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Fox’s The Five Slams Ron Paul Over FEMA Position (And Seemingly Everything Else)

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The Five‘s Dana Perino promised today that they were going to “fix” the problem most often cited by Ron Paul and his supporters; that he was being ignored by the media. However, while the show did dedicate an entire segment to the Congressman, it’s probably not the kind of media coverage he or his fans intended as the tenure of the piece was resoundingly negative from all each of the titular five hosts.

Using Paul’s anti-FEMA quotes from this past weekend as a starting point, the panel discussed a number of his policies, finding little positive to say about any of them. Bob Beckel claimed it would be better to “do away Ron Paul” than FEMA. Eric Bolling reputed Paul’s support of a return to a gold standard and called his foreign policy views “extreme” and ones that “fell apart” when inspected. Kimberly Guilfoyle said flatly that she didn’t think he could win the nomination.

The only comments that came close to positive were some backhanded compliments from Perino and fellow-libertarian Greg Gutfeld. Perino said “at least” Paul had the courage of his convictions while Gutfeld admitted he agreed with most of what the candidate said but that, when he looked at him, he just wasn’t his “guy.”

Huh. Maybe Paul would be better off if some in the media kept forgetting he existed.

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  • insideguy

     Thats it FOX marginalize him, then go in for the kill. You don’t want this guy mucking up your elections. See big government is bad unless Ron paul is talking about getting rid of it.

  • qwerty

    pure conservative ideas have no merit…even the conservatives don’t want them enacted

  • Anonymous

    And the FOXnews republican primary intensifies.

  • Sharpo

    so conservatives are now RINOS?

  • Anonymous

    Paul should be fine. After all, he has the support of all of the Tea Party, the very philosophy of which hes’ the foun……..oh…wait….nevermind.

  • Anonymous

    Liberalism: Ideas so good they have to be mandatory.

    (h/t Wilkow)

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    You have to have a Neocon bent to you, in order to garner the support of Fox News.

  • Anonymous

    I think the thing is that there’s one thing virtually everybody can agree on: Ron Paul is kinda crazy on a couple of things. Everybody won’t agree on what those things are, but the basic principle seems to be a unifying one.

  • Anonymous

    Not an honest headline. 4 out of the 5 said they basically agree with what Paul said about FEMA. Some of them aren’t fans of his, but they basically agreed.

    Did I watch the right clip?

    Or is this just another example of the Presstitutes at work?

  • Valkyrie101

    Fox is making a concerted effort now to weed down the GOP field and they would love it if Paul went away. They would also like to see Michelle Bachman gone too, but good luck with getting rid of either.

  • Anonymous

    Pure conservatives don’t want to abolish FEMA, regardless of what the Leftstream media tells you to say.  The IRS maybe, but not FEMA.

  • ElJeffyBovido

    Hey gNOpig clowns,

    How do you like your gNOpig media deciding who is better to serve you?

    Would you like more Perry with your Donald? I am sure you will love it.

  • ElJeffyBovido

    Pass the pop corn!

  • Anonymous

    Seemed to me they said he makes some valid points but is too extreme. That doesn’t sound like basically agreeing to me.

    Does anybody really expect a candidate we agree with on everything. The government is supposed to be about checks and balances. Paul continues to make some pretty valid points although I don’t agree with him on everything either. I’d support Paul long before Perry, Bachman or Santorum.

  • Anonymous

    They wold like to abolish the EPA as well so they may polute. Repectng our enviroment cost money sometimes.

  • Anonymous

    SockPuppet Alert!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Perino is just a Bushie. A little girl  trying to play in the big boy world or RINO”s.
    Though I don’t agree with Paul on 99% of his dementia the EPA, NEA, FCC, and FEMA are simply slush funds and should be closed down yesterday.

  • Anonymous

    Im a liberal and I would love to see that ticket!

  • i420

    Fox needs to keep the perception that government is big and intrusive. Its their only product.

    Paul finds his way in the White House and begins dismantling or thinning down one agency after another…Fox, quite literally, will have lost its free ride and will have to actually think of something new, and someone new to broadcast to.

  • ElJeffyBovido

    Why are you calling Ron Paul a suck puppet?

