- ‘Malice towards none; charity towards all.’ With an implicitly Christian Lincoln quotation, Gary North starts an inauguration speech he wrote for Ron Paul. Repeal all executive orders and: I am not here to make America better. I am here to veto laws that will hinder American citizens from making America better. (Nod to Thomas DiLorenzo: Lincoln was a horrible ruler – a dictator – and probably not really a Christian, but a great speechwriter and self-taught cultured, a very smart frontier lawyer, so he knew how to draw on America’s Christian culture rhetorically.)
- Why he can win. A spoiler like Ross Perot in ’92? (My first Libertarian vote was that year: André Marrou.) Maybe. He might cancel out the Dinkins effect, giving Obama another term. But a mainstream GOP candidate like the Mormon robot doesn’t deserve to win, so, so what? Anyway: If he were to walk away for a third party, he would take at least 12% of the Republican vote with him. He would also take another 15% from the Independents and at least 11% from the Democrats. This would give him 38% – enough of the vote to win the Presidency in a three-man race. How about Paul/Johnson on the Libertarian ticket? Like we’ve been saying for many years, the Republicans and Democrats are really one party. (Obama: Bush’s third term. How’s all that hopenchange working out for y’all? He’d get away with it but for the depression.) Even if Obama gets re-elected, the Dems and the GOP will be gridlocked and thus nothing will get done. Like second-term Clinton vs Congress? I wish. Gridlock = no government = prosperity. Remember the late ’90s? Today it’s all theatre. The government doesn’t shut down and nobody but Paul is trying to cut spending. The GOP wants to raise spending a little less. The culture wars are a red herring.
- Worse than 2008, the year the depression almost took away my job of then 11 years.
Catholic integralism is the true seamless garment.
Don't apologize for things you didn't do, to people who don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
Friday, December 23, 2011
From LRC
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