AIDS, Global Warming, Malaria.  Which one of these does not belong?

AIDS is a big problem, but not as big as we've been lead to believe.  While its marketing team will proclaim it as some STD version of Ebola, they have recently had to downgrade their estimates.  In fact, they're now actively denying that they inflated them because they look so bad.  Yet that hasn't stopped the marketing team from pushing the higher numbers domestically.

Global warming is a similar story.  Years ago, it was figured out that the mathematics behind it were flawed, discrediting the "hockey stick" that earned Al Gore's Nobel Prize.  To make matters worse, the Y2K bug did have some fallout, as it seems to have further flawed the statistics used to support the global warming frenzy.  Yet, NASA and the global warming high priests can't seem to find their way to publicizing the errors.

Malaria is a different story.  We allow millions to die worldwide because we can't bring ourselves to drop the ban on DDT. 

We don't have the cure for AIDS, but the hysteria is deafening, powered by fraudulent predictions.  Global warming is a complete fraud.  Not only is it not happening, it's a complete fabrication.  All the while, we keep condemning millions around the world to die from a preventable disease to protect the songbirds because of a novel.  How long must this foolishness continue?

Reading this article, "The Ron Paul Factor," reminds me what a polygamous marriage of convenience today's GOP represents.  As a libertarian (small "L"), this marriage of convenience is abusive at best, and that's when the GOP and I aren't separated.

Ron Paul grabs headlines because he's doing what libertarians are traditionally not allowed to do in GOP, namely, he is succeeding.  Libertarians can provide rhetoric and inspiration (see Contract With America, etc.), but we are NOT allowed to win.  As long as libertarian-leaning GOP members are content to remain ideological geldings, everyone from the Rockefellers to Sean Hannity will sing the praises of our principles.

However, the faux conservatives and the country club GOP cannot actually risk an ideological libertarian actually winning an election.  For decades, the Democratic Party used government powers and programs to purchase a block of the US electorate.  It appears that the post-Reagan (i.e., Bush) GOP is happy to do the same thing.  This puts the country in peril because it essentially gives us a choice between two flavors of Marxism in our major parties.

Therein lies the rub.  Libertarians can't be allowed to win because they jeopardize the monopoly of welfare-purchased votes.  In a race between Reagan and Bush, Reagan won.  The leftist wing of the GOP  cannot allow that to happen in 2008, or they will lose their power.  The GOP cares about power more than all else, and if the Rockefeller wing of the party is forced to compete with a real conservative with a libertarian philosophy who can beard the leftists like Hillary, they will lose their power in the GOP, as they did under Reagan.

That's the danger of libertarianism, conservatism, and Ron Paul.  It's a choice between totalitarian socialism and the "City on the Hill."  It's humorous to watch the calumny being heaped on Dr. Paul by Bushies claiming that "Paul can't beat Hillary."  That remains to be seen, but don't tell me about PR and positive branding when your president is pushing single digits in his approval ratings. 

Further, why are you running against Hillary?  If you must run against a failed legacy, run against the failed legacy of the GOP since 1992, claiming to be the Party of Reagan title became instead the House of Dubya.  Run against the treason perpetrated daily by the left.  In short, run as a libertarian conservative, and you have a fighting chance at not only getting elected but at saving the nation. 

If only the GOP could see its way to building a bridge to the freedom-loving libertarians instead of using us for our ideas every election year, then rhetorically abusing us like a despised spouse when our ideals and our candidates win.

When you vote this year, vote for someone, not against Hillary.  She won't get the nomination.  Vote for the Constitution and vote for Ron Paul because those are winning platforms  for libertarians and true conservatives alike.