Doug.38PR wrote:Ron Paul sees the Constitution as it was originally written. He interprets it's language as the original writers did (which is the proper way to interpret any document). The other's (Democrats and Republicans)make it's language to mean whatever they want it to mean today to suit whatever they want. Republicans might talk a lot about the Constitution and State's Rights, but it is just patriotic noise and no patriotic reality.
Ron Paul gets my vote
One problem I have with Ron Paul (among others) is that, when his own self interests are involved, his pedagogy goes right out the window. He derides other Congressmen for attaching riders to spending bills, but he also has a historical record of attaching his own riders to bills that he knows will pass without his vote, and then voting against those bills so that he can maintain the
appearance of ideological purity. He gets to vote against pork, AND bring pork home, all in the same vote. So he's no better than the others in that regard. I am also bothered by his cynical unwillingness to distance himself financially from white supremacists and other mouth breathers who send him money. It's not even a lot of money in terms of overall political donations he's raised to date that we're talking about. It's the
idea of it. He is trying to fly in the face of the reality that we are known by the associations we keep. If he is unwilling to sever those ties, then he will be known by them, and it will cripple him if by some small chance he were to actually gain the Republican nomination. And I don't even want to go into his record in the war on terror. Let's just say that Paul shares George Soros' opinion in the matter, and Soros is a traitor to the country that helped to make him richer than Croesus.
Additionally, Paul is failing to do better than an average of about 10% +/- in the primaries, which means that he has only an infinitesimal chance of actually capturing the Republican nomination. I have spoken with literally dozens and dozens of Ron Paul supporters who say that they hate the other Republican candidates so much that they will either sit out the general election
or write in Paul if he fails to get the nomination. In a general race in which the difference between the Democrat and the Republican contenders will likely boil down to a 4%-6% difference, a scenario in which 10% of Republicans bolt the party to either write in Paul or to not vote at all will result in a Democrat victory. BTW, it was reported today that, in California, the state with the single largest block of delegates to the DNC and which participates in Sooper Toozdee tomorrow, Obama has pulled ahead of Clinton.
In the meantime, this is a forum dedicated to Texas CHL rights and issues. Obama says, "
National legislation [emphasis mine] will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents." (David Mendell, "Democratic hopefuls vary a bit on death penalty," Chicago Tribune, February 20, 2004). Get that? A
President Obama will work toward passing a national bill over-riding Texas' CHL laws, and all of you will have to surrender your CHLs and stop carrying if you wish to remain law-abiding citizens. What you worked hard to get, within the framework of the duly constituted laws of the State of Texas, will suddenly become criminalized, and
there will exist a statewide database of those people to whom the licenses were issued. Good luck to you on your next traffic stop.
"What seems to be the problem officer?"
"Sir, are you aware that your CHL became void by national law 6 months ago? Are you carrying your firearm at this time? SIR!!! Get down on the ground, arms out at your side!!"
Welcome to Obama's world if you vote for Ron Paul in the general election as anything
other than the Republican nominee.
...and don't expect a President Hillary Clinton to be any kinder to your concerns. So, for whatever my opinion is worth, even if an imperfect RINO gets the nomination, even if the nomination goes to a Mormon and you just can't stand that idea, even if the nomination goes to an evangelical preacher and you worry about church/state issues, and yes, even if that person turns out, however improbably, to be Ron Paul, hold your nose and vote for the Republican nominee. This is not an election where the nation can afford the luxury of "protest voting," or adopting the "I'm taking my voting toy and going home" mentality.
That's just my 2¢. I know that it's not a popular position - but political realities rarely make one popular.