December 25, 2011 - 1:43 am
- The Long Rough Awakening of Russia, by Claudia Rosett. Twenty years ago this Christmas day…
- It’s Called ‘Christmas,’ Stupid, by Abraham H. Miller. It’s a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree. It has always been a Christmas tree and those afraid to mouth the word “Christmas” just appear foolish.
- Big Anti-Tobacco? By Theodore Dalrymple. Those with vested interests in smoking cessation somehow avoid scrutiny. Hmm.
- The Police Have No Obligation To Protect You. Yes, Really. By Mike McDaniel. When protecting our lives, we can rely only upon ourselves.
- Why the Left Doesn’t Mourn Vaclav Havel’s Passing, by Ron Radosh. Now that a week has passed since Havel’s death, some on the Western Left are letting their true feelings out.
If you told me six months ago that there was a serious prospect that Vladimir Putin would lose the first round of balloting in Russia’s upcoming presidential vote this March, I would have laughed at you. And that Ron Paul almost beats Mitt Romney in a Virginia populated by federal employees he’d lay off if given the chance? Well that’s also so improbable as to be laugh out loud funny, but then again, all the candidates PJM’s been backing besides Romney failed spectacularly to get on the Virginia ballot when many also-rans made it in 2008. So either the Establishment wants to hasten the dreadful inevitibility of Romney, or the stars are aligning for Ron Paul to make this an actual fight for the nomination, not a coronation of the latest Establishment Man.
Any candidate, any man, can be ignored, or crushed. But a movement based on an idea whose time has come is invincible. You may beat back Ron Paul in 2012. You might even deflect Rand’s rise somehow after Romney goes down to defeat to Obama, because you feared losing the status quo more than losing your freedoms. But the fact that you all seem terrified of one not-so-charismatic 76-year-old man says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE30TH6Y7cI
‘It’s not impossible…’
Ronulan Paulbots, the gift that just won’t go away. Like Aunt Mary’s Christmas fruitcake.
@ 2 just ad hominem, you’re outta of rhetorical bullets, I’m afraid. To quote Doc Holliday, ‘Does this mean we are no longer friends?’ That’s what I say to the likes of Lowry, Establishment RINOS one and all.
I’ll make one more point about PJM’s recent wave of Ron Paul hate/hysteria, and spare Wretchard’s readers any further on that topic: PJM recently carried what appeared to be a paid advertorial from Porter Stansberry of Stansberry Research. They denounce Mr. Paul for appearing on the Alex Jones Show and associating with alleged crackpots, but guess who’s the Christmas guest of honor on Infowars today? None other than PJM advertiser Porter Stansberry! You can’t make this stuff up folks. And Alex despite his ravings about fluoride, chemtrails and killer globalist bioweapons to wipe out all of humanity while merging with the Singularity or some such does have good guests like George Noury and Peter Schiff. I never listened to him before he had people of that caliber on the air.
If Newt is so incompetent and poorly organized that he can’t get 10,000 signatures from his neighbors in the most affluent on average suburbs in the country in northern VA, then he no amount of shilling for him here at PJM will maintain his crumbling facade. And no don’t tell me about Newt’s whining that it’s just soooooo hard, four also-ran candidates including Huckabee, Romney and two others got on the VA ballot for Super Tuesday 2008 before bowing out to Senator McCain.
C’mon PJM (not our esteemed host Wretchard), stop making fools of yourselves. At least pretend to be slightly nuetral or detached for a little while yet until the dreadfully inevitable Mitt Romney becomes the choice of Fox News and the GOP corporatist apparat. And attack Ron Paul on ideas, not personally. If you really think Iran is going to go ballistic and nuke us and or Israel off the map and turn 80 million Persians who mostly despise their regime into suicide bombers, then just say so.
Admit to yourselves that the country is just sick and tired of endless fighting all along the periphery and inside Islamdom and mainline neocons offer no end in sight to any of this, nor a realistic solution other than eliminating all entitlements for maintaining the trillion a year the U.S. spends on ‘defense’ and ‘intelligence’ while borrowing/printing a roughly equal amount. Nor have the likes of TNR, NR, Weekly Standard, Fox et al explained how one frail 76-year-old man — even in the extremely unlikely event he’s allowed to win the GOP nomination — would simulatenously get all of Congress, what’s left of the MSM, or the military industrial/Wall Street complex to go along rather than viciously attempt to destroy him by all means possible.
“It is plain he regards the best the defense against Islam to be not the slaughter or conversion of Muslims but the maintenance of the West’s self confidence and grounding in the principles of the scientific revolution.” – Richard Fernandez
Yes or as brother Ron would put it, the secret to our greatness is not our military power but in our liberty — something many fake conservatives forgot a long time ago.