“My standard is Christ … I will have to answer to him alone.”

Note: This is the longer response to a post I made at Dan’s Reihl World View blog, where a commenter took issue with Dan’s observations about the possibility of Mr. Huckabee’s willingness to let his faith potentially overstep constitutional bounds (re: the Establishment Clause)

Can this really be such a bad thing?

At first glance, a Christian would certainly think not. But to the ardent self-appointed watchdogs of American state secularism (to whom “Freedom of Religion” has become “Extirpation of Religion”) as well as folks on the right who are leery of a certain candidate’s apparent “cloak of the Gospel” being used to pander to the Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christian wing of the GOP… it could well be a warning bell.
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On this fine New Year’s Eve-Eve… I find myself parsing the Internets Pipes (handcrafted with love by the AlGoreBot, and soldered into place by Tim Berners-Lee) digging up stuff about the candidates.

One bit of sport I’ ve taken to lately is poking my nose into known fiery pits of the Ron Paul rƎVO⅃ution, where I can learn how to cut and paste the strange Unicode-16 characters used to make the reversed “LOVE” anagram so cleverly hidden there by the Ronulans.

Another thing that I have found amusing is to see what threshold (especially on YouTube) triggers a mass response (sort of the internet equivalent to poking an ant colony or tossing stones at a bee hive) …

… of course, saying “Ron Paul sucks” will do the trick all too easily… so the challenge is to actually bait them with something that pokes their world view, like the dogma of “Blame America First” that pervades their thinking with things like the Truther 9-11 conspiracy, or even better, challenging the notion that the CFR really isn’t out to make a North American Union.

Now, I’ll admit that behind every conspiracy theory there usually is a *very small* grain of truth, such as the possibility that among a few folks who belong to the CFR might be a few folks who would be very comfortable with seeing America’s influence in world affairs greatly diminished.

Either way, it makes for an entertaining way to kill some time, and it keeps my YouTube box full of Ronulan hate-mail which is fun to laugh at.

DISCLAIMER: While most of Ron Paul’s most ardent supporters seem to missing a few sandwiches from their collective picnic basket… there are surely a few folks who do defend Paul’s bizarre brand of paleoconservatism with both pluck and wit, and without an excessive amount of drooling.

When I meet one, I’ll be sure to post about it here.

…support the consistent conservative - the clear choice for President: Fred D. Thompson.

GOOOOOOOAAAALLLL! …. $251,650 in the Ol’ Red Truck!

As of this update, Fred’s goal of receiving $248,846 has been met (at 5:47pm EST)…. but if you are of a mind to kick him a few more bucks, don’t stop on my account.

Video by yours truly… my best appeal to y’all to break out some dough$ for Fred.

Fred’s Red Truck needs all the gas it can get for these last few days left before the Iowa Caucus.

That means that if only 1600 people donate an average of $40 each, or 640 donors giving $100 each… then we can easily make sure that Fred’s “Substance” ad gets blanket coverage over Iowa on these last few days before the caucus. Fredheads, if you haven’t already done so, please send an e-card to everyone on your contact lists who you think might be willing to hear what Fred has to say about keeping America secure, united, and prosperous!

Please be sure to contribute as much as you are able to help Fred met his goal of $248,846 by 6pm tonight - Iowans need to see Fred’s new “Substance” advertisement so they can make a clear choice for America’s next consistently conservative President.

Food for thought… could the craven Mr. Tweedy from Chicken Run be Mike Huckabee’s long lost twin?

Oh yeah… Fred’s got his game on.

Fred’s Red Truck is back on the road… but we need to keep its tank full so we can get the message out!

Please consider donating to Fred Thompson’s campaign - he needs to raise $248,846 by 6 PM on Friday to run the ad statewide through the caucus. As of this posting, they have $25,870.

Tim Russert absolutely destroys Ron Paul in this four-part video capture on YouTube via RealClearPolitics.com…

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2007/12/paul_on_meet_the_press.html

…and the Ronulans ain’t too happy (if you care to read through most of the blithering idiocy on the YT site).

Yes, Virginia, I have been waiting to unload this clever PaulBat graphic I have concocted several weeks ago. On to the main event:

Complete silliness, if you ask me. And yes, this is a few days old, but for lack of anything else truly exciting developing from Dr. Paul’s quixotic campaign (short of him dropping out to run as a spoiler vote as a sort of misplaced revenge for Ralph Nader spoiling the GoreBot’s fun in 2000).

As for that possible independent (which Ron Paul has denied with a couched hint that he *just might* change his mind) — I could see him doing exactly that.

Especially if Herr Hillary or Oprahbama pass him some cash under the table). because, I’ve really got to wonder how Dr. Paul is going to use that roughly $12M he has collected from his earnest, but hopeless legions of followers (most of whom seem to spend their waking hours uploading blimp videos on YouTube and flash-mobbing various online polls to make it look as if 80% or better of the population unanimously supports him). This Blimp project is unrelated to his campaign fundraising by law and by design, and represent a considerable investment of resources.

Surely he isn’t going to concede defeat gracefully come Super Tuesday (being the hardcase that he is, I seriously doubt he’ll drop out on account of failing to collect any of the early primary states/Iowa caucus)… and I highly doubt he is going to refund anyone’s money when it becomes obvious that the GOP won’t have anything to do with him - I’m sure the fine folks at Nazis”R”Us (Stormfront.org) who donated some of their hard-scrounged cash will appreciate that, too.

One can only hope that the spoiler effect has a blowback that effects the Dems as it might pull off enough of the hard-core anti-war moonbats to balance things out, but I’m gathering an Independent Paul run will cost the GOP many more votes than it will the Dems.

Having said that, I shall now retire to my chambers and await the possible onslaught of Ronulans who may come here to defend their good doctor’s honour.

That’s right, no “happy holidays” or “season’s greetings”, or other, similarly generic, non-specific politically correct reference to the week of 24 Dec. to 1 Jan. blurbage here.

It is all about remembering the Saviour who came into this world a little over 2,000 years ago to redeem us from sin and lawlessness back to the mercy, grace, and love of God, and a relationship with Him through that same Saviour, our great God and Lord Jesus Christ.

Merry Christmas to you and yours.