Category Archives: Liberty

The Stupid Party Needs A Bigger Tent (Or, A Bigger Tin-Foil Hat)

Intelligence, Liberty, Republicans, Ron Paul

Listen to the clowns vying for the chairmanship of the RNC, as they pule about “reaching out” to Ron Paul supporters:

Aren’t they stupid? Deeply and profoundly stupid.

One after the other, each huckster proceeds to misconstrue the Ron Paul Revolution. Each sounds off, as dumbly as any female on The View, about the passion and the personality that united Paulites.

Wrong: Ron Paul’s appeal, as he has always insisted perceptively, was in the ideas of liberty. Paul, an impish and ascetic gentleman, is hardly a larger-than-life, expansive personality.

But his ideas are.

Paul’s unequivocal commitment to these eternal verities has made him the legend he has become. His supporters, myself included, gravitated to liberty as articulated by the Thomas Jefferson of our times.

Not one of these RNC asses with ears understood, or articulated, this simple fact.

Updated: Insane McCain (Part II)

Constitution, Elections 2008, John McCain, Liberty

Stumpy arms moving rapidly and rigidly up and down, McCain can be heard these day shouting the following mantra in that deranged monotone: “Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight! America is worth fighting for…fight, fight fight…”

What is he fulminating about? Senile git.

I understand those who say they will vote for McCain because he’s somehow more palatable than the radical Obama. But those who’ve begun to see in McCain a man who knows something about the Constitution and the limits of government are worse than Panglossian.

McCain has been among the worse offenders against liberty and the Constitution.

In a sense, McCain is more dishonest than Obama, who has a Constitutional philosophy he does not hide. Obama believes in sundering the Founders’ Constitution by means of the living-constitution doctrine.

McCain, whose idols are Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, doesn’t believe in the Constitution at all, although he claims to be an original intent or strict constructionist.

I recommend Matt Walsh’s piece “Be Afraid of President McCain,” as it addresses McCain’s philosophy of government. Barry Goldwater’s dislike for McCain is especially telling:

McCain is at his most unintentionally revealing when writing about his Republican predecessor in the Senate, Barry Goldwater. “I really don’t think he liked me much,” he wrote in Worth the Fighting For. “I don’t know why that was.…He was usually cordial, just never as affectionate as I would have liked.”
That it never occurred to McCain why a libertarian Westerner might keep a “national greatness” conservative and D.C.-bred carpetbagger at arm’s length is both touching and deeply worrisome. Does he not understand that there are at least some people in American life who take liberty as seriously as McCain takes his notions of national duty? Judging by a comment he made recently on the Don Imus radio show, the answer seems to be no. Defending campaign finance reform, McCain said, “I would rather have a clean government than one…where ‘First Amendment rights’ are being respected that has become corrupt. If I had my choice I’d rather have a clean government.

Insane McCain (Part I)

Update (November 4): McCain AGAIN today: “fight for America, fight for this country, America is worth fighting for… I choose to fight; fight, fight, fight, fight.”

Definitely “borderline senile.”

A July Fourth Toast To Thomas Jefferson—And The Anglo-Saxon Tradition

Founding Fathers, Government, History, IMMIGRATION, Liberty, Natural Law, The West

I’m delighted to inform you that I will be joining the valorous VDARE.COM family with a regular monthly column.

Here is an excerpt from the first. It’s titled “A July Fourth Toast To Thomas Jefferson—And The Anglo-Saxon Tradition”:

“…Jefferson’s muse for the ‘American Mind’ is even older.”

“The Whig tradition is undeniably Anglo-Saxon. Our founding fathers’ political philosophy originated with their Saxon forefathers, and the ancient rights guaranteed by the Saxon constitution. With the Declaration, Jefferson told Henry Lee in 1825, he was also protesting England’s violation of her own ancient tradition of natural rights. As Jefferson saw it, the Colonies were upholding a tradition the Crown had abrogated.”

“Philosophical purist that he was, moreover, Jefferson considered the Norman Conquest to have tainted this English tradition with the taint of feudalism. ‘To the Whig historian,’ writes Mayer, ‘the whole of English constitutional history since the Conquest was the story of a perpetual claim kept up by the English nation for a restoration of Saxon laws and the ancient rights guaranteed by those laws.'”

“If Jefferson begrudged the Normans’ malign influence on the natural law he cherished, imagine how he’d view our contemporary cultural conquistadors from the South, whose customs preclude natural rights and natural reason! …”

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