Just one more reason why Obama should be avoided. The man with the worst foreign policy ideas LIKES Obama’s foreign policy ideas:

Instead, Paul favors Sen. Barack Obama because of positions on foreign policy. “But that’s doesn’t mean that’s an endorsement,” Paul quickly added.

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Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), greets supporters following The Des Moines Register Presidential Debate in Johnston, Iowa. Scott Olson - Getty Images

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Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) listens to a question during the MTV/MySpace “Closing Arguments” presidential forum at the MTV Times Square Studios in New York City on Saturday.
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Not good for the Paul Reverists.

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UPDATE by Curt

For those who are excusing Ron Paul for HIS newsletter by stating the guy didn’t write it please take a gander at this PDF, page 2, at the bottom in which the writer wishes everyone Happy Holidays.

“My wife Carol, and our children and grand-children, join me in wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year.”

Guess what the name of Ron Paul’s wife is?

Carol

Big H/T to LagunaDave at Hot Air for this one.

Clinton and Obama supporters wave campaign signs outside of Saint Anselm College, awaiting the start of the Jan. 5 presidential debates. Carlos Barria - Reuters

Obama sign to the left of them….Hillary signs to the right. When it comes to foreign policy matters, the Ron Paul Reverists are standing right where they belong- amidst a sea of Democrats.

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Although they may share allied positioning over Iraq, it would appear ArPee broke lances with Joy and Whoopi over the issue of abortion. Suddenly, his obstetrics/gynecology credentials no longer qualify him for being “two treats in one”.

I did like his statement at the CNN/YouTube GOP presidential debate:

 I’m an O.B. doctor, and I practiced medicine for 30 years, and I of course never saw one time when a medically necessary abortion had to be done.

This isn’t the first time that Ron Paul has been brought up on The View. I only made it through 5 minutes of this earlier mention of Ron Paul, which includes a very intelligent and informative discussion on terrorism.

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This post is for all the Rononymous commenters, Paulbots, Paul Pots, Paul Reverists, Ronulans, and even the reasonable Ron Paul supporters out there.  There’s something here for everyone who reveres or reviles the self-proclaimed Constitutional Messiah.

From the CNN/YouTube GOP Debate Wednesday night:

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I love this line from Patrick Ruffini:

In the past few months, Ron Paul has dramatically raised the profile of libertarianism inside the Republican Party.

He sure has that right.  He has raised the profile and showed us how out of touch with reality they really are. 

The newest backers of Ron Paul to go along with his Twoofer fans, his white supremist fans, and all the other nutjobs is brothel owners: (h/t Hot Air)

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, an underdog Texas congressman
with a libertarian streak, has picked up an endorsement from a Nevada brothel
owner.

Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch near Carson City, said he was so
impressed after hearing Paul at a campaign stop in Reno last week that he
decided to raise money for him.

“I’ll get all the (working girls) together, and we can raise him some money,”
Hof told the Reno Gazette-Journal. “I’ll put up a collection box outside the
door. They can drop in $1, $5 contributions.”

Hof and two of his prostitutes, Brooke Taylor and a woman who goes by Air
Force Amy, attended a Paul news conference.

Bryan points who we should thank for turning this brothel owner onto Ron, MSNBC’s own Tucker Carlson:

Hof was accompanied to the Paul news conference by television news personality Tucker Carlson, who is traveling with Paul for a magazine article he is writing.

“Dennis Hof is a good friend of mine, so when we got to Nevada, I decided to call him up and see if he wanted to come check this guy out,” said Carlson, who hosts the show “Tucker” on MSNBC.

How sweet of him huh?

Actually, I think Ron Paul’s run for President has done more damage to libertarianism than anything else
in recent history by connecting it to the appeasement of
fanatical Islam rather then what their movement was supposed to be about, limited Government.  The ridicule he has exposed himself to has given the MSM more then enough reason to dismiss those that support smaller government, less taxation and the rest as just a bunch of loons.

But I will thank him for the run.  It’s been entertaining and I’ve learned that I would never, ever, become a libertarian.

UPDATE

Jackie Mason’s response to the PaulBots:

I wrote a few days ago I wrote about the Ron Paul fans and their attempt to pass their own homemade money around the country.  The company, Liberty Dollar in
Evansville, Indiana, was raided and all their assets seized.

Today that warrant was unsealed, you can read the whole thing here.

