Truth to tell, I’ve never been a Ron Paul supporter. I read the pamphlets, I listened to as many of his rEVOLUTIONaries as I could stand, and I always came away with the feeling that “something” just didn’t compute. I just felt that his theories and principles and his rhetoric were discordant, but I couldn’t really pinpoint anything specific that summed up my unease. Then I happened upon his interview with Neal Cavuto.
Apparently Mr. “Fiscal-Conservative-to-the-Max” is one of the biggest porkers in the latest Congressional hog fest – to the tune of over $73 million sliced off for his District. That’s some bacon, yessir!
And how does he justify this seeming inconsistency? Partially, with the always popular “Everybody’s doing it, so I have to too” line, but he follows that with the clever, albeit disingenuous, “But I never vote for the appropriation bill.”
Wow. Like that makes a difference.
He gets to make a “principled” vote, knowing full-well that it doesn’t make a dime’s worth of difference in the final analysis.
Smarmy little weasel. That’s exactly the kind of hypocrisy that fries my potatoes. I’ll take a “money-grubbing, take all the earmarks I can get my hands on” kind of guy as long as he’s upfront and honest about it and puts his vote where his mitts are over this kind of double-talking pedagogue.
Check, please.
My problem is with his supporters who turn a blind eye on his “two faced” posturing. Taking as gospel his rhetoric but not checking his actions. You’ve provided a prime example.
And my experience with Ron Paul supporters is they’re all hat and no cattle. They showed up in force for the Presidential caucus a year ago February. Then some showed for the state GOP convention. But since they didn’t/couldn’t influence/control the party, they “took their football and went home” when they couldn’t get their way. I much prefer people with conviction who will work within the system to change it, if change is needed. Damn, you got me on my soap box over this one Auntie Lib.
Welcome aboard! Plenty of room on this soap box for you and as many others as want to join us!
Some of us are still around and maybe making a difference.
Many of you are still around and working hard for what you believe in. More power to you. My issue is with the cult of worship for the man.
I guess my problem with the RP movement is that – just like Obama – the man has taken on a much larger role than the principles he supposedly represents. And like many men, falls off the pedestal far too quickly, because – when the spotlight gets turned off and reality takes over – when the choice is between the principles and the system, the system always wins.
Ron Paul is just another politician. No more, no less. He just convinced a whole bunch of good people who sincerely want the best for this country that he was something different and better. In fact, he is nothing more than the right-wing version of a Barack Obama wannabe, with a valid US birth certificate.
I don’t really see what the problem is. While he did not want the bill to pass, he sure as heck isn’t going to stand idly by while the rest of Congress forces his constituents to provide funds without redirecting any back.
Say someone asks you to go for a swim and you say ‘no’. Then against your will they throw you in the deep end. At that point, you’d better swim!