What Would Robert Heinlein Say to Ron Paul and his Supporters?

The Freehold ^ | August 28, 2012 | Jonathan David Baird

[Alex Murphy]

“Help me get out of this coffin”?

[muir_redwoods]

“It sucks being dead”

[Uncle Miltie]

"Got Tinfoil?"

[cripplecreek]

I doubt Heinlein would be so cowardly as to use Alinsky tactics and label his opposition as all being Ron Paul types when all know better.

[Timber Rattler]

Heinlein’s dead.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Either go join the Mobile Infantry, or forget about voting.

[danielmryan]

The Heinlien quote from the blog:

“In some states the right of a person to participate in a primary may be challenged and he may then be called on to prove his right by taking an oath to support the ticket which results from such primary. Such a procedure is morally correct; if universal it might do much to put a stop to the present eat-your-cake-and-have-it-too attitude of some irresponsible politicians.”

“Party regularity and party discipline are pragmatically necessary and morally correct in any political party if that party is to carry out its responsibilities. This is especially true with respect to unsuccessful candidates in a party primary; no man should offer himself as a candidate in a party primary unless he is prepared to abide by the majority will of the political group he seeks as a sponsor. Running in a primary is a voluntary action, very similar to joining a caucus; it carries with it responsibilities as well as privileges. A candidate need not enter a primary at all; he is always free to run as an independent instead.”

And a not-so-little question: who else would he say it to?

[ComputerGuy]

I think he’d say something like stfu & stfd.

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

I am not aware that Ron Paul or his delegates have broken any rules. It appears that they have rather used the rules in place to do things that the GOPe does not like. Thus the need to change the rules after the fact.

Ron Paul may indeed be the last best hope to save the Republican Party from itself.

[freedumb2003]

Paraphrasing:

“When a country is big enough where a Ron Paul can become a politician, it is has become too big.”

[marygonzo]

Heinlein was much better in the 1938 German language,

[Yashcheritsiy]

This.

I wonder what Heinlein would say about the GOP-Ers who routinely backstar GOP primary winners (Angle, Buck, Miller, O’Donnell, etc.) since “their” guy didn’t win?

Wonder how the rules apply there?

[DManA]

Heinlein would find Paul too moderate.

[andyk]

Well, I agree, but watch you back around here.

[cripplecreek]

Mitt is just finishing what his dear old dad started in 64 and evicting conservatives from the party.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=897&dat=19640707&id=Py9PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DU4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5063,2157718

At upper left “May destroy republicans; Romney”. Its the same crap. He accused all opposition of being Birchers and called on them to be evicted from the party.

[cripplecreek]

Thus the need to change the rules after the fact.

Its how Mitt "won" Michigan.

The Michigan Republican Party (MRP) Credentials Committee voted 4-2 last night to give Mitt Romney both of the state's at-large delegates, State Policy Committee Chair Mike Cox told MIRS today.

Cox was one of two "no" votes on the committee which met via telephone, along with attorney Eric Doster The "yes" votes included GOP National Committeeman Saul Anuzis, a Romney supporter, and MRP Chair Bobby Schostak.

That would put the delegate split at 16 for Romney and 14 for Rick Santorum, after each candidate won 14 delegates apiece in those divided by Michigan's 14 congressional districts.

As MIRS first reported on Wednesday, the MRP was delaying a final decision on the delegate split until after consulting with attorneys.

Cox said that according to the MRP rules, Santorum and Romney should each get one of Michigan's two at-large delegates based on their take of the popular vote.

"I supported Mitt, but the vote was clearly wrong," Cox said of the Credentials Committee. "It's kind of like Third World voting. We published rules and then we voted to change the rules."

Because The Narrative Cannot Survive A Rewrite

[moonshot925]

Ron Paul may indeed be the last best hope to save the Republican Party from itself.

Please explain how a senile libertarian nutjob can save the GOP.

[Kartographer]

"Service equals CITIZENSHIP!"

"Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you wanta live forever? "

"Don't you know about sergeants? ... They don't have mothers. Just ask any trained private." He blew smoke towards us. "They reproduce by fission ... like all bacteria."

"There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men."

"The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."

[Kartographer]

one more:

"That old saw about "to understand all is to forgive all" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.