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The above graph is from The Futurist

Cross Posted at Classical Values

Why Isn't Gary Johnson Included?

Here is a little ditty I got by e-mail.

Republican Liberty Caucus Advisory Board member Gary Johnson, the former two-term Governor of New Mexico, is being excluded from the upcoming CNN/WMUR/New Hampshire Union-Leader Republican Presidential debate taking place in Manchester on Monday, June 13.

Maybe it has something to do with the criteria for being in the debate.

According to these criteria, the following invited candidates should not have been:

Former Ambassador Jon Huntsman (who declined the invitation)
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Former Senator Rick Santorum:
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Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (who declined the invitation):
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Gov. Johnson, who was included in last month’s debate in SC and has already been accepted for next month’s debate in NV, and who has consistently polled alongside Santorum and above Huntsman, however, did not receive such special treatment. The several declined invitations proves that Gov. Johnson was not excluded for want of space on the debate stage.

Read the whole thing to get all the details.

What can you do about it? I'm glad you asked. You can contact these folks:

CNN
(404) 827-1500 or (202) 898-7900
Text: CNN (space) and your news tip to 772937 (don’t forget the space after CNN).
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html
Twitter: @CNN or @teamCNN

WMUR
http://www.wmur.com/contact/index.html
(603) 669-9999
Twitter: @WMUR9

Union Leader
publisher@unionleader.com
http://www.unionleader.com/tip
(603) 668-4321 Twitter: @unionleader

With Twitter, use hashtag #GJ2012 or #GJinNH.

There is also a petition to sign. I was #392 (roughly). It is going to take at least 10,000 sigs to draw any attention. Get busy. And get your friends.

So who is scheduled so far for the debate?

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, businessman Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum...

Maybe if Johnson remains obscure he will have a better chance of being picked by Palin. Maybe not.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

Paul Launches Assault On RomneyCare

(Note that the time shown in the image is GMT - heh)

Ron Paul is launching an all out attack on Mitt Romney and the socialized medicine plan he devised for Massachusetts.

This could be just round one for Paul.

It looks like Paul is only beginning to hit Romney on health care. Sandwiched between the title and the money on Paul's website are the words "Round One."

I'd love to see Romney knocked out early.

And just as a completely wacky aside I think 4 July 2011 would be a good day for Palin to announce. Something about America's birth certificate maybe.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

Foreign Policy

I'm having a discussion over at Zero Hedge with Crockett. We are looking at Ron Paul's idea of Foreign Policy. Needless to say - I'm not a fan.

Way ahead of you Crockett, my man. I already make my world conform to my desires. And I'm not unhappy with the results. International politics is a mugs game. Those who can play it well are thugs. Reality. You don't like it? Well the answer is to fix human nature. You up for it?

People are what they are. No amount of libertarian philosophy will change that. What do people really want? Liberty? Doubtful. The question on every man's tongue is a very old one "ubi est?" So I work for a little liberty at the margins. Ending the drug war is within reach. So I reach for that.

I used to have grand dreams for a country premised on Liberty. Now I'm willing to settle for movement at the margins. i.e. something that can actually be done.

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My ideal foreign policy establishment:

A State Department run by Warmongers who are willing to settle for peace. And a War Department run by Peacemakers who are the most vicious warriors on the planet. The Marines get it. "No better friend, no worse enemy."

Ron Paul is a Peacemonger. They are most dangerous because they usually deliver the opposite of what they claim their aim is. This is my view:

Peace through superior fire power and the willingness to use it.

To be loved is a good thing. For the rest fear should suffice.

Of course domestic policy is different and there Paul shines. What he is unable to do is to reconcile the two systems. He wants the world to be a logical place. It isn't. Proof? There are Frenchmen.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

The Next Ron Paul?

To tell you the truth I'm not entirely comfortable with the last one. His policy re: the jihadis is not very sound in my opinion. In any case the both agree about drug prohibition.

"I really wanted to take a hard look at the war on drugs in this country, and I wanted to include legalization as a potential alternative to what we were doing," Johnson told the audience, to cheers.

If it's any indication of Ron Paul's effect on Republican politics, CPAC's young audience has taken on a more libertarian strain since his 2008 run. Last year, Paul won the presidential straw poll, to the surprise of many.

In 2012, the libertarians in the Republican party will be looking for somewhere to go. Paul has not yet said whether he intends to run.

