Comments on: Ron Paul: GOP Needs To Change

Political Players: Republican Candidate Discusses Iraq, Electability, and Third Parties

[hungry1968]

Ron Paul is the ONLY Republican candidate who comes across as speaking from the heart. The rest are mental migets. Although I will NEVER vote for a Republican again, I do respect Paul.

Posted by leftyintexas at 10:06 AM : Oct 28, 2007




I''ll never vote for a member of either party ever again. I''ll vote Independent, Green Party, even Communist if I have to, but I''ll be d*mned all to he11 if I''ll ever vote for a Dem or Rep again.

[lochlan-2009]

I like some of what I hear, I''ll give you that. BUT, I will not trust the GOP ever again, as far as I am concerned, they are a dead party. However, I also despise Hillary, and am certain she is not the best direction for this country, especially just "because she is a woman". We should not be electing presidents because they are black or female, but because of where they can take our country and citizens.

[cfin5]

californiar,.......I also see the neodems voting for every issue which way the political winds blow......Thought you might need a little help in being fair minded.

[cfin5]

l8c6,......That''s right! All "WE THE PEOPLE" want in an elected (hired servant) leader is to be governed according to what the Constitution of the United States "SAYS". Not by one who "FEELS" what it says. I can''t sum it up it in a written "lower common denominator" than that.

[gunownerdan]

Dr. Ron Paul is the ONLY anti-war and pro-liberty candidate running for president.
All "front runners" from both parties are members of the CFR and their dream is to destroy American sovereignty and our Constitution.
ronpaul2008.com

[l8c6]

Right wing republicans kept voting for the fascist neo con ideology year after year till it came to it''s deadly fruition. They want to backtrack with RP. This country needs out of the right wing muck period.

[cfin5]

Every so often our nation seems to drift away from our Constitutional moorage and likewise a real patriot will step up to the plate to put this in check. Ron Paul is this "man of the hour" that will do this. His voting record walk proves his campaign talk. I have heard hypocritical statesmen say we need a new constitution to live by. This attitude is far more dangerous to let grow than any war or issue we are entangled in. Folks! I have read good and plenty the writings of our founding fathers in regards to the issues of their day (nothing has changed since). If you think politicians are milk toast potlickers now, wait till you read up on the "quality" and "integrity" of the ones with whom we have to do concerning our national birth. And these politicians today act like they are so much wiser because of their increased knowledge that they alone can out trump Thomas Jefferson, Samual Adams, James Madison, etc..??? Knowledge is indeed the Sword of Good and Evil. And it will obey the name (national sovereignty, world globalism)of its wielder. Listen up Americans, the swords that our leaders have forged since 9/11/01 are double edged weapons, one side for terrorists, the other side for patriots. We can''''t afford to let this sword be wielded by the wrong person.........Ron Paul, the "ONLY" un-CFR, unsocialist, and pro-constitution candidate for ''''08! GO USA!!!

[taotxzen]

When Rudy%u2019s candidacy started to show legs, pundits and family values activists alike assumed that ignorant voters knew only his 9/11 video reel and not his personal history or his stands on issues. %u201CAmericans do not yet realize how far outside of the mainstream of conservative thought that Mayor Giuliani%u2019s social views really are,%u201D declared Tony Perkins, the Family Research Council leader, in February. But despite Rudy%u2019s fleeting stabs at fudging his views, they are well known now, and still he leads in national polls of Republican voters and is neck and neck with Fred Thompson in the Bible Belt sanctuary of South Carolina.

There are various explanations for this. One is that 9/11 and terrorism fears trump everything. Another is that the rest of the field is weak. But the most obvious explanation is the one that Washington resists because it contradicts the city%u2019s long-running story line. Namely, that the political clout ritualistically ascribed to Mr. Perkins, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Gary Bauer of American Values and their ilk is a sham.

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These self-promoting values hacks don%u2019t speak for the American mainstream. They don%u2019t speak for the Republican Party. They no longer speak for many evangelical ministers and their flocks. The emperors of morality have in fact had no clothes for some time. Should Rudy Giuliani end up doing a victory dance at the Republican convention, it will be on their graves.

Part of their demise, of course, can be attributed to the pileup of personal hypocrisies that have always undone Elmer Gantrys in America, from Jimmy Swaggart to Jim Bakker. The Ted Haggard revelations were in that tawdry tradition, and so was the news that the Christian Coalition%u2019s front man, Ralph Reed, looked forward, as he put it, to %u201Chumping in corporate accounts%u201D in collaboration with the now-jailed K Street lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Their fall from grace was synergistically augmented by their scandal-prone family-values allies on Capitol Hill. Even now, the virulent marriage defender David Vitter retains his Senate seat despite having confessed to unspecified sins after his name surfaced in bordello scandals in both Washington and New Orleans.

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Also staying put in the Senate is Larry Craig, who, consciously or not, is calling the whole moral brigade%u2019s bluff. After he was busted in the Minneapolis airport, Republicans insisted he undergo an ethics committee investigation on the assumption that he%u2019d disappear before they could conduct it. Now they will have to make good on their word.

Mr. Craig is not just refusing to leave, but, as he demonstrated to Matt Lauer, he is ready, willing and able to re-enact his toilet pas de deux on national television. The Larry Craig show could be C-Span%u2019s hit of the election season. It will culminate with its star%u2019s return to the scene of the crime during the Republican National Convention, which, as perverse poetic justice would have it, is taking place in Minneapolis.

