tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6756434140794129886.post-16794352219970530992007-12-24T09:42:00.000-08:002007-12-24T09:42:00.000-08:002007-12-24T09:42:00.000-08:00Sorry, Starchild, but your lengthy comments are simply hand-waving and wishful thinking. You say absolutely nothing on the substance of the 12 Paul heresies against radical libertarianism that I listed. Using/tolerating the word "revolution" in campaign rhetoric doesn't qualify Paul as an LP-style radical, or negate any of those 12 points. Ron Paul's appearance on Meet The Press resoundingly confirmed my claim that Paul is a serial heretic against radical libertarianism: http://libertarianintelligence.com/2007/12/ron-paul-backslides-on-meet-press.html .<BR/><BR/>Your claim that some of the 17 radicals on my list might not support Paul for the LP nomination against a more radical candidate is laughable. If you can get a single one of the other 16 radicals to say they would support some other LP candidate over Paul for the LP nomination, I'll donate $100 to that candidate. David Nolan even offered to be Paul's VP candidate!<BR/><BR/>I don't buy the flimsy excuse that radical enthusiasm for the heretic Paul is OK because Paul is not an LP candidate. These radicals are all promoting Paul as a great libertarian, and many of them don't even care about the LP brand. It's just hilarious that all these radicals can detect trace amounts of hypocrisy in others, but can't see it in the mirror when it's staring them in the face.<BR/><BR/>P.S. Saying the government steals doesn't make Paul a radical, either. I too say that a large part of what the government does is theft. Does that magically make me a radical?<BR/><BR/>Morey, Raimondo is still a radical anti-statist and anarchist, as far as I know. If you and Starchild are going to make the definition of radicalism dependent on party affiliation instead of on the substance of one's views, then it confirms the reformist charge that you radicals care more about badges of self-righteousness than about how one's views relate to, and might influence, the real world.<BR/><BR/>Scott, I'd love it if hordes of Paulists joined the LP, but I'm not optimistic that it will happen. The ones who try will find the LP too intolerant of non-anarchists whose initials aren't R.P.Brian Holtzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284822676116941984noreply@blogger.com