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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/15/2007 : 12:18:31
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| ....right below the surface of the libertarian mask that [Ron] Paul wears is an ultra nationalist, gun loving Christian conservative that opposes affirmative action, a woman's right to choose and same-sex marriage. And… oh yeah: he hates immigrants. |
Guess I didn't know all this about Dr. Paul.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/15/2007 : 12:57:47 [Permalink]
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He looks pretty close to being a Fascist.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/15/2007 : 14:20:36 [Permalink]
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He is still better, imo, than the rest of the republican candidates.
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2007 : 18:06:38 [Permalink]
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Dude wrote: | He is still better, imo, than the rest of the republican candidates. |
That may be, but that ain't saying much! |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2007 : 18:29:36 [Permalink]
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Hrmmm.... out of the democrats running, how many advocate an immediate withdrawal from Iraq and a US foriegn policy that resorts to military force only in self defense and defense of allies?
One! (I don't count Sen. Gravel, he is just there for the publicity) And he is getting lambasted because he says he saw a UFO. Even though he has said repeatedly that he doesn't mean to say he thinks he saw a UFO piloted by aliens, he still gets ridiculed.
So that puts Ron Paul a step above all the dems except Kucinich, in my book.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 11/15/2007 : 19:30:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Hrmmm.... out of the democrats running, how many advocate an immediate withdrawal from Iraq and a US foriegn policy that resorts to military force only in self defense and defense of allies?
One! (I don't count Sen. Gravel, he is just there for the publicity) And he is getting lambasted because he says he saw a UFO. Even though he has said repeatedly that he doesn't mean to say he thinks he saw a UFO piloted by aliens, he still gets ridiculed.
So that puts Ron Paul a step above all the dems except Kucinich, in my book.
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I don't know, Dude. I mean, I agree about the use of force. But I've yet to see a smart study by a non-partisan group about the effects of a complete US withdrawal in, say, 14 months. My gut instinct is to be in favor of such a move, but I'd like to know what experts (and not Bush hacks) think the reasonable after-effects of such a move are. |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
1620 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2007 : 06:01:54 [Permalink]
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| Voting for Ron Paul on a single issue - ending the Iraq War - is probably not a good idea. I think that war is one of the greatest mistakes in American foreign policy history, it's consequences are and will continue to reverberate far and wide in many ways, and I absolutely despise GW Bush and his neo-con 'advisors' who started it. But I would never vote for Ron Paul to end it. There is almost nothing else I agree with him on. So while he will work hard to end that war, there's a heck of a lot more that the next president is going to have to deal with and I can't imagine Paul doing anything else coinciding with my interests as a liberal American. |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2007 : 11:52:48 [Permalink]
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Dude wrote: | (I don't count Sen. Gravel, he is just there for the publicity) |
That doesn't seem fair. Gravel's chance of winning isn't much different from Kucinich's or Paul's.
But anyway, if any of those three actually won, they are each so far distanced from the Washington political machine that they'd get almost nothing done and much of the federal government would pretty much grind to a hault.
Then again, maybe that'd be a good thing. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 11/19/2007 : 13:07:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by marfknox
Dude wrote: | He is still better, imo, than the rest of the republican candidates. |
That may be, but that ain't saying much!
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Not much about Ron Paul, but much about the rest of them...
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 11/29/2007 : 12:54:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Gorgo
| ....right below the surface of the libertarian mask that [Ron] Paul wears is an ultra nationalist, gun loving Christian conservative that opposes affirmative action, a woman's right to choose and same-sex marriage. And… oh yeah: he hates immigrants. |
Guess I didn't know all this about Dr. Paul.
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| It's really not very complicated: |
Meaning I am smarter than you and if you do not agree with my opinion then you are an idiot.
| people who are or stand with workers, the poor, women, queer folks, people of color and immigrants will need to look far beyond this candidate. |
Could Ron Paul get away with a statement like that?
| And… oh yeah: he hates immigrants |
This is what is wroing with America and our politics. If a person wants regulations on immigrants he hates them, if a person thinks gun ownership is protected by the government they are dangerous idiots, if a person is against abortion they hate women, on and on and on we go and nothing gets done.
My two criteria for a canidate:
1. Anti abortion.
2. Is not devisive. Does not have an us against them mentality as most politicians in this country have.
Is there one? |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 11/29/2007 : 13:30:08 [Permalink]
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You mean you will only support a candidate who wants to make abortion against the law? In other words, your key interest is to limit other people's freedom; specifically to limit a freedom that, when exercised, doesn't affect you in any meaningful way... Why?  |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 11/29/2007 : 13:35:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
My two criteria for a canidate:
1. Anti abortion.
2. Is not devisive. Does not have an us against them mentality as most politicians in this country have.
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Seems to me that these two are mutually exclusive.  |
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 11/29/2007 : 13:48:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
You mean you will only support a candidate who wants to make abortion against the law? In other words, your key interest is to limit other people's freedom; specifically to limit a freedom that, when exercised, doesn't affect you in any meaningful way... Why?
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I was hoping people would discuss my second criteria.
I will only support a candidate that is interested in stopping all abortions, making them illegal is only 10% of the solution. I am sure that abortion has been discussed to great length on this board and this is probably not the thread to do it. (but I will a little)It all hinges on whether one believes a fetus is a person or not. I do, so you can see why it affects me. |
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 11/29/2007 : 13:50:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
Originally posted by Robb
My two criteria for a canidate:
1. Anti abortion.
2. Is not devisive. Does not have an us against them mentality as most politicians in this country have.
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Seems to me that these two are mutually exclusive.
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so is:
1. Pro abortion.
2. Is not devisive. Does not have an us against them mentality as most politicians in this country have. |
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 11/29/2007 : 14:22:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
Originally posted by pleco
Originally posted by Robb
My two criteria for a canidate:
1. Anti abortion.
2. Is not devisive. Does not have an us against them mentality as most politicians in this country have.
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Seems to me that these two are mutually exclusive.
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so is:
1. Pro abortion.
2. Is not devisive. Does not have an us against them mentality as most politicians in this country have.
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I totally agree. My point was that your position is untenable. |
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The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/29/2007 : 14:49:21 [Permalink]
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I don't see what all the shoutin's about. The way to cut down on abortions is to cut down on unwanted pregnancies, and the best way to do that is through education and safe & reliable methods of birth control. All very simple.
Contrary to neocon belief, nobody likes abortions.
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Ron Paul - Not your hero
