I'm not a 9-11 troofer or a Muslim apologist.
Ron Paul is a nutsack.
Posted on 06/13/2012 3:10:53 PM PDT by markomalley
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul wants people to know that his endorsement of Mitt Romney for the GOP presidential nomination does not signify an abandonment of his libertarian political beliefs.
When Paul endorsed Romney on Fox News last week, many supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential bid took great offense. But Rand Paul said in an interview with Daily Paul Radio that he was “compromising on strategy, not on principle.”
“People need to look beyond politics to look at what’s most important,” said Paul. “I sort of take it as an insult that people think that somehow I don’t support my father or haven’t done an adequate job in the sense that I have traveled thousands of miles and been to thousands of speeches both with him and by myself. And so I think there’s probably nobody in the liberty movement that has done more to support my dad than myself.”
Rand Paul cited a few reasons for his endorsement, including Romney’s promise to give all 50 states waivers from President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, and his support for auditing the Federal Reserve.
Rand Paul: A dork practicing to be a geek, hoping to be a kook someday.
Sorry, I just can’t get over what a kookball nutsack his father is.
Rand could have stood on principle and endorsed HR PufNStuf.
Rand, looking beyond politics is exactly why I could NEVER support somebody like Romney, because not looking beyond politics is what has led us to this string of RINO nominees that are just as hell-bent on taking us down the to socialism as the libs.
And people like you will help ZERO make the USA into a MARXIST STATE, since you aren't going for Romney....VOTING 3rd Party will help The MARXIST!!!!
“And people like you will help ZERO make the USA into a MARXIST STATE, since you aren’t going for Romney....VOTING 3rd Party will help The MARXIST!!!!”
I call bull sh!t on your statement.
Cowards compromise their values, beliefs and principles. Romney is a self-avowed Progressive, a socialist. How is voting for him better than voting for a self-avowed communist like BHO2?
We find ourselves between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. The question is: how far are we willing to prostitute our votes?
Good grief humblegunner. What a post. Almost every word is gook or kook or dork. I just love your command of the English language.
Sorry, I just can’t get over what a kookball nutsack his father is.
By my observation, Rand Paul is honest, intelligent, principled, hard-working, Christian and conservative.
What else I have observed is that every new conservative officeholder that comes along is picked apart and trashed here on FR.
Then when it is time for candidates to declare for President and too few conservatives step forward, the same complainers then bellow about how the fix is in and the "GOP-E" has foisted another RINO on us.
Someone's off their meds here, but I don't think it's Sen. Rand Paul.
Endorsements don’t impress me one way or the other.
Sen. Paul wants to actually accomplish good things for America now.
That is why he is supporting Gov. Romney for President.
“Rand must have been on Nyquil or off his anxiety meds or something. Rand endorsing Romney is like Churchill cheering for Hitler.”
More like allying with Stalin, which happened. Not that either was necessary or wise. Some intimacies leave a mean case of pox.
All noobie electoids pretend to those qualities.
He grew up listening to his nutsack fruitloop father.
He's a junior nutsack fruitloop until a few decades prove him otherwise.
“Sen. Paul wants to actually accomplish good things for America now.”
“That is why he is supporting Gov. Romney for President.”
So, Sen. Rand Paul now supports abortion, a pro-radical gay agenda, and anti-2nd Amendment gun-grabbing? Does that sound like good things to you?
There is no compromise with evil.
Sen. Paul is accomplishing things.
You are spewing dishonest garbage.
You make a joke of your pathetic self by imagining that you sit in judgement of Sen. Paul.
What it sounds like to me is that you are spewing crazy, retarded, dishonest nonsense.
Sen. Paul never does that.
If Rand is a libertarian, then he's not my candidate. They are pro-choice...as is Romney.
And that's why his support of Romney is a no brainer on his part. Anyone who'll throw someone else's right to life under the bus will compromise anything at all.
In fact, they really have no principles to speak of.
