How is it living life the way you want to when someone tells you what to do with you body? Last time I checked, a government that controlled the personal details of your life such as whether or not a woman is pregnant….is in fact fascist.

I certainly don’t like abortion, but I don’t have the right to tell someone they can’t do it. The whole argument about abortion being murder is ridiculous. Every single one of us helps to commit murder everyday. From the clothes we buy (made in sweatshops) to the cars we drive (which produce CO2) we all take actions daily that affect the lives and the health of others. Don’t those children in Asian countries working to death for pennies a day matter?

How is it living life the way you want to when someone tells you what to do with you body? Last time I checked, a government that controlled the personal details of your life such as whether or not a woman is pregnant….is in fact fascist.

I certainly don’t like abortion, but I don’t have the right to tell someone they can’t do it. The whole argument about abortion being murder is ridiculous. Every single one of us helps to commit murder everyday. From the clothes we buy (made in sweatshops) to the cars we drive (which produce CO2) we all take actions daily that affect the lives and the health of others. Don’t those children in Asian countries working to death for pennies a day matter?

I reside in Dr. Paul’s district and I have attended many of his public functions over the years. I have met and spoken with him numerous times and the thing that impressed me the most about him is that he is REAL. He does not put on airs and pretend he is something he is not. He does not lay down his principles for anyone or anything. He has a solid moral conviction to return this country to the people for which it was founded.

I’m glad that you will not let your doubts and fears about his missing action plans deter you from supporting him.

I have been of voting age for several years now and I have seen many politicians and elections come and go. After reading your article I tried very hard to think of any one candidate during my tenure as a voter that have ever supplied an action plan to back up his/her intent or promises, whose campaign didn’t suffer and die for it. The general rule at this juncture in the game is to state your position on the issues. Devising and implementing a workable plan comes later, once you are in office.

Providing a detailed, step-by-step action plan at this time would be tantamount to campaign suicide for any of the candidates currently up for consideration. Their opponents and the “political analysts” would dissect them with it. Their “spinned out” twisted version of the plan would be used to squash the candidate idiodic enough to supply them with such ample fodder.

Never fear…Dr. Paul has been speaking about the changes that need to happen for many years now. The plans are there, but the time is not ripe for their debut.

I reside in Dr. Paul’s district and I have attended many of his public functions over the years. I have met and spoken with him numerous times and the thing that impressed me the most about him is that he is REAL. He does not put on airs and pretend he is something he is not. He does not lay down his principles for anyone or anything. He has a solid moral conviction to return this country to the people for which it was founded.

I’m glad that you will not let your doubts and fears about his missing action plans deter you from supporting him.

I have been of voting age for several years now and I have seen many politicians and elections come and go. After reading your article I tried very hard to think of any one candidate during my tenure as a voter that have ever supplied an action plan to back up his/her intent or promises, whose campaign didn’t suffer and die for it. The general rule at this juncture in the game is to state your position on the issues. Devising and implementing a workable plan comes later, once you are in office.

Providing a detailed, step-by-step action plan at this time would be tantamount to campaign suicide for any of the candidates currently up for consideration. Their opponents and the “political analysts” would dissect them with it. Their “spinned out” twisted version of the plan would be used to squash the candidate idiodic enough to supply them with such ample fodder.

Never fear…Dr. Paul has been speaking about the changes that need to happen for many years now. The plans are there, but the time is not ripe for their debut.

And whether or not the President of the U.S. can personally mandate any of that, he/she has a very great influence over it.

And whether or not the President of the U.S. can personally mandate any of that, he/she has a very great influence over it.

Ron Paul has not demonstrated either willingness or ability to reason outside the box of his ideological convictions. Some of his supporters, like Daniel Meissler here, have, but not Ron Paul.

Being able to abstract general principles from a multitude of facts and apply them to new facts is the mark of an intelligent person. Being unable to see facts than contradict your abstract principles is the mark of an ideologue. Anyone who can say “The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers,” or call the Constitution “replete with references to God,” can’t see facts through the filter of his ideology. A man who doesn’t care what happens to people who cannot afford education or health care as long as his Constitutional principles are kept pure is an ideologue.

I agree that Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush have all expanded federal bureaucracy and spending, and the Bush/Cheney administration has built the power of the Executive branch to a level unprecedented in American history, shredding the Constitutional system of checks and balances. I agree that a balance of power between levels of government (city, county, state, federal) is as necessary as a balance of power between branches of government, to safeguard the maximum individual liberty.

I do not agree that the way to balance one extreme is to head to the opposite extreme. Polarization freezes brain cells. When we tune out the faults of Our Side and tune out the strengths of Their Side, we severely weaken our ability to solve problems!

