Comments on: The Secret Power Of Palin http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/09/15/the-secret-power-of-palin/ n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:39:05 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Bob Weber http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/09/15/the-secret-power-of-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-14032 Bob Weber Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:19:45 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/09/15/the-secret-power-of-palin/#comment-14032 Libertarians can be incredibly naive politically. If Palin does have a secret agenda, her opportunity to put it into effect is now, before the election, when McCain needs her, not after the election, when she is almost powerless. Example: If Palin really favors change in the drug war, she could tell McCain (on pain of her resigning as veep nominee) to denounce the War on Medical Marijuana and pledge to pardon every medical marijuana provider convicted by the Feds in contradiction to state laws, such as Charlie Lynch of Morro Bay, California, whose dispensary had a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by members of the city council, but now is facing a de facto life sentence after being convicted by the feds. My guess is that McCain would buckle if she demanded this, and that no, she won't demand anything like this. Libertarians can be incredibly naive politically. If Palin does have a secret agenda, her opportunity to put it into effect is now, before the election, when McCain needs her, not after the election, when she is almost powerless.

Example: If Palin really favors change in the drug war, she could tell McCain (on pain of her resigning as veep nominee) to denounce the War on Medical Marijuana and pledge to pardon every medical marijuana provider convicted by the Feds in contradiction to state laws, such as Charlie Lynch of Morro Bay, California, whose dispensary had a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by members of the city council, but now is facing a de facto life sentence after being convicted by the feds.

My guess is that McCain would buckle if she demanded this, and that no, she won’t demand anything like this.

]]> By: nathancontramundi http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/09/15/the-secret-power-of-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-13967 nathancontramundi Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:47:56 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/09/15/the-secret-power-of-palin/#comment-13967 Maybe I've just read too much Röpke of late (or, more precisely, spent too much time reading him, slowly, as time permits), but the last chapter of his <em>A Humane Economy</em> has compelled me to <em>consider</em> dropping the word "conservative" (at least without multiple qualifiers) in favor of "decentrist". We can call ourselves traditional, or paleo-, or whatever-conservatives, but we remain such a minority, and the movement "conservatives" continue to offer the proposition that they are conservatives, a risible proposition to which the media, and the left, accede all too easily, rather than noting that the "right" shares a striking number of general policy views with them; we might be doing ourselves a complete disservice even by trying to "save" the descriptor "conservative". Maybe I’ve just read too much Röpke of late (or, more precisely, spent too much time reading him, slowly, as time permits), but the last chapter of his A Humane Economy has compelled me to consider dropping the word “conservative” (at least without multiple qualifiers) in favor of “decentrist”. We can call ourselves traditional, or paleo-, or whatever-conservatives, but we remain such a minority, and the movement “conservatives” continue to offer the proposition that they are conservatives, a risible proposition to which the media, and the left, accede all too easily, rather than noting that the “right” shares a striking number of general policy views with them; we might be doing ourselves a complete disservice even by trying to “save” the descriptor “conservative”.

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