Ridiculous Ron Paul bias

[John_James]

@cporter

On the other hand, isn’t he basically just holding his nose by being part of Congress now? Sure we can look at his votes and say he didn’t vote for such and such, but we can probably also assume that he didn’t support whatever crap comes out of the Romney administration, too.

No. Casting votes against unconstitutional bills is not the same thing as endorsing a warmongering statist for President. “Holding his nose” means doing something that is unpleasant or that you would rather not do, so that you might achieve some more desired end. (It comes from the concept of literally holding your nostrils together so that you cannot smell (and therefore cannot taste as much) the bad-tasting medicine you need to swallow.)

I would pretty much guarantee Ron Paul quite happily votes against all that government growth and introduces all those government-shrinking bills…not to mention being able to make the speeches he does on the Floor. I would even venture to say he might even enjoy it (even if it does get tiring sometimes).

Politically, having Paul be part of any administration that runs serious risk of massively damaging the country is disastrous for the libertarian cause because 30 years from now people can just say “oh yeah, like that Ron Paul guy who caused a depression” or whatever. Anything bad will get pinned on “Ron Paul’s laissez faire influence” or similar nonsense in exactly the same way people blame things on Reagan’s rhetoric even though he followed through on basically none of it.

Yes I went into this notion here…

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