One year ago Ron Paul joined forces with Barney Frank on a proposal to gut national defense via a panel of experts, quite a few of whom were tied to George Soros.
The panel of experts who would decide how to best gut national defense featured...
William D. Hartung of the New America Foundation. "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire.
Winslow Wheeler of the Center for Defense Information (CDI)...CDI gets money from the Open Society Institute (OSI) - one world government backed of Soros.
Paul Kawika Martin of Peace Action (PA). You might know PA better by its old name, the "Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy" or just "SANE," a Communist front group investigated by none other than Senator Thomas Dodd.
Heather Hurlburt of the National Security Network (NSN). The NSN's goals are to "build a strong progressive national security and counter conservative spin." Soros's OSI helped fund NSN, and its Special Counsel was on the NSN Policy Committee.
So not only did Paul join forces with Barney Frank to slash military preparedness, but he ended up putting the experts of a foreign billionaire with global ambitions in charge of the project. Any more proof needed that Ron Paul is absolutely a danger to the nation?
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This is pretty weak, actually. An awful lot of defense expenditures are blithely wasted, and US military forces are dispersed hither and yon around the world. Republicans have long been throwing money at defense like others have been throwing money at public education, both to little effect. Just more money does not necessarily provide for a better defense.
That being said, does this mean I am a tool of George Soros?
Importantly, this is not an endorsement of Paul's wacky foreign policy. It just shows that by having similar means does not mean that people have similar ends in mind.
This is reinforced by their odd citation of Thomas Dodd (D), father of Christopher Dodd, who like Joseph McCarthy (R), was also censured by the US senate. Both men investigated communist infiltration.
Yet in the final analysis, McCarthy was censured for "failing to cooperate with the Subcommittee on Rules and Administration", and sneering at the committee trying to censure him. But Dodd was censured for converting campaign funds for personal use.
Their means were against communism, but their ends, to some extent based on what they had been doing, were different indeed.
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anonymoose,
Actually it is the Democrats who have been throwing money at defense spending. They tend to view defense as just another pork barrel project and jobs program. Republicans tend to demand that the weapons work.
As an example. Pat Leahy, the liberal, anti-military senator from Vermont, is keeping the production of Korean War era 2.75 in rockets going despite DOD's efforts for over a decade. We currently have 30 years worth these rockets in inventory. However, the manufacturer is in VT and contributes much money to Leahy's campaign.
I rest my case.
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Via RCP, behold the second-most enjoyable Perry clip of the campaign. Only the Thinly Veiled Putdown Heard 'Round the World was funnier. Had this gone on for a few more seconds, in fact, I think RP would have resorted to shushing him Dr.-Evil-style. A missed opportunity, my friends. Posted at the very last minute here yesterday with no time for visits. Hoping it gets posted today.
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Would be nice if a couple of the also rans drop out after Iowa (Bachmann for starters). Huntsman doesn't exist after New Hampshire. Santorum might make it to SC before someone checks his pulse.
At that point we can get down to the nitty gritty of choosing whether Gingrich or Perry will be the one to wipe the floor with Willard.
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