{"id":2518,"date":"2012-02-24T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T02:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2012-02-24T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T02:46:16","slug":"no-to-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"No to Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Loki<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Of all of the Republican candidates this year the one I least support is Ron Paul. Mainly because he is not a Republican or a conservative but is a socially liberal Libertarian. <\/p>\n

Today I was reminded of that by the death of Whitney Houston. The extremely liberal Tony Bennett upon hearing the news proclaimed that as a tribute to Ms. Houston we should legalize drugs to prevent deaths like hers, Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson. Legalizing drugs would not have helped Ms. Houston one bit. It would have brought on her demise much quicker. She did not die from her lack of being able to attain drugs. She died because of her long history of abuse of drugs and the destruction it had on her health.<\/p>\n

Ron Paul agrees with this stand as to the legalization of drugs, an extremely liberal position. Man is weak and to think legalizing drugs would not have dire consequences is utter madness. Ron Paul has a similar attitude about world politics. That somehow if we let the world fight its own battles things will work out gloriously. Too bad our enemies do not feel that way. If we were to abandon our friends and let chaos rule the world we would soon find ourselves alone.<\/p>\n

Were drugs to be legalized our hospitals would soon be filled with victims of drug over doses and addicts. And of course liberals would also demand that we would have to build many more rehab facilities and pay for them with Obamacare. The cost of so many people being unproductive and using our resources to return to normal lives would be extremely costly.<\/p>\n

The war on drugs is ugly and costly. The alternative offered by Ron Paul and liberals is socially destructive and financially worse.<\/p>\n

One final off topic thought, why do liberals want to legalize drugs but regulate our sugar intake? Liberals just seem to have such diametrically opposed thoughts completely free of logic. I sometimes feel flummoxed. <\/p>\n

ED Note: The delay in posting this is entirely mine. Loki wrote and submitted this post on Feb 12. Apologies for the delay. ~ Basketcase Mgr.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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