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Title: RON PAUL IS NOT A REPUBLICAN
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archiv ... n-paul-is-not-a-republican.php
Published: Jan 10, 2012
Author: JOHN HINDERAKER
Post Date: 2012-01-10 21:58:41 by Mad Dog
Keywords: From, RPs, own piehole
Views: 51756
Comments: 76

News reports from Iowa are unsurprising; Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are locked in a close race which, in the end, will make little or no difference.

So let’s take a moment to consider Ron Paul’s candidacy.

I have already explained, here and elsewhere, why I think that Ron Paul is not just a fringe candidate, but a bad guy.

I now want to add another point: he is not a Republican.

Who says so? Ron Paul does. Here are excerpts from the letter that he wrote in early 1987, when he resigned from the Republican Party because of his disgust with Ronald Reagan:

Since 1981, however, I have gradually and steadily grown weary of the Republican Party’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal government. Since then Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party have given us skyrocketing deficits, and astoundingly a doubled national debt. …

Tax revenues are up 59 percent since 1980. Because of our economic growth? No. During Carter’s four years, we had growth of 37.2 percent; Reagan’s five years have given us 30.7 percent. [Ed.: This is absurd. I have no idea where Paul got these numbers.] The new revenues are due to four giant Republican tax increases since 1981.

All republicans rightly chastised Carter for his $38 billion deficit. But they ignore or even defend deficits of $220 billion, as government spending has grown 10.4 percent per year since Reagan took office, while the federal payroll has zoomed by a quarter of a million bureaucrats. …

Instead of cutting some of the immeasurable waste in the Department of Defense, it has gotten worse, with the inevitable result that we are less secure today.

Paul wrote this just two years before Communism collapsed. He is urging the same theme today: all of our efforts to defend ourselves against Islamic terrorism have only made us less secure.

Monetary policy has been disastrous as well. The five Reagan appointees to the Federal Reserve Board have advocated even faster monetary inflation than Chairman Volcker, and this is the fourth straight year of double-digit increases. The chickens have yet to come home to roost, but they will, and America will suffer from a Reaganomics that is nothing but warmed- over Keynesianism.

This if from outer space. By 1987, the phenomenal success of the Reagan administration and the Fed in suppressing inflation was long established. “Fourth straight year of double-digit increases?” Increases in what? I don’t know; certainly not inflation.

Then as now, Paul was utterly clueless with regard to foreign policy:

Knowing this administration’s record, I wasn’t surprised by its Libyan disinformation campaign, Israeli-Iranian arms-for-hostages swap, or illegal funding of the Contras. All this has contributed to my disenchantment with the Republican Party, and helped me make up my mind.

These complaints are virtually identical to those that Paul lodges today, including his gratuitously including Israel in the Iran-Contra controversy. Paul concluded by resigning from the Republican Party, on the ground that he wanted to utterly disassociate himself from the Reagan administration:

I want to totally disassociate myself from the policies that have given us unprecedented deficits, massive monetary inflation, indiscriminate military spending, an irrational and unconstitutional foreign policy, zooming foreign aid, the exaltation of international banking, and the attack on our personal liberties and privacy.

After years of trying to work through the Republican Party both in and out of government, I have reluctantly concluded that my efforts must be carried on outside the Republican Party. … I therefore resign my membership in the Republican Party and enclose my membership card.

It is quite remarkable that a man who renounced his membership in the Republican Party because he so despised the Ronald Reagan administration could now be running for the GOP nomination for president. We can only hope that most of his votes are coming from non- Republicans who are crossing over, out of mischievousness, in open caucus or primary states.

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#1. To: Mad Dog (#0)

Actually he is the number 2 Republican for the nomination for President of the United States right now. It is a two man race.

Who do you prefer Mitt Romney or Ron Paul?

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-01-10   22:03:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: A K A Stone (#1)

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Bachman or Santorum.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-01-10   22:04:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Mad Dog (#3)

Bachman or Santorum.

Neither of them have a chance. Bachman dropped out. Santorum is a Arlen Specter endorser.

Face it. It is Mitt or Paul.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-01-10   22:07:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: A K A Stone (#5)

Neither of them have a chance. Bachman dropped out. Santorum is a Arlen Specter endorser.

Face it. It is Mitt or Paul.

Yeah, that's what the leftstream media and YOU keep saying.

Too bad there are still 49 repukelican't PRIMARIES left to VOTE.

Figures that a PaulTARD pushes the lamestream media BS and LIES.

If it's OK with you, (even if it is not), we'll play the game to find out who wins.

It won't be RonniePAULIE.

Want to bet?

What kind of odds will you give me since you think that your wee hero is so unstoppable?

I'm not greedy, 5 to 1 works for me.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-01-10   22:15:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Mad Dog (#8)

What kind of odds will you give me since you think that your wee hero is so unstoppable?

