Roberta and Keepusfree calibrate targeting
We beg your patience.
As the only war correspondents reporting from the front on the internal war between the GOP Establishment Left Pragmatist Elite and the Conservative movement The Reagan Wing has been far too silent. But the reason is that we are combatants as well and it is hard to both operate heavy artillery AND write commentary, difficult to fight a war and report on it simultaneously.
But we’ll get around to it.
Doug, pinned down in the 32nd
There is much to report. First and foremost, we have seen the unmasking of many Predators, the men and women who wear conservative camouflage to work invisibly behind our own lines by treachery, sometimes talking the talk, but destroying the conservative cause, the most evil faction in American politics.
Doktor Jeep in the field.
And, as promised, we will NAME NAMES.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be interesting.
The problem is they have nothing to fear about being exposed because they know that religious authoritarian types and rednecks will ignore all talk about the Constitution as if that’s a document that only lefties like the ACLU care about, or the authoritarian types will take advantage of that document’s huge flaws to carve out an excuse for no real freedom at all.
The US media has learned recently that they can cover Ron Paul while confidently knowing his message will only be understood by a few anyway.
And even over at places like DailyPaul, there are pro-Santorum trolls pretending to be Ron Paul fans who argue against small l libertarianism and get away with it because there are so many “christians” in the Ron Paul movement who only need a little nudging before agreeing to authoritarian stuff, like banning pornography, that normal small l libertarians would never agree to.
Ron Paul torpedoed his own campaign when he only attacked Santorum in Michigan last month with a TV ad about Santorum’s fake fiscal conservatism.
What Ron Paul needed to have done is a full bore attack on Santorum for wanting to get into people’s bedrooms and Ron Paul should have never let up on that issue once he started it.
By not even mentioning this topic, Ron Paul marginalized himself and I see no evident “hot” civil war between the Santorum crowd and the others.
I can see why the Romans persecuted some (small c) christians. It was because too many would-be christians understood Christ’s teaching as a call to control other people’s lives via government. The Romans would have rightly feared that kind.
Dear Anonymous (gotta admire that kind of courage),
Your image of “religious authoritarian types and rednecks” is derivative of lamestream media stereotypes roughly 25 years worn out.
Your assumption that enormous powers left by the Constitution to the States and to the people are “huge flaws” is, itself, an unconstitutional denial that such authority exists or could be legitimate. They are flaws only if YOUR philosophy is the “word of God,” as Ayn Rand affectively asserted hers to be.
It is true that Paul has gotten a lot of coverage that will not accrue to the benefit of acquiring the Republican nomination (though it will ensure his victory if nominated). It is a strategic approach with which I am in some disagreement. He has been more interested in planting seeds among college students (most of whom won’t vote, as has been amply demonstrated, in caucuses or primaries) than he has in selling his ideas to a Republican Base that many among his top campaign team appear not to know exists.
You certainly don’t.
Mr. Santorum’s much-publicized 2006 comment (to National Public Radio) where he opposed “libertarians” for saying “we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom” betrays, I think, a serious Santorum ideological weakness. It clearly implies he sees no limit to government intrusion and particularly his own intrusion as a Federal Legislator, where it is also a violation of his oath of office. But the comment was also a reaction to far-left propaganda that implies laws against killing pre-natal children or laws against prostitution are, somehow, “in the bedroom,” when, in fact, once legalized they are “in the yellow pages.”
Your (apparent) idea that Paul should have focused his campaign for the Republican nomination seeming to promote supposed “rights” of prostitution and pornography (correct me if I’m wrong) not only misinterprets Paul, but deeply misunderstands the American Electorate.
Your antipathy for Christians is tangible. But your last paragraph is impenetrable. Are you saying the Roman Empire, the one achieved by brutal world military conquest, the one that fed innocent people to lions as public entertainment did so because they feared a philosophy of authoritarianism?
Whoa…can’t wait to see the final report
I wouldn’t touch that pattern of camo with a borrowed 10′ pole.
Sorry to say that after a few years working at the County level GOP, I finally do understand why so many people hate Republicans.