“While I disagree with Ron Paul on some issues, I think it is absolutely foolish for the conservative movement to alienate his supporters.”
Agree with you 110%.
The problem is that some libertarians are wandering in the desert and following the wrong Moses.
I was a member of the libertarian party in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The libertarian scholars did seminal work on American private property rights in that period. It was classical Jeffersonian material. Top notch. Really good.
They were also pro-self defense in that period.
Then the addled hippy pot smokers and Marxists moved in.
Do you hear now any calls from libertarians to take back our property from government?
I sure don’t. Such a call would upset the Marxist freaks who’ve infiltrated the libertarian party.
Here’s a clue for the wayward Ron Paul:
1) Jihadists attacked our private property on 9-11.
2) It’s okay to use the libertarian tenet of self-defense, defend our property and kick their asses.
Ron Paul has lost his way and is supping at the Marxist table. No true libertarian will follow him because he’s turned his back on the basic libertarian tenets and Jeffersonian principles. If you libertarians still don’t get it, please read Jefferson’s writings. He exposes Ron Paul as the fraud he is.
Sorry, that’s a fact.