On Nov 28, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> Shane Mage writes:
>
>> If you were to make a list (a short one, to be sure) of everything
>> sensible said in the past year by any of the Official candidates
>> (Obama + the GOPers) you will find that a hefty majority will be
>> sourced to...
>>
>> Ron Paul.
>
> Probably also the case that if you made a list of all the
> outrageous, completely unacceptable ones you'd find him "winning"
> that race, too.
For all the outrageous things the Repugs have said, I doubt that put together they add up to anything close to what Obama perpetrated in his boasting about murdering, in foreign countries not at war with the US, an unidentified man that he called "Osama Bin Laden" and a US citizen not even charged with any crime named Anwar el-Alaki.
> I mean, who else out there is against the Civil Rights Act
which is not, and never again will be, a political issue
> and the Bill of Rights (as applied to the States) ...?
I'm unaware of what Ron Paul has said about 14th-Amendment jurisprudence, but Obama and all the rest are manifestly against the Bill of Rights as applied to the Federal Government as well as the States. On all practical political matters, moreover, Ron Paul is the only visible (Buddy Roemer having no visibility) candidate in favor of the Bill of Rights.
> The fact that some of your opinions align with his (for no doubt
> radically different reasons) doesn't make him worthy of your support.
Of course not, as long as he stays in the G-D OP.
But if he enters the race as an independent against Obama and some Repug clown (and the usual slew of futile leftist sects) he would be more than worthy of my support--and of yours as well.
Shane Mage
"scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to"