Comments on: The Republican shuffle continues

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:30:06 +0000

Obama = Romney = Perry = Cain = Gingrich = different puppets, same deceitful/ traitorous Federal Reserve/Bankster masters.

Gingrich = endless wives, $1.8-Million Freddie-mac bribe, commie Gingrichcare, 3rd world amnesty/welfare, $16-Trillion/bailouts, endless wars/empire.

Cain = Kansas Federal Reserve thug, “Libya swirls in my head”, unauthorized finger in panties, $16-Trillion/Bailouts, endless wars/empire.

Romney = commie Romneycare, racist quotas, $16-Trillion/bailouts, abortion, gun control, endless wars/empire, campaign funding by Banksters.

Perry = Gardasil for little girls, free health/ education/house/food/amnesty for 3rd world invaders, “niggerhead” on farm, “oops, whats the 3rd one?”, “Bank-of-America helping him out”, endless wars/empire.

End the wars/empire, end the federal reserve/IMF/World Bank/BIS/UN/WTO, end racist quotas/unconstitutional departments, end TSA/DHS/ADL/SPLC and other Orwellian crime syndicates.

Ron Paul will restore sound money, strong national defense, liberty, free enterprise, local government, strong traditional families, Western Civilization.

By: Richard Haydn

Richard Haydn — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:33:44 +0000

David, I don’t know why we get this “planned” thing all the time. We are simply individuals that are very active in the support of Ron Paul. The only planning is when there is an online poll. That consists of emailing and alterting each other through various meetup groups and facebook. Of course, all the other campaigns do the exact same thing! Your article was pretty interesting and pretty fair. I would only note that those federal government employees that have donated to his campaign were well aware of his stance on the issues before they donated. Would you donate your hard earned money to a candidate without learning his positions first? His positions have been published and known for 30 years or more. Please look up some articles on this and you will find many governement employees commenting on why they support Ron Paul. As to campaign donations in general, see opensecrets.org. As conservatives that are tired of the bail-outs, we cannot support a candidate like Romney that gets the majority of his contributions from wall street types. Ron Paul’s philosophy about government and where he comes down on certain issues may seem strange to some. But once you realize that defending the constitution is his paramount objective, you can figure out his position on many things without even looking it up. As to gay and lesbian marriage, his personal beliefs aside, he feels it is none of the governments business. The so called Left and the so called Right want to force there opionion on everyone through the federal government. Ron Paul takes the view that this is not a federal issue, but one for the states and especially the churches and synagogues to handle. Doesn’t that make sense? Thanks again for a pretty thoughful post.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:40:53 +0000

The fringe mainstream media doesn’t know what to do with themselves. They really can’t smear Ron Paul with many facts, so they continue on like a broken record with, “fringe” and “unelectable”. They called Reagan that too. If you want Washington Bureaucrats to push their agenda on you, then vote for someone else. If you want more freedom and businesses to boom again, then vote for Ron Paul. Ron Paul stands out because he doesn’t have to rehearse his answers and pander to anyone. He is the Champion of the Constitution.

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:15:05 +0000

David, you’re missing the point on marriage equality. Marriage is a religious institution hijacked by government. Getting government out of religion will insure marriage equality for all. I personally don’t care who marries whom, whether it’s gay, polygamy, whatever. Government does, though, and that should concern you. As long as 51% of the population can tell 49% of the population how they can live their lives, whom they can marry, and so on, marriage “equality” will be a concern.

As for Ron Paul’s plan to cut a trillion dollars, he has ALWAYS advocated eliminating federal departments deemed unnecessary, unconstitutional, or both, and he has ALWAYS advocated bringing our troops home and shutting down our hundreds of bases in hundreds of foreign countries. This is not news to his financial supporters in the military or in the federal government.

By: David Webb

David Webb — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:55:24 +0000

With so many comments coming so soon after my column’s publication (was that planned?), it seems appropriate to add a little bit to the dialogue.

Ron Paul unveiled his plan to streamline the federal government Oct. 17 while financial reports for campaign contributions reflecting wide support among federal employees ended Sept. 30. Perhaps, federal employees might be a little more concerned about the stability of their jobs now, progressive layoffs or not.

There’s no way Ron Paul could be viewed as an advocate for marriage equality, but he is less offensive about it than most Republican politicians.

As for the introduction of military personnel into the workforce after World War II, they were largely reclaiming jobs taken over by women when they went overseas. There also was a great need for consumer goods such as automobiles, automobile parts, household goods, etc., that had been sacrificed during the war years. Things have changed a lot in 60 years.

In the end this is an opinion piece, not a news story. i enjoy listening to all of the candidates, but I find Ron Paul a little more interesting than the others. I’m not sure I would vote for him, seeing as how the election is a year away. But he definitely makes the debate more intriguing.

By: kris

kris — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:45:59 +0000

Nevermind the fact Paul recieves more campaign donations from federal employees and military service men/ women that makes this reporter look like an ape trying to wipe his ass with basketball it’s the blatant stupidity that we all don’t already know Dr. Paul’s “shocking” positions that stand for freedom, liberty and the constitutions. yea, he’s our man.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:16:04 +0000

You must be reading different polls, because Ron has faired much better than 10 percent of late.

As was already mentioned, Ron gets more support from active military than all other GOP contenders combined and more than Obama.

As to your “other” federal employees, maybe it would do some of them a real service to let them work in the private market and see what kind of productivity really drives a successful nation.
As to your marriage claims, you didn’t give a fair assessment. Ron clearly stated that he feels the government should not be involved in marriage at all, that the only reason they are is for taxation purposes and since he is anti-tax, anti-IRS and anti-Federal Reserve, it’s clear that he is not at all pushing against gay marriage, in fact he has a traditional conservative stance of steering clear from people’s personal lives altogether. Truthfully, for my gay friends, I’d say Ron Paul is probably the best bet to make the gay marriage issue disappear altogether. If tax issues and passing on assets are no longer a problem….then the “legality” of marriage whether straight or gay is not much of a big deal….it comes down to the commitment between two partners and the particular church or minister they wish to have marry them.

By: Charles Picard

Charles Picard — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:02:50 +0000

This is a very decent article. I am grateful to see a journalist from the LGBT community take a relatively unbiased view toward Paul. However I must agree with many of the other commenters, it was a pretty big story a few days ago about Paul getting more donations from federal workers than all the other GOP candidates combined, if for nothing else because it seemed so counter-intuitive. And active-duty military donations are also another point I invite you to read about. Paul has raised more money from them than all other GOP candidates combined, and at least as of the second quarter, more than Obama.

But other than these two points, this is a very good article. Thank you for it!

By: Warren Redlich

Warren Redlich — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:31:53 +0000

Ron Paul’s answer on gay marriage should be very pleasing for the gay community. Watch is answer in this debate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXrjzoBhYjQ

While he personally believes marriage is between a man and a woman, he also thinks it should be up to your church to decide whether or not you can be married. As long as you don’t impose your definition of marriage on his church, you should be free to do what you want.

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:10:48 +0000

As for LGBT and gay marriage, Ron Paul and libertarians in general believe that government has no authority in what has been, for most of human history, a matter of religion. The state confers benefits on people, but everyone has the right to get married if they can find a church willing to do so. I wish I had never gotten a state marriage license. It’s caused me so much financial trouble, including higher taxes than I would have paid just shacking up. Get government out of religion, marriage, bedrooms, and wallets.