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Robert Taft, Buchanan, Buckley, Greenspan, Goldwater, Keyes........
No I don't rate Presidents who start unnecessary wars as "great thinkers" i.e. Wilson, FDR, LBJ, GWB nor do I think those who want to vent their little man's Messiah complex by redistributing wealth by means of the populist pulpit as being deep either.
I really don't know where people got the notion that governments role is to induce serfdom from her subjects.
Carter's embargo? Yea great idea unless you happen to be a small family farmer who saw grains trade limit down for three days. That embargo set the stage for the farm crisis in the mid-80's. And WHY the embargo? Because Carter was pissed that the Soviets were fighting a war in Afghanistan against the Taliban! Yet that same POS favors lifting the Cuban embargo. As far as your bullshit about Reagan and Lebanon: Clinton had the same shit happen to American personnel in the MidEast. Not every attack against American interests need be met by an appropriate response......
William F. Buckley? A great thinker? Or a closet homo with penis envy over his clear intellectual superiors Jack & Booby Kenendy?
Alan Greenspan a great thinker? ROFLMAO. I may be able to accept competent beauracrat at best.
Barry Goldwater? Hm, ok I may be able to accept this one. Funny thing is he would NEVER include Nixon or Reagan on his list. He said that Nixon was the only man he had ever met that would tell a lie when the truth was better... or something to that effect. And he was surely no fan of Reagan or his Administration.
Alan Keyes? again ROFLMAO, or did you make a typo and actually mean Keynes? John M. Keynes was a great thinker. A homo, but a great thinker nonetheless. Problem is he was a democrat.
So ok, you got a maybe out of me with Goldwater. But I was actually thinking about these great thinkers you had said were all on the right NOW?