Notices tagged with ronpaul

David Benfell

For what very little it's worth, #RonPaul seems to be holding a very narrow lead in Iowa caucuses. No one's going to call it for him with this margin with less than 15% counted, though.

David Benfell

There seems to be a tendency to deny that #RonPaul 's opposition to the Civil Rights Act is racist. I have a couple of books to throw at you:

Melba Beals, Warriors Don't Cry https://disunitedstates.com/content/warriors-dont-cry-searing-memoir-battle-integrate-little-rocks-central-high

Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid https://disunitedstates.com/content/medical-apartheid-dark-history-medical-experimentation-black-americans-colonial-times

Understand, this is not an area I've looked into anything like comprehensively. But if you're going to complain about the Civil Rights Act on grounds of big government, you need to have a plausible alternative. Capitalist Libertarianism ain't it.

David Benfell

More illumination on #RonPaul (h/t @ProfKrugman) by digby: Devolution for some of the people http://is.gd/dUuTFK

David Benfell

Essential by @ggreenwald on #RonPaul: http://is.gd/3RBAuH

David Benfell

This is pretty much the argument on #RonPaul 's prospects as I saw them: http://is.gd/xyWUXF But I think he's damaged by the racism issue.

David Benfell

Saw headline that #Romney leads NH. Capitalist Libertarians sought to make NH a "free state." If #RonPaul can't win NH, he can't win.

David Benfell

The good about #RonPaul: anti-war. The bad: racist, misogynist, capitalist libertarian who believes the market is the measure of all value.

David Benfell

One thing I suppose I have to say about the possibility, however remote, of a #RonPaul presidency (see links here) is that at least we might make progress on some issues, like reducing our foreign entanglements, like reversing the #PoliceState. And he would be a disaster for the financial system and for the economy and hasten its collapse. With #Obama, there is no progress on anything.