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If you are offended by this video, yet not offended by what the American Taliban is doing to this country, you need to open your eyes and look beyond Fox News.
I have got to say, told you so, and who couldn't have predicted this? Do we really have to explain to teabagging Govna's that pardoning cold callous murderers is not a good idea?
There is a reason readers why America is on such a disastrous path to hell. This path was fabricate by G.W. Bush, whom emaciated this country like no other POTUS before him. Radical teabaggers ensure today that this path remains wide and clear.
Within the last twenty four hours we have seen some pretty radical Americans pony up to a lectern and spew some ungodly rhetoric. Enter Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul.
Famous Reichwing-nut job Michele Bachmann held an unprecedented meeting with “reality,” today which has tragically and inevitably led to the announcement that she is dropping out of the presidential campaign. Poor Marcus Bachmann will never get to be First Lady, after all! Damn!
BUH-BYE Michele
So will she now return to space? Or better yet just go back to her job of collecting a paycheck in return for refusing to show up for work, like all the other teapublican losers who have so effectively managed to monetize “doing nothing,” politics. Honestly it’s not a bad back-up gig to running for President!
Then again, there’s always room for a lunatic teapublican woman in the Vice Presidential slot on the ticket, MAYBE? We can always “hope.”
"Miss Hell" Bachmann has now tripled down on her views...the ones that put her in last place in her own home state. The "obamacare" blitz, which was her only mission. (mentioned 12 times in her good-bye sonata) as POTUS seeker, which has now cost her the career that she so drooled over.
I have a tear in my eye as 'Batshit Crazy" exits stage left. No more are the days of listening to a Senator whom lacks basic American history.
Goodbye Michele Bachmann, say hello to Palin, Cain, Trump and Pawlenty when you join them in the teapublican loser line. The line of useful idiots.
As noted by "politifact" Bachmann had the most ratings on the false end of the truth-O-meter scale, with 72 percent mostly false or lower. She also ranks first for the largest share of Pants on Fire ratings (23 percent)."
Even in America, bald faced lies and half truths can be damaging to one's credibility. A truly great American story and who'd a thunk it? Good-bye batshit, and don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you!
RON PAUL
While watching Ron Paul speech last night after the Iowa caucus, I sat in wonderment as to why someone would either follow or vote for this bombastic buffoon. Listening to this squealing, squelching voice was far worse than any fingernail on a chalkboard. I quickly associated Paul with Jack Nicholson's character in "one flew over the cuckoos nest"!
This man is more f**ked up than I once thought. What do teabaggers do when reality's round peg just won't fit into their little square hole...make up some more blather and play the innocent victim of vast conspiracy cards. What else? Hence enter Ron Paul's conspiracy theory on 9/11.
Long-time Paul campaign and congressional aide Eric Dondero recently wrote a statement on the website RightWingNews.com saying that after the Sept. 11 attacks, Paul “engaged in conspiracy theories including perhaps the attacks were coordinated with the CIA, and that the Bush administration might have known about the attacks ahead of time.” Dondero recently repeated that charge in a joint interview with Mike Michaels of Redstate and the Spokane Conservative Examiner last week. Dondero went so far as to call Paul "the original 9/11 truther."
”When Al- Qaeda attacked our country on 9-11, Ron Paul told us the CIA was behind it. And that Bush and Cheney knew about the attack in advance,” Dondero said.
In a previous interview, Dondero said that after witnessing the attack on the Pentagon, Paul was more concerned about how Bush would use the attack, and nearly voted against responding militarily.
Mr. Paul has blamed America for 9/11 often, and has stated the Bush administration reacted with glee over the terror attacks. Given his support for other truthers and previous statements he has made, it really isn't that difficult to believe he would fall in line with those who don't think fire can melt steel. Birthers,truthers, teabaggers, teapublcians, AGENDA 21 radicals, are all one in the same, just named or identified differently to confuse the masses.
