Posted on 12/21/2011 11:15:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Most people already know that Ron Paul refused to endorse John McCain in the 2008 general election. While I don’t necessarily agree with that decision, especially from a contender for the GOP nominee, I can certainly understand it. Lord knows I hated every nice thing I had to say about John McCain and wasn’t entirely pleased about pulling the lever for him (which is a dramatic understatement). Most people assume that Paul endorsed Libertarian candidate Bob Barr in 2008, which is partially true. However, that is not the entire story. Paul also endorsed three other candidates.
The first of those was Chuck Baldwin. I don’t really know a lot about Baldwin except that he has been on record early and often in support of the proposition that the South should have won the Civil War. This sort of thing would ordinarily disqualify most normal people from endorsing Chuck Baldwin, but Ron Paul is not most normal people. And given what most Ron Paul supporters seem willing to forgive, a little Confederate sympathy (or even a lot of Confederate sympathy) seems like small potatoes.
The second was Cynthia McKinney. Yes, you read that correctly, Ron Paul endorsed Cynthia McKinney in 2008. For those who do not know, Cynthia McKinney is a certifiably insane anti-American anti-Semitic lunatic. She first came to widespread public attention when she was arrested for punching out a member of the capitol police who tried to stop her when she wasn’t wearing her pin. Cynthia McKinney is so crazy that she got defeated in a primary by a guy who thought Guam might tip over and capsize. McKinney was once arrested by the Israelis while trying to give aid to Hamas and penned a bizarre anti-American and anti-Israeli screed. See more of her anti-Americanism here.
Now, I know that the above is not necessarily persuasive to the average Ron Paul fan – after all, if they were bothered by siding with terrorists, they’d have probably jumped off the Paul bandwagon already. What is perhaps more important is that Cynthia McKinney is also next door to being a communist in terms of her domestic policy. McKinney is an open and avowed enemy of free market capitalism, preferring instead Ghadaffi-style socialism. Seriously, she literally and openly favors dictatorial socialism. McKinney ran on the Green Party ticket, whose platform explicitly includes guaranteed open-ended welfare (at a living wage) for everyone regardless of their ability or willingness to work, among other quasi-communist and far-left economic policies.
The fourth and final candidate Ron Paul endorsed for President was Ralph Nader. Yes, the same Ralph Nader who was so far to the left on economic matters that he could see no difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush. The same Ralph Nader who also longs for the day when the last vestiges of capitalism have died in America. Nader, you remember was the guy who made running as the Green Party candidate famous.
Why, you might ask, would Ron Paul, champion of economic freedom and limited government, endorse two avowed socialists for President? Well, you see, they signed a document:
Paul will offer this open endorsement to the four candidates because each has signed onto a policy statement that calls for “balancing budgets, bring troops home, personal liberties and investigating the Federal Reserve,” the Paul aide said.
You see, despite a lengthy and public history of supporting massive government expansion and infringement upon personal liberties, and despite running on a party platform that explicitly calls for the massive expansion of Government welfare, these people would clearly have been better at shrinking the government than the Republicans on the basis of signing this absurd pledge. To be fair, Paul was probably just following the Golden Rule here – after all, Paul had just spent the last two years being a truther in front of truthers and denying trutherism in front of the media, so he doubtless was extending the sort of blind eye towards Nader and McKinney’s insanity that he wished everyone else would turn towards his.
For whatever his failings as a Presidential candidate and conservative (and they were legion), no reasonable person would say that John McCain was worse than any of these clowns. It was one thing for Paul to not endorse McCain – but we have to ask what sort of person affirmatively supports anti-American avowed socialists and confederate sympathizers over a Republican? The answer: Someone who, like Howard Dean, hates Republicans and everything they stand for.
Lunatics for Paul 2012
Democraps:
yes~! Paul is bad for the GOP!
Only “Mitt” should be your candidate
And we are so afraid of Mitt too- he could probably beat our guy Obama
So you should pick “Mitt”
Perhaps he endorsed Ralph Nadar so Gore would loose. ;-)
Brace yourselves!! you supporters of Constitutional Governance. These attacks on Ron Paul are only the beginning of what you must endure to achieve your goals.
Take heart, things are in motion that will be hard to stop. The folks in power are not going to relinquish that easily, you must expect a battle. The name calling and hysterics are only the beginning. Please let us all be brave
There are other Republican candidates then these two
Brace yourselves!! you supporters of Constitutional Governance. These attacks on Ron Paul are only the beginning of what you must endure to achieve your goals.
