I posted this article to see if there would be any rational discourse on it, instead all I have gotten back was a bunch of hyperbola, hysterical ravings, stupid pictures and name-calling.
If this is really "Conservatism", God help us all. Because we don't need any outside destroyers, we're doing a good job destroying ourselves.
And yet, you conduct "rational discourse" by making false accusations at anyone who doesn't support Ron Paul.
You suggested earlier that since I don't like Ron Paul, I am for the establishment status-quo and will vote for anyone as long as they have an "R" by their name.
And yet, I have never, ever said anything like that on this forum.
You are also slinging insults at others who don't like Ron Paul.
When you do things like that, nobody will take you seriously.
Therefore, don't be surprised when we're having a little fun at your expense.
By the way, the owner of this site is not exactly a Ron Paul fan, either.
It is no more possible to "rationally" discuss any hallucinated desirability of the paleosurrenderman as POTUS than it would be to discuss naming Charles Manson as law-abiding citizen of the year, Typhoid Mary as poster girl for public health or Jack the Ripper as feminist of the year (even though he shared an enthusiasm for bloodshed with most feminists but having different targets whom he would shred).
Conservatism is not some 18th Century museum exhibit. It is not the substitution of letters of marque and reprisal for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. It is not autosmooching our enemies' butts. It is blowing them off the face of this earth efficiently, promptly and without giving any credence or attention whatsoever to critics whether paleoPaulie or Code Pink. When we learn to do that promptly and without restraint, our wars will cost a lot less. It is not tolerating shameful degradations of our military by encouraging gross perversion in the ranks and the barracks. Check out what happened in Moscow when a Romanov prince who headed the Moscow garrison introduced homosexuality and same sex orgies to that garrison. When someone had chucked a bomb into his touring car, there was not enough of the prince's corpse left to make burial meaningful.
If anyone imagines that paleoPaulie is any sort of conservative, such an anyone is delusional. I feel quite confident that those of us who have devoted many decades to actual conservatism from the days of the New Right forward, who fought Nixon and Gerald Ford on the one hand and SDS and Jimmy Peanut on the other, who elected Ronaldus Maximus after a 16 year effort, who supported the Vietnam War. who resisted Herod Blackmun and the baby-killer Supremes, who have formed the core of this movement for many decades are not going to make way for a bunch of peace creeps and McGovernites and designer libertoonians posing as "conservatives" to make believe that they are the future of conservatism.
What actual conservatives are doing is destroying the pretense that the likes of paleoPaulie have anything whatsoever to do with actual conservatism now or ever.
All of the rational discourse occurred in 2008. The Paulinistas wouldn't accept rational discourse then. The actual primary results spoke for themselves. The fact that L Ron (and his rondamentalists) will put us through this again in 2012 is a joke and a circus.
Therefore, if you post wRONgPAUL threads this time around, the only thing you should expect is a bunch of hyperbola, hysterical ravings, stupid pictures and name-calling. FReeregards.
What would you and your losertarian candidate know about conservatism? Keep pushing it, and you will see a bright flash of light and smell ozone.