In 1988, while running for president on the Libertarian Party ticket, Paul highlighted yet another conspiracy theory, and this one doesn't collapse under investigation: The CIA, Paul told a gathering of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, was involved in trafficking drugs as part of the Iran-Contra debacle.
Quoting Paul: Drug trafficking is "a gold mine for people who want to raise money in the underground government in order to finance projects that they can't get legitimately. It is very clear that the CIA has been very much involved with drug dealings," Paul said. "The CIA was very much involved in the Iran-Contra scandals. I'm not making up the stories; we saw it on television. They were hauling down weapons and drugs back. And the CIA and government officials were closing their eyes, fighting a war that was technically illegal."
Now on to Ronnie's "foreign policies". Paul has made moves that shore up his credentials and views - that on both national security and foreign policy, he represents a radical or dangerous departure from the mainstream. For heavens sake he even has Eye-of-Newt saying his policies are dangerous.
Newt Gingrich has finally found a politician he considers even worse than a president he calls socialist, anti-colonialist and radical. That would be his fellow teapublican Ron Paul.
"I think Barack Obama is very destructive to the future of the United States. I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American," Gingrich said in a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer.
Could he vote for Paul? "No." If it came down to Paul vs. Obama? "You'd have a very hard choice at that point."
In the National Journal, Miss Hell Bachmann said she considered Paul "unfit" for the office of POTUS. Talk about your pot and kettle moment, but it just goes to show you that as FUBAR as Bachmann is, she can still identify with how ludicrous this idea is - of Ron Paul residing in the White House.
This is not rocket science readers. I am fast becoming the most unpopular man in America, among Ron Paul supporters that is. Truth is seldom popular among those at odds with that truth.
Paul supporters have worked diligently to convince voters that their candidate is the “real deal” constitutionalist conservative in the ’12 presidential race and that he has a real chance of winning. But the facts simply don’t support either of these claims and pointing this reality out seems to drive Paul supporters into a fit of unbridled rage.
The fact is, though Ron Paul himself is no threat to anyone or anything, his campaign is on a track that is very dangerous for America. Although he is highly unlikely to win anything, his campaign is increasingly likely to cause real trouble for those of the radical persuasion.
The Bill Looman's of the world are amongst us, and like Ron Paul, with a voice they are a dangerous lot! With the likes of Ron Paul, radical white supremacist toting guns, "Soldiers of Fortune" magazines, and Gadsden's flags run rampant in our neighborhoods.
Ron Paul has recently been trending upward in the polls - that along with the host of skeletons that reside in this fruits basket. From his homophobia to his racist newsletters, Ron Paul has been taking a beating like no other candidate - as he should. And now, he has provided yet another reason why no one should vote for him.
On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Ron Paul said that sexual harassment in the workplace should be legal and that if women didn’t like it, they should get another job somewhere else:
CHRIS WALLACE: “I want to ask you about one other thing that you wrote back in your book in 1987 about sexual harassment in the workplace.
You wrote this, “Why don’t” — this is about the victims of sexual harassment. “Why don’t they quit once the so-called harassment starts? Obviously, the morals of the harasser cannot be defended, but how can the harassee escape some responsibility for the problem?”
You said that sexual harassment should not be a violation of someone’s employment rights?”
RON PAUL: “Well, the whole thing is, is you have to get a better definition of sexual harassment. If it’s just because somebody told the joke and somebody was offended, they don’t have a right to go to the federal government and have a policeman to come in and put penalties on those individuals. I mean, they have to say, well, maybe this is not a very good environment, and they have the right to work there or not there.”
The plethora of wacko bullshit out of this mans mouth should have been enough to ensure he is not POTUS, but if not, this latest round should be a deal breaker for all voters everywhere. Sexual harassment is NOT acceptable in the workplace. Ron Paul is blaming women for being sexually harassed and that should automatically disqualify him for running for high office. Apparently to Ron Paul, it’s a white mans’ world and women only have one place in it.
