On 2012-01-03, at 9:47 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > using purely "lesser of two evil" logic, the ACLU numbers in isolation do > tell us that we should vote for Ron Paul over BHO. But even by that logic, > there are other issues: Paul economics is even worse than Obama's -- and I > believe that Paul would drop his commitment to some civil liberties in a > heartbeat in order to save his beloved Free Market.
My question was purely rhetorical, Jim. I think the social forces which each represents - and they're not at all the same at the bottom as they may be at the top - is much more significant than their personal attributes. > > Since I don't believe in that logic, what these numbers say (once again) is > that BHO is much more conservative than his 2008 supporters thought he was. > (By 1972 standards, he's to the right of Nixon.) > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: > Your recent exchanges with Jim and others. I'm assuming you don't abstain > from electoral politics, that you vote for the "lesser evil" and that, in > this case, you believe it to be Paul. I don't know why you would find what I > infer from your comments below and elsewhere so astonishing ("what on earth > would make you think…?") and I doubt I'm the only one contemplating how far > your appreciation of Paul would take you. > > -- > Jim Devine / It's time to Occupy the New Year! > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
