I would have voted for him over Hillary. I suspect that more than a few here would not.
Most of what the Pauls say about what is and isn’t Constitutional is precisely accurate.
But they both seem to very effectively serve the Deep State by causing so many to rail so hard against them that often the Constitutionality aspects of what was being discussed wind up utterly ignored.
How else could our most outspoken advocates for forcing Constitutional limits on government, be so universally reviled?
I would vote for him over Hillary, but he isn’t good on immigration.
The 12-term Texas congressman spent the better part of a 25-minute address thinking aloud about the thorny subject. He talked about how Americans are more accepting of outsiders when the economy is good, but when trouble looms there is a search for scapegoats.
“I believe Hispanics have been used as scapegoats, to say, they’re the problem instead of being a symptom maybe of a problem with the welfare state,” Paul told the group. “In Nazi Germany they had to have scapegoats to blame and they turned on the Jews.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/01/news/la-pn-ron-paul-nevada-latino-forum-20120201
My sentence above about the Pauls serving the Deep State was pretty tortured.
Let me try again.
Anyone in Congress that advocates for a return to Constitutionally limited government is flying directly over the target, and is guaranteed to take the most fire from that target. (Especially if they mean it!)
With the resources available to the Deep State today for shaping public opinion, (MSM co-conspirators, Daily talking points passed to the faithful, Google search engine results manipulation, Twitter Bots, Facebook Bots, etc.) why wouldn’t it fight the hardest to remove the biggest threat to its rule. (Constitutional Limits)
What joy it must bring to the Deep State to see people on our side join them in hating the very people who consistently deliver the only message that is a real threat.
Government is supposed to be limited, for a multitude of very good reasons. Whatever faults the Pauls may have, advocating Constitutional limits is not one of them. The don’t deserve to be hated by us almost as much as we hate our true enemies.