Ron Paul is a genuine apologist for America's enemies who wants to see a continuation of Comrade O's worldwide groveling apology tour and general policy of collapsing America in upon itself as a pitiful and defenseless has been among nations.
Free markets in this day and age is simply code for "no more income for any Americans who work with their hands for a living" and for "send all the jobs to Bangladesh." Let us instead dump GATT and WTO in favor of tariffs to rebuild American industry. The worship of money by our spoiled rich is a national disgrace and not a political cause that can reasonably be called "conservative" or sane, for that matter.
Ronald Reagan was a patriot. The paleopipsqueaks are not patriots. DO NOT imagine that you can hijack the memory of Ronaldus Maximus to advance those whose foreign policy and military policy more resembles by far those of little Ronnie Tutu. If Ronaldus Maximus had lived to see the sorry state to which the likes of paleoPaulie had dragged libertoonianism, he would not have spoken favorably of libertarianism. It was once the philosophy of free men and women and knew the evils of totalitarian enemies. It was once a philosophy which would have recognized Sharia Law as not a libertarian ideal. It became a philosophy which first cozied up to the mass murder of babies by abortion because it is just none of our bidness (don'tcha know?) and then decided that homosexual and other perversions were perfectly OK and then decided that peace, trade and fiddlesticks was an apprppriate foreign policy response to the enemies of Western Civilization. To many libertarians, the only recognizable enemies are God and these United States of America.
I was a Libertarian state party officer until Roe vs. Wade and the "libertarian" response to same. By 1976, I was a Reagan State Chairman when he challenged Ford. Now we have Ron Paul applying that brilliant libertarian insight of refusing to care or do anything about outrages like abortion to foreign policy where he would go on autosmooch for Islamofascist butt. THAT is not the heart and soul of conservatism, just a combination of Margaret Sanger and Neville Chamberlain warmed over. Ignore the mold on the casserole and maybe you will find it a tasty meal with no heavy lifting. I won't.
AND, puhleeze stop with the whining about the poor paleolibertoonians being unpopular on FR or in the GOP. They are unpopular everywhere and rightfully so. Ayn Rand was no conservative. There is no God but Moolah and Ayn Rand was its prophet (profit?) is no statement of a conservative. Conceding that Rand Paul's first name is short for Randall, why do you suppose that Randall tolerates shortening it to "Rand?"
Conservatives and libertarians have diverged and are not to be confused with one another. Frank Meyer's dream of fusionism has failed. To the extent that individual liberty (not for abortion or perversion) and "free" markets and limited government are somewhat important values, they take a permanent backseat to Judaeo-Christian values and national survival without which they will not exist at all. If you are disappointed that the entire conservative movement agenda and focus is not the fertilization and worship of your securities portfolio, tooooo baaaaad.
Neanderthal and proud of it. What you and most of the leftists call "neocon" is, of course, conservative. The actual "neo-cons" are still a handful of surviving and mostly New York City based nonogenarian intellectuals who used to be socialists (but emphatically NOT communists) but fled the Demonratic Party when it was seized by McGovern and the communists in the early 1970s. Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Gertrude Himmelfarb, et al. The departed include Sidney Hook, Daniel Patrck Moynihan, the Rostows. You do their intellectual stature a disservice by taking their collective name "neocons" and applying it to garden variety conservatives of lesser intellectual rigor but more conservative views on domestic issues.
As to the paleos posing as "conservative" but are not and the libertoonians, they share the always fatal flaw of believing with a pissant coward like Neville Chamberlain that nothing is REALLY worth fighting for. As the good Book says: Men cry peace, peace! but there is no peace.
Ron Paul and his political love slaves have much more in common with Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, International ANSWER, John Lennon's Imagine and Ramsay Clark than they do with patriotism or any form of actual conservatism. And lest we forget, paleoPaulie's campaign last year drew the eager support of the likes of David Duke. Yes, paleoPaulie and his spawn are not very popular around here nor should they be.
Oh, and Ronaldus Maximus campaigned repeatedly for a Congressional candidate named Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. in 1970 so I wouldn't be reading too much into his campaigning for the paleofruitcake Ron Paul many years ago and long before Paul had apostasized from conservatism to be the Al Qaeda mouthpiece in the last presidential tournament. The appropriate (and merciful) conservative response to the Galveston treasonweasel is to deport him permanently.
Nice post!!
It must have felt good to get that off your chest.
Great line!