Here's a little parody I wrote last year. Those of you who saw it before might notice a few minor tweaks because I couldn't find my original... Merry Christmas, peace on earth, and more freedom for all! 8)
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"Ron Paul, The Honest Congressman"
(to the tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer")
You know Daschle, and Hastert
and Boxer, and Clinton
Carter and Mondale and
Reagan and Nixon
But do you recall
The only real hero of all?
Ron Paul, the honest congressman
Had a very lonely job
And if you had to do it
You might even start to sob
All of the politicians
Used to laugh and call him names
They knew Ron Paul was helpless
To rein in their shenanigans
Then Dick Cheney's heart gave out
And the president came to say
"Ron with your ideas so great,
Won't you be my running mate?"
Then all of D.C. panicked
And they shouted out a plea,
"Don't let him near the White House,
We could soon be history!"
Here's a little parody I wrote last year. Those of you who
saw it
before might notice a few minor tweaks because I couldn't find my
original... Merry Christmas, peace on earth, and more freedom for
all!
8)
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Mmm... thanks for the poem, Starchild. But I'm a little surprised;
Ron Paul to me is precisely on the side of the Libertarian Movement
least imbued with the spirit as well as the letter of liberty. He's
a social conservative, a states-righter, anti-abortion, and has
treated gay and lesbian right as less important than defanging the
Supreme Court's power of constitutional review.
I respect that he's better than having, say, a Phil Graham in
Congress in his place, but he still is emblematic of everything that
makes me feel distantly cool to some aspects of the Libertarian
movement. If one had to take Ron Paul's social values as a package
deal with his more-or-less stand for liberty, I personally wouldn't
find much of an improvement. And unfortunately Ron Paul in his
presentations *does* package deal these two issues.
The cultural air of San Francisco gave me more freedom than the
change of a hundred laws ever wouldl there is a certain point where a
transgender prostitute has to put cultural tolerance ahead of
removing unjust laws. I wish Libertarians would remember how crucial
culture can be when when determining what freedom really means. This
applies also to economic freedom- Italy is more socialist than the
U.S., for instance, but it also has long tradition of social
acceptance of black market transactions that puts much wealth
production off the state's radar. Americans by contrast have lesser
taxes but expect what tax laws there are to be obeyed.
Please understand, I mean anything but disrespect- but an ex-
philosopher does not show disrespect by stating her convictions.
regards,
Jeanine )(*)(
Jeanine,
You're absolutely right, of course. But that's part of why we want to get the salon together -- to get our values straight.
Yours in liberty,
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