Crazy Idea - KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN WHEN READING THIS!!!

[fedup100]

I will personally not like Ron Paul at this time stuck with somebody like Huck - if Ron Paul had always been thinking in terms of these compromises, he would not be such an esteemed person - I think path of Revolution is long, tortuous and frustrating, sometimes! But compromises, probably not!

Having said this - let any of these candidates show the Enlightenment that they might have recived from ROn Paul - and may be I will embrace them!

So you would rather such an esteemed person not be our President...........he can just go home with his esteem under his arm, and your ass and those of your family will be at peril physically and financially and by the way, you will no longer have a country.

Wow, this type of reasoning is called cutting your nose off to spite your face.

 

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

No it's not a ban on smoking cigarettes - it's a ban on second hand smoke (like many states now have in place).

I know this won't be a popular stance to take on a libertarian board but I happen to agree with it. It's for the protection of the public (so that they don't get cancer). It's for the protection of the workers (who may have no choice but to work in a restaurant or bar - and no choice but to breathe in the cancer causing secondhand smoke). And it's for the unborn (who are breathing in that shit too and did not CHOOSE to breath it).

Now I know pollution in the air causes cancer too but don't worry - I'm against that too.

But the question is - can congress and the president make a federal law like this and still be constitutional? I am guessing not.

Ok, I agree that second hand smoke is bad. However, a ban on second hand smoke is one step away from a ban on smoking all together. Now if second hand smoke is a form of pollution (which i think it is), then Dr. Paul's position is that it is unconsitutional. Therefore, a new law isn't needed. Only follow the constitution. Enforce the laws that we have. Don't make unnecessary new ones.

 

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

So you would rather such an esteemed person not be our President...........he can just go home with his esteem under his arm, and your ass and those of your family will be at peril physically and financially and by the way, you will no longer have a country.

Wow, this type of reasoning is called cutting your nose off to spite your face.

this was a stupid response. A personal attack to a resonable, and logical, statement.

 

[Joel High]

To the people who answered "No" to the poll question.....why?

This would obviously increase their chances. All the conservatives that hate McCain could vote for Paul or Huckabee and know either one guaranteed McCain's loss.

I see it as political suicide to start naming your VP before you even get the nomination.

 

[ronpaulfan]

this was a stupid response. A personal attack to a resonable, and logical, statement.

*laughs at irony*

 

[ronpaulfan]

I see it as political suicide to start naming your VP before you even get the nomination.

It would lock-in the anti-McCain vote and would cause a media frenzy, putting both Paul and Huckabee in the limelight. Also the debates would be a tag-team stomp on McCain

 

[randomname]

VP or not, a Huckabee endorsement would be huge

 

[paulette]

Once the government bans smoking, what next, cheeseburgers, racing, parachuting, DRINKING, Overeating, drugs, etc. ?

Maybe we should have a war on Smoking. We could have black market cigarette dealers and crime as well.

I would agree on smoke free areas in restaurants, bars, and public areas but not ban smoking completely, and of course only at the state or city level.

On the subject of banning cheeseburgers, check this out:

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-fat-people-allowed-only-slim-will-be.html

 

[damoncrowe]

I believe that compromising is what got us in the predicament that we are in now. I am fully against Huckabee and I will not vote for him even if Ron Paul is his VP. Bad idea. I have never ever compromised in my vote and I will not now and I honestly think that this would kill Ron Paul's message or at least marginalize it horribly and the movement will be set back 8 years or more. Further if Huck won the P spot and ran our country in the ground further with his neocon policies, then how does Ron Paul look? Please do not compromise your convictions.

 

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LZyHoAPL3M (minute = 13:12)

how we forget so soon.....

We know Huckabee to be a liar. So even if he decided to back Paul I am 99% sure the good Doctor would never place him as a VP.

 

[iiguns]

I hear what your saying, But I do not trust Huck!! He loves the handouts!!

 

[timnavarro]

I believe that it would be a good team politically, but I could only get behind the ticket if Dr. Paul was on top of it. I don't think Dr. Paul would accept the vice-presidency because he couldn't actually get anything accomplished....unless he exceeded the powers of the VP.....hmmm....I'm trying to think of an example I could use....Oh Yeah! Dick! (Chaney, that is.) He wouldn't do what Dick's done, so he would have a very uneventful four or eight years. He's got better things to do. If he accepted Huckabee as his VP, however, I could get behind that ticket. The reason being that Dr. Paul would not allow the Huckster unless he denounced all of the flawed policy he currently advocates (such as a national sales tax....I'll be damned if I refer to it as a "fair" tax.), and not only would he have to disavow himself from his past mistakes, he'd have to convince Dr. Paul that he was SINCERE, not just blowing "sunshine" up his shorts. That is all.

