Recent content by Goldwater Conservative

They've given him more attention for his primary challenge than they did for anything but the newsletters and maybe 11/5. You'd think Paul didn't even exist since early January, considering the few minutes of coverage he's had since then. Could the media be more obvious? I guess that doesn't...

With cell phone cameras, YouTube, and 24-hour cable "news" nowadays, there's no way I could see the feds marching down to a seceding state and threatening them to fall in line. Would the rest of America really have the stomach to kill their friends and family just because they want...

The Berlin Wall divided a nation in two, with one half ruled by Soviet-style socialism and the other by European-style capitalism. The border fence would be to clearly demarcate the border between two very distinct countries in the middle of a desert so those seeking to ignore our sovereign...

My problem with them is that it would be more accurate to describe them as the Militantly Secularist DNC-approved Civil Liberties Union. They tend to go overboard on some issues (Boy Scouts) and not far enough on others (property rights violations).

Florida because it's my home state and I think we could get several times more people to move if we chose such a warm place. It'd only be worth it if we targeted one of the sparsely-populated coastal counties. Nevada because it's sparsely-populated and is part of the most...

"Up next, we talk about the two GOP candidates left..." "With McCain assured the nomination, why is Huckabee, his only remaining rival, still in this?" Repeat 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A mention here or there on Wolf Blitzer can't counteract what the media has chosen to be the truth. They...

If the government misses a problem under our current system (either because they don't care or are just incompetent), tough luck for you and many other Americans. If there was competition, say, between different universities doing tests on consumer products, then there'd be an incentive to...

All government should be local. I often think even the county level is too much. Why should a city on one side of the Florida peninsula, for example, be able to tell another on the other side what to do, aside from leaving it alone? Governments always have a tendency to usurp liberty, and at...

Wait, a government that controls a third of the largest economy in the world couldn't afford to keep a website up?

The great irony is that the older voters who are turned off by rudeness and vulgarity tend to be voting for the rudest and most vulgar candidates (McCain, Romney, Giuliani) while all the foul-mouthed youngsters are flocking to the extremely well-mannered Paul.

This makes no sense, since (a) he has repeatedly stated that it would realistically take a few months and that he'd leave it to the military to withdraw in the best way possible, and (b) as long as we stay we'll lose far more people than if we were to leave. What's better, 500 deaths in six...

Even the powers that the Democrats are comfortable with the government having scare the crap out of me. Republicans don't trust the government with their money or their guns, so I don't see why they can trust it with their privacy or personal property. All conservatives should be up in arms...

Congress has an approval rating in the teens. People think by a wide margin that government is broken, politicians are corrupt, and the lawyers who usually run for public office are the biggest crooks around. I think being a doctor is still considered one of the most honorable professions. I say...

People will be afraid to support Paul until he's only one of two, and then they might not even bother to vote despite preferring him over the other candidate. Such is the power of the "he can't win" mentality.

It's true. Unfortunately, the majority of people think in terms of liberal, moderate, or conservative. That's it. Explaining to them that Paul is a constitutionalist, federalist, paleo-conservative (or classical liberal) confuses most and takes too much time for those who rely on sound-bites...