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Mr. Lyman’s nearly one-man fundraising show in support of Ron Paul aside, the maverick Congressman, who has openly condemned President Bush’s military adventurism and deficit-driven federal spending, has received support from a wide variety of groups and individuals, including liberals incensed by a seemingly unstoppable, unproductive war in Iraq that was started by the Bush Administration based upon outright lies about weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist. On the other side of the political spectrum, Rep. Paul has received campaign contributions from upstanding, traditional-values Americans like Ron Black, former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and proprietor of the extremist Right-wing Website, stormfront.org. Dr. Paul, who also happens to be a gynecologist, has appeared with well-known conspiracy theorists like radio personality Alex Jones, believed by at least some rational people to be a few cheese cubes short of a snack tray, and was supposedly in Mr. Jones’s conspiracy theory film Endgame. Dr. Paul’s daring, maverick style has unquestionably infuriated some liberals and driven Republican apologists like the antiquated Right-wing drivel-hag Mona Charen of National Review to accuse him of Jew-baiting. Ms. Charen, it must be stipulated, is one to talk about excesses of outlandish Republicans, she being an opportunist who honed her paleo-conservative civility-pulverizing club as a Reagan-era propagandist for the insurgent social and religious movements that were dragging the Republican Party into what would turn out to be a decades-long march that led straight to the current fiasco of perfected incompetence married to sublimely boorish indolence in George W. Bush. However, all of that aside, regardless of just how loopy, dangerous, misguided, or otherwise resident on the other side of Normal Road Rep. Ron Paul truly is, he has endeared him to the hearts of many who will take his message of small government—complete as it is with his promises to eliminate the IRS, the CIA, and other agencies within weeks of assuming the Presidency—right to the heart of auld-timey populist American political tradition. So fierce is this loyalty—and, apparently, the financial support to go with it—that his supporters have been shut down on major news blogs for trying to overrun them with overly zealous, incendiary comments and online poll ballot stuffing. This is the stuff of legends or, at the very least, darned impressive columnar charts of campaign contributions to date, as readers can well see for themselves below. The Dark Wraith will provide occasional updates as events warrant on the Ron Paul political insurgency. Paul · President · candidate · 2008 · libertarian · Republican
Usually, a New York tabloid wins the contest, hands down. Sometimes, one of the more staid major dailies (like ours) claims the honor. But today, it goes to a magazine that, while influential within centrist and center-of-left circles, has a circulation well under 100,000: The New Republic. The publication posted an article that thoughtfully examines a question that Democratic politicos have been mulling among themselves all year — if Hillary Clinton snags the party’s presidential nomination, to what degree would she harm other Democrats running for the Senate, the House, governorships or other offices next year? The headline: "Drag Queen" (click here to check it out). We can’t help but wonder how the esteemed Walter Lippmann, who co-founded the New Republic 94 years ago, would have reacted. The piece, by political science professor Thomas F. Schaller, goes on to make a persuasive case that a Clinton candidacy would NOT seriously jeopardize Democratic prospects in other races (the provocative head notwithstanding). Indeed, he states flatly: "… the fact is that neither she nor her main rivals will provide a significant drag or lift for Democratic office-seekers." One quibble: Schaller impressively backs up his assertion, but it remains a thesis on his part, not a "fact." – Don Frederick
It’s been a while, but with the races heating up, the anti-Republican presidential candidate poetry is back! This time we will be doing Mike Huckabee. Click here to see other candidates and PLEASE feel free and submit your own. The first type of poetry we will use is called a “Tyburn” - It is a 6 line poem that uses 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9, syllables, where: “The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third, and fourth lines as the 5th through 8th syllables.” (www.shadowpoetry.com) Here goes: Inane The second type of poetry for Mike Huckabee is called “Minute Poetry.” Also from Shadowpoetry.com: “The Minute Poem is rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff” NeoCons don’t care about poor Huckabee thinks that they will change The Baptist has no chance in hell There we go. Remember to click on the link on the top of the page to see any other anti-Republican poetry and to submit your own.
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