DA 07: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Robert Ernest "Ron" Paul

This is thread 07 in the Devil's Advocate line of threads.

In these threads, all posters have to take exactly the opposite stance to the ones they usually take. Thus, for example, I will defend Shariah law and defend the legal "rights" of Muslims to take four wives if they want. And I'll do it sincerely, not satirically.



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In this DA thread, we discuss Ron Paul. His supporters claim that he is the best hope America has today to get out of the mess many people, irrespective of political affiliation, say she is in. Some of his policies, however, are very bitterly criticised by his opponents on both sides of the political spectrum.

Whatever your opinion of him is, in this thread, you have to argue for a logically coherent opposite. I know, it seems completely impossible that anything that is in opposition to your opinion can conceivably be logically coherent. But we are here to gain insight into how the other side thinks we think, so give it your best shot.

To be fair to the good doctor, let's begin this, too with a nice little picture:

Most people just want to be left alone. The writers of the U.S. Constitution understood this and it is best that we go back to this way of behaving both in relation of the government to its people and of the government to other nations in the world. People are capable of managing their own lives to a large extent and it would release the creative and independent spirit of the people and lead to a more comfortable and just society if we went back to that wise governing principle.

ron paul is right about the dollar being superficial, the basis of oil for dollar is a weak and unstable one.

Ron Paul could make a decent prez. His most insane ideas would never make it past congress, so we're left with pacifism and decreased spending, both would would be beneficial.

Ron Paul holds all the traditional American values and thus would be the best president ever!

Ron Paul will once again, for the first time since the 1800s, allow the almost magical powers of the market to work uninterupted.

This is a FREE country, let the FREE market decide!

Bring back the gold standard! We'd have no problems carting around the gold needed to make it work! Never mind that the amount of gold in the world is a lot less than the currency in circulation, we don't care!