Re: Baghdad Bush

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:15:31 +0000, George Stewart
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  typed:


>Cheers - I guess, considering I think of myself as a classical liberal
>of the anarcho-capitalist tendency, I like to think that what I've
>outlined is kind of like the "party line" from that point of view.
>
>And as an ex-leftist 

a growing number of the brighter ones work their way out of the pit!

>who still has a soft spot for soft-heartedness,
>I'd be much happier if there was a Democrat I could trust to a)
>continue prosecuting the war with full vigour (this ought not to be
>too difficult to imagine, considering how FDR - for all his faults
>from a classical liberal point fo view - prosecuted WWII); and b) keep
>his fucking hands off the economy.  But there doesn't seem to be one,
>although I gather the official Democrat line is that they _will_ keep
>the WoT going, so theoretically all the candidates should be sound on
>that score.

the one thing that gives me the shudders is america losing the will.....

>  If that's so, then Liebermann looks like the one who
>ought to be in the position.

i like kerry best of what i've seen....i don't like lieberman's
     fundamentalism, prudery, posturing and opportunism....

>Achhh, who am I kidding?  Leadership has always been much more about
>the person than the politics, at the end of the day.  Since the notion
>of actually deciding between two such miscellaneous grab-bags of
>contradictory policies on the basis of pondering and deliberation
>before voting, is economically ludicrous (in the academic sense of
>"economically"), what it boils down to for most people is, do they
>like the look of the fellow or not?  

i trust the instincts of the mob a very great deal more than i trust
    their intelligence....
probably why democracy works as well as it does despite the
    surfeit of idiocy...

i knew a george stewart who got his degree at st andrews, as i recall....
a good fellow....

i expect there are rather a lot of you about!

regards...

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