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What Would Robert Heinlein Say to Ron Paul and his Supporters?
The Freehold ^ | August 28, 2012 | Jonathan David Baird

Posted on 08/28/2012 12:17:50 PM PDT by EveningStar

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1 posted on 08/28/2012 12:17:53 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

“Help me get out of this coffin”?


2 posted on 08/28/2012 12:20:20 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: EveningStar

“It sucks being dead”


3 posted on 08/28/2012 12:21:11 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Hopey changey Low emission unicorns and a crap sandwich)
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To: EveningStar

"Got Tinfoil?"

4 posted on 08/28/2012 12:21:39 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
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To: EveningStar

I doubt Heinlein would be so cowardly as to use Alinsky tactics and label his opposition as all being Ron Paul types when all know better.


5 posted on 08/28/2012 12:23:33 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: EveningStar

Heinlein’s dead.


6 posted on 08/28/2012 12:23:39 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: EveningStar

Either go join the Mobile Infantry, or forget about voting.


7 posted on 08/28/2012 12:23:46 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
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To: EveningStar
The Heinlien quote from the blog:
“In some states the right of a person to participate in a primary may be challenged and he may then be called on to prove his right by taking an oath to support the ticket which results from such primary. Such a procedure is morally correct; if universal it might do much to put a stop to the present eat-your-cake-and-have-it-too attitude of some irresponsible politicians.”

“Party regularity and party discipline are pragmatically necessary and morally correct in any political party if that party is to carry out its responsibilities. This is especially true with respect to unsuccessful candidates in a party primary; no man should offer himself as a candidate in a party primary unless he is prepared to abide by the majority will of the political group he seeks as a sponsor. Running in a primary is a voluntary action, very similar to joining a caucus; it carries with it responsibilities as well as privileges. A candidate need not enter a primary at all; he is always free to run as an independent instead.”
And a not-so-little question: who else would he say it to?
8 posted on 08/28/2012 12:24:01 PM PDT by danielmryan
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To: EveningStar

I think he’d say something like stfu & stfd.


9 posted on 08/28/2012 12:24:20 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
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To: EveningStar

I am not aware that Ron Paul or his delegates have broken any rules. It appears that they have rather used the rules in place to do things that the GOPe does not like. Thus the need to change the rules after the fact.

Ron Paul may indeed be the last best hope to save the Republican Party from itself.


10 posted on 08/28/2012 12:24:44 PM PDT by Scarlet Pimpernel (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?)
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To: EveningStar

Paraphrasing:

“When a country is big enough where a Ron Paul can become a politician, it is has become too big.”


11 posted on 08/28/2012 12:25:01 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (obozo could bring back literal slavery with chains and still he will get 97+% of the black vote)
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To: muir_redwoods

Heinlein was much better in the 1938 German language,


12 posted on 08/28/2012 12:26:26 PM PDT by marygonzo
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To: Scarlet Pimpernel

This.

I wonder what Heinlein would say about the GOP-Ers who routinely backstar GOP primary winners (Angle, Buck, Miller, O’Donnell, etc.) since “their” guy didn’t win?

Wonder how the rules apply there?


13 posted on 08/28/2012 12:28:34 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
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To: EveningStar

Heinlein would find Paul too moderate.


14 posted on 08/28/2012 12:30:04 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Scarlet Pimpernel

Well, I agree, but watch you back around here.


15 posted on 08/28/2012 12:32:14 PM PDT by andyk (Go Juan Pablo!)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Mitt is just finishing what his dear old dad started in 64 and evicting conservatives from the party.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=897&dat=19640707&id=Py9PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DU4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5063,2157718

At upper left “May destroy republicans; Romney”. Its the same crap. He accused all opposition of being Birchers and called on them to be evicted from the party.


16 posted on 08/28/2012 12:34:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Scarlet Pimpernel
Thus the need to change the rules after the fact.

Its how Mitt "won" Michigan.

The Michigan Republican Party (MRP) Credentials Committee voted 4-2 last night to give Mitt Romney both of the state's at-large delegates, State Policy Committee Chair Mike Cox told MIRS today.

Cox was one of two "no" votes on the committee which met via telephone, along with attorney Eric Doster The "yes" votes included GOP National Committeeman Saul Anuzis, a Romney supporter, and MRP Chair Bobby Schostak.

That would put the delegate split at 16 for Romney and 14 for Rick Santorum, after each candidate won 14 delegates apiece in those divided by Michigan's 14 congressional districts.

As MIRS first reported on Wednesday, the MRP was delaying a final decision on the delegate split until after consulting with attorneys.

Cox said that according to the MRP rules, Santorum and Romney should each get one of Michigan's two at-large delegates based on their take of the popular vote.

"I supported Mitt, but the vote was clearly wrong," Cox said of the Credentials Committee. "It's kind of like Third World voting. We published rules and then we voted to change the rules."


Because The Narrative Cannot Survive A Rewrite
17 posted on 08/28/2012 12:36:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Scarlet Pimpernel
Ron Paul may indeed be the last best hope to save the Republican Party from itself.

Please explain how a senile libertarian nutjob can save the GOP.

18 posted on 08/28/2012 12:43:02 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: EveningStar
"Service equals CITIZENSHIP!"

"Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you wanta live forever? "

"Don't you know about sergeants? ... They don't have mothers. Just ask any trained private." He blew smoke towards us. "They reproduce by fission ... like all bacteria."

"There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men."

"The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."

19 posted on 08/28/2012 12:45:50 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer
one more:

"That old saw about "to understand all is to forgive all" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.
20 posted on 08/28/2012 12:47:14 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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