  • Anonymous

    Conservative Ideas and laws are not manatory?

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Arrogant, egotistical interventionists will always not like Ron Paul.

    Eric Bolling has done a show hostile to Ron Paul before.

    He had a slew of guests on who’s entire purpose was to slam his positions.

    There was no “fair and balanced”.

    Gold is nearing $2k an ounce of gold – that’s telling us something.

    But of course, these elites think they know better.

    They can shove it.  I won’t watch their shit show anyway.

    The Judge should have been moved to Becks slot.

  • shonangreg

    It is amazing to see Fox News actually providing a public serve here. In the case of the Republican Primary *at this stage*, it actually serves the interests of Fox, the Republican Party, and the nation at large to actually inform the public. They don’t want one of the half-dozen crazies they heretofore promoted actually getting the nomination. With this in mind, for a while now, Fox’s fake journalism is going to be indistinguishable from real journalism.

  • B W

    Because FOX News only wants a Republican in the White House if they can control him/her. Ron Paul is not owned by anyone, because he is hated by everyone, except, ironically, the military.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    By Congressman Ron Paul | Congressional Record, February 23, 1981

    MYTH NO. 1: THERE ISN’T ENOUGH GOLD:

    I find it amazing that economists can make statements like this, for it is an elementary principal of economics that if one raises the price of a commodity, one will always have enough of that commodity. What we saw in the run up of gold prices is in fact the raising of the price of gold to match the depreciation of the dollar that has occurred, and still is occurring.Simply put, there will always be enough gold so long as no one interferes with the free market mechanism.At $700 an ounce the United States government has enough gold reserves to more than cover all the Federal Reserves notes outstanding. If we were to establish a gold standard by the procedure I have outlined in my bill H.R. 7874, then the world would be fully informed of the gold holdings of the United States Government and the price of gold could adjust accordingly, so that when redemption of our greenbacks – our Federal Reserve notes – began, the price would be the market-clearing price. Quite simply, the statement that there is not enough gold is false. It is a scare tactic used by opponents of the gold standard.

    —–
    Ron Paul’s stock portfolio has returned over 600% and he predicted the housing bubble.

    What’s ERIC BOLLING OR BOB BECKEL ever been right about?

  • ElJeffyBovido

    Yes.

    Gold at $2 K is making a lot of Chinese happy.

    Keep on buying gold, suckers!

  • B W

    Which is weird considering they’ve never really been tried. Almost everything about the American economy was okay until the Fed was created and the Gold Standard was eliminated. Then, you started having the endless bubbles-and-bust every couple of decades, or so. We have never tried to secure or seal the border. We’ve never done away with foreign aid or foreign intervention. We’ve never had national tort reform in this country, and we’ve also never gotten rid of interstate healthcare regulations, which prevent market-based competition. We’ve never tried having a national flat tax while replacing all Federal Income taxes. And, correct me if I’m wrong, but we’ve always had a high corporate tax rate. Also, we’ve hardly drilled for oil, even in the more environmentally-safe areas of America.

  • B W

    I want to see the EPA abolished because it’s too large and whatever they do can be done by the States, unlike federal disaster relief, which requires more manpower, etc.

  • B W

    And Michele Bachmann’s not? Barack Obama’s not? Rick Perry’s not? Hillary Clinton’s not?

    Why is it always Paul who’s called “crazy”? At least he speaks from the heart, openly and honestly, doesn’t pander, and has always been consistent.

  • B W

    Dude, FOX News did this four years ago. So did the rest of the media. This is nothing new.

  • B W

    Eric Bolling represents the bombastic talk-radio host, on cable television, instead. He throws bombs worse than Hannity or O’Reilly, and he never takes a challenging debate. That’s why he can’t stand Ron Paul; he can’t control the debate, and therefore, he loses his power. (If he ever had any power in the first place.)

  • ElJeffyBovido

    I have one pound of wheat to sell for scraps of  gold.

    One idiot wants to buy for 1 piece of gold.

    The other idiot offers 2 pieces of gold.

    Oh, my dog!  What should I do!

    Good lord… you medieval gNOpigs break the ruler of stupid.

