Soundbites you'd like to hear tonight?

[CaptUSA]

Remembering that, unfortunately in politics, if you have to explain your position, you've already lost the argument, what are the soundbites you'd like to hear from Paul tonight?

I'll start:

"There are only two kinds of candidates in this race, those who want to maintain the status quo, and those that want to obey the constitution. I'm the only one on this stage that falls into the second category."

"It's entertaining to listen to these folks explain what foreign escapade they'd want our military families to sacrifice for. But I'm the only one in this race that has actually served in the military and understands what this sacrifice is all about."

"If your government gets to pick and choose for you which freedoms it allows you to have, then you really don't have freedom at all!"

I'm interested in hearing your soundbites.

 

[acptulsa]

If the federal government is running your local (fire department, schools, sewer system, whatever) and it isn't working, to fix it you have to convince about twenty million voters nationwide that this is more important than abortion, gay marriage and their own ________ combined. But if the federal government leaves you a few pennies to pay local taxes with, you don't have this problem.

 

[acptulsa]

People ask me what I'd do to create employment and I say I'd get the federal government out of the way. And they don't understand, because that doesn't sound proactive enough. But this is what Harding and Coolidge did, and the result was the Roaring Twenties. And it didn't take long.

Small businesses are like weeds. Stop poisioning them and pulling them up and they'll cover all the ground with green, thriving life.

 

[acptulsa]

Almost everyone who ever had a job knows how the federal government messes things up in their particular field. Yet we keep believing that it does some good in other fields. If we'd just talk to each other, we'd realize that Reagan was right. The ten scariest words in the English language are 'we're from the federal government and we're here to help.'

 

[acptulsa]

I think peace is more popular in this nation than the media lets on. I have to think that, because if it isn't then this isn't the same nation I grew up in any more.

 

[acptulsa]

If you think what works for Manhattan is good enough for Dubuque, you need to get out more. There's no such thing as a 'one size fits all solution'. That's why the only solution is liberty. You'll always find a solution--if you've got the freedom to try it.

 

[CaptUSA]

Small businesses are like weeds. Stop poisioning them and pulling them up and they'll cover all the ground with green, thriving life.

HA! I love the thought, but can't you see the headlines? "Ron Paul Thinks Small Businesses Are Like Weeds"

How's this one for jobs:

"If government could really do anything to create jobs, we could just pass a law to mandate full employment. If you understand why that doesn't work, then the alternative is to end the laws that hinder employment."

or,

"A big reason for our problems is that corporations have been buying off politicians for years to write laws that hurt their competition. Since competition is such a key part of a free market, we have to end those laws and tell these corporations that America is not for sale!"

 

[acptulsa]

People keep asking, 'if the federal government doesn't do it, who will?' And nine times out of ten, the federal government doesn't do it now. They just take your money, and maybe they give it back to your state or county government--if all the forms are filled out right and someone's in a good mood.

 

[acptulsa]

HA! I love the thought, but can't you see the headlines? "Ron Paul Thinks Small Businesses Are Like Weeds"

We could only hope they'd be dumb enough to run that headline. It's thought provoking, and stimulates curiosity.

And then there's one I've been dying to see Paul steal from me for a while now. I fed it to him on The Diane Rehm show, and he seemed to like it, so I hope it stuck:

If you want to buy influence over this country, which is easier--buying fifty different state legislatures, or going to an overly powerful Washington for one-stop shopping?

 

[acptulsa]

Like Will Rogers said--you can only get as much liberty as you give [your neighbor].

 

[acptulsa]

The Greatest Generation fought for our liberty and the Constitution which protects it. Every time we fight against our Constitution, we dishonor their sacrifice. Worse than that--we move toward a world where their sacrifices were made in vain.

 

[ItsTime]

"free candy for everyone!" Seriously.. I have no idea. I just hope they don't ask him irrelevant questions like they did on fox.

 

[acptulsa]

Thank God it took FEMA almost a week to get to Joplin, because by all accounts I've seen, they sure slowed down the recovery effort when they arrived.

 

[CaptUSA]

"I will veto any bill that crosses my desk that exceeds constitutional authority. And, if you check my record, you will see that I am the ONLY candidate up here that will do this consistently."

 

[acptulsa]

I just hope they don't ask him irrelevant questions like they did on fox.

You still hoping for change? Not holding your breath, I trust.

I just hope he can do a better job of providing thought-provoking answers to bad questions than Gary Johnson did.

'Television reality show' is pretty much an oxymoron. If I started one, I'd go around documenting how much the federal government quashes our entrepreneurial spirit and slows us down.

 

[Chieppa1]

To the rest of the panel: "You bitches be crazy!".

 

[acptulsa]

If you think this nation is too big and too complex to be micromismanaged by one guy, then you should vote for someone who won't even try.

 

[hillertexas]

"As the only candidate who has served in the military..." or "As the only veteran in the race..."
"As the only one onstage who predicted the recession..."
"I have answered this question several times. (and proceed to talk about the economy)
"I will not raise taxes."
"As president, I will..."
"It's encouraging to see my fellow candidates finally agree with me now that..."
"Are you better or worse off than you were in 2008?"
"I know that a great president practices the art of restraint..."
"It's called the Christian Just War Theory..."

 

[acptulsa]

If you're less than forty years old, the internet is probably the only free market you've ever seen in your whole life. And it works pretty darned well.

 

[acptulsa]

And his quote from The View is worth repeating, too.

'In a free market, you always pay the lowest price. Under government, you always pay the highest price.'