2007-06-08
09:34:48
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Do you even know who he is or what he stands for?
2007-06-08
09:36:09 ·
update #1
you need to do more research. You think they attacked us because of "our freedom"? you need to be realistic when you look at why they attacked us.
2007-06-08
09:39:50 ·
update #2
have you even looked at his stances on the issues? He is a TRUE CONSERVATIVE, not a neo-con. he does not "blame america" for 9/11, that is ridiculous slander. He looks at the real cause. WHAT HE SAID IS IN AGREEMENT WITH THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT!
2007-06-08
09:42:04 ·
update #3
HE NEVER SAID "JUSTIFIES"! where do you get your news? fox news?
my god how you twist things you don't like to hear!
2007-06-08
09:43:35 ·
update #4
he is running as a republican because he is a CONSERVATIVE and this is where the people will hear his voice.
2007-06-08
09:46:45 ·
update #5
he is not an isolationist - he is a NON-INTERVENTIONALIST!
BIG DIFFERENCE.
2007-06-08
09:47:35 ·
update #6
flomasito: didn't you see the last debate? he did give answers on how to fix iraq. Why would you say that?
2007-06-08
10:30:23 ·
update #7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvdRR8wHROw
here are excerpts from the NH debate you can see him talk about it.
2007-06-08
10:31:09 ·
update #8
People are really uneducated. THey believe fox noise and cnn...
funny thing is comedy central gives better news then them!!
Ron Paul is our hope for america, the media will not report what a fascist nation we are becoming. They only repeat things about terrorism so that you believe Bush's lies. We are not endanger. Just ask any Iranian. The media is spinning things and we are falling for it.
Ron Paul says
The Federal Reserve, our central bank, fosters runaway debt by increasing the money supply — making each dollar in your pocket worth less. The Fed is a private bank run by unelected officials who are not required to be open or accountable to “we the people.” Worse, our economy and our very independence as a nation is increasingly in the hands of foreign governments such as China and Saudi Arabia, because their central banks also finance our runaway spending. We cannot continue to allow private banks, wasteful agencies, lobbyists, corporations on welfare, and governments collecting foreign aid to dictate the size of our ballooning budget. We need a new method to prioritize our spending. It’s called the Constitution of the United States.
So called free trade deals and world governmental organizations like the International Criminal Court (ICC), NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and CAFTA are a threat to our independence as a nation. They transfer power from our government to unelected foreign elites. The ICC wants to try our soldiers as war criminals. Both the WTO and CAFTA could force Americans to get a doctor”s prescription to take herbs and vitamins. Alternative treatments could be banned. The WTO has forced Congress to change our laws, yet we still face trade wars. Today, France is threatening to have U.S. goods taxed throughout Europe. If anything, the WTO makes trade relations worse by giving foreign competitors a new way to attack U.S. jobs. NAFTA”s superhighway is just one part of a plan to erase the borders between the U.S. and Mexico, called the North American Union. This spawn of powerful special interests, would create a single nation out of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, with a new unelected bureaucracy and money system. Forget about controlling immigration under this scheme. And a free America, with limited, constitutional government, would be gone forever.
MOST IMPORTANTLY
He can be trusted unlike any other politician that is running...
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress.
2007-06-08 10:34:37
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answered by Beauty&Brains 4
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I want to clarify something first.
He does not, did not, and never has blamed Americans for 9/11. That is ignorance and a lack of listening skill at work if you buy that.
He said that our nation's foreign policy over the past 30 years gave enough fuel to the fire for the extremist to make us targets. Only an ignorant fool could twist that to " The american people brought this on themselves."
Finally to answer the question - he is a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist. Not a republican.
He is running as a republican, I don't like that one bit because it is not an accurate reflection of what his political platform is. It is misleading.
2007-06-08 16:44:40
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answered by The Düde ® 2
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I think Ron Paul is terrific! He is one of the only canidates who really has something to say. He is a republican I feel I could trust, and a republican I would support.
