Misery loves company.

The Republicans should respond by sending over a big party platter of mixed nuts.

This is why no one takes you seriously.

Durendal: The Republicans should respond by sending over a big party platter of mixed nuts.

thanks for making my day. I needed that.

The GOP should send Ron Paul back. I bet they wish they could.

And the Republicans responded by giving Libertarians valium.

/The Libertarians rejected the valium.
//They already have drugs that are far more powerful.

There is no room for liberty-minded people in the GOP tent. The party is in disarray, scrambling to prepare for a contest between two of the biggest socialists to run against them in decades

Socialists? You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

/John McCain wants to run the entire country off the "cliffs of insanity"
//There is no idear in this universe that cannot be enhanced by using either a quote from the Simpsons or The Princess Bride. S'rsly.

Another jab at McCain's age?

Ahh "socialism". Used by the right to demonize anything that they don't like about the left.

The left loves using money to fund various things for the public (whether it wants/needs them or not)

The right just says words to the contrary, but does the exact same thing, but only for corporations and the military.

Frank N Stein: Another jab at McCain's age?

I doubt it. Seems more like McCain's nomination would signal the death rattle of the GOP. Let's send a few more wreaths.

Frank N Stein: Another jab at McCain's age?

not mccain is dying, the GOP is dying. moran.

Durendal: The Republicans should respond by sending over a big party platter of mixed nuts.

Hehehehehe...

Congrats, you gave me a real nice chuckle...

the Weeners from TFA:

Goobs Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

My vote will go to Dr. Paul whether he is on the ballot as a Republican or Independent, etc. The media is doing all it can to make supporters of Dr. Paul feel hopeless. It's not going to work. My yard sign went out this morning, my bumper stickers will be on the cars tomorrow, my Ron Paul cards will be in my pocket and my button will be on my outfit every day. I'll talk to as many people as will listen to get the message out.

jeebus. a little overboard?

our condolences to you upon the death of small-government principles within the GOP.

When did the Republicans ever do more than pay lip service to small government? Under Bush? Total joke. Reagan? Don't make me laugh. It's all just talk.

SlothB77: not mccain is dying, the GOP is dying. moran.

Dude, I know. I just posted that as an allusion to the article yesterday about Obama's "Subtle jab" at McCain's age.

I read this article through, submitted it to Fark.com, and it got the greenlight.

/moran

SlothB77: my Ron Paul cards will be in my pocket and my button will be on my outfit every day.

Fart_Machine: SlothB77: my Ron Paul cards will be in my pocket and my button will be on my outfit every day.

You know, I never understood why Ron Paul and his supporters have been labeled as crazy. He was the darling of teh internets a year ago, and now everyone moved on like so many other internet memes. Where once it was eCool to like Paul, hating on him is now the in thing. Kinda like lolcats.

So, what is so bat shiat insane about Paul's proposed ideas and policies?

The GOP is in need of a headstone
RIP
GOP
2008

I want to make one in foam and leave it at the door of the local republican party HQ

And ridiculous stunts like this is why that "Obama supporters are as crazy as Paul supporters" idea died in the womb.

robsul82: And ridiculous stunts like this is why that "Obama supporters are as crazy as Paul supporters" idea died in the womb.

Meh, this is nothing more than a publicity stunt.They need to do something to put their name out there and win over the true conservatives. The Libertarian party is the middle child of the political world.

Lets just hope they don't turn emo and experiment with homosexuality as their next attention grabbing move.

carmody: The GOP should send Ron Paul back. I bet they wish they could.

As much as the Republicans would like you to believe it, Ron Paul is not a Libertarian.

Small government =/= Libertarian

I don't know how you could be anti-gay marriage and Libertarian at the same time.

roadkillontheweb: The GOP is in need of a headstone
RIP
GOP
20082000

I want to make one in foam and leave it at the door of the local republican party HQ

//there now its more accurate

As much as the Republicans would like you to believe it, Ron Paul is not a Libertarian.

If you believe this to be true, why did the LP make him their 1988 presidential candidate?

robsul82: And ridiculous stunts like this is why that "Obama supporters are as crazy as Paul supporters" idea died in the womb.

Whatever makes you feel better at night.

Cubicle Jockey: If you believe this to be true, why did the LP make him their 1988 presidential candidate?

For the same reason that McCain can run as a Republican and Hillary can run as a Democrat. You don't have to follow the party lines 100% to be a nominee.

Paul has taken tremendous flak inside the LP for some of his stances. Paul is a traditional republican: fiscal conservative, social conservative, non-interventionist foreign policy. The problem is that the Republican party has shifted away from those philosophies. And yes, Reagan was a turning point in that transformation. Zombie Reagan would probably be happy with where they are now.

Frank N Stein:
So, what is so bat shiat insane about Paul's proposed ideas and policies?

