The GOP isn’t ready to give up it’s small government, low tax, Pax Americana neocon fantasyland anytime soon. --- get rid of the neocons and it will happen rapidly
On Feb 21, 11:08 pm, "M. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron Paul at CPAC Exposes the Incoherence of the Modern Republican > PartyBy:Blue TexanSunday February 21, 2010 11:30 am > Two very revealing snapshotsfrom CPAC yesterday.Ron Paul wins CPAC strawpoll. > Crowd apparently booed the result when it was announced.Andlater,Even Ann > Coulter, who drew a huge crowd herself, felt compelled to give a shout out to > Paul-mania, saying she agreed with everything he stands for outside of > foreign policy a statement met with cheers.Despite Coulter’s attempt to make > foreign policy a mere trivial disagreement, her statement and the CPAC > crowd’s response is absurd. > The United States currently has troops in 140 countries around the world. We > are actively involved in shooting wars in three countries, going on a decade > now. We will spend nearly$700B on defense in 2010almost as much as the > “generational theft” stimulus bill and this doesn’t count the billions we > spend on Homeland Security. And all for a single year of “defense.” > So Ann Coulter agrees with everything Ron Paul says, except for that trillion > or so a year she wants to keep spending to maintain a US Empire. Or, put > another way Coulter and the neoconservatives that have taken over the > Republican Party want Ron Paul’s pre-WWI, pre-Fed, pre-Social Security, > pre-IRS federal government to go with LBJ’s Great Society military. > This notion that you can have “small government” while maintaining a global > empire and fighting a “Global War on Terror” is obviously nonsense, and even > William F. Buckley recognized that. Here’s Buckley, arguing during the Cold > War that conservatives had to embrace “Big Government” (from Julian Zelizer’s > Arsenal of Democracy): > Buckley wrote that conservatives had to “accept Big Government for the > duration–for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged…except > through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores.” He > explained that Republicans “will have to support large armies and air > forces…central intelligence…and the attendant centralization of power in > Washington–even with Truman at the reins of it all.“ > If Buckley had said this at CPAC about the “War on Terror” and Obama he’d > have been booed off the stage. > But whoever the GOP nominee is in 2012 will have to embrace this paradox > wholeheartedly. The GOP isn’t ready to give up it’s small government, low > tax, Pax Americana neocon fantasyland anytime > soon.http://firedoglake.com/2010/02/21/ron-paul-at-cpac-exposes-the-incoherence-of-the-modern-republican-party/ -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
