“I’m so proud to receive this honour ….”
“I’m so humbled to receive this honour ….”
So when did “proud” and “humbled” start to mean the same thing?
Archive | December 24, 2007
When Platform Shoes Pinch
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power]
I didn’t catch Tim Russert’s interview with Ron Paul, but check out the transcript. (Caveat: I don’t know how accurate the transcript is as a whole, but I’m willing to bet that Paul didn’t actually say “Randolph Bourne says war is a helpless state.” And what is “the Robert/Taft wing of the party”? Who’d they get to do the transcript, Dana Perino?)
I think Paul did a pretty good job on the whole, but the transcript does illustrate the perils of a libertarian electoral strategy. If you run as a consistent libertarian, you’ll scare off voters as they now are; if, instead, you water down or soft-pedal some aspects of your philosophy, you’ll get called on the inconsistency – as happens here, where Paul ends up sounding like he’s defending the FBI, the CIA, public schools, and the legitimacy of invading North Korea as long as Congress declares war first.
I don’t think this dilemma is a decisive argument against going the electoral route, but it certainly counts in the minus column.