Republican presidential hopeful, Rep. Ron Paul, (R-TX). (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
For anyone that doesn’t support Ron Paul, and has ever tried to talk to his supporters, you’ve probably realized that they are unaware of all the things they are supporting by endorsing Ron Paul. Here’s a list of just 21 reasons someone might be a Ron Paul supporter. Feel free to add your own, in the comments on this article.
1. You’ve never researched Ron Paul’s voting record.
2. You think it’s OK for businesses to discriminate against people based on their race, since Ron Paul thinks the Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional.
3. You’re a supporter of the white supremacist organization StormFront.org, which has repeatedly endorsed and stated their support for Ron Paul.
4. You don’t care that Ron Paul was the ONLY congressman who voted against granting subpoena power to the independent panel responsible for investigating the BP oil spill.
5. You don’t like clean air and water, since Ron Paul wants to eliminate the EPA.
6. You don’t want to have a safety net in place, in case your house is destroyed by a tornado, hurricane, or some other natural disaster, since Ron Paul wants to eliminate FEMA.
7. You think all schools should be private, and that you should have to pay for your children to get an education, since Ron Paul wants to eliminate the Department of Education.
8. You think corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want, because Ron Paul wants to eliminate all regulations on corporations.
9. You are anti-choice, since Ron Paul believes that states should have the right to take away a woman’s choice over what she does with her body.
10. You support segregation, since Ron Paul doesn’t think schools should be forced to allow attendance based on race or ethnic background.
11. You support guns on airplanes, since Ron Paul thinks that 9/11 could have been prevented, if citizens were allowed to carry guns on airplanes.
12. You oppose equality for LGBT people, since Ron Paul doesn’t think the federal government should guarantee equal protection under the law for our LGBT brothers and sisters.
13. You don’t have a problem with people carrying guns near schools, since Ron Paul want to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act.
14. You oppose same-sex marriage, since Ron Paul was an original co-sponsor of the Marriage Protection Act in the House of Representatives, in 2004.
15. You don’t like having a good relationship with other countries around the world, since Ron Paul wants the United States to pull out of the United Nations.
16. You think the middle-class should have a higher tax burden than the wealthy, since Ron Paul’s tax plan would disproportionately favor the rich.
17. You want a President who would make more unilateral decisions and undo more progress in this country than George W. Bush could have ever hoped to accomplish.
18. You think that poor students shouldn’t be allowed to go to college, since Ron Paul wants to eliminate federal student loans.
19. You believe crazy conspiracy theories about globalization, and that the Zionists are trying to take over the world.
20. You think the 10th Amendment is the most important part of the Bill of Rights, even though it’s last on the list.
21. You’re mad at Obama because you believed him when he said he would end the war immediately, and he didn’t because he didn’t have the support of congress, but you believe Ron Paul could get it done immediately.
22. You think Ron Paul is leading a revolution, despite the fact that he hasn’t won a single primary.
How about you might be a Ron Paul supporter “If you leave rude and sometimes downright threatening messages in the comment sections of articles that poke of Ron Paul”
Paulbots…after reading these comments, now I understand what that truly means.
This whole extreme libertarian idea is about as unrealistic as possible. What people fail to remember or realize is that the most common organizing principle of the country is to have in place checks and balances and diffusion of power. In order for that to be the case, wealth cannot be allowed to accumulate in the hands of a few. It is the role of government to enact laws that stop any person or small group of people from gaining too much power by getting their hands on too much money. Only a government can do that through regulation and taxation. If we let an unregulated capitalistic system loose on humanity, there will quickly be a small handful of “winners” who will have ultimate power over everyone else (and this isn’t far from what we have now).
In order to maintain a system that gives the most freedom to the most people, the government needs to stop anyone from “winning.” If the government is doing that job badly, we take steps to improve it, we don’t throw it away because we think everyone acting upon greed and selfishness will somehow create a wonderful society. If that were true, Somalia would be the world’s new model to emulate.
The entire concept of having a federal government which is next-to-powerless was already tried. It was the basis of the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the Constitution. It failed because it afforded too LITTLE power to the federal government and was determined to be unworkable. There is no need to learn that lesson again the hard way. We have better information now.
only thing missing is he’s ANTI-CHOICE! he’s another hypocritical pro-lifer!
Doh! Freudian slip w/ forgetting anti-choice! I was literally going ru list looking for federal reserve & stoners fantasy seekers who worship him but started thinking about Ron Paul’s Dixiecrat-pro-KKK cabinet since he doesn’t have a problem associating directly with them as well as promoting their content in newsletters under his name – letting them do what they want but women but check w/him first!
