Posts Tagged With 2012 election
Friday, January 27, 2012 / 6:00 am
Why Ron Paul Is Wrong About Everything Ever, Foreign Policy Edition
Libertarians like his foreign policy stance precisely because he has none.
by Tony Chavira
Tags: 2012 election | foreign policy | why Ron Paul is wrong about everything ever
Except for Milton Friedman, who felt that Americans had the right to propel the free market forward at the cost of annihilating the rest of the planet, most libertarians are vehemently anti-intervention and anti-war. At their ideological core, they believe that America should leave the rest of the world alone to do whatever it wants. We have no moral responsibilities, no allies, and no business in other countries. And Ron Paul believes this as well, more or less.
Taking an anti-war position should be an easy decision for Ron Paul, considering that wars cost the government so much money. End wars and you can cut away at the defense budget, thereby reducing the role and might of all government. Aside from that, taking a stance against endless war is a great rhetorical device. Our government used it to start World War I and it worked like a charm.
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Friday, January 20, 2012 / 7:43 am
Gingrich and Grandiosity
The Big Lie Souffle and other GOP delicacies.
by Donna Schoenkopf
Tags: Newt Gingrich | 2012 election
I am old enough to remember Newt Gingrich in action, back in the day.
He was and is a very, very clever liar. He drops a lie, coats it immediately with some kind of clever extraction of some kind of well-known truth, and then folds them together into a puffed up Big Lie Souffle. It is always smooth and easy to swallow, so Low Information Voters just gulp the whole thing down. In one sound bite.
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Friday, January 13, 2012 / 5:00 am
Why Ron Paul is Wrong About Everything Ever, “End The Fed” Edition
Ending the Federal Reserve and converting to the gold standard does not empower or strengthen economies, period.
by Tony Chavira
Tags: 2012 election | Federal Reserve | why Ron Paul is wrong about everything ever
In End the Fed, Ron Paul makes such a convincing argument for closing the doors on the Federal Reserve Bank that those already enamored by him had nothing left to do but orgasm with ecstasy. In essence, he blames large, corrupt private interests for developing the Federal Reserve to control of our innocent, victimized economy. The Federal Reserve is, of course, a government-run bank that can devalue its own currency whenever it wants to milk the lower and middle classes while providing a comfy cushion so that the super-rich can default as often they like. And I’ll admit, I had written enough articles on the structurally unsound construction of our economy that I was enthralled by the context of Paul’s argument: evil people built it to exploit us, so let’s take it apart to take back America!
But it’s not just that Ron Paul is dangerously wrong about this. There’s no reason to be so vague. Specifically, he’s wrong about three completely separate things:
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 / 7:02 pm
Venting My Spleen: Before the EPA
Some people want to return to the days of yuck.
by Donna Schoenkopf
Tags: Mitt Romney | Ron Paul | EPA | 2012 election | venting my spleen
I've been listening to Mitt Romney and Ron Paul tonight at the end of the New Hampshire primary.
Sheesh.
Both of them want to go back to what America used to be before that nasty ole Big Government grabbed us by the necks and threw us to the ground. I think some pictures are worth several thousand words. Take a look at what America looked like before the Environmental Protection Agency was founded.
Just in case you forgot. Or weren't born yet.
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Friday, January 6, 2012 / 5:00 am
Why Ron Paul is Wrong About Everything Ever: Part 1
Why is Ron Paul wrong about everything? Oh, some reasons! (Don’t worry, there will be plenty more next week too!)
by Tony Chavira
Tags: 2012 election | why Ron Paul is wrong about everything ever
I know Ron Paul has fans of his economic policies, but he’s basically wrong about how he approaches everything, all the time. His supporters have been tricked by television commercials and first-person-video games into thinking that they are lone warriors on a quest for freedom. They are “the ones,” the soldiers of liberty, standing up and shouting for it in the face of oppression. Oppression from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Department of Education—all agencies Ron Paul wants to eliminate outright. No services, no disaster assistance, no public education.
But he wants to keep the Central Intelligence Agency. I guess we’ll just outsource our spies from countries with smarter kids. The free market wins again.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 / 4:19 pm
God Makes Plans and Man Craps: Iowa Edition
The unGoogleable underdog and other ridiculous individuals.
by Jim Washburn
Tags: Rick Santorum | Mitt Romney | Rick Perry | Michele Bachmann | 2012 election
You recall how at least three of the Republican candidates were told by God himself to run for president? (There may be others who kept the revelation to themselves, because they're so darned modest.) Maybe God is having second thoughts.
Of the three anointed ones, maybe Rick Santorum did have some divine help Tuesday night, as the unGoogleable underdog only barely lost the Iowa caucuses, even if that loss was to cultish heretic Mitt Romney. Santorum may need still more help from on high when the two contest in New Hampshire, where polls show him with only 6% of the vote compared to Romney's 43%.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012 / 11:38 am
Why Newt Keeps Coming Back and People Love Him For It
Smiling their way through the negativity.
by Tony Chavira
Tags: Newt Gingrich | 2012 election
Unlike a lot of my comrades, most of the Republican candidates strike me as gears in a much larger political machine programmed to corporatize the world while justifying the claim that the only answer for rampant capitalism is a healthy dose of more capitalism–instead of devil spawn sent from another dimension to lead us to the apocalypse, I mean. In particular, I don't think Cain, Santorum, Perry, Bachmann, Paul, Huntsman or even Romney have sinister motives. I do think they've been brainwashed by advertisements for a past that never existed, but call that more of a hunch on my part.
