Monday, August 13, 2012

Riches piled up in heaven


.....or at least in cyberspace, in rich, ripe denunciation of the VP choice. Man, this is living! You go first, Jane, whoever you are:

http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/aitken1.1.1.html
Paul Ryan Is No Ron Paul

Judy! Judy Morris! Where did you come from?

http://judymorrisreport.blogspot.com/2012/08/paul-ryans-voting-record-will-not.html
Paul Ryan's Voting Record Will Not Please Liberty Activists

Now, the master of piercing yet droll irony -- Justin Raimondo:

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/08/12/the-marketing-of-paul-ryan/
The Marketing of Paul Ryan: Romney's 'libertarian' running mate is anything but

Here's an especially jam-packed paragraph!--

A nation cannot be a mere idea for the simple reason that America, like all other countries, is a place; in our case, one with vast plains, fertile valleys, burning deserts, towering mountains, and two long coastlines fronting two oceans separating it from the ire and intrigues of foreign princes — a place which, at the time of the Founding, was a sparsely populated and incredibly rich wilderness relatively free of European exploitation. It wasn’t settled by ideas, but by people — real live actual human beings, some of whom were the bearers of certain concepts which had a catalyzing effect on the course of American history. What’s interesting is that Ryan fails to mention theprimary idea that motivated the American colonists, which was opposition to foreign domination and the legitimacy of the British monarch. Even Hamilton, who wanted to place a crown on George Washington’s head, embraced the essential spirit of the American Revolution, which if it can be called anything was certainly anti-imperialist. Indeed, it was the Founding Fathers who warned us not to go abroad “in search of monsters to destroy,” and explicitly opposed the export of our revolution in the French style. Apparently the neo-Hamiltonians have surpassed even the treason of their idol.

Such common sense politics shouldn't feel strange or outlandish on the system. Why does it?

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