How Will Ron Paul's Libertarian Fans View His Big Anti-Abortion Endorsement?

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How Will Ron Paul's Libertarian Fans View His Big Anti-Abortion Endorsement?

Do all those libertarians swooning over Ron Paul realize he's no get-the-government-out-of-my life freedom-lover when it comes to reproductive rights? Today Representative Paul was in Washington--not toiling hard to abolish the Department of Education or to end the Iraq war--but holding a press conference with Norma Leah McCorvey. She was the "Jane Roe" of the Supreme Court's 1973 Rove v. Wade decision, which declared that most antiabortion laws in the United States violated a constitutional right to privacy. But since then McCorvey has switched sides and has become an antiabortion activist. These days, she runs her own antiabortion ministry.

At the press conference, McCorvey endorsed Paul. For antiabortion outfits, McCorvey has long been a much used icon. And her support of Paul, who authored legislation in Congress that would define life as beginning at conception, could help his far-from-the-mainstream candidacy among social conservatives. But for his libertarian fans, this endorsement is also a reminder that Paul is indeed in favor of Big Government...when it would do his bidding. If elected president, Paul could fire all those people working at the Department of Education and offer them jobs chasing after anyone who obtains an abortion or uses an IUD.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6943_how_will_ron_pa.html

[BuyingThyme]

1. I suspect very few Ron Paul fans are libertarians.

There simply aren't enough out there to explain the money.

[laststeamtrain]

2. I just used Corn's headline for my post.

Maybe I should have changed it to "How Will Ron Paul's Libertarian & Incredibly Naive Disaffiliated Nut Job Fans View His Big Anti-Abortion Endorsement?"

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[FredScuttle]

5. Ron Paul wants to throw women and their doctors in prison for health care decisions

He is a batshit insane Fundamentalist and anyone who buys his snake-oil "libertarian" jive is an ignorant mouth-breathing troglodyte.

[JerseygirlCT]

8. Amen. nt

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[fudge stripe cookays]

7. As a woman,

let me, as politely as possible, say....

Fuck you.

[Iris]

10. yeah. Countries with no government are GREAT places for women to live.

what a crock.

I'm with you, fudge.

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. What this idiot...

and so many like him refuse to understand is that they don't NEED to overturn it anymore. They chip away at it, and continue to do that until it is a skeleton.

There will be so many erosions to it that Roe will be moot, and women will still start dying in droves again.

[Alexander]

12. Hmm. You seem like you're advocating Dr. Paul's candidacy.

[Hello_Kitty]

4. Silly rabbit, liberty is for men only!

I mean, du-uh!

[I work for workers]

6. They will view it like this:

How dare you question the wisdom of Dr. Paul? Our country needs Dr. Paul to bring us back to the right path, and your socialism/imperialism/liberalism/neoconservatism can't stand in the way of our highway banners and stolen Liberty Coppers! If I don't care that Dr. Paul insulted Martin Luther King Jr worse then a tired Bill Clinton did, I definitely don't care what his position on abortion is!

RON PAUL REVOLUTION!<\Ron Paul Supporter>

[Iris]

9. I'm not sure that middle-school aged boys really care about the issue of abortion.

It's just not on their radar.

[mdmc]

14. thanks for the link

:kick:

[Essene]

15. ron paul fans dont care about his actual record