So this came up today: Ron Paul [& Gary Johnson] Debate Legalization of Drugs (5-5-11)

[Lucille]

Antle: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/rand-paul-republican-hopes-libertarian-fears/

During the last GOP presidential race, Ron Paul was asked at an early candidates’ debate why Christian conservatives in South Carolina should vote for him. The straitlaced Texas congressman was pro-life, a supporter of religious liberty, and—quelle surprise!—no booster of same-sex marriage. But his answer focused on legalizing heroin, including an amusing impression of a would-be smack addict.



The elder Paul finished fourth in South Carolina, beginning the descent of his promising 2012 campaign. He accomplished the first step—building a movement that could one day change the Republican Party—but more is required to complete the journey.

The debates are going to be so boring without Ron!

 

[Christian Liberty]

Good for Ron. I wish we had someone who would actually tell the truth and campaign for FREEDOM now...

 

[dannno]

Good for Ron. I wish we had someone who would actually tell the truth and campaign for FREEDOM now...

 

[Lucille]

Good for Ron. I wish we had someone who would actually tell the truth and campaign for FREEDOM now...

Ron's the only one that's straight with us! Alas!

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
--H.L. Mencken

A more robust federalism might help both pro-lifers and drug-legalizers realize more of their short-term policy goals than rhetoric about ending either Roe v. Wade or the war on drugs ever could. Libertarians might learn to shrink government the way statists have often expanded it—through incremental steps—with politically achievable things like more lenient sentences for drug offenders, freeing more people than by talking about heroin.

But that's so boring and inauthentic! That's what we love about Ron. He's neither, nor is he into incrementalism.

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
--Henry David Thoreau

That's our Ron!