…analysis of the effect of low interest rates, then degenerates into nonsensical allegations and conspiracy theories.

Nice job, Ron. Here, have some Prozac.

And now he gives Bawney plenty of political cover to investigate the activities of previous Republican administrations (deflecting the ethical allegations against Bawney himself).

There is no need to keep them alive and raving zombies are not welcome at my house. His speed talking sounds Mexicans when they speak in Spanish. Also, he sounds like a Carpetbagger and that still not a good thing down in the South. BTW, the EU would be the first to bailout Greece and I’m fairly sure that they will. We wouldn’t really care unless US happen to carry lots of Greek debt.

Oh, it’s you Becker.
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I have to say, my respect for Bernanke (which was already high) has shot up upon watching this video; I certainly wouldn’t have been able to keep a straight face while listening and responding to the baseless allegations thrown out by Ron Paul. I was half-expecting the man to start on the JFK assassination. This pompous fool knows nothing about economics or the Reserve, and the fact that such an obvious moron is the primary architect of the Audit the Fed bill tells me all I need to know about the practicality of promoting such a thing in Congress.

Calling Ron Paul a moonbat is a disservice to bats everywhere, whose intelligences and utility are impugned by such an association.

ruins a perfectly good conspiracy.

RP makes me actually agree with Ben Bernanke!

Also, I love this quote of yours, mbecker: “If you’ve gotten this far and you think Ron Paul is fit for anything but the production of Soylant Green, you are a raving idiot incapable of rational thought. Or you are a fellow traveler from the planet Ronulan. I would have suggested that you should be shot, but at the current price of ammunition I’m going to opt for starvation.”

Obviously, this gets a reco from me.

They could have bankrolled all the Freemasons who were out poisoning the wells.

If you can break through the various conspiracy theory stuff, they actually become reasonable people. For the most part, they are freedom loving people who believe in the US Constitution. They have become infected with the idea that there are “hidden masters” behind every corporation, every government official, every president, etc… It’s just that they all seem to have different ideas who these hidden masters are. Sometimes it’s the Builderburgers, the Illuminati, the CFR, the UN, or whatever other group is popular at the moment. And RonPaul! is the one person who will expose this conspiracy and fix the problem.

Maybe they just feel that things are out of control and there MUST be some specific evil “person” moving events.

For those Ron Paul supporters who believe in conspiracies: There is no conspiracy. You don’t need a conspiracy to explain the events that occur. You don’t need RonPaul! to fix the problems for you.

What there is is a battle of ideologies. People (even politicians) have certain beliefs that guide their actions and the policies they support. Sometimes they have other motivators that cause them to act in conflict with their beliefs (greed or lust or just the lure of more “power” is usually a large part of this conflict). Other times a major disaster occurs or an issue becomes so pronounced that causes them to “take action” and make laws to resolve the current problem.. These laws are usually very bad laws that have a large number of unintended consequences.

So anytime you’re thinking “conspiracy” start looking for a more mundane explanation. The more mundane version is usually the correct one.

So what to “do”? Well, get in touch with your core principles. When someone asks you to support some idea or other, compare it with your core principles and see how it fits.

If you’re wondering, my core principles are Liberty and the Individual Responsibility that goes along with having Liberty. Everything else builds from them.

one wonders if they have dementia. That is the only thing I can think of when I hear such bizarre statements. The problem is – those kinds of statements get lodged in ignorant peoples’ brains and take hold, and then it spreads. Barney Frank jumped on the bandwagon….it is in is best interest to do so, deflects stuff from him and the Dems. Notice how he repeated Nixon and Reagan names”

Ron Paul Republican? Hard to believe….he keeps trying to cause our side harm.

…the commentary is as good as any Fox group.

IN his part of attacking most anything that comes from the GOP and nary a peep attacking the true enemy which is the progressivism coming from the Liberals and the Democrats. Sorry if you are either to naieve to understand your affects or know what you are doing, neither has a place at the table for what we need to do in 2010 or 2012 to get this country back on track.

I have no problem believing we were propping up Saddam Hussein before we decided to take him out. I think that’s part of the public record. I was not, however, aware of any significant underhanded role of the Fed in that propping up. So where is that claim coming from? Not quite from thin air:

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/auedec.html

How strong is the evidence? I guess I’ll have to read the book.

As for the Watergate burglary, again, news to me if the Fed was involved in that, either the execution or the cover up. Where is that coming from? Not quite from nowhere:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19820616&id=6dUVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GxIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6977,2777644

That’s just one example. My 5 minutes of googling turned up a few other references in newspapers. But questions without answers are little more than innuendo. If a few forgotten newspaper articles is all he’s got to work from, then this is not a useful topic to mention.

don’t you think if any of this were true, the evil dooers at the Fed would see to it none of it ever came to light and those like the Paultard and Alex jones would quickly be silenced????

