[=MAL=] Why Dick Morris Fears Ron Paul

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Interestingly, Dick Morris considers Ron Paul the most "radical liberal left-wing"
candidate running.  That the fascist Dick Morris hates and fears Dr. Paul should
help him (Paul) in his quest to become America's next President.
 
Comments?
 
~ Ben 
 
Why Dick Morris Fears Ron Paul
 
by Robert Ringer
 
Link:  http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/ringer3.1.1.html
 
It's been quite humorous watching Dick Morris switch modes – from dismissing
Ron Paul as a nut and a crackpot to hysterically warning people how
dangerous he is. In one of his recent lunch videos, Morris ranted nonstop
about Paul, going so far as to say, "He is the most radical, liberal
candidate running." Then, on The O'Reilly Factor, Morris said, "I think that
he is absolutely the most liberal, radical, left-wing person to run for
president in the United States in the last fifty years."
 
Strange, because I've known Ron Paul for more than thirty years, and I see
him as one of the purist conservatives in Washington – and certainly the
most conservative person in the current field of Republican candidates. I'm
talking about true conservatism, which Ronald Reagan accurately described
when he said, "The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."
So what, specifically, does Morris not like about Ron Paul? For starters, he
says that Paul "has this crazy idea about returning to the gold standard."
Hmm … I never thought of a return to sound money as being a crazy idea. With
all due respect, Dick, I think I'll stick with Hayek and Von Mises on that
one.
 
Other Ron Paul sins, according to Morris, include his desire to:
Get rid of the Fed.
 
Legalize drugs. (Sorry, pseudo-conservatives, but the unpleasant reality is
that the war on drugs has caused even more violence than did the war on
alcohol.)
 
Stay out of other countries' affairs (which would make it possible to slash
our military budget without weakening our national defense).
 
Repeal the Patriot Act, which would reduce government's ability to snoop on
American citizens.
 
Morris even claimed that Ron Paul favors abortion on demand, paid for by the
government. Now that's one I've never heard before. Paul has always been
adamantly pro-life and, further, he believes that the issue of abortion
comes under the auspices of the states, not the federal government.
So why is Morris so worried about a guy he has repeatedly referred to as a
nutcase, a crackpot, and worse? Because, he says, he is afraid that Paul
will run as a third-party candidate and "hand the election to Barack Obama."
 
First of all, Ron Paul has never been the nutcase his detractors have tried
so hard to paint him to be. Second, he is one of the most morally sound
individuals I have ever known, and is intellectually sound as well.
 
In fact, the "crazy uncle" remarks that the fearful media pundits keep
throwing out about Paul couldn't be further from the truth. On the contrary,
if Ron Paul has one weakness, it's that he's intellectually above the
average voter's head, which sometimes makes it difficult to understand what
he's saying.
 
I admit that a handful of comments purportedly made in Ron Paul's
newsletters in the 1980s and 1990s were over the line, but they certainly
were not hardcore racist. More important, he unequivocally renounces those
statements today. Often, Paul's problem is that he is very uninhibited when
it comes to being precise about the law and what he believes to be the truth
and, unfortunately, a majority of the population is more interested in
political correctness than the Constitution or the truth.
 
I can only speak from my own firsthand experience, and, behind closed doors,
I have never heard Ron Paul say anything that even mildly bordered on racism
  Nor is he anti-semitic or anti-Israel. As he explained it to me on a couple
of different occasions, he just happens to believe that Israel would be
better off without having to answer to the U.S. for its actions.
 
Putting aside the mudslinging, the bottom line is that, more than any other
candidate, Ron Paul stands for freedom. But is such a strong advocate of
freedom electable? Dick Morris and other establishment Republicans say
absolutely not. And they could be right. But there's a part of me that
wonders if they might just be wrong.
 
If Ron Paul ran as a third-party candidate – especially if Mitt Romney were
to be the Republican nominee – he would attract not only Tea Party voters,
but independents, moderate Democrats, and anti-war people of all stripes.
While the contrast between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is, from a long-term
point of view, marginal, Ron Paul and Barack Obama are polar opposites.
Mitt Romney is John McCain. Mitt Romney is George W. Bush. Mitt Romney is
Bob Dole. Mitt Romney is George Herbert Walker Bush. Mitt Romney is Thomas
Dewey. Mitt Romney is Herbert Hoover. Which is why I believe that millions
of fed-up Americans, rather than swallowing John McCain Light or accepting
four more years of Obama's anti-American policies, might just consider
casting their vote for a candidate who stands for pure, unadulterated
freedom.
 
Even if Paul did not win, it would be a presidential race like no other. And
if it resulted in Obama's reelection, I'm fine with that if it keeps Mitt
Romney from taking the reins of power and feeding us small doses of
socialism day in and day out.
 
Longtime readers will recall that I took the exact same position in 2008
when it was John McCain versus Barack Obama. Early on, I said that I
preferred Obama over McCain because his Marxist agenda would finally wake up
millions of apathetic Americans. And that's precisely what has happened. In
fact, by scaring the hell out of the American electorate, Obama himself
brought the Tea Party into existence.
 
Unfortunately, the Tea Party has not kept the heat on either Obama or
Congress. But if Barack Obama is reelected, maybe Tea Partiers will be
jolted into rising up in earnest – 365 days a year – and get really serious
about taking back America.
 
While Dick Morris says that "Ron Paul is just an absolute nightmare," I say
he would be the perfect person to lead the charge against Obama's march
toward Marxism.
 
Could it be that it's Dick Morris who is the crazy uncle?
 
Reprinted from Robert Ringer's website.
 
January 3, 2012
 
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