Do you think Ron Paul is dishonest or a raving loon?

Question

If so, please post your REASONS why.. I see alot of people calling him crazy but they never back it up. What ideas of his do you hate so much.. have you looked into his positions instead of making assumptions based on the media

Alaskan Beauty, you are wrong, he wants to legalize drugs.. He is personally against abortion but will not impose his views on the US. He leaves that issue for each State to decide, similar to how he wants the school system done.

Answer 1

lol ... Ron Paul is the only one of these clowns that doesn't talk out of both sides of his mouth to win votes

like him or not .. you know what he stands for

Answer 2

He's neither, that's why I'm voting for him. In response to people saying he's a raving loon - We don't need the IRS, it was actually found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Pollack case. Congress responded by passing the 16th Amendment. So, just like in the case of prohibition, repealing the 16th Amendment would abolish the IRS. We also don't need the Department of Homeland Security - Shouldn't the Department of Defense be handling that stuff anyway? - and the FBI and CIA have become so full of bureaucratic red tape that they couldn't communicate prior to 9/11. I think we could find better use of the talents of those agents if we eliminated the bureaucracy at the top of the agencies. Same goes for the Department of Education, my wife is a teacher and I know that "No Child Left Behind" - a Bush/Kennedy-written piece of legislation - has been and will continue to be a burdon on our teachers. It limits our teachers to teaching to a test rather than allowing them to use their full capabilities to educate students.

Now, on to the dishonest part:
M M - I've got a couple of questions for you:
1) Do you have any link or other proof to back up your claim about Ron Paul attaching earmarks to bills that he knows will pass? Unless you can provide proof, I'm saying you're full of it.

2) Have you read the text of the legislation that he proposed defining life at conception? Because it also states that the individual states have the right to enforce this how they see fit and that the Supreme Court could not over-rule the state's decision on abortion. So he's not dishonest about abortion.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Alaskan Beauty "Both: he's against Cannabis legalization or women's abortion rights. Damn Nazi."
Where do you get that from?
He is against the war on drugs and has never said or done any thing to be a racist. Are you just making things up?
Or have you only been told rumors? I would ask you to at least find out for yourself. I don't think so many young people who are usually not very racist like college students would be supporting a "Nazi."

JOIN THE RON PAUL REVOLUTION!!!

Answer 5

Neither.. it's just childish and immature rants that Ron Paul haters resort to when they can't find any reason to hate him.

To Sahara: Ron Paul is saying that the federal government has become a bloated bureaucracy, and needs to cut down in size in order to operate efficiently. Consider this: would you think that an over-weight person is healthy? Should he keep eating the same amount or more? Or should he eat less and exercise more?

Answer 6

Dishonest:

-He endlessly complains about Federal Spending, but attaches earmarks to bills that he knows will pass so that he can vote against them, thereby keeping his perfect record, and still bring home the bacon. That's dishonest.

-He claims that he supports a state's right to make its own abortion laws, but the law he authored would define life as beginning at conception, thereby giving fetus's the protections of the fourteenth amendment ("...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...." which would essentially ban abortion nationwide. That's dishonest.

-Also, while we're on abortion, where in Ron Paul's copy of the Constitution does it say the Federal Government has the power to define when life begins? Doesn't he make this big deal about never voting for laws not explicitly authorized by the Constitution? Turns out he WROTE at least one. That's dishonest.

I don't think he's a raving loon, I think some people believe that because he's backed by crazy conspiracy theorists who scream and rant about things like the sixteenth amendment and 9/11, but he doesn't necessarily actually agree with them.

Answer 7

I don't think Ron Paul is crazy or a loon. I would vote for him. I am a bit concerned about his idea about starving the government. He makes an excellent point but is that a solution that makes sense? It warrants more of a debate/discussion. Ron Paul was against the war with Iraq from the start, according to my dad.

I like Dennis Kucinich more.

Answer 8

neither, he's an honest truth teller that 's trying to warn Americans about the troubled times we will have ahead if we don't change our monetary and foreign policy. People should really LISTEN to his message, wake up!!! This is serious!

Answer 9

neither. He is, among politicians particularly, spectacularly honest, and able to distinguish his own personal opinions from what he would be constitutionally permitted to do as president. If that's a raving loon, we need to start electing more raving loons.

Answer 10

I don't think he's dishonest, and he isn't a raving loon -- on domestic policy, that is. Yes, I have looked into his foreign policy (what little of it exists) and have determined it to be an absolute nightmare. The ideas that Iran isn't a threat to the United States, that we need to leave Iraq as soon as possible whether we're done or not, and that the Iraq war somehow constitutes a violation of Washington's warning against entangling alliances are patently absurd.