Ron Paul vid I found on youtube

This is one of the most ridiculous attempts at discrediting him I've ever seen.

Discrediting him because he went on a talk show? Lets knock Nixon for Laugh In or Obama for SNL or Clinton for playing the sax on Arsenio.

and your basis for this statement is..?

My basis for what I said is Ron Paul himself. He said the 14th Amendment needed to be modified because it shouldnt be granted to everyone. Basicly he was saying the government should be the ones who decide who can be a citizen and who shouldnt regardless of you being born in the United States.

So you see in 1988 he wanted to use the constitution to make dope legal. So in that case the constitution was something that he felt gave him the right to do what he pleased. He tried to use the constitution as a tool to help him and his cause.

Fast forward to his most recent presidential run he wanted to change the constitution. The amendment which many people use as a tool to get citizenship in the United States was targeted by Ron. He felt that it should be up to the government to decide who gets to be born a citizen and who is born into being a non citizen. How would this be determined? Just by what race you are?

Anyway, you see what he did? Or what he tried to do? He flip flopped. He was all for using the constitution as a tool to help himself saying that the government shouldnt decide what drugs we can and can not use in 1988. But then in 2010 he changed his mind. Ron thought the constitution was wrong and that it should be up to the goverment to decide who can and who can not be a citizen.

Of course though some people will tell you that I am wrong and that Ron Paul is the greatest thing since Sliced Bread.

Yes I agree in 22 years you can change your mind. It's just his mind change was pretty big here and kinda funny. I mean here you have a man wanting to make drugs legal. Right away some people will say "this guy must be a dope head".

And then he wants to give the government the power to decide who is and who isnt a citizen in 2010. Meanwhile at the same time in 2010 the media is saying Ron Paul had a racist news letter for years. IDK if the man wrote it or not, but isnt it too much of a coincidence that some people are calling him a racist while Ron himself is saying we need to change how we determine who is and isnt a citizen? Like I ask above, how would this be determined? Randomly? Would race play a factor?

It just seemed like a pretty drastic mind change to me. Especially when you want to be president and are under the media microscope like that.

I've never seen the Bill Mhar show so I cant comment on that. I do know though that this Morton Downey show is a circus. Look at what his guests are wearing. A gardian angle in street gear? That guy with the pink trim coat and checkered shirt? Right away you know this wont go very far as a productive appearance. Yet there Ron sat during the whole interview.

That is one of the things I disagree with him on. I think if you live here and want to be a citizen, congratulations you're a citizen. Especially those who risk their lives to get here.

I think he wants both (maybe just one) parents to be a citizen in order for the child to become a citizen. You don't become one just for being born here, you have to have a parent who is as well. I guess that's his view.

Reagan was a Democrat and then became a Republican god so extreme change can happen.

I don't get attacking him because he went on some TV show. You have some valid criticisms but I don't think this is one of them. If Obama can use SNL (where they've had much worse things than what those guys were wearing) for PR then I think Paul could use this show for PR.

I don't even see why it matters. He's been retired for 9 months. He hasn't been a Presidential candidate in over a year. You don't have to worry about him anymore (though you never really had to in the first place).

Because what's the point in bringing it up? It's from 25 years ago. This was before his huge movement in 2008. He's not even relevant today.

Lets post Bob Dole's viagra commercial and talk about how laughable it is that he could have been President. There are others that could be singled out for doing ridiculous things. None of whom (including Paul) are relevant. I don't get it.

He posted it today because he just found it? He never said it was laughable. He just was pointing out it was a strange decision.

I am a fan of Ron Paul but don't get why he would go on there either. A show where the host and the crowd are all against him no matter how much sense he makes.

If all drugs were legal and made to be 21+ it would get rid of a lot of drug crimes. Police could focus more on solving the thousands of rape cases that have been ignored since the day the woman/man left the police station. The money could be used to lower taxes for the rest of us. People wouldn't be killing people on the streets to steal there drugs. Cops could be more focused on breaks ins, missing people, and murder cases.

Ron Paul made a lot of sense then and now. Why those people didn't understand then I don't know.

Just like what he said in that video is coming true. Schools are now cracking down telling kids what they can and can not eat. I mean a kid brings a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and gets it taken away saying its not healthy. Yet there is teachers ignoring children who come to school with bruises or have social disorders.

Focus on mental health of the children ahead of physical health. The majority of people who are obese have suffered from some form of social or mental disorder which caused them to turn to food to eat out their pain or push people away.