A marijuana legalizer will probably not win the White House any time soon. Johnson himself says the nation is two years away from a tipping point on the issue, when it stops being "the one issue you can't talk about and get elected." According to that timeline, the tipping point will occur several months after the 2012 Election Day.

But Johnson's campaign could surprise, in the same way Paul's did.

"Gary Johnson could very well make a strong showing in the New Hampshire primary. 'Live Free or Die,' after all, is their motto," estimates Ethan Nadelmann, who heads the Drug Policy Alliance.

I expect we will see legalization as a winning issue by 2015 or 2016. Why?

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." - Max Planck

The same goes for political questions.

Ron Paul Will Be Auditing The Fed

I'm a little late to the party (this is from 12 Nov.) but it is true.
Ron Paul will be keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve.

Ben Bernanke has had his hands full since his first day on the job as Federal Reserve chairman nearly five years ago. It's about to get even tougher.

His harshest critic on Capitol Hill, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, is about to become one of his overseers.

With the Republicans coming to power, Paul, who would like to abolish the Fed and the nation's current monetary system, will become the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy.

If you've never heard of the committee before, you're not alone. But Paul promises you'll be hearing a lot more from it.

"It's basically been a committee that's dealt with commemorative coins. I'm going to deal with monetary policy," he said.

Another site described the move this way:

The greatest critic of fiat currency perhaps anywhere in the world is about to take control of a congressional panel that would conduct oversight on the US Federal Reserve bank.

This could get interesting.

Yes it could.

A book by a well known libertarian author on the subject:

The Case Against the Fed

Here is part of a review from 2000:

This book, written by Murray Rothbard, an economist and historian of fairly well known repute, is a scathing attack on not only the Federal Reserve, but the interests that created this institution. Rothbard is an adept writer, as he takes a concept that can be fairly daunting and makes it accessible to the those readers without an economics background. I considered trying to earn a degree in Economics, but abandoned it when I found out that most of it is tied to higher mathematics. I'm more interested in the conceptual side. Rothbard cuts out math and focuses on the real meat of the issue, the concepts that govern money supply and inflation.

The book starts by discussing the biggest problem with the Federal Reserve system, which is fractional reserve banking. Rothbard explains how this system is only functioning because people believe that it works. If there was a run on banks tomorrow, the entire financial system would collapse, because there isn't enough "real" money in reserve to cover all of the bank notes in circulation

How far are we from such an eventuality? Probably too close for comfort.

Of course metals are no panacea. A flood of precious metals from the new world in the 16th century caused severe inflation in Spain. Now a days it would take a gold asteroid to do the job. But that is a possibility that is not out of the question.

The Long National Nightamare Is Over

Ron Paul has taken Tim Leary's advice and dropped out of the Presidential race. Or as we like to say in election geekese "scaled back his activities".

It really wasn't much of a nightmare except in blogistan. Just mention that Ron was a front man for Neo-Nazis or Christian Reconstructionists and all kinds of commenters would argue the point back and forth for days. Great for traffic.

Obviously that won't work much longer. I guess I'll have to go with the old standbys sex and pornography. Hardly any one wants to discuss them. Lots of folks are satisfied just to stand around and watch though.

Ron Paul Is A Communist

Ron is a Communist when it comes to American foreign policy.

Withdraw America from everywhere was their marching song.

I should know. I was a Communist in my youth.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

Ron Paul - Covert Tool Of Zionists

Because he makes anti-Zionists look really bad with his Storm Front Support.

Ron is either a tool of the black ops folks or secretly one himself.

Hey. I need the traffic.

Ron Paul Is Not My Candidate

Prof. Bainbridge explains why Ron Paul is not his candidate.

Let me explain why he is not mine.

It is my belief we are in a 1936 type situation.

We can either smack down the Islamofascists now or let the whole situation deteriorate into a nuclear world war. Yes. They are pipsqueaks. Do we wish to do nothing while they gather strength?

BTW I voted for Paul in ‘88 so I am not unaware of his charms.

I was a hard core Libertarian until 9/11 (Secty/Treas.of the local club for 3 years). My study of history and military science/art in the previous 15 years and the attacks changed my world view.

So I guess the Islamic nutters got their blow back in my case.

Ron thinks if we left the rest of the world to its own devices we would have less trouble in the world. It would reduce blowback.