I’m a Libertarian in the sense that the government shouldn’t regulate anything that doesn’t hurt anybody. Big business and Wall St in particular has the power to cause much suffering and needs to be regulated. The Federal Government certainly has to protect the rights of people from being discriminated against. And I feel it is necessary to have certain social safety nets such as Public Education, Social Security, unemployment benefits, welfare when needed and a Public Health insurance option. I agree with Ron Paul on 2 things. 1 End the wars and mind our own business. 2 End prohibition of substances that harm no one but the user. These are not enough to get me to vote for him.
Hitler was damn near perfectly consistent in his conviction that the Aryan race was superior, and very honest about needing to wipe anyone who disagreed off the face ofthe earth…
These arguments are so juvenile it hurts. Most of these points use fourth grader logic such as, “If you don’t like the Patriot Act, you aren’t a patriot!”
Just because the government does something, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good or correct or constitutional. It’s healthy to challenge the government, and make changes to things that are broken, and get rid of things that don’t work.
Most of these points are total non-issues if we respect states rights (the constitution) and respect private property rights and realize that we don’t live in a totalitarian society where the President has authority to dictate everything about our social and moral values.
The only point I’d like to remark on specifically is the final point: The President is the Commander-in-Chief. He absolutely(!) has the power to end all military operations, immediately. Please don’t try to make excuses and justify bad behavior of our government, even if he is “your guy”. The worst thing a person can be in this world is complacent.
You might be a Liberal if…
…You don’t know the difference between the Civil Rights Act and ‘Civil Rights.” It was Democrats that negated the privileges and immunities clause of the 14th Amendment, which allowed states to pass the the Jim Crow laws. With strong protection of Civil Rights states would have never have been able to set up racially bigoted laws in the first place.
…You think choice only covers the right to bump off unborn children. And does not cover what a person choses to eat, drink, or smoke.
…You think that the EPA is that stands between us and environmental destruction. However if the Government would not stop grating legal permits to pollute and actually protected property rights, private individuals would have the ability to sue and stop pollution in their communities.
…You think Student Loans are the solution to education. Instead of loans that can be refinanced, discharged in bankruptcy, or given to the guy who can’t even pay his $5 credit card bill.
…You think ‘rights’ are a utilitarian tool that can be done away with if there is a government policy interest you want to accomplish.
…You think it is cool to make poor people buy health insurance from monopolistic corporations.
I agree with his church and state stance and number 19 has been proven but I think him supporting number 14 is VERY hypocritical for a libertarian
Mr. Desmond
I don’t believe you have done your research on Zionist. Are you one of them?
Read the protocols of the learned Elders of Zion and the unknown named war.
While you’re at it look up illuminati survivors and the membership of Bohemian Grove.
We cannot choose none of the above. Ron Paul is the best choice to save our liberty which is being rapidly taken away.
The Protocols of the learned Elders of Zion is a hoax forgery concocted by the secret police of the Russian Monarchy and used by Hitler to justify the Nazi genocide of Jews. I bet even Ron Paul would denounce it.
“2. You think it’s OK for businesses to discriminate against people based on their race, since Ron Paul thinks the Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional.”
The provision regarding private entities discriminating is unconstitutional. It’s called freedom of association. That doesn’t mean we approve of it. Do you think private clubs should be forced to allow every group of people who apply for membership?
You forgot his views on religion and government:
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. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. — Ron Paul
The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance. — Ron Paul
Through perverse court decisions and years of cultural indoctrination, the elitist, secular Left has managed to convince many in our nation that religion must be driven from public view. The justification is always that someone, somewhere, might possibly be offended or feel uncomfortable living in the midst of a largely Christian society, so all must yield to the fragile sensibilities of the few. The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity. — Ron Paul
They should’ve included this stuff as well.
I think it is quite childish that instead of looking at your own candidate who you unconditionally support in a critical manner you deem it necessary to spread rumors. Ron Paul did not spread racist documents in the form of a newsletter that has been factually debunked as FALSE! If Ron Paul openely opposes a Bill it is because it is unconstitutional. With that being said, he believed integration could have been achieved in a more effective and efficient manner. Example: if you are going to increase violent tensions you must be prepared to protect those minorities from violence which was not done effectively nor efficiently. The fact that I disagree with him as a black male, does not mean he is in any way a racist nor does he nor I condone racism. He is consistent on his views of respecting the Constitution but does not condone the abuse of powers from ANY branch of Government. WE ARE IN A FINANCIAL CRISIS WHERE A PRIVATE ORGANIZATION PRINTS OUR MONEY WITH NO REGULATIONS AND AT ANY RATE THEY SEE FIT. OUR CONVERSATION ENDS HERE WHEN YOU DO NOT CONSIDER THIS AS A SERIOUS ISSUE.
It’s useless to talk to a Ron pauly clone. Why bother? Their brain exploded many years ago!
For those of you who want to shrink government down to a size where it can be drowned in a bathtub, I would suggest a visit to a country where they have done that; Somalia. If you like it stay, if you don’t, grow up, come home and become part of the solution not part of the problem.
