Sentient: Unwittingly, you have proven my point. I've been watching Carlin since he started out as Al Sleet, The Hippy Dippy Weatherman. And sorry, but he does not have a libertarian bone in his body. And he IS a left wing Socialist, which designation has now become necessary because as someone pointed out after your post, the Neo-Cons are Right Wing Socialists.
I like Carlin. But he isn't and has never been a libertarian, conservative, republican, etc. Any of those things. Not in philosophy and not in comedy. Watch him when he's on a panel show like Bill Maher's or Larry King.
Delusion about celebrities apparently will never end. I remember people picking and choosing snippets of Ronald Reagan to prove to me he was "really a libertarian at heart." It was Bull then and it's BULL now. Sorry.
To start, as for George Carlin, you may be right. I have not seen everything George Carlin has done, msotly his msot recent stuff, and a number of youtube videos - the one I included. Based on what I saw, I didn't necesssarily see a libertarian, but from what I saw I definitely didnt see a socialist, seemed to me like despite anything else, of all the candidates, Ron paul would be the one that he would support. Again, if what you say is true and he made blatant socialist comments in the past and believes them now - then I am mistaken. No need to apologize! I'm glad you have enlightened me to it, actually - so I would not dedicate much more time to "pursuing" George Carlin for endorsement. Probably not a good idea thinking back on it anyways - as it may end up polarizing a lot of people away from Ron paul (like religious folk, George Carlin is VERY anti-religion).
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As for Bush and other neo-cons being a "right-wing socialist". Actually, they are not really right-wing in my opinion at all. The TRUE definition of a right-wing, or conservative, is smaller govt, lower taxes, non interventionalist policy, and typically fiscal conservation. I know Bush CLAIMS to be right wing, or republican - and he actually stated in his first election that he wanted to move AWAY from nation-building, and he wanted lower taxes, etc. But, as we have learned. Actions speak louder than words. In practice, he is a "values" conservative. But nothing more. In terms of GOVT issues, he is mroe liberal than anything else. Bigger government. tax hikes. War. These are actually classic democratic positions.
That is what neo-cons are and where they came from... they started out as liberals that "defected to the right" as it was said. The only thign that's "right-wing" about them, are "moral issues" like abortion, gay marriage, religion, etc. That's the only thing that had them considered as part of the "right" for whatever reason. This should not be considered as part of the right.
As Ron Paul said, the republicans have "lost their way".