  • B W

    Not to real Conservatives. I oppose abortion in every way, but I don’t want to force down anyone’s throat. People elect state representatives to state legislators to regulate certain behavior, and if the people don’t like it, they can vote the representatives out. Someone like Rick Santorum doesn’t understand this, and, thus, believes the Feds ought to have the final say on social behavior, instead of the people.

  • B W

    Yeah, you remembered. FOX News and the Neocons hijacked (sorry to use that phrase) the movement and turned it into a laughingstock. Thanks, fools.

  • B W

    Uh, not it’s not. The Chinese love us stupid Americans printing and inflating the living hell out of our dollar, destroying our weak paper currency so they can economically rape us in the near future. End the Fed and bring back the Gold Standard. No more wild rides on Wall St. and no more bubbles that end up popping 20 years into the future.

  • B W

    And that gold at least would have value, which is more than the stupid, inflated, paper currency, which ain’t worth nothin’ no mo’. 

  • Anonymous

    Let’s see if it will fix. They just talk and not act.
    http://www.rsurbano.com.br/calcados/

  • ElJeffyBovido

    Value?

    Where, you moron?

    Where?

    When you go to the market to buy one potato and the seller demands tow pieces of gold.

    Where did your gold go?

  • Sharpo

    yes. gold is like land values. speculative.

  • Anonymous

    Who would like to see the Cuyahoga River on fire again or another Love Canal? Wr Grace in Woburn Massachusetts was found Poluting the water in the area so bad that it leached into the wells of public drinking water. Residents had a very big spike in cancer. How about having some more raw sewerage be emptied into our bays and beach areas? Abolishing the EPA would not only be bad for our health but also because of the impact of polution would also be bad for the economy.

  • B W

    You’re joking, right? It goes into the market! 
    Look, Jeffy, before America created the Fed in the 30′s, money was circulated through the marketplace without any interference from the Government. The currency was never tampered with and the value remained the same. FDR and his type argued this lead to the market crashes and so on, now we have the Government meddling in our monetary policy and they let Wall Street do whatever they want. The Government screws up the currency, then the Fat Cats start short-selling and reap the benefits, and the American middle-class suffers in the end.

  • Anonymous

    So You Don’t like Cental Government? Why don’t we just spilt into 50 smaller countries? Slavery was a states rights issue in it’s time. Those people who lived in the slave states though the same way about states rights had the same argument.

  • B W

    You apparently didn’t read what I wrote: 

    “We don’t live in a “Democracy”, where the majority of people can enact slavery if they support it. We live in a Representative Republic, where politicians represent us, and if they don’t adhere to our concerns, we vote them out.”

    I do believe in Central Government, but I want most social issues and economic issues to remain at the State level. The Feds ought to be worrying about American currency, foreign policy issues, national aid, etc.

  • B W

    There has never been an environmental disaster that the EPA prevented. We always hear that if we didn’t have the EPA, people would die from poison and pollutants and such, yet, environmental disasters happen all the time, and the clean-up always takes long and becomes mismanaged when the Feds handle it, instead of the States, where it is always handled more efficiently. 

  • Anonymous

    Different rights in different states?To be considered married in one state and not another is kinda dumb thing.Don’t you think? Marijuana possestion in Texas could be jail time . It would be like getting a parking ticket in Ann Harbour. How is that fair? Lets have some
    consistency

  • ElJeffyBovido

    Whoa!

    You missed the point that even if you trade in gold, it does NOT protect you against inflation. You Ran Paul morons.

    Yesterday, you went to the market and you were able to buy one potato for one piece of gold.

    Today, you go to the market and the potato seller demands two pieces of gold for one potato.

    Think about it, moron. Potatoes are as valuable as gold.

  • Anonymous

    Like California?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Hey 420 we’re a 420 also. malice420.com

  • B W

    It’s not dumb; it’s called “experimentation”. Just as many States experimented with the idea of freeing black people, and other states followed suit. If a few States legalize marijuana, other States might see the benefit and could follow the same path. If you smoke or have pot in Arizona, you shouldn’t be doing it in Texas. People should respect others’ views and laws, even if they don’t agree with them.