We are only three days into the new year, and Ron Paul has stepped up his game so much that he gets the coveted first teapublican asshat of the year award.
Our Quest has always been to enlighten the masses with regards to radical ideology, especially when it comes to teapublicans. This flock is certainly detached from the mother ship when it comes to politics circa 2012.
This daffy old coot [Ron Paul's] is proof that the mother ships is lost. The crank side of this idiot is certainly not appealing - nor are his racial views. Even after Paul abandoned the crude race-baiting of his 1990s newsletters, he continued to engage in elaborate apologetics for the Confederate side of the Civil War.
Ron Paul's admirers see him as a man of integrity. They are tragically mistaken about that. Despite his too-dotty-to-lie persona, Ron Paul is not in fact on the level. In evading responsibility for his newsletters, Paul has replied "I don't know" and "I don't remember" to queries whose answers he must know and surely remembers. The back story of the newsletters shows a man who, sufficiently saturated in racism and extremism himself, was ready to exploit the even greater racism and extremism of others for financial gain. Ron Paul is the Max Bialystock of monetary cranks -- and this latest presidential campaign represents the summit of his bunco artist career, his very own "Springtime for Hitler."
There are so many reasons why I could never, would never, support Ron Paul. Yes Virginia, Ron Paul is an idiot, an idiot epic proportions! Ron Paul has built an entire political career off of pandering to the paranoid and hate filled when he thinks no one is looking, as his numerous appearances on the Alex Jones show will attest.
Ten Reasons why Ron Paul isnt POTUS:
Ron Paul does not value equal rights for minorities. Ron Paul has sponsored legislation that would repeal affirmative action, keep the IRS from investigating private schools who may have used race as a factor in denying entrance, thus losing their tax exempt status, would limit the scope of Brown versus Board of Education, and would deny citizenship for those born in the US if their parents are not citizens. Here are links to these bills: H.R.3863, H.R.5909, H.J.RES.46, andH.J.RES.42.
Ron Paul would deny women control of their bodies and reproductive rights.Ron Paul makes it very clear that one of his aims is to repeal Roe v. Wade. He has also co sponsored 4 separate bills to “To provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception.” This, of course, goes against current medical and scientific information as well as our existing laws and precedents. Please see these links: H.R.2597 and H.R.392
Ron Paul would be disastrous for the working class. He supports abolishing the Federal minimum wage, has twice introduced legislation to repeal OSHA, or the Occupational Safety and Health Act and would deal devastating blows to Social Security including repealing the act that makes it mandatory for employees of nonprofits, to make “coverage completely optional for both present and future workers”, and would “freeze benefit levels”. He has also twice sponsored legislation seeking to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act and the Copeland Act which among other things provide that contractors for the federal government must provide the prevailing wage and prohibits corporate “kick backs.” Here are the related legislative links: H.R.2030, H.R.4604, H.R.736, and H.R.2720
Ron Paul’s tax plan is unfair to lower earners and would greatly benefit those with the highest incomes. He has repeatedly submitted amendments to the tax code that would get rid of the estate and gift taxes, tax all earners at 10%, disallow income tax credits to individuals who are not corporations, repeal the elderly tax credit, child care credit, earned income credit, and other common credits for working class citizens. Please see this link for more information: H.R.05484 Summary
Ron Paul’s policies would cause irreparable damage to our already strained environment. Among other travesties he supports off shore drilling, building more oil refineries, mining on federal lands, no taxes on the production of fuel, and would stop conservation efforts that could be a “Federal obstacle” to building and maintaining refineries. He has also sought to amend the Clean Air Act, repeal the Soil and Water Conservation Act of 1977, and to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to “restrict the jurisdiction of the United States over the discharge of dredged or fill material to discharges into waters”. To see for yourself the possible extent of the damage to the environment that would happen under a Paul administration please follow these links: H.R.2504, H.R.7079, H.R.7245, H.R.2415, H.R.393, H.R.4639, H.R.5293, and H.R.6936
