Category — Ron Paul

You won’t here it often but I am happy Hillary won last night. Nothing pleases me more than the possibility of Hillary and Obama beating each other up for the next couple of months. I hope she ends up winning the nomination if only because I think she is more beatable in November.

As for the Republicans, I haven’t decided who to vote for yet but it was a definitely a disappointing night for Romney. Having said that, don’t believe the hype that he is severely wounded by this. He is actually leading the GOP delegate count at this point and has a lot more money than any of the other candidates. Even Michigan isn’t a make or break state considering it is an open primary where democrats and independents can skew the vote. In the end Republicans will decide who the nominee is and we will have a much clearer picture on February 5th.

Of course I will probably support whoever wins the nomination because almost any of the Republican candidates (excluding Ron Paul) would be better at defending this country than Hillary or Obama. As you can tell, National Security is the issue I care most about. Without that, the other issues don’t even exist.

Anatomy of a political hangover

Listening to the promises made by the candidates, most overstep presidential powers and violate the Constitution. Tax law belongs to the House as does all money bills. Susurrations to the contrary, the President isn’t a King which makes the MSM anointments a futility in progress.

On Clinton–
Rush Limbaugh said last night was the worst night for Hillary since Bill’s second term. Not even close, people, for Communist Hillary, the election of Nixon crushed her ideals. Last night, this Alinsky drone’s pyloric valve seized in the open position, showing her true color.

You will never hear her expound upon her vision for the US. With Clinton, as Yoda said to Luke, “With you, it’s change, always change.” Her idea of change, abolishing the Constitution, doesn’t sound good on the hustings. Afterwards, the loud noise heard off screen was a boomer exploding.

On Edwards–
He wants to make your life better, but not quite the way he made his better. An envious man, he wishes to have more money than the collective you. To accomplish this end, everything will be free on his watch. Wait till you see what that costs. You will be verrucose in short order, waiting in line for universal medical relief. Then again, it would be kinder if he merely sued you. Under current tort laws, at least you keep your dignity.

On Obama–
Same droning sounds as from Silky. Different words used. Obama likes the word hope. We have hope. Hope we can make changes. Change is good for it gives us hope. He has no idea how the real world works. That will never prevent him from lurching into the breech. To give us hope for change, hopefully.

On Huckabee–
Having prodded GOP caucus goers with his RINO horn to get what he wanted, let us see how he dolls up the message for low denomination voters. I do not believe many NH voters place hands on the TV. Anyway, Huckabee is calling the NH primary, the Big Camp Meeting, can I get an AMEN.

On Romney–
Many questions need be asked of the Mitt. Does the U.S. deserve the type of government foisted on MA inmates? Do we need a “Big Dig” in every state? Why is the working population of MA shrinking? Why isn’t the illegal immigration population shrinking?
More to the point, which Mitt is running for office?

On McCain–
He is in the wrong party. That speaks to his good points. There isn’t room for the thought on the dark side.

On Paul–
Collaborating with the Donk moonbat Kucinich, both are investigating the appearance of illegal aliens at Groom Lake aka Area 51, instead of along the border and in meat packing plants. Art Bell is chairman of this primary of two.

On Thompson–
Not running hard while running, this makes one wonder, Wassup! If he keeps dissing the lame stream media, he may become the front-runner rather quickly. More of a Washingtonian politician (person, not place) he says it is about duty, not desire. We’ll see if this reaches fruition.

On the usual perennial weeds–
After signing up for campaign matching funds, they cash the check; spend a minimal amount on electioneering and pocket the rest. This is a common trope for most politicians, usually seen as groveling for power and re-election, and by the older politicians, sex in strange places with alien DNA types. Their attendance is for obfuscating purposes only, this heterophony helps shield the front-runners from real questions.

GOP voters in Iowa certainly aren’t!

There may not be any perfect choices among the GOP candidates, but other than Ron Paul, I think Mike Huckabee may be the worst choice of the bunch.

