[lbo-talk] Left on this, Right on that.

Chip Berlet c.berlet at publiceye.org
Sun Feb 21 12:00:44 PST 2010


Haiku for C. G.

fox threatens hen house short-lived rooster embraces wolf as keen ally

-cb

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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of C. G. Estabrook Sent: Sun 2/21/2010 12:54 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Left on this, Right on that.

The comparison is dissentious nonsense. Paul's "isolationism" (a concocted bad word) looks a lot like anti-imperialism, as preached since Washington (George) and practiced hardly ever. It's surely to be preferred to Obama's murderous prosecution of the Long War.

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:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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:
>
> http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/532523/print
>
> 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.
>
>
> Cheers, ken hanly
>
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