[Vision2020] Ron Paul (was RE: How Could Anyone Support That Woman?)

[Saundra Lund]

Hi Keely,

 

The real Libertarians I know were onto Ron Paul before I was.  Granted,
there are lots of Libertarians I don't know, so my sample means nothing.

 

I admit to being intrigued initially, but my Libertarian friends
straightened me out but quick!  Rather than trying to recount the education
they (and others) gave me, folks who aren't aware of Paul's history should
check out The New Republic article (ours just arrived within the last couple
of days):

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84
ca

OR

http://tinyurl.com/3caypg

 

 

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of keely emerinemix
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 1:01 PM
To: Sunil Ramalingam; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] How Could Anyone Support That Woman?

 

Believe me, I'm not a "wild-about-Hillary" type at all.  I think I would
have liked her very much about 30 years ago, when she hadn't met Bill, and
THAT Hillary would likely have grown up to be a formidable candidate --
intelligent, caring, strong, but without the taint o' slime from her man.  

Still, the thought of McCain affirming that we could be in Iraq for another
several decades, the loose cannon that is Giuliani, Huckabee's grinning
mouthful of Religious Right American Pie, and Romney's oozing schmoozefest
-- there's not a one of 'em I could vote for.  And I'm a Democrat, so quite
naturally I gravitate toward Edwards, who of the three left is the most
"essentially Democratic" in his social and foreign policies.  He won't win,
though, so I will gladly support Obama, with whom I agree on almost
everything, and for whom I'd work as hard as I could.  I was very impressed
with Richardson, and my prediction is that Obama/Richardson will be the
Democrats' ticket come November.

Oh, yeah.  Ron Paul.  Sorry, but it's not enough to be opposed to the war in
Iraq.  I'm not a Libertarian and don't believe there's such a thing as
Christian Libertarian, and so Ron and I will have to agree to disagree.  In
all seriousness, though, it bothers me how undiscerning his supporters are.
Many are true, free-market Libertarians; most, it seems, are just
contrarians, rabid anti-Iraq'ers whose blinders are tightly screwed on, or
the grossly ignorant who think that secular Libertarianism looks enough like
affluent anglo male Christian dominion to warrant their support.

Keely



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