the IDIOT

the ron paul squad has brought it on itself. of course he’ll be scrutinized more closely when he’s shooting his mouth off about being the “champion of the constitution”. watch as lew rockwell lets slip the real news item (barely perceptible), then bitches at WSJ for treating RP like a real presidential candidate:

War Street Journal Attacks Ron Paul

Posted by Lew Rockwell at August 6, 2007 01:39 PM

The smarmy Neocon News has long been upset at Ron’s anti-war, anti-tax, anti-spending, anti-police state, and anti-dictatorship views. So we can expect more libels as Ron gains traction. Here, on today’s editorial page, is one such lie by misdirection. The Journal, an advocate of Republican big spending, attacks Ron as a big-spender (sic)!

The topic is earmarks. The WSJ hates them because they represent congressional “pork” rather than presidential pork. (Note, to the WSJ, all power should be vested in the presidency, so by WSJ definition, there is no such thing as executive pork, only legislative.)

The charge is that Ron’s office has requested various spending grants for his district, at the behest of constituents. The charge is apparently true.

In the same sense, if a constituent is not getting his food stamps, Ron’s office–he is a Representative, after all–will try to help.

Neither of these things means that Ron Paul supports federal public works spending or food stamps (though he’d rather see such spending, if it must happen, take place in Texas or Iowa than Iraq or Afghanistan). He votes against all such spending bills, and–of course–has the best record on spending in modern Congressional history.

Ron Paul is being attacked here for being a good politician. Indeed, he is a superb politician, adept at assembling coalitions, building support for libertarian ideas among non-libertarians, knowing the proper timing for iniatives and campaigns, and garnering public loyalty despite smears and libels. It’s how he’s won ten times, against entrenched incumbents and Bush-supported challengers.

The Wall Street Journal pretends to be free-market and even a little libertarian, when it is actually the mouthpiece of the most despicable statist movement in America: the neocons. It is Ron Paul’s defense of liberty and peace against the total presidential state and total war that rankles. That and his opposition to the WSJ’s cherished Wall Streeet welfare, the Federal Reserve. (Thanks to Bill Peterson and Tom Bernhardt for the heads-up.)

ron paul “has requested various spending grants for his district”? WTF?

i used to go through this with the morons from my dad’s church, so it’s no trouble to explain it to the LRC hypocrites. call it a freebie. i’ll start with the christian part.

when you set yourself up publicly as a christian, and declare to everyone that you adhere to a certain doctrine (very strict, in the case of christianity, though you’d never know it from watching the average “christian”), you’ve lost the luxury of being treated like the average sinner who makes no claims to piety. ron paul’s entire campaign is about railing at others for betraying the republic, the constitution, and now — we’ve learned from sunday morning’s “debate” — for the failure to spread “democracy” in the US. meanwhile, the message being preached by his opponents is socialism, fascism, and most every other brand of totalitarian intent. you RP swillers then expect that he’s not to be held to a higher standard with regard to his record?

hogwash. LRC regularly publishes articles, including from godfather rothbard (another state-slurping hypocrite), extolling overt criminals for their comparative honesty. same standard should apply to ron paul, though he and his fellow syndicate members are obviously on a different part of the comparison scale. at least the other scum preach the doctrine of pork barrel.

paul’s screwed himself because the only thing he has to offer as a president, ostensibly, is his supposed ability to resist completely the urging of “constituents” that he violate the law. he’s not “presidential”. he’s likely to suffer declining health. his debate/interview style often heads into borderline petulance (understandable, given his roots). as i’ve noted for years now, ron paul is a hypocrite, and he deserves loud criticism for preaching total adherence to the US constitution, bitching at other hypocrites, while acting otherwise. his co-sponsor record is a consistent travesty of unconstitutionalism.

more important for voluntarists, ron paul has subsisted for decades on wealth stolen from peaceful others. in plain, accurate language, ron paul is a criminal, and hardly in a position to be spouting the “get government off your back” angle. go get a real job, ron; there’s a start to getting government off my back. individual action. let your replacement rapist wrestle his own demons.

WSJ sucks ass, but they’re right to go after paul, applying his standard (not theirs) to his actions, just as i can correctly lambaste “christians” loudly while not being one and not being expected to follow christian doctrine. you get the standard you inflict, LRC hypocrites.

BTW, if you think it unlikely lew’s dreaming of a cabinet position or similar nonsense, you haven’t been observing.

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