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Reagan Democrats are the racists who left the Democratic party because it wasn't racist enough for them.
God, what bigoted remarks your words seem. it was just about race. What a lefty canard.
I have written often about the horrible Lee Atwater as the bane of modern politics. You seem such a bigot that you can not distinguish the master manipulator from the people who are manipulated.
There were millions and millions of Democrats who left the Democratic party and became Republicans during the that era. You claim them all to be racists? Will you claim that if Atwater spewed it out of his mouth - that all southerners are guilty of his words?
Damn! I got it now. You are bigoted against southerners. I should have guessed before.
LWM: "You are entitled to your opinions. I'm not going to get into a debate with you. My politics are well known to all here. You are correct. Some Democrats are dense. Especially those who would vote for Ron Paul. I'm actually glad he's running, even if he will never be elected, (Thank God!). His candidacy and the reaction to it on both sides of the political divide - which I've been tracking it - is the surest sign that another major political realignment is happening as we speak. It's rare to live through two of them. It's also an opportunity to study it and learn from it, if one is politically sophisticated enough to do that. Ron Paul would think this man was a "commie" just like the John Birchers before him did in the 50s. No surprise there. Ron Paul is one of the few politicians in Congress with 100 rating from the John Birch Society.
What a bigot you are!
Now Ron Paul is a John Bircher! My God, how much hate do you have in you? We have a man who claims that that the government which governs the very least governs the very best --- and you want to call him the very re-incarnation of the KKK. Is it that he will not force people to live as you would have them live?
Your politics is that of the revolutionary who wants to put the other side to death when he finally gains power. Freedom was never the issue; far from it.
All you have done is read the surface explanations of political events and run them though your oh-so-superior-self-image lens that is pure bigotry.
LWM ---> ... "You last post was so chock full of straw men and nonsense I'm going to let it lay there. One thing, however, bears mentioning. Leaving aside the causes for the genocide in Darfur, because they are too complex to be laid at the feet of U.S. interventionism - and less likely so because there are no strategic natural resources for us to "intervene" on behalf of - that is precisely why I would never vote for Paul. He wouldn't lift a finger to prevent it if he could, and any master at statecraft could, like Clinton, with the help of other countries and the U.N. and without getting bogged down in a quagmire. Bosnia was much more dangerous. "
How do you know that? Have you asked him? Can you provide the quote? (seriously, I would like to hear him on that one)
Ron Paul (and intelligent people) see that the USA empire (as well as the imperialism of Europe) is the root cause of the mess there. The first thing to do is stop interventions around the world.
You ask that we intervene and kill innocent women and children whenever you think it wise. I think you should go there yourself and kill them with your own hands if you feel (and I do mean feel) so strongly.
LWM: "I love this, really. What is government, Bucky1, and why did Hamilton argue so strenously for a strong central, federal government? Do you know?"
Yes, he was aristocratic and wanted to rule others; as you do. (but you are never going to make it, little one)
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LWM: ..." Again, your ignorance is showing. Yes, the FDA is a joke today. Do you even have a clue why?
Sure. It is a government agency --- what did you expect to happen? It is every bit as effective as the Post Office.
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Q form Bucky1: Plus, how did we humans survive the millions of years before the FDA? It is a mystery, my son.
LWM: : "This is a good question. Consider all the other dominant species..."
In other words, you got nothing. A fellow who could not tell the position of Niles Eldridge from that of Lynn Margulis is calling upon evolutionary biology to defend the frigging FDA!
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Bucky1: Next he will tell us that the TSA is the only reason one can travel the friendly skies in safety! What a hoot.
LWM: "Do a little research, son, on El Al."
Brilliant retort! So, you got Zero again? I already knew that.
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Bucky1: ---> Ron Paul believes that the central government is too big and to powerful --- LWM loves it as is. I leave it to you to decide if we could not remove even one little department.
LWM : "Ron Paul believes a lot of stupid shit. That's one of them."
Brilliant! Boy you lefties really know how to debate; "a lot of stupid shit", get it from Homer Simpson?
We now know that LWM is just another left-totalitarian.
Thanks for the proof.