    “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

  • B W

    @voltman That’s because they have so much bureaucracy. Are the Feds any better? They have even more complicated laws!

  • Texan

    Already all stocked up for when the d’s primary the big zero! LOL!

    Thanks Patsy!

  • Anonymous

    B W -”On a side note, Mediaite needs to fix this crappy reply system” ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. On this we Agree BW.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think very many of you even watched the clip. You just read the headline and spin of the article which is dishonest, and bloviated out your asses. 4 of the 5 basically agreed with Paul’s FEMA opinion. There was some nitpicking of his style, and Bolling thinks his wanting to go back to the Gold Standard is crazy. That was it. That was all there was.

    Reality check.

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  • B W

    @772a07a72f755fd8b808bbd9fa2e0e68:disqus :
    Under a gold standard, the long term rate of inflation (or deflation) would be determined by the growth rate of the supply of gold relative to the gold’s total output. You seem to forget that economies based on the Gold Standard rarely if at all experience an inflation rate above 2%. You’re missing the point, yourself; gold in itself is a protection from wild speculation and inflation because there’s no TAMPERING! If that greedy potato salesman raises the price of his potatoes, the same happens with paper or gold, or whatever: He loses his business!

  • Anonymous

    You think calling people “morons” encourages dialogue? lol

    What is your point?  The price will always be what the market will bear.  Doesn’t much matter if it’s gold, silver, paper currency, whatever.  What exactly is your point?  

    p.s. you can always go to the farmers market that is not selling “organic” potatoes and make them an offer. lol

  • Anonymous

    SUBJECT: INVESTMENT ADVICE

    If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago’ you would have $49.00 today!

    If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33.00 today!

    If you had purchased $1,000 of Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would $0,00 today.

    But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you would have received $214.00

    Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily and recycle.

    Its called 401-Keg

    And as a bonus…

    A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year.  Another study found that on average Americans drink 22 gallons of alcohol a year.  That means that the average American gets about 41 miles to the gallon!

    Makes you darned proud to be an American!

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    Because we are a Republic bound to a Constitution which over rides state laws with a Supreme Court. and that’s all the Federal Government is suppose to be for period.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    I think the Military is tired of useless wars too.. and see Paul as the main man to actually secure “our’ borders over everything else.

  • Anonymous

    I dunno, people seem a little better off on the whole than in 1913. And a big part of why that is, is because of monetary policy.

  • Anonymous

    At least he isn’t out there spouting that the recent hurricane was sent by god/buddha/allah/spagetti-monster as a message to DC to listen to the people that want the debt lowered.

    I mean, what kind of psycho could say that and still be allowed to walk the streets freely?

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget Palin, who was installed as the figurehead of the tea baggers for a while until everyone got sick of her.

  • Anonymous

    Actually gold has been dropping like a rock recently, indicating a bubble.

  • Anonymous

    Nice chain letter.

  • Anonymous

    Your a little late.Skippy, The boat already sailed on the gold/silver standard..How in the world do you think the US could obtain enough gold to put into fort knox to back the paper money that has already been printed?. Go more into debt? I don’t think that would be fesable or posible.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Thanks to FOX “News” for the entertainment. I love Republican cannibalism.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Why do central banks hold gold?

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Why do central banks hold gold?

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Haha, 

    Have you seen the dollar the last 100 years?

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Gold is simply a medium of exchange that is in limited supply.

    It’s limited nature and uses are why it’s got intrinsic value.

    Wheat on the other hand, is not a good store of value because

    it will go bad and can be difficult to store.

    Any economy based on a fiat currency will be unstable

    Which is why we have the booms and busts.

    A nations currency acts as the economy’s foundation.

    The world’s economic foundation is rotten.

  • B W

    They’re probably tired of being strung along for ten years, if you ask me.

  • Anonymous

    We Can build A wall Just like they did in Berlin.

  • B W

    Crazy, yes, but still free speech, so that “psycho” should have no problem walking the streets freely.

  • B W

    She’s both a Neocon and a part of FOX News, so I already mentioned her twice.

  • Anonymous

    Stop being such a pedobear.

