http://freedomdemocrats.org/node/1924
In a previous post on this site regarding a show of hands for Ron Paul, there were comments about the social conservatism of Ron Paul. However, after Paul's performance last night at the Values Voter Debate hosted by the American Family Association, any such doubts should be put to rest. In Paul's closing statement, Paul assumes the role of the stern lecturer, arguing that a free society cannot use federal power to legislate morality and that the Iraqi War violates the Christian notion of a just war. And he was roundly booed for it. Indeed, while the other candidates who showed up pandered to become the next Pastor-In-Chief, Paul laid out his opposition to federal laws against drugs, prostitution, pornography, and homosexuality. He had the courage to advocate marriage should be a private contract and held firm when the obligatory Terry Schiavo question came up. To boot, he also expressed opposition to any constitutional amendment banning abortion(still, Paul finished second, although a distant second, to Huckabee in the official delegate straw poll held afterwards).
Yes, Paul is pro-life, but what kind of traction would a pro-choice(anti-war) libertarian get in a republican primary? Zero. He might as well, in such were the case, join George Phillies and Steve Kubby in a futile run as a Libertarian candidate.
And, from the democratic side, abortion aside, is there any candidate who remotely comes close to matching the somewhat radical social positions that Ron Paul stakes out(well,other than Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel)?
In a previous post on this site regarding a show of hands for Ron Paul, there were comments about the social conservatism of Ron Paul. However, after Paul's performance last night at the Values Voter Debate hosted by the American Family Association, any such doubts should be put to rest. In Paul's closing statement, Paul assumes the role of the stern lecturer, arguing that a free society cannot use federal power to legislate morality and that the Iraqi War violates the Christian notion of a just war. And he was roundly booed for it. Indeed, while the other candidates who showed up pandered to become the next Pastor-In-Chief, Paul laid out his opposition to federal laws against drugs, prostitution, pornography, and homosexuality. He had the courage to advocate marriage should be a private contract and held firm when the obligatory Terry Schiavo question came up. To boot, he also expressed opposition to any constitutional amendment banning abortion(still, Paul finished second, although a distant second, to Huckabee in the official delegate straw poll held afterwards).
Yes, Paul is pro-life, but what kind of traction would a pro-choice(anti-war) libertarian get in a republican primary? Zero. He might as well, in such were the case, join George Phillies and Steve Kubby in a futile run as a Libertarian candidate.
And, from the democratic side, abortion aside, is there any candidate who remotely comes close to matching the somewhat radical social positions that Ron Paul stakes out(well,other than Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel)?
