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To: Jeff Head
Paul is drawing his support from Leftists who see him as a Trojan Horse they can use against the Republicans in the 2008 primary. They have no intention of every voting for anyone but the Democrat candidate in the General Election.

The notion that Paul does anything to hurt Hillary is nonsense. Just more of the mindless blather spewed forth from the Paulbots in order to avoid having to make any serious analysis of Paul’s candidacy. For example, still waiting for even one Paulbot to post a serious, thoughtful response to this. So far all I get is slogans and bile, not ONE serious answer.

How and what would a Paul Administration do anything?

HERE is an example of an answer a serious Presidential Candidate would give. Notice NONE of Paul’s answers ever fit this format. Instead they are all mindless sloganeering and/or bile filled ranting at everyone and everything.

Slogans are not solutions. Electing a President is serious business and should not be treated like a high school popularity contest. See to answer “how” Paul would have to be saying something like this below. The whole problem with him is his whole campaign is based on misdirection and emotional hysteria, not a serious rational discussion of the issues of the day.

Paul might be taken seriously by thinking people if he said something like this instead of merely spewing slogans.

On Federal Spending. Federal Spending is out of control. To put our fiscal house in order my Administration will work with the Congress to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution. I will work with Congress to abolish base line budgeting, eliminate earmarks, impose strict pay as you go rules for new spending. In my 1st term, I will reduce the federal deficit to zero and return our Govt budget to surplus. To achieve that goal, I will impose a mandatory 2% increase cap on all executive agencies budgets, require a top to bottom review of all agency functions and work with the Congress to reduce or eliminate departments x-y-z.

That is just the 1st step. Serious budget reform can only take place when we reform both the tax code and the systems of entitlements we have created. There has been no serious Social Security or Medicare reform since the systems were created! Obvious a system that is 75 years old in one case, and 40 years old in the other are way over due for an overhaul.

To overhaul these systems I will introduce legislation to the Congress that will privatize the following parts of both the Medicare and Social Security systems...

That is an example of answers that tell us HOW a politician plans to do something. Nothing in PaulÂ’s campaign does any of this. All he does is spew reckless demagoguery based on Talk Radio culled slogans designed to push the emotional hot buttons of a certain fringe segments of the US population Too bad for them we don’t elect a President simply for spewing the best sounding rhetoric on this emotional hot button issue or that one. We elect a President on the base of his whole agenda.

117 posted on 11/24/2007 8:10:13 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Ever notice that liberals are fierce in stealing YOUR money, while never paying their “fair share")
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To: MNJohnnie
Actually, over the years, Ron Paul has made very clear not only his thoughts on most of these issues, but what he would do to address them through the specific legislation he has proposed and introduced. Most of it has very specific language. From Social Scurity to Immigration, etc.

Stating that all he has only offered is "blather" or has not offer serious, thought-out avenues to address these issues is simply not accurate when you consider the specific legislation that he has proposed and supported for many, many years.

As I said, I support Duncan Hunter, but I have also met this man and know him not only to be a good American, but a very thoughtful one and active in what he believes to be the best path for our republic.

118 posted on 11/24/2007 10:55:59 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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