What Will Happen in the Next Debate?

[Bryan]

He's forcing his opponents to basically run against Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the Constitution.

LOL! Oh my, that is the way to frame it. There has to be a slogan in this somewhere...

 

[kylejack]

LOL! Oh my, that is the way to frame it. There has to be a slogan in this somewhere...

GIVE ME RON PAUL OR GIVE ME DEATH!

 

[dam4freedom]

This is What he Should be talking about! What American wouldn't support this?

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INTRODUCTION OF THE LIBERTY AMENDMENT -- (Extensions of Remarks - February 07, 2007)


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---SPEECH OF
HON. RON PAUL
OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2007
Mr. PAUL. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to introduce the Liberty Amendment, which repeals the 16th Amendment, thus paving the way for real change in the way government collects and spends the people's hard-earned money. The Liberty Amendment also explicitly forbids the federal government from performing any action not explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.
The 16th Amendment gives the federal government a direct claim on the lives of American citizens by enabling Congress to levy a direct income tax on individuals. Until the passage of the 16th amendment, the Supreme Court had consistently held that Congress had no power to impose an income tax.
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life. Thanks to the income tax, today the federal government routinely invades our privacy, and penalizes our every endeavor.
The Founding Fathers realized that ``the power to tax is the power to destroy,'' which is why they did not give the federal government the power to impose an income tax. Needless to say, the Founders would be horrified to know that Americans today give more than a third of their income to the federal government.
Income taxes not only diminish liberty, they retard economic growth by discouraging work and production. Our current tax system also forces Americans to waste valuable time and money on complacence with an ever-more complex tax code. The increased interest in flat-tax and national sales tax proposals, as well as the increasing number of small businesses that questioning the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) ``withholding'' system provides further proof that America is tired of the labyrinthine tax code. Americans are also increasingly fed up with an IRS that continues to ride roughshod over their civil liberties, despite recent ``pro-taxpayer'' reforms.
Madam Speaker, America survived and prospered for 140 years without an income tax, and with a federal government that generally adhered to strictly constitutional functions, operating with modest excise revenues. The income tax opened the door to the era (and errors) of Big Government. I hope my colleagues will help close that door by cosponsoring the Liberty Amendment.

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[Sir VotesALot]

One thing's for sure he's going to be asked why he's running.

 

[Therion]

They`re going to nail him on his economic plans, I`ve already heard rumblings from the neocons. They say his policy's for sound money are crazy and will tank the economy. Be prepared.

RP has written entire books on the gold standard. I'm confident that he'll once again give the best answers of the night.

 

[Kandilynn]

I want to hear more questions aimed at him about illegal immigration. They say that Tancredo's stance is the toughest in the Republican candidates on immigration, but I've been searching his site all night and I cannot see anything that is anywhere near the stance of Ron Paul's.

 

[kylejack]

RP has written entire books on the gold standard. I'm confident that he'll once again give the best answers of the night.

I have no doubt that he could persuade people given enough time, but its tough to make complicated points in 30 seconds. Witness the dustup with Rudy.

 

[Original_Intent]

Wouldn't an easy response be - "and the alternative is to keep printing money out of thin air and pass trillions of dollars of debt on to our children and grandchildren?"

 

[kelldor]

The next debate is hosted by CNN. Wolf Blitzer the other day, and the guy that interviewed Ron Paul today on CNN both spun questions with a negative connotation regarding non-interventionism. The CNN debate questioner is Wolf Blitzer I believe. Therefore, we can expect more of the same attack dog style garbage we saw last week.

1 key factor in Ron Paul's favor is that it is being held in New Hampshire. Ron Paul is HUGE there! I bet we finally see an instance where the crowd cheers for Ron Paul instead of Rudy Giuliani. His campaign contributions from NH blow away all other candidates by 3 TIMES, except maybe Mitt Romney.

My prediction is that CNN will try and be bunk in their questions to Ron Paul, Ron Paul will smoke Wolf Blitzer, other Republicans will attack Ron Paul, which will give him even more fame, and the crowd shows that they are not going to buy any more of the Neo-Con brown shirt garbage, resulting in a huge victory for Ron Paul.

Kelldor

 

[Korey Kaczynski]

My prediction is that it will be the best debate of the three. I suspect he might even attack Giuliani and possibly destroy him.

 

[greenamp]

If Giuliani decides to go on his little tirade again about Paul's 9/11 policy, Paul simply need ask him how he could know so little about 9/11 if he made upwards of 50 millions dollars in consulting fees on the subject?

 

[aravoth]

If Giuliani decides to go on his little tirade again about Paul's 9/11 policy, Paul simply need ask him how he could know so little about 9/11 if he made upwards of 50 millions dollars in consulting fees on the subject?

yeah that would do it.

 

[lbadragan]

If they're smart, they'll ignore Ron Paul. Not out of strategy but out of fear they'll be made to look like fools.

