Brian Miller wrote: BM) Any affiliation with lunatic conspiracy theories and their adherents is bad. (BM
Amen. BM) Sometimes I half-wonder if he wasn't a plant by the GOP to destroy the credibility of libertarianism. (BM Then I guess this is only half-ironic. ;-) I'd love to believe that the GOP worries about the credibility of libertarianism, but I don't buy it. Then again, I've been publicly suspected of being a GOP plant myself, so my dismissal of the idea could be self-defense, and my joking about it could be a pre-emptive decoy, and .... BM) STRONGLY and UNEQUIVOCALLY condemning the rhetoric in question (BM Amen. Paul's response to Wolf Blitzer was pretty good, though. BM) Immediately outing the author(s) of the content in question and demanding that they apologize and distance themselves from the comments made, or you will sever any and all ties with them (BM And demanding that any ally with information about the authors should share it -- Amen. BM) concomitant policy proposals on gay and African-American issues (BM Reversals of policy positions for this kind of reason alone would be unprincipled. They would have to be accompanied by a VERY convincing narrative of how the whole episode caused a thorough re-examination of how policies reflect principles, why his judgment was wrong before, etc.
