New York Libertarians to Back Paul or Johnson

I just received this in an e-mail from Dave Nalle of the Republican Liberty Caucus:

I heard from secondary sources that the LP of NY voted to not support a LP candidate if Ron Paul or Gary Johnson got the GOP presidential nomination.  

The LP usually gets one or two percent. It can't hurt but it wouldn't win a general election. I doubt a good candidate could win in New York under any circumstances.

Paul, or the Tea Party Is Bust

Glenda McGee writes that if the Tea Party can't support Ron Paul for president then it is the party of big government. Glenda links to the Rockwell Institute's Michael S. Rozeff's Infowars piece  assailing American imperialism. It is now apparent that American imperialism and republicanism are at loggerheads, just as they were in Rome.  Hopefully, an American Caesar will not defeat Cato as he did in Rome.  Progressivism was always imperialistic, but the choice between freedom and the Progressivism of the Democrats and Republicans has never been posed explicitly, at least until after World War II, and then in small doses like Vietnam.  America must put its freedom, including both civil liberties and economic freedom, ahead of imperialism.  Rozeff writes:

America can go in one of two ways. It can continue on the path of empire, in which case it continues downhill and impedes the world’s progress; or it can renounce empire, in which case it restores the dignity of Americans and imparts new opportunities to the peoples of the world...The only major politician who is leading America in this direction is Congressman Ron Paul. His is a lonely but courageous voice in Washington. The commendable directions he is proposing add up to renouncing empire...Americans have to understand that they have an empire and that its effects are a net negative for them and for the rest of the world’s peoples...To shift away from empire, Americans have to disavow it. They have to go directly against the powerful interest groups that favor it.

It is becoming increasingly apparent Rozeff is right; freedom and imperialism are incompatible. 

Glenda McGee Writes:

One man has been fighting the Fed, the Warfare/Welfare State/ the UN and for property rights.

When I see Tea Party people still believing in the Rethuglican establishment, I think that the elites are correct - Americans are brainswashed morons. Ron Paul is true to the constitution and no other candidate can claim that.  

If the Tea Party is not the Ron Paul Party, it is the party of big government 'Patriot Act' Bush fascists, Nixon who smiled and wined and dined with Mao after he murdered 10 million people, and the New World Order that came from Bush senior's mouth.

UN Agenda 21 drives every act of the past twenty years.  Only Ron Paul is talking about New World Order. If the Tea Party stays moronic - You will lose you home, your car, your right to eat meat, your children, your right to procreate, and ultimately your life.

Reason TV Interviews Walter Williams

H/t Dennis Sevakis

Lindsey Graham, Porker of the Month, Proves GOP = Dems

Every so often American politics goes through a ritual. The GOP claims that it is for small government, while the Democrats claim that they serve the poor and that the GOP is the party of the rich.  Therefore, small government is in the interest of the rich.  The Democrats claim that George Soros, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckleberg, Bill Gates, Larry Paige and Paul Pelosi are altruists.  They aren't rich because they're Democrats. They can prove that the Republicans are the party of the rich. The proof is that Charles Koch is a Republican. And he's no altruist because he's a Republican. Soros is an altruist because he's a Democrat.  Democrats are geniuses.

Republicans equally are geniuses. They claim to be the party of small government. But the Republicans have failed to cut government. Three levels of government spending are in excess of 40% of national income. But the Republicans cannot find more than a few percent to cut.

Today, Citizens Against Government Waste has named Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Porker of the Month. CAGW notes that GOP stalwart Graham was willing to bring the Senate to a standstill over Congress's failure to fund his $40,000 earmark for a federal study concerning Charleston's port, a study that is not a federal responsibility.

CAGW notes:
  
On April 11, Sen. Graham threw a fit, telling reporters that he would 'tie the Senate in knots' until the port study money was approved.  Unfortunately, the tantrum paid off.  Despite Congress’ ongoing earmark moratorium, on April 15 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged on the Senate floor that he would find funding for the study before the end of fiscal year (FY) 2011. 'This project and the study it requires both reek of pork,' declared CAGW President Tom Schatz.


Exactly why Americans believe in a two-party system which has produced the likes of Lindsey Graham is a puzzle.