What do you think? Is it time I have to let go of my unrealistic hopes about Ron Paul?12. He is a gun nut. Our eyebrows are already raised by anyone who claims that having firearms is a “God-given right”, like Ron Paul does. But he doesn’t stop there. He wants to repeal the legislation that requires a background check when you buy a new gun — you know, to make sure you’re not, say, a fugitive from justice, a violent offender, or currently stalking someone. Back when there actually was a ban an assault weapons, he was, of course, against the ban. And now that there isn’t, he wants to make sure Obama doesn’t get the chance to bring a new one in.
But, but, but the other guys are so bad and he does oppose the wars.
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His positions are far better than Dog Gone's, for example. This item is one more reason to like Ron Paul.
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ReplyDelete"His positions are far better than Dog Gone's, for example."
Really? Then compare and contrast a few, perfessur.
Ron Paul is a lying,hypocritical,racist,anti-choice,economically illiterate piece of shit. I don't even give a shit what he thinks about gunz. If he was for rounding up every gun in the country and melting them down to make something useful I'd still never vote for the asshole.
Another good idea from that list is disbanding the UN.
ReplyDeleteI don't care about disbanding the U.N., but the United States should get out of it, and send that talk shop packing. If the dictators of the world wish to gather for self-congratulations, they may do so in their own countries. The G-20 can continue to meet in style.
DeleteYour anti-UN views are just one more example of how your side is losing the gun argument globally.
DeleteIsolationism is stupid; diplomacy is the hallmark of a peaceful and mature country.
Sadly too many of our gun nuts are neither mature, and far too many are isolationists. In the words of the classic Disney chilren's song, it's a small world after all, and we are a part of it, and need to be global in our interactions, including the U.N.
So what does the UN have to do with peace and maturity?
DeleteDid I argue for isolationism? The United Nations is not the only international body, and there's nothing to stop us interacting with other nations. The United Nations talks a good talk, and it does some good in handing out medicine, but when it comes down to active defense of lives, people in need call for NATO.
DeleteYou keep allowing yourself to be impressed by what a bunch of other countries are saying about disarming citizens--so much so that you're blinded to what Americans say about the subject.
No. I DO ignore what the stupid and ill-informed in America say about it though, as we all should.....well, that's a trick in your case. You'd have to be ignoring yourself..........
DeleteDang, Democommie, how did the Internet survive your hiatus? We spent days without your ranting and cursing.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to take a page out of Dog Gone's book here and tell you to look up the contrasting positions for yourself. I'm not a Paul supporter, but given the choice between him and Dog Gone, I'd have no difficulty voting for Paul.
I'm not running, but then Ron Paul has just as unlikely a chance of winning any election as I do not running.
DeleteBy all means vote for Oddball Paul; waste your vote. None of the right wing candidates have much chance of winning because they don't represent what the sane majority agrees with or approves, as contrasted with the weirdo right wing.
Santorum for example couldn't carry his old home state of PA (just like Bachmann couldn't win in Iowa, and couldn't win outside her heavily gerrymandered district either - and only barely can win there).
Your losing, tra la!
DG said: "but then Ron Paul has just as unlikely a chance of winning any election "
DeleteReally? You wanna go with that idiotic statement? I can only figure you are blinded by the glare of your own pomposity. The fact is Dr. Paul has been re-elected time after time by his constituents.
He was elected, went back to delivering babies and came back to serve from 1996 to the present.
That unelectable label is pure BS. It however does fit Santorum and Gingrich.
orlin sellers
Dog Gone, please do run. We'd enjoy watching that train wreck. But who, exactly, is losing here? You're hardly winning, since one state after another goes more and more in our direction. Of course, the Brady Bunch gave California an 81 for last year, so cling to that, by all means.
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DeleteYeah, I'd never vote for a Doctor who has delivered thousands of babies, including many non-whites, didn't charge people who couldn't afford to pay.
ReplyDeleteWhy vote for a guy who wants to end the destruction and death caused by unnecessary and illegal wars in places where the people being bombed to death have done us no wrong. And all this for the benefit of the corporate war profiteers who have bought their way into both political parties. The bankers love these wars, too.
Yeah, why vote for a guy that doesn't care if you are gay and want to get married because he believe it is your own business.
It is just too scary to think someone might actually follow the Constitution and the Law of the Land, who isn't bought off by lobbyists and special interests.
orlin sellers
Orlin, I don't trust a man who allowed a racist newsletter to go out under his name - and I am highly skeptical he didn't know what was in it. He has raised money from the racist right for years, and is still supported by them.
DeleteDG, do some of your crack research and find the three sentences someone wrote that were supposed to be racist.
DeleteYou are just repeating old news. You don't like him because you are blinded by the glare of your own partisanship.
He has gotten more money from the military than all other candidates combined, I guess they are all racists, too.
He has given speech after speech on how the drug laws disproportionately affect minorities and that prisons are filled with non-violent offenders. If elected, he will pardon all non-violent drug offenders from federal prisons. Yeah, that's really racist.
You might wanna do some of your own investigating into the man before parroting a bunch of hogwash you heard second hand.
orlin sellers
Using the same kind of accusation-as-proof reasoning that I've seen here against the NRA, one could argue that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the NAACP have a strong motive to keep minorities in prison on drug charges, since that gives those community organizers something to whine and raise money about.
DeleteOnly in the mind of someone who reasons as dishonestly and poorly as you do.
DeleteThe NRA acts on behalf of their money source, the gun manufacturers. They don't care about anything but their bottom line, MONEY.
Sharpton, Jackson, and the NAACP act on behalf of far broader communities, including demographics which DON'T give them money, and for motivation other than profit. They are not similar, they do not operate similarly, this is a falacious, and incredibly failed analogy. Again.
You do poorly on analogies, and on syllogisms.
How DID you manage to get a high school degree, even in a place as educationally backwards as Arkansas?
But hey - great insight into your racism and bias, Greg.
For the record, Greg apparently didn't get his backward education in Arkansas. He got it in a different backward, educationally poorly ranked state, and then moved to Arkansas where he is lowering their academic standards.
DeleteI'm enjoying what Greg defines as freedom; the right to do something someone else doesn't like. You know, like carrying guns that endanger other people.
Only I'm just having fun, not endangering other people's safety, or liberty. But it sure IS fun.
To clarify, I was born in North Carolina and lived there for many years. The last I heard, North Carolina has a good reputation for its educational standards. You've heard of the Research Triangle, perhaps? I moved to Arkansas for a family need. I teach here, but I've never taken classes in this state. But I'd be happy to compare the University of Arkansas, for example, against other similar schools.
DeleteHow can you even consider any of them?
ReplyDeleteHorrors.
(Slightly less horrors than the guys who rule us all.)
Suzan's got it right.
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