On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:43:33 -0500 Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com>
writes:
> Doug wrote:
> >...a social democrat pairing up with a libertarian goldbug? It
> >would have comic potential, no doubt about it...
>
> Both Kucinich and Paul made effective--and very funny--presentations
> on the Colbert Report
>
> > but the joke would be on us.
>
> How so? Faced with such an alternative would La Clinton be
> laughing?
> And wouldn't even an incoherent antiwar/civillibertartian
> alternative
> be infinitely superior to the all-too-coherent
> imperialist/bigbusiness
> programs of Clinton and McCain?
The fact is both Kucinich and Paul are enemies of imperialism and militarism. That they arive at this position from quite different philosophical perspectives is of less importance IMO than the fact that they both share this crucial political position.
>
> Shane Mage