Just making my way through it but what it comes down to is that the company was committing money laundering, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

The warrant first goes into the company itself:

It goes into the the similarity of the coins to United States coins which is a violation of US Code:

Whoever, within the United States, makes or brings therein from any foreign country, or possesses with intent to sell, give away, or in any other manner uses the same, except under authority of the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer of the United States, any token, disk, or device in the likeness or similitude as to design, color, or the inscription thereon of any of the coins of the United States or of any foreign country issued as money, either under the authority of the United States or under the authority of any foreign government shall be fined under this title.

The warrant also goes into their fraudulent statement that the money is 100% backed by silver:

And then into just one of their scams:

Wowza!

Lots more where that came from and I’m only a quarter of the way through the warrant.

These nimrods are screwed.

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Mona Charen writes a beautiful editorial detailing everything wrong with Ron Paul, and there is plenty to work with: (h/t bRight & Early)

1. Ron Paul is inconsistent. Though he calls himself a man of principle and is apparently admired as such by his ardent fans, his principles seem somewhat elastic. He rails against the Bush administration for its supposed assault on civil liberties, yet when he was asked at one of the debates whether Scooter Libby deserved a pardon, he said no. “He doesn’t deserve one because he was instrumental in leading the Congress and the people to support a war that we didn’t need to be in.” Notice that he didn’t say it was because Libby was guilty of committing a crime. No, because Libby argued for a policy with which Paul disagreed, he deserved to serve time in prison. Ron Paul, the libertarian, who presumably values liberty above all, is willing to deprive someone else of his because of a policy disagreement?

2. Ron Paul is historically challenged. He argues that by embracing isolationism, he fits within a Republican tradition stretching back to Eisenhower “who stopped the Korean War” and including Nixon “who stopped the war in Vietnam.” Let’s recap. Eisenhower threatened to use nuclear weapons against China. It was the Eisenhower administration that had a hand in toppling Iran’s Mohammad Mossedegh (an intervention that Paul has elsewhere cited as causing the U.S. grief 25 years later when the Islamists took power). Eisenhower also intervened in Guatemala, Cuba (planning for the Bay of Pigs began during his tenure) and Lebanon.

Nixon, an isolationist? Most observers, whatever they may make of detente with the USSR and the opening to China, agree that Nixon was an emphatic internationalist. For the record, he intervened in many countries including Chili, Peru and Cambodia. And he saved Israel by resupplying her during the Yom Kippur war. Neither his successes nor failures grew out of a Paulesque policy of “minding our own business.”

3. Ron Paul is unserious. Suggesting that you will eliminate the IRS, the CIA, the FBI and other government agencies within weeks of taking office is ridiculous. These are bumper stickers, not serious reform proposals.

Mona also goes into one very serious aspect of his candidacy.  His crazy supporters.  From neo-nazi’s, to twoofers, to the Alex Jones cultists who believe that the Bilderbergers are taking over the world.  Many of his supporters say you can’t fault the candidate himself for crazy fans but as Mona states, he plays a game with it.  He doesn’t endorse their beliefs but he doesn’t disavow himself from them either with his tales of the big bad government coming to get you, and his appearances on the Alex Jones show doesn’t help.

Instead his campaign attracts these kind of messages:

On Oct. 4 Will Williams, a former leader of the National Alliance, a
neo-Nazi group, posted on the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network that white
supremacy supporters should support Paul for president.

“Till then
I recommend folks get involved in the Ron Paul ‘revolution’ and work
with political activists in your communities who are attracted to his
anti-globalist message,” Williams wrote. “Be disciplined. Blend in; find common ground with them and artfully radicalize those who are receptive and avoid those who are not. … Most
of you would be surprised at how many good people can be exposed to a,
let’s say, ‘pro-majority’ message among the remarkable groundswell of
fed-up, mostly white Ron Paul supporters — many, early on, from the 9/11 truth movement. They
are finding their backbones as they are exposed to more and more hidden
truths, especially about the hidden hand of Jewry behind every foul
venture.”

Which tells us that many are using the Ron Paul campaign as a recruitment drive to find those who could find common ground with them.  They care little about RP, but his followers could be fresh meat for their movement.

Kinda makes the the argument made by the Paul campaign against sending money back to neo-nazi’s kinda moot wouldn’t you say?  “If they want to waste their money on us we will take it and use it to promote freedom and individual rights, not their agenda,” doesn’t help any when they are using your campaign to get new recruits.

No, I think her best summation of him is that he is unserious.  His candidacy is unserious, his followers are unserious, and his politics are unserious.

The next generation of Ron Paul fans: (h/t 9/11 Conspiracy Smashers)

Only the Ron Paul nuts would believe that it’s a-ok for any fringe group to make their own currency:

In an all-out battle, Liberty Dollar in
Evansville, Indiana, has issued the 2008 Peace Dollar to “Stop the
War.” As if President Bush’s unpopular war does not have enough
problems, the Peace Dollar appears to offer an attractive way for the
antiwar forces to gain strategic ground at a profit.

