Comments on: Mitt Romney; Disband the UN….

By: RegularRon

RegularRon — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:00:12 +0000

Ron Paul intruduces a bill to Congress each year, for the US to get out of the UN.

I know, you guys hate him. But when Rommeny, or Huckabee-hound say something Ron Paul has been saying for the last 20 years, it’s ok.

Nice logic.

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:31:38 +0000

No, you’re right, Jay.

I don’t necessarily know which labels fit me best, but basically, I believe in small, decentralized government. I abhor attempts at economic engineering and I abhor attempts at social engineering. The government exists solely to protect individual rights, not to manipulate society in quixotic effort to make it as “good” as possible.

And like I said in that birth control post, local government is responsive to community members, so we can keep it from straying from its duties. State government is less so. Federal government, not at all.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:01:41 +0000

Well, I wouldn’t have included that until he surprised me recently on the Scalia/abortion post. He said.

there are several possible conclusions that a rational person can reach and it should come as no surprise that different states would legislate the matter differently. If we donâ€™t think state governments are the appropriate venue for such a contentious, irreconcilable issue, what issues should they handle?

Perhaps that mislead me to believe he thought this was an issue that should be left to States to decide?

By: loboinok

loboinok — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:11:42 +0000

I’d say he is everything you listed with the exception of “Conservative on states rights.”

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:47:15 +0000

Jeff what is your politics again? Socially liberal, fiscal conservative, Conservative on states rights, and libertarian on everything else?

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:13:33 +0000

Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. “We should withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.”

Actually, the United States doesnâ€™t have a seat on the human rights council, which it has been boycotting.

I support a pullout from the UN (and he’s far from the first to suggest it), but seriously… Isn’t anyone briefing this guy before he opens his mouth?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:30:30 +0000

Well, really what do you expect when the UN “Human rights” council lets the biggest violators sit as members? I noticed that we say “Jury of one’s Peers” doesn’t mean 12 rapists at a rape trial, or 12 murderers at a murder trial…