I’m PERSONALLY hoping enough Americans will come to their senses, stop praying for a knight on a white horse to come charging to their rescue in the upcoming presidential beauty contest and elect 300 or so men who have read the Constitution outside a required civics class — and UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS.
Should THAT happen, the klintoons could somehow slither back into the White House (not a likely prospect given the 300 good guys swept in on the east end of Pennsylvania Avenue) — AND IT WOULDN’T MATTER as the gang on Capitol Hill would reach for their cajones, FIND THEM and refuse to fund their expansion of the socialist welfare state overseen by an imperial presidency Nixon could only DREAM about.
That said, I respect and admire Ron Paul (there, I’ve SAID IT and stand ready to be further abused!) BUT realize that the current war fervor makes him pretty nearly unelectable. My next choice would be Duncan. He SEEMS to have Ron’s grasp of the Constitution AND a real-world understanding that the current struggle with militant islam is simply the next stage in the Crusades, picking up where Richard the 1st and Saladin left off. Actually, for those who know that history, it never really STOPPED. It just went dormant for periods of time.
Like the alien in “Independence Day,” these people want us “To die!”
Having said that, once the muslim threat is hopefully subdued, I’d hope we would revisit the FOREIGN POLICY wisdom of Washington and Jefferson in re. “foreign entanglements” and, unless and until clear, well-defined national interest and safety is actually threatened, stay the hell out of other nations’ business and politics.
In fact, I think Washington and Jefferson might relate to this as a pragmatic move in the right direction:
NOTICE TO ALL FOREIGN CITIZENS and THEIR GOVERNMENTS!
(EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY)
1. As a sovereign nation, you have the same rights to govern your nation as we have. Whether freely elected or despotic tyranny, how you run your government and DOMESTIC affairs is between you and your leaders. If you people don’t like how your government is behaving, we suggest you read some American history for the period between, say, 1774 and 1789. The world is awash in various sorts of small arms and other weapons. Getting enough to turn out your tyrant-du-jour ought not be a problem. Yes, many people will die (just as they did HERE in the late 1700s). It’s the price of freedom. But — and this is important to us — our SOLDIERS will not be among the dead. But trust us when we tell you that the casualties of your revolution will pale compared to those you will suffer should we be forced to invoke Clause 3!
2. Please pay SPECIAL attention to the word “domestic” in number 1.
3. The MINUTE we become privy to firm, corroborated intelligence that you have plans to harm the United States or one of our recognized allies — or, worst case — DO, in fact carry out such an operation, the United States and any such allies who wish to assist will come to you and request that you cease and desist. If you refuse to do so, we will TURN MOST OF YOUR LAND INTO A SMOKING RUIN. (If you’ve never seen RUBBLE BOUNCE, it’s quite a sight. We saw a good bit of that on 9/11 – and will never forget it.) We include in this list of threats AIDING, ABETTING, HARBORING, TRAINING OR SUPPLYING THOSE WHO, ALTHOUGH NOT CITIZENS OF YOUR NATION, MAKE PLANS TO HARM US OR AN ALLY.
We wish to live and trade in peace with all peoples — BUT harm us or injure/kill American/allied citizens AND YOUR WORLD AS YOU HAVE KNOWN IT WILL SIMPLY GO AWAY — FOREVER.
(If you have never seen it, slide on down to Blockbuster and rent “The Day the Earth Stood Still” with Arabic/Farsi subtitles, of course. REREAD 3 AND THINK “GORT.”)
4. Once those smoking ruins have sufficiently cooled – and the radiation levels have fallen — we will put boots on the ground, clear any remaining resistance and seize your former property for the benefit of those who participated in the neutralization of the threat you posed. Casualties among our troops should be very limited because, as we think you have seen, the weapons possessed by the United States will leave very few to resist. REREAD 4 AND THINK 51st STATE!
QUESTIONS????
Thank you for your support in this vital matter.
The SANE People of the United States of America
Until this becomes our policy, we continue to honor those who have paid the ultimate price for the freedoms so many of us now take for granted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WDrbbtaO0E
A photo was recently posted on the web showing a white board in a Marine barracks in Iraq on which one trooper had written the following:
“America is NOT at war. The United States Marine Corps is at war. America is at the MALL!”
Indeed!
Abuse alarm set and donning second pair of asbestos coveralls...
neither one of your guys is electable. fred thompson isn’t a knight riding in on a white horse; he is, rather, the most conservative candidate who is ELECTABLE this election season. painting fred supporters as starry eyed neophytes is just a bunch of crap.
There could be better on both sides. Simple question. Who do you support?
nothing u said in that post merited a flame. I thought it well said.