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But the most significant %u2014 and happiest %u2014 explanation for the values czars%u2019 demise as a political force is that white evangelical Christians and a new generation of evangelical leaders have themselves steadily tacked a different course from the Dobson crowd. A CBS News poll this month parallels what the Times reporter David D. Kirkpatrick found in his examination of evangelicals for today%u2019s Times Magazine. Like most other Americans, they are more interested in hearing from presidential candidates about the war in Iraq and health care than about any other issues.

Abortion and same-*** marriage landed at the bottom of that list; fighting poverty outpolled abortion as a personal priority by a 3-to-2 margin. To see just how large a gap separates that evangelical electorate from the values organizations that purport to speak in its name, just look at the Values Voter Summit that the Family Research Council convened to much press attention in Washington last weekend. In a survey of participants to determine which issue would be %u201Cmost important%u201D in choosing a presidential candidate, the summit%u2019s organizers didn%u2019t even think to list the war, health care or fighting poverty among the 12 hot-button options.

Frank Rich

[watcher269-2009]

Ron Paul won''t even come close to getting the nomination. I wish the Neocons and the Religious right would break off from the republican party - that way maybe we can get America back from the religious facists and the just plain old facists. Then they can easily be identified and given the new ID cards that they want to push on Americans - that way we will know who gets put into the camps first!

[jerr11]

Ron Paul is the genuine article. He represents the old GOP, like Chuck Hagel. I have a lot of respect for these real men of the GOP.

They understand that the GOP has been hijacked by the Christian right and the neocons. Now it''s nothing but a propaganda machine for the Bush Cheney agenda of endless wars to enrich themselves and their cronies.

If Ron Paul gets the nomination, I might even vote for him!!

Go Ron go!!

[devere1603]

Ron Paul is a very good man. However, his isolationist foreign policy worries me. I''ve never heard Dr. Paul acknowledge that treaties such as NATO and the U.S.-Japan mutual defense pact are U.S. law, while George Washington''s famous advice against entangling alliances is not. Would President Ron Paul take care that ALL of the laws ( including the ones he doesn''t care for ) are faithfully executed? He could do us all a big favor by letting us know.

[usaprophet]

Like Ron Paul, I believe the biggest threat to your privacy is the government. We must drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data regarding citizens'' personal matters. We must stop the move toward a national ID card system (e.g., The Real ID Act). Under this new law, states are currently issuing new driver''s licenses embedded with standard identifier data (RFID chips). Although, some states like Montana are refusing to comply. A national ID with new tracking technologies means we''re heading into an Orwellian world of no privacy. Ron Paul was one of the few members of Congess who voted against the Real ID Act. Also, under current medical privacy protection rules, which Ron Paul also opposed, insurance companies and other entities have access to your personal medical information. Finally, there''s the so-called Patriot Act, which Congressman, Ron Paul also voted against. As originally proposed, it expanded the federal government''s ability to use wiretaps without judicial oversight; allowed nationwide search warrants non-specific to any given location, nor subject to any local judicial oversight; made it far easier for the government to monitor private Internet usage; authorized sneak and peek warrants enabling federal authorities to search a person''s home, office, or personal property without that person''s knowledge; and required libraries to turn over records of books read by their patrons. Ron Paul sponsored a bill to overturn the Patriot Act.

[jowand]

Ron Paul is a loon. But he''''s 10x the man of Romney or Guiliani, but only half the man of Hillary.

Regards,

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 06:17 PM : Oct 27, 2007

Yup Hillary''s got both of Bills plus one and Ron Paul don''t have any

Ron Paul is a Libertarian and should get out of the Republican Party. He''s phony who couldn''t get elected as a Libertarian so he says he''s a Republican.

[usaprophet]

Most intelligent people can see right through the mainstream media''s bias against Ron Paul. Polls? As someone who''s in the business, I know you can make a poll result look anyway you want. All you have to do is call or not call on people in a certain demographic group to achieve your desired result. You can see the man has support. He''s won all the debates he''s been in. People everywhere are in the street, and on the Net, supporting him like no other. And his campaign chest is growing daily, and not from huge corporate donations like the other GOP and Democrat candidates get, but from grassroots supporters who give what little they can afford. Ignore what the media network giants like CBS tell you. They sold-out to the status quo decades ago. This man has some major grassroots support across this country. I support the 2008 candidacy of Dr. Ron Paul. I believe he is our only hope to restore peace, prosperity and freedom in this country. Presidential candidates with the high-level of personal integrity and bearing the positive message of Dr. Paul only come around only once in a lifetime, if we''re lucky. The stakes are too high now, and the cause of freedom is too important, to let anything stand in the way of me participation in this 21st Century political revolution. Go Ron!

[gkc99]

I hope Hillary considers giving Ron Paul a significant position, perhaps chief judge of the Bushit/Cheney War Crimes Tribunal.

[cfin5]

Yea this blog is what I figured a bunch of Rons minions alienating the american voter, From libertarian to republican give me a break he is one of the worst canadites running a bag wind with lunatic supporters that turned me off a long time ago when your base support makes republicans look open minded it''''s over he should have took the time to present himself with a once of class he might at least stood a chance does anyone think that the american voter is going to go ex libertarian it''''s a joke in poor taste,,,

Posted by crzmeat at 06:29 PM : Oct 27, 2007 -----------------------------------------------I''d learn to at least use the "period button" before talking to much if I was you......Think about it!

[dwayneahall]

Dr. Paul won''t let them take our guns or make us get a national ID.

Dwayne from Arkansas