From the daily show, basically calling out the media for ignoring Ron Paul despite finishing a very close second in the straw poll.
Paul seems to be the only guy who actually stands for what the Tea Party conservatives say they stand for. I certainly expect the likes of MJuric and Rob C to support him. I’m just wondering what the Republican playbook says. (Hello, Chainpin & Rodred. That’s you. Can you regurgitate some talking points for us?)
He’s no Democrat, but independents like him. Even the Dems can live with him because he’s like a Republican minus the rape (So that makes him a Ublicn…get it? (…groan…)).
Dr. Paul just showed again why he’s unelectable, both in the primary process and the general election: While the house republicans were calling on the White House to shore up FEMA funding for disaster relief, Paul was busy blaming FEMA for creating dependency and ruining the economy.
Hard to disagree with this analysis, although I don’t think it accurately describes FEMA’s role in its entirety. It certainly pegs their complicity in creating moral hazard and the growing financial suck hole.
“We’ve conditioned our people that FEMA will take care of us and everything will be okay, but you try to make these programs work the best you can, but you can’t just keep saying, ‘Oh, they need money,’ … Well, we’re out of money, this country is bankrupt.”
Paul added that FEMA is a gross distortion of the U.S. insurance system because it rewards bad behavior.
“FEMA creates many of our problems because they sell the insurance because you can’t buy it from a private company, which means there’s a lot of danger, so we pay people to build on beaches, and then we have to go and rescue them,” he said.
“It’s so far removed from the market and the understanding of what insurance should be about. Insurance should measure risk, it shouldn’t be a a bailout program endlessly.”
I don’t consider myself a true conservative or a Tea Partier, but I’m not a big fan of Ron Paul. Some of his ideas are, frankly, nutty to me. I don’t believe that returning to the gold standard is a solution to our economic woes, and I think that his foreign policy ideas are far too isolationist.
I disagree with a number of things that Paul says/believes. The difference with Paul though, is that I don't see him using the power of the federal govt to force you to live according to what HE believes. That's where he departs from the parties and most pols. I think as POTUS he'd set a tone of reduced govt size, control, and spending, and congress would temper his wishes, with, hopefully, the result being a reasonable move in that direction. Yes I'd vote Paul over Obama in a NY minute.
Is he really? I thought he stayed out of all the social/religious conservative BS.
I sort of respect him despite some of his unrealistic policy pronouncements because he seems to actual stand for the things others only claim to stand for.
But denying a couple hundred years of biological science is a disqualifier for me.
Yeah, but you’d vote for a dog biscuit over Obama…or Kerry…or Gore…or anyone who’s a Democrat, so that’s not really saying much. ; ^ )
Ah, nice list; Kerry as the most liberal senate member, only losing top billing to the newby Obama, and then there's Gore. It's kind of a lefty wack-a-doo vs rightwing nutjob kind of time, but the press only seems to deem the righties as a possible problem, or as being "extreme". Good post on that front because Paul is really the anti-Obama; the libertarian to Obama the top-down, statist, nanny-state, federal mandated, control freak. Yeah, it may come down to who I think will harm our economy the least, and Obama loses that to pretty much anyone.
Our country is not bankrupt, that’s a gross distortion. I like Ron Paul, but like many other politicians I’d like some consistency.
Hard to disagree with this analysis, although I don’t think it accurately describes FEMA’s role in its entirety. It certainly pegs their complicity in creating moral hazard and the growing financial suck hole.
“We’ve conditioned our people that FEMA will take care of us and everything will be okay, but you try to make these programs work the best you can, but you can’t just keep saying, ‘Oh, they need money,’ … Well, we’re out of money, this country is bankrupt.”
Paul added that FEMA is a gross distortion of the U.S. insurance system because it rewards bad behavior.
“FEMA creates many of our problems because they sell the insurance because you can’t buy it from a private company, which means there’s a lot of danger, so we pay people to build on beaches, and then we have to go and rescue them,” he said.
“It’s so far removed from the market and the understanding of what insurance should be about. Insurance should measure risk, it shouldn’t be a a bailout program endlessly.”
I’d agree with you but as long as you clearly separate church and State it doesn’t matter to me. You can believe in the Easter bunny as long as that is your personal believe and you do NOT in any way associate that with government and set a big government agenda accordingly.
If that person understands that his role of leadership should be very limited at the Federal level, I’d support that person for President. I’d rather have a President that understands the limitation that the Federal Government should operate under than a President that is “science based” and tries to rule our lives through the Federal Government, continues to increase the size and cost of Government, while trying to run an Empire. If you look at Ron Paul’s voting record, he clearly separates church and State. As much as he is against abortions he remains principled enough to not take that power away from the State level. IMO, that is huge for a person that is religious. Btw, I don’t believe in the business of religion.
"Dr. Paul just showed again why he’s unelectable, both in the primary process and the general election: While the house republicans were calling on the White House to shore up FEMA funding for disaster relief, Paul was busy blaming FEMA for creating dependency and ruining the economy. "
I don’t disagree that he is unelectable because people want a big nanny state to wipe their ass and make decisions for them, BOTH sides…Let me ask you, do you support FEMA funding? You support the right for every American to build in a non-sense geographical area while the Government bears the risk and the taxpayer rebuild in the same flood/slide zones or fault lines? I believe that people should have the right to build there but it comes at their risk, if a private insurer wants to insure it then so be it but no bullshit big government socialist subsidies for that shit.