Dr. Ron Paul Meetup Groups Throughout the Country

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The smart money is on Fred Thompson, once he declares. I'd love to see Paul as his Veep though, working quietly in the background to lessen the government's bootprint.
 
"During the 2000 U.S. Presidential election primary campaign, Thompson served as the national campaign chairman for his friend, U.S. Senator John McCain."

I don't really want to support anyone that close to the RINO John McCain.
 
Paul as Veep? I could almost accept that even though Paul probably never would. Fred would likely die in office with his cancer and all. Whoever his veep is will be sitting pretty....
 
I cannot understand why people love Fred Thompson. While the other GOP hopefuls spit out the exact same garbage that they all rehearsed together (and Fred was filming another episode...:p ), Ron Paul reminded everyone what a real Republican should be.

Ron Paul has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.

He has proven himself for years to be PRO LIBERTY and PRO CONSTITUTION. He is not intimidated by lobbyists or party lines. You know what else? He's actually running for President.
 
If there was a Rudy Presidency and a Ron VP, I can imagine that anytime Rudy stepped out of the house 10,000 people would line the roads to take a shot at making Ron Paul president.

They would of course attempt to do this by holding up signs asking (nicely) for Rudy to resign.

DW
 
question about Ron Paul.... I saw in the debate he is against federal funding for stem cell research... but he got cut off in his explanation of why....

could somebody link me to his official stance on this? Is he against it for moral/ethical reasons, or something else?
 
"Programs like this are not authorized under the Constitution," was what his response was.

He went on to say, "The trouble with issues like this is, in Washington we either prohibit it or subsidize it. And the market should deal with it, and the states should deal with it."
 
Ron Paul, The Founders, and I say that you can either have a cheap government or an activist government.

The biggest problem with an activist government is that it really doesn't do very much all that well, but still manages to cost a lot.

An activist government is like having a rich retarded uncle. If you are nice and can phrase it right, you can get funding for any idiotic scheme imaginable. Except when the idiot uncle is Uncle Sam, he will fund your schemes with your neighbor's money.
 
An activist government is like having a rich retarded uncle. If you are nice and can phrase it right, you can get funding for any idiotic scheme imaginable. Except when the idiot uncle is Uncle Sam, he will fund your schemes with your neighbor's money.
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More like a poor uncle. He steals your money out of your piggy bank and then buys everyone ice cream and toys with it.
 
I saw in the debate he is against federal funding for stem cell research
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Because hes a Libertarian, and wants federal funding for nothing. If there is a profit to be made from stem cell, let the private sector 'fund' it all they want. The government needs to stop funding people's pet projects.
 
Because hes a Libertarian, and wants federal funding for nothing. If there is a profit to be made from stem cell, let the private sector 'fund' it all they want. The government needs to stop funding people's pet projects.
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...and that's one of the fundamental problems with the Libertarian platform. Most good fundamental science is government funded. Corporations tend to be too short-sighted to make advances in basic science.

Don't get me wrong, I tend to like libertarians because AFAIK they're the only party which doesn't have an authoritarian platform. I'd like to see Ron Paul in the oval office, but the odds of that are 1 in... a very big number.
 
TheEconomist said:
question about Ron Paul.... I saw in the debate he is against federal funding for stem cell research... but he got cut off in his explanation of why....

could somebody link me to his official stance on this? Is he against it for moral/ethical reasons, or something else?
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Because the Federal Gov't is not supposed to be a money distributer. If you get to keep your money by not being taxed, you can spend it on any research you want.
 
Such optimism; Im guessing you're not a Thompson family friend then ?
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Just a realist living in an unreal world.....

I make my own odds at living through the next two years at about 150 to 1 in favor. Terrible odds when you consider...
 
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