Looking in the mirror more as you’ve aged?
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Justin is probably the only principled person in Congress right now. Now about agreeing or disagreeing with him on policy, but about putting principle over partisanship or personal gain.
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If you believe that, you have not followed him closely enough. I agree that on the spectrum of things, he is certainly more principled than his caucus, but he is far, FAR from perfect in this regard, and much too far to be selling it as his schtick.
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I've followed him for many years and I'm yet to find one instance where he's put partisanship or political gain over the principles that he upholds. If I'm mistaken, please point me to instances where he hasn't been principled.
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Standby. I’ll tag you. It’ll just be the random ones I’ve commented on over the last couple months tho. I don’t keep a running list.
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Not a single one of those shows him unprincipled. Liberty. The Rule of Law.The Constitution. Yeah, that's pretty central to libertarian thought. And him calling out Pelosi's hypocrisy as much as he calls out Trump's and Ryan's. Yeah, And both D's and R's on their war stance..
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Each of them does. “Libertarianism” is a hilarious fantasy, but even if it weren’t, the fact is that he caucuses with and enables and refuses to take principled stands on behalf of those ideals in meaninful ways that expose him politically... 1/
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Makes this schtick of his a fraud. The other points are the same. If he were genuinely principled on these points, he’d do more than tweet half-hearted gesture. He’s simply not. He just knows what sells to the body politic in West Michigan.
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I am old and know plenty of principled people. Maybe you need a different crowd.
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To be fair, nearly all of his Republican colleagues in Congress sold out the country's rule of law their legislative duties in order to control the three branches of government, so people of integrity would be a bit hard for him to find.
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If you would use your platforms to remind voters/taxpayers of the astronomical, bloody and moral costs of funding at least 76
#USGovt war crimes, you will inspire a principled (anti-war) response on Election Day. cc:@samtripoli@jimmy_dore@miserablelibpic.twitter.com/IVN8olDExO
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sad subtweet of his own caucus
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Libertarian Party is waiting for you. We’ll be here when you decide to come home.
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He never will. He would lose his job. He knows it. He may claim to be libertarian and caucuses in the Freedom party but unless he has the R next to his name on the ballot he knows he can't win. It is party politics at it's best.
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So are you saying the letter next to his name is so important that he should be willing to lose his ability to have any influence at all just to run as a libertarian?
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An old duffer I knew in Oklahoma had an ‘off the cuff’ definition of integrity: “Son, it means doin’ the right thing even if no one’s lookin’ or will ever know that you did it.” That made a real impression on me, & I tried to live that way ever since. I taught it to my son.
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Was his name CS Lewis?
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Charlie. He was a gardener by trade. (Maybe he got it from CS Lewis. Charlie was a pretty interesting guy.)
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Right now it may not be trendy to be a small gov't advocate, but we didn't become libertarians in some vane attempt to be cool either.
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