I think Romney is going to win. I want Ron Paul to win and I will vote for him in the primaries. I think it is a long shot.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-01-10   22:23:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: A K A Stone, we the people (#12)

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But Romney will have to beat the messiah "king" obammy without YOURS or the rest of the PaulTARD'S votes right?

FUCK America, you'd NEVER soil your self voting for Romney against Obammy.

You have your principles afterall.

THAT'S what is REALLY important isn't it?

Uh yeeeeeeeaah SURE, you BETCHA!

PITIFUL.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-01-10   22:31:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Mad Dog (#17)

But Romney will have to beat the messiah "king" obammy without YOURS or the rest of the PaulTARD'S votes right?

I honestly don't know what I would do in that circumstance yet.

I don't like Romney. I see him as a liberal. I'm almost certain he would be better then Obama. But he would also continue almost every Obama policy I disagree with.

If Romney got it that would mean 8 more years of liberal rule. If Obama lost at least he is hated and would be resisted and we could have maybe Rand or some other good conservative in 4 years instead of 8.

We are pretty much screwed with any likely outcome.

A K A Stone  posted on  2012-01-10   22:34:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: A K A Stone (#18)

I don't like Romney. I see him as a liberal. I'm almost certain he would be better then Obama

...Stone, I honestly believe we'd be better off with another 4 years of Obama. We KNOW he's a Communist...and those in the military seriously dislike the guy. With Romney, we get the same...only pretending to be a "conservative", (whatever THAT means) and he will be able to push his agenda farther down the road. To be honest...I expect something MAJOR between now and election time...they're not passing these laws to assassinate or detain Americans for no reason...I think THE ONLY thing holding them back is they DON'T have the military in their pocket...Romney might if he wins. One thing is for sure...I'd NEVER vote Romney...EVER! For me, it's Paul or nobody...and there's NO WAY the RNC candidate wins without Paul voters...and these voters are VERY aware of the 2 party fraud...I'm sure most, if not all, feel the same as me.

freedomsnotfree  posted on  2012-01-10   22:53:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: freedomsnotfree (#25)

...Stone, I honestly believe we'd be better off with another 4 years of Obama. We KNOW he's a Communist...and those in the military seriously dislike the guy. With Romney, we get the same...only pretending to be a "conservative", (whatever THAT means) and he will be able to push his agenda farther down the road. To be honest...I expect something MAJOR between now and election time...they're not passing these laws to assassinate or detain Americans for no reason...I think THE ONLY thing holding them back is they DON'T have the military in their pocket...Romney might if he wins. One thing is for sure...I'd NEVER vote Romney...EVER! For me, it's Paul or nobody...and there's NO WAY the RNC candidate wins without Paul voters...and these voters are VERY aware of the 2 party fraud...I'm sure most, if not all, feel the same as me.

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Thanks for admitting that you are a brain dead CULT boy FOOL that doesn't give a shit about AMERICA or AMERICANS you vile little weasel.

You infantile Polly Annish CULTIST FOOL.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-01-10   23:01:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Mad Dog (#29)

Thanks for admitting that you are a brain dead CULT boy FOOL that doesn't give a shit about AMERICA or AMERICANS you vile little weasel.

Rant on child...rant on. Riddle me this though...how is ANY rnc candidate going to win without the Paul supporters vote HHHHUUUMMM! It's NOT going to happen! Deal with it. All your childish ranting, name calling, vulgarity and stupidity won't garner you an once of support. Frankly, I can see why you don't vote for Paul...you clearly have serious issues. Keep posting and keep proving my point...PLEASE!

freedomsnotfree  posted on  2012-01-10   23:16:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: freedomsnotfree (#39)

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You REALLY need to stop talking to yourself FOOL.

It makes you look insane.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-01-10   23:18:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: Mad Dog (#41)

now you're just being funny again. Are you a coward aslo, I noticed you didn't answer the question...how is your boy _______________ going to win without the Ron Paul supporters. You better get ready for another 4 years of Obama of 4 years of Paul...

freedomsnotfree  posted on  2012-01-10   23:21:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: freedomsnotfree (#44)

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I don't have "a boy" you gibbering CULT boy bitch.

You REALLY need to stop talking to yourself FOOL.

It makes you look insane.

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-01-11   15:11:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: Mad Dog (#56)

I don't have "a boy" you gibbering CULT boy bitch.

Well, of course you do child. Are you to cowardly to answer the question...How is your boy _______________ going to win without the Ron Paul supporters. You better get ready for another 4 years of Obama of 4 years of Paul...

freedomsnotfree  posted on  2012-01-11   18:29:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#74. To: freedomsnotfree (#64)

LOL!

Whatever you say CULT boy.

LMAO!

YOU PITIFUL little CULTIST FOOL.

LOL!

Mad Dog  posted on  2012-01-14   17:50:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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