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September 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I recently viewed a video of Ron Paul addressing the National Right to Life Convention and viewed some of the comments made there on YouTube. Predictably the leftists started spewing their fanatic platitudes, saying, he’s so right on so many things, but “so wrong about this issue.”

I would love to see if they would still feel the same way and say that Dr. Paul is ’so wrong about abortion” after they saw this:

http://www.mttu.com/abort-pics/

Categories: abortion · national right to life convention · pro-life · republican · ron paul

Ron Paul GOP’s Only Hope for 2008

June 8, 2007 · 2 Comments

The GOP will be doomed in 2008 if it doesn’t return to its conservative roots — and fast. Ron Paul, GOP presidential candidate and free-market champion, has been attacked by the scarily-becoming-mainstream war-mongering, big-spending Republicans as being a “kook” and, in an attempt to scare what’s left of the base, unconservative. As Ron Paul pointed out in the South Carolina debate, however, non-interventionism is conservative: Americans elected the Republicans to stop the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and were against getting involved in Europe during World War II until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. Is it “conservative” to waste billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money and, more importantly, American lives on a war that really doesn’t have much to do with September 11?

Unlike many of his colleagues who so often try to desperately allign themselves with Reagan for political purposes, Ron Paul doesn’t usually feel the need to invoke the Gipper’s name at every opportunity to make his points; he is more than comfortable with his well-reasoned positions and rightly feels that they stand on their own. During the Fox News debate on May 15, however, he spoke of the Middle East and its peculiarities that Reagan understood existed. In simplified form, middle easterners have been killing each other for millenia — are Americans really going to change that? Is it our duty to do so? Is it “conservative” to fight for a republican form of government for people who may or may not appreciate it, let alone keep it while we leave our borders wide-open? Think of the Andrew Speaker debacle: it would only take one terrorist to sneak through one of our underfortified borders with smallpox to vastly outdo 9/11. If we spent less money — and American blood — on the sand of the middle easterners who have been killing each other for centuries and decided to spend more resources on fighting our own borders, the Andrew Speaker Problem may never have happened. Ron Paul’s non-interventionist stance is not only conservative, it is something that 70% of the American people support.

Ron Paul is a real conservative. He is a champion of the taxpayer, having never voted to raise taxes — ever — during his entire congressional career. He is a strong supporter of second amendment rights. He is pro-life, having sponsored the Sanctity of Life Act while in Congress. The Libertarian platform has officially made their plank pro-choice in recent years after some debate within the party. This is why I never voted Libertarian after Harry Browne and why the Libertarian Party is no longer an option for me. Ron Paul is unabashedly pro-life and argues that it is unsettling to say the least that “if you abort a ‘fetus’ one second before [birth] it’s legal, and one second after it’s born, it’s murder.”

Though many in the mainstream GOP and neoconservative camp of the Republican Party may try, Ron Paul’s conservatism is not something that can be easily challenged. His conservative values go way back: Ron Paul was one of only four congressman to support Ronald Reagan for president in 1976 (the others opting for Gerald Ford) and was one of Reagan’s earliest supporters. Reagan himself has said:

“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.”

Ron Paul is right on immigration, second amendment rights, abortion, taxes, and foreign policy, arguably the big five issues if the day. Ron Paul is part of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, something that will become extinct if the GOP doesn’t take heed.

Categories: 2008 election · andrew speaker · conservative · gop · presidential · republican · ron paul

Neo-Polizei Cracking Down on Verboten Use of Presidential Candidate’s Full Name

May 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Just when you might have thought there had lately been a much-welcomed respite from the P.C. Polizei of the nineties… think again. On a Digg forum, some leftist hecklers objected to my spelling out of Barack Obama’s full name: Barack Hussein Obama. And as you can see, one of the said heckler camp made his way over to my blog (in an ever-anonymous fashion, of course), calling me “immature” and tsk-ing his disapproval in the echoes of “Shame[,] shame[,] shame[.]” On a side note, Mr. Anonymous posted these comments on my blog about Ron Paul’s latest domination of YouTube.

Hmm, Mr… er, uh.. “Anonymous”: What is “immature” about stating the man’s full name? What exactly are you implying? That his name, of Muslim origin, is somehow something to be ashamed of? Do you have something against Muslims? Would you call me “immature” to call Hillary Rodham Clinton by her full name, as I just did? Methinks not… On second thought, it’s the ubiquitous “anonymous” posters like Mr. — Anonymous — who come up with stuff like this, and he’d probably be ready to jump on that and call it “sexist.” Some encyclopedia articles refer to possible GOP candidate Fred Thompson as (gasp!): “Fred. Dalton. Thompson.” I have also seen Mitt Romney referred to as Willard Mitt Romney, his full name. To the Neo-Polizei, however, using a minority’s full name or, most likely, a woman’s full name, is something for which one should feel “shame shame shame[sic].”

