Comments on: UPDATE III: Unflapable, But No ‘Flake’ (‘Winning’)

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:29:44 +0000

My comment on winning is that while I certainly want a limited government person like Paul or Gary Johnson to WIN
(in fact, even getting 30% of the delegates to the Republican convention instead of 8 delegates obliged to shut up or get arrested! – would shake things up…) – the Mainstream Media focuses on the Horserace. Replacing Bush with Obama with Pawlenty is merely cosmetic [ Hence the comment “Bush in a bra” for Palin ].

So my focus is on fighting first with winning a long term goal. In that sense, I feel like the Taliban – never give up!

By: james huggins

james huggins — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:21:37 +0000

Bachmann is hot stuff and would be great for the country. I’m sure she’s ready for the slings and arrows coming her way from the depths of the leftist, primordial swamp that begets Democrat politics. But, I like Sarah for many reasons. Maybe I would support Michele over her but I don’t relegate Sarah to the little room where they keep the idiots. Maybe Sarah is no Ilana Mercer, but then who is?

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:19:50 +0000

Several points:

1. Sarah Palin has the philosophical depth of a puddle in the Sahara Desert. An excellent article/video of the Palin/Bachman/Romney/Paul dynamics is in the American Conservative:

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/06/20/identity-vs-philosophy/

2. I disagree with the blaming of US interventionism on Israel or Zionists even if neoconservatives are diehard supporters of the Israeli right. (e.g. CompassionateFascist)

3. Conservative Republicanism, which mismanaged the country 2001 – 2009, is not remotely libertarian. In Civil Liberties, the War on Drugs, Interventionist Foreign Policy, Rightist Social Engineering (such as Federal abstinence education and Federal Aid to Private Schools), TSA, NATO/Empire, Agribusiness…, there is a radical disconnect. That a Bachmann seems better than Whitebread Mitt or Neocon Pawlenty or Loquacious Egomaniacal Newt says very little about Bachmann vs. the large gap that she has to cross to be in the Johnson or Paul side of limited government libertarianism.

4. About “winning” – hell, if it is all about “winning”, just cancel the elections and make Obama the President for Life like Baby Doc Duvalier. Winning has to mean something – so count me skeptical for 2012. The American people love Big Government as long as they don’t have to fork up the costs (e.g. Borrow and Spend).

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:25:21 +0000

A Paul/Bachmann ticket makes sense b/c each one runs stronger in areas & constituencies that the other is weaker in if you read some of the cross tabs in the polls

What kind of damage could MB do as VP to Prez Ron Paul ? LOLLLL !!!!!!!!!

Job 1 should be get RP the Rep. nomination …. then worry about the VP pick

Adjust thinking to how We are going to WIN IT !

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:32:39 +0000

Ilana’s prognostication here is that two wrongs – neoCon Bachmann + libertarian Paul – make a Right. Don’t think so. In the unlikely circumstance that this odd couple somehow mates and wins the election, I predict the same old Monster offspring: open boarders sweatshopping, job-exporting free trade, and the usual Zionist wars, er, ‘scuse me, the “War on Terror”. It’s long past time to give up on both Demicans and Republicrats.

By: Bill Meyer

Bill Meyer — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:18:54 +0000

Ilana, Bachmann votes to extend the Patriot act and brags about it. It’s hard for me to get excited about any further hardcore GOP police state enablers, even if “second in command” on the ticket. True, she’s no Sarah Palin, and a very clever politician. Perhaps that is enough.