So, what is IED? Wikipedia and AcronymFinder were of no apparent help.
And why are you so openly hostile against Ron Paul? You call him names like Dr. Demento, paleoPaulie, and El Run Paulie and it seems quite childish, to say the least. Can’t you simply call him by his actual name? And “libertoonianism”... cute. Can’t you please be respectful enough to call them by their actual names?
Oh, and this isn’t pathetically patronizing at all (/sarcasm): “OK: Kindergarten English is now in session:”.
I didn’t call myself conservative, but I do believe that RP’s simple statements about the humble beginnings of the republican party. I understand that when the world changes, it causes countries and people to change, but you must also understand that people have always felt like “How can it possibly get much worse!” I mean, the Christians in the years directly following Jesus’ death thought Christ was coming right away. What people don’t seem to want to understand is that the human condition has never changed. We’ve always been a “flawed”. Also, people like to think that homosexuality is a new fad, but it’s been around for millenia.
I am openly hostile to Ron Paul. Why??? Thanks for asking. I despise Ron Paul and the surrendermonkeyism and tin foil hat and tin ear and rank stupidity and license for which he stands.
I despise paleoPaulie's phony pretenses of being: 1) a patriot; 2) a "constitutionalist" (he knows as much about the constitution as he knows about war and its frequent necessity); 3) a fiscal conservative (packing tons of Galveston pork by earmark into appropriations bills which he then cosmetically opposes knowing his colleagues will send his pork to Galveston anyway in order to obtain their own); 4) a Christian and a loyal American while deriding the Cross and the flag as fascist symbolism; 5) that abortion is somehow not fit to be nationally prohibited a mere 35 years into Roe vs. Wade being crammed down our throats by SCOTUS; 6) supportive of actual marriage (the kind that is limited to one man and one woman) while simultaneously imagining that the central government has no role to play in thwarting make believe marriage of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court type between Adam and Steve or between Bertha the Butch and Gertude the Lipstick or among twelvesomes or involving household pets or space aliens.
As to libertoonians, I will respect them when they become respectable. Before that happens, they will need to abandon their support for baby killing, their support for lavenderism and other perversions. When I was young and foolish (probably before you were born), I was a state officer of a Libertarian Party organization. Then I grew up. They didn't. I did not leave the Libertarian Party. It left me by supporting perversion, babykilling and being weak on American military commitments, among other things. I don't have to join in such despicable commitments to oppose taxes and regulations of normal human activity of a moral sort. As a Catholic, I can not and shall not idly tolerate the do-nothingism of "libertarianism" as to babykilling and perversion.
I despise paleoPaulie for posing as a pro-lifer while resisting any attempt to nationally put an end to abortion.
I was being properly patronizing as I am in the first sentence of this post.
I certainly agree that homosexuality and other sexual perversions are old evils. That does not make them tolerable.
If I am ever going to duel with anyone here over Biblical exegesis, it probably won't be with you. Evangelicals and other Fundamentalists take their Scripture a lot more seriously than you probably do and I don't fight with them here over such things. I am not going to make an exception to that policy for you.
PaleoPaulie is Dr. Demento because he is, ummmm, demented. Also, I believe that fieldmarshaldj tagged him as such. PaleoPaulie arises from his midget status and the fact that he is one of those despicable "paleowhatevers." He is no conservative and I won't pretend that he or you are conservative. "PaleoPaulie" is a sort of compound noun and descriptive. El Run Paulie conflates his cowardly pretense of a foreign policy with the diminutive of his family name. "A noun is a name word."
Don't feel that the paleopipsqueak is being unfairly singled out. Edwards is "the Breck Girl." Her Hillaryness is Mrs. Arkansas Antichrist or the Hildebeast or Medusa. Barack Obama is simply "Hussein." The Senate Demonrat Leader is Dingy Harry. The Speaker is Nancy Facelift, etc. If paleoPaulie or any of these wants respect they can try the old-fashioned way by actually "earning it." They haven't. This is not gummint skewel self-esteem promotion. This is reality. Libertoonianism conflates what passes for libertarianism nowadays with its recent cartoon stick figure nature, killing innocent babies in the name of some faux "liberty" and favoring rump ranging as a "legalized" substitute for actual marriage.
RP is simple all right, simply wrong and simply embarrassing and simply hilarious and simply antiAmerican and simply antiwar and simply, well, libertoonian.
If you support paleoPaulie but do not call yourself a conservative, then you have taken the first step in the thousand mile journey to honest liberalism. Libertoonianism is NOT conservatism. Congratulations.