Thanks for nothing Iowa and don’t miss Vodka Pundit’s open letter to GOP Iowa voters:

Dear Iowa Republicans,

I’ll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people?

The news coming out of Des Moines (literally, French for “tell me about the rabbits, George”) tonight is distressing in the extreme. 32 years ago, your Democratic brethren took one look at Jimmy Carter — the worst 20th Century President bar Nixon, and the worst ex-President ever — and declared, “That’s our man!”

Three decades later, and along comes Mike Huckabee. Same moral pretentiousness, same gullibility on foreign affairs, only-slightly-less toothy idiot’s grin. Then you so-called Republicans took a look at Carter’s clone and said, “That’s our man, too!”

And by a pretty wide margin.

I’ll give you some credit where it’s due: you guys had sense enough to give Fred Thompson a breather, and Ron Paul a pretty solid kick in the (ahem) nuts. But Mike Huckabee? Really? We’ve seen this game before, and its name is… every other single stupid, un-winnable candidate you’ve ever picked — which is most of them.

So I repeat the question: What is wrong with you people?

All my love, you corn-sucking idiots,

VodkaPundit

PS You’re making Iowa Democrats look like Albert freakin’ Einstein. How’s that feel?

As for the Democrats, it’s always nice to see a Clinton get smacked around but honestly I’m not sure which Democrat candidate scares me most. Both would be a freaking disaster for our national security if elected.

Unfortunately, I fear that Obama will win the nomination and will then run a Deval Patrick like campaign of nothingness to win the general election.

God help us.

Non-believing US voters feel demonized

One presidential hopeful is a preacher, another proudly Mormon, and most openly tout their Christianity. In an arena where faith can make or break a politician, the one in 10 Americans who profess no religion feel left in the cold.

“They’re very disconcerted,” said Darren Sherkat, an atheist sociology professor specializing in religion at Southern Illinois University. [snip]

I’m sure this gentleman has a solid religious background from which to expand his knowledge of faith and beliefs.

Ian Thomas, 25, got involved in political campaigning as a student and in 2005 ran for a place on the school board in his local district in Pennsylvania.

Days before the vote, a county council member emailed local community groups disparaging Thomas for having an atheist bumper sticker on his car, and for writing a letter about atheism to a local newspaper.

“They are entitled to their beliefs and free speech but it doesn’t make a sound foundation for elected officials who makes our laws … to promote an Atheist that we know anything about,” read the ungrammatical email, shown to AFP. [snip]

But they are also “the least tolerated group by conventional standards of religious toleration in the US,” Sherkat said. [snip]

One might say the sins of their “religion” are visited upon them; who believes the Missouri Synod or the Archdioceses of NY and DC sued to remove “In God We Trust” from coinage. Or wishes to eradicate the word God from general use. Why do they want “religious toleration” since they reject religion

“Legally, there is no religious test for office, but culturally there obviously is,” he said, as polls showed Republican Mike Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, surging ahead in key early nominating states. [snip]

More than one in 10 US adults have no religious affiliation, according to the census figures.

Having no religious affiliation does not default to atheism or agnosticism.

But a Gallup poll in February found more than half of voters would not back an otherwise well-qualified candidate from their favored party if that person was an atheist. [snip]

“The fair question would be to ask … will you impose your theology on civil law?”

And another fair question is, from what body of law was civil law derived? Heh?

“There is no candidate that an atheist would vote for … other than maybe Ron Paul,” Shermer said, naming a Tennessee lawmaker, a long-shot Republican contender.

“He’s a libertarian who feels absoutely (for) separation of church and state.”

“Many of the candidates would be acceptable to me regardless of their religious faith,” Stark told AFP. “Jimmy Carter (who became president in 1977) was perhaps the most personally strident conservative Christian — and I think he did a wonderful job.”

That last statement about sums it up; what further proof of the absence of reason is necessary, except that Ron Paul is from Texas.

