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THE DEBATE OF ALMOST, MOSTLY, REPUBLICANS
When the evangelicals and neocons began to dismantle the GOP in the '80s, I said "So long. Call me when the Constitution becomes important again." Finally, in 2007 a Republican did show up amid all the RINOs. So I returned, only to discover that the first truly Republican candidate since Goldwater was despised by the media, the insider establishment, and the fearful. In short, RINOs and lovers of the corporate State.
Though McCain claims "outsider and maverick" labels, he's been part of the establishment all his adult life: Born on a naval base as the son and grandson of admirals, lived on a military bases his entire childhood, went to the Naval Academy, served a full military career, immediately ran for congress in '82 after retiring, moved on to the Senate in '86, and has been there ever since. So McCain has been a paid employee of the US government for 54 years and grew up in an elite military family before that. You can't get any more 'establishment' than John McCain.
So what if the likely GOP nominee believes in restraints on free speech, higher taxation, bigger government, open borders, and 100-year U.S. armies of occupation everywhere from Albania to Zimbabwe? Romney believes in those things too — at least, he does when he's in a room full of people that want him to.
In stark contrast, Ron Paul is the private sector candidate, for all those productive Americans who are sick and tired of foreign wars, Federal Reserve bubbles, the police state, and excessive taxes. Only Ron Paul speaks for freedom, peace, and prosperity.
Without a strong economy, everything else fails as well. When Bush took office in 2001, gold was at $270/ounce. Today's price is over $900--and not because gold has become more valuable; rather, you need more dollars to buy the same amount of gold. The economic failures hitting Main St. and the suburbs will grow and only Dr. Paul is addressing this core issue in an intelligent manner.
And 'national security' conservatives, please note that when the dollar finally crashes (a la the ruble in '80s and '90s), any sense of military security will crumble as well. How many soldiers will continue to defend Iraq, Germany, or Japan when the paycheck doesn't arrive? Or behave as Russian soldiers did and sell military hardware to feed their families?
Comment Posted By CitizenLiberty On 1.02.2008 @ 12:20
