Liberty Maven

I listened to the John Gibson radio show yesterday on Fox News Radio (via XM Satellite Radio) in an effort to listen for the recently circulating Ron Paul commercials. What I heard on his show was very discouraging and illustrates that Ron Paul really has a tough sell to some people. I knew this to be the case, but what I heard I almost could not believe.

Gibson started his show talking about how a recent column appearing in the LA Times by Rosa Brooks that suggested George Bush was “psychotic” rather than a “criminal” was idiotic and ridiculous. I tend to agree with him a bit on this point, but when Gibson decided to take callers asking them if they believed Bush was “crazy” or not, my thoughts turned into thinking that Gibson was the one who was crazy.

His first caller was a woman who said she did not believe Bush was crazy, in fact she said that she visited Iran and talked with the people there and Iranians told her that they want to be bombed. No. I’m not kidding. Listen to it for yourself below.

Listen to a caller suggest that the Iranian people want the United states to bomb them.

Further along in the call, she makes the point again, saying that it wasn’t just one Iranian that wants this and that it would be so that they could have “hope”. So who is truly crazy here? “Bomb us so we can have hope” certainly sounds a bit loony to me.

Listen to the caller reinforce her point here.

It doesn’t end there. During a discussion with a caller who suggests that we’d be better served at using diplomacy and then has the gall to suggest that we don’t have the money for the bombing effort Gibson reveals he has no clue about being fiscally responsible.

Listen to Gibson’s fiscal reponsibility here.

“Money Schmoney?” I rest my case. Perhaps Bush isn’t crazy, but some of his “blind leading the naked” war and fear mongering supporters certainly seem to be.

Why don’t people realize that Ron Paul’s suggestion that the economic war that is occuring because of the US borrowing money from other nations while devaluing our own dollar is an equally, if not more, fearful threat than that of terrorism?

Ron Paul’s effort to solve the economic war also helps with solving the threat of terrorism because it moves us to a non-interventionist role. This eliminates one of the main reasons given by the 9-11 Commission’s Report as to why we are targeted by terrorists: the occupation of holy lands.

Ron Paul and his supporters are not crazy. They are just being fiscally and morally responsible. Since Ron Paul receives more money from the military than any other Presidential candidate, calling his supporters crazy is akin to calling the troops crazy. How is that supporting our troops?