Ron Paul claims to be a Constitutionalist, but pretty much goes stomping through the Constitution like Godzilla does Tokyo. This isn’t unusual for those not schooled in Constitutional Law.
“Now he insists that everyone in Washington will suddenly do what he wants once he's in the White House. That's almost painfully naive. And it's ironic that the only way the libertarian-pure-constitutionalist in the race could do the things he's promising would be by using powers not in the Constitution.”
Such as?
I have a lot of problems with Ron Paul. But, so far, every criticism of him I see, from people ardently opposed to him, seems to be such a reach.
His justifications for fiscal conservatism claim to have predicted our economic mess.
“Or maybe it wasn’t prescience. Maybe it was paranoia. After all, if you worry about enough things, some of your warnings are going to turn out to be accurate. When a hypochondriac finally is diagnosed with a disease after years of pointless worrying, it kind of takes the bite out of his “I told you so.””
Kind of like environmentalists and climate change, right? A lot of the warnings he expressed was just as predictory and open-ended as theirs. Saying we can't run this economy the way we've been running it forever is a true statement regardless of how long it takes for it to become obvious.
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Date: 1/1/12 16:20 (UTC)“Now he insists that everyone in Washington will suddenly do what he wants once he's in the White House. That's almost painfully naive. And it's ironic that the only way the libertarian-pure-constitutionalist in the race could do the things he's promising would be by using powers not in the Constitution.”
Such as?
I have a lot of problems with Ron Paul. But, so far, every criticism of him I see, from people ardently opposed to him, seems to be such a reach.
His justifications for fiscal conservatism claim to have predicted our economic mess.
“Or maybe it wasn’t prescience. Maybe it was paranoia. After all, if you worry about enough things, some of your warnings are going to turn out to be accurate. When a hypochondriac finally is diagnosed with a disease after years of pointless worrying, it kind of takes the bite out of his “I told you so.””
Kind of like environmentalists and climate change, right? A lot of the warnings he expressed was just as predictory and open-ended as theirs. Saying we can't run this economy the way we've been running it forever is a true statement regardless of how long it takes for it to become obvious.