Eliana Johnson
Ron Paul recants, sort of
Former Texas representative Ron Paul is qualifying his contention that the murder of former Navy SEAL and ace sniper Chris Kyle demonstrates that “He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.”
Paul has taken to both Twitter and Facebook to respond to the outrage elicited by his commentary. “As a veteran, I certainly recognize that this weekend’s violence and killing of Chris Kyle were a tragic and sad event,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “My condolences and prayers go out to Mr. Kyle’s family. Unconstitutional and unnecessary wars have endless unintended consequences. A policy of non-violence, as Christ preached, would have prevented this and similar tragedies.”
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As his initial (and immediate follow-up) tweets rendered painfully clear: Ron Paul is the Westboro Baptist Church of modern-day American politics — an evil, raisiny little homunculus of a man, perpetually stuttering and spluttering ineffectually at the sidelines of any actual, demonstrable electoral relevance.
His frantic backpedaling, now, in a futile attempt at damage control, means precisely bupkis.
That is all.
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 10:34 AM
It won’t mean much to the brainless Zionist-wannabe bumpkins, but good for him anyway. Asking why the **** are we treating PTSD by putting a firearm in someone’s hand is a legitimate question…but he asked it at the worst time possible.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Ron Paul can go right straight to heII.
SWalker on February 5, 2013 at 10:37 AM
Oh, you poor dear.
Show us. Show us on the doll where the mean, evil, nastybad joooooooooooo persons touched you.
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 10:39 AM
We can all wish and hope for non-violent world according to Christ. However not everyone believes in Christ, so good luck with that Ron Paul.
BigGator5 on February 5, 2013 at 10:39 AM
Ron Paul: Blame America first! Blame Chris Kyle first!
Say this for him, he’s consistent.
Resist We Much on February 5, 2013 at 10:40 AM
Possibly. Dumb thing to say.
But at least he didn’t say he’d vote for Mitt and still call himself a Conservative.
Notorious GOP on February 5, 2013 at 10:41 AM
Why, you want company?
How surprising – another sniveling puppet who thinks pedophilic comments are the best way to make an argument.
Hey b!tch, how about I show you where the liberals have been kicking you for the last several years? Don’t worry, for all that, they never seem to actually get around to defunding Israel.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 10:42 AM
http://twitchy.com/2013/02/04/ghoulish-ron-paul-doubles-down-on-chris-kyle-invokes-jesus/
Pork-Chop on February 5, 2013 at 10:42 AM
That, too, is deplorable, granted.
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 10:43 AM
And you’d better believe that sticks in the craws of the lying Mittbots.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Pacifists don’t belong in positions of power to defend a nation. Appeasement only allows you to be a victim.
The fact Ron Paul would take his views all the way down to this level, basically gloating over the death of a man who was trying to help a victim of war shows what he would have done to promote American Exceptionalism. Which is absolutely nothing.
Kyle wasn’t sitting on the sidelines bitching and moaning about what “should have” and “could have” been.
He was facing the reality of what is happening and was doing something to benefit another human.
Meanwhile nutjob Ron Paul is living in lala-land preaching to us what we “should have” and “could have” done, dismissing reality for his unicorn land of peace, love and everyone singing Kumbaya around the campfire.
The man is a lunatic.
ButterflyDragon on February 5, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Lack of anything even remotely resembling an intellectually defensible (or even borderline coherent, really) answer: noted.
Wipe your chin, and give it another go: you just happened to drag Da Jooooooooooos into a story where no one else had mentioned them prior to this, because…?
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 10:47 AM
If this statement had been made in the absence of the other statement, it wouldn’t have been awful. As it is, it is. I know a number of Seals and their families. These tragic events are all too common of late and it is very rough on them. They don’t need asshat blowhards like Ron Paul making things worse. These people sacrifice a lot to keep us safe. They should be recognized for such.
besser tot als rot on February 5, 2013 at 10:47 AM
FU RP. Stop trying to make a political point out of this guy’s untimely death. WWII was both constitutional and necessary and my father and his buddies all came back with PTSD. A policy of non-violence and we would all be speaking German. Look on the bright side, one tragedy has already been averted: You never came close to being president.
