Ron Paul: Sanders ‘just a variant of Trump’

[Krugminator2]

Ron Paul: Sanders ‘just a variant of Trump’

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...1285-ron-paul-sanders-just-a-variant-of-trump

Ron Paul on Tuesday vowed he would not support Bernie Sanders’s White House run because of the Democratic presidential candidate’s similarities with Donald Trump.

“No, because he’s an authoritarian,” he said when asked if he’d back the independent Vermont senator on “CNN Newsroom."

“He’s just a variant of Trump,” the former Texas representative added. "Even the things I worked with on Bernie, some of the foreign policy, he’s a part of the military industrial complex.

“He was a big voter for militarism. He’s an authoritarian of a different color, but Trump’s a super authoritarian. Trump wants to be the boss.”

My biggest beef is that from a libertarian viewpoint there’s no meaningful difference between Hillary and Trump,” said Paul, who sought the GOP presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012.

“I mean, they both support the military industrial complex, the Federal Reserve, deficits, entitlements, invasions of privacy,” he added.
“It is super-nationalistic populism versus socialism. That is so remote from what we need to be doing. We need to be moving ourselves away from tyranny towards liberty.”

Truthfully, I was a little down on Ron for a while. but I am really proud to see him aggressively taking on the apes. Really happy to see this.

 

[nasaal]

But....from a libertarian viewpoint, there is no meaningful difference between.....about 98% of people on a good day. It's about worldview. Ron Paul is my favorite politician ever, but I am nowhere near him on this. I get where he is coming from, and from a libertarian perspective he is correct, but from a less stringent worldview they are leagues apart.

 

[unknown]

What?

Why would Ron Paul, even for a second consider endorsing any of the Trump/Hillary/Sanders shit trifecta?

I am confuse.

 

[nasaal]

What?

Why would Ron Paul, even for a second consider endorsing any of the Trump/Hillary/Sanders shit trifecta?

I am confuse.

He's not. ...What?

 

[r3volution 3.0]

It is super-nationalistic populism versus socialism. That is so remote from what we need to be doing. We need to be moving ourselves away from tyranny towards liberty.

Damn straight

 

[TheTexan]

It is super-nationalistic populism versus socialism.

I would like it a lot if someone ran as an independent, somewhere between the two.

Perhaps on a national-socialist platform.

 

[CPUd]

What?

Why would Ron Paul, even for a second consider endorsing any of the Trump/Hillary/Sanders shit trifecta?

I am confuse.

The Trumpanzees of RPF have been trying to find a way to take Ron Paul quotes and somehow twist them into an endorsement of Trump. The OP pretty much LOLs all over that.

 

[nikcers]

The Trumpanzees of RPF have been trying to find a way to take Ron Paul quotes and somehow twist them into an endorsement of Trump. The OP pretty much LOLs all over that.

The closest bacon I can find is Chris Christie endorsed Rand for Senator, then Trump for President, but that's not real bacon.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

I would like it a lot if someone ran as an independent, somewhere between the two.

Perhaps on a national-socialist platform.

Hey, well, there is this one guy...

 

[unknown]

He's not. ...What?

OP said:

Truthfully, I was a little down on Ron for a while. but I am really proud to see him aggressively taking on the apes. Really happy to see this.

When the fuck has Dr. Paul ever wavered? EV-ER?

RON PAUL.

 

[hells_unicorn]

I would like it a lot if someone ran as an independent, somewhere between the two.

Perhaps on a national-socialist platform.

You want Marco Rubio to run 3rd party?

 

[alucard13mm]

How come ron doesnt say negative things about Cruz?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Ron gets it right. No surprise.

 

[erowe1]

but from a less stringent worldview they are leagues apart.

Who are? Trump and Sanders?

How? They seem very close to me, at least on policy, no matter what vantage point your are looking at them from.

 

[PierzStyx]

I would like it a lot if someone ran as an independent, somewhere between the two.

Perhaps on a national-socialist platform.

You have two choices! You can either get Berned or blow the Trumpet!