Comments on: The Nevada Republican Party’s 2008 Suicide Belt http://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com/2009/11/the-nevada-republican-partys-2008-suicide-belt/ @ Rational Review Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:42:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Juanita Cox http://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com/2009/11/the-nevada-republican-partys-2008-suicide-belt/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Juanita Cox Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:36:40 +0000 http://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com/?p=111#comment-12 Everybody knows the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, rich get rich That's how it goes, everybody knows ~~ Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson The stolen votes were 30 + = all three congressional districts plus at-large delegates. We have a lot of work to do but in this age of atonement and truth we are up to the job. Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, rich get rich
That’s how it goes, everybody knows
~~ Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson

The stolen votes were 30 + = all three congressional districts plus at-large delegates.

We have a lot of work to do but in this age of atonement and truth we are up to the job.

]]> By: David K. M. Klaus http://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com/2009/11/the-nevada-republican-partys-2008-suicide-belt/comment-page-1/#comment-11 David K. M. Klaus Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:45:11 +0000 http://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com/?p=111#comment-11 I'm surprised not at all, Neil. Major political party establishment apparatchiks are willing to cut their own throats and violate their most basic rules of procedure these days to keep their most "radical" members from being nominated: just as the Republicans would die, as a party, rather than give internal power over to sympathizers of Dr. Paul, so the same with Democrats and Dennis Kucinich or Libertarians with Neil Smith or Tom Knapp -- which is why we get clone nominees: John McCain is Barack Obama is Bob Barr. While there are individual differences, to be sure, the <i>methods</i> of <b>how</b> they would govern are all the same, and I don't mean with regard to the Constitution, but rather as a <i>style</i> of governance. Dr. Paul's nomination probably wouldn't have changed the election results <i>vis-a-vis</i> Senator Obama, but would have made for a much more interesting campaign season. And think what a series of debates could have been with Dr. Paul, Congressman Kucinich and Mr. Smith or Mr. Knapp! Substantive issues! The meanings of the articles of the Constitution! Pledges to enforce the Bill of Rights! [sigh] I’m surprised not at all, Neil. Major political party establishment apparatchiks are willing to cut their own throats and violate their most basic rules of procedure these days to keep their most “radical” members from being nominated: just as the Republicans would die, as a party, rather than give internal power over to sympathizers of Dr. Paul, so the same with Democrats and Dennis Kucinich or Libertarians with Neil Smith or Tom Knapp — which is why we get clone nominees: John McCain is Barack Obama is Bob Barr. While there are individual differences, to be sure, the methods of how they would govern are all the same, and I don’t mean with regard to the Constitution, but rather as a style of governance.

Dr. Paul’s nomination probably wouldn’t have changed the election results vis-a-vis Senator Obama, but would have made for a much more interesting campaign season. And think what a series of debates could have been with Dr. Paul, Congressman Kucinich and Mr. Smith or Mr. Knapp! Substantive issues! The meanings of the articles of the Constitution! Pledges to enforce the Bill of Rights!

[sigh]

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