Trump At CPAC: I’m Sorry, But Ron Paul Cannot Get Elected
Simultaneous cheers and boos were the norm when Donald Trump addressed CPAC this afternoon – and in particular The Donald earned a mixed reaction in the video excerpt below.
Here, he says that he’d prefer to find a candidate he could get behind rather than run for president himself, because he loves what he’s doing – to which the throng of Ron Paul supporters bused in to rig the straw poll vote on Saturday responded by yelling for their man.
Trump’s reaction? Priceless. You’re fired, Ron.
Anybody who agrees with most of Paul’s message but finds the old man himself a bit off-putting, and has had discussions with Paul’s people, knows that expression and hand gesture of Trump’s perfectly well – from personal experience.
Like him or not, Trump is speaking the truth. If the Ronulans only would look beyond the titles of Paul’s earmarks, they find his rhetoric to be hollow and phony. With a larger constituency, and a larger slice of pie from the U.S. Treasury, he could rival The Kingfish himself, Huey P. Long.
Paul is to be commended for his general message of shrinking the size and
scope of the federal government and his promotion of Austrian economics.
Those arguments helped invigorate the Tea Party movement which has changed –
or maybe even saved – the Republican Party.
But now that those principles have been embraced by a wide and growing swath
of the political class on the Right, Paul’s relevance is decreasing.
Frankly, his son – whose conservatism hews closer to the mainstream and
whose performance in the Senate to date has been extremely impressive – has
greatly eclipsed him as a political figure.
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Ron Paul is the only conservative left in the House and has real answers . Trump has declared bankruptcy 3 times already and cannot manage his own finances.
How disilusioned is this man, first he cannot find a woman lest he buys her off the street and he actually thinks that the American people are so gullible as to believe that a bumbling television pseudo billionaire, could by any stretch of his limited imagination lead this fkd-up country and return it to the least semblance of the mighty nation it once was, pre-wayward licensing of the ultimate rape of the country, by Bush, Bush, and OBAMA……
—-NOW ENTER perhaps ‘the man’ rsponsible for our predatory, destructive and empty
franchise slums and wampum ‘economy’ to say nbothing of its soft-porn casino-gulag
‘culture’ –and all this accomplished during the very height of Globalist-CFR sellout tothe awesomely genocidal RED Chinese.
Instead of wasting time on these usual stuffed-shirts —START demanding an HUAC
meets Nuremberg ——–A S A P
Rand Paul got elected.
I was a Libertarian candidate for Congress (AL 4,5) in ’96 and ’00. Ron Paul’s policies (including foreign policy) are pretty much standard libertarian fare, and I have only the greatest respect for his dogged clinging to Constitutionalism throughout his career. I really admire the guy.
BUT some theoretically sound libertarian policies crash hard against the anvil of history. For example, it is almost certainly true that if the US had not intervened in WW 1, there would not have been a WW 2, since the treaty between utterly exhausted combatants would not have been as fanatically one-siided as Versailles. But I am convinced — pace Pat Buchanan — that our entry into WW 2 prevented a catastrophe in Europe (beside which the even current catastrophe of EU bureaucratic government pales) and Asia — this despite the Communist domination of Eastern Europe and (still) parts of Asia.
Open borders are a fine idea, unless across the border is a failed corrupt socialist state recently taken over by narco-terrorists, or corrupt fanatical religious states with irredeemably barbaric notions of social order, and as long as libertarian ideas about government welfare (zero), government schooling and health care (zero), and so on are implemented. Likewise, something that is often overlooked is that while libertarians in general support open borders, they also support private contracts of any sort (deeds, title transfers, …) including clauses forbidding sale to non-citizens, or Italians, or Baptists, or one-legged lesbians, or whatever, as long as the contract is entered into voluntarily.
Many — most — libertarian principles are an easy sell in the American tradition. Some are not; some are easy to caricature and ridicule; and some are (like the entire panoply of “Progressive” goals) workable only in a utopia, albeit a utopia more easily achievable than that of the Left, since you only need to get government to stop doing things rather than having to petition God to reinvent humanity.
But Trump is right. Sorry.
Agreed on all points. A libertarian domestic policy married to a robust, though reasonable, foreign and defense policy largely recreates the best of American tradition.
It might also be pointed out that one of Thomas Jefferson’s first acts as president was to engage the Barbary Pirates in our first war as a nation under our current constitution. From Wikipedia:
Jefferson sent a group of frigates to defend American interests in the Mediterranean, and informed Congress. Although Congress never voted on a formal declaration of war, they did authorize the President to instruct the commanders of armed vessels of the United States to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli “and also to cause to be done all such other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war will justify.”
At this point in time we need more liberties
If you don’t like freedom
that’s ok because we will never be free
but we do need to be freer
vote ron Paul 2012