TexMac
09-03-2011, 07:13 AM
Very impressive blog post at The American Thinker. Here are the last two paragraphs:
Paul does not repel the troops as much as Hannity might assume. Like Thoreau and Socrates, Paul speaks to the young and creative mind. When Thoreau writes in Walden that not one of the people reading his pages has yet lived a full life, who else sees this as a compliment but a young, creative person with rich dreams for the future? Young, energetic, and idealistic, the Paulists rally behind him the same way that an eighth-grader can read Walden's closing line that "the sun is but an evening star" and find the line invigorating rather than platitudinous.
Today's recruits come to Basic Training having had years of full access to the internet. They signed up, usually, after researching their MOS and bargaining with recruiters to get the assignment they wanted. They were in second or third grade when 9/11 happened. They have youthful idealism but not regarding the wars, which they view skeptically or even cynically. The things Ron Paul says about American imperialism and the war machine connect with them. So conservatives should leave their stereotypes about "pro-defense" Republican rhetoric and its appeal to the troops in the dustbin of history. Whatever Ron Paul represents, it is a force that is not going to disappear.
Read it all. (http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/ron_paul_and_the_troops.html)
Paul does not repel the troops as much as Hannity might assume. Like Thoreau and Socrates, Paul speaks to the young and creative mind. When Thoreau writes in Walden that not one of the people reading his pages has yet lived a full life, who else sees this as a compliment but a young, creative person with rich dreams for the future? Young, energetic, and idealistic, the Paulists rally behind him the same way that an eighth-grader can read Walden's closing line that "the sun is but an evening star" and find the line invigorating rather than platitudinous.
Today's recruits come to Basic Training having had years of full access to the internet. They signed up, usually, after researching their MOS and bargaining with recruiters to get the assignment they wanted. They were in second or third grade when 9/11 happened. They have youthful idealism but not regarding the wars, which they view skeptically or even cynically. The things Ron Paul says about American imperialism and the war machine connect with them. So conservatives should leave their stereotypes about "pro-defense" Republican rhetoric and its appeal to the troops in the dustbin of history. Whatever Ron Paul represents, it is a force that is not going to disappear.
Read it all. (http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/ron_paul_and_the_troops.html)