Ron Paul

Ron Paul just announced that he will be running for President for the third time. The 75 year old Libertarian is a hit amongst younger voters in their late teens and twenties, mostly because he advocates the legalization of  drugs (I'm guessing). And those kids will jump behind anyone who is vocal about that (I am all for legalizing weed though).
I can respect his message of personal freedom, but dude has come out the gate making some absolutely crack head remarks.

On Fox News Sunday:

Wallace: “You talk a lot about the Constitution. You say Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are all unconstitutional.” Paul: “Technically they are. There is no authority. Article 1, Section 8 doesn’t say I can set up an insurance program for people. What part of the Constitution — liberals are the ones that use this general welfare clause.”
Wallace: “Doesn’t Social Security come under promoting the general welfare?"
Paul: “Absolutely not. Maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense, but this is specific welfare. This justifies the whole welfare state. The military industrial complex, the welfare to foreigners, the welfare state that imprisons our people and impoverishes our people and gives us our recession.
That is such an extreme liberal viewpoint that has been mistaught in our schools for so long. That’s what we have to reverse, that very notion you’re presenting,”
Wallace: “Congressman, it’s not just a liberal view. It’s the decision of the Supreme Court in 1937 when they said that Social Security was constitutional under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution."
Paul: “The Constitution and the court said slavery was legal, too. We had to reverse that. So, I tell you. Just because a court in ’37 went very liberal on us and expanded the role of government, no, I think the original intent is not a bad idea."

 Getting called out by Chris Wallace of Fox News? Whoa. But Wait, there is more........From a Chris Matthews interview on MSNBC:

MATTHEWS: You would have voted against that law. You wouldn’t have voted for the ’64 civil rights bill.
PAUL: Yes, but not in — I wouldn’t vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.
MATTHEWS: But you would have voted for the — you know you — oh, come on. Honestly, Congressman, you were not for the ’64 civil rights bill.
PAUL: Because — because of the property rights element, not because it got rid of the Jim Crow law.
MATTHEWS: Right. The guy who owns a bar says, no blacks allowed, you say that’s fine. … This was a local shop saying no blacks allowed. You say that should be legal?
PAUL: That’s — that’s ancient history. That’s ancient history. That’s over and done with. [...]
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this. We have had a long history of government involvement with Medicare, Social Security, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. And I think you are saying we would have been better off without all that?
PAUL: I think we would be better off if we had freedom, and not government control of our lives, our personal lives, and our — and policing the world.

 Whoa, whoa whoa, I get that he is all about states rights, but did dude just say Jim Crow laws were a-okay and that the Civil Rights act was too much government control over our lives and a threat to personal freedom? Whose personal freedom? The freedom of white people to treat black people like shit? Holy fuck.

And one more nugget of wisdom from Dr. Ron Paul, from an interview with Wolf Blitzer:

BLITZER: On the whole issue of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, do you want to see that agency ended? PAUL: Well, if you want to live in a free society, if you want to pay attention to the constitution, why not? I think it’s bad economics. I think it’s bad morality. And it’s bad constitutional law. Why should people like myself, who had, not too long ago, a house on the Gulf Coast and it’s – it’s expensive there and it’s risky and it’s dangerous. Why should somebody from the central part of the United States rebuild my house? Why shouldn’t I have to buy my own insurance and protect about the potential dangers? I mean it’s – it’s a moral hazard to say that government is always going to take care of us when we do dumb things. I’m trying to get people to not to dumb things. Besides, it’s not authorized in the constitution.
BLITZER: And if there’s a disaster, like flooding or – or an earthquake or Hurricane Katrina, what’s wrong with asking fellow Americans to help their – their – their fellow citizens?

PAUL: Nothing. And I think Americans are very, very generous and they have traditionally. The big problem is Americans are getting poor and they’re not able to voluntarily come to the rescue. But to coerce people, to ask them to help, that is fine and dandy. But when you bankrupt our country and nobody has a job and then they say, well, FEMA needs to bail out everybody, then all we’re doing is compounding our problems.

Tell that to the recent tornado victims. Ron Paul says "Sorry, you shouldn't have built your house where a tornado was going to come....don't do dumb things." I'm really hoping don't do dumb things emerges as his campaign slogan.
Wow, the Republican field for the Presidential election is.......fascinating. In the same way that Jersey Shore is-you can't stop watching the crazy stupid train wreck. I was gonna make a Pauly D./Donald Trump joke, but then I remembered I like Pauly D.  
And because Google Images is the best in the world you get this:

Hilarious, but slightly offensive considering how much I like Magneto.