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For Ron Paul, The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same - Great 1988 Interview

Submitted by Michael Nystrom on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 16:11
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Thank you Mark for this great, refreshing video from Dr. Paul's 1988 campaign. Amazing! No one can ever accuse Dr. Paul of being a flip-flopper! This is the same, steady, rock solid message that he's talking about today:

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time dont change him much

Submitted by coopkabob on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 19:40.

wow that was awesome! his message hardly changed at all, any changes he did make were for the better .funny how he said we were wasting 238 billion dollars a year then. when now its over a trillion. guess he was right on about inflation.we blow almost 238 billion each quarter now.

Yeah, I think that's the one difference I've seen, yet.

Submitted by Will on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 19:02.

Ron Paul does not support the death penalty, now.

I think he was answering the question, "As President, In one sentence, would you support:

The Death Penalty: RP "I would support the death penalty."

He didn't say, "I support the death penalty." This is 1988, and a younger, less wise Ron Paul. Pulling wordplay. He either is extremely good at the twisting now (which is fooling me, because I love him), or he said to hell with wordplay. Or maybe he just had an experience or an epiphany which made him change his stance.

It would be nice to know the impetus for the change.

"Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude." Frederick Douglass

—

"You guys are disgusting doing what you are doing. Where is your patriotism? How are you supposed to support troops when they are home? Do you want to make them hug their families, now?"

Neocon F. Dweeb

Death Penalty

Submitted by Michael Nystrom on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 20:32.

That was the one thing that really struck me also when I was listening to the interview - about the death penalty. I guess that is just wisdom that accumulates through the years. I'd love to know if there was a single event that changed his mind as well.

Interesting to me that he

Submitted by granny miller on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 18:10.

Interesting to me that he states in the interview that he supports the death penalty.

20 years later he has changed his mind and is opposed to the death penalty.

I would love to know why.

One reason might be the

Submitted by sarcasmo on Thu, 07/19/2007 - 07:31.

One reason might be the "evolving" medical perversion of the death penalty (which the Founders would probably call "cruel and unusual" in the cases where someone's paralysed without anesthesia properly taking effect) along with various continually-botched state attempts at doing the same thing they put Dr. Jack Kevorkian in jail for doing effectively, combined with cost arguments which tear at even me. I support death the old-fashioned and cheap way, and I'd re-use a rope. Over and over. I'd even make the rope hemp; for historical accuracy, to satisfy the hippie contingent, and to upset the hysterical drug warriors. Killing people is one of the only things the government has historically been good-at, and these days the government's so big they can't even do THAT right, so even as a pro-death person in cases like Ted Bundy, I can understand and respect the position of anti-death people.
JMR

Hanging

Submitted by Mesogen on Thu, 07/19/2007 - 07:53.

It's better than the electric chair. Now that was cruel and unusual.
The best way is still hanging. When done right, it's clean and very quick. Death comes in an instant.

But, I'll bet that RP turned against the death penalty because he saw so many cases of innocent people being railroaded and then put to death.

Yeah, the Innocence

Submitted by sarcasmo on Thu, 07/19/2007 - 07:57.

Yeah, the Innocence Project's use of DNA in old cases has raised new questions even among death penalty supporters like me. It's just hard to be against the death penalty when something like the Jessica Lunsford case happens (even though I blame that guy being-out on the drugwar, a perspective the news media has studiously-ignored). But like abortion, it's a very emotional issue, and people are unlikely to change their minds.
JMR

Fantastic

Submitted by zenpiper on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 17:56.

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This was Ron Paul on fire! He was at the top of his game in this interview and had the facts to support his positions.

OK, so he's 18 years older now, but wiser, more canny and savvy.

Tops.