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Why are we relying on man’s corruptible wisdom? They all took an oath of office and were charged with following the Constitution. If they did not — that is the standard we use to dismiss their effectiveness. Not their ideas.

It really is as simple as that.

Ironically, the military subscribes to these concepts and uses them usually pretty well.

As for the fiat vs. fractional, you are correct, fiat makes fractional work “better”, as we’ve seen the past few days, but they both suck.

And I don’t shun critics of anything. I may disagree with them, but because 80% of the world are well-meaning yet uninformed idiots, 10% are ruthless evildoers in charge, and the other 10% we fall into are the angry cynics that can tell the difference, it’s easy to disagree.

I thought you said you agreed with George Phillies that “critics of central banking” should be shunned, Michael?

“#12 is anachronistic. There is no need to restate support of the Monroe Doctrine. No European powers are meddling here, and I don’t see that as an issue in the near future. I’m not sure I would welcome any meddling but an entire hemisphere seems like a large area to carve out as your sphere of influence. ”

Tell that to the Russians doing wargames in Venezuela and resuming bomber overflights of Canada. The Cold War is starting to come back into town on top of everything else, unfortunatey, but you won’t hear much about in American media.

But I agree, #12 is simply hemispheric interventionsim. In fact, all of 1-12 are just weird, if not outright incorrect, as is the gambling and porn planks.

Bit long, no?

On that note, *flushes toilet*, there are no jokes when it comes to the PATRIOT Act.

Other than that I just like doing stuff other people are scared to do, like work with nasty chemicals…

Maybe you could help us set up a Meth lab to fund our startup costs?

[To be clear under the PATRIOT Act, the above was a joke]

Crap, wrong website.

“I got the impression you were/are a Ron Paul activist? What campaign activities were you involved in?

Even if nothing else, another person to bounce around ideas would be cool.”

Well, if you’re talking to me, I was a precinct leader for RP, worked the polls during the primaries trying to get RP delegates elected, promoted RP online and donated more money than I could afford.

Other than that I just like doing stuff other people are scared to do, like work with nasty chemicals…

1) The low level of “conservative support” for Ron Paul

2) The high level of CP and LP support

3) That “libertarian” wasn’t an exit-polling choice in terms of ideology

… the fact is that a large amount of the self-described “conservatives” are likely to be Republicans. The Republicans who voted for Paul were probably largely liberal anti-war Republicans. Because you KNOW the CP voters said “very conservative.”

I should add as long as he doesn’t slavishly vote for the nominee no matter how bad he may be.

I mean this as an indictment of self-identified conservatives. Their lack of support for Paul indicates they are not serious about their conservatism or don’t really understand what it means to be a conservative.

Paul’s coalition was odd and probably unique to the man. He attracted some votes that were more generic protest votes. Some leftists. Many libertarians. His support among self identified Republicans was low. But many of the conservatives who supported him were not conservatives who identify as Republicans for good reason. The people who vote for him for Congress in his district are conservatives (with a Texas independent streak) and see him as such also

As for the GOP or Dems, it is not a matter of which Party you want to “restore.” The history of the parties is interesting but largely meaningless. But which one you think would be easiest to infiltrate and transform or at least influence.

Assuming a person has a set agenda they are trying to accomplish and isn’t a blatant political pragmatist, whether he works within one of the two major parties or outside them seems to me to be largely a matter of strategy and temperament. Is it more likely to reform the GOP or supplant it with a new party? I am not personally cut out for major party work, but more power to those who are.