Good point. That’s why I support Ron Paul. Because government is needed to uphold order and protect rights (which is not done in Somalia) however that is all it is good for.
Those liberal idiots who think government is solution is the problem. I know if I had government out of my life, I would be a lot richer, have a lot less problems, and wouldn’t have to worry about the bottom feeders on welfare and foodstamps getting upset if they lost their benefits. As it stands, if we destroyed the welfare system as we so need, we would have 46 million Americans start a riot like Greece. We should send the people who refuse to work, to another country and start natural selection. Brandon Bean, thank you for putting this idiot writer in their place. Liberals can all gather in the state of Georgia and live, then maybe you would understand conservatism.
“Logically speaking you could’ve said “no presidential candidate at present is more KENTUCKIAN than Ron Paul!””
Except he is in, and represents, Texas.
I found this article insulting to my intelligence. Please don’t draw my conclusions for me, I can think for myself. Opposing regulation = promoting the social ill? So if I oppose the death penalty that means I support murderers? Or if I oppose the PATRIOT act I support terrorism?
This article certainly is childish in the way each point is worded so simply and ignorantly, BUT if you take out the Fox New-ish antics and just list factually the things Ron Paul supports and inversely the things that he wants to eliminate, it is REALLY disconcerting to me that people think he’s so wonderful.
YES… I like the fact that he actually has opinions and knows some basic American History and can spit out a few facts in debates that make the other Republicans uncomfortable… (I compare most of these tea party morons and their understanding of history and their familiarity with the Constitution as equivalent to a medical doctor thinking hearts were <3 shaped.)
BUT I think people support Ron Paul because they either dont know what he stands for, or they dont understand the short and long term ramifications for his plans if he ever successfully enacted them (which I doubt wholeheartedly he could) OR they just like that he wants to Legalize drugs.
p.s. you cant be a real libertarian and say you want no enforcement or regulation on anything at all… ya know…. except the things you dont LIKE… like abortion… and gay marriage…
he's pretty consistent
but lets not give him too much credit.
and even with frequent yet not complete consistency
he has no one's best interests in mind.
Oh we’re well aware of what he stand for and what he wants to eliminate. We just honestly believe the only (and when we say only we mean only) thing a government should do is protect the rights of its citizens (life, liberty, property etc.) thus any law or department that doesn’t only do that should be stopped. It doesn’t matter how “good” it is. To say you can force someone to do good is quite possibly the most evil philosophy a government can have. Government is force, the only thing you can force people to do is to respect other people’s rights, therefore the government can only force people to protect other people’s rights. Its quite simple.
‘Ron Paul is the most consisted Republican”
In other words he’s always had everything that could solve the nations problems ass backwards and he’s been right there in office as it all went on – yet we should consider voting for this tool?
That’s fricking funny.
For all those who responded with a complete lack of humor ( one easy way to distinguish your lunatic fanatic frm someone who is…not ) while wiping the so-called libertarian kool-aid from their mouths: every damn thing you don’t like us mentioning about your wilfully ignorant of how the world actually works candidate is verifiably true . Just for one little thing there is his voting record , hardly a matter of opinion is it ? And for another PUBLIC STATEMENTS made by him . That’s it . That’s all anyone needs to verify that the list is completely accurate . You don’t like it , find a candidate who ISN’T an anti-semite , animal hater , too stupid to understand geopolitics here in the ACTUAL world , etc…
Pretty funny that you confuse “consistency” with some kind of virtue. Just a hint: nearly every dictator is *consistent* as is a communist “system”. You said effectively nothing praiseworthy toward Paul in that respect. Logically speaking you could’ve said “no presidential candidate at present is more KENTUCKIAN than Ron Paul!” Which tells us … nothing.
David Duke is pretty darn consistent too… Jeez, you guys all drink from the same water fountain don’t you? Is that where you get all the cut n paste information?
Ron Paul is too old and too out-of-date to run for President. VOTE FOR KUCINICH! HE has a solution to our problems and would create a much better USA than Ron Paul!
http://kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/NEED_Act_FINAL_112th.pdf HR.2990.IH
Points like ‘UN membership = good relationship with other countries’ are subjective judgements that you should not impose on the readers. Very badly written piece with no substance (apologies in advance if you’re differently abled in some way and this is the best you can do)
Right on Jon Smith, I couldn’t have said it any better.
