The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers… right after we waterboard them. Or something.

I’m surprised that they still allow Paul to call himself a Republican.

omg if gore doesnt cowboy up
i will be voting for ron paul
omg

It’s not just the Rethuglicans who don’t get that Congress declares war - the invertebrate Democrats don’t either.

How come Ron Paul is the only Republican who isn’t a complete retard?

You can certainly see Ron Paul’s appeal after Romney’s meandering gobbley-gook. I bet ole Mitt also consults his attorneys as to when he should have a bowl movement . . .

Now we’re talkin’…..

“It’s the Constitution stupid”

Say it loud, say it Now!!!

Astonishing and scary.

Freddie Boy Thompson tried to avoid the question when posed to him…mentioning
the “War Powers Act” as if/tho he had any idea as to what that document provides.
Almost seemed like a “set-up” question for Tommy Boy, for he immediately looked down
to the podium before him and starting reading a prepared statement relating to the War
Powers Act.

Hell, Romney was probably right in his twisted little unitarian executive world. He consults with the lawyers to see how he can subvert the Constitution and dodge Congress to do what he wants to do. A man after Bush’s dark little heart.

“Can you even begin to imagine what the founders would have to say about this?”

The wouldn’t say anything. They would find a bunch of nooses and immediately hang themselves.

That party is lost. I don’t agree with everything Ron Paul thinks, but God Damn if I wouldn’t feel better if more Republicans acted like him. At least he understands the fundamentals of our Constitution. Mitt and the rest should be ashamed of the answers they gave.
Good post. I’m glad this got brought up.

So sad, did you hear the chuckle from one of the others
during his passionate response?

These guys think he is nuts….

Super Majority ‘08

>WorldAsUnwill
>How come Ron Paul is the only Republican who isn’t a complete retard?

He was the only Republican on stage.

It’s time to shake Tom Paine’s Bones…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujjTVB-g66Y

The last Republican President was Eisenhower and he almost ran as a Democrat.

Ohio Proud @ 13:

So sad, did you hear the chuckle from one of the others
during his passionate response?

These guys think he is nuts….

They think that whole “Constitution” thing is crazy. They’re probably just listening to Shrub and they think it’s “just a god d*mn piece of paper.”
I like this Ron Paul guy, if only more Republicans were as honest as he is.

We should also get to hear Guiliani’s retort to Paul’s comment:

….And the point of — I think it was Congressman Paul made before — that we’ve never had an eminent attack, I don’t know where he was on September 11th.

Mr. Paul: That was no country. (APPLAUSE)
That was 19 thugs. That had nothing to do with a country.

Mr. Giuliani: And since September — well, I think it was kind of organized in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And if we had known about it, maybe — maybe hitting a target there, quickly, might have helped prevent it.

Thgat is so ridiculous. Bombing Pakistan would have not thwarted 911, the terrorists were here!
Guiliani would have had us lobbing cruise missles into Hamburg Germany, Venice Florida, Boston, NYC even, and any other city where terrorists are hiding, if he really wanted to stop the 911 attacks.

He is truly an idiot who’s obsession with 911 will be his downfall- can anyone say command center?

jtmonty46 @ 16:

The last Republican President was Eisenhower and he almost ran as a Democrat.

That is… “Republican”

The Constitution? Pfff… How quaint. Next thing he’ll be talking about the Bill of Rights, Checks and Balances, or that socialist concept, “the common wealth.” Commie!

I’m encouraged there were a round of applause following Paul’s remarks.

If you listen carefully to the clip, you can hear the other candidates starting to laugh at Ron Paul as he finishes. Then they are drowned out by the applause from the audience. This says all there is to say about the GOP as it stands today. Completely out of touch.

Amazing how these Republicrats beat up on lawyers… then jump into bed with them the second they think we blink…

I would vote for Paul before I voted for Hillary or Obama…

It’s the Constitution stupid…

None the less..

Dennis Kucinich 08!

