June 15, 2007

More Talk on Ron Paul

Just scooting around the web a little looking for more stuff on Ron Paul.

Capitalist Forum folks are talking about him.

Apparently, he's also pro-life, but feels that abortion law is under the purview of state legislation.

Wonkette regards him as a moron and calls libertarian views "overly simplistic," while simultaneously oversimplifying his views on things.

The more I read, the more convinced I am about his Libertarian credentials.

What wrong with Libertarians, you ask.

Well, I'll tell you. Libertarians regard freedom and liberty as these crazy, floating abstractions. Objectivists regard freedom and liberty as proper, moral political conditions for human beings derived not from mythologies about ghosts and old man creator beings, but from the nature of human beings as rational animals.

Mr. Ron Paul says that God made us free. If there's no such thing as God, does that mean there's no such thing as freedom?

Anyway, I'm still pretty impressed with him considering what he has achieved in mainstream office.

Posted by Flibbertigibbet at June 15, 2007 01:52 PM | TrackBack
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I've been on the Ron Paul bandwagon for a few years now. Sure he's a Libertarian, but so what? It's better than Christo-Fascism party and the Neocommunist party.

Posted by: Matt Chancellor at June 16, 2007 11:55 AM

That's true. It's just a little disappointing because I thought maybe he had come to these ideas by a different route than the Libertarians.

The reason the Libertarians are problematic, as you know, is because they regard freedom and liberty as floating abstractions and as a result they entertain anti-liberty ideologies like the anarchists.

I'm still fairly impressed with him. I mean, he's a Republican. He's been in office for 10 years. He's consistent in practicing the things he stands for.

It's too bad that he won't even come close to winning.

Posted by: Flibbert at June 16, 2007 08:56 PM
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