A few Quotes to think about.

[Hugo Chavez]

"I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism"--Ronald Reagan
"Government should stay the hell out of people's business."--Barry Goldwater
"I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party."--Rick Santorum

[240 is Back]

hey, repubs defending this shitty batch of candidates for a year.  now they have to choose one.

they looked past every cain affair as false.  they looked past every mitt flip flop as not mattering.  they looked past trump's crazy ego and bachmann's crazy everything.

now they are left with a flip flopper that can't criticize obama on anything (mitt) or a far-right zealout (santorum).

I'm rooting for santorum cause at least it'll be interesting.  Mitt is john kerry without a platform - seriously - he can't hate on much of what obama does because obama can just point to every instance where mitt did the same thing.  "Heck mitt, you signed an assault weapons bill, and I didnt - maybe YOURE the one who is coming for americans guns!"  And a dozen other zingers like that.

[Shockwave]

"I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism"--Ronald Reagan
"Government should stay the hell out of people's business."--Barry Goldwater
"I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party."--Rick Santorum

Santorum is such a fucking idiot.
When did the parties lose everything that made them what they were? Theyre just a shadow of their former selves now.

Guess the old adage is true, absolute power corrupts, absolutley.

[Freeborn126]

It's also sickening how these "syndicated talk show hosts" Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity, Lars, Hewitt, etc.  continue to carry the water for these two clowns Santorum and Romney the whole time bashing Paul. 

So they constantly invoke Reagan in their dialogue as if he is a God of the Repub. party yet at the same time bash Ron Paul?  When both are libertarians at heart? 

doublespeak/doublethink, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength

[LurkerNoMore]

Paul will never get a fair shake in the contest.  Which is sad.  I do have to applaud the man for getting out there in the face of utter defeat and still carrying on so that he can try to get the message out. 

[Soul Crusher]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

-- C. S. Lewis17

[Soul Crusher]

Some things never change. Titus Livy, in the introduction to his monumental history of Rome remarked that his purpose in writing was ...

"...to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them."