Debate: Doug Casey takes on Karl Rove and Howard Dean!

Objectively, and save for a few points, Rove completely destroyed Casey. Rove is a master at this sort of thing from back in his school days. Casey tried to debate on principle and while he may have been right, he will not win a debate through his confrontational approach.

To an unbiased listener, Rove comes across as someone with some libertarian principles who worked to reach practical compromises with those in his own party. You need a very skilled debater to represent the libertarian viewpoint when Rove misrepresents himself this way.

i really enjoyed the exchange.

now i remember why i once liked dean. wrong on all the issues, but a populist, nevertheless.

rove makes some great conservative cases, while shifting blame on the democrats for their collosal failures. a brilliant con artist who props up the false left/right paradigm like a champ.

not to miss, casey charging that rove should be in jail early in the debate, and was allowed to get the last word in at the end of the debate. it's a good one.

I vote for Tom Woods to represent libertarians next year.

I mean I understand exactly what Casey was trying to get across (the realization that contemporary politics is just a big Hegelian dialectic - and the political mountain you have to climb to convince others that their assumptions are wrong - therefore, their solutions will be wrong), but he really needs to sharpen his debate skills.

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