CBS Labels Ron Paul a "Meaningless Fruitcake" With "No Chance" Of Winning

[Psycho4Bud]

yeah see i understand his views are agreeable on alot of other things like constitutional values, and drug laws...but why the hell would you want people who LIVE here not to WORK here?thats the only reason why i'm not going to vote for him. i don't like the idea of free trade.

We should be isolationalists on our military but open all of our doors to free trade. Doesn't make sense at all. I also don't care for his stance on abortion either.

The more I read on this dude it seems that there is alot more behind the mask. Imagine that, another dirty politician.......full of promises.

Have a good one!:s4:

[epxroot]

We should be isolationalists on our military but open all of our doors to free trade. Doesn't make sense at all. I also don't care for his stance on abortion either.

The more I read on this dude it seems that there is alot more behind the mask. Imagine that, another dirty politician.......full of promises.

Have a good one!:s4:

Ahaha, he is in no way an isolationist! Some are pro-life some are not. Ron is pro-life.

[Psycho4Bud]

Ron is pro-life.

Personally, I think it's the womans choice. That's my problem with his stance not to mention most of the candidates on the right.

Have a good one!:s4:

[Mohksha]

P4B, I, too have read the plank statements from Ron Paul, and besides wanting to take away my Social Security and Medicare, yes, he did blame us for WWII ... he's a nutcase ... OK, so he's a nutcase that wants to legalize pot ... big deal ... I'm not willing to piss away my country over the ability to smoke more pot, but it looks like plenty of people are ...

I think maybe you misunderstood some of his points. He doesn't want to take away Social Security. On the contrary, he thinks the only way to save it is to allow people to opt out of it if they don't want to be in the program. My money is being STOLEN from me and I will never see it again. He is merely giving the option of getting out. He wants to change the social health care system, not get rid of it. Medicare only produces more bureaucratic inefficiency. I don't remember where I heard it, but I think I remember him saying that he would establish some sort of tax credit... I don't remember exactly.

I also don't know what you are talking about with him saying we are responsible for WWII or that we shouldn't have gone in. I watch almost every debate with him in it and I have never heard that. He has been misquoted before, so if you heard that sentence from anywhere but Ron Paul's mouth, that's probably the case. I do agree though with the pot thing. Not that I think that is the case with the Ron Paul movement, but I have met idiots like that before, too. Don't stereotype. I think stereotypes and expecting that people will act a certain way has caused most of the world's griefs throughout the millennium. Don't be a collectivist; everyone is an individual.

[VoidLivesOn]

how come no one will dabble in the free trade topic? it seems like people who support him are ignoring the fact that free trade means people losing jobs. am i right or wrong? please explain.

[thcbongman]

I watched them on TV cheering in the streets........seems all the applause is gone for now. Granted they don't have a "country" but their main base was in Afghanistan. As far as Iraq is concerned.......I've debated that point enough, believe as you will.

In "real life", if a neighbor allows an asshole to sit in their yard and throw objects at your house while cursing ya out on a daily basis.......the neighbor is in shit knee deep with the law also.

Have a good one!:s4:

In that instance, the police would handle it, not the army.

There are smaller scale military operations that could've taken care of it, rather than than displaying a high level of military and media aggressiveness.

Same instance with Iraq. Bush didn't want U.N. inspectors to finish the job, and he moved in.

Both these moves were done for pure economical reasons.

[thcbongman]

how come no one will dabble in the free trade topic? it seems like people who support him are ignoring the fact that free trade means people losing jobs. am i right or wrong? please explain.

To promote competition, and allow brooding grounds for innovation. It also allows for cheaper products and goods. The effect is that it hurts manufacturing jobs. However the type of jobs is shifted to service economy based. The biggest negative of free trade is we start to lose manufacturing skills amongst the population. It also hurts communities that were dependent upon it. I'm inclined to support some tariffs.

[epxroot]

Personally, I think it's the womans choice. That's my problem with his stance not to mention most of the candidates on the right.

Have a good one!:s4:

Hey, there are two things we agree on Global Warming, and freedom of choice!! I too think it should be the choice of the woman if she wants to or not. Thats what I like about Ron is even though he supports pro life he still thinks it isn't a Federal issue and needs to be handled at the state level. I really don't think you can pass a law against abortion it would lead to so much worse if that happened. If there were a law passed I wouldn't be shocked to hear them saying it's against the law to smoke in your own house if you have children living in it.