Another little Digger made, in an effort to demonstrate his indignation at the government’s amnesty plan for illegal immigrants, a comment that some in the Neo-P.C.-Polizei just couldn’t tolerate (imagine). The poster said that George Bush & Co. were “filling up [the country] with Mexicans” via illegal immigration and border crossings:

“The Bush family supports Open Borders and sees nothing wrong with filling America up with Mexicans. Bush Junior ’s occupation of Iraq has cost the Republicans control of Congress. Many Republicans would like to see a complete change of direction.”

What, is Mr. Anonymous suggesting that “invading” would have been preferable to “filling up America with Mexicans”? Admittedly, the post was not the most articulate in the world, but “racist”? Messrs. Anonymous, last I checked, “Mexican” was a nationality, not a race.

Categories: amnesty · barack hussein obama · border · george w bush · hillary rodham clinton · illegal immigration · mexican · muslim · open border · pc police · polizei · racist · republican

Enter Stage Left: The Ron Paul Democrats

May 20, 2007 · 4 Comments

For those who are following Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, it is becoming more and more apparent that many of his supporters are people who say “I have never voted Republican in my life but you have my vote, Ron Paul.” The sentiment is echoed all over the place. Who was the last presidential candidate who had this ability to attract lifelong Democrats to his campaign? You guessed it: the other Ron, and those supporters from the Democrat party were referred to as “Reagan Democrats.” Momentum is building for Ron Paul. Bring on the Ron Paul Democrats.

Categories: campaign · democrat · gop · presidential · republican · ron paul

Ron Paul Google Search Results Top 3 Million

May 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Last week if you searched for “ron paul” on Google, the results were coming in at just over 2 million. A couple days ago they were coming down a bit to around 1,400,000 (the censorship controversy with Yahoo and ABC had started to die down a bit), but now when you google “ron paul” you get over 3 million search results. For random comparisons as of 7:43 P.M. tonight, “ernest hemingway” yields 1,930,000 results, “alisteir crowley” yields just over a million results, and “mother teresa” yields 1,240,000 search results.

Categories: abc · censorship · ernest hemingway · gop · republican · ron paul

Ron Paul Closing Gap with Mitt Romney in MySpace Friends

May 18, 2007 · 2 Comments

A week and a half ago Ron Paul was about 4,000 friends behind Mitt Romney in MySpace friends. Now, he is only 2,936 friends behind Romney. Paul is in third place in GOP MySpace friends, which is a considerable feat, considering that he barely gets media coverage in the mainstream media.

Categories: MSM · gop · mainstream media · mitt romney · myspace · republican · ron paul

Fox News Finally Runs a Fair and Balanced Article on Ron Paul

May 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Fox News finally runs a fair and balanced article on Ron Paul

Categories: debate · fox news · gop · republican · ron paul

Brit Hume Knows Where It’s At

May 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Brit Hume asked Ron Paul about economic policies during the last five minutes of the debate, which gave the good doctor a chance to shine, especially in the venue of a South Carolina GOP debate.

Categories: brit hume · debate · fox news · gop · republican · ron paul

Ron Paul in First Place on Fox News Text Message Poll

May 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Ron Paul is in first place in the post-debate poll from Fox News with 30%; Mitt Romney came in second with 27%, and Giuliani third with 16%.

The ever-annoying Sean Hannity was sure to pipe in, on hearing that Ron Paul was in first place with 30%, beating out establishment candidates Mitt Romney and Rudolph Guiliani, “I don’t think Ron Paul won the debate,” or something to that effect. It’s sad that I’ve always liked Alan Colmes better on that show… Sean Hannity gives conservatives a bad name. He comes off as cocky and a little bit pushy, and rarely intellectually stimulating. He’s not intelligent enough to want Ron Paul for president.

Categories: debate · fox news · gop · mitt romney · poll · republican · ron paul · rudy guiliani · south carolina

Yahoo Finally Caves

May 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Another victory for Ron Paul.

And some said we couldn’t make a difference…

Categories: censor · censorship · debate · gop · republican · ron paul · yahoo