Ron Paul's Groupies

[Warph]

I can certainly understand why Gingrich is so angry with Mitt Romney.  It's because of all the negative ads that Romney ran in Iowa.  You know, the ones that told the truth about Gingrich's having been censured by Congress for financial shenanigans when he was the Speaker of the House; that he had fully supported mandated health care; that he had joined Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore in promoting the fraud known as global warming; and that he had been paid 1.6 million of our tax dollars by Freddie Mac.

Frankly, I think that nobody was more surprised than Newt when he found himself riding high in the polls back in December.  After all, this was the same guy who went off to the Greek islands with Mrs. Gingrich at the start of the primary season, leading his entire election team to quit, after having decided that he obviously wasn't a serious candidate.  It also helps explain why he didn't bother getting his name on the Virginia ballot.  All along, I figured that he had thrown his hat in the ring for the very same reason that Pat Buchanan used to throw his.  It's called branding, the human equivalent of the way that Coca Cola, GE and Disney promote themselves.  By keeping his name in front of the public, it helps Newt sell books, videos and make certain that his big, fat lecture fees remain big and fat.

Something else I keep hearing, at least from Ron Paul's groupies, is that America should not be the policeman of the world.  Oh, really?  Perhaps we should leave it to the likes of France.  Or maybe the Netherlands?  Costa Rica?  Venezuela?  Or would we all be better off if we just let China, Russia and the Islamic nutcakes, fight it out for global supremacy?  And when the dust settles, I suppose we can just line up on our knees to kiss the ass of the winner. 

His groupies are always insisting that his detractors don't really understand the subtle nuances of Paul's foreign policy, and that, in any case, his domestic policies are utterly sublime.  The problems are two-fold: one, the major reasons that young nincompoops champion his domestic platform is because it pretty much consists of legalizing drugs and making certain that the military draft is never reinstated; and, two, his foreign policy would, to an even greater extent than Obama's, gut the U.S. military and encourage the likes of Russia, China and the Islamists, to start licking their chops.

Those are such infantile suggestions from his groupies that it explains why Ron Paul draws most of his followers from high schools and colleges..... you know, the same bunch of youthful clowns who applaud Obama for keeping them on their parents' health insurance policies until they're middle-aged, who turned our streets into latrines as members of the Occupy Wall Street movement and who think George Washington and Samuel Adams are the wide receivers on the Arizona Cardinals.  .

I had been aware of the fact that no important piece of legislation carried the Ron Paul name, even though he's parked his backside in the House for the past 23 years.  But until I heard it on Fox, I was unaware that during that time, he had proposed 620 pieces of legislation and only had one bill passed.  And that one dealt with the sale of a Galveston landmark to a Texas historical society.  Just think about it.... the man has been in Congress for nearly a quarter of a century, collecting roughly $3.5 million in salary, and all he has accomplished is to facilitate the sale of a building he, himself, didn't own.  I'd say that he's the Republican answer to Dennis Kucinich, except that Kucinich doesn't keep embarrassing the Democrats by running for president.

Still, I hasten to add that where presidential elections are concerned, it's rarely, if ever, a contest between a great candidate and a terrible one.  But, quite often, it's a choice between someone who is just mediocre and a Democrat, who really is terrible.  Having said that, anyone who fails to acknowledge the huge difference between the two is either a mere clownish dunce or completely deranged.

When I first heard that Nancy Pelosi spent her Christmas vacation in a Hawaiian resort that ran her $10,000-a-night, I was flabbergasted.  But, then, I reminded myself that the woman is worth nearly $40 million.  Besides, it's her own dough she was spending.  That's quite different from the Obamas spending over $4 million of our tax dollars to catch the rays 7,000 miles from the White House.  I suppose if you're a liberal jackass, you don't see that as an example of gross insensitivity during an economic crisis, but merely as the spirit-lifting equivalent of Churchill's flashing the V-sign while touring London's bombed-out buildings during the worst of the Nazi blitz.

Finally, according to the Mayan Calendar, the world is supposed to come to an apocalyptic end on December 21st. of this year.  I am of two minds about the prediction.  On the one hand, I'd hate to think that I might never see another Christmas or another birthday.  On the other hand, if, by some awful turn of events or through some political Chicago style skullduggery... Obama actually gets himself re-elected on November 6th... the end couldn't come soon enough for me.

[srkruzich]

LOL me too warph, dec would be welcome if he won.

As far as libertarian candidate, Ron paul is not my ideal candidate at all.  His defense policies are essentially non defense.  I am libertarian with the belief that defense is when you take the fight to the enemies land not wait til they land on our soil. 

While i have a massive problem with this behemoth homeland insecurity, i don't have a problem with our troops being in korea or other bases in the world.  I think it is ideal to keep our defenses ready in these locations.  Pulling our troops out is not the way to go. 

In this day and age, turning isolationist is not the way to go.  We can't survive as a isolationist nation.  Just common sense dicates that. What if the middle east shut off oil. We are screwed totally.  It would take us 10 years to ramp up production out of our own reserves.   Yes we are pretty much the bread basket of the world but for how long?  We are seeing food shortages now because some dumbass got the bright idea to turn our food source into fuel for cars.
If oil were cut off then you would see corn selling for 1000 dollars a ton.  Wheat the same way.   

I do believe we need to allocate 10k troops along the border.  Thats insignificant number compared to the 2 million we have currently in the military.  Maybe we have to put 20 -30k so what, its still not many in comparison.  Plus it would stop the illegal flow.

What we really need in this country today is a stop to the big dollar elections.  Say ok you can spend 100k on an election thats it.  It would allow for the original intent of the founding fathers of every day joe citizen to server  1 -2 terms and go home and go back to work.  That would save our asses the fastest