A Ron Paul administration would continue to proliferate the negative image of the US among other nations. Ron Paul supports withdrawing the US from the UN, when that has not happened he has fought to at least have the US withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. He has introduced legislation to keep the US from giving any funds to the UN. He also submitted that the US funds should not be used in any UN peacekeeping mission or any UN program at all. He has sponsored a bill calling for us to “terminate all participation by the United States in the United Nations, and to remove all privileges, exemptions, and immunities of the United Nations.”Ron Paul twice supported stopping the destruction of intercontinental ballistic missile silos in the United States. He also would continue with Bush’s plan of ignoring international laws by maintaining an insistence that the International Criminal Court does not apply to the US, despite President Clinton’s signature on the original treaty. The International Criminal Court is used for, among other things, prosecution of war crimes. Please see the following links: H.R.3891, H.AMDT.191, H.AMDT.190, H.R.3769, H.R.1665, H.CON.RES.23, and H.R.1154
Ron Paul discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation and would not provide equal rights and protections to glbt citizens. This is an issue that Paul sort of dances around. He has been praised for stating that the federal government should not regulate who a person marries. This has been construed by some to mean that he is somewhat open to the idea of same sex marriage, he is not. Paul was an original co sponsor of the Marriage Protection Act in the House in 2004. Among other things this discriminatory piece of legislation placed a prohibition on the recognition of a same sex marriage across state borders. He said in 2004 that if he was in the Texas legislature he would not allow judges to come up with “new definitions” of marriage. Paul is a very religious conservative and though he is careful with his words his record shows that he is not a supporter of same sex marriage. In 1980 he introduced a particularly bigoted bill entitled “A bill to strengthen the American family and promote the virtues of family life.” or H.R.7955 A direct quote from the legislation “Prohibits the expenditure of Federal funds to any organization which presents male or female homosexuality as an acceptable alternative life style or which suggest that it can be an acceptable life style.” shows that he is unequivocally opposed to lifestyles other than heterosexual.
Ron Paul has an unnatural obsession with guns. One of Paul’s loudest gripes is that the second amendment of the constitution is being eroded. In fact, he believes that September 11 would not have happened if that wasn’t true. He advocates for there to be no restrictions on personal ownership of semi-automatic weaponry or large capacity ammunition feeding devices, would repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act (because we all know our schools are just missing more guns), wants guns to be allowed in our National Parks, and repeal the Gun Control Act of 1968. Now, I’m pretty damn certain that when the Constitution was written our founding fathers never intended for people to be walking around the streets with AK47′s and “large capacity ammunition feeding devices.” (That just sounds scary.) Throughout the years our Constitution has been amended and is indeed a living document needing changes to stay relevant in our society. Paul has no problem changing the Constitution when it fits his needs, such as no longer allowing those born in the US to be citizens if their parents are not. On the gun issue though he is no holds barred. I know he’s from Texas but really, common sense tells us that the amendments he is seeking to repeal have their place. In fact, the gun control act was put into place after the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy. H.R.2424, H.R.1897, H.R.1096, H.R.407, H.R.1147, andH.R.3892.
