Comments on: He’s Writing About Ron Paul Again??

By: John

John — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:17:20 +0000

SteveB – excellent view point, probably the best comment in this entire thread. Good job.

By: SteveB

SteveB — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:54:36 +0000

I plan to vote for Paul in the Wisconsin Primary for one reason only: a strong showing by Paul sends the message that Repblicans are turning against the war, and that’s an important message to be sending right now. If we want to end the war, we need to increase the number of Republican representatives and Senators willing to oppose Bush, and that means sending a Republican anti-war message. Paul is the only candidate who can do that.

Am I concerned about Paul’s positions on other issues? Absolutely not, because I know that there is no way in hell Ron Paul will ever get the Republican nomination, let alone win the general election.

Paul, for me, is simply message-sending material, and his success, if any, will be chalked up to his opposition to the war, not the wingut-friendly positions he takes on dozens of other issues. Paul taking third place in Wisconsin, say, doesn’t translate into: “Hey everyone! Let’s abolish FEMA!”

What I find most amusing about the debate here between the “Ron Paul will save America!” types and the “Ron Paul will destroy America!” types is how few of you have a firm enough grasp on reality to understand that Ron Paul is never going to get close enough to the driver’s seat to have any effect at all on America.

By: JET

JET — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:52:43 +0000

Is it just in this particular comments section, or are all Ron Paul supporters borderline illiterate?

By: Cris

Cris — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:11:04 +0000

dAVEOne more thing – if everything gets left up to the states, we’d still have segregation.

Which is why “states’ rights” is one of those dog-whistle phrases. It sounds like a good thing if you interpret it without historical context, especially if you’re a person (like myself) who believes in the integrity of a local economy and a small community. But when do we usually see someone asking us to “leave it up to the states?” Abolition. Desegregation. Civil rights. Gay marriage. Abortion.

I’m not saying ceding power to the states is bad — I think it’s great. But Tenth Amendment fetishists are too often hiding behind small government conservatism to cover their personal bigotry. They don’t want the rest of the country telling them to stop living in the past.

By: dAVE

dAVE — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:07:28 +0000

One more thing – if everything gets left up to the states, we’d still have segregation.

By: dAVE

dAVE — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:00:50 +0000

yeesh – apparently, Ron Paul supporters don’t believe in proofreading their own goddamn comments.

By: Ron Holland

Ron Holland — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:38:08 +0000

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By: joe bozzi

joe bozzi — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:29:47 +0000

from what I have seen, the more traditional freedom loving iberals love ron paul (maybe a hippie type). The liberal socialist hate him. He is definately the anti socialist just like he is the anti neo-con. But socialists and neo-cons are just two sides of the same coin to me. They want to use force to tell us how to live our lives and spend our money, just in different ways. both anti freedom

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:21:34 +0000

This is flatly ridiculous. To the people who support Ron Paul, give it the fuck up already. He is a flatly racist, religiously hostile libertarian twerp. I don’t understand this insane notion that somehow your deluded decoding of his rhetoric is somehow accurate just because you want it to be. People don’t just spout off for no reason, without any preconceived notions. If you can’t take someone at their published word, then what the hell good is the English language anyway? Why don’t we all just walk around all day spouting gibberish, because that’s about how much weight you seem to be giving Ron Paul’s repeatedly published, publicly available word.

He is a racist, he is a lunatic, and if he didn’t support ending the war in Iraq, you people wouldn’t give him the time of day. Climb the fuck off your high horse.

Goddamn.

By: badmedia

badmedia — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:30:53 +0000

joe – the missing word in that sentence was “think”. Which is also, where you sign up. ;)