stfuconservatives:

gop-circus:

Ron Paul is racist, or at the very least, allowed racist literature to be published under his name. But to me, this isn’t the worst part about Paul as a candidate - His stances on civil liberties and economic issues when it comes to state’s rights are scary. And his supporters who type in all caps and hail him as christ reborn are even worse because they believe that his ‘policy ideas’ could actually help our country.

Anyone considering Paul as a candidate should certainly take into account his views on race, gender and the LGBT community (which are all awful) but they should also take into account the large amount of other issues in which he is not only incredibly wrong, but where his policy prescriptions would make things worse. Some Occupy Wall Street supporters are Paul supporters, but Paul is associated with the 1 percent, despite what his supporters yell about all over the internet.  He says some things that sound good, but his voting record on issues related to corporations and the rest of us is not so good—-

Aid to Less Advantaged People, at Home & Abroad is 13.40 percent progressive

Corporate Subsidies 31.18 percent

Education, Humanities, & the Arts 13.19 percent

Environment 11.35 percent

Fair Taxation 9.01 percent

Government Checks on Corporate Power 15.16 percent

Health Care 12.62 percent

Housing 6.10 percent

Labor Rights 13.51 percent

Making Government Work for Everyone, Not Just the Rich or Powerful 15.88 percent

Even on the issues he’s supposed to be good on, his record is lackluster:

Human Rights & Civil Liberties 33.66 percent progressive

Justice for All: Civil and Criminal 30.71 percent

War & Peace 47.92 percent

Even when it comes to foreign policy, Paul still votes the wrong way more than half the time. He does have a better record than most Republicans on these issues, but even the most conservative of Democrats do better than Paul on almost every issue.

To get a full handle on how bad Paul’s record and positions are, here is a quick rundown of his most offensive positions, those that would be the most damaging to the country.

Would abolish the income tax

Would place the U.S. on the gold standard

Would allow citizens to engage in trade using gold and silver instead of currency

Would arbitrarily cut government regulations and believes that regulations only hurt businesses

Would eliminate the taxation of foreign income

Is a global warming denier

Says that Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare are unconstitutional

Would eliminate antitrust laws

Would eliminate the federal minimum wage

Would eliminate the Davis-Bacon Act and the Copeland Act

Would eliminate the estate and gift taxes

Would tax all earners at a 10 percent rate

Would eliminate tax credits to individuals who are not corporations

Would eliminate the elderly tax credit, child care credit and earned income credit

Voted to make it easier to decertify unions

Opposes Federal Deposit Insurance

Would revert government spending to 2004 levels and freeze it there

Opposes raising the debt ceiling for any reason

Would allow people to opt out of Social Security

Says that widespread bankruptcy is the stimulus the country needs

Opposed the auto industry bailouts

Favors tort reform

Opposes the regulation of tobacco

Would protect the ‘privacy’ of online sexual predators and child pornographers on public wi-fi networks

Would prevent federal courts from protecting citizens who have their rights denied

Opposed the Motor Voter law

Would allow states to ban gay marriage

Sponsored the Marriage Protection Act

Would repeal affirmative action

Would limit the scope of Brown v. Board of Education

Says that emergency rooms should be able to turn away undocumented immigrants

Opposes the Americans With Disabilities Act

Voted anti-choice more than 90 times as a member of Congress

Voted to eliminate all international family planning funds

Voted for the Stupak amendment banning abortion coverage by private health insurance companies

Voted in favor of fetal personhood laws

Would eliminate all funding for Planned Parenthood

Would ban flag burning

Would weaken regulation of dietary supplements

Supports a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research

Opposes subsidies for prescription drugs for seniors

Opposes mandatory vaccinations

Would expand offshore oil drilling

Would increase mining on federal lands

Would weaken the Clean Air Act

Would repeal the Soil and Water Conservation Act

Would weaken the Federal Water Pollution Control Act

Would eliminate departments of Energy, Education, Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Labor

Would eliminate the Environmental Protection agency

Would eliminate FEMA

Would eliminate the Federal Reserve

Would eliminate the Occupational Health and Safety Administration

Would eliminate AmeriCorps

Would eliminate spending to combat AIDS overseas

Would eliminate gas taxes

Opposes the census gathering demographic data on Americans

Opposed the dismantling of U.S. nuclear missile silos

Wanted to withdraw the U.S. from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

Wants to claim the Panama Canal as sovereign U.S. territory

Opposes the International Criminal Court

Would withdraw the U.S. from the U.N.

Supports the electoral college and believes that the U.S. is not a democracy

Believes that we have no right to health care

Would eliminate birthright citizenship

Believes that law enforcement can’t help people, only armed citizens can prevent violence

Would allow the legal sale of unpasteurized milk

Believes that groups of people don’t have rights, only individuals do

Believes that government cannot redistribute wealth in any way

Believes in the concept of ‘jury nullification’, the idea that a jury can judge not only the facts in a case but the justness of the law itself

Believes that social welfare should be in the hands of individuals only, not government

Anyone that still thinks that a progressive vote for Paul is a legitimate vote has their head on sideways. Anyone that thinks that Paul “understands the Constitution” and is trying so hard to preserve it probably hasn’t even read the Constitution, or they are just plain confused.

Need to add this to my Ron Paul resource page.