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Conservative
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by Ed Donath
November 25,
2011 |
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You can't spell "libertarian" without l-i-b.
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“...We cannot talk about fiscal
responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and
bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the
budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without
looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of
more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign
countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a
few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city
swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a
Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the
world combined...”
- Ron
Paul |
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"No, I did not steal this statement from Barack Obama."
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It's easy to
understand how a youthful anti-war candidate on course to
make "minority history" would appeal to collegians and other
younger voters that comprise America's most liberal
demographic.
But how do you explain
why a septuagenarian perennial politician from a red
state with an (R) after his name who
regularly references what most younger folks consider to be
our "ancient" Constitution and who counts himself as a friend
of the old fogies' Tea Party Movement also appeals to that
same traditionally liberal demographic?
In the case of the current occupier of the White House,
his 2008 runner-up and other fellow liberals, part of their
success resulted from never referring to themselves as Marxists, Maoists, socialists, left-wingers or Keynesians. Even the term
"liberal" was eschewed in favor of a less-descriptive
euphemism: "progressive Democrats".
In the case of
wannabe president Ron Paul the term "libertarian" serves the
same purpose as "progressive Democrats" did for Obama and
Clinton. So if, in the
words of a promotional slogan for an old-time movie that
only libertarians of Ron Paul's generation would recall,
"Love means never having to say you're sorry"
then
Libertarian means never having to say you're liberal.
The convenient
byproduct of this bilingualism, the element that appeals most to
youthful Paulines (those
energetic shills who pack debate auditoriums and stuff straw
poll ballot boxes) is that
being libertarian also means you never have to say you're sorry
for not being a progressive Democrat. Being anti-war,
pro-legalization of drugs and apologetically isolationist is
merely the exercise of a libertarian's Constitutional
rights.
For that matter,
as a result of the inverse of the second truth,
present-day libertarians never even have to admit that they're staunch
supporters of a GOP presidential hopeful.
According to an
American Daily
piece by JB Williams...
As Eric Dondero
(Paul's former campaign manager from 1997 – 2003)
pointed out:
"Although he
[Ron Paul] is running as a Republican, he actually has very
little support from rank and
file
Republicans, as every national Republican
poll confirms. But it turns out that he has very little
support from mainstream Libertarians either."...Ron Paul is only attracting support from the
leftwing side of the libertarian spectrum, virtually none of
whom are Republicans...Please refrain in the future from
using the label 'Libertarian Republican'
[to
describe]
Ron
Paul. Call him what he is -- some sort of populist left-winger."
Dondero
added:
“Since 9/11 Paul has become a complete
nutcase conspiratorialist quasi-anti-Semitic left-wing
America-hating nutball...”
Campaign fundraising
filings show that one of
Ron Paul’s top contributors is internet giant Google with
its history of leftist political activism, both in the way
search engine results are manipulated to bury
conservative-slanted stories and in their campaign
contributions -- solidly Democrat, with the exception of one
libertarian.
As regards Ron
Paul and company...
You can't spell "libertarian" without l-i-b.
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