He is a TRUE republican.
jeremy,
I totally agree with you. We as a country need to look at why we were attacked... what caused them to hate us... because if people would do the research they will find out the truth. America is not as clean as many people would like to believe. I appreciate the fact that Ron Paul wants to get to the root of the problem rather than just covering it up.
2007-06-08 16:38:25
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answered by Kamunyak 5
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HE DOES NOT BLAME AMERICA FOR 9/11.
Are these people so brainwashed by the fox windbags & that fat drug addict that they can't understand a well-articulated argument?
He says that we should try to understand why our enemies are our enemies. That our country's actions have enraged, appalled and horrified people all over the world. His conclusion is that we should take greater consideration of what consequences our actions will have.
I cannot understand how people translate to mean that he's blaming America. For the life of me, I just cannot understand that.
2007-06-08 20:07:55
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answered by Tom 3
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Yes I know what he stands for. I know what every candidate in both parties stand for. In many cases I know their voting record, state or federal! I Know Tommy Thompson well as I had to research him for my agency when he was appointed by Bush to become DHHS Commissioner!
I like Ron Paul. I like most of his views. I could even vote for him.
My main issue with Paul, even though correct, he is so far out of the mainstream of his party he will never be a candidate for The President as he won't be endorsed by Republicans.
The other issue I have is that their will be little that he could do with the remainder of the Republicans who survive 2008?
He would become a defacto Democrat!
2007-06-08 16:43:13
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answered by cantcu 7
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He is weak on terrorism. There just isn't the outrage you would expect from a man who holds rights theory near and dear to his heart for a criminal act that violated so many people's right to life.
Plus he's a social conservative. If he was all the way Libertarian I'd have some good thoughts about him, but if he thinks women should be arrested along with their doctors for practicing the right to make decisions about their body, he isn't really a man concerned about upholding individual rights
2007-06-08 17:09:51
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answered by Dan 4
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He does not support the war on Islamic Fascism (aka, the war on terror).
I love his domestic policies, as he is just about the only politician I've ever heard that has actually read the Constitution and recognizes that 70% of everything the federal government does is unconstitutional. I have not heard a single domestic issue I disagree with him on.
Sadly, his foreign policy is too isolationist, and does not recognize that fact that we live in a global economy.
2007-06-08 16:46:08
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answered by Aegis of Freedom 7
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He might be a good person, a little flaky, somewhat senile, poitically ignorant, but go ahead and vote for him. He can't win, because he has no support from the party bigwigs who actually make the decision about who is nominated.
2007-06-11 12:37:02
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answered by ? 6
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i like ron paul because he's the only person running for president who isn't worried about the popularity aspect of the campaign trail. Anyone who disagrees with what he said about the blowback from the US involvement in the Middle East (like Rudy Giulliani) should do a little more reading. its not as simple as good guys vs. bad guys.
2007-06-08 17:28:42
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answered by stinkyb1322005 1
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I can't say I don't like him. I would have voted for him if he wouldn't have opened his mouth and blurted out that thing about us sorta being at fault for terrorism. I liked everything else he said, I'm not even sure about the war... personally I wish it was never started simply because we can't afford it, but for him to say a stupid thing like that, sorry, but our soldiers went there to liberate people from a nasty dictatorship, helped thousands of people, many kids have access to medical help like never before... do we get any credit for that? No, we haven't been in the middle east bombing people for 10 years. We've been over there helping people for that long and longer, but people just can't leave us alone when we're trying to help someone and they end up being blown up because they can't f_cking leave innocent people who are just trying to help alone!
So now I'm sad because the one person I thought was the only chance for a sane president, well... he's great except for this big bug in his brain. I don't give a crap what anybody says, Islamofascists are evil and if they won't let us help the people of Iraq, they deserve to go to hell, and our military folks are getting better at sending them in that direction.
The real sad thing is I don't like any of the other republicans either and I won't vote democrat even after torture, so I'm stuck. We will see.
2007-06-08 16:48:19
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answered by Anonymous
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