{"id":6227,"date":"2010-06-01T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T19:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2010-06-01T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T22:58:50","slug":"guaging-various-parts-of-rand-pauls-national-electorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/06\/01\/guaging-various-parts-of-rand-pauls-national-electorate\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauging various parts of Rand Paul’s national electorate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like this “Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment<\/a>” advocacy — another of those contrarian causes from the sort that demand we never refer to Democracy and always refer to a Republic.\u00c2\u00a0 At once it is a theory that if we can just get a crack at crossing out a statues and laws, we will downsize government.\u00c2\u00a0 The other theory at work is something along the lines of finding auxiliary causes for “Rise of Big Government” rooted out of causes that broke away from what apparently groups of Libertarians and these groups of Right-wing populists they’ve lead along view as the Golden Age of America — the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century.\u00c2\u00a0 I recall this surreal suggestion cracked by Ann Coulter about a year ago — maybe two — that giving women the right to vote\u00c2\u00a0lead to this inexorable Nanny State.<\/p>\n

I am reminded The latter days of the Federalist Party saw them, frustrated by the Democratic Party’s rise and strength out of their Expansionist colonies, shirked to a hold of the power and Supremacy of the Original Colonies.\u00c2\u00a0 The peoples seeking to overturn the thirteenth Amendment remind me of those Federalists.<\/p>\n

But you know something?\u00c2\u00a0 As Rand Paul gives voice to that segment of the population wanting to overturn such things, I’m back to some questions.\u00c2\u00a0 It is not uncommon for people to look into the\u00c2\u00a0visage of a politician and see what they want to see, and we are sometimes not helped by the bellicose nature of political punditry.\u00c2\u00a0 Certain nostrums pop up and lines are drawn for what a Democrat and what a Republican is apt to be doing, and what a “Centrist” is doing to jump back and forth “between” the two.<\/p>\n

Rand Paul presents a very peculiar example of this phenonemom <\/a>as he trades off of his father’s name for undeserved glory.<\/p>\n

Rand Paul, upon nomination, announced that he and his crowd were going to storm into Washington and “Take Our Government Back”.\u00c2\u00a0 For perspective’s sake, it needs to be noted that Rand Paul is capable of taking one small\u00c2\u00a0slice of the government away, and away from current Senator Jim Bunning.\u00c2\u00a0 Jim Bunning was last seen emerging for 15 minute’s worth of glory as a Conservative Champion for obstructing Jobless Benefits.\u00c2\u00a0 Is Rand Paul going to somehow differ from Jim Bunning’s terms of service?<\/p>\n

Last week, I saw that someone had linked an anti-Rand Paul blog post of mine alongside a couple other links.\u00c2\u00a0 One curiously from a figure that I’ve trashed about — Webster.\u00c2\u00a0 And another from antiwar.com, which I was glad to see that they’ve swerved from their automatic position of extolling the virtues of Ron Paul to consider Rand Paul of that same “War Party” cloth.\u00c2\u00a0 (Thus saving Justin Raimondo\u00c2\u00a0the disservice of being a hypocrite.)\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0I do see what the bastions at lewrockwell glean to Rand Paul — whatever leads to a corporate hegenomy, I guess.\u00c2\u00a0 But reading through Alex Jones land and the prisonplanet website, and their full fledged support of the candidacy of Rand Paul — I guess I see a good opportunity to assess what, at the end of the day, their political strictures truly are.\u00c2\u00a0 What is it that binds Ron\u00c2\u00a0Paul, Rand Paul, Cynthia McKinney, Jesse Ventura, and Dennis Kucinich into one tight little package, with Ron Paul coming up\u00c2\u00a0in the first fifteen slots and Rand Paul the next six?\u00c2\u00a0 I am coming up empty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I must be missing something about Rand Paul, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s come out and said that he wants to keep Guantanemo open, that he supports Israel, that he would vote for a declaration of war with Afghanistan and that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s open to a nuclear strike on Iran. His campaign was even endorsed by Sarah Palin. In what way is he good, besides simply being Ron Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son?<\/em><\/p>\n

They’re so very easy with the phrase “neo-con”, such that the term has no meaning.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s there that I will very easily plunk the term and say “Neo-con Rand Paul”, bitches<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Does it boil down to someone who can lackadasically toss about conspiracy theories <\/a>together — discuss symbolism on the dollar bill, back over the Gold bugs of the commercial break?\u00c2\u00a0 Can they excuse the problems of Israel at Gaza and Rand Paul’s adherance to an “Israeli Lobby” in lieu of ripping off on FEMA?\u00c2\u00a0 Are they taking his words as insincere, as the commenter “InfoArsenal<\/a>” is doing?\u00c2\u00a0 These are the questions of the political trade-offs being given, and I’ll have to watch and see.\u00c2\u00a0 The only thing I know for sure is we’ll see a fist pump at every positive poll and cries of bias at every middling poll.<\/p>\n

And one last question: Are there any other Constitutional Amendments to be culled for nullifying?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like this “Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment” advocacy — another of those contrarian causes from the sort that demand we never refer to Democracy and always refer to a Republic.\u00c2\u00a0 At once it is a theory that if we can just get a crack at crossing out a statues and laws, we will downsize government.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6230,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/6230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}