RE: Boris on Mitt Romney
July 27, 2012 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2012 at 5:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 27, 2012 at 3:08 pm)Tiberius Wrote: The ignorance is all yours. If you look at Paul's actual positions, especially when he goes into detail about them, you'll realise everything you've just said is ridiculous. He doesn't believe you should have to pay for everything, he doesn't believe you should die on the steps of the hospital if you are poor. He is against minimum wage because minimum wages increase unemployment, and employment is what the country needs right now...better to earn a little than to earn nothing at all. He is against segregation; he opposes the civil rights act because civil rights are already protected by the constitution. He's against abortion because he doesn't like the idea of innocent children being killed...neither do I.
Okay, it seems to me that we've been down this road before, and that when I personally looked into Ron Pauls positions (the last time you suggested this) I found precisely what I found the last time I looked (before you suggested this) -which was exactly the sort of shit that leads me to conclude that he's a nutbag in the first place? Personally, I think his positions are that of an individual who has realized the value of careful crafting views which are easy to weasel out of when pressed -all the while garnering support from exactly the sorts of people that this would appeal to -his sort of people-.
In other words, a polished politician with a clever pr dept.
Elaborate on this one, if you wouldn't mind. If someone opposes the civil rights act due to those rights being protected in the constitution in the first place, what is the benefit in repealing them -given that there is a demonstrated benefit in having them on the books-. Surely there must be a point in repealing them beyond "we don"t need them", clearly we did. I smell diversionary (and disingenuous) bullshit.
Maybe this one, Mr Paul is not for people dying on the hospital steps, because, you see, he believes in charity. Well, we also tried that too, and people died on hospital steps.
Ron Paul is against abortion because he doesn't .........well, good for Ron Paul, because our supreme court decided that abortion was not killing innocent children. That would be important for a rule of law and integrity of the constitution type..what SCOTUS decides.
Minimum wage increases unemployment, sure, I'll buy that one. Nevertheless, increase sub minimum wage employment (of which we already have a shitload -in case you were unawares- solves precisely what problem with employment?
Ron Paul is pandering to assholes, and he's selling it with a smile and a "principled stance" (hardly surprising). Well, I'm not buying what he's selling.
-Still a nutbag, imho-
-why oh why, btw Tibs, are you sourcing info about an American politician from his ad copy, you give our basic level of political honesty entirely too much credit I think, even the bad guys wear white hats round these parts amigo...........-
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