(10-07-2009 11:42 AM)BGSUalum1987 Wrote:  I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, but that seems a little thin. Is he not really popular inside the GOP?

There's a vocal minority, most of which are recent additions to the party infrastructure like myself. The majority of GOP people disagree with Paul, in that they:

1) Are fine and dandy with Afghanistan and Iraq
2) Are fine with torture
3) Don't want to legalize marijuana or even industrial hemp
4) Think it's a good idea that the government can spy on people without warrants. Or they take the naive "It won't happen to me" or "You only are against that if you have something to worry about" tracks.
5) Don't really have a respect for a literal interpretation of the Constitution

You think waterboarding is torture, GTS?

(10-07-2009 06:37 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(10-07-2009 11:42 AM)BGSUalum1987 Wrote:  I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, but that seems a little thin. Is he not really popular inside the GOP?

There's a vocal minority, most of which are recent additions to the party infrastructure like myself. The majority of GOP people disagree with Paul, in that they:

1) Are fine and dandy with Afghanistan and Iraq
2) Are fine with torture
3) Don't want to legalize marijuana or even industrial hemp
4) Think it's a good idea that the government can spy on people without warrants. Or they take the naive "It won't happen to me" or "You only are against that if you have something to worry about" tracks.
5) Don't really have a respect for a literal interpretation of the Constitution

nice fairy-tale you've created there

I agree with point 5 though, even the characterization of it.

Constitutional Literalism and Constitutional Originalism are not the same thing. Originalism is about what the Founders actually meant, which includes reading the Declaration, Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers, writings of their most influentiatial writers(Montesquieu, Blackstone) and what they did and argued once they ran the show in the first several congresses, Supreme Courts and Administrations. Things like the "Implied Powers" doctrine...

I think it similar to Biblical Literalism vs. Biblical Infallibility interpretations of the Bible. Both of which are far different from Liberal theologians.

(10-07-2009 11:42 AM)BGSUalum1987 Wrote:  Is there a reason Paul hasn't run for Senate?

Don't think so, just two fringe potus runs

His son is though in Kentucky, doubt he'll win though from what I understand he doesn't hold as many fringe views or is atleast better distanced from them.

Those views are much easier to hold for a congressman(1 out of 535), a talk show host, and a Senator(1 out of 100). None of which have to actually Govern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_and...ted_States

What a legacy Rummy left us.

(10-07-2009 09:01 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_and...ted_States

What a legacy Rummy left us.

Yeah, from your link, show me some GDamn prisoners at Guantanamo Bay that look like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cicatr...sclave.jpg


Or shut the **** up.

(10-07-2009 07:02 PM)GGniner Wrote:  

(10-07-2009 11:42 AM)BGSUalum1987 Wrote:  Is there a reason Paul hasn't run for Senate?

Don't think so, just two fringe potus runs

His son is though in Kentucky, doubt he'll win though from what I understand he doesn't hold as many fringe views or is atleast better distanced from them.

Those views are much easier to hold for a congressman(1 out of 535), a talk show host, and a Senator(1 out of 100). None of which have to actually Govern

Your anti-Paul boner has lasted for way more than four hours in this thread. Time to consult a doctor.

(10-08-2009 08:56 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  

(10-07-2009 07:02 PM)GGniner Wrote:  

(10-07-2009 11:42 AM)BGSUalum1987 Wrote:  Is there a reason Paul hasn't run for Senate?

Don't think so, just two fringe potus runs

His son is though in Kentucky, doubt he'll win though from what I understand he doesn't hold as many fringe views or is atleast better distanced from them.

Those views are much easier to hold for a congressman(1 out of 535), a talk show host, and a Senator(1 out of 100). None of which have to actually Govern

Your anti-Paul boner has lasted for way more than four hours in this thread. Time to consult a doctor.

(10-06-2009 11:38 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Nice little ancillary benefit huh though GG. Just like the Iraq war was for propping up a democracy. Ron Paul speaks the truth to power. We need more like him. I don't get his take on abortion though.

Pro Lifers are the most invasive group in the fruit basket.

So you are saying that sticking some medical instrument up into a Woman's Uterus and Scraping it so it induces labor causing an ABORTION is NOT Invasive ??????

UMMMMMMM ...... that one is a little "Off Key" in so many ways that it is just Wrong.

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Anti-murder now makes us the most invasive group in the fruit basket?

(10-09-2009 08:46 AM)Tripster Wrote:  

(10-06-2009 11:38 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Nice little ancillary benefit huh though GG. Just like the Iraq war was for propping up a democracy. Ron Paul speaks the truth to power. We need more like him. I don't get his take on abortion though.

Pro Lifers are the most invasive group in the fruit basket.

So you are saying that sticking some medical instrument up into a Woman's Uterus and Scraping it so it induces labor causing an ABORTION is NOT Invasive ??????

UMMMMMMM ...... that one is a little "Off Key" in so many ways that it is just Wrong.

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Now Trip, hmmmmm -- Liberals do not like to be confronted with the actual consequences of their beliefs.