Then I can post one of these....
Posted on 09/06/2007 10:24:50 AM PDT by NapkinUser
How much did it cost the Ron Paul campaign to license the foreign policy views of DailyKos, DU, Stormfront and International A.N.S.W.E.R.?
“Paulbearers.”
ROFLMAO
I'm not sure what 9/11 was supposed to teach us about being more dependent on the government, but the last time my Constitution changed was in 1992. What'd they add to yours six years ago?
Except that "people relying on each other" (her words) is not objectivism. People peeing in each other cornflakes, just because they can - that's objectivism.
Unstable.
That stuff is Open Source.
Neither pro nor anti-war. But I would imagine Ayn Rand herself would have preferred Ron Paul’s letters of marque and reprisal to our current situation where (according to the politicians in power) we can’t go home, but we can’t fight an all-out war either, and in no case can we benefit from the spoils even to compensate ourselves for the monetary cost of overthrowing the Ba’athists.
Huh?
So lunatics come in all genders and sizes.
“People [voluntarily, as in without the coercion of government] relying on each other” is exactly the cornerstone of objectivism. I’m not sure what system you have in mind that involves peeing in cornflakes, but it has nothing to do with objectivism or libertarianism.
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Back to the 60s style fringer. Typical Paulite. Another MOveon.org "Let's support the finger anti American wack job on the Right and hope he splits the Conservative/Republican base enough to hand Hillary the Presidency". Not a chance this person has EVER voted for a Republican in her life
No, objectivism's cornerstone is the belief "that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or 'rational self-interest'". This, at times, may or may not involve "people relying on each other", but ultimately, a system ostensibly devoted to self-reliance is not built upon a cornerstone of collective group reliance.
Do you even listen to yourself? How exactly, in a primary, can Ron Paul split the base and help Hillary Clinton win? Think!
Then I can post one of these....
Obviously, most of Ron Paul's foreign policy has nothing to do with that of those groups. But if you're talking about the foreign policy of not interfering with the regional politics of irrational groups 6,000 miles away who are just as happy killing each other over millennia-old religious differences as they are killing outsiders, the views were licensed from Ronald Reagan. Any infringement on the part of the left is purely coincidental.
Thanks for the perfect Paulestinian comment. Let's unpack its assumptions, shall we?
Assumption 1: If you disagree with Ron Paul's screwy take on 9/11, then you must be advocating a position that Americans should be more dependent on their government. Fallacy of the excluded middle.
Assumption 2: Paulestinians have some exclusive entitlement to claim that they and only they are the true interpreters of the US Constitution - and anyone who disagrees with their analysis opposes or misinterprets the Constitution. Another excluded middle fallacy.
Assumption 3: The security measures taken by the US government since 9/11 have violated the US Constitution - assumes facts not in evidence.
So to sweep away your flawed assumptions and address the issue:
It is all well and good to be a libertarian individualist living in cloudcuckooland, but it isn't as cute anymore when there are Islamists trying to kill us and it is positively detrimental when the denizens of cloudcuckooland try to impose their ideology on the US when there are traitors within and enemies without.
All of the dozen or so homeschooling moms I know seek counsel from their husbands about elections and candidates. It keeps them from having to waste any time watching George Stephanopoulos interviews on TV.
BTW, 09-11-01 should of taught you that hiding under your bed wishing the bad men would just go away, like Clinton did all during the 1990’s, is an idiot’s dogma. That these bad men ARE willing to come in under the bed after you.
But then the Paulites are too emotionally, and mentally, inmature to deal with reality. They would rather just cling to their Neo Isolationists dogmas and wish the problem go away.
The Paulites world view is not only ignorant and childish, but dangerously stupid as well.
Huh?
27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Ratified in 1992. I'm aware of no amendments ratified more recently.
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