you’re not going to see mainstream Republicans defecting en masse to an early 1930s form of foreign policy isolationism.

Yeah allah…the “New” Republican party with its warmongering imperialistic platform really did well in November of 2006 by losing the House and Senate didn’t they?

Wake up Allah. No one wants war except the leaders you bow down to.

McCain doesn’t stand a chance of winning in November of 2008 and the Republican party has nothing to do but go back to its libertarian roots (non-interventionism, less goverment and personal liberty) or disappear from the face of the earth.

What makes you, Michael Goldfarb, Malkin or anyone else who supports this “New” Republican party think that it stands a chance in November with “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran” McCain as your elected candidate when your platform hasn’t changed? Is the economy better? Is oil and gasoline cheaper? You’re killing me here! hahaha

Now go ahead and say something intelligent that has to do with the threat of Islamofacism, blah, blah, blah.

Bottom line is, that’s all you got!

Fed Up

Ron Paul said he was going to stop stinking up the presidential race, but I guess he was just gibbering again. According to the Washington Times, Dr. Faux is whining about being dissed by the GOP and its presumptive presidential nominee:
Ron Paul says…

I find it quite amusing when the neocons and other anti-RP folks are classifying all Ron Paul supporters as bigots,……

Tucker Carlson was right about Ron Paul. He’s mostly supported by liberals who have no idea what he actually stands for.
freevillage on March 19, 2008 at 12:48 PM

I think the liberals have a pretty clear idea what Ron Paul stands for: legalize pot, disband the military and get rid of the world’s only REAL “evil empire.”

It makes perfect sense that the moonbats support Ron Paul. What bothers me is that he keeps trying to get the Republican Party to join his “make drugs, not war” bandwagon.

Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to just go to the Democrats and ask them to give up on ONE issue: that silly little Socialism nonsense? Once they worked out that tiny little bugaboo, you’d have a match made in Heaven.

Say, Mark, what freedom have you lost?

Say, thanks for asking! Here’s the list:

Habeas Corpus (the government now reserves the right to hold American citizens indefinitely without charge).
Fourth Amendment (the government conducted a surveillance program that was ruled illegal by a FISA court).
Financial freedoms (the federal government is notified when I open a bank account).
Privacy of my library records (the federal government can get a list of every book/dvd I’ve rented from the library, without a warrant).
Privacy of my phone records (telecom companies gave call records to the government without a warrant).
Privacy of my State identification documents (thanks to the REAL ID, we’ll have a de-facto national ID system).

Branch Rickey on March 19, 2008 at 9:36 PM

“Sociopath” would have been more fitting.

Joe Becker, our Legislative Director, was the lone hold-out trying to convince Ron to vote “nay”. And he almost did it.

After the vote, his entire staff, save Joe, and his family, all his supporters in Lake Jackson, and all his friends, were greatly relieved.

But he didn’t let us live it down. He complained about “having to vote for War” for months afterwards.

Eric Dondero, Fmr. Senior Aide
US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
1997-2003

Get this! In Kentucky, McCain is leading Obama 56% to 28%!!! And in Missouri, 52% to 32%.

McCain DOES! need to reach out to libertarians. But to Goldwaterite/Dennis Miller/Rohrabacher/PJ O’Rourke Right-wing libertarians, like those in the Republican Liberty Caucus.

Leftwing Libertarians like Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Justin Raimondo, and the Ron Paul legions won’t support him, even if he jumped through hoops.

That’s okay, cause we Pro-Defense libertarians are increasingly warming up to the GOP Nominee.

Eric Dondero, Fmr. Senior Aide
US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
1997-2003

But when I refer to you (accurately)[Drum] after two or three of these posts of yours as a “freak,” I’m apparently not willing unable to engage you on the [a real] level [fill in your own word here] Nice.
Drum on March 19, 2008 at 9:19 PM [fixed for everyone's sake by MOI]

No “Drum” your Big Insight was to call me a “freak” instead of any real response. Now back to YT with your infantile Paulbot isolationist ideas.

Great answer. Look forward to more fabulous insights…./s off

Branch Rickey on March 19, 2008 at 7:18 PM

I love how your apparently (in your mind at least) eloquent posts are finished with some “Paulbot” remark, yet I’m to take you seriously. But when I refer to you (accurately) after two or three of these posts of yours as a “freak,” I’m apparently not willing to engage you on the level.

