Posted 12/11/2010 12:10:00 PM by Douglas

I have tried to ignor it, but I just can't figure out why the wikileaks bullshit is such a big deal. I also don't know why no one besides Ron Paul is saying this. He is commonly painted as a cook, but I'd like to hear how anything he says here isn't true:

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Posted 2/20/2010 03:04:00 PM by Douglas

The Republicans take a strawpole and the teabaggers overwhelming vote for a guy that really hates government.

And the winner of the 2010 CPAC straw poll is... Ron Paul? Yep. The libertarian-leading congressman from Texas bested all-comers today with an impressive victory at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC.

Are the Republicans so desperate that they're going to go with the Libertarian? Let's hope so.

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Posted 12/17/2009 01:30:00 PM by Douglas

Is someone actually listening to Ron Paul? Holy shit!

No one would have been surprised if the Lake Jackson congressman had slipped off the political radar after his 2008 quixotic bid for the presidency, his ambitions for higher office thwarted.

But Paul has refused to go out to the political pasture to live in comfortable irrelevance. As odd as it may seem, he has become one of the most influential Republicans in a capital city dominated by liberal Democrats.

The subject that has brought him to prominence is the same issue that subjected him to ridicule from establishment Republicans for years: his long-standing opposition to the nation's monetary system and the Federal Reserve Board that prints money and controls its supply.

In the House, Paul was ignored by Democrats and marginalized by Republicans. He was punished for the very views that earn him so much adulation today.

I find it hilarious that when the Republicans (Neo-cons) held the White House and both houses of Congress, they treated Paul your crazy uncle that has a pony tail, drives a gremlin and dates strippers. Now that the tea-baggers think it's oh so revolutionary to have a contrarian position, Paul is the poster boy for speaking out against the man. Further proof that no one is concerned with "the man" keeping them down as long as "their man" is in charge.

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Posted 12/27/2007 05:24:00 PM by Douglas

Paul bashing, War Street Journal style:

Rep. Ron Paul, by far the most popular sideshow act in the 2008 presidential circus, is supposedly a libertarian. He even ran for president as the Libertarian Party nominee 20 years ago. But is he really a libertarian?

A libertarian, we thought, is someone who favors liberty, sometimes taking extreme positions toward that end. As the old joke goes, if you want to find out if someone's really a libertarian, ask him: Do you think children should be allowed to buy heroin from vending machines? A real libertarian will answer: Only if the vending machines are privately owned.

What a crock. First off, this how did the status quo become so dependent on the Government for all our services that any questioning of state power automatically brands you as a kook?

Secondly, the joke of the vending machine is totally lost on me, in that just like vending machines, so called "illegal" drugs are everywhere and are as easy to get as a diet Dr. Pepper, but unlike a vending machine, a drug dealer will always take your dollar.

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Posted 11/05/2007 05:11:00 PM by Douglas

Republicans: Wake up! There's a candidate you're like to see disappear, but he's raising more money than any of you.

If Texas Republican Ron Paul's Web site fundraising meter is to be believed, the Libertarian candidate, who has lagged in the polls but raised as much money as top-tier candidates, passed $3 million in online fundraising in less than 24 hours.

Honestly, I didn't think Paul would make it this long in the race. But it's quite telling that he's got a message people are interested in, a message the mainstream parties are trying desperately to ignore, yet he's raising more money than he can spend. Stay tuned. . .

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Posted 11/01/2007 05:18:00 PM by Douglas

What amazes me about the "Ron Paul" revolution is that the more steam it picks up, the harder and harder the mainstream media try to force the public to ignore it.

It sometimes seems as if someone is playing a cruel practical joke on Ron Paul. He goes to a college and delivers the same speech he's given for the past 30 years of his political career, the one espousing the Austrian school of economics. Only now the audience is packed with hundreds of kids in RON PAUL REVOLUTION T-shirts who go nuts - giving standing ovations when he drones on about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and returning to the gold standard. After a speech at Iowa State last month, when nearly half the crowd had to stand because there were only 400 seats, a hipster-looking student worked his way through the half-hour-long line to shake Paul's hand. This was surely it - the moment when the straight faces would break and Paul would be wedgied up the flagpole. "When you see Bernanke," the kid said, "will you tell him to stop cutting rates when gold hits 1,000?"

Politics might be rock 'n' roll for nerds, but the nerds aren't supposed to be quite this nerdy. The leader of the disaffected in next year's presidential election - the Howard Dean, the Ross Perot, the Pat Buchanan - is a kindly great-grandfather and obstetrician whose passion is monetary policy. Paul, a 72-year-old hard-core libertarian Republican Congressman who is against foreign intervention, subsidies and the federal income tax, is not only drawing impressive crowds (more than 2,000 at a post-debate rally at the University of Michigan last month) but also raising tons of cash. In the third quarter of 2007, Paul took in $5.3 million (just slightly less than G.O.P. rival John McCain), mostly in small, individual donations. On Oct. 22, he aired his first TV ads, $1.1 million worth in New Hampshire.

Interesting, in that he can mobilize any base, much less college students that want to give him money. I'm sure the GOP is glad they have a candidate out there stirring interest and bringing actual issues to the debate, right?

"His supporters are the equivalent of crabgrass," says G.O.P. consultant Frank Luntz. "It's not the grass you want, and it spreads faster than the real stuff. They just like him because he's the most anti-Establishment of all the candidates, the most likely to look at the camera during the debates and say, 'Hey, Washington, f--- you.'"

Boy, you said a mouthful! It's fairly easy to see how a anti-establishment candidate that would like nothing more than shutting down the money tubes Washington has been sucking on for the last 90 years.

