American Chronicle had, until they pulled it for violating it's editorial policy, an op-ed that attacked Ron Paul and his supporters, who he said were "incorrigible haters of America and . . . congenital bangers of whatever America represents."
I was under the impression that us Ron Paul supporters were among the people who most love what America and it's constitution represent... being the only candidate who believe in the Constitution having something to do with that. On the very highly recommended show, Penn & Teller Bullshit, they covered what the op-ed author may have been talking about in their Mt Rushmore episode. In it they talk how people make it seem that if you don't support everything our government does, then you are not patriotic, and hate America and whatever it represents. This must be the thinking of the author since there could be no other explanation. However, it is exactly this kind of thinking, questioning the government that our founding fathers would consider the most patriotic to what they intended this country to be by this point in time in our history (and even then). Blindly following everything the government says, believing everything they say, and agreeing with everything it does isn't patriotism, it's being a dunce. What if Gore had gotten in way back when and gas was now over $12 a gallon do to the taxes he was promising to put on it (I can't even imagine the price of an airplane ticket if normal auto gas was that much, and plane fuel that much more)? The effect, due to not being able to drive, millions loose their job and end up on government programs, though some of those may be able to get a bus to where they need to go, many live outside where buses go and they have to stay on it. Kerry comes along next and he follows his promise to pay women to abort their children, and then give billions to the drug companies (who today make twice what oil companies do... oddly nobody complains and wants to through more money at them while punishing oil companies... I don't get it, but then I am not on the left) along with these aborted children so they can do research they could afford to do themselves and still be more profitable than most other companies. Would the writer of the op-ed piece say that those of us who don't support those moves are unpatriotic? If his logic is that most Ron Paul supporters are unpatriotic because they don't support the war in Iraq, many don't support the Federal Reserve or IRS (at least when it comes to the personal income tax, which could be gotten rid of without getting rid of any government services... so long as you got rid of the Federal Reserve first), some support ending the war on drugs and the like. Since that describes a noticeable percentage of Ron Paul supporters (some, if not most may not support all those issues, but between all his issues they still feel he is the best choice of the two parties), the op-ed author seems to feel they are unpatriotic. Yet, I am sure if the above scenario was true, where Gore and Kerry won, he would be talking about how bad some parts of the government was himself, making him by his own thought process, unpatriotic, yet he would then claim that it would be unpatriotic not to be heard.
A little clip from that episode, which I felt was one of their better ones. Watch it until the end, you may think you see how the trick they do is done, and want to stop, but it is their words... well Penn's words since Teller doesn't speak, that is important, plus the trick ends up being really cool.
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