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aspiringconstitutionalist
10-23-2007, 06:07 PM
Ron Paul constantly talks about how Bush won in 2000 running on a humble foreign policy.

Does anyone have quotes of Bush to back up specific statements? (Like no nation building, no policing of the world, etc.)

SFHSRonPaulFan
10-23-2007, 07:14 PM
I have a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfv4nC3xyr0

Pretty sad.

beerista
10-23-2007, 08:09 PM
Good question. I never thought to look for sources because I so clearly remember him saying it. A quick Google search landed this site (http://www.republicansforhumility.com/rhetoric.html) that looks promising if you're looking for backup material though. Haven't finished reading it myself so haven't checked the links yet, but it does seem to reference and link to contemporary mainstream sources, just the sort of thing you'd want to quote if there is any controversy over what he actually said.
http://www.republicansforhumility.com/rhetoric.html

shadowhooch
10-23-2007, 10:26 PM
I have a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfv4nC3xyr0

Pretty sad.

Oh that is CLASSIC! I love the quote at the end....perfect.:D

jb4ronpaul
10-23-2007, 10:39 PM
I remember ALL the conservatives talking like this, including Rush

Primbs
10-23-2007, 11:06 PM
We need to compile these videos to answer the most common questions about Ron Paul.

Most people have forgotten and they need to be reminded with this video.

beerista
10-23-2007, 11:27 PM
I remember ALL the conservatives talking like this, including Rush
Yeah, I know I don't think quite the same as I did when I listened to Rush and voted for Bush in 2000 (NB: did not repeat that mistake in 2004), but I think the Republican politicians and "conservative commentators" have undergone a much more startling metamorphosis. At least it should be startling. I still find it hard to imagine how the "mainstream" Republican voter can just not notice how far afield these guys have gone. There are thousands of hours of these guys on record espousing most of the positions that Ron Paul espouses. It's not like you and me making some offhand comment at a party ten years ago. These pundits and opinions shapers have stated quite publicly and repeatedly and as recently as a few years ago positions diametrically opposed to those that they now spew. And the listeners/voters are eating it up, booing for what was their own platform not a decade ago and cheering for the very same policies for which they once reviled the Democrats. If the voters aren't smarter than this, this campaign is in real trouble.
"Consistent, principled integrity... Americans don't usually go for that."

Ron Paul Fan
10-24-2007, 03:36 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDjkDALABJ0

Here's a video comparing some Bush statements in 2000 to Ron Paul statements today.

http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2000b.html

2000 debate transcript. Gore defends most of Clinton's interventionalist policies while Bush criticizes Gore/Clinton and says whatever he can to get elected.

aspiringconstitutionalist
10-24-2007, 02:12 PM
God, I wish I wouldn't have looked at those links. I'm so depressed now. :P

evadmurd
10-26-2007, 09:30 AM
I remember him saying it at one of the first debates in 2000. Not the famous "lock-box" debate, though.

Energy
10-28-2007, 11:53 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGDwvAbx_fg

"If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road, and I'm going to prevent that."