Chuckie’s Statement T-Shirts loves promoting bizarre election ploys.

One candidate is running an entirely different campaign this election year. While appearing with other Pols on the hustings, Ron Paul’s campaign is more like the pod race in “The Phantom Menace.”

Ruling the universe requires many bureaucrats. In a bipartisan attitude, he should consider naming Kucinich as Ambassador to Altair, since Kucinich has a head start into space.

Keep deporting and close the border!

In virtually every debate about illegal immigration, the other country primarily involved in this American problem – Mexico – is never held to account, despite its role in actually encouraging its citizens to break into the United States. What is equally less known about this problem is that Mexico does this despite its potential to care for its own citizens.

Ranks of anti-illegal immigrant groups swelling

LOS ANGELES - Retired utility worker Charles Warren worries his quality of life is slipping and says that illegal immigrants are to blame.

The 55-year-old retiree complains about day laborers waiting for work outside the nearby Home Depot, saying they give his neighborhood “a Third World look.” [snip]

One group, the Arizona-based Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a civilian volunteer group patrolling the border, says it has collected $600,000 for a proposed border fence.

The American Border Patrol, another civilian group that turns immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border over to authorities and is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, says donations are up 25 percent.

And in San Diego, a newly formed Minuteman group went from just two members late last year to 200 today.

“People are joining us so fast because they are frustrated with our government,” said Jeff Schwilk, the group’s founder. “They see all the wrangling, all the political posturing, and I think people are fed up with the inaction of their government.” [snip]

“We know the anti-immigration movement is exploding, that there are certainly more and more organizations and chapters of organizations of chapters being developed all the time,” said Heidi Beirich, deputy director for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, which tracks hate and anti-immigrant groups.

The danger comes when they focus attention on one ethnic group such as Mexicans, who make up about half of all illegal immigrants in the United States, she said.

“What a lot of these organizations do is … defaming a group of people, like they bring disease, they are terrorist, they are criminals, they are trashing the environment. [snip] (emphasis mine)

Why not examine these statements.

1. An illegal caught crossing the border, tested and proved positive for TB. How many are ill and not caught for testing?
2. OTM’s crossing the border can be terrorists; we have no idea who or from where they arrive.
3. All are criminals by definition for violating immigration law. Many others are far worse, guilty of murder, rape, drug running, felonious pandering and members of gangs.
4. Litter strewn along trails used by the coyotes authenticates they trash the environment. Surrounding lands are not immune as new routes created to avoid the Border Patrol become landfills.

In the low-budget CAPS commercial that motivated union member and Sacramento Democrat Warren to join, swarms of pro-immigrant protesters wave the Mexican flag. A voice-over comes on: “The last thing California needs is more traffic, crowded schools, bankrupt hospitals. The last thing California needs is more immigration. The other side has had its say. Isn’t it time you had yours?”

The commercial targeted the thousands of residents whom Hull believes were incensed by the immigrant protests, which she says is further evidence of plans for a “reconquista” or reconquering of California by Latinos seeking land lost during the Mexican-American war. [snip]

What part of this does not fit the label of Invasion? Demanding the foreign language be spoken by fiat, special rules and regulations, covers much of that label. I’ll accept marching under a foreign flag as solid proof of loyalty to a different government.

Another piece of the problem are cities that declare themselves as “sanctuaries.” Giuliani on sanctuary cities How this hurts our citizenry, health care, insurance rates and the horrible drain on social services is ignored.

Allowing illegals to evade punishment and deportation compounds citizens’ troubles in many ways, one is zoning violations where large numbers of unrelated persons reside in a single-family residence, a real disruption to real estate values.

How about the courts in Orange County CA. promoting this:

The court has contracted since March 2006 with Cal Coast Data Entry, Inc., a Cerritos company that has a facility in Nogales. Information from tickets – including drivers’ license numbers, car license numbers, birth dates and addresses – are scanned at the Cerritos facility and sent electronically to the Mexican facility.

