Paranoid Person: The North American Union is going to take us over!
Average American: He must be Ron Paul Crazy.
Average American: He must be Ron Paul Crazy.
by Blarg!!!!! December 1, 2007
A time when sombody is trying to make a point with a historical reference and dosn't know anything about that historical event.
Prime example of Ron Paul Moment:
Ron Paul Fan: DUDE! the civil war didn't need to be fought, we could have just bought all the slaves!
Educated Person: Sorry, the civil war wasn't started over slavery, it was about states rights. Furthermore, it was the south that fired the first shot. fuck you.
Ron Paul Fan: DUDE! the civil war didn't need to be fought, we could have just bought all the slaves!
Educated Person: Sorry, the civil war wasn't started over slavery, it was about states rights. Furthermore, it was the south that fired the first shot. fuck you.
by Gochin May 16, 2008
A Republican Congressman from Texas. Notable for his Austrian economic views and isolationist foreign policy. Less publically noted, but just as common in his speeches, is his "strict Constitutinalism". If the Constitution doesn't explicitly say the federal government can do something, the federal government can't do it unless Constitutionally amended.
Pros-Charismatic, admittedly principled. During his career as a Congressman Paul has scantly ever changed his position on most issues. Holds the distinction of having been the lone dissident on more votes in the US Congress than virtually all other sitting Congressman combined.
Cons-The term radical puts it softly. Paul wants to abolish, among other federal programs, the IRS, all federal departments except the Department of Justice, Defence, Commerce, and State, the Federal Reserve, and fiat currency. He opposes all federal drug laws, all business regulation except common Criminal Code offences, all foreign aid, most if not all social assistance, and all anti-discrimination legislation. He supports pulling out all American bases around the world, and opposes US participation in NATO, the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, and the United Nations. Would not have intervened in virtually every American war, including World War II and the American Civil War.
Also has a more than slighly suspect history of printing obscenely racist and homophobic articles.
There is also a significant conspiracy minded mentality amongst his supporters.
Pros-Charismatic, admittedly principled. During his career as a Congressman Paul has scantly ever changed his position on most issues. Holds the distinction of having been the lone dissident on more votes in the US Congress than virtually all other sitting Congressman combined.
Cons-The term radical puts it softly. Paul wants to abolish, among other federal programs, the IRS, all federal departments except the Department of Justice, Defence, Commerce, and State, the Federal Reserve, and fiat currency. He opposes all federal drug laws, all business regulation except common Criminal Code offences, all foreign aid, most if not all social assistance, and all anti-discrimination legislation. He supports pulling out all American bases around the world, and opposes US participation in NATO, the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, and the United Nations. Would not have intervened in virtually every American war, including World War II and the American Civil War.
Also has a more than slighly suspect history of printing obscenely racist and homophobic articles.
There is also a significant conspiracy minded mentality amongst his supporters.
Ron Paul is a principled but radical Republican Congressman.
by ThomasvonPaul October 9, 2012