Are Obama's economics to be supported for fear of Paul's? Stick close to Nurse for fear of Something Worse? --CGE
Chip Berlet wrote:
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> Yes, Ron Paul is our ally just like the Strasser brothers were our allies in
> the 1920s.
>
> Ron Paul is a right-wing isolationist, not an anti-imperialist or peace
> activist, and his economic thjeory is to abolish the Federal Researve and
> destory social welfare, replacing it with greedster Free Market economic
> policies.
>
> On what planet is this "Left"?
>
> -Chip
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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of ken hanly Sent: Sun
> 2/21/2010 9:57 AM To: lbo talk; pen-l Subject: [lbo-talk] Left on this, Right
> on that.
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> While the CPAC people are supposed to be conservatives they chose as their
> presidential favorite Ron Paul who on many foreign policy issues would be
> regarded as leftist and even radically anti-war in spite of (or because of?)
> his free market, small government views:
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> http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/532523/print
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> The good news from the Conservative Political Action Conference -- and it
> really is very good news -- is that the assembled activists have identified
> as their preferred choice for the presidency a militant opponent of the wars
> in Afghanistan and Iraq who has voted against the Patriot Act, opposed
> free-trade deals, condemned the expansion of executive power and warned about
> collusion between "too-big-to-fail" bankers and the government regulators who
> are supposed to keep an eye on them.
>
> No, the CPAC crowd did not name Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold as their
> preferred pick to oppose President Obama in 2012. But they did vote, rather
> overwhelmingly, for the one Republican who shares the views of Feingold --
> and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders -- on the aforementioned issues.
>
> The CPAC presidential straw poll, in which a record 2,400 conservative
> conferees voted, was won with ease by Congressman Ron Paul, the Texas
> Republican and 2008 presidential candidate whose backers like to refer to
> their campaign as a revolution.
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> Cheers, ken hanly
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