8.24.2008

Outside of the Box, Alright...

Posted by Soccer Mom at 12:58:00 PM

One of my loyal readers asked about Ron Paul. I'm not sure if he was serious, but here are my thoughts on Ron Paul. He is definitely outside of the box - but not in a good way. Sure his forceful, eloquent anti-war rhetoric sticks out like a sore thumb from the yammerings of the other republicans, but he has a lot of truly crazy ultra conservative viewpoints:


He is against any environmental regulations. He is another oil man. His abysmal record on the environment is driven in large measure by his love of oil: in the 109th Congress alone, he voted to voted allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to shield oil companies from MTBE contamination lawsuits, against increasing gas mileage standards, to allow new offshore drilling, and to stop making oil companies pay royalties to the government for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

He wants to overturn Roe vs Wade. He wants to criminalize women and their doctors for murder, so he introduced a bill that would define life as being at conception. He also is against stem cell research.

He wants to abolish social security.

Say goodbye to funding for public education. He wants to abolish the Department of Education. He believes children should be taught through home schooling & private school via tax write-offs.

He marches in lock-step with the xenophobic right wing on immigration. He even proposed a bill that would repeal the fourteenth Amendment. He wants to criminalize doctors that treat illegal immigrants.

He is an extreme racist. I think he makes David Duke look like a saint. That’s why his biggest supports are the KKK and Neo-Nazi groups. He has voted against the Civil Rights Act and the Voters Right Act.

He is an extreme homophobe. He equates homosexuality with sexual deviance. Doesn’t believe that gay people should be able to serve in the military, or adopt children or have any other rights at all.

He does not believe in the Separation of Church and State.

That's not the change I'm looking for. In fact, it seems more of the same. But if you really think that he is the answer, you can join other like-minded followers in "Paulville". Seems appropriate that it's located in Texas with the rest of the wack jobs!

 

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2 Comments:

  1. Anonymous said...
    August 24, 2008 1:51 PM  
    Actually I was kind of joking....and how do you know I'm a he?

    http://www.votenader.org/index.html
    Soccer Mom said...
    August 25, 2008 8:27 PM  
    You know how we liberals are...we're all presumptuous :-P

    Ralph Nader? The man who has been running for President since 1992? He has done tremendous good for this country. These days he doesn’t get the kudos he deserves for his fight to protect consumers.

    On paper…on the issues…I agree with him. He is a true progressive, but I don’t believe in my lifetime there will ever be a third party candidate that is strong enough to take the Presidency. Unfortunately, all they can do is act as spoilers…or be accused of being spoilers.

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