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rg123
07-02-2007, 05:33 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anmlPvmd1Ew

Check it out some good stuff:)
Chibioz
07-02-2007, 05:41 PM
Too bad more people didn't listen to him 20 years ago.
LibertyEagle
07-02-2007, 05:44 PM
I did. :) Loved him then too.
yongrel
07-02-2007, 05:51 PM
If this isn't consistent, i don't know what is.
RP08
07-02-2007, 05:54 PM
That was good...
iddo
07-02-2007, 06:01 PM
It's a great illustration of how consistent Ron Paul is.
Only issue that he changed his mind since 1988, at least according to this interview, is the death penalty (he said near the end: "I would support the death penalty"). I personally agree with his changed position and I think that it's consistent with the pro-life stance, and the libertarian stance that the state has no right to kill people.
Anyone knows a place where Ron Paul discussed what caused him to change his position on the death penalty? I did a brief google search and didn't find any.
billv
07-02-2007, 06:13 PM
Amazing, he sounds exactly the same then as he does now.
angrydragon
07-02-2007, 06:35 PM
Hopefully people will wake up and smell the integrity of Dr. Paul.
LibertyEagle
07-02-2007, 06:44 PM
Well, I was talking with my financial advisor this morning and she is a self-proclaimed major liberal and life long Democrat. She was talking about voting for Ron Paul in the primary, at least.
osofaux
07-02-2007, 06:50 PM
I was a little surprised to hear him say he supported the death penalty.
Electric Church
07-03-2007, 12:02 AM
solid as a rock....we better get this guy in the oval office. If he doesn't get in then it will be Hitlery. God help us!
Kuldebar
07-03-2007, 12:15 AM
I was a little surprised to hear him say he supported the death penalty.

Remember from a state's rights stand point, this is consistent. Even the Supreme Court had went back on a previous decision that had ruled the death penalty as unconstitutional thus putting it back to each state to decide.

The great thing about getting power back to the states is that democracy is once again limited to its proper role, and any "missteps" that occur don't fall across the whole of the nation.

A true free-market of ideas, a testbed of a working democracy under a constitutional republic.