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Truth to tell, I’ve never been a Ron Paul supporter. I read the pamphlets, I listened to as many of his rEVOLUTIONaries as I could stand, and I always came away with the feeling that “something” just didn’t compute. I just felt that his theories and principles and his rhetoric were discordant, but I couldn’t really pinpoint anything specific that summed up my unease. Then I happened upon his interview with Neal Cavuto.<\/p>\n
Apparently Mr. “Fiscal-Conservative-to-the-Max” is one of the biggest porkers in the latest Congressional hog fest – to the tune of over $73 million sliced off for his District. That’s some bacon, yessir! <\/p>\n
And how does he justify this seeming inconsistency? Partially, with the always popular “Everybody’s doing it, so I have to too” line, but he follows that with the clever, albeit disingenuous, “But I never vote for the appropriation bill.” <\/p>\n
Wow. Like that makes a difference. <\/p>\n
He gets to make a “principled” vote, knowing full-well that it doesn’t make a dime’s worth of difference in the final analysis.<\/p>\n
Smarmy little weasel. That’s exactly the kind of hypocrisy that fries my potatoes. I’ll take a “money-grubbing, take all the earmarks I can get my hands on” kind of guy as long as he’s upfront and honest about it and puts his vote where his mitts are over this kind of double-talking pedagogue.<\/p>\n
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Truth to tell, I’ve never been a Ron Paul supporter. I read the pamphlets, I listened to as many of his rEVOLUTIONaries as I could stand, and I always came away with the feeling that “something” just didn’t compute. I … Continue reading