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Elwar
02-05-2009, 12:16 PM
Ok, we can stop with the posts about how some Republican or some conservative mentioned something about lower taxes or lower spending or smaller economic government. They are not now "listening to us" or instant libertarians.

An easy indicator is to see what their stance is on legalizing marijuana (or today's excuse for violating civil liberties, getting those pesky terrorists). How about the war in Iraq?

You could take the hype of George Bush's 2000 election campaign and get enough sound bites to make him sound like a Ron Paul clone.

The fact remains that these guys all had 8 years to actually do something about smaller government. But they didn't.

Again, look at their records. The closest person to Ron Paul's track record of voting "no" to larger government even when it's not the politically wise thing to do is Gary Johnson. History shows a man's character a lot more than what he has been saying "lately".