Take heart, things are in motion that will be hard to stop. The folks in power are not going to relinquish that easily, you must expect a battle. The name calling and hysterics are only the beginning. Please let us all be brave
RedState.com needs to be banned from FR.
Erik Erickson is the f’ing scum of the earth.
Reposting any of the vitriol bulls**t this scumbag Beltway whore pays to have published on this vile bullsh**t website is the furtherance of this vile bullsh**t.
Anyone and EVERYONE who endorsed McCain is an enemy of Conservatism.
Anyone who thought there is one spit of difference between Al “Big Gov” Gore and George “I refuse to use a veto pen” “let’s bankrupt the country with Medicare Rx to buy votes” W Bush is a f’ing fool.
Anyone who would discredit the entire Constitution Party over Baldwin’s position on States Rights in Post-Civil War United States is the enemy of Conservatism.
If you can’t comprehend the reasoning behind the above statements... you aren’t paying attention.
What is it about people like McCain, O. Snow, S. Collins, Brown and others, even Newt sometimes, that insist on calling themselves Republicans while working without rest to undermine the most basic Republican efforts to carry out the party’s mission?
Ron Paul vs. Barach Obama...... for President..
Which idiot would not vote for Ron Paul.. or not vote at all?..
Absurd. And offensive.
F John McCain and F Ron Paul. Both are cancers of a different kind who should be cut out of the republican party. Every video on youtube that promotes ron paul has dozens of neonazi dirtbags screaming vile garbage about jews and other minorities. It’s sick. They should all be kicked out of the republican party. We don’t need these neonazi skinhead dirtbags bringing us down.
I used to think RP was a Libertarian. I think I was wrong. Now I think he’s a small government Leftist.
Didn’t read the article. Don’t support Paul. But I’m beginning to agree with that sentiment.
I think the term “RINO” needs to be abolished. I think it generally means a non-conservative Republican and it also implies that a “normal” Republican IS conservative. I don’t think that is the case anymore...if it ever was.
I want to play devil’s advocate here.
To start with, America has gone to hell in a handbasket not only from the actions of Democrats, though they led the charge, but from Republicans, who were right there with the Democrats every step of the way.
And given some superb consolidation of power, in which the Republicans controlled the presidency, the senate, *and* the house, did they reverse any of this insanity?
No, not one bit. They continued on, driving the country off the cliff, their sole difference being they wanted to aim for different jagged rocks below than did the Democrats.
If this is what the Republicans stand for, then with clear eyes we need to see that they are no different than the Democrats.
“Radical cuts” proposed by some Republican a day or two ago, of the “100 most wasteful government programs”, would only amount to a dozen *billion* dollars. Which is just nothing compared to the real waste.
Real cuts *start* at 1 TRILLION dollars (out of $3.5T) from the budget.
Real “Radical cuts” to the federal budget would mean firing HALF of non-military federal employees *and* ENDING a dozen major federal agencies, *and* slashing the remainder’s budgets by 30% across the board.
THAT would be “radical”, but THAT is what is needed.
None of the other Republican candidates has proposed any real cuts at all. Ron Paul comes closest, but his cuts are an “axe in the dark”, and not particularly practical or well thought out.
BUT THIS IS STILL BETTER THAN DOING NOTHING, which is what the other Republican candidates are promising.
Seriously, the most important debate question that could be asked of any of them is a simple one: “By what PERCENT should the federal government be reduced?”
They would stare at you like a deer in the headlights. Because not a single one of them have proposed or advocated even marginal cuts.
Because NONE of them believe real cuts are needed. Maybe a light trim, here and there. But nothing substantial.
Is Ron Paul a kook? Certainly. But since nominating totally “reasonable” turkeys, like Bob Dole and John McCain, or, to put it bluntly, someone like W. Bush who has turned America into a paranoid police state, creating an immense security apparatus to control the public, not terrorists as it was supposed to do, WE NEED A BREAK.
Enough with the police state. Enough with spending money like it was water. Enough giving money to anyone and everyone for everything. Enough already!
So why won’t a SANE conservative stand up and say this?
“Vote for me and I will cut the size of government a lot, not just the rate of growth of the government.”
Is that so radical? Then why hasn’t anybody done it?
Why would you say that and who is Eric Erickson?
I've been asking that question. Haven't gotten any answers yet.
Cynthia McKinney endorsed Ron Paul - nothing left to be said.
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