I suspect that some of the "liberals" who are apoplectic about Ron Paul are really *New Republic* liberals, who hate his opposition to the Empire but are hiding behind faux concern about his domestic policies.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > There is also a good John Nichols piece in The Nation, a place I would have > not expected to find such a thing. Some liberals and feminists are > apoplectic about Paul, thinking that somehow his crappy ideas are leaching > into the populace. > > > > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Robert Naiman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, indeed, and what I am doing is not actually campaigning for him, >> but using him as a hook to push an antiwar agenda. >> >> Ryan Grim did the same thing in his piece in Huffington Post which I >> forwarded. The piece isn't about Ron Paul at all. It's about the drug >> war. The piece starts out: Ron Paul says the drug war is racist. Is >> that true? Let's investigate...and off it goes. >> >> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If it's not too zen for y'all, supporting Paul is not really supporting >> > Paul. >> > He isn't going to be president. The most visible stuff about him is the >> > themes of anti-war, anti-drug-war, and cancel the rest of government. >> > The >> > latter isn't going to happen, while the first two are pretty popular. So >> > in >> > my view by all means talk them up. That doesn't prevent anyone for >> > noting >> > the genuinely wacky, less visible stuff in his platform, as well as the >> > vile >> > material in his newsletters. He's being made out to be David Duke, but >> > Duke >> > campaigned on racism. Paul does not. >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > pen-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Robert Naiman >> Policy Director >> Just Foreign Policy >> www.justforeignpolicy.org >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
