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12 years ago @ Big Government - Santorum Supported Fed... · 0 replies · +1 points

"freedom means you get to do whatever you feel like"
That's right, as long as you don't harm or coerce anyone else e.g. abortion.
"disconnect from morality & social tradition of family values."
That is my choice, a choice that only I have right to make.
How are you going to enforce your morality, send the morality police to my house like in Iran?
"Do you want to keep the nanny state?"
You are advocating for the nanny state.
What does conservative even mean anymore? It has become a completely amorphous term.
Rick has explicitly stated that he doesn't want the support of libertarian minded people, no problem. To me, that is almost as bad as Obama calling me "the enemy".

12 years ago @ Big Government - Santorum Supported Fed... · 2 replies · +1 points

Some serious verbal gymnastics defending that second statement.
How about this one
R.S.
"One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right. You know, the left has gone so far left and the right in some respects has gone so far right that they touch each other. They come around in the circle. This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture."
Face it, the guy doesn't believe in individual liberty.

12 years ago @ Big Government - Komen Continues Fundin... · 1 reply · +4 points

Ding, Ding!
We have a winner,
Another way to state your assertion would be to say that all money is fungible, i.e. any dollar given to PP is ostensibly used for abortion.

12 years ago @ Big Government - Komen Continues Fundin... · 0 replies · +4 points

Because money is fungible.

12 years ago @ Big Government - Blinded by the Left: H... · 0 replies · +1 points

"you claim that anyone who is not a RP supporter is blinded by their "hate"
Did you read my post? I said no such thing. Not even close. YOU are pulling the Alinsky pal, pick a target and freeze it with unfounded accusations, or maybe you are just incapable in general.
I was pointing out the fallacy of Trevor's argument, guilt by association.
Read my profile, I don't call anyone names but have been called many of them.
I will debate anyone unless of course, you are a "Chicken hawk, warmonger, neocon, Israeli-firster, ALF(whatever that is), or humorless.

12 years ago @ Big Government - Blinded by the Left: H... · 2 replies · +5 points

Trevor Louden writes for the BIG's. All of the writers here at the BIG's hate Ron Paul.
Therefore, he must be part of the Journolisters here schilling for Romney.
See how I did that.
No knowledge, no facts, just innuendo.
How about asking the RP campaign how he felt about SDTF. maybe he disavows the results of the commission?
I guess the writer was not interested in actual facts, just guilt by association.

12 years ago @ Big Peace - 2012 National Defense ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm with gb8898
"The only exemption for American citizens is from the mandatory detention requirement (section 1032 of the bill). However, there is no exemption for American citizens from the authorization to use the military to indefinitely detain people (section 1031 of the bill).
Please point out how this is wrong.

12 years ago @ Big Peace - 2012 National Defense ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Yes, I believe this was an attempt to clarify an already existing power claimed by the president.
However, instead of weakening the provision in favor of civil liberties, or re writing it altogether to make clear the president does not have this constitutional authority, they have further codified it into law.
As gb8898 astutely pointed out above
"The only exemption for American citizens is from the mandatory detention requirement (section 1032 of the bill). However, there is no exemption for American citizens from the authorization to use the military to indefinitely detain people (section 1031 of the bill).

12 years ago @ Big Peace - 2012 National Defense ... · 2 replies · +4 points

Don't you realize speaking out against what the government is doing could be considered "a belligerent act against the U.S. or its coalition allies, under the law of war"
Why didn't they pass legislation saying the government does NOT have the authority "to detain anyone it felt to be a threat" because it's unconstitutional. Flat out, they do not care in the least what the constitution says.
You don't think they will lock up American citizens? They have done it before.

12 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Santorum defends earma... · 0 replies · +2 points

"Santorum has never violated the Constitution."
That's laughable.
Small government?
He voted for every big spending program Bush and the congress could roll out.

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