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Posted 10/24/2007 05:39:00 PM by Douglas

The attack on Ron Paul continues unabated. This time from (wait for it) Neo-con trolls at some FreeRepublic knock off.

Effective immediately, new users may *not* shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion. Not in comments, not in diaries, nada. If your account is less than 6 months old, you can talk about something else, you can participate in the other threads and be your zany libertarian self all you want, but you cannot pimp Ron Paul. Those with accounts more than six months old may proceed as normal.

Sure, that's the recipe for success to the Republican party. Censor someone that wants to discuss something outside the box of boring, pointless election year tripe. Here's a guy that has more honest to god conservatism in brown flushable chunks than the red-diaper baby neo-cons have in their entire hateful bodies. But I digress. Then there's the response from some other guy I'm proud to say I've never heard of before:

Having been to the CLC, I disagree with Leon's assumption that these Paul supporters are all or mostly cryptoliberals. Plenty of libertarian-leaning Republicans exist in the party, along with the former Buchananites and isolationists of the GOP. Instead of cutting these people off, it might be better for Redstate to keep engaging them. After all, Paul will not be in the race all that much longer, and we need those voters to stay in the GOP when Paul disappears. There are worse impulses than libertarianism.

Holy Crap, do you mean it's OK if someone disagrees with you? That can't be. And what in the hell is a "cryptoliberal?" Judging from the context, I'm going to have to say it's someone that doesn't 100% buy every line of bullshit that drops out of the mouth of Bush or his legions of loyal sycophants.

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Posted 10/10/2007 05:46:00 PM by Douglas

Even for a politician, this may go down as one of the dumbest things I've ever heard come out of a candidates mouth.

The question in Tuesday's Republican presidential debate in Michigan came from MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who asked, "Governor Romney... if you were president of the United States, would you need to go to Congress to get authorization to take military action against Iran's nuclear facilities?"

Romney responded, "You sit down with your attorneys and (they) tell you what you have to do. But obviously the president of the United States has to do what's in the best interest of the United States to protect us against a potential threat. The president did that as he was planning on moving into Iraq and received the authorization of Congress..."

Matthews interjected: "Did (President Bush) need (a go-ahead from Congress)?"

"You know," Romney replied, "we're going to let the lawyers sort out what he needed to do and what he didn't need to do."

What? We're not talking about divorce proceedings or suing your neighbor for running over your dog. And you're going to let Bush's example of letting his lawyers determine foreign policy be your guide? Because that worked out so well for him.

Is there anyone there that's not a total jagoff? Sure there is:

When all was said and done, however, only Texas Congressman Ron Paul actually challenged Romney's disregard of the essential document.

Matthews asked, "Congressman Paul, do you believe the President needs authorization of Congress to attack strategic targets in Iran, nuclear facilities?"

"Absolutely," said Paul, who in 2002 was one of six House Republicans to vote against authorizing Bush to attack Iraq. "This idea of going and talking to attorneys totally baffles me. Why don't we just open up the Constitution and read it? You're not allowed to go to war without a declaration of war."

Paul's statement is almost as remarkable as Romney's. Remarkable that he's the only Republican with the stones to say it.

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Posted 8/06/2007 04:11:00 PM by Douglas

Ron Paul in yet another debate parallel press conference. Kinda come off a little "crazy old man" but I don't know how you could argue with this. I wonder what Mitt was trying to say? Probably something along the lines of "9/11 changed everything." Morons.

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Posted 7/22/2007 04:29:00 PM by Douglas

Ron Paul in The New York Times. I'm kinda curious to those that can't see past the two main party candidates to this clarity:

This side of Paul has made him the candidate of many people, on both the right and the left, who hope that something more consequential than a mere change of party will come out of the 2008 elections. He is particularly popular among the young and the wired. Except for Barack Obama, he is the most-viewed candidate on YouTube. He is the most “friended” Republican on MySpace.com. Paul understands that his chances of winning the presidency are infinitesimally slim. He is simultaneously planning his next Congressional race. But in Paul’s idea of politics, spreading a message has always been just as important as seizing office. “Politicians don’t amount to much,” he says, “but ideas do.” Although he is still in the low single digits in polls, he says he has raised $2.4 million in the second quarter, enough to broaden the four-state campaign he originally planned into a national one.

Paul represents a different Republican Party from the one that Iraq, deficits and corruption have soured the country on. In late June, despite a life of antitax agitation and churchgoing, he was excluded from a Republican forum sponsored by Iowa antitax and Christian groups. His school of Republicanism, which had its last serious national airing in the Goldwater campaign of 1964, stands for a certain idea of the Constitution — the idea that much of the power asserted by modern presidents has been usurped from Congress, and that much of the power asserted by Congress has been usurped from the states. Though Paul acknowledges flaws in both the Constitution (it included slavery) and the Bill of Rights (it doesn’t go far enough), he still thinks a comprehensive array of positions can be drawn from them: Against gun control. For the sovereignty of states. And against foreign-policy adventures. Paul was the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate in 1988. But his is a less exuberant libertarianism than you find, say, in the pages of Reason magazine.

Read the whole thing, and vote for someone that's not a complete idiot.

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Posted 7/18/2007 05:48:00 PM by Douglas

Ron Paul makes the Chronicle today, with the typical ignorant bias you've come to know and love from a Hearst publication.

Most of the country may know Ron Paul as the candidate who created an uproar during a debate when he said America's involvement in the Middle East invited the 9/11 attacks, or as the man who very publicly sent Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani a list of history books to study.

How on earth can the Chronicle make fun of Rudy about the exact same thing that they're wrong about? Ron Paul never even insinuated that we "invited" the attacks, but why would a newspaper writer bother to check the facts of the story?

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