Brian Miller fabricates even more quotes rather than produce the quotes I challenged him to deliver:
BM) [Paul is] not a "stealth Libertarian" as his supporters (including Mr. Holtz) keep on suggesting (or even just plain stating). (BM Miller's incompetence with quotation marks continues. I've never called Paul a "stealth Libertarian". I've instead said that he's a libertarian, and a lifetime member of the LP. BM) It's certainly legitimate for Paul to stress his undying loyalty to the Republican Party (BM LOL. Thanks for not addressing the point that Paul didn't vote for Bush and won't be supporting the GOP nominee. Some "undying loyalty"... BM) and his strong support for socially conservative regulation. (BM Standard Miller mendacity. I again quote Ron Paul: RP) A free country is designed for individuals to deal with the subject of virtue and excellence. Once we defer to the government to get involved in worrying about our own virtue and our excellence and perfect fair economies, it is done at the sacrifice of liberty. If we do that, and sacrifice that liberty, and the job of virtue and excellence is taken over by the government, you can only do that through tyranny. (RP RP) What we as conservatives must remember, is that if you're willing to use the strong arm of government to regulate things that are negative, that you don't like and you find abhorrent, you set the stage for regulating your religion, your schools, and everything else. [..] We cannot go to Washington to dictate to us how to improve our personal behavior. You don't dictate, you don't legislate virtue. (RP Miller of course cannot quote Paul saying that morality should be legislated. BM) Ron Paul has been downright coy when it comes to the liberties of gay people, women, blacks, and other groups the GOP often is at odds with (BM Translation: the only possible reason to be a radical constitutionalist and skeptic of central federal authority is if, despite all of one's public statements to the contrary, one secretly and coyly favors oppression of gays and women and blacks etc by states and localities. You don't have to like Paul's position that the federal government should not be entrusted to do for gay rights what it's done for our rights concerning substance use and campaign speech and warrantless monitoring and gun rights and "hate crimes" and reproductive technology and digital copying technology. I don't either. But you don't get to pretend that's not his stated position -- at least not without seeming illiterate. BM) . . . yet not coy at all about renouncing Libertarianism (BM Standard Miller mendacity. Paul retains his lifetime membership in the LP, and has never said he does not consider himself "libertarian".
