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liberty and justice for all

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i thought that was a fairly elegant way of saying "bush is a nazi" and I wish more anti Bush speakers would take a piece of this guy's style into their repertoire.

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Brief Overview of Congressman Paul's Record
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.

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this man CAN think, and CAN talk.

it would have convinced me.

If any of you doubt the integrity of Ron Paul, check his voting record. He votes against EVERY single bill that is unconstitutional and has done so for decades. And when I say "unconstitutional", I mean it in the strict-construction stance, not the current "we'll interpret it however we think it fits our so-called modern needs" stance. In fact, he votes against unconstitutional bills so regularly - even when he is the only in either party doing so - he has come to be known by the nick-name "Dr. No" by his peers in congress.

Check out his record, some press, some of his writings, etc -

http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=BC031929
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/ron-paul-pf.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html
http://www.house.gov/paul/bio.shtml

Once you check out his record, you will no longer have any doubt in your mind about his sincerity about restoring the constitution and American liberty, both social and economic.

But the framers of the Constitution believed in a federal government. Ron Paul does not. Federalism is originalist.

Why is Ron Paul running Republican and not Libertarian (again, he ran Lib in 1988)? The courage of his convictions?

I would compare Ron Paul's voting record to ant's downvotes on this site. It is great to have one around, but it would break the system if there were 25.

See also:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/08/AR2006070800966.html

I am not sure that this guy's jingoism is a satisfying substitute for reasoned argument.

For example an "unregulated Internet" sounds great, right? Less regulation means more freedom, right? Kind of. Think, for example, how much you would like to have an unregulated nuclear power plant in your neighborhood (or even your State). How about an unregulated water utility, waste-disposal plant, oil refinery or chemical industry? Supporters of this type of argument play on a basic distrust of government, which any thinking person has plenty of. However, do you really have more trust in private corporations? We need transparency and accountability in, not absence of, government.

The forces behind the "unregulated internet" movement are primarily the big telcos, who want to charge extra fees to content providers and limit or deny their customers access to all sites that refuse to pay. Is VideoSift, for example, prepared to pay Internet backbone operators around the world to allow you to see their site? MSNBC probably is.

So which do you think it is: blind idealism, corruption or just ignorance that drives his call for an unregulated Internet? Do any of these sound like the right way to run a government? In fact, they sound familiar; this guy may not be so different from W as he would like to us to believe.

See also these Net Neutrality videos on VideoSift

I agree with rickegee. This guy is the up most constitutionalist that congress has ever had.

If the constitution said you must fart in your kids ceral every morning, this man would vote against bills banning it (that's just a weird example, but don't put it past Ron to vote no on it).

@wazant: it depends on what does really mean "unregulated", of course.

there are shades of gray, as always.

vote for thia guy.
i cant imagine hearing a better plan.

@looris: you are right, of course. And that's my point really, that regulation is not necessarily good or bad by itself--it depends, and the sort of automatic rejection of the notion of regulation, such as we hear from Mr. Paul, suggests a person who uses slogans as a substitute for thinking. This is not what I look for in a leader. For example, I would consider government regulation of media content to be bad, but regulation on the disposal of dangerous chemicals to be good (some people have the opposite opinion).

I recognize the term "unregulated internet" as one of those Orwellian phrases that gets repeated again and again to imply the exact opposite of what it actually is, with the goal of convincing people to agree to something that is against their interests (like the "clear skies initiative", which actually increases air pollution). So it triggers my BS detector.

oh, then maybe i should really read his speech, maybe i lost something....

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