HUMAN EVENTS Interview with Congressman Ron Paul, Texas

Human Events ^ | August 7, 2007

[Abcdefg]

Mark Davis showed up on WBAP several years ago. He is an arrogant ass.

[TBP]

If you’re a small-government, stick-to-the Constitution conservative, Ron paul agrees with you on most things.

His biggest problem is that his viewson Iraq and the War on Terror are somewhat conspiratorialist and border on blame America first.

[elizabetty]

The more people that see him, the more they will like him.

The more DEMOCRATS see him the more they like him.

I am active in Republican Politics in my Georgia town and not a single Republican here likes Paul.

[MEGoody]

I agree with Paul that we should get out of the UN, because it is so completely ineffectual and corrupt.

We do have to keep in mind that Jefferson lived in a different time. In the world we live in today, if we were to isolate ourselves and refuse to get involved globally, we would be asking for lots of trouble. This is one of the reasons I cannot support Ron Paul's campaign.

[BlazingArizona]

Newt Gingrich just said the war is phony.

When Gingrich used the term "phony war" he was referring to the six-month period in 1940 after Germany declared war on France but did not attack. Hitler sat there and watched the Allies shore up the Maginot Line, meanwhile preparing his attack in a totally different place.

Gingrich should not have used a historical reference that the anchorwomen and liberal arts academics who set Democrat national policy would not understand.

[SJackson]

Newt Gingrich just said the war is phony.

Is is impossible for Paul supporters to rest on Paul's positions, rather than make fake comparisons to other Republicans in order to make him appear more mainstream. Newt said nothing of the kind.

He said the Bush administration is conducting a phoney war, quite a different thing.

Alongside military confrontations, Newt advocates an immediate move toward greater independence from imported oil, as well as an aggressive confrontation with the ideology of radical Islam. On their home turf, overseas. He's advocated American funded schools, teaching western values and providing meals for children as incentives, and American medical centers, along with aggressive local American media outlets. Obviously only where these things are possible. That's a long way anything Paul would support.

His greatest criticism of the Bush approach is that we're appeasing rather than confronting the radicals and their ideology, an ideology Paul doesn't even recognize.

[SJackson]

Those statements certainly put to rest the fraudulent notion that Paul’s foreign policy would in any way resemble Ronald Reagans.

[SJackson]

See 46, he’s used in in reference to the wot as well, but in the sense that it’s not being waged aggressively enough, and that GWB hasn’t gone far enough defining radical Islam as the enemy. Certainly not in the sense of the war being phoney, rather it’s conduct.

[ejonesie22]

Very true. Reagan lived in the later half of the 20th Century. You know that nasty time where our enemies could attack anytime anywhere. Not just sail up the Hudson with canons blazing, but nuke Tulsa...

We must protect our borders, but our borders are now no longer protection. We have to stop the attack from its origin.

It is not 1935.

[FreedomNeocon]

Ahhh ronpaul ronpual ronpaul... the CSPAN "republican" line sure loves him so he must have tons of fans!

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Thanks for the pingo.

[Vanbasten]

“or if it is NOT military domination of the world, please explain what havig troops in over 100 countries all over the world is.”

And in most of these places, we PAY to have our bases in those places from the consent of the local government...even though we protect the people of the area and don’t ask anything in return. How in the hell is that military domination over the world?!?!?

[End Times Crusader]

The more DEMOCRATS see him the more they like him. That's all we need to know.

[End Times Crusader]

Ron Paul only sticks to the Constitution when it is convenient for him.

[End Times Crusader]

Paul’s fundamental assumption is that American power projected around the world is evil. I see it differently, as a needed balance to the ambitions of expansionist dictators. That's because Paul has a view of this country that is just as anti-American as the worst of the leftists.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

"Now we got ourselves into a mess and I would say that we got into it illegally, unconstitutionally -- there was no declaration of war. We transferred -- The resolution merely transferred the authority to the president to go to war when he jolly well pleased, and so I objected to the war because, uh… it wasn’t necessary -- there was no threat. I mean, it had nothing to do with al-Qaeda, they had no weapons, no army, no navy, no air force, and yet we -- for the first time in our history -- have announced that we start wars -- we preemptively go in. So, we go in and we start this war and we’re embedded. And the question is… Your question is: what do we do about it now? I say we went in for the wrong reason. It has gone poorly. We’re going bankrupt. We’ve spent a half a trillion. It’s going to be a trillion dollars before it’s over if we don’t change it. This country will face a financial catastrophe the policy has to be changed. We have to prevent the war against Iran: that means we come home. That’s the only way you can do it, is come home."

I disagree with Ron Paul on this point very strongly - he will not receive my vote because of it.

However, I am OK with this part.

"I believe the Founders were right, and I believe that Jefferson was absolutely right that by staying out of entangling alliances – which… no UN, no NATO -- which serve the interests of this country right now. We have no respect for our national sovereignty. This is why we don’t even defend our borders, because we’re moving onto a North American union."

[End Times Crusader]

They attacked us because we had been over there; we had been bombing Ira... er Japan for 10 years.

[ejonesie22]

Under the direction of the Illuminati...

[End Times Crusader]

Sorry about the butchered posts. I’m still trying to get the hang of html.

[TBP]

Ron Paul only sticks to the Constitution when it is convenient for him.

That is a smear, and you know it.

Paul is a strict devotee of Constitutionally limited government. If the Constitution doesn't say the Federal government can do it, they can't. The Tenth Amendment establishes that. And Ron Paul is the biggest stickler for that principle in the Congress.

Merely because you disagree with him, that's no reason to make false accusations against him.