This is great! Northwest Ohio is not all RED!
We have a pick up opportunity here!
Special Election, Dec 11- OH-5

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=/20071009/NEWS17/710090332

Ron Paul tells it like it is and doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the gang of morons and weasels on stage with him. I am becoming a fan.
The Dem’s need to take a lesson from him.

I would not vote for Ron Paul but I can see how many republicans feel he is their guy. He’s the only one who doesn’t come across as trying out for a part in a play instead of running for the position of President of the United States.

Redradar @ 6:

You can certainly see Ron Paul’s appeal after Romney’s meandering gobbley-gook. I bet ole Mitt also consults his attorneys as to when he should have a bowl movement . . .

And which pair of Magic underpants to wear…

Ron Paul makes the rest of the republicans look like bafoons. I pray to god he gets the nomination so I can vote for him.

waterboarding for jesus @ 25:

Ron Paul tells it like it is and doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the gang of morons and weasels on stage with him. I am becoming a fan.
The Dem’s need to take a lesson from him.

Ahem… *cough*… Dennis Kucinich!.. *cough*

Read the Constitution?

Sorry, his Constitution thinks women and minorities aren’t as important as white landowners. I don’t want to go back to those good old days, which is where he thinks we should be.

Ron Paul is a menace to modernity.

You won’t have to worry about voting for Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich. I wish they had a chance to get past the primaries, but our corporate owners can’t afford to let that happen.

It’ll probably be Hillary vs. Basset Hound.

I’m sorry but anyone who says the first thing they do in a crisis is call a lawyer is someone I just don’t trust. Covering their ass legally comes first? Why is that? Maybe because a lot of what they do teeters on the edge of being illegal?

Jo @ 30:

Read the Constitution?

Sorry, his Constitution thinks women and minorities aren’t as important as white landowners. I don’t want to go back to those good old days, which is where he thinks we should be.

Ron Paul is a menace to modernity.

You should read it before you knock it.

Sean Upinatem @ 12:

That party is lost. I don’t agree with everything Ron Paul thinks, but God Damn if I wouldn’t feel better if more Republicans acted like him. At least he understands the fundamentals of our Constitution. Mitt and the rest should be ashamed of the answers they gave.
Good post. I’m glad this got brought up.

Understanding the Constitution; now there’s a novel idea.
There was a time, and I suppose it must be decades ago, when Republicans actually did understand the fundamentals of our Constitution. Back in the day, there was not such a monumental disregard of the foundations of our country with the major and lamentable exception of civil rights violations. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves while some of us are mourning the imment implosion of the good old USA.

do the canidates not listen to who gets applause and then think you know what…they may be on to something?

honestly to think the President of the United States would go to his lawyers to see if he could declare war on a country without the approval of congress should be laughable, but today as I write this a man just stated it in a major debate..wtf is wrong with this country?

Ron Paul is showing the Democrats how they should be behaving. Hillary & Obama are in the same mold as 1/2 the Rethug field.

His appeal is undeniable especially when juxtaposed with the current lot of hypocritical Republicans. He’s at least consistent in his beliefs. However, his libertarian beliefs such as a capitalistic utopia created by non-regulated free markets is a fairy tale. The consumer would take it up the ass even more than we currently do. But you have to respect how he cuts out the bullshit and sticks to his principles.

The rest of the Repub candidates seem to be measuring whose is longer while Ron Paul tells them to zip up their damned pants.

rduke @ 29:

waterboarding for jesus @ 25:

Ron Paul tells it like it is and doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the gang of morons and weasels on stage with him. I am becoming a fan.
The Dem’s need to take a lesson from him.

Ahem… *cough*… Dennis Kucinich!.. *cough*

man, what an election year it would be if Kucinich was the dem nominee and Paul the repub nominee. There would be some of the most reasonable debates since before the 60’s!

Wow, that was a fucking scary answer from Romney. Ask the lawyers? Are you fucking kidding me? Scary, scary, scary.

pissed off patricia @ 38:

The rest of the Repub candidates seem to be measuring whose is longer while Ron Paul tells them to zip up their damned pants.

