Leftest Newspaper San Francisco Bay Guardian endorses Ron Paul

[angrydragon]

http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?page=2&entry_id=5430&catid=&volume_id=317&issue_id=335&volume_num=42&issue_num=16

President, Republican

RON PAUL

We have a lot of disagreements with Ron Paul and his libertarian worldview. He opposes the taxes that we need to make civil society function and the government regulations that are essential to protecting the most powerless members of society. From its roots in the Magna Carta and Adam Smith's economic theories to the Bill of Rights, it's clear the United States was founded on a social compact that libertarians too often seem to deny. And Paul compounds these ills in the one area in which he departs from the libertarians: he doesn't support federal abortion rights. He's been associated with some statements that are racially insensitive (to say the least). He clearly shouldn't be president.

But he won't — Paul isn't going to win the nomination. So it's worthwhile endorsing him as a protest vote for two reasons. His presence on the ballot serves to show up ...

[MayTheRonBeWithYou]

Fuck them.

[Ex Post Facto]

Fuck them.

lol...it was like 'we endorse him to piss off everyone else.'

[Agora]

http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?page=2&entry_id=5430&catid=&volume_id=317&issue_id=335&volume_num=42&issue_num=16

President, Republican

RON PAUL

We have a lot of disagreements with Ron Paul and his libertarian worldview. He opposes the taxes that we need to make civil society function and the government regulations that are essential to protecting the most powerless members of society. From its roots in the Magna Carta and Adam Smith's economic theories to the Bill of Rights, it's clear the United States was founded on a social compact that libertarians too often seem to deny. And Paul compounds these ills in the one area in which he departs from the libertarians: he doesn't support federal abortion rights. He's been associated with some statements that are racially insensitive (to say the least). He clearly shouldn't be president.

But he won't — Paul isn't going to win the nomination. So it's worthwhile endorsing him as a protest vote for two reasons. His presence on the ballot serves to show up ...

some of the hypocrisies of the rest of the GOP field — and he is absolutely correct and insightful on one of the most important issues of the day: the war.

Paul is alone among the Republican candidates for president in sounding the alarm that our country is pursuing a dangerous, shortsighted, hypocritical, expensive, and ultimately doomed strategy of trying to dominate the world militarily. He opposed the invasion of Iraq and thinks the US should pull out immediately. It's immensely valuable to have someone like that in the GOP debates, speaking to the conservative half of our country about why this policy violates the principles they claim to hold dear.

Paul is absolutely correct that if we stopped trying to police the world, ended the war on drugs, and quit negotiating trade deals that favor multinational corporations over American families and workers, we would be a far more free and prosperous nation.

[fuzzybekool]

Protest Vote ??? I don't think I have ever heard of a " Protest Endorsement ". It must be small time college town newspaper.

[RonPaulFTFW]

Trust me, most people will see Paul as the avenging angel on the Neo-Cons.

Eating them from the inside.

And hey, that's not so bad. Movement start somewhere. If we can't win now we'll win in 2012.

[gracebkr]

can we really call this an endorsement? If a man slugs his wife then kisses her on the cheek do we call that love?

[MayTheRonBeWithYou]

Trust me, most people will see Paul as the avenging angel on the Neo-Cons.

Eating them from the inside.

And hey, that's not so bad. Movement start somewhere. If we can't win now we'll win in 2012.

Ron is 72 years old. So if he doesn't get the GOP nod, we need the avenging angel to let loose with wrath on the warmongers in this general election.