I'm willing to make some allowances for people alive in past eras. We can hardly judge people of the early 1900s by the same yardstick as 2011. Even the 1950s, while most Americans should have started to develop a new kind of values system by then, you could still cut them some slack. How can we expect people to escape all cultural conditioning ? But 1990 ? Actually I can overlook to some degree the kind of comments in RP's newsletters but only IF these simply were expressions of opinion and nothing more. Alas, the whole idea was gaining political power. That is a whole nuther ballgame. Then there is what surely seems to be RP's lying, or at a minimum, gross irresponsibility about comments made in his name that he had every reason the edit out --he was the publisher , after all. Now a number of documents have surfaced that indicate he did, in fact, approve. The "Ruthfully" blog --she seems to me to be conscientious and not given to nonsense-- being just one that is reporting this story. Finally, apart from ethics considerations : Are Republicans serious about wanting to defeat BHO ? On that basis alone, any GOP association with Paul would be suicidal for the general election. But there is no talking with Paulistas. Its all True Belief, not much different than Obamamania in 2008, just a different political agenda. That is not good. We need to get past that sort of thing. Billy ----------------------------------------------------------------- 12/23/2011 11:14:14 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
In the end, I think there's this current of indignation that flows through a subsect of the population which believes that the advancement of one race to the starting line pushes the previously favored race back. The indignation has to go before we can move from a racial view of society to an individualist view. As Marcus Aurelius said, "get rid of the judgement, get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself." As has been discussed earlier in the thread, this is where Ron Paul betrayed his own ideology. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
