Ron Paul is no moderate. I knew moderate Republican and moderate Republican is not Ron Paul.
OK, OK, I tried to be tactful and nice and see where it gets us? Ron Paul is no libertarian, particularly not of the civil variety. Rigidly moralistic, having once dressed down an aide for using the term "red-light district" in front of a female colleague, he would display no tolerance for what brings people to this site.
Ron, (ahem) Congressman Paul, is a conservative Republican of the Taft-Birch-Goldwater-Reagan branch of the family tree. He, in fact, is an authoritarian (he would expand the process of the unified executive branch) rather than libertarian, and in my view, a stealth candidate of the Radical Religious Right.
On a personal note, which I've put out here before; he's a very sincere, likable, unusually straight forward guy with the ability to phrase things in ways that have appeal for those of us who yearn for simpler problems and solutions. Ron would like to turn the clock of history back to, oh say about 1791. This, by the way, scares the bejeebers out of establishment and moderate Republicans and should have independents, centrists, and liberals quaking at the thought.
But, hell, Kay Baily, before she married Ron Hutchison and became a U.S. Senator, was a sincere, likable, yadda-yadda, and look at her now! Boy howdy!
BUT! At some point during the campaign, one of his buttons will be pushed and you will see a glaze come over his eyes, the veins in his neck will knot up, his head will tilt slightly as though the transmission from the mother ship is finally coming in loud and clear, and he will expound some nonsense and right-wing rote with spit flying. Choice could very well be that button.
Listen up y'awl. I ain't often wrong about this here stuff. You just watch and see.
OK, OK, I tried to be tactful and nice and see where it gets us? Ron Paul is no libertarian, particularly not of the civil variety. Rigidly moralistic, having once dressed down an aide for using the term "red-light district" in front of a female colleague, he would display no tolerance for what brings people to this site.
Ron, (ahem) Congressman Paul, is a conservative Republican of the Taft-Birch-Goldwater-Reagan branch of the family tree. He, in fact, is an authoritarian (he would expand the process of the unified executive branch) rather than libertarian, and in my view, a stealth candidate of the Radical Religious Right.
On a personal note, which I've put out here before; he's a very sincere, likable, unusually straight forward guy with the ability to phrase things in ways that have appeal for those of us who yearn for simpler problems and solutions. Ron would like to turn the clock of history back to, oh say about 1791. This, by the way, scares the bejeebers out of establishment and moderate Republicans and should have independents, centrists, and liberals quaking at the thought.
But, hell, Kay Baily, before she married Ron Hutchison and became a U.S. Senator, was a sincere, likable, yadda-yadda, and look at her now! Boy howdy!
BUT! At some point during the campaign, one of his buttons will be pushed and you will see a glaze come over his eyes, the veins in his neck will knot up, his head will tilt slightly as though the transmission from the mother ship is finally coming in loud and clear, and he will expound some nonsense and right-wing rote with spit flying. Choice could very well be that button.
Listen up y'awl. I ain't often wrong about this here stuff. You just watch and see.
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