Odysseus on February 5, 2013 at 10:47 AM
If this statement had been made in the absence of the other statement, it wouldn’t have been awful. As it is, it is. I know a number of Seals and their families. These tragic events are all too common of late and it is very rough on them. They don’t need blowhards like Ron Paul making things worse. These people sacrifice a lot to keep us safe. They should be recognized for such.
besser tot als rot on February 5, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Thank you for accurately describing your original post. Because there is nothing defensible or intellectual about it. Seriously, where the hell did you get the idea that that kind of stuff is funny or wins you an argument?
*gasp!* I mention the jews on a Ron Paul thread? Oh THE HORROR.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Pacifists don’t belong in positions of power to defend a nation. Appeasement only allows you to be a victim.
The fact Ron Paul would take his views all the way down to this level, basically gloating over the death of a man who was trying to help a victim of war shows what he would have done to promote American Exceptionalism. Which is absolutely nothing.
Kyle wasn’t sitting on the sidelines moaning about what “should have” and “could have” been.
He was facing the reality of what is happening and was doing something to benefit another human.
Meanwhile nutjob Ron Paul is living in lala-land preaching to us what we “should have” and “could have” done, dismissing reality for his unicorn land of peace, love and everyone singing Kumbaya around the campfire.
The man is a lunatic.
ButterflyDragon on February 5, 2013 at 10:50 AM
Ron Paul reminds me of Os old pastor. Whats his name? Rev. Wright, is it? Both love to blame America. Psychos, both of them.
tommy71 on February 5, 2013 at 10:52 AM
So… no verbally explicable reason, then? Just a brief, unlovely online attack of Tourette’s, then? [::nods::] Gotcha. My sincere pity, obviously.
Unintentional irony this thick and nougat-y, traditionally, winds up being designated as “nougat” by the FDA.
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 10:53 AM
As evidenced on this very thread: Like Cult Messiah, Like Follower(s).
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Here’s reality for the person who lives in the land of butterflies and dragons: it is both physically and financially impossible to continue our foreign policy of “occupy everywhere” for which Obama deserves a substantial amount of the blame.
No amount of insults or hysteria will make an unpayable national debt go away, or turn the 50% of the population that are Democrat-voting minorities into productive citizens.
So either we have an orderly withdrawal before the fit hits the shan or we have dozens of Vietnam-style emergency evacuations when we go over the fiscal cliff. Pick one.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 10:56 AM
I disagree with Ron Paul on a lot, but on a lot less than I disagree with statist Mitt Romney. And I’m hoping Rand is the 2016 nominee, but this crap is totally unacceptable. And he’s harming Rand with this garbage. He needs to go away.
besser tot als rot on February 5, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Co-signed. And co-signed again.
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM
I’m glad that Ron Paul finally outed himself as the evil troll that he is.
And by refusing to offer even the mildest condemnation of his father’s hateful words, Rand outed himself as a coward.
Hollowpoint on February 5, 2013 at 10:59 AM
I’m sorry but in a way Ron Paul is right, at least with regards to the “Live by the sword, Die by the sword” comment. When one deals in weapons, death and is/was part of the tip of America’s sword the chances of you dying via weapons is far greater when compared to girly men who just sit behind some desk. Now as an Iraq veteran myself, I don’t agree with the issue RP brought up regarding going to a shooting range to help deal with PTSD. But in the end, warriors have a far greater chance of dying at the hands of a “sword” compared to many of you chicken-hawks.
MoreLiberty on February 5, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Well that at least we can agree on. I mean it’s not like he can do anything to please the cousin-kissing residents of Hicksabama like Kent18, but an Akin-like “foot in the mouth” moment is not going to help his son AT ALL.
He should’ve just passed the mantle quietly and retired. Seriously, he’s done all that he can do by now, he’s old and frail.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 11:01 AM
Nonsense.
Our military and defense of American’s interests are mandated by our Constitution. What we can’t afford is a welfare nation.
Perhaps you should take a gander at what is driving our debt. And it’s NOT the military.
ButterflyDragon on February 5, 2013 at 11:01 AM
Said the anonymous wingnut on a right-wing site. Oh aren’t YOU just brave by comparison.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 11:02 AM
“defense of American’s interests” does not and CANNOT include babysitting a quarter of the world and occupying another quarter of it. (if those figures are horribly inaccurate please correct)
I am not attempting to debate the causes of our national debt, nor blame the military for it. I am saying that – regardless of the causes – we ARE going to go over a fiscal cliff and that WILL be the end of us playing Mr.Rodgers in a helmet no matter how much the right doesn’t want to believe it.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 11:05 AM
Defense of our “interest”? No it’s defense of our country. Like the liberals use the commerce clause to justify anything and everything, many of you big government “conservatives” use the “defense of our national interests” to justify redistribution of wealth via foreign and military aid, not to mention endless conflicts. Conflicts which cause a good man to suffer from PTSD and eventually and wrongfully murder a hero.
