Posted by jeffn48 on 1/1/2012 8:26:00 PM (view original):
Posted by drewster0 on 1/1/2012 7:49:00 PM (view original):
still have my RP sign from last time tho
Well I hope you vote for him. I just turned my New Hampshire absentee ballot in and was happy to have voted for the only candidate the founders would be proud of.
What founders are you talking about? Alexander Hamilton was the primary champion in American history for a national bank, John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts, James Madison started the War of 1812 because he got himself into a p*ssing contest with the British. True enough, Ron Paul does nicely capture the racism of Thomas Jefferson and the isolationism of George Washington, but it is pretty ridiculous to claim that the founders would be proud of him. At best a couple of founders would find his ideas appealing, while the others would not. Part of the beauty of the founders is that they didn't agree on basically anything among themselves, so they compromised routinely. I don't think Ron Paul knows that the word compromise exists.