He's a geek.
You are spewing dishonest garbage.
No, he's really and truly a geek.
“I endorsed romney because I was told that I would have a shot to run as President one day... but that I must pay the fiddler and sell my soul to win the crown”.
LLS
But he will be at home with other faux conservatives like Boehner and McConnell.
But he will be at home with other faux conservatives like Boehner and McConnell.
You post garbage.
Rand Paul is pro-life, as is his father Ron Paul.
What you say about Romney is garbage too, but less blatantly so than what you say about the Pauls.
“I endorsed romney because I was told that I would have a shot to run as President one day... but that I must pay the fiddler and sell my soul to win the crown”.
So every single person who comes to a different political conclusion than you do is a cynical liar?
Maybe, just maybe, the dishonest one is you?
Have you ever considered that?
What you post has already been posted, over and over, for months.
You seem obsessed. (In a bad way.)
In the universe where those of us who are not nasty, monotonous retards live. The one in which we compare one candidate with another.
But he will be at home with other faux conservatives like Boehner and McConnell.
Are you talking about the Sen. McConnell who just announced a block on any further judicial appointments by Hussein until after the election? That McConnell?
Are you denying that libertarians are pro-choice????
It’s a matter of record.
Where on earth do you get the notion that most libertarians are "pro-choice?" The Founding Fathers considered themselves libertarians. Can you name a single one, who advocated legalized abortion? As for the Pauls, they certainly are not pro abortion. Dr. Ron Paul actually delivers babies!
And as to Gov. Romney, he has now stated that he is against abortion. Why do you assume that he is not telling the truth?
I would suggest that anyone who really wants to turn America around, desist from insulting those with whom one may have a few disagreements, and focus their fire on the Leftist ideas, with which virtually everyone at Free Republic has a very, very serious disagreement. We are in a true crisis, now. We need to find common ground for a counter-attack.
William Flax
Ron Paul is one of the best grounded men in Congress on Conservative economic principles; on the Constitutional limitations on Government; on the Washington/Jefferson foreign policy, which once made us the most respected people on earth. Just what, in comparison, do you have to offer?
William Flax
The libertarian platform is pro-choice. It’s a matter of record.
Gary Johnson has agreed to that, but calls his position “limited pro-choice”.
1.4 Abortion
Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration.
Found at: http://www.lp.org/platform
I'm not a 9-11 troofer or a Muslim apologist.
Ron Paul is a nutsack.
LLS
By contrast, Dr. Paul has been running as a Conservative Republican, in Texas, for years. The present small party that is closest to his thinking is the "Constitution Party," whose 2008 candidate, Pastor Baldwin, is certainly not "pro-choice."
Incidentally, if I was not trying to be a peacemaker, here, I would point out that referring to killing babies as "pro-choice," suggests a perceptual deficit. (See this piece on Al Gore: A Woman's Right To Choose.)
Citing a party's name as defining what people actually believe is not very reliable. Would you suggest that either George W. Bush or Senator McCain defined what is intended by all advocates of a "Republican form of government?"
William Flax
I’m saying that if someone is going to call himself or herself a “republican”, then they better get used to that being associated with the republican party.
Call yourself libertarian, and I’m going to go with my experience of many years with libertarians all over, none of whom were pro-life, all of whom were pro-choice.
If they don’t like the associations made with the word libertarian, then they shouldn’t use it.
As a constitutionalist myself, I support the constitution party candidate.
Just who are you suggesting is a Muslim apologist?
Perhaps, here, is something you can get your teeth into, since much of it deals with an hysterical approach to foreign policy--the one which is usually offered by those who insult Dr. Paul, but cannot actually answer his arguments:
Pseudo Pragmatism--Political Folly.
William Flax
Neither Ron Paul or Rand Paul is a Libertarian. Ron Paul left the LP BECAUSE of their pro abortion position as well as other disagreements on social issues. Ron Paul is a Constitutionalist, the Constitutionalists and the anything goes crowd battled for control of the LP. The Constitutionalists lost so Ron Paul left the LP and rejoined the GOP.
