Posted by
Tonewah on Friday, February 22, 2008 10:13:00 PM
There are far too many alleged Republicans pointing their fingers at Ron Paul, screaming, "LIBERTARIAN!" as if it were a bad thing. They seem to cast the inference that conservatism and libertarianism aren't anything alike. To them, I say, "Well, there you go again." I should think Reagan has enough conservative credentials to discredit these critics. In 1975, Ronald Reagan said, "If you analyze it, I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism." Saying libertarianism and conservatism aren't alike is like saying an apple and it's core aren't alike.
Libertarianism is as old as our country. The author of our Declaration of Independence was a libertarian and those core beliefs were the basis for the founding of the Libertarian Party. These critics know the truth, but choose to be intellectually dishonest, continuing to disseminate misinformation. Dr. Ronald E. Paul, or "Dr. Paul" as his throngs of supports know him, has been a conservative Republican since he entered politics in the mid-seventies. He was one of only 4 Republicans in congress to endorse Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential run, and the only one of the current presidential candidates to do so. His run as a Libertarian in 1988 was a protest against the liberal, neo-con side of the GOP, which took over after Reagan left office.
The idiotic smears like, "He wants to legalize marijuana" and "He supports gays" are blatant misrepresentations of the ideas for which Ron Paul stands. Of course, cowards like James P. Nelson, author of a letter to the Hudson Star Observer, never allow anyone to comment back to them in public. They only want their message to be a one-way diatribe, irrefutable only because they aren't going to listen when it's refuted. I picture dolts like this putting their fingers in their ears, singing, "I can't hear you!" when all of their misrepresentations come back at them.
Every time I see another one of these simpletons pointing and screaming 'libertarian', like some freak from a low budget sci-fi movie, I can't help but repeat the famous phrase, "Well, there you go again."