Ron Paul Twitter Account

[phill4paul]

This is my fear, too.

Oh well. Ron isn't perfect.

Ron Paul just called me himself and said that he didn't tweet it. Take my word on it.

 

[jmdrake]

Funny that the words of Jesus Christ, allegedly the Savior of many of those calling this an outrage, aggravate these "Christian" conservatives. It's telling that they love war and the state as god more than their alleged Savior.

Not at all surprising.

 

[KingNothing]

BS.

Why are you constantly trying to make it as bad as possible?

The narrative will without a doubt be that "Ron hates the troops," or something silly like that. I don't think the "as bad as possible" POV is far from reality.

 

[TruthisTreason]

They are not defending Ron. They are defending the message in the tweet. Ron did not write this tweet.

Sorry I have people on Facebook arguing with me that HE DID do the tweet.

 

[sailingaway]

Ron has gone rogue!!

He may do some, and the facebook stuff lately has been pure economics and labor dept charts, so I believe it, but I suspect he is 'weighing in' when he wants to, not constantly managing it.

The reason I hold out any possibility of thought that he wrote this is that I remember when I first started twitter and had to constantly edit down what I said, sometimes to the point where it made no sense and I had to start over.

If it is a just learning twitter thing, it is very unfortunate, but I'll wait to see what the truncated thought stood for. I really doubt it, though, I just can't see him putting this out before the guy's even in the ground, as far as I know. And he doesn't target individuals caught up in the mess, but the policy makers.

 

[sailingaway]

Sorry I have people on Facebook arguing with me that HE DID do the tweet.

Did they see him or do they only understand that he for the first time ever is even involved in it?

 

[sailingaway]

SPECIFICALLY - all Ron's recent tweets/facebook posts that substantively sound like him had REP at the end (his initials.)

THIS ONE DOES NOT.

Ron PaulVerified ‏@RonPaul

Chris Kyle's death seems to confirm that "he who lives by the sword dies by the sword." Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn't make sense

 

[KingNothing]

Soldiers kill people. That is awful. Our nation has been the aggressor in several wars. That is also awful.

Young people are conditioned to believe that this is the way it has to be. Kyle is no different than most young people. We shouldn't hate him or disparage him. We should pity him, mourn his untimely death, work to offer better treatment to returning vets, and change the current nationally accepted paradigm of "bomb first, find justification later."

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

SPECIFICALLY - all Ron's recent tweets/facebook posts that substantively sound like him had REP at the end (his initials.)

THIS ONE DOES NOT.

I don't see 'REP' on any of his twitter messages. I'm on his feed right now, and I've seen all of them that go back to November.

 

[TruthisTreason]

Did they see him or do they only understand that he for the first time ever is even involved in it?

The person claims he recently took over his twitter and facebook accounts. I posted an old link from politico where Ron claims he has help on twitter after the Huntsman debacle.

 

[KingNothing]

SPECIFICALLY - all Ron's recent tweets/facebook posts that substantively sound like him had REP at the end (his initials.)

THIS ONE DOES NOT.

I'd noticed that as well.

I blame Collins.

 

[sailingaway]

The narrative will without a doubt be that "Ron hates the troops," or something silly like that. I don't think the "as bad as possible" POV is far from reality.

He's adding ammunition to heighten the problem.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

do the people defending Ron on this think my dad should have been killed by a missile?

Why would we think that? Where would be the logic? If he was murdering tons of Vietnamese people, then your father is an unfortunate creature, just as Chris Kyle was. But the tweet does not say that it was good that Kyle was murdered, nor would it necessarily be good if your father had been murdered. The tweet simply makes the point that extremely violent people, people who devote their entire lives to being violent, should not be shocked if/when violence is in turn brought to bear against them. I hardly think your father would have found it surprising had he been killed while in an active war zone.

The tweet then makes the second point that treating PTSD at a firing range is not a good idea. This seems like an immanently reasonable position to take. Do you take the opposite position?

In short, do you actually disagree with one word of the tweet, or is it in fact totally accurate and you just don't like the fact that Ron has the courage to write and speak the truth?

 

[phill4paul]

Sorry I have people on Facebook arguing with me that HE DID do the tweet.

Then ask them to provide proof. I'd like to hear about it.

 

[XTreat]

You guys can believe or not, but I am telling you that RP now has control of both his Twirtter and FB accounts. This is a recent development and it even makes sense because we have been discussing the posts for the last week or so.





Edit: 1,000 posts!

 

[kcchiefs6465]

No, he did not, he never liked to talk about it, but that doesn't change a thing, imo.

Yes it does, to a point. I do not know your father's actions in Vietnam. We know Chris Kyle's. He is not a hero. Just as the people who killed innocent villagers, dropped Vietnamese POWs from helicopters or disemboweled them, or whatever the case may be, are not. (Though if I found my friend mutilated the next person I captured may very well have gotten a similar treatment) War is hell. That is what Ron Paul would be pointing out. Chris Kyle is a prime example of what wickedry can be created/developed.

 

[phill4paul]

The person claims he recently took over his twitter and facebook accounts. I posted an old link from politico where Ron claims he has help on twitter after the Huntsman debacle.

The person has no provable first hand knowledge that this particular tweet was Ron. 'nuff said.

 

[sailingaway]

I don't see 'REP' on any of his twitter messages. I'm on his feed right now, and I've seen all of them that go back to November.

Ron Paul ‏@RonPaul

The real story on employment or the lack thereof. R E P http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000 …

https://twitter.com/RonPaul/status/297366676222128129

the account just came alive again and that sounds like him. The rest are administrative stuff 'welcome my friend John Tate to twitter!!' (account included)

Ron may be handling his facebook, typos I can live with. But this isn't his TONE. I think he may be starting to get into it, but not the one most on it.

In fact, I would assume the REP in that one were to show that it WAS from him, as the BO for Obama's show when he actually wrote something.

 

[jmdrake]

You know something? Before we waste any more time arguing over whether this tweet was "right" or "wrong" can't we at least verify that it was Ron? I remember in the past people trying to defend what Ron or Rand supposedly said only to find out they didn't say it, or if they did that it was taken out of context.

 

[July]

Man, I need a break from this forum.