<p>[Too</a> bad it’s Ron Paul](<a href=“http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-02/st_ronpaul]Too”>One Candidate Mastered Online Campaigning. Too Bad It Was Ron Paul | WIRED)</p>
<p>In the interest of equal opportunity for the GOP - re: baked threads ;)</p>
<p>Ron Paul is the most mainstream candidate in the race. He simply wants to legalize the Constitution. Let’s run down his positions and rationale:</p>
<p>Get out of NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, etc: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to regulate international trade.</p>
<p>Get out of Iraq: The Constitution says Congress must declare war or else issue letters of marque and reprisal. Iraq is an illegal war.</p>
<p>Get out of the U.N.: The U.N. is not technically unconstitutional, but under the Constitution, it has no power to make any decisions on our behalf. It is illegal to go to war defending a U.N. resolution. Thomas Jefferson: “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”</p>
<p>Use the gold standard: Gold and silver are the only forms of currency recognized in the Constitution. Its true that the founders didn’t FORBID the federal government from issuing paper money, but their conversations at the convention showed a great disdain for it, and they never envisioned a 100% fiat currency.</p>
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Ron Paul isn’t a Republican. He is a Libertarian. It is embarassing that someone like Ron Paul is associated with the Republican Party and permitted in Republican debates.</p>
<p>Really? Which of his policies do you consider not Republican?</p>
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<p>I am not the biggest fan of these trade agreements, but this is not UN-constitutional. If Congress has the power to regulate it , they can choose to delegate it also.</p>
<p>That’s not how it works. We’re a sovereign country. The Constitution is our law, not the U.N. charter. Unelected international bureaucrats have no business deciding what we should or should not do.</p>
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<p>Ronald Reagan disagrees. </p>
<p>"“Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country.”-Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>The truth is that Ron Paul is the ONLY Republican. He’s a paleo-conservative in a party that’s been hijacked by neo-cons and theo-cons.</p>
<p>Its also worth pointing out that Ron Paul and his staff haven;t really mastered anything. The grassroots have organized this 100% on their own, from money bombs to “MeetUps” Its a result of people falling in love with his message and doing something about it. Such a force is far more effective than whatever Ivy league marketing hack all the other campaigns have hired to try and tap into the internet for campaigning purposes.</p>
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My post would be so long the CC server would break to answer your question. So here is a simple example: Paul would repeal most federal drug laws. He would legalize “industrial” hemp. Paul voted against military border patrols to stop drug trade and terrorism. He sponsored a state’s rights to medical marijuana bill. </p>
<p>The Republican view is that heroin, cocain, etc. should be regulated and eliminated as best as possible. Paul’s view is that everyone who wants to be high should be high. Paul is no Republican, he is a Liberitarian.</p>
<p>Ah, you seem to be confusing the Republican view with the self-righteous neocon view that seeks to control people’s lives.</p>
<p>The traditional Republican view is that the govt. should be small and its primary duty is to protect liberties. What people do with those liberties is up to them, as long as they don’t impose on anyone else’s liberties.</p>
<p>Libertarian just means ‘protecting our liberties’ and historically that is what the Republican party stood for.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Ron Paul—Actual Republican](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ_Z_XG0L2c]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ_Z_XG0L2c)</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Ron Paul Courageously Speaks the Truth](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7d_e9lrcZ8]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7d_e9lrcZ8)</p>
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<p>What are you referring to?</p>
<p>Yeah… Ron Paul is more of a true Republican than most current Republicans are. How about, instead of demonizing him, all the other “Republicans” go make a new party to accurately reflect their new status as the party that wants to control your life and the lives of people all around the world (theo-conservatives and neo-conservatives, respectively)?</p>
<p>Right on! …</p>
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<p>Could you please point to the section of the Constitution which allows the federal government to prohibit marijuana? There is none; Jefferson himself was a hemp farmer.</p>
<p>The government knew they had no Constitutional authority to ban alcohol in the 20s, so they did the legal and Constitutional thing-a constitutional amendment (despite the fact that prohibition was a total disaster, amending the Constitution at least shows respect for the Constitution as the the final authority)</p>
<p>Ron Paul is for taking marijuana laws off the books because federal laws prohibiting marijuana are unconstitutional. Its as simple as that.</p>
<p>I’m assuming you prefer the Mitt Romney approach of telling chronically ill wheelchair ridden kids that he’d put them in jail for smoking doctor prescribed medical marijuana? [YouTube</a> - Mitt Romney Snubs a Man in a Wheelchair (long version)](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtqe9lp4kM]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtqe9lp4kM)</p>
<p>Ron Paul is also no “Libertarian”. The Libertarian Party wants a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion, and wants to get rid of the borders.</p>
<p>theo-con. First time I’m hearing that term. Love it.</p>
<p>You can belive whatever you want, but Ron Paul is no Republican and the Republican party is not the Libertarian party and never has been. A simple quote from the 2004 Republican Party Platform (you know the one adopted by Republicans) shows Paul is not a Republican.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.gop.com/media/2004platform.pdf[/url]”>http://www.gop.com/media/2004platform.pdf</a></p>
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You are wrong again. Paul entered the 1988 presidential election running as the Libertarian nominee. Pauls’ VP was another Libertarian, Andre V. Marrou. </p>
<p>Paul pretends to be a Republican because he knows the media would not pay any attention if he admitted what he really is.</p>
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I would be easier if Ron Paul would simply return to his true party and leave the Republicans alone. The Republican party is doing fine as it is.</p>
<p>The platform also says they want to lower government spending and secure the borders. However, Ron Paul is the ONLY Republican who really wants to do those 2 things. The platform used to say that they wanted to get rid of the dept of Education, but then a Republican majority in all 3 branches doubled the size of the Dept of Education.</p>
<p>In 2000, George W Bush ran on a platform of a humble foreign policy, no nation building and no policing the world. [YouTube</a> - George W. Bush on Nation Building In 2000](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfv4nC3xyr0]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfv4nC3xyr0)</p>
<p>That’s precisely the platform Ron Paul is running on now. Its impossible to keep up with the flip flops of the big wigs in the GOP, but the conservative principles the party was founded on will never change.</p>
<p>Ron Paul spent one year in the libertarian party, and has served 10 terms in Congress as a Republican. The Republicans in his district love him, and Ronald Reagan seemed to be a fan. Its not his fault that he has stuck to the conservative principles of Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater while the rest of the party has abandoned conservatism.</p>
<p>Pat Buchanan > Ron Paul.</p>
<p>I rarely agree with Vyse… I agree with Vyse. ;)</p>