MoreLiberty on February 5, 2013 at 11:05 AM
This ONE statement by Paul is reason enough for me
to not take he, OR his supporters seriously..not that I ever did.
ToddPA on February 5, 2013 at 11:07 AM
…??? What does this haphazard attempt at a word salad even mean, for pity’s sake? It’s like listening to a child burbling in whatever made-up, sing-song gibberish twins per-adolescent typically cobble up in order to amuse themselves.
Seriously: you’re not ESL by any chance, are you…?
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 11:07 AM
* “per-adolescent twins”
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 11:08 AM
* “PRE-adolescent twins” (Cripes, it must be contagious…!);)
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 11:09 AM
@Melon Collie: I grew up in a stressful home surrounded by a fair amount of crippling illness and anxiety, and I can tell you that the firing range was one of the most soothing childhood environments I remember. In any case, it defies common sense to think that someone with Kyle’s unique experience around guns and stressed-out people would naively risk his own and a neighbor’s life in some therapeutic experiment.
Seth Halpern on February 5, 2013 at 11:09 AM
No but thank you for outing yourself as a racist in addition to a stupid wingnut.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 11:09 AM
Who both volunteered their service.
ButterflyDragon on February 5, 2013 at 11:10 AM
That I could easily believe. It would probably be a great stress reliever to shoot paper targets with photographs of the wretched trolls on this site. I used to blow some steam by turning on infinite ammo in my flight simulator and be the frikking Red Baron reincarnated.
Yeah that’s what I’m trying to get. It’s like a man who’s worked with dynamite all his life give his angry friend therapy by taking him “redneck fishing”…and his friend suddenly refusing to throw the sizzling stick of TNT overboard. What the HELL, man, you are not a therapist and there isn’t even a third party around in case something goes south…
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 11:13 AM
Indecent excrement
Schadenfreude on February 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM
Ah, the ever-present, always reliable Racism Card — the Pavlovian playing of which never fails to instantly and irrevocably out the unapologetic libtard in any given assembly, regardless of circumstance!
How… absolutely expected. (… and more than a little bit disingenuous, certainly, coming from Mr. “EEEEK! Der Juden — !!!” *snort*)
Dismissed, tot.
Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM
So? What’s your point? Oh I see, since they volunteered to actually server their country, or at least what they thought was serving their country, the government is not culpable for the end result. You government lovers are something else.
MoreLiberty on February 5, 2013 at 11:16 AM
Rand should tell Pappy to STFU, and fade into the background. As long as pappy keeps spouting garbage like this, this will affect the son. Not fair, but thats how it is.
tommy71 on February 5, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Crawl back under your rock, schwien.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Funny… sounds like
everythe only argument I ever hear from people who oppose cutting off funding to Israel.Funny that…
JohnGalt23 on February 5, 2013 at 11:20 AM
… and I’m certain that must have sounded infinitely more devastating and grownup in your head, while being composed in the original jackboot.
Again: bored now. Dismissed.
Have the last hissy, if you
needlike.Kent18 on February 5, 2013 at 11:21 AM
Fun thread!
Bishop on February 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Have you discovered who is really responsible for 9/11 yet, or have the Zionist Illuminati / Bilderberg alliance thwarted you with their chemtrails and HAARP mind-control rays?
Hollowpoint on February 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM
You implied a good man was ruined by the government forcing him into a situation that allowed him to become victim of PTSD. I’m reminding you that no one was forced to join the military. They do so knowing they may become victims of war.
Pacifists are delusional. It’s naive child-like thinking.
ButterflyDragon on February 5, 2013 at 11:23 AM
It would be funnier if Kent18 the pedophiliac troll didn’t represent a good portion of conservatives. Liberals can easily beat him at the game of “pretend I’m brilliant”, which he’s tried to play here, nevermind looking more educated.
MelonCollie on February 5, 2013 at 11:24 AM
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