It looks like I will once again be voting Libertarian – or for Jesse Ventura if he runs as an independent. ~Basil Rand Paul, Neocon http://tomatobubble.com/id505.html In the 2000 Blockbuster film, Gladiator, Joaquin Phoenix plays the part of Commodus, the ambitious degenerate son of Roman Philosopher-Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris). In the film, as in real life, the wise and benevolent rule of Marcus Aurelius is followed by the cruel and corrupt reign of the spoiled, worthless and degenerate Commodus. As it was with the two Caesars, so it is with the two Pauls of American politics; Ron, and his two-faced little boy Rand. Like Marcus Aurelius, Ron Paul is a humble philosopher, a prolific writer, a true intellectual, and a man of impeccable moral character. In stark contrast, Rand, like Commodus, is an ambitious, grandstanding , dishonest weasel who rode to prominence on his distinguished father’s coat tail. Whereas Papa Paul remains true to the eternal principles of liberty, peace and justice, his ambitious Man-Child Rand spouts idiotic platitudes aimed at the idiot Fox News / Limbaugh / Neo-Con base of the Republican Party. ……
