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I respectfully disagree about "conservative" and Ron Paul. Yes, he's a loon. But he's a Republican congressman, and he's a libertarian extremist on economic matters, though oddly, on various social matters, he finds a way to fit in with the religious folks who flock to the US right.

Must be something in that Texas water.

I agree with him on one thing. Iraq. He got that one right.

In any event, when I hear guys like Paul holding forth (and there are plenty like him in America - he's simply one of the few who got elected) it reminds me of one of those ads exhorting readers to "get into forex trading while there's still a killing to be made" of the sort one often reads in, for instance, Pat Buchanan's rag.

Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh

by redstar on Fri Jan 5th, 2007 at 11:21:06 PM EST
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fair enough.  But I doubt most of the Republican party would claim Ron Paul.  Any more that most of the Dems would claim Traficant.  Paul is prone to p--sing on his own team when it suits.

Europe has no shortage of extremists as well.  Throwing rocks at an entire nation is petty.

by HiD on Sat Jan 6th, 2007 at 03:38:40 AM EST
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Oh, I know, and I must apologize, again, for that bias and my tendancy for intemperate remarks in this regard.

This being said, if throwing rocks is petty, how about invading without provocation?

Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh

by redstar on Mon Jan 8th, 2007 at 10:14:41 AM EST
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Rocks are petty, daisycutters are grand.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jan 8th, 2007 at 10:18:14 AM EST
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