Anarchy?
ping
They’re still drinking the Koool Aid.
Who?
Scott McConnell founded The American Conservative with Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos in 2002.......
Enought said
Walks the walk along with talking the talk.
Excellent article, though very sad how far the republicans have strayed from sanity.
Oh jeez, not this little twerp again!
Ron Paul, of the Island Nation Isolationist Party.
http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2007/06/separated_at_br.php
June 22, 2007: Separated at Birth - Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul
On one level you have to laugh that Kucinich and Paul were the only two dissenting votes in a 411-2 Congressional resolution urging the UN Security Council to charge Iran’s president Ahmadinejad under genocide conventions. But it is interesting these particular men stood alone in supposedly principled opposition to the obvious. And I’m sure their supporters would cite these “principles” as being great and idealistic. I’ll leave aside all the usual Neville Chamberlain clichés, because, well, we all know them, and cut to the chase - my view of their true motivations.
I think both of these men became highly-rigid narcissists decades ago. Their entire public personae ... and the attention they crave... are totally dependent on maintaining an inviolable public image. You can invariably predict everything they are going to say, every attitude they take. There is never a surprise, because they are playing roles they have chosen for themselves and for which they were rewarded with public and media attention from years in the past. If they changed their positions and became more reasonable, even in a few areas, they would simply disappear because they no longer fulfilled their roles.
This disappearance, of course, is intolerable to the narcissist. The point - for both Kucinich and Paul- is not to win, but to bask in that reflected glow that justifies their existence. This is also an indication why both do not appear to listen when others talk. To do so would be to have their thought processes challenged and to risk change. What fascinates me in this, however, is that, unlike in national polls where they barely register, a large number of people in their home areas actually voted for the Congressmen. Perhaps Paul and Kucinich have different personalities for the hometown crowd - a kind of sudden practicality - or maybe it’s just earmarks or maybe... those folks back home bask in the glow of the narcissism too. Hey, this famous guy comes from our little town!
Roger L. Simon
Some FR people sure love big government,war and more taxes.My how things have changed on this website.Hillary would love you guys!
Some FR people sure love big government,war and more taxes.My how things have changed on this website.Hillary would love you guys!
Talk about hitting the nail on the head.
“no government intervention, not in personal life, not in economic life, not in affairs of other nations.”
As set forth by our Constitution.
The only approach that I am willing to support.
Reminds me of High School.
He’s got a lot of good qualities and ideas. But, he pissed into the wind (as my daddy used to say) by blaming us for the attacks on 9-11.
He did irreparable damage to himself; just like Bush 41 saying “Read my lips; no new taxes.”
What a difference one statement can make.
One more thing: Would he consider a Third Party run again? He’d get 20 times more votes this time than last time he ran as a Libertarian.