Like Redstate, I’ve received plenty of wacky Ron Paul comments. But, yesterday, it went to a new level: I got my first death threat, or something very like one. In response to a post about Ron Paul and Hillary Clinton, I received a comment from “Brian” that begins as follows:
Someone should want to kill you for […]
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Posted 19 November 2007
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I think I need to be in Ron Paul rehab. I keep saying to myself, “No more posts about Ron Paul,” but then I see some article or headline that knocks me off the wagon. This time it was the good doctor’s statement of faith on abortion:
I am also the prime sponsor of H.R. 300, […]
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Posted 12 October 2007
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A couple of months ago, I got a lot of abuse for suggesting that a vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Hillarycare. But it would appear that I’m not the only observer to whom this unpleasant thought has occurred:
Paul’s camp has shot down suggestions since he launched his campaign that he might try a […]
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Posted 05 October 2007
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I guess I have a morbid obsession with Ron Paul, but he is such a transparent phony that I am unable to resist the impulse to out him. Yesterday, he repeated one of his more preposterous claims to a reporter from the Concord Monitor:
Paul extended his small-government ideals to his personal life. As a doctor, […]
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Posted 30 September 2007
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Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich voted “No” on HR 976, the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act. We know that anyone opposing SCHIP reauthorization hates children, so it obviously follows that Representatives Paul and Kucinich have an unreasoning antipathy to the wee bairns.
Because Paul, Kucinich, and an evil assortment of equally heartless House members voted […]
Back on August 2, Ron Paul made a floor speech in the House of Representatives about the Comprehensive Health Care Act. My first thought on reading the text was, “This contains some sensible elements. The good doctor must be back on his meds.”
Then it struck me how similar it was to the health care strategy […]
As I have pointed out here, Ron Paul voted to allow prescription drug re-importation. This puts the good doctor right in line with Hillary Clinton and the other Democrats running for President. According to John Lott, this policy would put real human beings at risk:
All Democratic presidential candidates agree on pharmaceutical price controls, which means […]
In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected President because 19% of the voters were naive enough to pull the lever for a certified wackjob: Ross Perot. Looking at the results of the Ames straw poll, I have a sinking feeling that history may repeat itself in 2008.
In the straw poll, Ron Paul garnered 9% of the vote. This […]
I have pointed out before that Ron Paul is not what he claims to be. He wraps himself, for example, in the mantle of Libertarianism while voting for government price fixing. He also calls for a free market in health care while supporting a federal mandate requiring ERs to treat patients with no emergency condition.
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Posted 07 August 2007
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Last week, when I questioned Ron Paul’s specious claim not to have accepted Medicare during his years as a practicing obstetrician, I was accused by several commenters of being in the pay of that arch fiend, Rudy Giuliani. This was odd coming from professed libertarians, because Giuliani is a much more credible advocate of free […]
