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Elocution Election: Substance Doesn’t Count
The contest for the GOP presidential nomination is like one of those grade-school elocution contests, in which the winner was always the kid who declaimed the best, without the least idea of what he or she was talking about.
Herman Cain is spouting nonsense, but he does it with enough verbal dexterity to keep pundits busy pointing out that none of it makes sense while Tea Party voters lap it up.
Rick Perry, on the other hand, has dived in the polls, less for his policy positions than hoof-in-mouth delivery of staff-written sound bites. Cable keeps showing his mangle of a perfectly reasonable line about Romney’s flip-flopping, reminiscent of George W. Bush’s inability to keep straight the “Fool me once, shame on you” chestnut.
Ron Paul has honed his Libertarian certainty combining some sense with outer-space weirdness to the extent that he now gets applauded equally for anti-war sentiments as the notion that uninsured young people without health insurance have a choice of charitable help or dying.
After hours of more-anti-Obama-than-thou declaiming, the debaters will turn to foreign policy next week.
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14 Responses to “Elocution Election: Substance Doesn’t Count”
No substance? Start with Von Mises. Actually, Murry Rothbard’s work is largely available online for free in PDF format. Question for Obama supporters: How many miles per gallon does a tank or a drone get when it runs over a brown baby, destroys the environment for the remaining survivers, and pollutes the air with poison gas? Austrian economics is 99% about peace. freely trade ideas, goods and services. free political prisoners right here in the USA. Legalize freedom. Eliminate the DEA thugs. Stop the TSA from groping us consultants!
Most Americans prefer autonomous drones that kill innocent people, or guilty Americans without a judge, jury or trial (Obama was all three), over liberty. So you have a point. Most Americans prefer to lock up poor people for using drugs, but think it is okay to teach their kids about an invisible sky god and a glorified zombie that wants you to eat him and drink his blood, so you have a point – as long as there is equal pay, then who cares how many brown people are killed or teenage minorities get locked up. Obama care.
Jesus would bomb Iran next, apparently
Romney’s voice and body language, today at the Citadel, said he was a boy that wore diapers until the age of 14. I can’t image him picking up substantial votes. Perry just puts forth well practiced empty rhetoric.
The story today is the rising numbers occupying Wall Street. Where are the comments from the Republican candidates? I guess we’ll have to see Ann Coulter hanging from a lamp post before the corporate media wakes and starts covering this incredible phenomenon, but until then Republicans ain’t touching it with a ten foot pole.
Honestly, the field of candidates that the GOP has come up with really does say a lot about the voters that make up that party. Romney is the only one of the bunch who can be taken seriously, yet they have coughed up one ludicrous hopeful after another, none of whom seem to be able to bear scrutiny for longer than a 15 second sound bite or a FOX news interview. What are the goals and thought processes that go on that would allow such lightweights to be taken this seriously for this long?
Cain has charisma. Zealots love charisma. They hate logic.
Hey zip, I bet you love charisma because you sound like one of them zealots.
Here’s some logic, which you will reject. Obama was charismatic (now fading) and plied the masses (still does) with platitudes and hopey changey stuff. Herman, my man, does not do good political BS. Admittedly, has little FP experience (Obama had tons, yeah right), and is willing to stick his neck out. Most of all he doesn’t appear to be a wuss (only time will tell).
NPR played a clip from one of Cain’s speeches. Made me want to puke, then it made me angry. He’s one of these “morality” zealots, the type of leader I fear most. Tyrants have repeatedly used the mantra of “morality” to usurp the rights of free people and perform all sorts of abuses. I will never cote for a candidate who marches under the banner of Morality ahead of the banners of ” justice” and “liberty”.
Such is Cain.
Yeah Duck…who’s fading faster…..The President or Congress?
Answer: (you will have to look it up).
Barky what the heck is wrong with Morality?
Everybody has their standard. Cain’s is just higher than yours…or what?
Me’n Barky down by the’mayters…I said DON’T LOOK BARKY…but it was too late.
Sorry, Barky, I disagree (but I didn’t hear that particular speech). Who do you prefer, Rep or Dem?
Relevance?
I am trying to determine what kind of person you find acceptable (Rep or Dem) since you find Cain unacceptable.
For example, I find Hillary and Obama acceptable as candidates.