[George W. Bush]

A couple blog entries from an old FR favorite, Claire Wolfe.

Pretty funny overall, lots here for the Paul-haters and the Paul-lovers to chew over.

We need more fun articles like this one. Not just for RP but for all the GOP candidates. Picking a nominee shouldn't be such a parade of killjoys for the party or for FReepers.

[George W. Bush]

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[wideawake]

The guy thought it was already September 11 and greeted me by asking, in a tone of utmost cynicism, "Is your flag flying today?"

A Ron Paul supporter hammering home the fact that Ron Paul and his supporters scoff at patriotism.

**** him and **** Ron Paul.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Every year the Republicans and the Democrats have back-to-back booths -- out of each other's sight, but rubbing each other's butts (which is such a good metaphor for the political reality).

Indeed it is.

[subterfuge]

Yeah, Hilarious...whatev

[jackieaxe]

It’s six years past 911 and bin Laden is still alive. More soldiers died in Iraq this year than last year and still there is no end in sight. I’m not routing for it but there will be a Democrat landslide in November 2008. George Bush took the keys to the country and drove it into a wall.

[MNJohnnie]

Anyone asked the “Dr NO” to explain his hypocrisy on Congressional Earmarks? And I don’t mean the absurd nonsense about his voting against the bills. Easy to vote against a bill when he knows the bill is going to pass no matter what he does. IF he were really a “limited Govt Conservative” he would be leading the fight AGAINST earmarks, not defending them as “a necessary tool of Congress”. Paul is a hypocrite and a fraud

[MNJohnnie]

Sorry anyone with even an ounce of intellectual ability knows full well you never trust what a politician says unless they put their actions where their mouths are.

Paul is a demagogue relentlessly punching the emotional hot buttons of the political fringes laughing himself sick knowing full well he will never have to put his vote where his mouth is.

[kenth]

[John Farson]

We zip-tied half a dozen banners over over-passes. One of the banners came partially loose. Before anyone could go to fix it — someone unknown to our MeetUp fixed it for us. :)

[logician2u]

. . an old FR favorite, Claire Wolfe.

Yeah, those were the days fersure. Back when the Klintoon was in the WH FReepers were a little more independent-minded than today's crop of lackeys for their Republican administration (present company excluded, of course).

I posted several Claire Wolfe articles myself, along with some really radical columns by neo-anarchists like "Bumper" Hornberger, Dr. Walter E. Williams, Leonard Read and Milton Friedman. Well, at least some here these days would consider Milton Friedman an anarchist, since he did, after all, oppose many things the government was doing that it had no business doing. (But he did not opposed the Iraq War, even though he had reservations about its success. His wife, Rose, was against it from the git-go, however.)

Somehow, those posts weren't deleted by the moderators. And most had very favorable comments, even from a few folks we have encountered every so often on these Ron Paul threads.

So I wonder: Is everything really changed since 9/11/2001? Is black now white? Up down? On off? Freedom slavery? Conservative liberal?

If so, what is to become of "traditional conservatives" who practice and cherish American values of thrift, self-sufficiency, strong families and weak government? Are they now an endangered species, whose destiny is to submit to the very regimentation which they have worked long and hard -- throughout the Cold War -- to keep away from American shores?

When you hear "conservatives" promoting such intrusions as national ID cards, warrantless wiretaps, searches of library records (not to mention keeping Google searches around for weeks and months so government snoops can try to connect dots and dashes) -- all for the sake of "preventing another 9/11," it makes you begin to appreciate how far we've come in a short time.

Claire Wolfe will not cave for the sake of selling more books. She has her priorities straight, too, it appears. She supports Ron Paul, but not the Republican't Party, which had its chance and blew it after 1994 and is about to blow it, big time, for 2008.

I'm glad there are Republicans such as you willing to hang in there and go against the tide. However, we both know it's an uphill battle and the winners will write the history, just as they did in 1964 and again in 1972. 1972? That's right. Nixon won while his party lost, and conservatives were tossed out of leadership roles if they so much as used the term "Tricky Dick" within earshot of the PTB. Opposing Nixon was political suicide then, and I have a few dead (politically, at least) friends that could testify to that.

A reconstituted Republican Party, rising from the ashes of a defeat in 2008, could conceivably regain Congress in 2010, but only if the Democrats screw up more than the Republicans did in the past few sessions. And if the members of the RNC finally admit that a smaller federal government, limited by the Constitution, is really what we should be aiming for.

What are the chances?