Posted on 07/31/2007 12:06:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
If Washington, D.C. were the drowsy southern town that Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge rode into, Ron Paul would have a chance. Washington’s not like that nowadays, though. It is a vast megalopolis, every nook and cranny stuffed with lobbyists, lawyers, and a hundred thousand species of tax-eater. The sleepy old boulevards of the 1920s are now shadowed between great glittering ziggurats of glass and marble, where millions of administrative assistants to the Department of Administrative Assistance toil away at sending memos to each other.
Few of these laborers in the vineyards of government do anything useful. (In my experience — I used to have to deal with them — few do anything much at all.) Some of what they do is actually harmful to the nation. On the whole, though, we have settled in with this system. We are used to it. It’s not going away, absent a revolution; and conservatives are — duh! — not, by temperament, revolutionaries.
Imagine, for example, President Ron II trying to push his bill to abolish the IRS through Congress. Congress! — whose members eat, drink, breathe and live for the wrinkles they can add to the tax code on behalf of their favored interest groups! Or imagine him trying to kick the U.N. parasites out of our country. Think of the howls of outrage on behalf of suffering humanity from all the lefty academics, MSM bleeding hearts, love-the-world flower children, Eleanor Roosevelt worshippers, and bureaucratic globalizers!
Ain’t gonna happen. It was, after all, a conservative who said that politics is the art of the possible. Ron Paul is not possible. His candidacy belongs to the realm of dreams, not practical politics. But, oh, what sweet dreams!
Those in the know, choose Sheriff Joe.
Because Paul doesn’t want to be the world’s sole superpower policeman?
Better to be the world’s policeman than not. Name me one country you’d like to have doing this besides the US and the REASONS why?
And if you think that policing the world by a bunch of groups of states works, may I point you to the member-appointed (unelected), mainly socialist/fascist/dictatorial-ridden system called the United Nations?
They’re pretty friggin effective, no?
So he can’t be president cause the dregs of Washington would have to get real jobs? umK.
Cuz he is a Loserdopian. End of discussion.
Who was it who said as soon as you think it's not possible, it isn't?
Other than the fact that is a complete friggin whack job, I see no reasons he couldn’t be POTUS.
plus he’s a nut. That’s a major drawback also.
Not going to happen.
Jimmy Carter was President, and he is a mentally-unbalanced coward like Ron Paul.
You are mean, just plain mean.
Why don’t you go pick on somebody you’re own percentage...
Think Pat. There, now you know why.
1) Because he can’t win the Republican Nomination.
2) See #1.
LOL!
It’s 9-11, that’s why.
The author is John Derbyshire from NRO, Doug Mataconis is the blogger who “borrowed” the excerpt. ;)
Almost everybody’s got their favorite piece of the federal pork pie, and he’s going to piss off just about all of them over their piece.
WHO?
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