WOW. OBAMA just gave a campaign speech against RON PAUL....

[Feeding the Abscess]

If Ron Paul wins the nomination, Lew, Tom Woods, and every other libertarian heavyweight will need to be brought on board to counter this type of nonsense.

Obama wasn't talking about Ron Paul, really (many of the references felt like they were pointed at Newt's rhetoric), but I sincerely doubt the current campaign team has the intellectual or historical heft to battle this type of talking point sloganeering.

 

[wgadget]

I'm thinking that IF RON PAUL decided to take on OBAMA NOW, he would prove to A LOT OF PEOPLE that he has the BALLS TO TAKE ON OBAMA.

Maybe just a little "appetizer" would be in order.

 

[wgadget]

LOL...Steve Deace just said RP's slogan should be "Ron Paul: He's crazy enough to do it."

BOSS

 

[wgadget]

If Ron Paul wins the nomination, Lew, Tom Woods, and every other libertarian heavyweight will need to be brought on board to counter this type of nonsense.

Obama wasn't talking about Ron Paul, really (many of the references felt like they were pointed at Newt's rhetoric), but I sincerely doubt the current campaign team has the intellectual or historical heft to battle this type of talking point sloganeering.

Newt was on Glenn Beck's radio show bragging that he was like Teddy Roosevelt, and Obama was doing much the same.

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Newt was on Glenn Beck's radio show bragging that he was like Teddy Roosevelt, and Obama was doing much the same.

I was about to post the following:

I’m a Theodore Roosevelt Republican. In fact, if I were going to characterize my ‑‑ on health where I come from, I’m a Theodore Roosevelt Republican and I believe government can lean in the regulatory leaning is okay.

But some of the child labor law issues were talked about by Newt, that's what I think Obama was responding to.

 

[freefromchains]

This was the most sickening speech in Obama's presidency. I wanted to vomit after hearing this one.

 

[Wesker1982]

That quote is so full of BS, it made me feel physically angry. It's a misconception that has gone on in American politics for far too long.

Tom Woods does great responding to these myths. It would be awesome if he made a short video about it. There are long responses in some of his youtube videos but they are too long to mass distribute. If he did what he has been doing lately but respond to these myths, it would be epic.

 

[amy31416]

I don't know if this has been posted, but the author of this article speculates on this same thing:

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/2012-election/ron-paul-finally-getting-some-love-media

A bit of a reach, yes, but Obama's much-ballyhooed Kansas speech today seems almost designed to run against Ron Paul, with a desperate repetition of the standard "market-failure" line about what Paul would argue was a monetary policy and regulation-caused crash, and a frontal attack on not the actual policies of the Republican Party but on legal conditions before Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive era, you know, that 19th century that Paul's foes accuse him of living in.

Submitted by Reason Foundation on Dec 6, 2011
By Brian Doherty

 

[VCU for Ron Paul]

If Ron Paul is the nominee then there is absolutely no way any one can beat him. Once his views and rationale for them become widespread and analyzed by the masses themselves, instead of being forcefed his views as mischaracterizations by the MSM, then his support will really go BEASTMODE. A lot of Americans may be incredibly stupid, largely in the sense of they act as followers entirely too much and lack critical thinking skills, but there is no way even the misinformed, ignorant and even the just plain stupidones wouldn't simply "get it" and see the light if Ron gains the exposure of being the Republican nomination. Anyone agree?

 

[amy31416]

If Ron Paul is the nominee then there is absolutely no way any one can beat him. Once his views and rationale for them become widespread and analyzed by the masses themselves, instead of being forcefed his views as mischaracterizations by the MSM, then his support will really go BEASTMODE. A lot of Americans may be incredibly stupid, largely in the sense of they act as followers entirely too much and lack critical thinking skills, but there is no way even the misinformed, ignorant and even the just plain stupidones wouldn't simply "get it" and see the light if Ron gains the exposure of being the Republican nomination. Anyone agree?

No.

When the left goes "beastmode" if RP gets the nomination, we have almost the full backing of the right (who get inspired by leftwing attacks), us diehards, it re-ignites the 2008 RP base that became disillusioned, the majority of independents and some leftist anti-war types. If Paul gets the nomination, there is no predicting what will happen in the usual manner. It'll even throw Nate Silver for a triple-loop.

But...we'll be fighting a stealth battle against the real neocons, along with the neoliberals, both of whom have serious power.

PEW PEW PEW!

We're Americans, dammit, we love the underdog!

 

[kuckfeynes]

Ugh... Lefty facebook friends were drooling over this speech today. Watching people lap up the inconsistencies was making me nauseous.

There is nothing that would make me happier than to see Ron Paul casually pick apart Obama in debate. All the oratory skills in the world can't save him from that scalpel.

 

[wgadget]

Not to beat a dead horse, but I actually heard some media pundits saying that this could be a defining speech for the President, and that he is talking AGAINST liberty and what our nation is all about.

Can we trust Newt or Romney to lead us out of the wilderness? I think not.

 

[row333au]

Obama says capitalism and liberty don't work

 

[Wesker1982]

 

[Steppenwolf6]

Gingrich always called himself " A Roosevelt Republican"
Obama takes Roosevel as the example of "the good republican".
Let's remind people that with Gingrich/Obama we would have Roosevelt against Roosevelt.

The ONLY non Rooseveltian candidate:

RON PAUL 2012!

 

[amy31416]

Pandering to the OWS crowd?

 

[LibertyEagle]

Obama says capitalism and liberty don't work

I hate being called, "a worker". Like we are little drones who exist to support the "superior" ones.

 

[wgadget]

Gingrich always called himself " A Roosevelt Republican"
Obama takes Roosevel as the example of "the good republican".
Let's remind people that with Gingrich/Obama we would have Roosevelt against Roosevelt.

The ONLY non Rooseveltian candidate:

RON PAUL 2012!

Great point. It was the exact same day of the President's speech that Gingrich was on Glenn Beck talking about how he was so much like Teddy Roosevelt. What a coincidence.

The thing is, Obama/Romney/Gingrich/etc are ALL THE SAME. There is no difference between the parties, and I think more and more voters have realized this.

 

[Wesker1982]

two more on the way

 

[Wesker1982]