Nice.

aengus on March 19, 2008 at 8:02 PM

Are you kidding? First, there is ample evidence that the US had its hand in the coup, but you might have to travel somewhere beyond Pajamas Media to get the info and I won’t bother giving you leads — you can do it on your own; don’t worry, it’s scary, but you can handle it.

Second, the US has made no secret of its deep hatred of Chavez and its desire to see him gone. Why? Because he won’t tow the empire’s line; that is, he puts Venezuela’s interests (however noxious those may be) before Washington’s. Imagine that. It got Mossadeq knocked out and it surely will Chavez as well.

I didn’t say we engineered it. In the least gave it a nod and a wink.

You said the US helped depose Chavez. When I pointed out that they did nothing to help depose him except privately approve of it you de-escalated to a “a nod and a wink”. Unless a nod and a wink has some sinister aspect to it you’ve basically conceded my point.

“Feet.”

Whatever, freak.

Drum on March 19, 2008 at 7:12 PM

Great answer. Look forward to more fabulous insights…./s off

Whatever, freak.

Enjoy losing in November.

Drum on March 19, 2008 at 6:57 PM

Losing what? I have no dog in this race. Except for the fact that McVain understand the jihadists (sp?) all 3 (HRC, BHO, JMc) are big spenders and, for lack of a better phrase, complete fools; so I don’t understand what that big “burn” was supposed to be.

Don’t lay your moral and strategic aberrations at the foot of most Americans. Drum on March 19, 2008 at 6:57 PM

Do you even know what that sentence means?

Back to YT Paulbots

jp on March 19, 2008 at 6:02 PM

I’ve read Mead’s book. He caters to deluded old men who couldn’t give a sh*t for you or me. If you dig this sort of thing, go for it. I don’t.

Branch Rickey on March 19, 2008 at 5:55 PM

If you’d notice, I “zeroed” in on foreign aid only after you corrected my original post presuming that I only had military expenses in mind when I wrote “foreign policy.”

Face it, American policy messes with a whole hell of a lot things and you and others call it “national interest.” Maybe your national interest, but certainly not mine. Don’t lay your moral and strategic aberrations at the foot of most Americans.

Enjoy losing in November.

Granted, we don’t hold colonies in the traditional sense, but we control much of the world economically, usually backed with military bases and force.

Drum on March 19, 2008 at 3:42 PM

“The primary ambition of Anglo-Saxon power is not dominance in a particular theater; it is to dominate the structure that shapes the conditions within which the actors in each of the world’s theaters live.”

Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World

when you talk of “Empire” one thinks of Rome, British/European Imperialism, Nazi’s, Japan, Soviets…those types of comparisons are outright slanderous.

if anything we are the leader of an empire of Liberal Hegemony or as Thomas Jefferson envisioned an “empire of Liberty”..

Not quite. Foreign aid is part of foreign policy and much of that aid does little to ensure domestic tranquility. Cato has studies on the questionable results of foreign aid.

Drum on March 19, 2008 at 1:54 PM

Why didn’t you address the military aspect of foreign policy and zero in on ‘foreign aid’ a minor cog in foreign policy? Wow, you can quote CATO and offer book club selections. Now back to ‘empire building?” Really, interesting. How about offering stability? Not in serious national interest? “Ensure Domestic Tranquility” – yeah I liked School House Rock too.

You gotta be a Paulbot. Back to YT with ‘Drum’!?!

Come on aengus. You know the U.S. engineered the coup to overthrow Chavez and you know why. Cuz he knows where we keep the thermite.

oakpack on March 19, 2008 at 4:56 PM

Nah, the thermite’s buried in Israel, dude. That’s why we keep supporting the eeeeevil Jooooooooos.

(Hopefully that one will be flying around Prison Planet by this evening. I’d love for one of my made-up conspiracy theories to catch on with the nutjobs.)

aengus on March 19, 2008 at 4:19 PM

I didn’t say we engineered it. In the least gave it a nod and a wink.

I suppose we should have sat down with the Islamic extremists after 9/11 and had a good cup of tea.

As usual, though, Ron has at least a partial point. The Republican Party really could be doing more to attract the paranoid schizophrenic vote.

Blacklake on March 19, 2008 at 3:52 PM

And don’t forget:

Herr Gut Doktor has delivered over 4000 babies!