Very observant. Now, I will go and gouge out my mind’s eye.

Why does the best Democrat running for office have to be a Republican?

If Texas is sticking to its republican traditions, it will go Ron Paul.

Not me, its Tancredo all the way!

……..psyche!!!!

Fran Townsend tried to defend Mitt’s answer yesterday by saying before we went to Afghanistan and Iraq, lawyers were called to the white house. Her defense was feeble at best.

Yellow Elephant Safari @ 2:

I’m surprised that they still allow Paul to call himself a Republican.

Whatever Paul is,Libertarian,Republican-the rest of them are Authoritarians.
Clinton was much more “Republican” than these guys…

Weaseldog @ 33:

Jo @ 30:

Read the Constitution?

Sorry, his Constitution thinks women and minorities aren’t as important as white landowners. I don’t want to go back to those good old days, which is where he thinks we should be.

Ron Paul is a menace to modernity.

You should read it before you knock it.

I am not knocking our Constitution with amendments. I am knocking Ron Paul’s vision of women’s role in a modern world. The Constitution he quotes is the original, without the amendments.

My guess? The founders would consider them all morons who aren’t fit to lead a parade of clowns let alone run a nation… Idiots who have no business trying to become the president of the United States…with Mitt being the biggest baffoon of them all in this snippet… That’s my guess.. The lack of basic knowledge in these people who would claim to have the right stuff to lead this country is beyond unbelievable, beyond rediculous, beyond astonishing… It’s fucking dangerous, it’s insulting to the very concept of representative democracy. I’m not a big Ron Paul fan, but he got it totally right on this.. He should have given Mitt more hell for his specific cluelessness…………….JD

ron paul sure has honesty, integrity and guts…

i just wish i agreed with his libertarian ideology. if so he’d have my support.

but the LAST thing this country needs is less regulation. and i fear his policies would make it easier for corporations to control the living world.

kucinich ‘08

Soon the backwoods folks from Georgia will insist that king george take their wives on their wedding night.

Ron Paul is not a confused neo-con / neo-christian nut bag is what the difference between him and the rest of those fools on stage. Honestly, I think that most of them know that there is more water in hell than hope in this election that a republican will win. They just like their names with Presidential Candidate attached to it. Not to mention it improves their resumes….

Jo @ 30:

Read the Constitution?

Sorry, his Constitution thinks women and minorities aren’t as important as white landowners. I don’t want to go back to those good old days, which is where he thinks we should be.

Ron Paul is a menace to modernity.

Actually, the 15th, 19th and 26th amendments allow everyone over 18 to vote.

The Continuing War Powers Controversy

Until 1950 it had long been established and well settled that the Constitution vests in Congress the sole and exclusive authority to initiate total as well as limited war. But at the midcentury mark, President Harry Truman asserted a unilateral executive warmaking power, and claimed authorization from the United Nations, to justify his decision to introduce U.S. troops into the Korean War without congressional authorization. […]

Truman denied that he need congressional authorization before deploying the troops in Europe, and his decision triggered the so-called “great debate” on the constitutionality of his action. […]

The outcome of the debate was a substantial victory for the president. The Senate adopted a weak resolution expressing its “approval” of the president’s action, but declaring it to be “the sense of the Senate” that in the future the president ought to obtain the approval of Congress prior to the assignment of troops abroad, “in the interests of sound constitutional processes and of national unity.” The acquiescence of Congress in the fact of Truman’s usurpation of power inaugurated a new theme in matters of war and peace.

Since then a steady pattern of presidential warmaking has developed: Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon in Vietnam, Gerald Ford in Cambodia, Ronald Reagan in Lebanon, Grenada, and Libya, George H. W. Bush in Panama, and William Jefferson Clinton in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Bosnia, all without congressional authorization.

http://www.answers.com/topic/u.....at=biz-fin

Jo @ 46:

Weaseldog @ 33: