Higgledy piggledy,
Berlet at Publiceye
Had no truck with a Paul-
Litical fad:
Stamping pedantic'ly
He asserted that even
Asymptotically
NAZIS ARE BAD!
Chip Berlet wrote:
>
> Haiku for C. G.
>
> fox threatens hen house
> short-lived rooster embraces
> wolf as keen ally
>
> -cb
>
> ________________________________
>
> 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
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog:
>> http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html