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Originally Posted by kane
Here are a few reasons why. These are quotes from Paul:
"You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws. "
A lot of people don't like any candidate who speaks about legalizing drugs.
or this one from an interview:
Jan Mickelson: One of my litmus test questions to find out what kind of thinking process a candidate has done on this, is to ask my test question. Test question is: do you think that Roe v. Wade is the law of land?
Ron Paul: Well, they call it the law of the land, but I want to clarify that by getting rid of it. I think this is one example of the courts overstepping their bounds tremendously. Texas had a law against this violent act, and it went in to the federal courts and the Supreme Court. They overruled the state law, which should have been legitimate, and then came down on the side of legalizing killing a fetus, even into the 3rd trimester. But the fastest way to accomplish this is not through a constitutional amendment, or waiting till you get enough justices to overrule. You can pass a law in the Congress, which denies jurisdiction to the federal courts. So if Iowa or Texas or any state passes a law against abortion, you can't get it into the federal courts, and the states would decide this issue, as they decide all issues of violence: murder, manslaughter, theft, all this things are supposed to be state issues.
As soon as you start talking about making abortion illegal you alienate about half the nation.
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God, why cant the abortion issue go away already. The stupidest issue to vote for president on, period. Its fast food politics for people who dont pay attention. Just look at a candidates view on abortion and let that make the decision for you.
It would make more sense, if the president actually had any kind of power to change abortion. As it stands, he doesn't. He can try and stack the courts, hope the get the biased judicial appointments through congress, and hope to get a case before the SCOTUS that will require a judicial review of roe v wade, and hope after all that, that the judges overturn it.
A pro-life candidate could practically murder an adult on stage in front of a pro-life crowd, and they would still vote for him, because he tells them, "This time we'll finally stop those baby killers!". Then on the flip side, a pro-choice candidate can do wtf he wants, just as long as he convinces enough gullible pro-choicers that the Christians are gonna take their abortions away, unless he's elected to stop it.
If any of you actually vote for president based on their stance on abortion, please just dont vote anymore.
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