Congressman Ron Paul, Republican Candidate for President

[rowjimmy]

I rarely stray into this forum but I thought you guys might find this article interesting.
Yes, it's on PrisonPlanet.
Yes, it's about a Republican.
No, they aren't disparaging him.
Really, they aren't. And, I'm not prepared to either.

Weird, huh?

To keep this post short, I'm only going to quote the beginning of the article. Click the link @ the end to see the whole thing.

The Revolutionary Candidate

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Lew Rockwell.com
Monday, March 26, 2007

No one quite knows what to do about Congressman Ron Paul, Republican candidate for president.

He refuses to play by the rules. He's a bigger supporter of the free market than anyone in Congress, but he's also the most consistent opponent of war. (That the conjunction of these positions – which amount to classical liberalism in a nutshell – should actually seem surprising or odd goes to show how perverse our political system has become.)

Other than Dennis Kucinich, he is the only authentic antiwar candidate in either party. He has won so many awards from the National Taxpayers Union that he's probably lost count. CNET rated him the best out of all 435 congressmen in the House of Representatives on issues relating to the Internet. There is no more reliable civil libertarian in Congress than Ron Paul.

His conduct, moreover, is beyond reproach. Lobbyists don't even bother going to his office. If their scheme doesn't fall among the federal government's enumerated powers under the Constitution, they know perfectly well that there is no chance Ron Paul will support it.

Paul's new book, A Foreign Policy of Freedom, calls for the abandonment of hyper-interventionism and the restoration of a foreign policy of commerce and peace. Although more and more Americans polled agree that their government should mind its own business and try to scale back its impossible commitments – Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes of Columbia and Harvard, respectively, now say that their initial estimate of $2 trillion as the long-term cost of the Iraq war is too low – no one in politics other than Ron Paul will actually say such a thing, much less write a book about it. At last we have a choice, not an echo, as Phyllis Schlafly used to put it.

Dr. Paul, an Ob/Gyn who has delivered 4,000 babies in his career, utterly defies the view of the world shared by right-wing blogs and talk radio, in which America is divided into "liberals" who oppose the Iraq war and conservatives who support it. (As I've shown in the past, "liberals" don't have a particularly stellar antiwar record over the past hundred years, and the "liberal media," including the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the cable news networks, overwhelmingly supported the Iraq war.) Ron Paul's candidacy is having the useful effect of showing people that their ideological choices are not limited to Al Franken and Rush Limbaugh. You can in fact be antiwar without being a leftist.

At the same time, some on the left are giving Paul a respectful hearing, sensing that this is no ordinary politician. A writer for The Nation argued that "this Constitution-wielding contender, who voted against authorizing Bush to invade and occupy Iraq and has steadily opposed that war since its launch four years ago, would certainly make the GOP debates worth watching – and perhaps applauding."

Read the rest @ http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/260307Revolutionary.htm

[birdman]

   Thanks for the read RJ...Im going to check out what this guy has to say in his book.
I love a good anomally.

[rowjimmy]

I love a good anomally.

Yup. You, me and Mr. Spock.

[sophist]

nice find!   

[antelope19]

nice find!   

The article, or that picture of Mr. Spock?   :-P

[rowjimmy]

The article, or that picture of Mr. Spock?   :-P

Both, obviously.

[sophist]

The article, or that picture of Mr. Spock?   :-P

judging by the stern look on Spocks face, he's seeing some serious puntang with those x-ray glasses. 

[sls.stormyrider]

interesting.
a conservative who is antiwar
a politician who lobbyists won't visit because it's a waste of time
someone who doesn't believe in dividing people into R or L

no friggin way he is going anywhere this campaign 
too bad, sounds like a reasonable guy. 

[cactusfan]

Yup. You, me and Mr. Spock.

i don't have anything to add.
just wanted to put kirk and spock together.

[kellerb]

so why is he a republican?

[rowjimmy]

Possibly because republicans didn't used to be the way they are.

John Perry Barlow; founder of the EFF, Rancher, sometimes lyricist for the Grateful Dead; calls himself a Republican. But he campaigned against Bush.

[jedifunk]

its not as cut and dry as the media makes it out to be...

the controller at my job is a republican, but you'd have a hard time guessing it by talking to him...  personally he's closer to being a centrist than an out and out republican.

[antelope19]

its not as cut and dry as the media makes it out to be...

The media......skew things, or even blow them out of proportion.......NEVER!!!!!!!   :wink:

[jedifunk]

The media......skew things, or even blow them out of proportion.......NEVER!!!!!!!   :wink:

exactly... thats why i watch FOX

[antelope19]

hahahaha, yeah, its all f'ed