Letters to the Editor
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Ron Paul's paraducking
Libertarian? Horse-feathers. 'Wants to prohibit abortion? I'll bet this oxymoronic twit would be outraged at a prohibition on circumcision. Why not just enslave the bitches , or make them wear burkas and chastity belts to put an end to this endless windweaving? Maybe FORCING men deemed responsible for assisting women in unwanted pregnancies to be castrated—with suspended sentences allowed as long as full responsibility and financial support was proffered and maintained under STRICT supervision—would at least reduce the repeat/serial offenders. An optional order of protection against unwanted contact with the new mommy would be available to her.
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Some limitations on all that "local is better government" stuff
Please don't expect to send your hypothetically Kansas-creationist-educated "science" students to any other state for work or advanced degrees then.
See, when you turn it all into 50 individual fiefdoms, it sets practical limits on the mobility you assume will "free-market" solve the problem of being born in a state that doesn't offer the type of government that fits you. Right now, if I grow up in Ohio but think I'd rather go to graduate school in California and work in New York, my Ohio education has met some agreed upon minimum standards and my high school diploma from there is guaranteed to be valid whether I want to go to college in Alabama or Wyoming or even to Hahvahd. When West Virginia dictates education can stop after the 2nd grade so we can all get to work in the coal mines under this new feudal... er... federalist system, I think I'd be kinda screwed on that score.
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On education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Education
"Unlike the systems of most other countries, education in the United States is highly decentralized, and the federal government and Department of Education are not heavily involved in determining curricula or educational standards (with the large exception of the No Child Left Behind Act). This has been left to state and local school districts. The quality of educational institutions and their degrees is maintained through an informal private process known as accreditation, over which the Department of Education has no direct public jurisdictional control."
Why do you hate Kansas and West Virginia?
Ignorance abounds.
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Environmentalist, vegetarian, pro-choice liberal for Ron Paul!! We are not all gun nuts.
Could it be that the reason he's such a hit on the Internet is because the media doesn't do a very good job getting his message out there. Fox News is broadcasting all the Republican debates and unless you have shrapnel in your frontal lobe it's easy to see how much they despise Ron Paul. I never believed the media could so easily and willingly effect a presidential campaign. That is why he has a strong Internet following. That's the only place where the playing field is level (for now, give them time and a few politicians in their pocket and they will fix that little problem.) You could easily label me as a environmentalist vegetarian pro-choice liberal that has never voted Republican and I have more passion voting for Ron Paul than any candidate I've ever come across in my life. I have never contributed to a candidate financially. However, I did so on November 5th for Ron Paul and it felt great. I will be donating a portion of my hard earned cash to him every month for as long as he's in this race. Do I agree with him on everything, of course not. I refuse to grab one issue that I'm passionate about and base my vote on that alone. I believe that is why we have George W. Bush to deal with. Before Ron Paul I had no idea what America could be and exactly what it has become. He has given me hope. I just wish television and the mainstream print media would be as level a playing field as the Internet.
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Howard Dean
Leonard uses Howard Dean's trajectory as a template for Ron Paul's, but he stops with seeing Dean's race for the White House. This is a mistake. Dean went from his White House run to being selected to head the Democratic National Committee -- over the objections of long-time party power brokers. In that position, he appropriated funds to build a Democratic party presence in every state of the union, again over the protests of the old guard who insisted that the best thing to do was to conserve money for known winners. In many ways, the mid-term election results were a validation of Dean's defiance of conventional wisdom. And today, Democratic fund raising is outracing Republican fund raising.
So Dean's story is not just one of a fringe guy attracting a lot of attention on the internet and then withering away under the lights of the national stage. His is a story of a guy who was out to do things differently and leveraged his time on the national stage to win a position where he could -- and did -- make real change.
What does this addition to the trajectory mean when applied to Ron Paul? No one knows the future, but if Ron Paul wins a seat among the power broker and changes some influential minds about what it means to be conservative (less religion, less attempts to manipulate people and nations into certain actions), the Republican party could look very different in 10 years.
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Ron Paul
The election is in the Bag, Ron Paul, the next POTUS.
People are screaming FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOM!
They will have to kill this guy like they did JFK and RK to stop him.
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Ron Paul - this is AMERICAAAAAAAAAA
The election is in the Bag, Ron Paul, the next POTUS.
People are screaming FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOM!
They will have to kill this guy like they did JFK and RK to stop him.
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AMNESTY FOR ALIENS - CONSIDERATIONS
AMNESTY FOR ALIENS - CONSIDERATIONS
It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers; it is very socially and economically disadvantageous to let them stay after the crop is harvested.
With each deportation, America looks, smells, and sounds less like socially and economically deplorable Mexico.
The Mexican dream of regaining political control over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California is turning into their worst nightmare.
No advanced civilization can coexist side by side with a retarded civilization, without a great wall or fence, strict guest labor laws, and armed border guards.
Mexico is land rich in natural resources; what makes it so socially and economically retarded are its Mexican People; and wherever they immigrate they bring their deporable civilization with them - it is so deplorable than none of them want to return to it.
With the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, students will again be able to get good paying summer jobs, to learn responsibility and earn their way through college; blue-collar wages will rise; border towns will not be slums; Spanish will not be a second language; Hate-America Democrats and Neo-Conservative Republicans will lose millions of supporters; crime will go down; hospitals and prisons will not be overcrowded