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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Given the fanatical, misguided, ignorant, uninformed & totally loony garbage these conspiracy minded nut jobs have spewed everytime there's a Ron Paul article in Salon, most of them will either be back in the mental institution, heavily medicated, or wandering around mumbling incomprehensible crap to themselves while wearing tinfoil hats, (to combat the radiation the "guvmint" is sending into their brains to alter their brainwave patterns ya know), when it comes time to vote. They are very annoying yes, but largely harmless, as long as you don't make the mistake of taking their utopian, free market, "corporations & states rights can solve everything", incoherent wackaloon ramblings seriously.
They rarely get a chance to shine. Give them their brief moment in the sun, then they can crawl back under their "flat earth" rocks yet again.
Plus they do provide good fodder to make fun of as well.
Ron Paul is a squirrel. Like all squirrels, he's adorable and like all squirrels, he really, really has limitations. I am something of a libertarian in my liberalism but I do believe that we need a government. We need one that works, of course, and the one we have now is in Intensive Care on a respirator but we do need services performed. We don't need a government standing watch over the various orifices of our bodies with anxious care lest we use them in ways not sanctioned by the religious right but we do need a government to protect our rights against such anxious overseers.
I like Ron Paul, don't get me wrong. I just don't want to see him within the same zip code of the Presidency. He has misread the Constitution and, although he is sincere about protecting it, the aim is not to destroy the government it set up but to make it work.
I’ve bolted the Democratic Party and for the first time in my life I’m voting for a republican Ron Paul.
I’ve had it with the democrats who had two years to impeach Bush and Cheney for their many crimes and end the Iraq war, but did neither.
Ron Paul is a man of principle; something which most politicians lack He is allegedly polling low, but you couldn’t tell that by the numerous vicious and misleading attacks on him by members of both major political parties.
What is amusing is that here is a man who walks the talk of small and limited government – allegedly a Republican mini manifesto - yet most New Hampshire Republicans in the “live free or die” state, as your article says “would not consider voting for Paul under any circumstances.” That tells me that most republicans 1) have no principles, 2) are hypocrites, 3) would give up their liberty in the hopes that big mommy gubmit would save them from the big bad terrorists.
The only democrat who I would consider voting for, Kucinich, is polling around 1%. He is the only democrat with the balls to call Cheney what he is, a criminal who must be impeached. Also, he is the only democrat who is calling for an immediate end to the Iraq war – no phased withdrawal BS.
But when it comes time for the New Hampshire primary, I will proudly vote for Mr. Paul, a man who truly loves liberty and who is less of a statist than Mr. Kucinich.
In the words of Tom Paine: "Even at it's best the state is a neccessary evil."
"Bloomsbury" wonders about all of us wanting a "Utopia"!?
OMG.
Here we all are....on this incredible planet....spinning throughout the Universe and all we seem to have done since the beginning of recorded history is to fight over every little bit of control and power imaginable.
Now we are standing at the apocolypse wondering what to do?
Give me a fucking break!
In the course of a few hundred years, the human race has managed to make thousands of species become extinct, has plundered the planet with nuclear weapons, depleted uranium, multiple toxic substances and on and on.
We've all seen the stories. Bees becoming extinct! Songbirds vanishing! Chemtrails criss-crossing the skies (and still nobody can figure out what they are or why???)
For God's sake. All the American People are seeking is the TRUTH and JUSTICE. We have been guaranteed these in The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The question is this: Who amongst these currently running for the highest office in our land will stand up for the planet? For life? For the evolutionary leap in consciousness all thinking human beings yearn for?
How does the Gweat and Tewible Paul suggest we de monitorize the trillion dollar debt we owe Beijing? That's 12 zeros,.
Ok, for everyone that cries about corporate power whenever reducing federal government power is mentioned, visualize the following: Government is a big magnet that attracts corporate corruption. The magnetic force is the power that we give them. Eventually this government-corporate blend grows so powerful and indistinguishable that what we get is corporate fascism, one big machine that sucks wealth and power from the people to the leaders. If you limit the power of government, you limit the ability of corporations to be a part of this unholy beast. This is not the free market. This is money sucked out of our pockets and used to finance wars, drug prohibition, government surveillance, and all of the other crap that is stripping our liberty and our bank accounts and making the rest of the world hate us. There are only two viable candidates that are standing up to this crap, Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. We can all bring up this issue or that issue that we disagree with, we can slander either of them, but right now supporting what they stand for is much more important that this bickering, and although I expected it from the party of Guiliani, I'm really disappointed with the Democrats and their griping about Ron Paul's stance on issues that aren't that important right now.
So if you are a Democrat who believes in the Constitution and the rights of the individual that are rapidly being stripped away support Kucinich and shut up about Paul. I don't hear Paul supporters bothering to bash Kucinich, because most of them are intelligent enough to see that he is with them on the CRITICAL issues we are facing RIGHT NOW.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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