Ron Paul: Ted Cruz is Owned by Goldman Sachs

Ron Paul: Ted Cruz is no libertarian

February 5, 2016

Now that Rand Paul is out of the race for the White House, his father Ron Paul, who ran in 2008 and 2012, on Friday warned his son’s former supporters that Ted Cruz isn’t a free-market libertarian:

“You take a guy like Cruz, people are liking the Cruz — they think he’s for the free market, and [in reality] he’s owned by Goldman Sachs. I mean, he and Hillary have more in common than we would have with either Cruz or Trump or any of them, so I just don’t think there is much picking,” Paul said of the Texas senator on Fox Business’ “Varney & Company”.

When asked if there was a candidate who was truly for the free market, the former Texas congressman said that since his son it out of the race, there isn't a candidate, Republican or Democrat, that is a libertarian:

“On occasion, Bernie comes up with libertarian views when he talks about taking away the cronyism on Wall Street, so in essence he’s right, and occasionally he voted against war.”

"It's hard to find anybody -- since Rand is out of it -- anybody that would take a libertarian position, hardcore libertarian position on privacy, on the war issue and on economic policy."

“So I always say: You can search for a long time, but you’re not gonna find anybody in the Republican or Democratic primary that even comes slightly close to ever being able to claim themselves a libertarian,” he concluded.

During a Mises Institute conference on January 30, Paul commented on the views of socialists/progressives (video above):.

“[Socialists] will not listen to the argument that there’s a difference between somebody getting bailed out by the Federal Reserve… versus somebody who produces a good product and we [the People] vote them their money and they haven’t cheated, stolen or given us a bad product,” he said. “I think it’s sort of an envy and resentment, but I’ve talked to them and I have to tell you, I haven’t converted many die-hard progressives.”

“Some progressives, if you watch them on the Internet, will have really close agreements and they might be talking about the same issues, but boy they don’t want you to even introduce the notion that libertarians are with them on this because they’re terrified we might encroach on their power to redistribute wealth [by force].”