What concerns me about Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is not the man people pretend he is. I've had it with all the worship of a man who has a long trail of issues people tend to brush off.
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Addicting Info: Ron Paul Supporters Claim He Opposes The NDAA, So Why Didn’t He Vote On It?
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/06/ron-paul-supporters-claim-he-opposes-the-ndaa-so-why-didnt-he-vote-on-it/
There is a whole lot of anger regarding the National Defense Authorization Act that President Obama signed into law last week. Civil libertarians in particular have been livid over the content of the law which they think allows the indefinite detention of Americans, even though the indefinite detention provision was changed, before President Obama signed the bill into law.
Not too long after the President signed the bill, rabid Ron Paul supporters vigorously claimed that Paul opposed the bill. There’s just one problem with that. If he indeed opposed it so much, why didn’t he attend a House session to cast his vote against it?
Ron Paul took an oath to execute his duties as a member of the House of Representatives, yet he failed to show up to vote against the NDAA, a bill he supposedly opposes. He didn’t bother to take a few hours out of his day to vote against something he considers dangerous to American rights and freedom. Instead, he decided to ignore his congressional responsibilities in order to remain on the campaign trail. You’d think a self-proclaimed libertarian would do his job when bills as important as the NDAA come up.
The fact is, a sitting Congressman cannot say they oppose a piece of legislation and not vote against it when it comes up for a vote. It’s just irresponsible, which is contrary to Paul’s constant calls for Americans to be responsible. Looks like he doesn’t practice what he preaches, which begs the question: Why do people still support Ron Paul?
See who voted for the bill, who voted against it, and who else besides Ron Paul didn’t vote on it at all; http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll932.xml
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Paul Senior Adviser: ‘He’s Not Against War’
Many supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul may be surprised to learn that the Texas Republican is not as anti-war as they think.
Paul senior adviser Doug Wead on Wednesday dismissed the idea that the candidate was to the left of President Barack Obama when it comes to war.
“I totally disagree with that idea that he is to the left or the right,” Wead told Fox News host Megyn Kelly. “He’s pro-Constitution. He’s in favor of taking the idea of war — he’s not against war.”
“He was the only public figure in 1981 to stand up and defend Israel’s right to defend herself and take out those Iraqi nuclear facilities,” he added. “He’s not against war. He’s in favor of going to the U.S. Congress — as the Constitution says — and debating it, committing to war, getting in, winning it and then getting out.”
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Lezgetreal: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Blasts Ron Paul Over Homophobic Endorsement
http://lezgetreal.com/2011/12/msnbcs-ed-schultz-blasts-ron-paul-over-homophobic-endorsement/
Whether or not Texas Representative Ron Paul is homophobic or racists is not really at issue, but his decision to not only apparently let others write horrific things in his name, but to also accept the endorsement of Reverend Phil Kayser and then boast about those on his campaign website.
Things got worse when Paul quietly scrubbed the page.
Kayser is the pastor of the Dominion Covenant Church in Omaha, Nebraska, and he wrote in “Is The Death Penalty Just?” back in 2009 “This would have a tendency of driving homosexuals back into their closets. I think I have demonstrated how even capital punishment can be restorative.”
So, basically, he supports executing lesbians and gays.
On the show, Schultz and guest Mike Rogers, managing director of RawStory.com, blasted Paul for the move.
Schultz said Kayser made “extremists look tame by comparison.”
Rogers argued that the Texas Representative wants “to free up states to be able to do things like this reverend wants,” including “basically make being gay illegal if [Texas] wanted to.”
“I think he’s feeding the fire and knows what he’s doing with that,” Rogers added.
RON PAUL IS VILE.
