Bye Bye Barry by Joel S. Hirschhorn (Centrist Liberal Libertarian)
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Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, And Rudy Guiliani All Benefit Distastefully From The Ron Paul Brownout. The Rats In The Attic Are Chewing Up The Election Processby Scott from Oregon
(Libertarian)
Thursday, January 24, 2008
If you've been following the horserace that is the Republican presidential primaries, you no doubt have observed the behavior of the media-anointed "top tier" candidates. You've watched them stand to the side while a fellow candidate got blatantly sidelined through omissions (and oftentimes, rudeness and child-like adolescent mocking).
You've watched as Mitt Romney denied even being aware of this affront to American Democracy.
You've shook your head and waved your fist at the TV set while a presidential hopeful named Mike Huckabee (who claims to be morally superior because he is a preacher) turned the other cheek.
You've wondered aloud to your spouse if "John McCain is really for America, or is he just for John McCain?" because surely he must know that the media is perpetrating a great act of sabotage against the democratic American process?
I've never voted for a Republican candidate before, because, quite frankly, they've all come across as sleazy and dishonest. Many hide behind the bible while they perpetrate great acts of bathroom perversion. Many talk a great deal about "values" and "morals" and then display neither.
For me, the Republican party has always been the party of great hypocrisy. I've never trusted it and never thought I would follow it from the first primaries onward. In fact, I never thought I would go out and register as a Republican to vote for a Republican in the primaries.
But here I am. A Republican because of Ron Paul (you knew that was coming, didn't you?)
And I have to tell you, it feels awfully crusty, grimy, filthy and slimy. I feel like I have just climbed into the attic and put on my grandpa's old raincoat, the one he left his lunch in twenty years ago, the one where the mice have deposited themselves and the rats have eaten them.
It gives me the heebie jeebies.
And as a Republican, I can see from the inside why I never trusted them from the outside. They talk of great morality and dictating this morality to all of America, while they display- when blatantly given the chance- no morality of their own.
Mitt Romney is not a moral man. No moral man stands aside and watches a time-honored and vaunted process be so embarrassingly corrupted. When democracy is being mocked by those who have positioned themselves to be the window to that process, no moral man stands aside and snickers. I am sorry folks, but that man deserves the same contempt he displays for the democratic process. Mitt Romney doesn't deserve your vote, he deserves your contempt.
Mike Huckabee is not a moral man. No moral man raises an eyebrow and smiles when he finds out that a fellow candidate has been excluded unfairly from a media showcase event. Mike Huckabee should have demonstrated his morality by standing up for the process, and boycotted Fox "news" to demonstrate that he is an honest man of integrity. Unfortunately, he did not, and I would suggest that Americans who care about the values and the process of our great republic boycott Mike Huckabee. In fact, I would avoid him like the plague.
John McCain? A man who has been through the process so many times he should realize just how much influence the media holds, should have stepped forward as the moral and strong-backboned man he claims to be and stood up for the process. He should have told Fox "news" that what they were perpetrating was wrong. He should have demonstrated the true leadership and "strong American values" that he advertises. But John McCain, like the aforementioned men running for one of the most trust-granted jobs in the world, said and did nothing. I do not trust this man, John McCain. He is not a moral man. He is not a man who possesses the American values (like fair play) that would allow me to feel good about him being our president.
If you have been following the republican horserace for president, and you are an American who believes in honest and fair elections, then you should feel soiled too. The rats are everywhere. The process- chewed through and defecated over- stinks.
The Media is not "biased". It is fraudulent.
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Scott, I come from the other side. For 40+ years I supported Republican candidates and the Republican Party. I marched in parades for them, knocked on doors, delivered literature, and raised money for them. Until six years ago. Today, I'm so disgusted with the Republican Party that there's only onecandidate that I'd even consider voting for, Dr. Paul. As far as I'm concerned, voting for any other Republican is just as bad as a Democrat--I don't trust any of them, and none of them deserve my vote.
The Republican Party is in for a rude awakening. They can either return to traditional Republican fiscal conservative values, or be cast on the ash heap of history. How strange it is that just 6 years ago, a Democrat senator from Georgia published a book lamenting the death of the Democrat party, now it is the Republican Party that is dying a slow and painful death.
Well said, Scott. I'm a formerly apathetic combat veteran who has never voted (36 yrs old), and this year I have registered Republican to vote for none other than Mr. Integrity himself, Ron Paul.I'm sick of other candidates mocking him and then flipping thier views to closer match those of Ron Paul's. He's moving up, tho...people are starting to hear about him and starting to do research on him and he is starting to climb in polls, and in elections.
I'm praying so hard for God to let this man lead our nation back to our roots, in spite of the media 'brownout'. I think that he is beginning to appeal to those disgruntled, old-school GOPers who haven't voted for nearly a decade, and his message truly is universal. Freedom for all, regardless of which party, race, gender, or any other group you may be in.And he MEANS it!!
I was a kid when Reagan was elected, and he is the last great president that I can remember caring about liberties and the Constitution. Paul is the next Reagan, Taft, and Goldwater COMBINED! Once he wins the nomination (provided that WE can get the message out and NOT count on the MSM), and the media cannot black him out anymore, I predict another landslide victory like Reagan's in 1980. You just cannot argue w/ TRUTH!
I'm afraid I have to disagree. The media is not fradulent, the media is pandering to the wishes of the American people.
The media is very much a free-market ideal, much like your Dr. Paul thinks is a good idea for all things. If people dislike what they see, they go back to watching the football game, or gardening show.
People are eating this up. They don't want to listen to Dr. Paul because, to many people, what he is saying contradicts what they want to hear.
A moral man would ask the question -- "Is it right to exclude Ron Paul from a debate to determine our leader?"
A moral man can say, "Well, everyone deserves a right to be heard, and it's not right for me to profit off of someone being excluded so that his message can't be heard. He is a serious canidate, and unless all views are heard we are lying to the American people and betraying our oath to our government, and to our fellow man."
A moral man might also say "Dr. Paul's message is dangerous and wrong, his views would set back a host of issues we've made progress on back 50 years, and he is only in this campaign to have a soapbox. I think he should be excluded because he isn't a serious candidate".
If they are immoral, well...the obvious.
But the media is merely amoral. To expect them to feel as you do is to be unrealistic, sir. They're only after the money. And in a free market economy such as your Dr. Paul champions, surely, that is the goal, yes?
Congratulations, you figured out how politics works and you don't like it so you cry foul. We're not talking good neighbors or survival here.
So your piece here is exactly what a democracy of equally created but unequal people produce when different values and expectations drive them to expect somebody else to create a break for them. THAT is amoral!
There are a LOT of windmills just outside of Palm Springs, California for anyone who thinks that way, too.
Ron Paul is a grown up and his supporters should offer his ideas and reason, rather than demean other candidates. If they have merit, then people will express interest and he'll EARN a seat at the table.
Personally, I think Ron Paul's isolationism foundation is both naive and amoral but will save that for another day.
Could not agree more with your comment about registering as a republicrat. I cannot wait until our primary is over on February 12 so I can re-register as a Libertarian. These national parties are as braindead as Islamic fundamentalists.
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