Golden Rule (via Ron Paul)

[Pseudofool]

http://youtu.be/ltRTLNZmmfs

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At least the crowd cheered the notion of bringing the troops home. But I think the initial boo is far too indicative of a better-than-thou kind of nationalism found within the Republican party.

(FTR, I think Paul is a loon overall, but he does stumble upon some real wisdom when speaking about particulars).

[Garcia Bronco]

Its funny to me that they booed the Golden Rule.

[Arkie]

Some people don't like to hear the truth.

The platform of the congressman from Texas offers America the chance to take a new approach. We can never change the errors of our past, but we can change our country's behaviors going into the future. In a speech before the House of Representatives on Feb. 12, 2009, Paul also made valid points of how the American soldiers lost since 9/11 are "not a fair trade-off for the loss of nearly 3,000 American citizens, no matter how many Iraqi, Pakistani and Afghan people are killed or displaced." And that "conservatives, who preach small government, wake up and realize that our interventionist foreign policy provides the greatest incentive to expand the government" -- among others. Perhaps he should be booed for speaking the truth there too.

But when any of my fellow Americans decry someone for speaking the truth -- whether it's comfortable and "feel good" or not -- they surrender their right to ever complain about any other politician for lying to them later. If the truth of saying we should perhaps consider the future consequences of our own actions deserves to get booed by a crowd, then we're telling our officials we'd rather hear a comforting lie than an uncomfortable truth. If we would rather a politician tell us what we want to hear, then perhaps we've surrendered all capacity to even deserve our freedom here in America.

Perhaps we deserve no better than Mitt Romney telling us what we want to hear, or Newt Gingrich selling us all down the river for his own, personal gain. Maybe we'd rather let Rick Santorum decide what kind of morality we should all be forced to conform to instead.

Apparently, the Golden Rule is No Longer a Good Idea to Some (http://news.yahoo.com/apparently-golden-rule-no-longer-good-idea-184200144.html)

[Rohirrim]

Have to agree with Paul here. Those people are troglodytes.

[alkemical]

This is a great opportunity for this country & people to redefine themselves.

[Garcia Bronco]

The golden Rule does have a flaw.

[alkemical]

What, if you don't have the gold you can't make the rules?

[Bronco Yoda]

This really was an odd thing for the crowd to boo him on.

[Blart]

You're surprised?

Death, war, misinformation = big cheers

Peace, humanity, science = boo


Cheering that the uninsured (i.e. 50 million Americans) should die,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irx_QXsJiao

Cheering for a return of child labor,
http://veracitystew.com/2011/12/11/gop-debate-crowd-cheers-for-gingrichs-child-labor-video/

Hooray for waterboarding,
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/gop-debate-audience-cheers-waterboarding

Cheering for all of Rick Perry's executions (he beat Bush's record),
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/gop-debate-audience-cheers-perrys-execution-record/


The GOP, everyone!

[Crow]

This really was an odd thing for the crowd to boo him on.

Not really. The far right is still convinced that 9/11 happened because...

[Dubya voice] They hate us for our freedom! [/Dubya voice]

...rather than the plain and simple truth that if you keep screwing with people, they will eventually find a way to strike back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSKPPeOFUXk


Anything that disparages that imbecilic vision is met with negativity. The way people like Romney respond to Paul on that issue is about what you'll hear from any spoon fed conservative who's too lazy to thinking for himself.

[alkemical]

Not really. The far right is still convinced that 9/11 happened because...

[Dubya voice] They hate us for our freedom! [/Dubya voice]

...rather than the plain and simple truth that if you keep screwing with people, they will eventually find a way to strike back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSKPPeOFUXk


Anything that disparages that imbecilic vision is met with negativity. The way people like Romney respond to Paul on that issue is about what you'll hear from any spoon fed conservative who's too lazy to thinking for himself.

How can they hate me, for something i'm not? (Free)

They can hate Americans for better reasons than that. I think it's because we're selfish assholes who make deals and play two ends against the middle to get the best deal (market manipulation).

Now that "the check has come due" - nobody wants to cut us any slack. We look around and ask why, while we're texting-while-drivingcuttingsomeoneoff....

[mosca]

Have to agree with Paul here. Those people are troglodytes.
There were some really ugly heckles from the neanderthals in that South Carolina Fox News audience. I believe there were some loud boos when Mitt Romney mentioned that his father was born in Mexico. It reminded me of some of the 'terrorist!' jeers from the 2008 race that Palin was riding high on and that McCain surprisingly had the class to put a stop to.