United Liberty

Jesse Benton, Senior VP of Campaign for Liberty, recently discussed the presidential prospect of Ron Paul in 2012 with Kurt Wallace of Liberty Pulse.

Here is what Benton told Liberty Pulse:

If the answer had to be made today, it would be “no,” but he is considering it very strongly and there is a decent likelyhood that he will. A lot of it depends on things going on in his personal life and also what’s going on in the country.

So, everyone out there that wants him to run, and I am one of them, I encourage them to politely but energetically let him know you’d really like to see it happen.

There you have it. The next presidential is just around the corner and there is likely to be a few candidates that the liberty movement may be able to get behind, such as Gary Johnson or Joe Scarborough.

What do you think?

Joe Harvey writes at Red State that the GOP’s future course can go in two directions, laid out by two very different talk show hosts:

Two markedly different paths forward have emerged for Republicans as they decide how to rebuild and compete in the 2010 elections. These divergent paths have been characterized by the politically similar, Glenn Beck and Joe Scarborough.

Both pundits have an affable personality, but their styles are far apart. Beck makes emotional appeals and frequently embraces conspiracy theories. Scarborough focuses on reason and practical policy solutions. There is a place for emotional appeals but there must be more for a party to move forward. Practical communication of conservative principles, in Scarborough’s style, is the key to the rebirth of the Republican brand.

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Beck attempts to appeal to the public as a likeable ordinary guy. This style will lead to a doomsday for Republicans and will squander an opportunity because it fights against the President’s primary strength, likeability. Scarborough attempts to shape the debate by putting forth practical policy suggestions. This style is a winner because it emphasizes the President’s weakness in shaping the policy debate.

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Now, Jon Stewart has targeted Obama, so Scarborough and Cramer’s remarks about him are not on the whole true. However, their criticism of his intellectual cowardice and opportunism are totally warranted. Stewart is not the twenty first century Mark Twain, as I have heard him called. He’s another “gotcha” media guy who likes to snap people. He tends to insult people and exercise vomit-inducing holier-than-thou sarcasm instead of really having a debate of ideas. In addition, aside from liking to make fun of the right wing of the political spectrum and throw softball questions at left-wing guests, he hasn’t presented his core beliefs or values to us.

There’s been some criticism leveled at Obama for his pick of Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff:

House Republicans are said to hate Mr. Emanuel for his partisanship, and on Wednesday, the former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough said on his cable television show that Mr. Obama’s enlistment of Mr. Emanuel amounted to “politics as usual” when the president-elect had promised conciliation.

Following is a clip of Morning Joe on MSNBC, wherein Joe Scarborough has on two of my favorite political commentators: Christopher Hitchens and Pat Buchanan. Hitchens takes apart the idiotic US anti-drug policy in regards to how it is applied in Afghanistan. He later goes on to criticize Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s use of sex appeal.