Letters to the Editor
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Ron Paul
Stood out clearly among the candidates. I find it interesting how all media outlets completely ignore his candidacy. All others on that stage pandered, evaded direct answers, basically were a bunch of cowards who had to pause and think before they spoke because they didn't speak from the heart with conviction. Ron Paul spoke truth to power on that stage last night. Ron Paul won that debate hands down because he is the only human being who showed up for the event.
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Depends on how you see fathers
Two points: 1. You say Republicans elect father figures. That doesn't really fully explain. Republicans tend to elect over-bearing, brutish, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do father figures. There's a whole other species of father, and we're becoming more and more common.
2. Was I the only one who's jaw dropped open to see three supposedly educated people say they don't believe in evolution? Who are these people and what kind of pre-historic rock did they crawl out from under?
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If it were me
I would proclaim my desire to drink mead from the severed skulls of my enemies. To rape the women and enslave the children. To wear the ears of the vanquished round my neck on a golden cord while young women sexually serviced me.
I mean, go big or stay home, right?
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Rancid Ronald Reagan Almost Got Impeached
All these Republican Wannabees should be careful what they wish for: Ronald Reagan almost got impeached for his High Crimes against the Constitution and his constant lying, cheating and conniving.
It is important to remember that Ronald Reagan secretly and illegally cut dirty deals with terrorists in the Middle East, in violation of the will of Congress, and then went on TV to lie to the American People about it.
Reagan also sponsored right-wing Death Squads and nun-rapers in El Salvador, then, in what has to rank as one of the most outrageous statements ever made by a U.S. President, compared these murderers, rapists and terrorists to America's Founding Fathers.
Reagan constantly enjoyed dining with dictators, like Ferdinand Marcos, from the Phillipines, as human blood dripped from their fingers, while falsely preaching the wonders of democracy. (And Reagan made sure to provide a safe haven in Hawaii for the tyrant and his wife after their overthrow, to protect them from the law and the Phillipino People.)
Reagan waged a non-stop class war against working- and middle-class Americans, while coddling the rich, and showering them with tax breaks and welfare, simultaneously demonizing the urban poor, single women and other politically weak groups. These are the acts of a true coward, and an extremely cold-hearted man.
Reagan also wrecked our economy with his ridiculous Herbert Hoover-era economic policies that caused America to go from being the number one creditor nation in the world, to the world's number one debtor nation, all during his eight year Reign Of Error.
As if all that weren't enough, Reagan destroyed countless consumer protection laws, environmental protections, labor safety provisions, and other plans designed to help the American People--and did so at the behest of his right-wing, Big Business sponsors.
Of course, this isn't surprising, coming from Ronald Reagan, a man who got his start in politics as a red-baiting rat in Hollywood, testifying before anti-Communist witch hunter committees about Reds in the movies.
That the Corporate Press printed nothing but glowing accounts of Reagan's crime-ridden Presidency, while a spineless Democratic Congress did nothing to stop his death and destruction, is irrelevent.
The facts speak for themselves. And if Republicans want to run on that record, then let them. All Democrats have to do is remind voters of the Real Reagan, and voters will quickly realize that voting a Republican into the White House would be the political equivalent of another Hurricane Katrina.
--Tom J. Wright
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Amen RealName
Conan, what is the best thing in life?
Ron Paul is funny - he is one of those people who is basically no longer a Republican because the Republican party packed up and moved away. Somehow he is the outcast for spouting what as late as 10 years or so ago were the core values of the party.
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I was a fascist before you were a fascist.
2. Was I the only one whose jaw dropped open to see three supposedly educated people say they don't believe in evolution? Who are these people and what kind of pre-historic rock did they crawl out from under?
They're Republicans and True Believers. You'd better watch yourself, citizen. This is war. You're either with us or against us. None of that sissy evolution stuff here.
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SALON: Let's "Dog" this debate!
Is there a reason why Salon can't post clips from this "debate" on Video Dog? It'd be a helluva lot more informative, newsworthy and humorous than much of the fare currently on offer over there.
If we can get clips of Joan's MSM appearances, and people hiding out in their homes in Baghdad, and unfunny bunnys, and dogs doing lame dog tricks, and so on and so forth … then why not this gaggle of intellectually challenged presidential wannabees … all working overtime to come up with an idea. And failing.
NONE of them have any real credentials as "conservatives."
Can you imagine ANY of these dweebs walking in the footsteps of the (allegedly revered) Sen Barry Goldwater? He'd send these meatheats back to the dogpound so fast you'd not see them for dust. What a disgrace to a great tradition.
Nearly as bad as the brand of so-called "Liberalism" currently espoused by the Other Party.
The run-up to November 2008 will make abundantly clear to anyone willing to look past the GOP/Dem party labels that neither Conservatism NOR Liberalism have any current footing in the American political debate. How the hell did that happen? Where have they gone? Banished from view so that soundbites can rule the waves.
America is certainly the poorer for their absence.
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Pathetic!
Only the most inept and fearful of individuals fall over swooning for this cardboard cutout bluster. It's pathetic to me that political discourse in this nation- especially by the right- boils down to "My dad can beat up your dad" and which politician seems "toughest"
Are you kidding me?
John Wayne may have been a fine action movie star in his day, but there's no way I would want to put him in to the Oval Office. Too often politicians, and the American public at large, equate the bullshit myth of "alpha male toughness" with competency in a political office- an office that requires great intelligence, nuance, compromise and integrity- attribuites that none of these current candidates, nor our current President possess.
Equally sad is the inability of the American public to see past the hallowed presentation of "Saint Ronnie" and remember a presidency rife with corruption, economic downturn and international gaffes.
Sad. Sad. Sad.
And for shame.