Ron Paul has not demonstrated either willingness or ability to reason outside the box of his ideological convictions. Some of his supporters, like Daniel Meissler here, have, but not Ron Paul.

Being able to abstract general principles from a multitude of facts and apply them to new facts is the mark of an intelligent person. Being unable to see facts than contradict your abstract principles is the mark of an ideologue. Anyone who can say “The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers,” or call the Constitution “replete with references to God,” can’t see facts through the filter of his ideology. A man who doesn’t care what happens to people who cannot afford education or health care as long as his Constitutional principles are kept pure is an ideologue.

I agree that Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush have all expanded federal bureaucracy and spending, and the Bush/Cheney administration has built the power of the Executive branch to a level unprecedented in American history, shredding the Constitutional system of checks and balances. I agree that a balance of power between levels of government (city, county, state, federal) is as necessary as a balance of power between branches of government, to safeguard the maximum individual liberty.

I do not agree that the way to balance one extreme is to head to the opposite extreme. Polarization freezes brain cells. When we tune out the faults of Our Side and tune out the strengths of Their Side, we severely weaken our ability to solve problems!

Hopefully this does not come as a surprise, but there are actually countries in this world with large scale social programs…the Scandinavians come to mind. Their societies are far from the brink of disaster. In fact the quality of life is arguably the best in the world…for ALL of their citizens.

Hopefully this does not come as a surprise, but there are actually countries in this world with large scale social programs…the Scandinavians come to mind. Their societies are far from the brink of disaster. In fact the quality of life is arguably the best in the world…for ALL of their citizens.

1. Associates himself with Reagan, a Bohemian Grover puppet who quadrupled military spending, started us off into spiraling debt and made a deal with that Russky devil Gorbachev. Never liked Red Ronnie Reagan.

2. Wrote in praise of the Pope. That does worry me because frankly I think the Vatican (a sovereign nation in itself) has way too much power and sway over our government. In fact, I will go so far as to say the Vatican is one of the greatest dangers to our republic. It was the Vatican that signed the concordat with Hitler for just one of many examples of wickedness that comes out of that place. If RP ingratiates himself with the Pope, it is a great danger just as Jefferson said, “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.”

3. He is close in with the John Birch Society. I don’t have too many problems with their stances on most issues, but again, they are tied with with freemasonry and the Vatican and though they are anticommunist (that’s good) they have never said they are fighting against fascism, which is not good. They should be against both and so far as I can tell, there is a fascist element in the JBS that is dangerous.

4. He won’t discuss 9/11 as an inside job, but I recognize the danger that presents to his credibility, so I generally don’t quibble over it especially since he agrees that another investigation is warranted.

5. Association with Guy Fawks and V for Vendetta. I totally disagree with the mindset of terrorism no matter what the cause is, so I think this is an unfortunate and wrong move on the part of his campaign. It is just another thing for critics to pounce upon and adding to their claim that RP is a fringe case of the right-wing nut squad or whatever they are saying about him.

Okay, those are my criticisms of him. They don’t so far outweigh my general approval of his overall stances on the issue, but frankly I am willing to change my tune if somewhere down the road I think he is going to sell America out to anyone.

PW

1. Associates himself with Reagan, a Bohemian Grover puppet who quadrupled military spending, started us off into spiraling debt and made a deal with that Russky devil Gorbachev. Never liked Red Ronnie Reagan.

2. Wrote in praise of the Pope. That does worry me because frankly I think the Vatican (a sovereign nation in itself) has way too much power and sway over our government. In fact, I will go so far as to say the Vatican is one of the greatest dangers to our republic. It was the Vatican that signed the concordat with Hitler for just one of many examples of wickedness that comes out of that place. If RP ingratiates himself with the Pope, it is a great danger just as Jefferson said, “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.”

3. He is close in with the John Birch Society. I don’t have too many problems with their stances on most issues, but again, they are tied with with freemasonry and the Vatican and though they are anticommunist (that’s good) they have never said they are fighting against fascism, which is not good. They should be against both and so far as I can tell, there is a fascist element in the JBS that is dangerous.

4. He won’t discuss 9/11 as an inside job, but I recognize the danger that presents to his credibility, so I generally don’t quibble over it especially since he agrees that another investigation is warranted.

5. Association with Guy Fawks and V for Vendetta. I totally disagree with the mindset of terrorism no matter what the cause is, so I think this is an unfortunate and wrong move on the part of his campaign. It is just another thing for critics to pounce upon and adding to their claim that RP is a fringe case of the right-wing nut squad or whatever they are saying about him.

Okay, those are my criticisms of him. They don’t so far outweigh my general approval of his overall stances on the issue, but frankly I am willing to change my tune if somewhere down the road I think he is going to sell America out to anyone.

PW