Posted on 01/13/2012 7:26:17 PM PST by mnehring
It’s probable that we don’t “get it” because each and every one of your talking points have been debunked as the despicable lies they are each and every time some RNC shill (like you, perhaps?) pulls them out of his/her butt and tries to smack us in the face with them. That’s why.
That's why the title is correct: "Ron Paul hates everything [the Republicans] stand for".
Ron Paul is the perfect personification of a broken clock.
It is truly sad that we have come to this point that those running for higher office come from the bottom of the barrel. Count me out, along with many others.
MCB
Debunked, by whom? His supporters, himself?
Ok, I am going to post AGAIN the supporting evidence to my statement, although it is getting boring to have to repeat it for paulbots.
So once again:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll524.xml -
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/u-s-congress-free-up-portion-of-palestinian-aid-frozen-over-un-bid-1.404219
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=111957
- aid to palestine
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ex-aide-to-ron-paul-makes-stunning-claims-about-old-boss-anti-israel-911-truther-doesnt-believe-u-s-had-any-business-fighting-hitler/
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/Paul2012.html
- anti-Semitism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ify0fcNYtj0
http://www.ronpaul.com/2011-06-22/ron-paul-offensive-war-is-un-american-close-all-u-s-military-bases-around-the-world/
http://politiac.com/3_Surprising_Aspects_of_Ron_Paul%E2%80%99s_Foreign_Policy_Views/
- all bases closed
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57349712-503544/huntsman-calls-ron-paul-unelectable-because-of-racist-newsletters/
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ron-paul-supporters-release-racist-ad-depicting-jon-huntsman-as-maoist-soldier/
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/how-ron-pauls-libertarianism-supports-racism.html
- racism
Additional links at this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2832102/posts?page=32#32
It's official then: I am not a reasonable person. Even the Mittster is better than McCain.
To be fair, Paul selectively harkens to a Republican party of the past - the one that was isolationist. Thing is if you go back far enough the GOP also use to be a protectionist tariff party.
The correctness of the things Ron Paul says are not particularly influenced by the identity of the person saying them. While one might argue that fighting for pork makes Mr. Paul a hypocrite (one could equally well argue the opposite[*]) that's irrelevant to the fact that he is often the only voice speaking out against federal overreach, and the more people respond positively to that message, the easier it will be for other people (who might hopefully be reasonable in other ways) to start speaking out likewise.
[*] Suppose there were twelve districts that all chip in tax dollars equally, and nine of the twelve districts' representatives want to maximize pork spending and three wants to minimize it. If the ones who want to minimize pork spending doesn't fight for their share, the remaining districts will have $133 of money to spend for every $100 in tax money that's taken from them. Even if one were to figure that every $100 spent only provides $80 worth of benefit, every $100 in taxes paid for pork would generate more than $106 worth of benefit. Under such a scenario, those who want pork would benefit from maximizing it. On the other hand, if the representatives who want to minimize pork spending insist upon getting their fair share of the tax revenues collected, so that the districts who would be inclined to maximize pork could only get $100 of spending money for each $100 paid in taxes, then there would be far less incentive for those other districts to maximize pork since every $100 taken in taxes would only yield $80 in benefits.
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