  • Anonymous

    I got 800 miles of bolted borderRight outside my doorThere’s minutemen
    in little pickup trucksWho declared their own dang warNow the government
    wants to build a barrier like ol’ berlin, 8 feet tallBut if Uncle Sam
    sends the illegals homeWho’s gonna build the wallWho’s gonna build
    your wall, boysWho’s gonna maw your lawnWho’s gonna cook your Mexican
    foodWhen your Mexican maid is goneWho’s gonna wax your floors
    tonightDown at the local mallWho’s gonna wash your baby’s faceWho’s
    gonna build your wallI ain’t got no politicsSo don’t lay that rap on
    meLeft wing right wing up wing downI see strip mallsIt’s the bad
    cat white developerWho’s created this whole damn squaleIt’s the pyramid
    scheme of dirty jobsAnd who’s gonna build your wallWho’s gonna build
    your wall, boysWho’s gonna maw your lawnWho’s gonna cook your Mexican
    foodWhen your Mexican maid is goneWho’s gonna wax your floors
    tonightDown at the local mallWho’s gonna wash your baby’s faceWho’s
    gonna build your wallWe’ve got fundamentalist muslimsWe’ve got
    fundamentalist jewWe’ve got fundamentalist ChristianThat’ll blow the
    whole thing up for youBut as I travel around this big ol’
    worldThere’s one thing that I most fearIt’s a white man in a golf
    shirtWith a cell phone in his earWho’s gonna build your wall,
    boysWho’s gonna maw your lawnWho’s gonna cook your Mexican foodWhen
    your Mexican maid is goneWho’s gonna wax your floors tonightDown at
    the local mallWho’s gonna wash your baby’s faceWho’s gonna build your
    wall

    TOM RUSSELL

  • B W

    To enable open market operations, and to give them influence over mandated exchange rates. Thank you, Ron Paul, your a great professor!

  • B W

    A one-day drop, and you think it’s a bubble? The dollar’s been fluctuating for over 70 years!!! Why do you think we keep having these bubbles? The Government meddles with the currency, inflates it, devalues it, then Wall Street short-sells and the American people are stuck holding paying the bill. Thank you, FDR.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Why do they hold Gold and not Diamonds?

  • B W

    Exactly. Gold itself is its own value, which is also determined by the market, so long as the Fed doesn’t interfere and inflate it. Which is hard to do with gold, since it can’t be printed.

  • B W

    Well, I don’t. For once, I’d like to see a real discussion on the state of the Republican Party. And the Democratic Party, as well.

  • Guest

    Oh Gawd. Now, you’re licking yourself….

  • B W

    Big-time LOL…

    A wall is probably unrealistic, but at least try and secure it, and stop the damn cartels from coming over and killing our own fucking citizens!

  • B W

    He/she changed their avatar.

  • B W

    I wasn’t going to say “tradition” but “flexibility”, instead.

  • Anonymous

    To another vendor who charges market prices, and the rest back in my pocket. Duh.

  • insideguy

    Ya but your dividend would consist of a lot of hangovers ugggg.

  • James

    Well, going back to that old Gandhi quote, looks like we’re past the ignoring (funny how Dana Perino actually admits this) and laughing – now they’re sensing a real threat and coming out fighting.

    Funny how Bolling thinks of Israel as poor and helpless when they have a massively powerful military, air force, ballistic missiles, not to mention many nukes – easily able to totally p0wn any other country in the region. If Israel feels threatened, it will act, and act decisively. It doesn’t matter what the United States or any other country has to say about it.

    Bolling’s ignorance of history, mediums of exchange, and a gold standard is also stunning. I guess he never read much about the Gilded Age – 1870s to WWI, termed as such by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain.) The most rapid period of increase in the standard of living and economic growth in this country was during this time, under a gold standard, with slight deflation as well.

    The United States went from being well below Britain in both individual and national income to many times above. People went from living in rural areas using outhouses and growing their own food to living in booming cities with many modern amenities like cars, roads, indoor plumbing, electricity, elevators, movies, etc. along with a service sector to provide any number of services not affordable to the masses prior, from beauty salons to ‘delivery.’

