A Stitch in Haste

I have only one hasty stitch from last night's GOP Fundamentalist Revival / Comedy Hour:

RON PAUL: Well, I think we should read the First Amendment, where it says, "Congress shall write no law." And we should write a lot less laws regarding this matter. It shouldn't be a matter of the president or the Congress. It should be local people, local officials. The state should determine so many of these things that we just don't need more laws determining religious things or prayer in school. We should allow people at the local level.

That's what the Constitution tells us. We don't need somebody in Washington telling us what we can do, because we don't have perfect knowledge. And that's the magnificence of our Constitution and our republic. We sort out the difficult problems at local levels and we don't have one case fit all, because you have a Supreme Court ruling like on Roe versus Wade; it ruined it for the whole country. And that's why we shouldn't have it at a central level.

As I blogged previously: This man is not a libertarian. Never was, never will be.

Libertarians do not believe that theocracy is perfectly hunky-dory, so long as it's at the school district level and not at the federal level. Libertarians do not blank out the Fourteenth Amendment and its incorporation of the First Amendment (and most of the rest of the Bill of Rights) to apply equally and coextensively to the states. Libertarians do not forget that there is no such thing as "states' rights" -- that there are only individual rights, including the right not to be religiously coerced by government in any way, at any level.

Not a libertarian. Never was, never will be.

P.S. Not to nitpick, but it's "Congress shall make no law..."

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