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In reply to the discussion: Yes, Ron Paul is bad. [View all]Spazito
(50,326 posts)He is a racist ergo his 'wanting' to do away with the WOD position has nothing to do with it being racist. It has to do with who is in control of the drugs, who sells the drugs, who grows the drugs and, for Ron Paul, that would be the corporations, corporations WITHOUT regulations regarding health and safety.
Using Ron Paul to attempt to initiate a discussion on civil liberties makes no sense. He is not for the civil rights of all, only for the few such as whites, males, corporations. As to the rule of law and Paul, well, he is against the passage of the Civil Rights Act which is a rule of law. One only needs to look at his voting record, what legislation he has put forth in his tenure as a member of Congress to see how 'uncivil' he is and how he interprets what the 'rule of law' is versus what it actually is.
Here is one example, a bill Paul put forward in 2007, entitled the `Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007':
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.3216:
As to "Why not Newt...", good question. Why are we not concentrating on the republican candidates who actually have a chance at being the republican Presidential candidate and their heinous positions on the issues your post raises along with a host of other issues?
I do think it is odd that Ron Paul is being held up as some kind of positive example of anything when it comes to posts on DU, it is odd indeed.
I certainly will be very happy when he is acknowledged as 'a footnote' in the 2012 elections, a batshit crazy footnote, and the sooner the better, imo.
Edited to correct sentence structure