Posted on 03/02/2006 1:31:36 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus
Pres. Ford was a "Country Club Republican" and remains so today.
Bump for later reading.
"Pres. Ford was a "Country Club Republican" and remains so today.
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To be honest i'd almost rather have Country Club Republicans who are at least somewhat fiscally conservative than big government social conservatives.
"Social conservatives" are not for big government.
The elected representatives masquerading as social conservatives are.
Really?
(As regards the latter, we have the late R.W. Bradford and Liberty to thank for a thorough investigation into the misbehaviours of the LP under Mr. Browne's leadership, misbehaviours that only began when Mr. Browne himself broke the LP National Committee rules against employing LP workers on behalf of any candidate's campaign for office until said candidate had indeed garnered the formal LP nomination to that office. It was those misbehaviours, plus incidents in which the LP actively, and shamelessly, rejected and even smeared any such attempt by Bradford and other Liberty writers to reveal those misbehaviours, that provoked me to drop my LP membership a few years ago.)
Mr. Browne was not the first and will not be the last who should have remained the writer he was, when all was said and too much done, without giving in to the temptation to exercise beyond his competence. The cause of freedom, of individual rights and sovereignty, and of properly construed government as opposed to the improperly-consecrated State, would have been served far better had he resisted said temptation and kept his best instrument in sharp tune: his pen. (Well, his keyboard.) At its best, that pen (keyboard) was a more effective weapon than any political weapon he could have fired.
May your soul rest in peace, Mr. Browne.
Yeah, really. He played piano, and was also a big fan of opera.
Before Harry Browne got involved in politics, he wrote several excellent books on economics and investing, from the perspective of free markets. His books in the 70's were dead on in their predictions, and I'm sure made fortunes for many who read them.
His truly conservative permanent portfolio concept was and is a great alternative to buying and holding a tradtional portfolio of stocks and bonds, as a look at a chart of the muttual fund based on this idea shows (check out symbol "prpfx" out marketwatch.com or yahoo finance).
I'm not a member of the Libertarian party, but I've respected Harry Browne and his integrity for decades. God bless him.
Thanks for that tip. I believe Harry's idea of the "free market" differs greatly from that pursued by the curent leadership - hence this constant arguing between conservatives puting the nations interests above profit and those who believe that America can withstand the damages pure profiteering inflicts on it. This preposterous deficit and selling our "debt" to ideological enemies...Aaargh! What's the deal; "Peace Through Weakness?"
While I haven't read everything Mr. Browne wrote I got the gist that slaying the goose was the last thing he would have wanted.
He definitely sounds more cultured than Bubba, despite the adulatory media coverage of His Slickness.
That individual was referred to as "Speaker for the Dead". You just did a good job in that role.
I appreciate that very much, especially since I'm still uncertain just how good a job I did. I think that, without realising it, I had heeded the counsel of Bob Costas, upon which I fell earlier today while rummaging about to buttress a piece I was trying to write in memory of Kirby Puckett; Mr. Costas in fact said these words to the late sports journalist Ralph Wiley at the time Sports Illustrated composed a rather brutal cover story about Puckett's post-baseball transgressions, and Mr. Costas was musing upon the clash between those and Puckett's longtime reputation for being perhaps the most humane and likeable ballplayer of his time:
Tell me: When a dark side is revealed in a man, does that render all the good that man did as untrue?"
I might have done better in writing above about Mr. Browne had I known of Mr. Costas's counsel at the time.
Oh paleeze! There's no good reason for referring to Harry Browne and Bubba in the same sentence.
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