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By karoli
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Here's a pretty bizarre moment in Ron Paul's quite-long speech celebrating his third place finish in the Iowa caucuses Tuesday.
(applause)
But once again, we have had a fantastic showing for this cause and challenging people. Not the status quo that we have been putting up with for decade after decade. But challenging 'em and saying 'You know, let's challenge them. Let's go back to this real old fashioned idea, this very dangerous idea, let's obey the Constitution!
(applause)
And too often, those who preach limited government and small government, they forget that invasion of your privacy is big government and we have to emphasize protecting your personal rights and your economic rights are what the government's supposed to do.
Before I continue with the transcription, let me just interject the observation that Ron Paul abandons the whole "protect your personal rights" when it comes to things like same-sex marriage, LGBT issues, and women's right to choose what happens to their bodies, even in cases of rape and/or incest. But I digress. Back to the speech.
(applause)
And also, along those lines, what we have introduced with so much enthusiasm I hear so often from so many volunteers -- The other day someone came up to me and he was refreshing my memory because he knew I - knew the statement because I've said it.
Back in the old days in the early 70s, Nixon said we're all Keynesians now, which meant that even the Republicans accepted liberal economics. He says I'm waiting for the day when we can say we're all Austrians now.
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Norrin Radd
(4,959 posts)I know.
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LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)They have a welfare state and a publicly funded healthcare system.
From what I hear, it's been quite a decent country for quite a while - though they do have an unfortunate past.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)If you convince Mitt that he can win by being an Austria-Hungarian, he will be one tomorrow.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)that will escape almost everyone. When people think "Austrian," they think Hitler, not economics.
Very bad choice of words on his part.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"Very bad choice of words on his part."
...but Paul is in his own world, and even his economic theories are whack!
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Tomay
(58 posts)was, as John Kenneth Galbraith once joked (paraphrasing here), the final revenge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire upon the United States.