Winner of the Week: Peter Schiff
Weston investor and financial commentator Peter Schiff went into his dance at Tuesday night’s Republican Senate debate and showed he knows the moves Republican activists like to see in a candidate. The man can tap. He’s the Fred Astaire of the free market.
Former U.S. congressman Rob Simmons and wrestling entrepreneur Linda McMahon probably aren’t concerned about a Schiff surge among state convention delegates. There is an opening for Schiff. With Democrat Richard Blumenthal running far ahead of the Republican field in a Rasmussen poll this week, delegates may say, “Why not?” He’s a good talker and Blumenthal’s Monday night performance at his debate suggests the attorney general is not a nimble candidate when pressed.
We’ll know Schiff is gaining ground among Republicans when the searing emails the Simmons and McMahon campaigns exchange most days include references to Schiff and declarations like this YouTube.com video from last summer. A prescription for heroin? Not the stuff that gets Republican delegates cheering.
Still, Schiff is one smooth talking guy, which is enough to make him the winner of the first week of March.
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Great post.
But I do want to point that even though drug legalisation may not get many Republican delegates cheering, I don’t think Peter needs to worry about them.
Also, please consider that heroin addicts are very ill people and need to be treated, not abandoned and even imprisoned. The Netherlands spends about than €130 million per year on facilities for addicts, of which about fifty percent goes to drug addicts whose numbers have stabilised. Their GDP is 860B.
That may sound like a lot, but to put it in perspective, we here in the USA have spent over $19 billion dollars since 2003 on the War on Drugs. Thats about $600 per second. The math just doesn’t check out.
Peter solution makes sense. It cheaper to treat these ill people than it is to incarcerate them.
More like “Weiner of the Week!”
“More like ‘Weiner of the Week!”
*crickets chirping*
…anyway, he definitely makes a good point. Living on the west coast I hear news stories all the time of drug cartels growing marijuana in state parks. Think that will happen if it is legalized and regulated by the government?
Oh wait, I forgot how well Prohibition on alcohol worked. Silly me.