The blog to which I refer is called Elephants in the Blue Grass. Now, I'm sure Mr. "Grass" is a nice enough fellow. But he needs to cut down on his Kool-Aid intake.
Mr. "Grass" has a real issue with Rand Paul, Ron Paul's son and candidate for the Senate from Kentucky. I am aware that "Grass" is touting another candidate for Senate, Trey Grayson, who I'm sure is a swell fellow. And far be it from me to get my panties in a wad because an individual supports a candidate other than the one I would favor. But I can tell when someone has gone beyond hyping their candidate and "downing" the opponent to a nasty place from which they can only produce hyperventilated girly smear. You know, the stuff we usually get from Team Donkey. Thank I'm kidding? How would YOU characterize his calling Mr. Paul "part of the blame America first crowd."
Mr. "Grass" is quite unhappy with the desire on the part of Mr. Paul (and his dad, I might add) to scale back the mission of the US military to that of....wait for it...defending the nation. You know, abandoning the Bush doctrine of War Without End. This causes Mr. "Grass" to lapse into fainting spells.
He's also just a wee bit butt hurt that Mr. Paul has vowed to vote to repeal the Patriot Act. Personally, I can think of nothing more patriotic than repeal of the Patriot Act. But I'm more concerned with personal liberties than in creating an All-Powerful Staat in the image of the Team Elephant Pax Americana pipe dream.
I hate to pick on the guy. I really do. He's done nothing to wrong me. But his wrong-headed jihad against Paul is just baffling. Rand Paul sounds to me like exactly the kind of guy the Tea Party folks are trying to get elected. But Mr. "Grass" and the Team Elephant elites are fighting him tooth and nail.
And therein lies my point - the point I've been hammering on like a jackhammer on steroids most of this year. If you're a person who believes in the principles of the Constitution as written by the Founders, a person who wants to live in the nation they envisioned, you need to leave the Republican party. Team Elephant is not your friend. Team Elephant does NOT represent small government, personal liberty, and fiscal responsibility. They represent intrusive Überwachenden-style snooping, War Without End, and spending til the cows come home...just spending on different stuff than the Donkeys want to spend money on.
A party that thinks Romney-Palin would be a swell ticket for the Presidency is a party in need of euthanasia. And those who put their faith in such a party need to get used to the idea of serfdom.
