How's this for a little bit of inconsistency? The Young Turks, two videos, first is from a year ago when they were smearing Paul as a racist; second is from a two weeks ago, and now they (like many other media figures, eg Glenn Beck) welcome him on their show now they realise how popular he is. It's disgusting, but Paul is a gentleman about it all and I guess he's grateful for the publicity; maybe some Obamanoid lefties were woken up as a result of this appearance.
Ron Paul is an interesting one. He's a clever guy, he knows how to play his cards in politics. But he makes an obvious mistake. Libertarians are considered "republicans" or the far right, which is opposite the trend in 2008 which headed left because of Dubya's bad repuation. McCain led the primaries over Huckabee and Romney with a large margin for that reason. America wanted to regain it's reputation of a tolerant one, which we are.
ReplyDeleteRon Paul did something interesting. He used leftist tactics with hopes of attracting more republicans. It doesn't work. You can't go to American conservatives and preach anti-war policies with a million of seemingly blind worshiping minions like Obama had. The past showed that Republicans respond to candidates that prefer a strong military defense and cut taxes. Even Bill Clinton won the favor of neocons because he cut prescription taxes for the elderly as a Govenor of Arkansas.
Obama just spent $7 trillion dollars in less than three months, trying to run the banks and the auto companies. The public is hungry for any leadership on finance and economics in this time of crisis. Ron Paul is filling that void.
I'm not a Ron Paul supporter by a long shot. But better him than Obama, Krugman, Pelosi, Frank, Gramm, Leach, Bliley, Clinton, Geithner or Bernanke.
Ron Paul isn't left or right, and neither is the US Constitution. All he advocates is that the government follows the constitution.
ReplyDeletePersonally I ditched the left-right paradigm a while ago because when you apply it to governance it makes no sense. Liberty is an indivisible whole. Read what the Founding Fathers had to say about foreign wars.
Mainstream Republicans are just as much big government proponents as mainstream Democrats. The distinction between them is really just a superficial one based on a few issues eg abortion and gun control.
The real substantial issues - foreign policy, monetary policy, as RP said in the interview above - don't change whichever party is in power.
Both are corporate controlled parties - you might even say they represent two sides of the same coin. Look at who donated the most to Obama and McCain:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-95883
There's no mention of left or right in the Constitution. The founding fathers cherished liberty and protected it, which neither corporate party is even close to doing today.