    At least he didn’t say “there’s not enough gold” – the price of gold adjusts to fit supply as a normal market function. Even worse, perhaps – “people don’t want to carry coins.” It’s just as easy to transact in gold with a debit card or gold backed paper as it is to use dollars. (think of how automatic conversion works using a US credit/debit card to buy something in Euros overseas)

    Greg – you disappoint me :( – fear for job?

    Where’s the Judge when you need him? Of course they bring up Paul on a day he’s not there haha

  • South East Asian

    When the neoconservative movement took over the real traditional conservatives, Americans have been indeep S**T every since.

    Plus they are dragging the entire world down together with them.

  • South East Asian

    Oh and 1 last point,ISRAEL WILL BE FINE! They talk as though Israel needs their support to defend themselves LOL.If I’m Israeli, I would be freaking pissed.USA might as well spend the 8 billion bucks(correct me if I’m wrong) they send to them every year elsewhere and cut all their foreign aids to middle east and elsewhere.The IDF has trained our Singaporean troops to be among the best in the world -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Armed_ForcesThose hosts need to read up more.

  • mnolan13

    About 3 hours after the Five bled their spleens over the “extremist” Ron Paul’s FEMA stance, Fox’s very own BillO argued (briefly) that Paul was right on.
     
    So let me get this straight, NOT ONE of the hosts on the five (which is supposed to be a variety of opinion, I suppose ~ I don’t think they’ve figured out their format yet) is to the right of Big-Government Bill O’reilly?  How about we get one Conservative on that Panel?

  • Anonymous
  • LarryB

    The only people who take Dana Perino seriously are those who still believe Bush was a good president (which probably includes those who think Obama is a good president since there really is very little difference between the two kings). As a presidential spokesperson, she was perfect for Bush, because she blindly supported everything he did. As a talk show host (yes, it’s a talk show, not a news show) she is on the Republican station just because of the position she held in the Bush administration. She has about a much credibility as Al Sharpton over on the Democrats station.

  • Anonymous

    If Paul thinks FEMA is a waste, you fanboys better get yourself a new candidate.

    With his FEMA comments, all Paul has proven is that he’s just as useless and craven a panderer as the rest of the GOPers. Perhaps you fanboys who think he’s under-exposed (ahem) ought to get yourself a new crush.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RV5RCI4MDDGNRZ5ITWBRXKJAOU James Skinner

    Just to set the record straight on Ron Paul’s stance as to the gold standard. Ron Paul advocates a “commodities backed” standard. This would include a ‘basket’ of physical commodities, gold included. So this “there is not enough gold in the world” argument spewed by this guy (and Dick Morris by the way) really misses the mark. To think that Dr. Paul would commit such an oversight would be laughable if I didn’t know so many people would be persuaded by hearing these ‘journalists’ speak about him.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, and I actually like pedobear. Shame… :)

  • LarryB

    The fanboys for FEMA got some ‘splaining to do. Defend FEMA’s handling of Katrina. I just spent about 30 minutes reading an assortment of articles reflecting on what they did in New Orleans. There were a few positives, outweighed heavily by a ton of negatives. Defend FEMA’s financial situation. Their flood program is more than $19 Billion in debt. Where are they going to get the money to keep bailing people out? Perhaps you prefer they borrow from China, rather than take Ron Paul’s advice and end a couple of wars to free up some money. Defend the concept of FEMA selling insurance for risks that private companies know better than to insure. So, instead of people setting aside their own money for taking stupid risks, they expect the government to bail them out, which means the government is going to take that money from people who don’t take stupid risks and then waste that money with their good intentions. Bail, baby, bail. No thanks. I’ll stick with Ron Paul.

  • Anonymous

    Where does it says in the constitution that you have to secure the Israeli boarder Eric? Big Phony. n the end they are all big Govt. guys. 

  • Anonymous

    “The Five” are all “big government” types to whom Ron Paul and his supporters are anathema. I am not at all surprised that they would attack him.  His supporters will take their attacks as a badge of honor.

  • Anonymous

    Ok Ron, I got a question.
    Next time a natural disaster/wrath of god hits the good ol USA, and FEMA is gone, what will our response be? State problem, personal problem?

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