I personally hope one of them pulls another Giuliani and goes after Ron Paul. What happened in the last debate was the perfect scenario. I can't wait to see what happens in this one.


Here's what may happen for entertainment:

1. Giuliani will place himself in or close to one of the towers and emotionally explain how he felt while repeating "9/11" over and over.

2. McCain will try to explain how he's strong on national security yet against closing the borders through which Al Qaida members are reportedly entering the U.S. After his answer he'll laugh nervously and maybe re-repeat a joke.

3. Romney will pledge to quadriple Guantanamo. Then flex his biceps.

4. Ron Paul will ask Giuliani to go on the record whether he's read the 9/11 Commission Report, and then challenge Giuliani to tell us what the Comission said the terrorists' motivation for attacking us was.

 

[Sir VotesALot]

haHA

 

[Sir VotesALot]

a few predictions:

1. Rudy Giuliani will show up in dark sunglasses to obscure the black eye he was given by a firefighter a few hours before taping.

2. Mitt Romney will continue to immerse himself in the role of "leader" and regret the fact that 9/11 happened in New York and not Boston.

3. John McCain will burst into tears and confess to something that no one in the audience can translate.

4. Wolf Blitzer will ask tough, "hard-hitting" questions via satellite from his space station in Washington.

5. Ron Paul will light up our hearts.

 

[GreyBlood]

The next debate? you consider the first two debates? if it wasn't for the wide angle shots and Ron Paul, I would figure that each guy went onstage to to a podeum then the moderator askes questions and then in editing they stich all the video together and make it look like they were all onstage at once. y'see, the way it happens now is that the moderator askes a canned question and the neo-con gives a canned neo-con answer. everyone is so stupid from gov't run skool that they can't see an intelligent answer when they hear one. that and there so used to the usual answer that when ron paul comes around and tears that fabric of thought, their brain breaks. If the candidates actually had to debate, the people would relize that they are all full of shit. carefully choosen questions, and carefully choosen answers to create the illusion of debate. People just aren't ready for the radical, in-your-face well thought out answers that Ron has. they are just used to the "Test audience tested, brainwashed approved" Politics of todays modern world.

 

[coplinger]

One aspect of foreign policy, and reason that we are hated in the middle east, that Ron Paul has not mentioned in the debates or recent interviews is our relationship with Israel. I'm sure he has left this out of the argument for good reason: the 'Israel Lobby' & its supporters in the media are very well organized & immediately jump into action whenever Israel's policies or America's relationship with Israel are questioned. We've seen this happen most recently with Jimmy Carter.

I'd be willing to bet that Ron Paul will be asked directly about Israel in this next debate & the accusations of anti-semitism will be flying immediately after.

 

[Captain Shays]

Let's be honest and really try to figure out Ron's weak spots. But I don't want us to think of them because we don't think he has any. I want to think like a globalist and a militiarist and a corporatist and a freedom robbing authoritarian like the rest of the crowd.
RP is considered quite radical by the authoritarians because of his position on marijuana and other drugs. Come on! He's a libertarian who thinks the governemnt should have no authority to tell us what to put in our own bodies.
He's right as far as we're concerned but if they try to exploit this in a public forum/debate where he has only 10 seconds to express himself it could kill him in the eyes of a lot of Christians, Jews, Moslims and cops along with others.

In my opinion it could also backfire on them since most Americans living have tried marijuana and know that its less harmfull than alcohol and the time might be right to elect someone with common sense relative to the "war on (some) drugs". He could shine or it could kill him.

 

[Minuteman2008]

I want to hear more questions aimed at him about illegal immigration. They say that Tancredo's stance is the toughest in the Republican candidates on immigration, but I've been searching his site all night and I cannot see anything that is anywhere near the stance of Ron Paul's.

Go to www.numberusa.com and look at both Tancredo and Paul. You can find every bill they sponsored and voted on. Tancredo gets an A rating while Paul gets an A-. They're two of the best in this area (along with Duncan Hunter).

Tancredo is just more known for it because of his book In Mortal Danger which is an honest discussion of the dangers of what he calls the cult of multiculturalism as well as massive illegal immigration.

 

[joeu]

One aspect of foreign policy, and reason that we are hated in the middle east, that Ron Paul has not mentioned in the debates or recent interviews is our relationship with Israel. I'm sure he has left this out of the argument for good reason: the 'Israel Lobby' & its supporters in the media are very well organized & immediately jump into action whenever Israel's policies or America's relationship with Israel are questioned. We've seen this happen most recently with Jimmy Carter.

I'd be willing to bet that Ron Paul will be asked directly about Israel in this next debate & the accusations of anti-semitism will be flying immediately after.

Yes, I agree....Which is probably where much of Giuliani support is coming from...
BTW: The Boston Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group is organizing to get supporters to Manchester.......Pass the word!