“Oddly enough, he appears as a moderate in the National Journal's ratings of House members, but that is actually an illusion created by NJ's two-dimensional measure. Paul is operating on a third dimension. His politics do not fit into our two-dimensional scheme of liberal/conservative. He is a libertarian.”
(via James Ostrowski at Lew Rockwell's blog)
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007
Zogby: Ron Paul polling at (3 ± 4.5)% in NH
Zogby's May 15-16 poll of likely Republican voters in New Hampshire has Ron Paul at 3%, with a margin of error of ± 4.5%. (via Lew Rockwell's blog)
This is an interesting number to watch, because the first primary will be in the Free State. And, according to Zogby's Survey Methodology page, “more than 95% of the firm’s polls have come within 1% of actual election-day outcomes.”
Good thing for Paul the election isn't today.
This is an interesting number to watch, because the first primary will be in the Free State. And, according to Zogby's Survey Methodology page, “more than 95% of the firm’s polls have come within 1% of actual election-day outcomes.”
Good thing for Paul the election isn't today.
Ron Paul still polling at 1% nationwide
According to the May 15-16 FOX News/Opinion Dynamics poll, a whopping 1% of registered Republican voters with land lines support Ron Paul.
LA Times on the GOP's torture enthusiasts
Rosa Brooks has written a brilliant editorial in Sunday's LA Times on the GOP and torture:
“In Tuesday's debate, only John McCain and Ron Paul bucked the collective swooning over enhanced interrogation. Paul mused about the way that torture has become "enhanced interrogation technique. It sounds like newspeak," he noted, referring to George Orwell's term for totalitarian doubletalk in his novel "1984." Paul obviously never got the memo. For most of the Republican primary candidates, "1984" isn't a cautionary tale, it's a how-to manual.
Tancredo brushed off "theoretical" objections to torture as a luxury we can't afford: If "we go under, Western civilization goes under." And what's a little torture when Western civilization itself is at stake?
Tancredo's right about one thing though. If we embrace the use of torture, we won't need to worry that extremist Islamic terrorists might destroy Western civilization.
We'll have killed it off ourselves.”
“In Tuesday's debate, only John McCain and Ron Paul bucked the collective swooning over enhanced interrogation. Paul mused about the way that torture has become "enhanced interrogation technique. It sounds like newspeak," he noted, referring to George Orwell's term for totalitarian doubletalk in his novel "1984." Paul obviously never got the memo. For most of the Republican primary candidates, "1984" isn't a cautionary tale, it's a how-to manual.
Tancredo brushed off "theoretical" objections to torture as a luxury we can't afford: If "we go under, Western civilization goes under." And what's a little torture when Western civilization itself is at stake?
Tancredo's right about one thing though. If we embrace the use of torture, we won't need to worry that extremist Islamic terrorists might destroy Western civilization.
We'll have killed it off ourselves.”
Pat Buchanan: By All Means, Eliminate the Guy Who's Right
“When Ron Paul said the 9-11 killers were "over here because we are over there," he was not excusing the mass murderers of 3,000 Americans. He was explaining the roots of hatred out of which the suicide-killers came.
Lest we forget, Osama bin Laden was among the mujahideen whom we, in the Reagan decade, were aiding when they were fighting to expel the Red Army from Afghanistan. We sent them Stinger missiles, Spanish mortars, sniper rifles. And they helped drive the Russians out.
What Ron Paul was addressing was the question of what turned the allies we aided into haters of the United States. Was it the fact that they discovered we have freedom of speech or separation of church and state? Do they hate us because of who we are? Or do they hate us because of what we do?”
(via LewRockwell.com)
Lest we forget, Osama bin Laden was among the mujahideen whom we, in the Reagan decade, were aiding when they were fighting to expel the Red Army from Afghanistan. We sent them Stinger missiles, Spanish mortars, sniper rifles. And they helped drive the Russians out.
What Ron Paul was addressing was the question of what turned the allies we aided into haters of the United States. Was it the fact that they discovered we have freedom of speech or separation of church and state? Do they hate us because of who we are? Or do they hate us because of what we do?”
(via LewRockwell.com)
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