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...some ways, Paul is a throwback to the frugal and isolationist wing of the old Republican Party, the fuddy-duddy GOP of Robert Taft and Calvin Coolidge. His fiscal policies evoke the idealistic Republican revolutionaries who seized control of Congress in 1994; he wants to abolish the IRS, the Departments of Homeland Security, Education and Energy, and most of the federal government. He refuses to vote for unbalanced budgets, and he has opposed spending taxpayer dollars on Congressional Medals of Honor, even for Rosa Parks or Pope John Paul II. Typically, his campaign has reported no debts, and still...
...food prices since the nineteenth century. The shame of it all is that ethanol isn’t going to clear up our climate change woes. Scientists aren’t even agreed that ethanol is energy efficient to produce and, if it is, it makes more sense to abolish immense trade tariffs and buy cheap corn from Brazil than to subsidize US farmers to the tune of $7 billion...
...more conservative than his rhetoric often implied: He disapproved of gay adoption, saw lesbian married couples as a threat to the "skeletal system" of civilization, and supported bans on abortion without exceptions for rape or incest. He never engaged criticism of the regressive nature of his plan to abolish the income tax. After making repeated blunders about foreign policy facts, he employed a one-liner to silence his critics: "The mistakes that I think you will find me making are going to be mistakes of a word here and a figure there," he said. "But not mistakes of the heart...
...Clinton loaded her speeches with a laundry list of policy promises: to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement; provide universal health coverage; restore manufacturing, with an emphasis on new jobs providing clean energy; get rid of "every single tax break" that rewards companies for sending jobs overseas; abolish the No Child Left Behind program; forgive college debt for students who agree to do public service; reduce gas prices, in part by taking a tougher line with the Saudis; take better care of veterans; begin pulling troops out of Iraq. She boasted of the endorsements she has received from retired...
...vast as the structural problems with caucusing are, however, it still produces a more just and accurate reflection of public sentiment than do the biases of party leaders. Both Democratic and Republican national committees would do well to avoid a repeat of this election’s mistakes and abolish unpledged delegates before 2012. It will not be enough, of course; only wholesale reform can fully restore democratic ideals to the presidential nomination process. But it would be a start...