I don’t call him a kook; I call the rabid doctrinaire non-intervention, non-agression principle Libertarians kooks (in fact I never explicitly said either in this post or comments, though I did imply the latter); and their behavior in this comment thread alone clearly bears that out.

I’m not a traditional supporter of his position on the War in Iraq, but I’ll admit that he’s been the most consistent, honest, and straightforward of all the candidates in his position on the war. In the first debate, Dr. Paul clearly articulated his views on limited government and eliminating the tax-and-spend culture of Washington, but he barely got noticed outside of the internet. In the second debate the media and Mayor Giuliani, not Dr. Paul, sought to make a big deal of his positions on the war, and it’s help him to gain popularity and exposure.

So lovers of liberty, regardless of their views on the use of American force to oppose tyranny in other nations, should be supporting Ron Paul’s 2008 bid. If his opposition to the war is the thing that it takes to get him national exposure, so be it; the more people who listen to him, the more people will hear his true convictions of liberty, freedom, and returning the government to its constitutional roles.

Real people, with real friends to verify they are real, seventeen thousand times over, and I am proud to say I am one of them.

Ron Paul’s Myspace

Yup, there is your spam brigade.

17,680 phantom supporters.

Do the math.

I have been involved with the Libertarian Party since 2000…. but something feels really different this time with Ron Paul. Magic.

Al-Qaeda would probably turn their immediate attention to the moderate Sunni Arab states first until another larger nation comes in as an ally to the Sunni Arab states; then that nation will be become the target.

js290, Where did I say that Rudy or any of those Bush clones knew what they were doing? I know Ron Paul is for dealing with the people who actually attacked us on 9/11 but how is he going to go about doing it? During his blowback comment he needed to re-emphasize going after Al Qaedia.

The second step is_________ .

Ron Paul wants to bring the troops home to protect our own borders. That seems like a legitimate second step…

Ron Paul didn’t do himself favors by not addressing his desire to get Osama and how he is going to do that.

You must have been swallowing Rudy cum when Ron Paul said the following regarding the ridiculous “hypothetical terrorist” attack question, “We forgot about [bin Laden]… here we have a hypothetical attack, we ought to be dealing with the one (9/11) we have right now.”

As Amy Poehler on SNL’s Weekend Update pointed out:

“A new hummingbird species was discovered in a cloud forest in Colombia, though still nothing on bin Laden.”

So, what are the other candidates going to do about bin Laden? Hell, what is Dubya doing about bin Laden?

Al Queda would probably focus its energies on fighting the Saudi Monarchy, which can afford to hire good fighters and equipment. Even if Al Queda won and toppled a country, they are going to need money, especially since Al Queda’s tenets seem to discourage local manufacturing. Thus they will have to import the weapons they need to oppress people etc, and export oil or heroin to pay for it. People tend not to bomb their customers; it’s bad for repeat business.

Additionally, if the U.S. were not seen as an invader, how much of al Queda’s vision would resonate? Look, even in the U.S. we have pretty wacky, violent, people. Take the founder of the Aryan nations, for example. In the main, these guys have trouble even scraping together 40 – 50 followers. And the quality of their followers are so pathetic that they probably couldn’t successfully attack a church full of Amish kids.

When Osama bin Laden met with the Saudi Crown Prince to pitch a mujahadeen style resistance to Saddam Hussein, he was laughed out of the meeting. A major component of his ability to attract competent followers subsequently was the evidence he was able to point to that the U.S. was on a “crusade against Islam”. If he had not been able to make a strong case, he would have been considered yet another loon suffering from a persecution complex instead of a visionary leader.

He is right that the first step is quit pissing them off. The second step is_________ . It isn’t ignoring them. It isn’t going over there playing hide and go seek.

Because you can’t debate kook

Believing in The Golden Rule makes one a kook?