This entire article is based on such petty and childish premises, and pathetically similar spin tactics to those used by FOX, and other extremist networks. Ron Paul is perhaps one of the last consistent politicians in our government today, at the very LEAST, the most consistent republican. I won’t waste my time going point by point through your list, instead, I will simply say that starting with #1 “You have never researched his voting record.” No, sir, you are probably a Ron Paul supporter if you’re tired of the bullshit made up by Left and Right wingers calling out absolutely insignificant details when the heart of this matter is consistency and honesty. Those are qualifications of a politician. I would also like to express my disgust at your attempts to sway the unintelligent general public’s opinion by saying stupid things like “Ron Paul supports racial discrimination, because he believes the Civil Rights Act to be unconstitutional”. No, sir, he believes that government taking steps to control our daily lives, and telling us what is or is not right is unconstitutional. And if you have ever read the Constitution, you would comprehend his claims. Unsolicited wire-tapping, monitoring of IP addresses and text messages, and harvesting of personal information through sites like Facebook is unconstitutional, and Ron Paul would take steps to abolish those practices as well. You can’t have some good, some bad, you are either firm in your beliefs, or you are an American politician in the 21st century, excluding Ron Paul.
You’re right Jon, he’s not racist just because he wants to allow racial discrimination. He’s a racist for publishing racist screeds for decades in his personal newsletter under his, and no one else’s, name.
Go ahead, tell me the story about how he didn’t know. I dare you. I double dog dare you.
“He’s a racist for publishing racist screeds for decades in his personal newsletter under his, and no one else’s, name.”
He didn’t publish them and actually.. it was 5 years not decades as you claim.. the newsletter was published for decades but, the ‘racist’ comments were in a 5 year span with a company that he didn’t personally oversee as he was practicing medicine.. so the claims just don’t add up.
For the record too… He’s taken responsibility for what was written.. and of course.. You.. nor anyone else except for the people that have read the newsletter have read the entire story that was published in those newsletters as such if you want to use a standard that he is racist then.. the same can be said of Obama who supported a racist minister for 20 years before he disowned him because he was bringing him too much political heat (as all politicians do) and let’s forget about the fact that he supported the Black Panthers.. because that’s definitely not racist right?
Btw, If you believe guilt by association then we can take all the people who have died or are still living that don’t oversee the use of their names and I’m sure we’ll find sexist and racist remarks around every corner.
Do you even realize that information such as IP adresses is used by law inforcement organizations all over the world on a daily basis to catch criminals like pedophiles and such? Or do you also believe that they shouldn’t be bothered and child abuse be legalized? I know you didn’t say that and I don’t think that you support child abuse, I’m just trying to wake you up end make you smell the coffee: those informations can definitely be crucial in an investigation and could save lives.
Jon, I do agree with the SPIN portion of your thread. While GOP supporters claim nearly everything Obama is doing is “socialist”, the Dem supporters claims that everything the current GOP and Libertarian candidates want to do is “putting us back a hundred years” on issues like Equal Rights and Education.
The Federal Government was established to do the following: 1) Universal system of money to ease trade between the states; 2) Maintain a unified militia to protect our borders; 3) Unify foreign relations. THAT’S IT. Everything else is left to either the States, or for people to be responsible for themselves.
Furthermore, all social/moral issues should not be a matter of law (or for that matter, political debate). This is where I disagree with Ron Paul and most of the “right”. No body of law makers should not dictate rules for marriage, abortion, prostitution, marijuana or other drug use, suicide, or whatever tells people what they can and cannot do with their bodies, their relationships, or on their land.
“No body of law makers should not dictate rules for marriage, abortion, prostitution, marijuana or other drug use, suicide, or whatever tells people what they can and cannot do with their bodies, their relationships, or on their land.”
So you are basically saying that there should be laws about all of these things.. that the government should dictate what everyone can and cannot do with their bodies, relationships or what they can do on their property. So basically you want unlimited government intervention into the lives of everyone.. I can see how you support this if you are a massive statist as it conflicts with your “Furthermore, all social/moral issues should not be a matter of law (or for that matter, political debate).” comment.. However, if you are saying that law makers should not dictate rules on those things period then.. Ron Paul is actually the person that believes Federal law makers have no business in the personal lives of the citizens of the nation.
I agree with you on everything but abortion. Abortion is not a matter of morality (well it is but not from a legal standpoint) its a matter of rights. Science says an unborn child is alive and human so therefore they have human rights. Thus those human rights must be protected by the government. Its not about religion its about rights.
“Science says an unborn child is alive and human so therefore they have human rights. ”
No, it does not. “Alive and human” represent the domain of philosophy, religion and politics.
It is about rights, though, the rights of women to control their own reproductive process.
Did you know… That for around two weeks after intercourse- the use of the “morning after pill” is considered an act of contraception, not an abortion. Because no court in the country could even prove conception took place biologically, let alone prove beyond reasonable evidence of an abortion… So- who is loosing rights?
“the last consistent politicians”
I fail to see how this is a virtue. There are plenty of great examples of “consistent politicians” in history that are objectively considered terrible, but I won’t be the one to invoke Godwin’s Law.
Inability to adapt to changing conditions results in extinction. “Consistent” is a liability.