Ron Paul would butcher our already sad educational system. The fact is that Ron Paul wants to privatize everything and that includes education. Where we run into problems is that it has been shown (think our current health care system) that this doesn’t work so well in practice. Ron Paul has introduced legislation that would keep the Federal Government “from planning, developing, implementing, or administering any national teacher test or method of certification and from withholding funds from States or local educational agencies that fail to adopt a specific method of teacher certification.” In a separate piece of legislation he seeks to “prohibit the payment of Federal Education assistance in States which require the licensing or certification of private schools or private school teachers.” So basically the federal government can’t regulate teaching credentials and if states opt to require them for private schools they get no aid. That sounds like a marvelous idea teachers with no certification teaching in private schools that are allowed to discriminate on the basis of race. He is certainly moving forward with these proposals!Remember his “bill to strengthen the American family and promote the virtues of family life.” or H.R.7955? Guess what? He basically advocates for segregation in schools once again. It “Forbids any court of the United States from requiring the attendance at a particular school of any student because of race, color, creed, or sex.” Without thinking about this statement it doesn’t sound bad at all. But remember, when desegregating schools that this is done by having children go to different schools, often after a court decision as in Brown Vs. Board of Education. If this were a bill that passed, schools would no longer be compelled to comply and the schools would go back to segregation based on their locations. Ron Paul is really starting to look like a pretty bigoted guy don’t you think?
Ron Paul is opposed to the separation of church and state. This reason is probably behind every other thing that I disagree with in regards to Paul’s positions. Ron Paul is among those who believes that there is a war on religion, he stated “Through perverse court decisions and years of cultural indoctrination, the elitist, secular Left has managed to convince many in our nation that religion must be driven from public view.” ( Koyaanisqatsi Blog: Wrong Paul Why I Do Not Want Ron Paul to be My President) Though he talks a good talk, at times, Ron Paul can’t get away from his far right, conservative views. He would support “alternative views” to evolution taught in public schools (i.e. Intelligent Design.) We’ve already taken a look at his “bill to strengthen the American family and promote the virtues of family life.” or H.R.7955 Besides hating the gays he takes a very religious stance on many other things. He is attempting to force his beliefs on the rest of America, exactly what he would do as president.
Ron Paul is full of rhetoric, and he is pretty much like every other teapublican, just more insidious.
At the end of the day Ron Paul’s many fawning sycophants like to pretend that his problems are that he is despised by the Establishment because he’s too pure in his love for the Constitution. The reality is that Ron Paul hasn’t been given nearly the shunning he deserves for his paranoid insanity or his coddling of racism throughout his entire career. Frankly, I think Ron Paul’s retirement at the end of this campaign will be the best thing to happen to politics in decades.
As Irene Devastates, Ron Paul Says We Need To ‘Come To Our Senses’ And Abolish FEMA.
Today, nearly 2 million people are without power and nine are dead as now-Tropical Storm Irene continues to devastate the East Coast. But Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) still thinks that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) needs to be abolished. In a lengthy anti-FEMA screed to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Paul described FEMA as a drain on the economy — a “gross distortion of insurance” that only “bleeding hearts” would support — that “just bail[s] put everybody”:
WALLACE: Congressman, you would really, at this point, do away with FEMA and all the things it’s doing to help hundreds of thousands of people along the East Coast?
PAUL: (Laughs.) Have you ever read the reports that came out of New Orleans and all those wonderful things they did? Giving checks to people who didn’t even live there? Sending in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of trailers that they had to junk because they didn’t meet FEMA’s standards? No. It’s a system of bureaucratic central economic planning which is a policy which is deeply flawed. So no, you don’t get rid of something like that in one day. … I mean, this idea that government can just bail out everybody and vote for money — but I propose that we save a billion dollars from the overseas war-mongering, bring half that home and put it against the deficit, and yes, tide people over until we come to our senses and realize that FEMA’s been around since 1978. It has one of the worst reputations for a bureaucracy ever. … You can’t imagine how many calls we get because FEMA’s getting in the way and they can’t get their checks, they can’t get their bailouts. … Anybody who wants to defend this department and this agency, they have a tough argument to argue for.
Paul has long been a critic of FEMA and voted against hurricane relief funding for his home state of Texas in 2005. He previously has said that FEMA “compounds our problems” because the government shouldn’t “take care of us when we do dumb things“ — like get hit by hurricanes.
Is it any wonder why Rand Paul son to Ron often sounds like a lunatic and very radical – apples do not fall far from the tree!
