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Subject: You're wrong on Ron Paul
Bart, I like your site, but
I can't understand your opposition to Ron Paul.
Just to be clear - Ron Paul is
a crazy man with some good ideas.
I
have been supporting him for years, and I do understand most of his
stances.
I don't agree with everything he believes, but he makes more sense than
anyone else
on either side of the aisle, imho. He has consistently refused to
support any measure
which is unconstitutional for 3 decades. If all congress critters
voted like him we
would not be in the mess we are in now.
Regarding the misquote of Ron Paul: Ron Paul did not stammer, nor was
he groping for an answer.
He stated "no" in answer to the question about letting someone sans
health insurance die.
He then went on to explain the answer further. Here is the whole clip
(with some other added stuff,
sorry, best I could find at short notice) for your review:
I saw it when it happened so I
didn't watch your clip.
Also, if you find a web page that says "Ron Paul was right,"
that doesn't make him right.
The ONLY way you're right and
I'm wrong is if YOU can explain RP's position on a man
with no insurance showing up at the ER better than RP can, because he totally failed.
That's why Chris matthews said "RP says let him
die," because that's what his words meant.
When RP says, "You're free to not
by insurance," he's either saying:
No
problem, I or we will pay your
ER bill OR
Die,
sick bastard, because you stupidly chose NOT to waste money on
insurance.
For your position to hold
water, the Teabaggers would have to be eager to embrace
socialized medicine and we all know they'd rather watch their mother
die than do that.
I
would not be so rude as to call you a liar, but is it possible that
someone
with an IQ of 64 may have misremembered the entirety of the exchange?
;-)
Thanks for the civility, but my
guess, at this point, is you've drank the RP Kool aid.
As the vulgar Pigboy says, "Words mean things."
Why do you think the Teabaggers cheered when Paul got
stuck on that debate question?
They cheered because FINALLY someone said what the Teabaggers think.
Now, if you said, "Bart said he'd pay for everything," that would technically <>be a lie
because I didn't use those exact words, <>but when I say "You don't need your wallet,"
I'm, in fact, saying I'll pay for everything.
Furthermore,
Ron Paul is a very astute economist, and understands
well the vast layers of waste in health care and government.
Maybe he's just trying to fool the Baggers with some doublespeak,
but his position on "insurance freedom" is clearer than Lake Concha.
The
main reason I will be caucusing for him this Jan 3 is his stance
on our wasteful military presence worldwide.
That's a great example of a crazy man
saying something intelligent.
It
is sad that our media tends to reduce any position to a 2 second sound
bite.
Anyone with a sound understanding of any government policy cannot
reduce it to a simple platitude.
Reality is complex.
True, but his position on
mandatory insurance isn't complex.
RP takes his constitutional positions to their most extreme.
If it was unconstitutional to
save a baby about to be runover by a bus, Ron Paul would let him die.
Me, I'd break the law and save the baby.
As
president, he will probably not be able to enact many of his goals, but
as commander-in-chief,
he will absolutely be able to halt our sinful exuberant warmongering
ways, and the resultant savings
in budget will be a welcome relief to the taxpayer. Furthermore,
he can use the power of the veto
to make any non-constitutional expenditures subject to a 2/3s override.
That is why the corporate
media seeks to marginalize him at every turn. The same men who
control our mainstream media
also sit on the boards of the war profiteering military industrial
complex, you betcha.
Anyway, I don't expect to agree with you on everything, but I think you
are giving RP short shrift.
Of course, if we had an actual Democrat president, this would be moot.
:-)
Respectfully,
Tim in Iowa
I don't know much about Ron Paul because
every four years we have marginal candidates who
can't possibly win and life is short, but my impression of Ron Paul is
that he wants to take a
chainsaw
into the operating room when he actually needs a scalpal.
In closing, if you can make sense of his
position on mandatory insurance,
I will apologize for misquoting him but I feel like I'm pretty safe.