NPR Hatchet Job on Ron Paul Today, Respond

great points below about not supporting them with tax dollars as they definitely are biased.

Ron Paul is a dedicated constitutionalist. Beck is an unprincipled entertainer who will say whatever he feels like saying at the time whether it fits with his principles or not. They should not be equated.

in Texas

http://www.parcbench.com/2010/02/16/conservative-tim-graney-...

Conservative Tim Graney Challenges 20-Year Incumbent Congressman Ron Paul in Texas District 14
Written by Daria DiGiovannicloseAuthor: dariaanne Name: Daria DiGiovanni
Email: daria_anne67@yahoo.com
Site: http://www.watersignsnovel.com

As Parcbench readers know, I’ve recently spent a great deal of time discussing the foreign policy folly of Congressman Ron Paul and his enthusiastic supporters. With the Tea Party Movement in full swing during this critical mid-term election year, it is absolutely essential to remain vigilant about extremists on both sides – especially if they are seeking higher office. But it’s not enough to simply call out the 20-year incumbent congressman on his dangerous isolationism and blame-America-first tendencies, particularly when there is an excellent primary challenger in Texas CD-14, “flying low under the radar” in a bid to unseat him.

After “meeting” Tim Graney on Facebook and interviewing him over the phone, I am pleased to report that if residents of Texas CD-14 are seeking an alternative to Paul – and a congressman who will actually listen to their concerns and represent them in Washington, D.C., Tim Graney is their man.

What prompted you to take on a 20-year incumbent in a primary race?

Simply put, I love our great country and I do not like the direction it is heading in. I am not a career politician; I am a “geek” with a B.S. in Computer Science who ran my own tech development and consulting company for years. My decision to run for congress has been simmering for a while. About four years ago, I got involved in local politics in Katy, Texas, where my only choices were county or school board. I got involved in the latter, as I have always been proud of the fact that Katy is well-known for its excellent school system.

But although Katy and the entire state of Texas are doing pretty well, I am alarmed by what is going on nationally. There are some very serious issues facing our country, and I believe being a congressional representative is a 24/7 job, just as being a small business owner is a 24/7 job. My district deserves a congressman who will spend his time listening to their concerns, and representing them in Washington – not gallivanting around the country making speeches and promoting his own agenda.

Let’s talk about Congressman Paul for minute. What differentiates you from him?

There are two major areas where Congressman Paul and I are diametrically opposed – his foreign policy and his ultra-libertarian views. Post 9/11, Ron Paul had to be pressured by members of his staff to support the invasion of Afghanistan – a country harboring terrorists. Going in there was the right thing to do for the sake of American security, but our representative had to be dragged into it. Unlike Paul, I support a robust foreign policy and a strong military to back it up. I also support a military presence around the world, as we’ve had in places like Germany. This is crucial in Afghanistan and Iraq, another effort I supported, based on the evidence we had at the time. If you recall, even Colin Powell was fully confident about taking out Saddam Hussein. Powell may have made the wrong choice for President, but I still respect his leadership and foreign affairs knowledge from his years as a military leader.

And to ensure these nations never again harbor Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, we need a military presence for years to come. From a moral standpoint,

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What a hack job; trying to tie warmongering clown Glenn Beck with non-interventionist Ron Paul. While Glenn Beck has spent his life as a shock jock clown in the most vulgar manner, Dr. Ron Paul has spent his life as an upstanding Medical Doctor and uncompromising (unbuyable) congressman.

It is painfully obvious that Glenn Beck's job is to neutralize the anger people feel. Pay attention to how he starts by pointing things out and seeming to be outraged and then saying that in reality it is no big deal.

People, in reality there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans, both parties have the same policies. Both are big government warmongers who are paid by the bankers to keep up their profits.

Both support wars, the private for profit Federal Reserve, most everyone in Treasury and the Fed comes from Goldman Sacks and JP Morgan regardless of who is in power.

To compare rational Dr. Paul with that raving lunatic clown Glenn Beck is to have no sense of reality at all. Glenn Beck is all talk, tears and hyperbole, and Dr. Paul is rational discourse.

NPR, please stop using our tax money to keep Americans chasing their tails on this false Dems vs Reps idea. In reality it is America vs the Establishment in both parties.

Ron knows this cause needs progressives/liberals (we're hearing it in every interview today) who are interested in issues, and NPR attracts them by the bucketloads. This long interview did nothing to note the libertarian positions against the warfare state and encroachments upon civil liberties. It did everything to create small government beliefs with quackery.

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and two other republicans should only be allowed to talk with Obama.

The three would not give up the store. Good for her to recognize the Dr.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35747

made my own post about this. Could not believe it when I heard what ridiculous fools they were revealing themselves to be. Everything they said was slanted and rife with un-truths.

begins with the presumption that Obama-style statism is the proper default view, and anything that deviates from that is weird, uneducated, distasteful, and ill-intended.

No matter that Obama-think includes unlimited war, unlimited debt and plunder, unlimited state power. To even suspect that liberal ideas may be wrong is so beyond Gross' comprehension, dissenting ideas are simply disregarded, never researched or heard.

Just get someone to rephrase Terry's own views and reassure her that of course she has all truth on her side.

David Weigel is bad news, basically an NWO op pretending to be a libertarian.

Betty McCollum(D-6MN)

I notice they have people come on and talk who are CFR members and they get announced and introduced as such trying to lend legitimacy to this treasonous think tank.

It is a repulsive propaganda radio station.

I commented.

I thought he was a good enough guy, he identified himself as a former writer for reason magazine.
he seemed to be familiar with our issues, too.

well, I learned my lesson for sure.
It seems like he went into CPAC and just got more ammunition for the establishment's culture wars.

At least Ron Paul got some airtime on NPR...

Better than being ignored?....

Promote ideas. The advantage is those who either love or hate a personality will not get caught in emotion and are better able to see the ideas for what they are.

When the ideas of liberty are common and held virtuous, the political images won't matter.

Steady as she goes..Let's see & digest,what we eat.

non-starter for honest progressives who might begin considering a Liberty candidate who is strongly anti-intervention and pro-civil liberties. None of them, once educated, have much interest in defending something like the Federal Reserve. The tactic, as Weigel does, is to paint RP as someone who wants to bring America back to around "1912" as he says in the interview.

I believe this was Weigel's inside game, and it makes it more frightening that he knows better. I know many people who voted for Obummer who are now scratching their heads and asking 'what about these Paulies? They want to close military bases? Cool." The single social issue liberals you can forget.

They are trying to mash us in with the tea-o-cons, and thus complete the takeover of the brand. This will wind up alienating both the honest progressives and the independents that we need, IMHO.

....himself is laughable. Since Paul won it indicates a rift in the party? How? Why? When Romney won (by paying people to vote for him) it was hailed as divine decree. What a sicko Paul is for wanting to close down any of the 700 military bases in the 140 countries around the planet, according to this author.

What is so frightening about this article is that this individual is actually getting paid for his opinion.