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Neocon Gary Bauer Attacks Ron Again

Ho hum.

'Gary Johnson Doubles Down on NH'

Writes Kevin Derby:

"Johnson's focus on winning the New Hampshire Republican primary could put to bed speculation that he intended to abandon the GOP to run for the Libertarian Party nomination, the way former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia did in 2008 and Paul did in 1988. Noted libertarian pundit Lew Rockwell posted on his blog last week that a Libertarian Party leader told him that the Johnson camp was reaching out to the third party."

Read the article.

 

Michael Barone on the Debate

He's not terrible to Ron, either.

Ron's Answers

Ron Post-Debate

(Thanks to Travis Holte)

Lying by Bar Graph

MSNBC, which always seeks to marginalize Ron, attempts to disguise graphically the size of his victory in the post-debate online poll. During the pre-show, not one of the assembled shills even mentioned Ron, through they kept hyping the orange Huntsman. In the show, Ron was ignored on the Fed, the wars, and medical care, and his few questions were of this sort: "Why do you advocate the starvation of children by questioning LBJ the Magnificent's food-stamps program? You have 10 seconds to answer." And every time they thought Ron looked bad--when he was pulling papers out of his pocket, for example, while off-camera--they pulled back to show it. It was Soviet TV at its best, and reminded me--though I am fascinated by politics--that I hate it, too. It is a sham and a fraud that tries to demonize the only real peace and freedom candidate ever, and the only gentleman in the gutter game of elections. As to the Republicans in attendance, they gave their loudest cheers to the pro-life Perry's delight in executing hundreds of people.

Stop Telling the Truth About Me!

The thug Perry tries to muscle Ron during a commercial break in the "debate"--unsuccessfully, of course. (Via Reddit)

The Ant and the Grasshopper, Old and New

From Steve Berger:

OLD  VERSION: 

The  ant works hard in the withering  heat all summer long, building his house, and 

laying up supplies  for the winter. 

The grasshopper  thinks  the ant is a fool and laughs  and dances and plays the summer away. 

Come winter, the  ant is warm and well  fed.  

The  grasshopper has no food or  shelter,  

so he  dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD  STORY:



Be responsible  for yourself!

MODERN VERSION: 

The ant works hard in the withering heat  and the rain all summer long, building his house,

and  laying up supplies for the winter. 

The grasshopper thinks the  ant is a fool and laughs and  dances and plays the summer away. 

Come winter, the  shivering grasshopper  calls a  press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be  warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.  

CBS, NBC, PBS,  CNN,  and ABC 

show up to provide  pictures of the shivering grasshopper  next to  a video of the ant in his comfortable home  with  

a table  filled with food.

America is stunned  by the sharp contrast. 

How can this be,  that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper  is 

allowed to suffer  so? 

Kermit the  Frog  appears  on  Oprah

with the  grasshopper and everybody cries when  they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'  

ACORN stages a demonstration in front  of the ant's house where the news  stations film the group singing, We Shall  Overcome.

Then  Rev.  Jeremiah Wright 

has the group kneel  down to pray for the  grasshopper's sake. 

President  Obama condemns the  ant 

and  blames  President  Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's  plight. 

Nancy Pelosi  and Harry Reid exclaim in an interview  with Larry King that the ant has

gotten rich off  the back of  the grasshopper,  

and  both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make  him pay his fair share. 

Finally, the  EEOC  drafts the Economic Equity  and Anti-Grasshopper Act

retroactive to the  beginning of the summer. 

The  ant is fined for failing to  hire a proportionate number of green  bugs  and, 

having nothing left  to  pay his  retroactive 

taxes, his home is  confiscated by the government Green  Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends  as we see the grasshopper  and his  free-loading  friends  finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the  government house he is in, which, as you  recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them  because the grasshopper  doesn't maintain it. 

The  ant  has disappeared in the  snow,  

never  to be seen again.

The grasshopper  is  found  dead in a  drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is  taken  over by a gang of  spiders who terrorize and  ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful,  neighborhood. 

The entire  Nation  collapses bringing the  rest  

of the  free world with it. 

MORAL OF THE  STORY:  



Be careful  how you vote in 2012. 

Ron Paul To Skip Keynesian Buncombe Festival

That is, Obama's homily about jobs. (Thanks to Travis Holte)

Don't Have Cable?

Or prefer to avoid the left-fascists at MSNBC? Writes Politico:

"Friendly reminder: We're livestreaming the #ReaganDebate at http://t.co/fjy0Cmx. Don't miss the pre-game show, starting at 7:30 ET."

Not, of course, that Politico is ideologically any better than the Obama Channel.

UPDATE I should add that while, aside from Ron's session, I found the DeMint forum a boring fiasco--sort of like the senator himself--I am really looking forward to the show tonight. Let's hope the "moderators" aren't too viciously biased against Ron. He can handle them, of course, but we want him to be able to concentrate on Perry, Romney, Bachmann, Santorum, and the rest of the right-fascists.