Presidents Day
Lest anyone misunderstands me, it should go without saying that I think Rick Santorum is a sick son of a bitch. The only upside to a Santorum presidency I can see would be that he just might be crazy enough to force the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to finally stop lying to the American people about the abortion-breast cancer link, and I have to confess that from my perspective that would be a big upside. From my perspective, that is a big deal. And I don’t believe that Santorum could be much worse than Romney or Gingrich or Obama when it comes to civil liberties and foreign policy. They are sick sons of bitches too.
Without a doubt, as I’ve said multiple times, Ron Paul stands head and shoulders over every other candidate for President. But alas, we will continue to get the government we deserve.
Incidentally, Ron Paul’s favorite U.S. President is not Washington or Lincoln, but Grover Cleveland.
Let us therefore, in honor of Presidents Day, consider what Benjamin Tucker called Lysander Spooner’s “latest and unquestionably greatest work,” his Letter to Grover Cleveland (1886), which began thusly:
To Grover Cleveland:
SIR, — Your inaugural address is probably as honest, sensible, and consistent a one as that of any president within the last fifty years, or, perhaps, as any since the foundation of the government. If, therefore, it is false, absurd, self-contradictory, and ridiculous, it is not (as I think) because you are personally less honest, sensible, or consistent than your predecessors, but because the government itself — according to your own description of it, and according to the practical administration of it for nearly a hundred years — is an utterly and palpably false, absurd, and criminal one. Such praises as you bestow upon it are, therefore, necessarily false, absurd, and ridiculous.. . .
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