and Rand Paul cultists attacking the Kentucky Conservative, Trey Grayson, while down here in central Florida, some of their Florida bretheren are making common cause with that farleft moonbat, Congressman Alan Grayson.
another son, daughter or wife of a politician.
why don’t we just turn all political offices over to royalty?
/s
And here is the official Rand Paul statement on Guantanamo.
November 19, 2009
BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts.
“Foreign terrorists do not deserve the protections of our Constitution,” said Dr. Paul. “These thugs should stand before military tribunals and be kept off American soil. I will always fight to keep Kentucky safe and that starts with cracking down on our enemies.”
I guess he is just like his dad. He says one thing one time and another thing another time. You never know which one to believe.
I understand some of this Ron Paul crossover stuff, but for me, who has tried to look at the race because of the Governor Palin and Steve Forbes endorsements, I am amazed how none of these threads are actually about the Kentucky Senate race. I have learned almost nothing from any of these threads about either candidate, and absolutely nothing about Trey Grayson.
You seem to be a little loose with the truth yourself.
Ron Paul.
After the 1983 suicide bombing attack of the Marine barracks in southern Lebanon resulting in the deaths of 283 Marines President Ronald Reagan withdrew all United States military personnel from Lebanon. Would you also refer to him as ‘cut and run’ Ronald Reagan?
Funny that you left out this part of the quote:
"I think Reagan was right. We don't understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics."
Reagan was smart enough to pull our Marines out of Lebanon after he learned that lesson the hard way.
Incidentally, i was right. Ron Paul NEVER said "...it was America that forced the terrorist to do what they did."
You made that up.
I was replying to a post about your favorite anti-American coward.
The only coward on that stage was the draft dodger, Rudy Giuliani.
That’s Letters of Marque. The military would not be “mercenaries” under that system. Precisely the opposite. Their role would be that of true citizen army geared to self-defense. The letter of marque would be exclusively for private individuals and targeted foreign missions. If anything, the current military, which has the unsustainable role of world policers in far removed in foreign lands, betters fits the label of mercenary or legionaires.
Nope. They simply turn into a disingenous Paul-bashing fest by the children here who like to troll such threads- usually offering no substance, only cheap jokes and photoshopped jpegs.
You know the old political cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows, but having said that, the Ron Paul/Alan Grayson relationship has shocked and disappointed many Conservatives in the central Florida area. Conservatives who are dead set on replacing Grayson this fall with a Conservative Republican, and are very suspicious of our center-right bretheren that are making common cause with what we consider to be highly destructive forces in the US.
Utopian socialists and libertarian socialists in lockstep, maybe the 21century equivalent of the 1938 Hitler/Stalin pact. Or is it just a temporary alliance based on joint contempt of American foreign and military policy, along with a shared hatred of the FED. Whatever it is, it is having, or is going to have an impact on other races across the Republic, especially I would think, the US Senate GOP primary race in Kentucky.
I am very happy to know that Rand Paul does not want to close Guantanamo. And I’m also impressed that Steve Forbes has endorsed Rand Paul. And for that I must confess that I have learned something tonight.
Problem is that most of the Paul-bashers want to keep choosing the same type of Republican candidates over and over but expect a different result.
Frankly, I think that many are just RNC shills who are ticked off that they lost the 2008 election. Other than that, they wouldn't change much of anything about the Republican Party.
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