There are pages of documented evidence posted on these Paul threads that demonstrate he is both delusional and dangerous.You know what? I wish that there were. But there aren't. There are pages of silly "RuePaul" photoshops, some nonsense about "fake eyebrows" and pages & pages of mischaracterizations & distortions of what he said when I've gone back to the original sources on them, demagoguery, and the like.
I understand that there are reasons to love or hate any candidate -- some legitimate, some just because they rub you the wrong way. But most of what I've seen here just isn't a serious analysis of the words and the ideas.
I don't think that we disagree that this country is in deep doo-doo -- economically, militarily, politically and socially. We've got to get serious. If someone has an idea worth looking at --an idea that has a history, and upside & a downside, then I don't care who brings it up. Like I said, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich or Bozo the Clown. It's about the issue, not the people.
We are in dangerous waters no matter what we choose -- war with Iran, no war with Iran -- what are the up and downsides to each? I just don't want to see us jumping into Iran like we did in Iraq and find ourselves ten years from now regretting that decision -- if the globe is still spinning by then.
Not silly pictures:
When Paul makes excuses for terrorists and their threats against Israel, when a majority of his supporters are rabid anti-Semitics, when he openly endorses (at sympathies with) OWS, disgusting anti-Semitics, there is no way to spin he is not anti-Israel and anti-Semitic.
http://spectator.org/blog/2011/11/23/the-anti-semitism-of-ron-paul
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1709613/pg1
This is only the beginning. Do you want more evidence that he is not the cutter you think he is?
$73 million - earmarks
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508604,00.html
Makes excuses for earmarks
http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/earmark-reform/
However, he does get to say “I never vote for earmarks”. tada, he gets to say that because he loads up the earmarks in bills he know will pass.
Like this: U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) was one of only four House Republicans to break rank from the party and request earmarks despite a Republican Conference earmark moratorium. Paul sent 41 earmark requests totaling $157,093,544 for the 2011 Fiscal Year. His largest single request was $19,500,000 for a naval training ship at the Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston, followed by a $18,126,000 to provide maintenance on the Matagorda Ship Channel. For Fiscal Year 2010, Paul requested 54 total earmarks, adding up to $398,460,640 in pork that the former presidential candidate sought to bring home to his district.