Ron Paul's son Robert considering a congressional run

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

First it was just Ron Paul.

An obstetrician-gynecologist and libertarian-leaning Republican from Lake Jackson, Paul was elected to the U.S. House more than 20 years ago and maintains a devout following of those who share his anti-war, anti-tax, limited-government beliefs.

Then he was joined by his son, Rand, a Republican ophthalmologist, who became a darling of the Tea Party movement and was elected last year to represent Kentucky in the U.S. Senate.

Now a third Paul -- Robert, a doctor who runs a family medical practice in Benbrook and lives in Fort Worth -- is mulling a congressional bid of his own.


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/15/2168619/ron-pauls-son-robert-considering.html

[NC_Nurse]

1. Oh no, not another one!!

Sheesh! How many are there?

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. Three sons and two daughters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Invasion of the libertarian lunatics

Swell

[Ter]

11. I'd take 100 of them over 100 neo-cons

If a puke absolutely has to win, well it's better than a war-loving Karl Rove type.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. 6 of one, half a dozen of the other

Not much difference to me. They both suck.

[Ter]

20. There's a million points of difference

The Pauls are more anti-Bush and have less in common with him than Obama does.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Their agenda is still wrong for America

I don't care how anti-Bush they are. They're also anti-government tea partiers. :puke:

[No Elephants]

36. If Libertarians had their way, we wouldn't even have public schools.

Libertarians are Republicons who hate paying taxes even more than do Republicons.

[Blue_Tires]

50. I remember one surreal instance when I used to work at a state university

and the Ron Paul minions in the student body had a big rally in '08. I couldn't say anything, of course, but I did want to ask these in-state students on federal loans what they would do with no Department of Education...

[No Elephants]

35. +1

[naaman fletcher]

34. I agree,

at least they are:

1. Against military industrial complex
2. Against bank/fed complex
3. Against drug war


Those three things make them a million times better than the neo-cons. Of course, I still wouldn't vote for any of them.

[LeftishBrit]

45. Why take ANY right-wingers?

They all love to make war on the poor and vulnerable!

[harun]

57. Infinitely better than the neo-con's.

[Upton]

13. I don't consider being anti war or opposed to the war on drugs

to be anywhere near lunacy..to me it's simple common sense.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. And anti-choice

That's not okay with me.

[Upton]

23. It's not okay with me either..

but then again, true libertarians, unlike the Pauls, are pro choice...

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. Not the ones I know

They are rabidly anti-choice. Many are active in the so-called 'pro-life' movement.

[Ter]

25. I think the true ones think it should be left up to the state

Anti Roe vs. Wade, but not for any federal ban or federal legality.

[No Elephants]

38. "No true Scotsman" logical fallacy.

"No true Scotsman is an intentional logical fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

[krabigirl]

28. libertarians are divided on abortion.

[No Elephants]

39. Relatively united on not having tax money used for abortion, though.

Nor for much of anything.

Strip away all the spin and rationalizations from Libertarians and you get"I hate paying taxes even more than do Republicons."

[No Elephants]

37. Plenty of Libertarians besides the Pauls are anti-choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

[LeftishBrit]

46. What about anti-public services; anti-social safety net; anti-consumer protection

anti-environmental protection; and in the case of the Pauls, anti-choice and anti-gay.

Yes, being anti-war is good. But there are people who are anti-war but far-right in every other way: the BNP; the LePens (another dynasty!); David Duke. They should not be allowed anywhere near power.

[fishwax]

31. agreed

:puke:

[Drale]

3. The nut doesn't fall far from the nut tree.

[Bok_Tukalo]

5. I'm surprised he lives in Ft Worth

He seems more like a Weatherford kind of guy.

[davidwparker]

6. Oh, why not. It seems like now is the time all the wack-

a-doodles are coming out to run for something. The more the merrier.

[walerosco]

7. is he going after

a republican or democrat held sit?

[Freddie Stubbs]

8. The incumbent, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, is a Republican, but not running for reelection

[Kingofalldems]

9. Unrec---who cares if Ron Paul's son might run?

This site is for Democrats, not republicans. Isn't even LBN.

[No Elephants]

40. Democrats hate info?

[Hulk]

10. Nation of morons....and Texas is overflowing with them.

This turd brain stands a good chance, simply because this nation is filled with so many empty headed buffoons walking the streets. God, I'm really sorry we took Texas from Mexico, and we won the damned Civil War. We should have let Mexico keep that worthless piece of land and right now The South would be a third world country, just like Mexico, or worse.

[EvilMonsanto]

12. I Say Go For It!

Better to have libertarians than NeoCons, I mean seriously
I like Ron Paul's voting record more than a few Dem's

I just hate all these wars, I hate being a part of it by paying taxes

We should all fight to end these wars, let's not bring in partisanship like that

Would you tell a mother or father of an innocent Afghanistani, Yemeni, Iraqi or Pakistani "casualty" that you couldn't vote for the anti-war candidates because of partisanship???

[LeftishBrit]

47. Would you tell a mother or father of a child who dies of malnutrition or preventable disease

because even the most basic public services and anti-poverty measures are swept away by anti-government right-libertarians, that you couldn't vote for the pro-welfare candidates because of partisanship?

