[movermike] movermike: The Ron Paul Button Comes Down

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Posted by movermike:
The Ron Paul Button Comes Down
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   I have taken down my friend of Ron Paul Button on my left sidebar:

   [1]Ron Paul - Friend of Ron Paul 

   I have done this for several reasons:

   1. The reports lately of the contents of Ron Paul's newsletters that
   favored David Duke, contain homophobic and anti-semetic articles,
   while they may not have been written by Ron Paul, are his
   responsibility and they should be repudiated.

   2. While I believe the U.S. meddles in other country's affairs, too
   often, and many times sets other countries up for blackmail, (see
   "Confessions of An Economic Hitman"), Ron Paul would immediately leave
   Iraq. Thus he gets the support of people wanting a smaller government
   and he gets the support of the left anti-war crowd. That subverts my
   pro-defense, pro-America position.

   Ron Paul is called a Libertarian and even ran as a Libertarian,
   however the Libertarian party that grew out of Ayn Rand and Ludwig Von
   Mises, that was pro-defense and pro-America, was subverted by Murray
   Rothbard who is the opposite of Randian Libertarians. Dr. Jack Wheeler
   writes in his latest To The Point letter:

     I will never forget the day I canceled my subscription to
     Rothbard's Libertarian Forum newsletter in 1974, for it was the day
     I stopped calling myself a libertarian. The lead editorial was
     written by Rothbard, in which he said: "The Soviet Union is the
     greatest force for peace in the world today."

     Not once - never, ever - did Rothbard take the side of America in
     any dispute with the Soviet Union. No matter what happened, no
     matter what evil the Soviets perpetrated, it was always our fault,
     it was our aggressive behavior that "provoked" them.

   3. Ron Paul, and this is why I was attracted to him, is a presidential
   candidate who advocates real economic freedom and a government
   restricted to the enumerated powers of the Constitution. Our
   government is too large, to intrusive, too inefficient, and
   anti-constitution. As Wheeler says,

     Ron Paul is blind to the reality of a dangerous world. Which is
     why, since being elected to Congress in 1996, he has not voted for
     a single Defense Authorization Bill, not one, not ever.

   The great service of Ron Paul is the focus he has put on economic
   liberty. He has challenged conventional opinion about usefulness of
   the Federal Reserve and the need to rid the country of this central
   bank. He explains how the Fed has ruined the currency and robbed us
   through inflation. He has inveighed against the size of government and
   how it robs us of our freedom.

   I cannot support him when it comes to foreign policy. I believe we
   have a genuine threat from Islamofascists who would like nothing
   better to kill us all. For all that I'm taking down the Ron Paul
   button.

   [2]Ron Paul [3]Libertarian [4]Mover Mike

References

   1. http://friendsofronpaul.blogspot.com/
   2. http://technorati.com/tag/Ron+Paul
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/Libertarian
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/Mover+Mike