FP Passport & Ars Technia on Ron Paul
Good article over @ the Foreign Policy blog on Ron Paul. He's *everywhere* you turn here in the greater Seattle area, and was hugely popular in the Fremont district (where I lived for a a while). It was nice to think that I may have had some choice for the 2008 debacle, but the more I read about the guy, the more I'm forced to think about nominating a piece of wood just to have some peace and quiet for four years.
It's time for Ron Paul's 15 minutes to be up | FP Passport: "Ron Paul is a seductive mistress. His popularity on MySpace and YouTube is now legendary. It helped him raise more than $5 million in the third quarter of this year's fundraising cycle. Even some among the media elite — on both sides of the aisle — can't resist his charm. Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan gets downright giddy over Paul. And liberal Hardball host Chris Matthews (who cut his teeth under big government, East Coast Democrat Tip O'Neill) has declared of the libertarian from Texas: 'He's my guy! I love Ron Paul!'
But do people understand what Paul really stands for? Like every siren song, his policies are fraught with danger."
Definitely give the whole thing a read. It's short and very informative.
You can also see how devoted his followers are over at this Ars Technica article (they seem to be creating illegal spambot networks to promote his campaign).
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Just curious -- what did you
Just curious -- what did you read about Ron Paul that made you not like him?
For starters
For starters this:
So, we cannot put a hold on financial accounts of known terrorists/organizations or ever come to the aid of some nation in distress (I assume RP was OK with the Burmese monks being killed just as our other leaders seem to be since we did nothing to help?).
Then there's:
(a) This is a stupid idea from a military/political perspective; (b) it's not practical from a logistics perspective; (c) it's an obvious sound bite for the campaign and nothing else.
His stance on the UN and WTO are also too wonky.
I like the anti-tax, anti-Patriot Act, anti-big-government stance, but those views and initiatives will not be taken up by Congress and he stands more of a chance screwing up our foreign policy with the aforementioned views (i.e. more likely to get Congress to go his way, if elected).