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul wants people to know that his endorsement of Mitt Romney for the GOP presidential nomination does not signify an abandonment of his libertarian political beliefs.
Ok, but the mistake you are making is confusing libertarian political beliefs with positions taken by the libertarian Party. I myself share many of libertarian political beliefs that both Pauls have. I consider myself a Classical Liberal as did our founders consider themselves as Classical Liberals. I am very conservative (paleocon). Hope you can see the difference between libertarian principles and the LP platform.
Well, if you support the 2008 Constitution Party candidate, you should respect Dr. Paul. Pastor Chuck Baldwin has described Dr. Paul repeatedly as one of the best men ever to serve in Congress.
William Flax
It’s a matter of record.
You are posting crazy garbage.
Some people who call themselves libertarians are pro-life, some are not.
But this is beside the point.
You said that Rand Paul is pro-abortion. He is not.
It's a matter of record.
see post #31, a direct quote from the libertarian platform.
And, I disagree in general, too. Most libertarians I’ve run across in everyday life or in the media are pro-choice.
Sen. Rand Paul is a good man. He is a tea party stalwart and a fiscal conservative, he is pro-life, he opposes gay marriage, and he behaves honorably in his public and private life so far as any of us knows. He is smart and well-educated, articulate and attractive. He is an up-and-coming conservative talent in the GOP. We are lucky to have him in the Senate.
Like almost every other prominent figure in the GOP Sen. Paul has chosen to publicly support the GOP nominee for President. In response to this you hurl baseless accusations against his character. This is disgraceful.
It is also destructive to the GOP and to the conservative movement and America. Every time a young conservative rises he is met with deranged slander from self-styled "purists" who claim that anyone who fails their unknowable, ever-changing litmus test is the devil incarnate. Then when no viable conservatives are available to run the "purists" shriek that the "GOP-E" has rigged the primaries.
I am sick of seeing unreasonable, dishonest fools such as yourself slander good people over nothing. This is not me trashing good conservatives, this is me defending them.
What is really pathetic, is that in your hissy fit, you have not even indicated what, if anything you believe in--or do you believe in anything?
Since the actual subject here is the strategy involved in conservatives endorsing Gov. Romney, here is a link to my own, virtual endorsement of Gov. Romney: Romney & American Conservatism. I would guess, from your "articulate" form of expression, that you must be an Obama man.
William Flax
You are beclowning yourself to an epic degree here.
Read the following and learn:
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."
Guess who wrote that? Reason magazine, 1975?
Of course: Ronald Wilson Reagan. Ronaldus Magnus.
You need to go back to school, and pay more attention this time.
Is that what you were doing? I thought you were just spewing a bunch of love at Ron "nutcase" Paul.
If you choose to not accord people entitled to titles of respect, the titles of respect that they have earned
I don't respect Ron "frootloop" Paul and don't give a crap what his job title is.
What is really pathetic, is that in your hissy fit
Is that what it was? I thought I was expressing my opinion of Ron "nutcase" Paul.
I would guess, from your "articulate" form of expression, that you must be an Obama man.
I would guess, based on your adulation of Ron "looney" Paul, that you must be a 9-11 troofer and a Muslim apologist.
If now Rand Paul is being trashed on this site for trying to beat obama - it really renders me speechless how far gone some of you are.
Pathetic, and obama loves what you are doing BTW.
I think he’s a nutsack fruitloop that could lead the libertarian cause and get traction his father could not because he doesn’t look or sound like a nutsack fruitloop in the same way. This BLOWback PRINCIPLE!
I don't recall trashing him for that.
I stated that he's got a crazy father who has had a lot of influence on him.
While Obama was listening to revrun' Wright, Rand was listening to crazy old Ron Paul.
Just because Jr. endorses Romney, it doesn't suddenly make him a paragon.
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