I don't mind Dr. Paul the candidate however I think some of his proposals, such as a return to the Gold Standard, are nutty. It's his supporters that are a special breed of crazy.

Fart_Machine: such as a return to the Gold Standard, are nutty

Why?

Fart_Machine: It's his supporters that are a special breed of crazy.

Yes. And Paul supporters tend to try to shrug this away saying "all candidates have nutty supporters." While this is true, Paul's are way more vocal.

Libertarian: A Republican that still smokes pot.

magical_mystery_meat: Libertarian: A Republican that still smokes pot.

Alternately it could be, Libertarian: A Democrat that has learned economics.

Durendal: The Republicans should respond by sending over a big party platter of mixed nuts.

Bravo. Well done.

Smellvin: magical_mystery_meat: Libertarian: A Republican that still smokes pot.

Alternately it could be, Libertarian: A Democrat that has learned economics.

Or maybe, Libertarian: An economist who believes that economics is a better predictor of behavior than life experience.

magical_mystery_meat: Or maybe, Libertarian: An economist who believes that economics is a better predictor of behavior than life experience.

Or maybe, Libertarian: Someone who knows dickass about "economies of scale."

An economist who believes that economics is a better predictor of behavior than life experience.

The Libertarians at antiwar.com predicted almost the exact outcome of the Iraq war (as we currently understand it), in late 2002, and that's why I've stuck with their analysis ever since it became clear they were right. I'm not saying this makes RP the best man for the Presidency, but it does mean Libertarians have heads for policy. Just because an idea is in the minority doesn't make it wrong.

sarcastrophe: Why?

Well, for one thing, there's more cash circulating in America then the current value of all the gold ever mined on the entire planet.

The Libertarians will never be one of the two major parties even if one or both of the ones we have now go away. They are too loony.

Durendal: The Republicans should respond by sending over a big party platter of mixed nuts.

I was thinking several bags of chips, some incense and tie-dyed t-shirts.

bheilig: An economist who believes that economics is a better predictor of behavior than life experience.

The Libertarians at antiwar.com predicted almost the exact outcome of the Iraq war (as we currently understand it), in late 2002, and that's why I've stuck with their analysis ever since it became clear they were right. I'm not saying this makes RP the best man for the Presidency, but it does mean Libertarians have heads for policy. Just because an idea is in the minority doesn't make it wrong.

The occupation phase of the Iraq War is the ultimate exercise of laissez-faire capitalism, so it follows that Libertarians would understand it well.

Where Libertarian policy falls down is that they assume that humans will always behave rationally when given the freedom to behave in any way they choose, and that business has the best interests of society in mind by default since business drives the economy and the economy drives society. Libertarians completely neglect the human factors of modern life in favor of cold analysis. It's a very corporate approach to politics that appeals to a certain kind of person who was raised in a household where the company daddy worked for was admired more than daddy himself, because after all, daddy was just a cog in the machine.

McBatt: Well, for one thing, there's more cash circulating in America then the current value of all the gold ever mined on the entire planet.

You're taking the "gold standard" too literally. The idea includes all precious metals. Do you really want to discuss the economics of how precious metals can be used to back currency? I can give you a reading list beforehand.

magical_mystery_meat: Smellvin: magical_mystery_meat: Libertarian: A Republican that still smokes pot.

Alternately it could be, Libertarian: A Democrat that has learned economics.

Or maybe, Libertarian: An economist who believes that economics is a better predictor of behavior than life experience an omnipotent State.

I remember when I thought Libertarians were nuts, but that was back when I was a liberal socialist in college.

"What do you mean, LITTLE government?"

The idea was so nutty to me... but eventually I decided that the only true 'fair' and free society is one where everyone is allowed to do what they wish provided they don't infringe on the rights of others.

//yea yea, corporations, blah blah, rich people, yada yada.
///suck it leftists.

sarcastrophe: McBatt: Well, for one thing, there's more cash circulating in America then the current value of all the gold ever mined on the entire planet.

You're taking the "gold standard" too literally. The idea includes all precious metals. Do you really want to discuss the economics of how precious metals can be used to back currency? I can give you a reading list beforehand.

Also, considering... we had traces of a Gold standard still in use up to the early 1970's.

The Republican National Committee - paying lip service to the Constitution and liberty since Richard Nixon

PC LOAD LETTER: The left loves using money to fund various things for the public (whether it wants/needs them or not)

The right just says words to the contrary, but does the exact same thing, but only for corporations and the military.

That works fine as long as you've convinced yourself that two labels accurately represent the entire spectrum of American political ideology.

macdaddy357: The Libertarians will never be one of the two major parties even if one or both of the ones we have now go away. They are too loony.

As opposed to the logic, reason, and good constitutional stewardship we have with the two major parties?