--TimNavarro

 

[bolognium]

no because some fundamentalist would "hear god" tell him to assassinate Paul and make Huck president....

 

[Feelgood]

Huckabee, also known as Tax Hike Mike, is a polar opposite of Ron Paul, also known as the Taxpayers Best friend. This is almost as stupid an idea as people wanting Kucinich as VP. Huckabee is only a step up from Kucinich. Huckabee is about as close to a Democrat as it gets, in the remainder of the 4 nominess that are left.

Sorry, but this IMO is a horrible idea, one not even worth considering.

Now REAL contenders for a VP slot would be someone more like

Walter E Williams or
Michael Badnarik or
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

If you want us to even think about taking you seriously, then at least try to talk about someone who is in the same ball park as Dr. Paul. Huckabee is not that person, period. Dont care how you try to spin in it. If you don't know who those people are that I mentioned, I would suggest googling them. Any of those three are perfect RP type VP's IMO. I can assure you, once you do a little research on these three, you'll see that we dont need no Huckabee on a ticket to win.

Lastly, bear in mind. If God forbid anything happens to Ron Paul, and Huckabee is VP, then Huckabee takes over as new President. Do you honestly want Huckabee in the number two spot, if God forbid something happens to the good Dr.? HELL NO! I would much rather have one of the three I mentioned, because they will take over where the good Dr., left off. Not too mention, once Ron's 8 years are up, they are in a good position to continue where he left off. You have to keep all things in perspective, and that includes worse case scenarios. Worse case being Dr Paul dies or does a Prime Minister Sharon, and is incapacitated due to a coma or the like.

 

[ronpaulfan]

no because some fundamentalist would "hear god" tell him to assassinate Paul and make Huck president....

If Ron Paul is President, he will have a small army guarding him 24/7

Also Huck could be VP for 8 years then President for 8 years. A full 16 years in the White House if he jumped on board with this. I doubt Hucksters would complain much about that

 

[miwg]

I believe that compromising is what got us in the predicament that we are in now. I am fully against Huckabee and I will not vote for him even if Ron Paul is his VP. Bad idea. I have never ever compromised in my vote and I will not now and I honestly think that this would kill Ron Paul's message or at least marginalize it horribly and the movement will be set back 8 years or more. Further if Huck won the P spot and ran our country in the ground further with his neocon policies, then how does Ron Paul look? Please do not compromise your convictions.

I totally agree with Damoncrowe. Do not trust Huckabee and will never vote for him as president or VP.

 

[jbuttell]

First time to know that Huck wants to ban smoking and I completely agree with him on this issue.

sigh.... I don't smoke either, but I by no means would ban their freedom to do so. I hope you reconsider, as things like these are closely related to what Ron Paul is fighting. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you should use force to take it from others. There are other means to achive your goal than violating the freedoms of others. We need to learn to tread particulary lightly when it involves federal enforcement.

 

[BLS]

First time to know that Huck wants to ban smoking and I completely agree with him on this issue. Whoever wants to kill himself by smoking then be free kill yourself but do not kill me with you. I am really disgusted with people who smoke and give no care for others freedom of breathing a clean air. I used to smoke and I regret every minute I have hijacked people's right to breath a clean air!

Anyway it is very interesting view but the problem is that Dr Paul's way of thinking is very different which means he does not like to play games and when he chose a friend before he chose somebody with true integrity like Dennis. Second: nobody would forget that RP gave a harsh comment about Huck's ad http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...=24&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Also later Huck said that he would endorse anybody but Ron Paul.

All these things stand against this coalition but if both can get over it, it might happen but I do not think the MSM are going to get over it at all. And it might be very harmful

I cannot really imagine Huck as vice president with Ron Paul it just does not seem to work. but anyway that was a good thought I guess.

You're not much of a libertarian. Banning smoking in a public place is the right of the owner of the property, not government.

 

[freelance]

I probably wouldn't vote for Ron Paul if he ran with Huckabee, because it would signal to me that Ron Paul had turned on a dime after a lifetime of following the straight and narrow course to freedom.

Trust me--ain't gonna happen.

Let me be clear: not just no, but HELL NO!

 

[Maverick]

No.