For the first time in my life, I'm going to make a contribution to a Republican. Of course, the Republican leadership does not really want to call Ron Paul a Republican. He is antiwar, for one thing. How can you be a Republican and be against the Iraq war or any war we want to wage? Treasonable!
Oh, sure. He's a libertarian and I'm not. He has a lot of ideas that I find dubious, at best. But right now, reining in in the War Party --- which includes both parties --- is the only thing that can save our democracy.
"Unconstitutional government has created a war crisis, a financial crisis, a dollar crisis, and a freedom crisis," he says. "But we don't have to take it. We don't have to passively accept more dead soldiers, a lower standard of living, rising prices, a national ID, eavesdropping on our emails and phone calls, and all the rest."
Amen.
My contribution will be modest and wasted, even though Ron Paul is winning straw poll after stroll poll while the corporate media studiously looks away. But one does what one can.
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