Posted on 08/24/2009 10:51:33 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
In an interview with AM 1280 on Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann announced that she will have Rep. Ron Paul as her guest for a September town hall forum in St. Cloud.
“I’ll be doing another town hall up in the St. Cloud area in September and we’ll do that on monetary policy. Ron Paul is going to come in and we are going to host something on monetary policy,” Bachmann said.
Bachmann is a convert to the Ron Paul movement, sometimes attending the congressman’s weekly lunches.
“I especially want to speak to the 19- to 20-year olds so they can know what there future will be under this level of debt accumulation and spending,” she added about the forum. “They need to know their future. And so I’m bringing him in so we can have a discussion on monetary policy.”
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Good for her. I suspect some will criticize her for finding common ground with Paul, but that would be as dumb as ridiculing the Republicans who have found common ground with Lieberman on some issues.
I’m very sorry to hear that she’s a Paulista. She had many good ideas. Oh, well.
If you would look back to the Republican debates during the 08 primary, Ron Paul and Fred Thompson were the only candidates that had a clue.
Michele Bachmann rocks!
all the right moves......all the right moves.....
HUzzah
Criticize her for finding common ground with Paul? Why would that be?
Ron Paul is one of the last remaining Republicans faithful to Reagan’s ideals. In fact, his record is more faithful to Reagan’s ideals than even Reagan was (sometimes even great presidents make compromises).
Ping
On Fiscal Policy, yes.
On foreign policy, hell no.
Bachmann specifically wants him to talk about fiscal policy. If she had him up there to talk about foreign policy, then I’d be calling for people to boycott his behind.
The thing is that they’re both intertwined. There was a time, not long ago, that I would have agreed with you. But upon further reflection, I have to say that I’m tired of my wealth being redistributed both within our borders and abroad. If someone screws with us, we should pound them into the ground and go home. When it comes to nation building (especially when we’re broke and borrowing from China to do it) or allowing entire continents to run grand socialist experiments in lieu of having to pay for their own defense, I’m afraid I have to side with the libertarians.
LOL...I like that foreign policy!
Ron Paul makes a lot of sense. He tried unsuccessfully to get the Congress to vote on a Declaration of War to go into Iraq. If I were there, I'd have said "You know what Ron, you're absolutely right. Congress needs to declare War constitutionally." Then where I think I'd have disagreed with him is that I actually would have voted YES if the declaration made it to the floor. :)
But yeah, the libertarian instinct is right in this. If you're in it, you're ALL IN. If not, then stay the heck out.
You can't separate the two. How do you think we are paying for the rapid escalation in Obama's War in Afghanistan and the most expensive war since Vietnam (Iraq)? Lettuce?
I’m with you. I disagree with Paul and if I were there I would have voted in favor of declaring too. But he’s right that we should do things properly and follow the rules.
How many UN resolutions did Iraq ignore before we finally went in there? If that’s not screwing with us, I don’t know what is. The part that sucks is where we tie the arms of the strongest fighting force in the world behind their backs and send them to war telling them not to hurt anyone and if they do, they’ll be hung out to dry for it. Then, we let them stay there in a slow bleed and don’t bother to make any changes until AFTER the 2006 elections make it a political necessity.
And then there’s the idea, more evident now than ever, that while we’re ‘spreading freedom’ abroad, we’re pissing it away here at home for our kids and grandkids.
I’m tired of working my butt off so I can pay the taxes that provide for a bunch of cheese-eating socialist Frenchmen to sit around on welfare. People who rather than provide for their own defense, are laughing at me for being a sucker while I’m providing it for them.
Who the hell do you think formulates foreign policy at the state department? Conservatives? Even under Republican presidents they are constantly trying to undermine them; doesn’t that give you a hint? The same Trotskyite neo-cons who favor bailouts for corporate elite direct our foreign policy; how is that working out for you?
DeMint/Bachmann ‘12
*rolls eyes*
That's the point I've gotten to as well. Enough is enough.
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