Posted on 08/29/2011 5:45:07 PM PDT by mnehring
Trend forecaster Gerald Celente may have been right when he predicted more than a year ago a future alliance between progressives and libertarians. On Fox News' Freedom Watch, Ron Paul and Ralph Nader appeared together to highlight many of the points of agreements between Tea Party activists and progressives on the left. Nader explained how Tea party Congresspeople are different from other Republicans in Congress,
to the extent that they are genuine libertarian conservatives and not corporatists. Corporatists believe in corporate government. They are great allies with many liberals and progressives, to challenge the bloated military budgets, to challenge undeclared wars overseas, to challenge hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate welfare, handouts, giveaways, bailouts, to challenge the invasiveness of our civil liberties and civil rights by the notorious Patriot Act, to challenge the sovereignty shredding, job destroying NAFTA and World Trade Organization agreements... and to allow government employees to ethically blow the whistle on corporate rapaciousness and contracts and government misdeeds. Just think of that agenda for a dynamic political force.
Ron Paul echoed Nader's sentiment, citing outstanding debt and foreign wars as issues where both libertarians and progressives have agreed in the past. "We should come together and work together, and I think we can."
As the presidential race of 2012 nears, this alliance may foreshadow some of the unexpected surprises we might witness in future news cycles as the Tea Party continues to reshape the American political spectrum.
Yea, I forgot Baldwin but he is forgettable. And yes, I know, the old Paultard excuse, 'encouraging people to vote for someone is not the same as endorsing them...' whatever. Bob Barr was supposed to even be part of this but he would have none of it. Pretty sad when it was too kooky for the Libertarian. Not that Barr is kooky, he was/is a FReeper after all and the closest to sanity the Libertarians have had in a while.
How could anyone NOT vote for “DR. Paul”. First Dennis the Menice, now Ralph freakin’ Nader? Nooooo. The ‘Great’ “DR. Paul” is not a liberal. Never has been. And that is the truth. Just ask all his lil’ nazi supporters.
And what was happening at precisely the same time in Sept 2008 that Ron Paul suggested that a third party vote was the way to go? The DC insiders were in the process of creating the TARP bailout! Within a week or two of this press conference, John McCain would even suspend his campaign to come back to Washington to be part of it.
In his remarks to reporters, McCain said he did not think the Bush administration’s $700 billion bailout plan, being shepherded by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, adequately addresses the crisis at hand.
In other words, not only was McCain supporting TARP -- this bailout of what would prove to be to largely foreign banks -- McCain didn't think that we were giving them enough!
Ron Paul was getting out the message that we needed outsiders not insiders to be elected because the American people were getting screwed by Washington -- something that the Santelli Tea Party wouldn't wrap their brain around for another seven months, or even build up the steam to act on for another two years!
Sorry, but Ron Paul was on the right side of this issue. We were getting screwed by DC insiders.
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