[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
hmmm…nothing like an empty idiom to show you have no valid argument…care to prove it?
I know many supporters, including myself, who run intellectual rings around you. I haven’t read one valid argument against Paul or the issues he talks about come from you.[/quote]
“Run rings around me”, aye? If you actually believed that, Lifticus - you wouldn’t have to keep telling me how brilliant you are. What’s the matter - feeling inadequate? Have to constantly remind me that you are “running rings around me”?
You’re the political equivalent of the kid who keeps posting about his fictional bench press numbers in the bodybuilding section. Sorry “champ” - no one is buying what you are selling.
Does Lifticus ever grow up?
You’re a joke, Lifticus - you preen about these forums, hoping - praying - someone will take you seriously as an “intellectual”. Doesn’t happen. I know it stings.
And, of course, now you are extra-snippy as the Paul candidacy comes to a screeching Flameout. Too bad.
[quote]Here’s your chance:
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Sound money – believes gold or silver can be the only legal money as provided by the Constitution but would be for amending the constitution to allow for competing currencies. Also believes, long term, the Fed should be abolished.
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Foreign Policy – believes that the US does more harm by intervening in the Foreign policy of other sovereign nations and that we should remain neutral, a la Switzerland, Canada, etc., but remain friends and trade and travel with all nations. He believes that when nations trade they share common interests and therefore tend to get along much better than if we act aggressively toward them.
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Civil Liberties – believes the government has done more harm to civil liberties in the name of “security” and also believes the USA Patriot Act is the biggest swindle to civil liberties since the draft.
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Economic Freedom – believes individuals should be able to spend their own money however they want without government intervention. Believes the war on drugs to be useless and the cause of the poor socio-economic condition of many living in the inner cities.
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Taxes – believes the income tax should be abolished and replaced with nothing. Believes the passing of the 16th Amendment was done hastefully when a full session was not present and should be overturned.
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National Defense – believes our military involvement in other nations leaves us unprotected in our own country and that we spend too much on foreign wars and not enough on national defense.
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Immigration – believe the economic incentives should be removed to deal with immigration. He is not for building a physical border and is against amnesty. Believes that immigration in a free society where there is no economic incentive to live off the government would not be a problem.
…just to name a few.[/quote]
All you have done here is give me a list from Paul’s platform. That, of course, has nothing to do with my point, which was that Paul was able to raise money like crazy because his legions of stupid, stupid supporters don’t know when to move their money to smarter investments.
Paul is a quack and has never been electable. He never stood a chance. Yet even after sane people realized this, his coffers continued to be replenished. That is just bad economics, Lifticus - it’s throwing good money after bad. Paul has done more damage to the limited government principle than his followers could possibly imagine - by presenting libertarianism as a fruitcake ideology wrapped in Black Helicopter paranoia packaging, honest, smart libertarians will be repairing Paul’s damage done to the ideology for years.
That’s a bad investment.
Of course, why expect you to know any of this?
This would all be fine if you were 12 - since you aren’t, you don’t have an excuse.
As for Paul’s political principles, I took a shot at having a substantive debate on the issues some time ago in one of the forty Paul threads - no takers. Sloth chimed in briefly, but it was headed nowhere. I’d be happy to discuss each of the principles you listed, but what is the point? Paul supporters simply aren’t up for it, and this late in the day, since Paul is all but gone from the race, a better question - who cares?