Has the court ever heard of pencil and paper for copying data? The information is very salable to those making false IDs.

“The company and the staff they employ are dedicated to keeping the public’s data secure and safe,” the statement said. “The court wants to ensure the public that private data is safe.”

One thing that brings fear to knowledgeable individuals is government assurances about anything. (Ron Paul is whack, but here he is right) We’ve seen how they protect the country from invasion, then coddle the invader to our detriment.

Pots calling the kettles names

At YearlyKos, John Edwards and Barack Obama sought to distinguish themselves from Hillary Clinton by saying they didn’t take money from registered lobbyists, and Clinton was booed for defending herself. (Also: Franke-Ruta.)

I found this curious: after all, Obama and Edwards showed up at the national convention of the lobbying group for the trial lawyers, the former Association of Trial Lawyers of America (who now call themselves the American Association of Justice). There, they gave speeches (as did Clinton, Biden, and Richardson). A look at the largest donors for Obama and especially Edwards shows a disproportionate number of active members of that lobbying group. Indeed, John Edwards’s finance chairman is Fred Baron, the former president of ATLA. If Obama and Edwards want voters to believe that Clinton is influenced by lobbyist money, what should we think about these two candidates’ debts to trial lawyers? Are we to believe that the critical difference is the lobbyist registration papers, at which point money becomes tainted and dirty? Are any reporters going to ask that hard question, or will they let the two candidates demagogue from the high ground as they take millions from the most pernicious special interest group in America?

All the Dem candidates should start wearing flea collars, probably the GOP’ers too. Except Ron Paul, nobody wants him, he can’t get dog bit.

I can’t remember a time when a party’s presidential candidates leveled such strong criticism at their own sitting president.  Some people probably thought they’d accidentally tuned into the Democratic debate.  Here’s a sampling:

“It’s a typical Washington mess,” former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said of the immigration bill Bush wants Congress to approve. 

“I think we were underprepared and underplanned for what came after we knocked down Saddam Hussein,” former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said on the topic of Iraq.

“The president ran as a conservative and governed as a liberal,” said Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado. “That is what has really been the basis, I think, of the distrust that has developed among the Republican base. It’s well founded.” 

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said: “The president ran on a program of a humble foreign policy, no nation-building and no policing of the world, and he changed his tune.”

“We went to Washington to change Washington, and Washington changed us,” said former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, once a member of Bush’s Cabinet. “If we’re going to spend money like as foolishly and as stupidly as the Democrats, the voters are going to vote for the professional spender _ the Democrat _ not the amateur spender _ the Republican.” 

If this keeps up, President Bush’s Republican Convention speech will be at noon on local cable access channels.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like anybody at the White House is listening.

The recent uproar over the condition of Walter Reed building 18 is somewhat of a teapot-sized squall. True there are/were problems, some of them larger than others.

Let us not lose sight of the fact that the hospital is on the schedule to close, folding it into Bethesda Naval Hospital. Seems that other than minor repairs wastes money.

The biggest question I have is where is congress on this? I’m not talking about the paper shuffling hearings going on now. Constituents write letters, they send e-mails and they phone the offices of their congressmen. No one is going to tell me that the Walter Reed problem suddenly appeared like a fata morgana so congress will have something to do.

This makes one wish, at times, for a dictatorship just to solve this type of complicit inertia.

In the past 24 to 48 hours, the possible pool of GOP Prez candidates has two newnames: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas and former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson.

In 1988, Ron Paul ran as the Libertarian candidate for president. He is a tax cutter, pro-gun, right on the border and on the war, a cut and run kinda guy. What does that do for you?

Fred Thompson is a sharp alternative to the RINO’s populating the GOP pool. Go here for votes when in the Senate.

If he runs, this is the first clear separation in candidates, giving us a chance to see how the GOP voters line up. There is a draft Fred Thompson site.

“After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.” –Fred Thompson

He seems to have both feet firmly on the ground.