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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
17. But
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 02:14 PM
Jan 2012

"The beginning of your citation hold the points of attraction"

...the other points are not.


"There is only one issue that I think makes him attractive to the left, though it underlies multiple issues. That is civil liberties. He constantly speaks about a "loss of our freedoms" to the encroaching power of government. The attraction of this is no surprise."

So you're rejecting the piece on the basis that it isn't well-written and offering up justification for the very point the piece rejects?

Ron Paul believes people are free to treat blacks as second class citizens and everyone is free to die without health care.

Please, spare me the claim that he values "civil liberties."

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His valid points MFrohike Jan 2012 #7
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Your last sentence is why it sucks MFrohike Jan 2012 #9
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Credibility? MFrohike Jan 2012 #11
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The beginning of your citation hold the points of attraction MFrohike Jan 2012 #15
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Claims MFrohike Jan 2012 #22
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