Comments on: Update III: Palin Pooh-Poohs CPAC (& A Third-Party Plan)

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:56:26 +0000

MyRon Pauli for Prez 2012, book it !

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:54:38 +0000

I don’t know what an honorific is. But I certainly don’t want to give the Republicans any compliments, high or otherwise. My ongoing education at your hands continues.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:40:04 +0000

Having watched the 38 year failure known as the Libertarian Party, I am skeptical of 3rd parties. They become a magnet for marginal kooks, single issue people, and petty squabbles. A national campaign takes $ 1 billion – even one on the cheap with some TV ads basically starts at $ 100 million – not with unemployed college dropouts running for President (like Bednarik).

Single charismatic person 3rd parties like Wallace, Perot, Nader, and possibly Palin live and die with that person – warts and all.

As for “conservatives” and Republicans, they are an ideological muddle. For example, Sean Duffy: ” We MUST ensure the solvency of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. “. These clowns endorse the Drug War and the Liberate Islam Crusade (for all the “real” Religion-of-Peace Moslems who will welcome us as “liberators”). “Conservatives” want to cut taxes but endorse a government with a $ 4 Trillion budget. Even if 20 million illegal aliens, consuming 25,000 of tax money each, were transported to Mars, the budget would be $ 3.5 Trillion!!! – hence you need a Death Tax, high income taxes, etc. to finance the Leviathan. “Conservatives” are part of the PROBLEM rather than the solution.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:59:36 +0000

I use lower case on republicans, democrats, muslims etc. to show lack of respect. However in respect for your superior linguistic ability I will try to use proper spelling in the future.

[it’s not about spelling. “republican” is an honorific. A high compliment.]

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:12:58 +0000

It’s too bad that you, in particular, Ilana, were treated as you have been by the Campaign for Liberty. You donated your intellectual property to the Paul campaign in the form of endorsements and position paper(s) and now, are not even asked to attend a local event (seems to me that you should have been asked to speak at the event.)
Philosophical positions aside, one often makes a decision to stay in or leave an organization based on the quality of interaction one has with other members or those in leadership. In your case, the leaders had a great chance to involve you, and blew it.

By: Ken Coffman

Ken Coffman — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:00:28 +0000

In the last election, I supported RP in the primary, but was going to vote for myself for president…anything but support the weak candidate I think the mainstream media picked for us. I hate politicians, and McCain is a prime example of a cynical, creepy, exploitive reach-across-the-aisle second-hander. But, he picked Sarah and I changed my mind. She is much less of a crooked Washington beltway insider than any other viable candidate I can think of, so I support her. You can tell how scared of her the left is by their rabid, scurilous, relentless personal attacks. They know they can’t beat her, so they are determined to destroy her.
I understand the argument that a vote for a third party candidate is a vote for the liberal (Ross Perot, anyone?). My vote is available, but I’m sick to death of compromising my principles to vote for the least odious candidate.
My vote is available, GOP, but you gotta earn it.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:26:53 +0000

I rarely, if ever, read a book by a politician or Religion theologian. Neither seems to know their subject; maybe because both fields are based on faith. Although the ladies listed above have supported unconstitutional wars, I’ve also heard them make a couple of good economic comments in line with Ron Paul. I would be interested in hearing Ilana’s review of Ms. Palin’s book. In regard to the third party argument, at present we have a choice of losing big or small, but lose we will no matter which way we go. If we wait and try to clean up the party, the Republicans will conjure the dissatisfied back into the fold, mostly because there was not a real voice articulating truth. True a third party will not hurt the Democrats, and will hurt the Republicans, but we can’t clean up the Republicans, the Senator from S. Carolina, has made that clear. If we build a large enough third party to be noticed, future generations will be able to read history; develop new political theory on the base we leave. Who knows, we might even get lucky and become the David.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:05:20 +0000

I agree that politics, a corrupting force, will corrupt the Tea Party movement (like D. B. Norton did to the “John Doe movement” in the movie “Meet John Doe”).

The Global Empire now costs 90% in real dollars as we spent in 1945 when we had more capable enemies than shoe/underpants bombers. See:
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11113
Many of these tea-partiers want more F-35’s, troops in Yemen, and interceptors in Poland – e.g. more Empire.

Will Palin, Bachmann, and these Republicans really stand up to the Global Security state and neoconservative interventionism? Will they really propose domestic budget cuts or just give the usual blather about “cutting waste” and finding some $ 3 million earmark of a Pelosi that constitutes 0.0001 % of the budget?

How many believe in the Constitution vs. those who are happy to just post the Ten Commandments where illegal aliens come for free health care? How many want to promote Leave No Child Behind or “save” Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security? How many believe it is the government’s role to provide people with “jobs”?

Jack – Warren Harding reduced the size of government (which is why the leftist historians hate him).

By: Whoopdy Do

Whoopdy Do — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:14:18 +0000

Haym, quit worrying whether the Dems or Repubs win due to a 3rd party. They are the SAME THING. If either of them win, the country loses.

The only way to change things is to go 3rd party, and we have to start somewhere. I have cast my last vote for the old ways.

By: haym

haym — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:46:08 +0000

Jack, I don’t disagree. But philosophical purity – for now – loses to practical realities.