Ron Paul
I haven't been posting as much as a few months ago, even then I wasn't posting as much as compared to a few years ago.
So there...poof...or perhaps whoomp there it is. Is that it?
Ron Paul, a beautiful man of eloquence, knowledge, and a mind which can handle more than one thought at a time is saying all of the right things, running a sweet campaign, and I could sit here and simply cheer him on, but of course we all know what happens to men of liberty in the ring. The political noose awaits almost anyone who seriously advocates the genius of our forefathers.
They lose. And have to carry home all of the luggage they acquired on the trip heard around the world.
But Ron Paul will leave a legacy not seen since Barry Goldwater, and rarely seen in the years since Grover Cleveland breathed his last. The latter a man who saw the lights of true liberalism turned off, and the former, a man who tried mightily to turn them on again.
He leaves with us the old ideas of our founders who set down in black and white a basis for a country whose government was so small it would have fit inside Alexander Hamilton's brain. And Hamilton, seen as the man of big government of his day, and rightly feared by the republicans of Jefferson's stripe, would have been equally horrified what has become of the republic.
Ron Paul will leave with us the memory of a man UNWILLING in even the smallest of ways (almost...) to compromise his principles to achieve election. The man is only 72 (today's 53 1/2) and we hope he will continue to speak on the side of free men for a long time to come.
The only compromise Ron Paul and libertarians true and blue engage in, is the compromise of the ballot box. For you see, democracy itself is a compromise that we enter into to avoid anarchy. The values of the individual are not open for debate. But debate them we must, unless the mob grab hold of not only the machinery of the state (of which they have a firm grasp) but also of the future of man's mind (of which the grasp is getting firmer, always, but is being fought for by men like Ron Paul with nuclear intellectual ammunition). The battle for the mind is not lost until every one of us is beaten.
And so, Dr Paul carries on, not in hopelessness so much, but with the ideas of liberty in the arena of democracy which free men fear so much, and the hope of these great ideas catching fire once again.
For real, this time.
Joe Postove
So there...poof...or perhaps whoomp there it is. Is that it?
Ron Paul, a beautiful man of eloquence, knowledge, and a mind which can handle more than one thought at a time is saying all of the right things, running a sweet campaign, and I could sit here and simply cheer him on, but of course we all know what happens to men of liberty in the ring. The political noose awaits almost anyone who seriously advocates the genius of our forefathers.
They lose. And have to carry home all of the luggage they acquired on the trip heard around the world.
But Ron Paul will leave a legacy not seen since Barry Goldwater, and rarely seen in the years since Grover Cleveland breathed his last. The latter a man who saw the lights of true liberalism turned off, and the former, a man who tried mightily to turn them on again.
He leaves with us the old ideas of our founders who set down in black and white a basis for a country whose government was so small it would have fit inside Alexander Hamilton's brain. And Hamilton, seen as the man of big government of his day, and rightly feared by the republicans of Jefferson's stripe, would have been equally horrified what has become of the republic.
Ron Paul will leave with us the memory of a man UNWILLING in even the smallest of ways (almost...) to compromise his principles to achieve election. The man is only 72 (today's 53 1/2) and we hope he will continue to speak on the side of free men for a long time to come.
The only compromise Ron Paul and libertarians true and blue engage in, is the compromise of the ballot box. For you see, democracy itself is a compromise that we enter into to avoid anarchy. The values of the individual are not open for debate. But debate them we must, unless the mob grab hold of not only the machinery of the state (of which they have a firm grasp) but also of the future of man's mind (of which the grasp is getting firmer, always, but is being fought for by men like Ron Paul with nuclear intellectual ammunition). The battle for the mind is not lost until every one of us is beaten.
And so, Dr Paul carries on, not in hopelessness so much, but with the ideas of liberty in the arena of democracy which free men fear so much, and the hope of these great ideas catching fire once again.
For real, this time.
Joe Postove
posted by Mr. Liberty at 2:30 PM
2 Comments:
I've heard nothing but good things about Paul. I need to look into him more.
I bet he's at least smart enough to be concerned about steroids in football, NOT baseball.
I hope so.
~phil
Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress.
Whats not to like !!!!
Thanks Pal Joey for another great blog post.. keep the faith my brotha.
Cousin Brucie
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