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Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom"
Charliemopps writes "Ron and Rand Paul are shifting the central focus of their family's libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom. From the article: 'Kentucky senator Rand and his father Ron Paul, who has not yet formally conceded the Republican presidential nomination, will throw their weight behind a new online manifesto set to be released today by the Paul-founded Campaign for Liberty. The new push, Paul aides say, will in some ways displace what has been their movement's long-running top priority, shutting down the Federal Reserve Bank. The move is an attempt to stake a libertarian claim to a central public issue of the next decade, and to move from the esoteric terrain of high finance to the everyday world of cable modems and Facebook.' This seems like welcome news to me. Let's see if they can get more traction here than they did with the Fed."
"anything Obama wants, we oppose, even if it was our idea first, even if it's good for the country.
Name ONE thing Obama has wanted that is actually good for the country.
Go ahead, I'm holding my breath waiting for it. Oh, wait a minute...
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth gets you modded -1 Troll
Equal pay for women, enabling bio/stem-cell research, cash for clunkers and a lot of military reform (openly gay is a-ok, not to mention addressing the body armor neglect controversy, the walter reed controversy, and ending iraq).
Also there's the whole Somali pirates and Bin Laden thing..
His constituents disagree with everyone.
Do you have any idea who Ron Paul represents in Texas 14th congressional district? Have you ever been to Galveston?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Which he demonstrates by having significant gender-based inequities within his own White House staff.
no he doesn't, you poopy head!
Which wasn't dis-abled before. Private parties could (and did) have at it with billions of dollars behind them. Taxpayer-based research continued with existing materials. Nobody was prevented from doing research, and indeed plenty was going on before, and after Obama's election.
You're totally lying about that!
Which, with the administrative overhead, cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars per car sold. An incredibly inefficient redistribution of other people's money.
You just made those numbers up, so there!
A "lot," huh? By that standard, his predecessor did exactly the same thing.
oh, yeah, prove it, asshole!
Which was inevitable and already well on its way to happening.
says YOU! not anyone else, so you're wrong
Only when pressured by the press. He didn't care about it before he was elected, or after.
oh yeah, cause you're a mind reader and you know what he cared about! sure!
You don't even know how to refer to it. Walter Reed was already slated to close, before he was elected.
You're making that up again!
The combat troop draw-down happened on the schedule set before he was elected. But of course he didn't end it, because it's not ended. There are tens of thousands of US troops there, right now, armed to the teeth. Of course you know that, and you're just trolling away, right?
now you're just re-writing history! I said so, so it's true.
Yes, he has shown that, just like other presidents, he is able to take advice from military professsionals, and approve their plans, which they then go about acting on. Bin Laden was hit based on intel that originated before he was elected, and handled by career people who were working that case before he was elected. Of course, you know all of that, too.
again your crystal ball has shown that everyone else would have done the same thing! you must be able to predict the future at all time. amazing.
He did, though, just get a massive new tax program in place, aimed squarely at middle class and lower middle class people. You know, just like he promised he would never do. But we all knew he'd do it, so he fulfilled that expectation perfectly.
except my taxes have gone down, and he's trying to raise taxes on the rich, and even the health care taxes only hit those families making more than 250k, so you're a big fat liar!
whoooo, that was fun! Thanks for teaching me how to debate with ad hominem attacks and making stuff up mixed in with every possible spin I've read on the websites of my choosing! It really added something to the discussion about Ron Paul! You're so great.
I've learned that they're worthless, so I don't read AC comments anymore.
Reality has a well known, liberal bias. That explains why so many "conservatives" (I use the term loosely) have abandoned it.