Liberty Dollar recently issued a “Presidential” Ron Paul Dollar in
support of the Republican peace candidate. Now it asks peace-seeking
Americans to start using the Peace Dollar and stop using the US War
Dollar, as it finances the Iraq War.

The 2008 Peace Dollar is not government money and cannot be used to
fund the war in Iraq. It is good for peace and bad for war. The
government uses their printing presses to make money out of thin air to
finance their war by diluting every American’s purchasing power…
hence higher gas and food prices.

Bernard von NotHaus, the fiery monetary architect of the Liberty
Dollar, says that by accepting and spending Peace Dollars, peaceful
people can force the government to “Stop the War” because the
government will have less money to pay for it. He encourages
peace-loving people to use a Peace Dollar the next time they spend
money and “Give peace a chance.”

The $10 Peace Dollar is a legal functioning currency dedicated to
stop the war. As a private voluntary barter currency it can be used
anywhere it is accepted. It is “real money” minted in pure silver and
copper that exchanges dollar-for-dollar with the US war dollar. It is
dedicated to establishing peace and bringing our boys home. The 2008
Peace Dollar has a face value of ten “Liberty Dollars” and contains
one-half ounce of pure .999 fine silver. The $1 Copper Peace Dollar
contains one ounce of pure copper.

And they found out the hard way:

I sincerely regret to inform you that about 8:00 this morning a
dozen FBI and Secret Service agents raided the Liberty Dollar office in
Evansville.

For approximately six hours they took all the gold,
all the silver, all the platinum and almost two tons of Ron Paul
Dollars that where just delivered last Friday. They also took all the
files, all the computers and froze our bank accounts.

We have
no money. We have no products. We have no records to even know what was
ordered or what you are owed. We have nothing but the will to push
forward and overcome this massive assault on our liberty and our right
to have real money as defined by the US Constitution. We should not to
be defrauded by the fake government money.

But to make matters
worse, all the gold and silver that backs up the paper certificates and
digital currency held in the vault at Sunshine Mint has also been
confiscated. Even the dies for mint the Gold and Silver Libertys have
been taken.

This is fraud, plain and simple.  People cannot just come up with their own form of currency, start to use it, and then expect no consequences.  One of the main reasons the National Bank and Federal Reserve was set up was due to how fraudulent these currencies people came up with were.  Unless the currency is backed by something of real monetary value then it’s worthless, and unconstitutional (oh my, a Paulbot going against the Constitution!  No way!):

Under the Constitution ( Article I, section 8, clause 5 ), Congress has the exclusive power to coin money of the United States and to regulate its value. By statute ( 31 U.S.C. § 5112(a) ),
Congress specifies the coins that the Secretary of the Treasury is
authorized to mint and issue and requires the Secretary to carry out
these duties at the United States Mint (31 U.S.C. § 5131).
Accordingly, the United States Mint is the only entity in the United
States with the lawful authority to mint and issue legal tender United
States coins. Under 18 U.S.C. § 486,
it is a Federal crime to utter or pass, or attempt to utter or pass,
any coins of gold or silver intended for use as current money except as
authorized by law.

Additionally, reading through their website you come across this “deal”:

Want to earn money, do good and have more fun? Then become a Liberty Associate for $250. You will immediately receive $100 Liberty Dollars and all your future currency exchanges will be at the special discounted Associate Rate that is posted at the top of the Liberty Dollar home page. Plus you can earn a $100 Referral for every Associate you sponsor. Sponsor only two people and you are now up $50 and you are on your way to making a significant difference to our country and its money. All three bonuses are also included with the Best Offer. Click here to become a Liberty Associate.

So, for 250 bucks you get 50 dollars worth of gold that I say is really worth 100 bucks.  Ummmm….can you say pyramid scheme?

I’m actually going to be sad when Ron Paul gets his ass handed to him in the primaries, the nuttiness of his supporters have made for some great blogging.

UPDATE

Wordsmith made his own money also:

 

Ron Paul has a great gimmick going: wrapping himself in the cloak of the Constitution, and selling himself as the reincarnated, living-breathing embodiment of the Founding Fathers. Supposedly, he and he alone is faithful to their original intent, and how it is to be applied to 21st century problems.

Ron Paul had a great day on the fifth of November (Remember, remember?) when he raised around 4.2 million in 24 hours. The Ron Paul Reverists wish to repeat and surpass that bit of impressive phenomenon: