Video: Those Bernanke comments make Rick Perry sound like a crank, says … Ron Paul
posted at 10:02 pm on August 17, 2011 by Allahpundit
Via Politico, the key bit’s at 4:00. Can we now safely agree that Perry went too far? When Ron Paul is taking shots at you for being fringe-y, you’ve crossed a line that no man should cross.
Except maybe in libertarian Waterworld.
“Now they have this other governor, I can’t remember his name,” Paul joked. “He realizes that talking about the Fed is good, too. But I’ll tell you what, he makes me sound like a moderate. I have never once said Bernanke has committed treason. But I have suggested very strongly that the Federal Reserve system and all the members have been counterfeiters for a long time.”
Old theory: Ron Paul’s too radical to win New Hampshire. New theory: Ron Paul — the great centrist hope?
Incidentally, and apropos of nothing, I’ve been thinking about libertarian Waterworld all day. Specifically, which country’s going to be the first to invade and annex it? Presumably it’ll be located off the coast of the United States, so far-flung foreign powers would have a hard time of it. What about Venezuela, or maybe Cuba? That’d be a fun project for the Castro boys. A last hurrah, if you will.
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Paul is the senile old Grandpa of the GOP.
Love Gramps on auditing the Looters in the Fed but anything else?…..koo koo for cocoa puffs.
PappyD61 on August 18, 2011 at 6:39 AM
The only people who attack Ron Paul are either Jewish conservatives, or social conservatives who support Israel because the Book of Revelations tells them to – Ned Flanders is not just a cartoon character in case you didn’t know – it’s a caricature of real people. That’s why none of them are actual right-wingers and they can be dismissed as single-issue hacks. No small government right-winger would constantly attack the most small government right-wing fiscal candidate especially at a time when America is facing it’s most severe big government fiscal moment of truth – just because said candidate doesn’t wave the US and/or Israeli flag as is required by GOP college campus rules.
That’s it. That is their absolutist college campus litmus test. Ron Paul runs afoul there, so supposed conservatives take the most right-wing candidate since Goldwater and throw him under the bus.
This is like leftists who, if you don’t support Obama and the progressive Palestinian cause slur you as racist and an Israeli stooge. Both neocons and progressives view the world like college campus activists. The left cries out Racist!!!, the neocons and social cons cry out anti-Semite!!! This thread is a good example. Godwin’s law on display, too, proving once again that if you don’t have a good argument, at least you can call someone, somewhere a Nazi.
keep the change on August 18, 2011 at 7:09 AM
Ron Paul the kook who didn’t win the Iowa straw poll.
tarpon on August 18, 2011 at 7:17 AM
If Palin runs as an anti-establishment reform candidate — which neither Perry nor Romney are — she still has a huge opening for her to get into this race. Prophet Rick hasn’t swallowed up all the oxygen. Not even close. Dream on.
ddrintn on August 18, 2011 at 7:42 AM
I’m thinking I’m amused at the thinking that Perry has a prayer without the support of those exploded heads.
ddrintn on August 18, 2011 at 7:46 AM
It’s amazing how many conservatives distrust our government when it comes to our economy, civil liberties, etc. . . yet throw 100% into what they say about our military says.
Hook. Line. Sinker.
Notorious GOP on August 18, 2011 at 8:05 AM
Why is it exactly wrong or even a big deal to say Bernanke shouldn’t be printing money. We say the same thing about Obama and Geithner.
This selective outrage is so bizarre.
jeffn21 on August 18, 2011 at 8:41 AM
Interesting.
MadisonConservative on August 18, 2011 at 9:07 AM
First of all, you’re talking about one person, Obama, being characterized as “criticized because he’s black”. RP supporters tend to list off Bernanke, Greenspan, Friedman, Kristol, Krauthammer, Podhoretz…they list off so many “neocons”.
MadisonConservative on August 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM
The MSM loves to play lots of Ron Paul’s clips, show him to be a fool, and then report that he’s a Republican fool, thereby implying that all Republicans are fools.
Now that his son Rand Paul is a Senator, the MSM will try to portray Rand as a fool as well, and hopefully Rand can become his own man and distance himself from his father.
Steve Z on August 18, 2011 at 9:39 AM
The only people who attack Ron Paul are either Jewish conservatives…
keep the change on August 18, 2011 at 7:09 AM
Interesting.
MadisonConservative on August 18, 2011 at 9:07 AM
Now don’t y’all go off an’ accuse those sweet li’l Ron Paul supporters of being Jew-haters.
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annoyinglittletwerp on August 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Yes, Bernanke shouldn’t be printing so much money. (Spot Gold just hit $1826 this morning!) But when you say the same thing about Obama and Geithner, it shows you don’t know what you’re talking about (one of the tell-tale symptoms of being a Ron Paul supporter).
Only the Fed prints money. The Treasury Department doesn’t print money (although they did briefly in the 1960s, in limited amounts) and the Executive Branch doesn’t print money. The Treasury borrows money.
Take out a paper $10 bill (if you have one) and look at it. It says “Federal Reserve Note” across the top. It also has the great seal of the Federal Reserve System on the left. Yes, the Treasury Secretary’s signature is on the lower right, but he only signs them. He doesn’t print them. Yes, the US Treasury seal is on the right, but that’s just for show. The bill does not say United States Note–it says Federal Reserve Note.
Emperor Norton on August 18, 2011 at 10:58 AM
The Fed doesn’t physically ‘print’ any money, the Treasury prints all Notes following Fed Policy.
The Federal Reserve System then distributes these notes through the system.
jp on August 18, 2011 at 11:54 AM
You are one of the biggest “Ron Paul is an anti-Semite nazi” bomb throwers on hotair. You just demonstrated it again. This is the litmus test I spoke of. And those who do that are either Jewish conservatives, or evangelicals. And I know you are not an evangelical.
keep the change on August 18, 2011 at 1:44 PM
Look at it this way: the Fed expands its balance sheet and that’s the way it creates, or “prints” money. The printing of money by the Fed is almost all in digital form. There are relatively few paper dollars printed.
Those paper dollars say Federal Reserve Notes on them, and I don’t care if they subcontract the work to the US Treasury or to Vito’s Xpress Money Printing Company of Union, New Jersey, it’s the Fed that creates money. The Treasury hasn’t created money by printing it since the 1960s, although coins are still minted.
Emperor Norton on August 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM
I would take Ron Paul’s attack more seriously if he were not also a candidate for President. This is standard political fluff.
RickCaird on August 18, 2011 at 7:50 PM
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