Given Paul and his cultish true beleiver followers views on things, I’m sure alot fo them think Jew Bankers at the Federal Reserve ultimately are the guys behind 9/11? Would be alot if you could find this view openly stated at some Truther and/or Neo-Nazi websites

Idiot Par Excellence.

For me the warning bell was the 2008 Primaries, when Ron-Ron declared he would pull troops out of Iraq. It was then that I knew I could never vote for him for President, but I still thought he would make a good SecTres. Not any longer. If he is going to spout all these nonsense conspiracies and give Barney Frank more ammo to hold off investigations into his and Dodd’s complicity in the Fannie/Freddie mess, then Ron Paul needs to go. I’m not in his district (I live next door in 22), but I think we need to find a candidate to primary Ron Paul.

that guy is fruit loopy. we know he is an anti-semite. now we know that he is a crazy anti-semite. how does that fruitbat get reelected?

Never knowing who Ron Paul was before 2008, I watched him at the debate at the Reagan Library and sort of felt sorry for him, listened intently to what he was trying to say…then tuned him out (and the rest of the candidates) that night.

However, knowing that he hasn’t a chance in hades to ever dominate either the GOP or its platform, tread carefully before casting him aside entirely.

Ron Paul is to the GOP what Dennis Kucinich is to the DNC…a guy too loony to win, loud enough to make a couple of (loony) points that largely get ignored, but someone who has a rabidly loyal following and nifty roadsigns.

If the GOP alienates Paul out of the party, and he becomes a Nader or Perot, that would be a greater detriment than tolerating his loony tunes.

Better to have your Crazy Aunt Mary resting comfortably in her room, than running around the streets with her bathrobe flapping open creating a disturbance.

Just a thought.

of mbecker doing what mbecker does best. Call people names, silence other views, and call people names some more for good measure. No analysis. No reasoned debate.

I’ve read that diaries should have some analysis, and not be just a link to a news story. Since when does abuse pass for reasoned analysis?

One’s opinion of the subject matter aside, is this the sort of diary that is worthy of RedState? I think the readers of RedState deserve better.

Wow. There’s a lot of hatred here for Ron Paul. The only man in Washington who follows the Constitution should draw more support from conservatives, one would think. People who agree with him, like myself, are called all kinds of things. I guess the Constitution really is dead.

I guess I can kick around the embers of this thread and see if there’s any life left in it. Besides, 109 comments just didn’t seem like enough.

Many of you know that I live in CD-14, in the heart of the Ronulan beast and couldn’t be any more unhappy about it. I can credit Ronald Reagan with getting me really intersted in politics, but I can credit Ron Paul with getting me really involved. So involved that I became a Precinct Chair even before ColdWarrior instructed me to. Now I have a Ronulan running against me for this magnificent unpaid position. A guy who can’t even come to our regular meetings and doesn’t volunteer to do jack And now I have to spend 100s of dollars campaigning for my silly little job. They also are running against about 65% of the existing chairs. That is brilliant, because now those of us that competently run elections cannot participate since we’re on the ballot. None of these Ronulans volunteer to work elections either. In fact, after the Lincoln Reagan dinner we had the other night, some of us stayed behind to clean up. Not only did no Ronulans hang around, they couldn’t even bus their own table. Arrogance with a dose of entitlement pretty much describes them all.

The Ronulan contender running for the county chair has already proclaimed that when he wins, he won’t listen to the state party, nor the elections office. Brilliant, huh?

We have three good guys running against Paul. They are Tim Graney, Gerald Wall, and John Gay. I have been working hard for Graney and fully expect a run-off – the only question being whether or not Ron Paul is part of it.

Provided we get a run-off challenger to Ron Paul, I would beg the RedState community to support any contender and retire Ron Paul ASAP.

P.s., if any of the Ronulan commenters or lurkers survived Neil and MBecker, please volunteer to adopt Ron Paul and take him home to your district. We are sick and tired of him.

I admit, I did support Ron Paul. I agree with his small-government message. I never bought into ridiculous conspiracy theories, because I think conspiracies are dumb. If you get three people together, they won’t even be able to decide where to go for lunch, so a conspiracy involving hundreds or thousand of people is just plain loony. My introduction to party politics was also an introduction to loony conspiracy theories involving people named Rockefeller. Apparently, those Rockefellers have more money than the National Debt, and we’re all living under their Shadow Bank King. It’s like Lord of the Rings, only without the exciting parts.

I am very skeptical of the effectiveness of political parties, because in my experience, people tend to place the most importance on the thing closest to themselves. For most people, the party is closer to them than the nation as a whole, and therefore you end up with nitwits who are more concerned with serving the party than they are with serving their constituents.

If I had to pick someone I’d like to see become President, it wouldn’t be Ron Paul. I’d like to see Jim DeMint get elected President. That guy seems like he has the right idea.