Posted on 05/19/2007 2:28:33 PM PDT by The_Eaglet
The report in on the South Carolina Republican debate is that former New York city mayor, Rudy Giuliani came off like Ronald Reagan when he passionately rebuked Congressman Ron Paul on daring to suggest that people in other countries may not like these United States playing Empire in their countries.
First, will somebody please pass me the barf bag? Comparing Rudy Giuliani to Ronald Reagan is like comparing Boy George to Margaret Thatcher. Reagan was pro-life, while Giuliani is pro-abortion. Reagan was pro-second amendment while Rudy supported gun laws while Mayor of New York city. (As an aside, in the history of Presidential politics has a serious candidate ever had for his claim to legitimacy his previous experience as a Mayor?) Reagan at least talked the game regarding limited Government and family values while Giuliani is a cross-dressing, gay associating, big government, thrice-divorced, abortion-supporting, New Yorker whose last wife had a role in a Broadway play entitled ‘The Vagina Monologues’. Better make that two barf bags please.
Second, Congressman Paul was absolutely correct to note that America was attacked, ‘because we’ve been over there. We’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years. … We’ve been in the Middle East.’ Paul continued, ‘Right now, we’re building an embassy in Iraq that is bigger than the Vatican. We’re building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting.’
Americans typically don’t like hearing this kind of truth but it sure explains matters a good deal more clearly then the tripe that insists that 9/11 was a result of their hatred of us because of our freedoms. Yeah, right… countless Muslims are styling explosive vests and blowing themselves into itty bitty pieces because they hate our having freedom. It couldn’t be rather that countless Muslims are styling explosive vests and blowing themselves into noncollectable DNA because they hate us for squelching their freedoms (and I do immediately concede that their notion of freedom is severely twisted).
Americans have forgotten that there was a time when the citizens of this country didn’t think it had to be the World’s globocop. Before WWII many Republicans were known for supporting the idea of ‘America First,’ because they believed in a foreign policy that was not characterized by international adventurism. Americans, having a short memory, have forgotten Mr. Republican Bob Taft who supported the assumptions that informed the America First movement. Americans have long forgotten voices like Garet Garret and John T. Flynn who manfully wrote sensible monologues on the advantages of abjuring the instinct towards international adventurism, chief of which is the preferment of seeing our sons (and now daughters) stay home, marry and have children as opposed to being maimed and killed on the Battlefields of the State’s choosing. Americans have gotten so used to piddling in everyone else’s pool that we have forgot that there was a time when we were to busy keeping our own pool clean of piddle that we didn’t have the inclination to go around piddling in pools foreign.
Americans are so busy thinking of ourselves as the righteous ones and as those who the whole world naturally want to be like that we can’t see that places like Kosovo or Baghdad are smart enough to resent having smart bombs dropped on them. Ron Paul was absolutely correcting in noting the resentment in the World that our foreign policy drives, and even if Paul were overwhelmingly wrong on that issue (and he’s not), I don’t see how ‘America’s Mayor’ can non-hypocritically muster up righteous indignation over what he views as Paul’s error when he supports a domestic policy that kills as many people daily as were killed on 9/11.
Rudy Giuliani is no Ronald Reagan. The closest thing to Ronald Reagan on that stage last night was Congressman Ron Paul. It would be nice if self styled Republicans would quickly learn that
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Maybe Ron Paul should seek their nomination instead of the GOP nomination.
The people sure would. But our elected and who they work for would welcome them with open arms and fattened portfolios. So would Rudy.
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