I don’t understand how people view this as a victory besides possibly derailing the health care bill.
If you go on his website and just casually look over the issues he raises, they are like a series of non-sequiturs.
The fact that people celebrate him as possible Presidential material for the 2012 election scares the living $&!@ out of me.
Is there really individuals posing as “conservatives” that believe they actually have a semblance of free-market principles?
Once again, I’m completely lost, I really don’t get how people can’t see through this.
It won’t derail the healthcare bill. Both parties want exactly what is being done to us. Nothing changed with the election, which like all elections, was held only to provide “legitmacy” to those in power. Big govenment is on the march, socialism is on the march; these people like to march.
Good yes, and it is a victory to defeat the awful government take over of the entire health care financing system over the 50% that it does not already control.
I am amazed that people think this guy is so great. He only pointed out (correctly) that Mass already has forced health insurance purchases and that the citizens there would be forced to subsidize the purchases of lots of other folks.
As for being scared about voting, that is the curse of being liberty oriented. You learn that there should not be a federal government much less a president. Once there it is obvious that no human being could get elected president and be liberty loving at the same time.
What about Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama… etc. etc? What difference does it make if there is one more R or D to add to the list?
I’m not sure I understand your question. Are you implying that there should be conservatives that understand the free market? No conservative understands, or desires, the free market.
People have been trained to believe what they believe. Public education is finally paying off for the those who desire power and control.
All of the Democrats here (I live in MA) are livid. They’re all crying about how the “wonderful and benevolent healthcare bill” won’t be passed (which it probably will be anyway, let’s be honest).
It’s amusing to see them stew in anger/disappointment.
However, with the election of a Republican senator, the Libertarian Party of MA could be undermined. The Republicans were on their way out for the most part, so let’s just hope there isn’t some Republican revival here.
We’re a nation of repressed kleptomaniacs.
There are so many appeals to emotion regarding the healthcare bill here. Even my mother has jumped on the bandwagon, stating that everyone has a right to healthcare. It’s quite annoying, as you can assume.
One of my friends, who fancies herself a “very liberal democrat” told me that without the healthcare bill, little old ladies won’t be able to get their medicine. I put on my “uh-huh” face.
BTW: Mass Effect 2 for the win. Can’t wait to get it. Final Fantasy XIII is coming out in March too!
What would they say if you asked them “who will pay for it all”? I assume they would say “the rich” or “the government”, and, at that point there would be no use in discussing it further with them. Like I’ve said, all we can do is step aside and watch the train wreck that is the United States of America.
Its a big victory for opponents of the current Democratic congressional program due to that reason. The Democrats have lost their capability of overriding a filibuster without support from at least Republican, that is a massive loss of power for them in their situation. That alone makes the election of Senator Brown a massive victory.
Furthermore, the context of the Massachusetts special election reinforces the fact that this is a victory for many in American politics. Senator Brown, a Republican, was not only able to win a Massachusetts senate seat, alone this is no small feat seeing that no Republican has won an open election there in around five decades and that the state was easily won by President Obama in the 2008 election, but its magnitude is heightened by the fact that it is the seat of the late Ted Kennedy.
Anyone who can see through it is not a voter.
That’s pretty much what they would say. If I asked “where would the government get the money?” they would probably answer with “taxes.”