Another No-Brainer

The majority of people in this country think Ron Paul is a nut. And you know darn well that the Dems would use this to their advantage.

Of all the candidates, Ron Paul would be the easiest to beat, not because of his policies, but because he's a nut.

Your argumentation is neither brutal nor honest. You simply whimp out on the challenge asking for a substantive counter.

Your remark simply reveals that you are unable to come up with anything that would explain why you don't like Ron Paul - or rather his positions. You don't even disagree with him on anything. You merely assume that your labeling him a "nut" forecloses any argument, and that it somehow makes you look good to your cronies.

Still waiting for anything that even tries to refute what I wrote above... (tsk, tsk)

Argue with this, my friend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-16u9x3tfE

Is Glenn Beck a "nut" as well? How about the head of the US General Accounting Office (GAO)? As Glenn correctly notes, Ron Paul is THE ONLY candidate who addresses this problem.

I haven't heard Fred say a word about it.

"The majority of people in this country think Ron Paul is a nut."

Let's examine Dr. Paul's so-called "nuttiness" in one instance. Let's talk economics and his admonitions against centralized planning and control of the monetary system. You've noticed the subprime meltdown and the accompanying bank problems. The Fed has been injecting liquidity with no real effect in terms of real economic recovery.

Abu Dhabi, an Islamic country, bailed out CitiBank buying 5% of our largest bank. Of course, that means that they considered a failing bank to be a better investment than T-Bills (a scary thought, in my opinion)

Apparently, neither the Fed's efforts or the Abu Dhabi purchase have saved CitiBank. Drudge had a headline yesterday wherein it was reported that now China and Kuwait are injecting capital into CitiBank. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c6eb81e0-c083-11dc-b0b7-0000779f d2ac.html

Oh goody, now we don't have to be as afraid of Islamists coming over here and instituting sharia law and making us wear veils. We are already becoming financial dhimmies and paying a version of their poll tax – jizya – and land tax – haraj – to our Chinese and Arab masters in the form of interest not to mention inflation.


Ron Paul is the Cassandra of our time. People in denial usually believe that Cassandras are nuts--at least until, like lemmings, they find themselves plunging into the abyss.

Your candidate is a good man and I like many things about him. I'm hoping that he will bone up on economics. Ron Paul would love to help him out on that score--he's just that kind of guy. He doesn't consider the campaign to be about him--but about important principles and ideas that he would like to spread.

Who's a nut? The guy who says that we need to re-examine our financial system when it's on the verge of meltdown, or the 6 who say that nothing's wrong? The guy who says we need to stay out of no-win wars (a long-term conservative Republican opinion, by the way), or the 6 who say that we need to stay there 100 years? The only people who are making Ron look like a nut is the so-called Republicans who are running against him. Most of the rank-and-file not only DON'T think he's a nut, they realize that he's onto something.

Frankly, I think Fred Thompson is a nut after listening to him talk about economic issues. He clearly doesn't understand economics, but blusters around as though he knows it all. THAT is the dangerous position to take.

If ALL the candidates on "our" side treated Rudy Giuliani like HE was a nut, eventually, people would start to believe that too. This is a creation of media, not something that people automatically believe. Frankly, after the foolishness that Thompson and his buddies have hurled at Paul (even when he's NOT talking about the war), I would find it difficult to vote for most of them. They are an embarrassment to our party. Huckabee is an exception, in that he has focused his disagreement to the issues. The rest of them are intemperate boobs who wouldn't know the truth if it hit them in the face.