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2007-09-12 Home Front: Politix

Ron Paul tells Bill O'Reilly US policy, not Iran, is the real problem

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Posted by Delphi 2007-09-12 13:50|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 O'Riley needed to let him speak a bit more and stop interupting him. The guy is an idiot and his stupidity was interupted by O'Riley saving him from himself.

Posted by 49 Pan 2007-09-12 16:51|| 2007-09-12 16:51|| Front Page Top

#2 I was gonna listen to him, but the crickets drowned him out...

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-12 17:06|| 2007-09-12 17:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Why is Bill O'Reilly interviewing drugged-out anti-Semitic nutcases, anyway?

Posted by Mike 2007-09-12 17:40|| 2007-09-12 17:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Check out Youtube videos of Ron Paul's appearance on Morton Downey Jr's talk show, when he was running for the Libertarian Party. He is a goof.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-12 18:23|| 2007-09-12 18:23|| Front Page Top

#5 "principled right-wing opposition"

Ron Paul fits this description exactly how?

Let's put aside his denied (by himself) but undeniable (by the facts) anti-Semitism - an anti-Semitism shared by, at minimum, a plurality of hard-core libertarians (Rockwell, Sobran and Raimondo leap to mind).

Ron Paul is an ideologue dedicated to a meme set as unrealistic and utopian as that of the left, albeit in a very different direction. In a world with no external enemies and where every single human was guided by Judeo-Christian values that create strong private social norming, we could get pretty close to his hard core anarcho-capitalistic, down-the-line libertarian utopia.

Unfortunately for his theories, the world is NOT like that, and won't be for millenia, if ever.

Capital-L libertarians are right about a number of things, but they are right in the manner of the drunk at the end of the bar who says one brilliant thing followed by nine stupid, outrageous, hurtful, and dangerous things. Most of the important (read, good for preserving a free, capitalist West) parts of libertarianism have already existed in conservatism for decades.

Guns don't kill people - utopians do.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-09-12 20:11|| 2007-09-12 20:11|| Front Page Top

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