Comments on: Find Your Ron Paul Replacement: Nolan Chart The 2008 Candidates

By: noctilucent

noctilucent — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:19:33 +0000

I've heard that McCain was more statist than your average republican, but I have never actually seen an enumeration of his beliefs.
Damn, what has happened to the Republican party?

By: wrdalton

wrdalton — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:44:20 +0000

One has only to listen to John McCain’s concession speech last night and Barack Obama’s response to recognize, as this Nolan Chart demonstrates, how little difference there is between these two men as the policies they would pursue. This whole campaign has been about smoke and mirrors, while the real alternative candidates were ignored.

By: ChrisK

ChrisK — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:37:59 +0000

One more thing, I think Nader is probably a disagree on replace government welfare with private charity, but I don’t think that conclusion can be drawn from the quote provided:
“You burn yourselves out doing charitable work. But if you get into politics and go to the cause of these problems, you will have a just society where you don’t need so much charitable work.” That would be against.

I think a return to sound money would end inflation, which would end the greatest cause of poverty in the United States. Thus, becoming active in politics to address the cause of poverity and joblessness (inflation, high taxation), charity would be less necessary, and it would be easier to completely replace welfare with private charity.

By: ChrisK

ChrisK — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:25:54 +0000

I am going to have to say we ought to encourage Gary Johnson to step up to the plate in 2012.

Also, I agree with most of the analysis of Baldwn, except a few issues.

On drug laws, I’m going to have to say Baldwin is a maybe at best, at worst, a disagree. Assuming he supports the Constituion Party’s platform:
http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php#Drug Abuse
“The Constitution Party will uphold the right of states and localities to restrict access to drugs and to enforce such restrictions.”

On censorship, I think you have to give Baldwin a full fledged disagree:
http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php#Pornography
“With the advent of the Internet and the benevolent neglect of the previous administrations, the pornography industry enjoyed uninhibited growth and expansion until the point today that we live in a sex-saturated society where almost nothing remains untainted by its perversion. While we believe in the responsibility of the individual and corporate entities to regulate themselves, we also believe that our collective representative body we call government plays a vital role in establishing and maintaining the highest level of decency in our community standards.”

As the former head of the “Moral Majority” in Florida, I can’t imagine Baldwin disagrees with these planks of the CP platform.
These two answers put him well out of the libertarian field and well into conservative territory.

By: wrdalton

wrdalton — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:33:11 +0000

I think the person with the best public profile to lead the liberty movement, if Ron Paul decides he is too old to make another run for the Presidency, is Judge Anthony Napolitano. Tucker Carlson would be very attractive, if he wins a Senate or Governor’s seat first. Jesse Ventura would attract a lot of attention, but has some high negatives. Pat Buchanan would be the smartest candidate, but he, too, is a lightning rod for opposition.