Blowback is a fact of life because there is no way to know what the perfect policy is in any situation. All you can do is to do what seems to be a good idea at the time. i.e. solve the current problem. It is called muddling through.

The fall of the USSR has lead to the rise of Islamism. Just as the fall of Germany in ‘45 lead to the rise of the USSR.

There is no perfect policy. There is only the best policy for now.

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Ron Paul wants some other country protecting our lines of supply and trade. He wants some other country stationing troops around the world maintaining the peace. I wonder who he has in mind? China? An Islamic caliphate?

No mater what age, the reigning world power always is reviled and always attracts rivals.

Egypt, Rome, The English, and many others. It is part of the job.

The successful power always guards the lines of communication, maintains peace among rival smaller powers, and promotes trade. When it stops doing that it falls.

Decline and Fall
Desolation Row

H/T Instapundit

The Cream Of The Illuminati

I am personally a member of the Cream of the Illuminati. A union with the Bavarian Illuminati is contemplated. When it is complete the Bavarian Cream Illuminati will rule the world.

I think I'll have a double espresso with that.

Inspired by: Libertarian Enemy Number One: Ron Paul.

H/T Instapundit

Ron Paul - Communist Sympathizer?

Front Page Magazine has a bit on Ron Paul's alignment with certain unsavory groups.

The campaign mounted by campus leftists against Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which is scheduled to take place on more than 100 campuses during the week of October 22-26 has taken a new turn with the announcement of a counter-protest at the Washington Monument. The protest, which will be called “American Fascism Awareness Day” is being organized by Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Students for Justice In Palestine, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee among others and will feature speakers such as congressman Dennis Kucinich and presidential candidate Ron Paul, anti-war activists Cindy Sheehan and Harry Karry and actor Sean Penn. According to a spokesperson for the Revolutionary Communist Party, one of the sponsors of the event, “This is an answer to the Jew Horowitz and the neo-conservative Zionists who dragged us into an imperialist war in Iraq and are spreading hatred against Muslims to support their war plans against the Republic of Iran.”

I left the Libertarian Party because of their communist line on foreign policy. I'd say my diagnosis was 100% correct. It should have been. In my ill spent youth I was a follower of the Trots. This comes under the heading of suspicions confirmed.

HT Reference Frame commenter Larry R.

Update: It looks like I have been hoaxed. The "flyer" for the event lists Nov. 31st as the date of the event. There is no Nov. 31st on any calendar. I still stand by my point that the Libs have taken the Communist line on Foreign Policy. HT commenter Grant at Power and Control.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

Neo-Nazis Love Ron Paul

From Little Green Footballs:

We know that Ron Paul is popular with 9/11 Troofers and Daily Kos, but here’s another hotbed of Paulmania—at Stormfront, home of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, where they’re urging the skinheads to ’VOTE RON PAUL IN THE ONLINE POLLS!’ - Stormfront White Nationalist Community.

(Warning: the link leads to a truly vile neo-Nazi web site; it’s there only to prove that this really is happening.)

I'm not going to provide a link to the Neo-Nazis. Why raise their Google score? However if you must look, visit LGF.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

From The Wiki Damn It

Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit, was discussing/live blogging Tuesday's Republican debate and it came out that Stephen (or Vodka as he is fondly known) was once a card carrying Libertarian. So I left a few words:

Another ex-card-carrying-Libertarian. Woo hoo.

I remember a Lib fundraiser calling me about a month after 9/11 and I made smoke come out of his ears.

They haven't called back since. The party must have shrunk 40% in that month.

I've got a few of them on a Ron Paul thread at Classical Values and one guy thought we beat the Barbary Jihadis in 1801-03 (Jefferson) with Letters of Marque and privateers.

Then I pulled up some quotes from the wiki (from the wiki damn it!!!!) and he went quiet.

So then he goes all "no declaration of war" on me and I pulled up another wiki (from the wiki damn it!!!!) about the War on the Barbary Jihadis. More silence. Then I pulled up the actual AUMF and compared it with Jefferson's Congress AUMF from the wiki (from the wiki damn it!!!!) and he hasn't been back since.

Libs live in Libertopia. The land that never was or will be. Like the Socialists looking for the New Socialist Man the Libs are looking for New Libertarian Man. I hope they find him and marry him.

H/T Instapundit

Cross Posted at Classical Values

Ron Paul For President

In '88.

For further details.

H/T Instapundit