Lighten Up Guys
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 02:57PM I am a bit saddened by a part of the last Republican Debate I caught between Red Eye commercials the other night.
Rick Santorum was answering some charge that he voted for some spending a conservative should not support. He actually admitted it! How refreshing!!!!
Rick Santorum explained his vote as part of an effort by his party to move some larger agenda forward…bla, bla, bla.
Then the part I remember.
Santorum said “politics is a team sport.”
So the next question was to Ron Paul who jumped at the Santorum “team sport” answer with his usual reference to the Constitution.
I thought it was a cheap shot.
Ron Paul knows, or should know by now, that the Constitution was the result of a team effort.
No lone wolf won everything in it.
No single, uncompromising ideologue wrote and passed Ron Paul’s favorite fall back position on every issue.
The US Constitution was a result of principled compromise.
If Ron Paul was there when the Constitution was adopted, would he have voted for it if a single part of it conflicted with any of his principals? His history as a legislator says me might have voted no.
Ron Paul and Rick Santorum offer candid answers to questions in this presidential cycle.
To me they seem to say what is on their mind and speak as though “no handlers need apply” to their campaigns.
I only saw this part of the debate. I hope it wasn’t all like this.
Reader Comments (6)
Newt Gingrich was the funny, smart kid, fat kid, who knew the rules inside and out so everyone would ask him when there was a question, but got really mad when you nailed him with kickball and made him go out.
Santorum is the kid who everyone wanted on his team but everyone hated when the were on the other one.
Romney is the kid who bought all of his friends and then couldn't understand why no one elected him class president or picked him for their kickball team. If he didn't get to play ball his way he would have one of his thugs produce a switchblade and puncture the ball so no one could play. He would even make up bogus rumours about the others so no one wanted to hang out with them.
– C. dog poised to lance the boil
You take advantage of natural borders – say, an ocean here, an ocean there – and arm the nation accordingly. That would preclude forays into sandlots across the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding hellholes, take America out of Vietnam, Korea, and other south-Asian paradises, and don't forget lil' ol' coup d'états in far flung places like Chilé con Carnage. As vets of foreign entanglements are wont to say: "what happens in My Lai stays in My Lai."
Of course, if you feel so compelled, you can get up off the couch and off you go to the latest far-flung conflagration with you band of merry men and have at it. Oddly, that would be a more moral thing to do.
– C. dog shoots spitballs to down chicken hawks
I'm still liking my plan.
No matter what part of the planet you are on, if you kill or hold hostage an American with no valid reason, you lose presious facilities, harbors, tribes, monuments, sacred cities, or dictators.
Need to punish and American for something? Then hand him over and we will do it ASAP.
No treaty needed. No need for Hillary to flop into any foreign land for a photo op.
What would Jefferson do?
– C. dog proverb from way back