Poverty and denial of public services KILL people!

[ProSense]

14. Another

anti-Social Security, anti-government kook.

[border_town]

15. Oh how nice

Ron, Rand, and now Rob Paul. What is with all the R names in this family, anyway?

[Anakin Skywalker]

18. Does he perform abortions? Let's see just how truly limited-government he is!

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. Somehow I doubt it.

Just a hunch. LOL

[Nossida]

19. Christ

Is America to now degenerate to Hereditary Monarchy?
anything but come to your senses America.

[Ter]

51. By that logic we wouldn't have Kennedy's

But if that would mean no more Bush's will run, I see your point.

[wickerwoman]

26. His name is Robert Paul-son.

[demigoddess]

27. another republican dynasty????Do they brainwash their children

on purpose or by accident. Make them read Ayn Rand at an early age?? Isn't that considered child abuse???

[Youth Uprising]

29. Libertarianism is a stupid, greedy, and selfish ideology

that promotes the tyranny of the free-market. They're not anti-war because of ethical reasons, they're anti-war because of financial reasons. They always put profit before people, don't kid yourselves. One silver lining about this whole Wisconsin debacle is that it has helped expose the Randian Regressive Libertarians for what they really are.

[No Elephants]

41. +1

[howaboutme]

30. Hypothetically if you had a country to run, who would really trust?

So would it be Greenspan, Bernanke, Summers, Volcker, Paulson, Geithner, or Paul?

Watch "Inside Job" and then answer. I will always trust a history of integrity and consistency first long before those that will scam us at the drop of a hat. Ideology is never my first consideration. Honesty is first.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob/

[ProSense]

33. "Honesty is first. "

From Rand Paul's budget:

War funding from 2001 to 2010 has cost the taxpayer $1.109 trillion. That amount doesn’t include the $159
billion that will likely be spent funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for FY2011. The proposal seeks to
reduce war funding for FY2011 by $16 billion, in other words to provide $144 billion (President Obama has
requested $117 billion for FY2012, $27 billion dollars below our proposed level).

Do you honestly believe that Paul is anti-war? He's anti-government, anti-military, not anti-war. The Pauls would support pirates and mercenaries if given free rein.

Paleomonetarism

"When the choice is between extreme and mild conservatives, progressives don’t stand a chance."

[No Elephants]

42. He's anti paying taxes. That is as deep as it gets.

[LeftishBrit]

44. None of them.

But possibly Paul (any of them) least of all, as the Pauls are EXPLICITLY opposed to any social safety net, or government contribution to public services. The others just don't/didn't care so long as the rich don't have to pay too many taxes. The Pauls would actively seek to destroy all safety nets for the poor and vulnerable.

But I would choose left-wingers over ANY of the people that you mention.

'Ideology is never my first consideration. Honesty is first.'

What if someone *honestly* wishes to kill you? Hitler was honest and consistent; so are many extremists nowadays; so were the laissez-faire capitalists of the 19th century, a time to which the Pauls would like to return - and a time when poor people often starved to death, or worked long hours from childhood onwards, without any regulation of their conditions. Honesty in pursuit of a cruel ideology is not something to be admired!

[fishwax]

32. having one Paul around was kind of fun in that in 2008 he highlighted a GOP ideological divide

Having two Pauls around, though, was unnecessary overkill (especially once he actually got elected), and having three is way too many.

[LeftishBrit]

43. To quote Shakespeare...

What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

(Macbeth, Act 4)

[Paladin]

48. A Family Of Libertarians---All Hooking Up With Government Jobs.

Just like Ayn Rand intended, right?

[Blue_Tires]

49. Wow...For a family who claims to hate government so much

They have come to depend on it for their own survival, like moths to a flame...

They are starting to inch toward Palinesque levels of hypocrisy...

[walerosco]

52. do you know theres a difference btw big govt

and small govt? I dont think the Paul have ever said that they were anti govt. And even if they were anti govt, sometime you have to join what you hate to defeat it (e.g undercover cops). Also do you really think a Medical doctor and an eye doctor needs govt for their survival? I understand not liking a politician, but making things up because you hate them is just silly

[LeftishBrit]

53. A doctor doesn't need government for their survival...

But a patient might!!!

At any rate the point here was that the Pauls all want to be part of government by being senators/representatives.

[Dokkie]

54. True on 1st sentence

I say this all the time, but for us to be successful against the thinking part of the right wing, we have to understand them. Think of it as a parent who is anti school board, he has strong disagreement with the idea of it, the size of it, power it exerts, the decision they make that negatively affect his children. He has too much invested in the school district to move so instead of just abandoning everything, he run for school board in order to achieve this goal. In this case just like running for election in the US govt, he is not being hypocritical, now he would be hypocritical if he supports/votes for policies that would increase the size and power of the govt.

know thy enemy.

[Blue_Tires]

56. I'm saying the Paul boys are in this for personal enrichment

And yes; getting fat on the gravy train of being an elected official while pandering to the big government haters is hypocritical...

The Pauls pimp words like "freedom" and "personal liberty", but they would just as soon swap a governmental overlord for a corporate one in a heartbeat...Never forget who is bankrolling them...

[classysassy]

55. We have two Paul nuts

in Washington,three is too many.