Comments on: Wrong About Ron

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:22:37 +0000

This time Ron is actually fighting- He just brought out a campaign video that puts Perry in his place. How much good it will do is questionable but, it’s a start.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/paul-unveils-campaign-ad-first-season-hit-perry-151235183.html

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:49:23 +0000

@ IM ” Ron Paul is the only Republican presidential contender whose foreign policy position can unite left, right and independent Americans. ”

Right On !

I call the control octopus The Media-Military-Politico-Gov. Employee-Global Industrial Complex

By: Redman

Redman — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:54:49 +0000

Good comments but, as you stated, it all hinges on THINKING and therein lies the problem. Americans no longer think, they emote! They follow like sheep, they rave after sports, they text and tweet but think, that they do not do. Therefore, the end is in sight.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:59:46 +0000

In the Lincoln Douglas debates, each candidate talked for 30 minutes or more to voters with an attention span that exceeded that of a gnat! Current “debates” are multicandidate TV shows with “gotcha” moments, flubs, humorous jibes “there you go again!”, and other moronic jousts – often for the amusement of media blowhards like Hertzberg, Chris Wallace, etc.

I find the Republican party to have some good ingredients that are mixed up with some odious ones and allowed to mold and rot. Here is an analysis by some “former” Republican named Lofgren (but a supporter of big government) which I find I agree with IN PART – although his specific dissatisfaction does not march mine:

http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779

Of course, Lofgren himself was a member of the Oink Sector who does not explain why he spent 28 years as a “Republican staffer” before he “discovered” the stink.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:34:57 +0000

Well said Ilana. When I talk to “conservative” family and friends about Paul the biggest obstacle I come up against is the issue of the military. These people believe that the USA should be the worlds policeman. It’s difficult to get past the propaganda of the last six decades.

By: David Smith

David Smith — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:31:32 +0000
Conservative. When I was still reflexively voting solidly Republican and supporting all our foreign wars, I thought I was a conservative. Although I loved hearing Dr. Paul's appeals to the Constitution in 2007, as a veteran of two tours in Iraq, convinced we were helping to defend kith and kin, I got tripped up over what I considered his naive opposition to it. I was the naive one. His campaign [and this columnist, hopefully, which has been making the anti-war case since 2002] forced me to reexamine my conservatism and what I said I believed. Over time, I came to realize I was out of step with the conservatism I said I espoused. The problem is, so many of us don't THINK, as you indicate, and conflate neo-connery with what has been held to be truly conservative for a long, long time.

By: Ness Lum

Ness Lum — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:14:33 +0000

Yes, and for that very reason, he is “dangerous” to both left, right, and center – those that would seek to divide our nation for selfish ends. The challenging part, getting him on the ballot!

[The “nation” is already divided.]