He's not my first choice for prez, but he doesn't seem that crazy.
2007-10-22 12:23:07 · 19 answers · asked by mannzaformulaone 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
They don't get his ideas. A woman I know doesn't even know what the federal reserve is and she calls ron paul a nutjob.
It's really easy to blame someone for being incoherent, when the alternative would be to admit to ignorance.
2007-10-22 13:18:40 · answer #1 · answered by TJTB 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Because he wants to make real change, and if you want too take some peoples money away they are going to do what they have too so it doesn't happen, just like the girl who said too her daddy, Daddy why do we have this ol polluting oil wells out here and he said, honey those fancy shoes and designer jeans come from this oil well money, and she said oooooohhh the pollution is not so bad, crap on these people worried about polution.Its the same, Ron Paul wants to stop spending so much in Europe on their military needs and Korea and Japan, those countries can pay their own defense needs but if we don't do it, then the defense contractors here will lose work and money, and Ron Paul wants to cut a lot of waste, well certain people make money on that waste and they don't want to lose that money so they will say he is crazy, he is a nut job bla blah blah. crap on those people who want a balanced budget and the best bang for the buck for the citizens of the USA.
2007-10-22 21:31:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no respect for people who say things like that, or that he's like Hitler without providing anything to back it up. I can appreciate it when people who don't agree with Ron Paul give reasons, like they have a different perspective on policy - like defense, the war, or cutting federal programs. I've emailed a couple of those people and they seem like good people. So we disagree on policy, that's part of politics. It's the people who can't come up with anything other than "He's a kook" that are annoyingly ignorant. I say Hillary is a communist but at least I give my reasons - short answer is her higher taxes, national health-care, restricting individual liberties like private gun ownership, etc. People are entitled to say that Ron Paul is a nutjob, but can't they at least give their reasoning behind such a statement?
2007-10-22 19:59:42 · answer #3 · answered by Brian R 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Because anything that demands change or steps outside the norm is deemed unstable. Same thing happened to Howard Dean. He had great ideas and was no doubt passionate, but when he started screaming like a banshee, all that went out the window, because that's all people started to focus on.
2007-10-23 12:22:37 · answer #4 · answered by Pask 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Small minded people say small minded things.
I was just blocked for answering a question about Paul running on the nutjob ticket.
Too funny. That collective is apparently not very strong at all.
2007-10-22 19:28:02 · answer #5 · answered by Think 1st 7 · 11⤊ 0⤋
Because he wants to abolish the FBI and almost eliminate all the duties of the federal government.
Many Republicans regard him as a traitor to the party because he is strongly anti-war, he says the Republican party has staryed from its roots, he would leave the question of abortion up to the states ( and most other questions as well ), and he doesn't think crusading against gay marriage is the business of the feds, and he doen't agree with excessive foreign entanglements which are a staple of Republican policy right now.
At least I think that's why.
2007-10-22 19:44:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Ron Paul is not crazy, he's the only person that I am actually eye to eye with.
2007-10-23 12:22:51 · answer #7 · answered by Soda 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the old USSR, one of the most common methods to neutralize a dissident was to deem that person a clinical lunatic. Anyone who thought outside the box was dismissed as a nutter.
We live in a Sovietized America. We should not be too surprised that the privatized propaganda services (mainstream media) are following similar tactics.
PS: On Fox, someone called him the ``Sanjaya´´ of politics. One should expect even more hostility and mockery against him as his popularity grows.
2007-10-22 19:46:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
Because they are all AFRAID of the truth. None of them have the courage to say and do what this country really needs. LESS government....NO amnesty for the illegals....No more war in Iraq....etc...
2007-10-22 20:00:12 · answer #9 · answered by The Unconventional Desert Rat II 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Its part of the smear campaign, say it enough times and uneducated people start believing it.
2007-10-22 19:28:25 · answer #10 · answered by Edge Caliber 6 · 14⤊ 1⤋