The Conservatives that showed up at CPAC said more strongly than last year they’re ready to support a Libertarian. It’s worth pointing out that Conseervatives are only a portion of the Republican Party and not looked on favorably by the people in charge of the Republican Party organization.
For now, folks aren’t pushing back too hard in public, figuring Rand Paul is more controllable be keeping hum inside of the tent rather than becoming a third party distraction like H Ross Peeot.
But if there was a significant grass roots campaign to get Paul the nomination, will the “establishment” sit back and let Paul take the controls of the party or will they open Karl Rive’s opposition Research file and unload on the invader?
Despite both his father and he consistently saying they oppose all military force other than to defend the United States, I don’t see how he gets past the question of aid to Israel. Too much is at stake to let him stay with the position of “it’s none of our business”. The one thing working in his favor is it is becoming more apparent that the people around Obama are increasingly anti-Israel – so maybe neutrality is the lesser of two evils
George Will was on FNS today talking about this. Will said Rand is having the time of his life, as are the mass of 20 somethings that support him.
He gave an example of the fun Rand is having. Once at a party in George Will’s living room, someone asked him how he would solve the scarce number of American Eagles. Will said that Rand smiled said the way to solve the scarcity was to legalize the sale of Eagles.
Play 22:30 to 23:30
http://public.media.foxnews.com/PODCASTS/FNS/030914_FNS_Podcast_128.mp3
Will might have thought Rand was kidding, but I personally think he was as serious as his dad was about eliminating the Federal Reserve.
Absolutely – this is pure Libertarian doctrine. Ivory poaching in Africa is a problem because the elephants are owned by nobody – meaning the only way to protect them is government paying. With a ban on ivory and no income, the cost of protecting the elephants is 100% burden.
If instead, elephant “farmers” were allowed to own elephants and sell the ivory, they would have the revenue to hire guards to prevent poaching and make sure the elephants stay healthy and reproduce.
That’s right. Once fisherman overfished the public waters and fish became scarce, they started setting up fish farms.
“The fish is native to the north Atlantic Ocean, but more than 90 percent of Atlantic salmon consumed in the U.S. is imported from farms in Chile, Norway, Scotland and Canada.” from http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/viewart/20140210/GPG03/302100218/Wisconsin-fish-farm-raises-Atlantic-salmon
But here is the rub – that means humans now will only protect those creatures we think have direct and immediate value as a commodity. We especially place value on “cute”. I don’t have “faith” that humans are smart enough to make those choices. On the other hand, that is the history of human civilization – learning how to breed qualities into animals and plants to make them more useful for humans. Perhaps “natural selection” is dead.
It is an interesting question. Most of the fish sold in stores and generally eaten by people are the “normal looking” fish. Really ugly species have been classified as “inedible”.
That all began to change with factories that process fish into fish patties. There a key factor is how easy a machine can process the species.
Way back when I started this web site, I asked a few “poll” questions that are getting more and more relevant – who “owns” the fish in the ocean?
http://streamingradioguide.com/show-poll.php?pollnum=1140
And who owns the water in a river?
http://streamingradioguide.com/show-poll.php?pollnum=224
Regional water planning authorities do obviously – because without government planning water might be “wasted” on things like growing crops (other than corn for ethanol which is for national security!)
Off topic flashback
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573557/Flashback-Senator-Obama-pushed-destruction-15-000-TONS-ammunition-400-000-small-arms-1-000-anti-aircraft-missiles-Ukraine.html
In Marxist dogma, “peace” is the absence of opposition to the dialectic. Peace has arrived in Ukraine – thanks to the Nobel Peace prize winner. Perhaps we will see global peace in our lifetime.
I think Mr Putin would vote to renominate him.
well, I don’t know if Rand will win, but I sure as hell am not falling for the rifle in Mitch McConnell’s hand at the Cpac.
I knew Charlton Heston and mitch, you are NO Mr. Heston !
He’s a Goober, he goes right when election time is, otherwise, he’s ‘RINO’ Dem-light, or sell-out.
Who falls for this tripe?
parrott
rifle?
Like a RINO cowboy
A Trojan elephant in a donkey-spangled rodeo
RINO cowboy
Gettin’ big donations from people Mitch don’t even know
And offers comin’ over the phone
Dick Cheney, Obama and McConnell should have a skeet shooting contest on ESPN and use the proceeds to pay off the US debt
Yeah,, Give me $500 on Cheney !
LOL
parrott
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi_U
Skeet? I would think trap might be better – easier to hit the fellow on your left or right 🙂
If the world can bring back the Olympics after a long hiatus, surely we can bring back the Burr-Hamilton duels every four years. 🙂