Comments on: No Tats, Toots

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:33:35 +0000

I disagree with Rebel that Ron Paul’s support (outside of a few loons whom, I GUARANTEE, will be prominently features by both Fox News and the New York Times) is motivated by anti-Israeli sentiment rather than libertarian sentiments.

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:01:54 +0000

The early 1960’s kids who marched for Goldwater became the bulwark of the later Reagan “conservatives”. The later anti-war kids of the 1960’s and 1970’s who went for Gene McCarthy, Bobby Kennedy, and George McGovern became the bulwark of the modern day left.

Ron Paul is not going to win in 2012 – the “mainstream” is far too powerful and older people far to scared of any changes in Socialist Insecurity and Medicare (even over decades) – the only hope for Liberty will be the young people who are sick of the generational debt, the idiotic wars, the phony chickenhawk patriotism, the affirmative action shams, the bureaucratic obstacles to economic development.

The only hope for the Republic is for the Republican party to be taken over by the Ron Paul youth or for the Republican
party to collapse.

Meanwhile, Newt failed to make the Virginia ballot (and he lives here!) but this gem is even cuter:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/virginia-republicans-to-require-loyalty-oath-for-primary-voters/2011/12/29/gIQABeTuOP_blog.html

Well, I promise to support Mitt Romney for President …. of Iran!

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:01:26 +0000

I’m afraid this has less to do with Randian philosophy than with the fact that Israel is quite unpopular on most (left-wing) US college campi. Since Ron Paul the only candidate in either party who is not a galley slave on the good ship Israel, he’ll have and retain a lot of student support.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:08:17 +0000

If it’s known that young people are willing to campaign for Ron Paul, other young people will get on board like the followers they are. Maybe, even if it frazzles, we will have a larger core of knowledgeable people to carry on to the next and next election. Who knows, when it all goes in the bucket, we might have enough people who understand to help lead us back to normality.

By: sunny black

sunny black — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:58:29 +0000

Having interacted with some of the young Paul voters, I do see some similarities with the adolescents who supported Obama 4 years ago. The Paul youth are at least well read on Paul’s direction and philosophy, but why the mad devotion to the man? I love Ron Paul, but I don’t Loooove Ron Paul. With many of the Paul youth, if you attempt to introduce nuance to a conversation (even when you’re agreeing with them), they blind you with their psychotic devotion. It’s similar to the Obamatons of 2008. What’s the common strain?

I suspect it’s the need that young people have for the ideal of purity. Someone they can believe in, invest themselves completely, and feel as though they won’t be betrayed. The left projected these qualities onto a young, handsome, “cultured” mixed-race man whom they identified with. The Ron Paul youth see a grandfatherly physician who has maintained a libertarian purity. (Sarah Palin’s devotees — of all ages — are also cultish, but I choose to ignore them, so they don’t offend me). Obama’s kiddie voters were the absolute pits of reason. Listening to them wax eloquent about what made Obama different, how he inspired them to “get involved”, how they cried on election night…*blech*.. made me feel like I was in Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory.