Two things come to mind in the Republican Primary season as they stumble over who will lead the party against the current president. I write this now given that reports of the Michigan race, supposed Romney territory, is looking like a Santorum upset which may lead to a very unusual open primary. 1. The [...]
On this blog, and in the pages of continent., and recently in a full length article, I have worked outloud toward theorizing the allure of contemporary presidential candidates. Ron Paul was the most impressive this cycle as the new militant figure, this figure leads a score of new subjects…the Paulbots. And I think Alain Badiou [...]
In about forty-five minutes I will walk out my door. Ten minutes after that, I will attend my local Republican Party Caucus in the gym of my old high school. My neighborhood, it’s fair to say, is democratic. I think there is a Romney supporter up the street, but they posted no yard sign this [...]
Forget for a moment the racist charges, von Mises’ism’ness, anti Civil Rightedness–all of it. The libertarian appeal has had to find sometimes obscure pockets to work its ideas into the American conversation because libertarianism is not properly a traditonal mainstream ideology, only when convenient is it called in. This has changed, and it knows no [...]
Two Political Bodies…? Today human and posthuman stand as two general, political spheres. Each sphere interacts with the other, each taking place in the other, not easily if at all distinguishable from the other. My interest in the recent surge of Republican candidate Ron Paul speaks to this phenomenon. The question of a return [...]
And how does it raise Cain? The third party way is a stinker in American politics and Ron Paul just can’t shake it from his garments. Even as a Republican he still has Nader syndrome. The media does not like him. The other day on NPR Neil Conan just shot down the town [...]
As if irony has built-up over the last decade, the recent Republican Presidential Debate was held in the Reagan Library. There eight candidates stood at their podiums slightly beneath and behind the tail of Reagan’s Air Force One. How is it that the image of a suspended plane in a building comes so close to [...]
Let ‘er ripp. [1] Pizza Man and clearly ‘black’ Republican Presidential Candidate for the Nomination of “Certain Loser to Obama in 2012 if he got that nomination,” Herman Cain (minus the Mc as in McCain) is sure that Bachmann, the now 2-dollar-a-gallon gas price promisor, warrior-princess with mega womb, has enough brute force to deliver [...]