The blog Wonkette, who has been having a ball laughing at some of the more silly things Paultards have been doing and then drinking their tears when nobody voted for Ron Paul, has a hilarious take on this:
I do wonder, tho, how long such a commune would stay 'free'. How long would it take for one fish to eat all the other fish and create his own little empire?
While Cassville's proximity to Aurora is no real surpise, their mutual closeness to Branson is a bit shocking.
Ahh, the libertarian conundrum raises it's head again: a small group of fruits and nuts giving the rest of us a bad name.
If the Soviets had just settled for their own little utopia rather than trying to spread it around, they might still have it
The biggest problem of Paulville is that they are still going to be subject to the same laws they're subject to now. Short of secession, and we've seen how well that works in America, all this is going to do is...well, nothing. And since it is a gated community, that all but neccesitates a Home Owners Association of some sort and then they're right back to where they started with a governing body making arbitrary rules they are forced to live by. And let's not forget the whole resale value issue. The best implimented idea of this kind so far as been the Free Staters, but even that has been a dud. And with no frontier to push towards, I'm afraid libertarianism or Paulism at the community level will never get off the ground (nevermind my opinion that libertarianism works better as a philosophy than a form of government, although it would work great as a principle of government).
No, he really isn't. He holds positions that the vast majority of the party completly disagree with. He may call himself a Republican, but in today's warwank spend everybody's childrens money Republican Party, he does not really have a place.
He may not be a Republican per se, but he's just as willing to throw some earmarks for pork in a bill as the next guy. It goes against his principles, but it's for his district so it's all good.
Too true... hey wasn't that supposed to be something that eliminated in the most honest, open, Pelosi run Congress ever?
Who says you get to decide what does and doesn't make a Republican a Republican? Have you been elected to office under that label?
Does anyone else see irony when they see "gated community", "freedom" and "liberty" doing tea together in a sentence?
The next big breeding ground for libertarianism is going to be Mars. Sadly, this is so far in the future that none of us will see it in this incarnation.
