Tucker Carlson on the trail with Ron Paul, a bordello owner and a pair of prostitutes.
The first time I heard Paul talk about monetary policy, I’d felt like a hostage, the only person in the room who didn’t buy into the program. Then, slowly, like so many hostages, I started to open my mind and listen. By the time we got to Reno, unfamiliar thoughts were beginning to occur: Why shouldn’t we worry about the soundness of the currency? What exactly is the dollar backed by anyway? And, if the gold standard is crazy, is it really any crazier than hedge funds? I’d become Patty Hearst, ready to take up arms for the cause, or at least call my accountant and tell him to buy Krugerrands. I looked over at Dennis and the girls. They looked like they might be having the same thoughts.
Looking at all but one of the Republican candidates (and, it goes without saying, all but none of the Democratic ones) I see nothing in prospect but a new draft of office-seeking intellectuals, primed and eager to bring us new expansions of federal power, new pointless wars, new million-strong reinforcements for the Reconquista, new thousand-page tax loopholes, new inducements for idleness and crime, new humiliations for the saps who follow rules and obey laws.
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1 Pimpin Turtle Dot Com // Dec 21, 2007 at 8:55 pm
He is leading this quarter in fundraising for the Republicans and maybe for the democrats. His ethusiastic supporters ARE everywhere and they will vote…. they will vote in rain, snow, sleet, or earthquakes. That is why he will do very well in Iowa and he will potentially win NH. When all the Huckabees and Romneys are staying home cause it is too cold, who do you think will be out no matter what for their man? the good Dr. Paul.
70% of Americans want out of Iraq.
All three of the top Democrats running have said that there is no way they could or would pull the troops out of Iraq until their second term in 2013. That is insane…
It is not only Iraq though. Paul wants to pull troops out across the world.
The U.S. population is only 1/25 of the world’s population, yet we spend 80% of the entire world’s military budget.
We have troops in 130 different countries!
We operate over 700 bases WORLDWIDE! THEY ARE BUILDING A NEW EMBASSY IN IRAQ THAT IS BIGGER THEN THE VATICAN!
We still have 50,000 troops in Japan! 40,000 troops in Korea! 75,000 + in Germany! This is insanity and it is bankrupting America!
Down with the military-industrial complex!
Go Ron Paul!
Champion of the Constitution!
http://www.ronpaul2008.com
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2 pax // Dec 21, 2007 at 10:57 pm
I’m actually not a fan of Dr. Paul’s foreign policy, I personally think isolationism isn’t really possible with the wrold economy intertwined the way it is, the US military keeps the peace just by it’s very existence.
In a way, I think the fundamental message of smaller government that Dr.Paul spreads is so powerful because it brings together such a disparate base of supporters, from antiwar to libertarian to those who are apolitical but see the government for the enemy of freedom that it is.
I’ve never given money to a politician before, but I will be throwing Paul some money after the holidays.
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