Where are all the Paulites on this one?
It seems like I can’t mention Ron Paul without droves of his cyber-trolls emerging from the woodwork to spew endless paragraphs of campaign propaganda. So after seeing the above clip of the Revolution leader confirming that he doesn’t believe in evolution on the website of my fellow Ruckuser Outside the Beltway, I’m actually interested to hear what the Paulites have to say.
OTB opined, “Until and unless someone proves that this clip has been edited or doctored to make it sound like he’s saying something he isn’t, this will have to be considered the end of the Ron Paul ‘Revolution.’” I’m not sure I agree with that, because that statement implies that Paul’s supporters possess the ability to think logically. And they obviously don’t.
What will most likely happen is that they will flat out ignore this, or throw around the usual conspiracy-laden red herrings.
I believe in evolution and I believe Ron Paul is the best candidate for president. The two positions are not mutually exclusive. Taken at face value, it appears that Ron Paul rejects evolution. I’d like to hear more from him on this. In any case, I don’t think a candidate’s position on evolution defines his/her capacity to handle the job of president. Ron Paul is the only candidate who will end the U.S. military empire, restore confidence in our currency and economy, and enforce the constitutional limitations on government. Freedom, prosperity and peace. His acceptance or denial of evolution is irrelevant to the mission at hand — restoring the U.S. as a constitutional republic.
By the way, as recently as a couple of years ago a reputable national survey, based on a large number of participants, showed that the majority of Americans accept some form of creationism over evolution. Go figure.)
lol, you clowns worried that he might steal some of McCain’s votes? Heck, not that there’s a lot to take…
Funny how you go back to find one of the oldest posts to draw example of Ron Paul supporters being enthusiastic. Most of those people have long since learned they are wasting their time here; I’m one of the few that has not.
I happen to be a grad student that would lose alot of federal grant money if Ron Paul were elected. I’m ok with that. I also happen to have a positive view of evolution since I write software tools for biologists that study evolution and genomes.
What I don’t see is the place in the constitution where it permits a person of fervent personal beliefs to use the office of president to force those beliefs upon the country.
He’s stating the basic Christian position. Fundamentalism was a Yankee fad in the ’30s that caught on down here in the ’70s. Sure, it’s still popular with Baptists, etc.—but Paul’s position is totally mainstream with traditional Christians. He’s a devout Lutheran, btw. And, yes, it is the traditional Christian view that the story of Creation as told in Genesis is 100% true, but that does not necessarily mean anything more than that, such as the typical “literal” caricature that seems to be the only salient non-thoroughly Lib quality of Mike Huckabee. A few Paulistas are, in fact, Independent Baptists (aka would-have-been John Birch-ers), but they’re the exception to the rule. What’s definitely true is that Paul’s goals would benefit the traditional Christian demographic tenfold more than McCain’s (or any other’s), who is at best religiously Liberal—an Episcopalian who refuses to join his conservative dissidents in denouncing all the homo rights stuff.
This isn’t memorized Paul campaign propaganda. It’s just that his supporters all have original opinions of their own that are not poured in through the top from NYC.
What will most likely happen is that they will flat out ignore this, or throw around the usual conspiracy-laden red herrings.
To judge by the comments my OTB post is garnering from the Paulbots, it’s mostly the latter. And unsupportable insults directed at my intelligence and integrity, of course. But you apparently realized that goes without saying.
It is more important what RP thinks about the role of government than he does about the creation of the world. The president of the united States should have nothing to say about what is taught at the local level– hence the elimination of the depatment of education. The question was, indeed, inappropiate to anyone who has spent ten minutes reading the u.S. constitution.
He could believe that Adam and Eve were transplanted to earth by purple, one-eyed space aliens and I’d be ok with it if I knew that he knew, understood, and would strictly abid by the restrictions placed on him as president by the constitution…
I’m pretty confident where he stands on THOSE issues.
I could care less if he believes we come from june bugs and were created by a giant purple toad! I can trust him based on his past voting record. I live in Brazoria county and he never pushed creation based education. He is the ONLY republican candidate that truly believes in serperation of church and state.
Paulites huh? Looks like a lot of your fellow South Carolinians are Paulites. It’s gonna be interesting to watch the expressions of the Republican faces when Paul scores in these first primaries. He has outrageous massive support across America, because he is still an AMERICAN>