Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

Are you paying attention Do you not realize that most Paul supporters are young, moronic, "disenfranchised" leftists?

Here in SF, for instance, they are almost exclusively Berkeley types who (i) would normally either sit out an election entirely or vote for some other nutjob like Lyndon Larouche and (ii) have nothing whatsoever to do with the Republican party.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

At best, he actively encourages the troglodyte followers. At worst, he embraces many of their views.

Unless, of course, you objectively believe that 95% of all black men in D.C. have criminal tendancies. Or think freeing the slaves wasn't that positive a thing.

But, yeah, on this board, the softballs need to be hit.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

OK, so who do you blame Huckabee on? Or Romney?

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

Dennis Kucinich's poll numbers track Ron Paul's favorably. Of course, when Slave or someone else here posts shit he says "we are focusing on some irrelevant extreme.

You should go find some David Duke stuff to post next week.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

Find me a poll where DK is north of 5%; Ron Paul is showing up as high as 10%, and is topping Fruitcake in Iowa polls. While I suspect he'll fade a bit and end up around 5th in Iowa, he conceivably could go as high as third.

I hope you Rs are not quite as batshit crazy as current poll numbers suggest, but let's revisit the discussion this time tomorrow.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

I don't think there is anything per se wrong with wanting to keep what you have. My objection is the people who pay $20,000 a year to put a kid in private school, but vote against a $250 increase in their property tax bill to pay for building a public school.

I think that people, especially people who are born white, middle-class, and professionally trained, who speak of Darwin as a social construct are trying to foool themselves, because they certainly aren't fooling anyone with intelligence. I don't pay more to the gov't than my taxes as due, but I also don't favor taxing dividends and capital gains more favorably than the wages of honest labor.

I don't counsel my clients to take overly-aggressive stances regarding taxes. I follow the law, much like I assume you do. And I think you've got a lot of stones to suggest otherwise.

Groucho Marxism
 

One thing you "has" is an Army, doing what you have asserted all over this board is the right thing. Is there something inherently wrong about not being willing to pay for it?

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

I'll give you Kucinich. And Edwards. I think they're both idiots. And if either one of them were pulliing the same kind of numbers Paul is, I'd be as afraid of their supporters, too.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

In order:

1. I agree with you there. Under that limited hypo, that is greedy.

2. I think people who are born white, middle class and favor wealth redistribution are irrational, and suffering undiagnosed a self-loathing or guilt of some kind I've happily avoided. I also think gains on money already taxed once should be taxed at a discount rate. I do NOT agree with the current taxation of carried interest that Scwartzman and his industry are exploiting. That's a gain on someone else's money. But I do think the gains he makes on his own money which is pooled with the funds of others should be taxed at a lower rate. That's just fair.

By the way, what's "honest" labor? Are your capital gains dishonest? Were your granparents' CSX dividends the fruits of chicancery? Is your 401K a fraud device? And if that's dishonest, what about interest? Are banks dishonestly charging that? Nobody toils in the mines for those monthly interest payments on loans. I guess that's just more dishonest money being made off other money.

3. I didn't say you violated the law. Aggressive and illegal are not synonyms. If they are in your industry, excuse my ignorance on that.

BTW, you know I like you. We just really don't see eye to eye on this.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

You really are disconnected from all reality.

Ron Paul's supporters have spammed every poll, every chart, every blog - hell, everything - to make his numbers appear high.

Say what you will about the "unibomber" set - they know how to scam mass media.

Groucho Marxism
 

Not me, brother. I'd never have sent them into Iraq, and I am ashamed at how they're paid. Every bit of pork should be abolished and given to them. They ought to be paid as much as our economy will bear. I can't think of a higher risk premium deserving a better return. That filth like Ted Stevens can lard up bills with billions in pork while soldiers don't have the right fucking armor and are losing their houses and jobs because of a war a pack of bought and paid for degenerates supported makes me want to vomit.

I'm not against paying a fair share of taxes. I'm just against paying them to the people in DC. If I could pay my taxes directly to soldiers but it would cost me a few thousand more I'd sign up tomorrow and happily write the check.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

Uh, Edwards is running second in Iowa - close to first.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...64367920080103

PS - the most important line in that article is that "only 250,000 Iowans are expected to vote"

Repeat that again, and think about the disproportionate power a few Big 10 corn farmers have on the political discourse in this country. Utterly disgusting.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

Huckabee is yet another smiley, centrist from Arkansas. I thought the Democrat party loved smiley, centrists from Arkansas?

What's generally wrong with Romney? Although I'm a Rudy guy, I'd damn well trust the founder of Bain Capital over a no-experience, empty suit like Obama or [pick an adjective] like Hillary.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

Uh, read a lot of what you've written today, then Google some of Edwards' "Two Americas" stuff. Perhaps it's an inability to draw the nuanced differences between your positions in a rapid fire medium like this, but what you've argued today and what he argues look pretty similar.

Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
 

Romney's a robot. He's a soulless shitbag who doesn't have the balls to stick by a single conviction. David Brooks destroyed him in a Times editorial this week that said it all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/op...=1&oref=slogin

Yes, I'd vote for him, but only as a last resort. They're all scumbags, but even Hillary and Rudy have the decency to stand by some of their core beliefs.