It’s Official!

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/?p=582#more-582

Boy, I’ll say that Bob Barr probably regrets not only dissing Dr. Paul’s Conference of the Third Parties at the National Press Club, but also adding insult to the injury by needling Dr. Paul over his previous neutrality.

I noticed a few bugs in the display of my list of the Congressional races, so I fixed them up, and added a newcomer to NY-25’s previously dead-end race:

Candidate David A. Gay, Sr. - Ron Paul Republican. I believe he has been listed over at the Paul Congress web site, and has also received the NY Constitution Party’s endorsement.

A brilliant piece originally published in “The Life of Colonel David Crockett,” by Edward Sylvester Ellis, and currently quoted on Dr. Ron Paul’s campaign site.

I’ll repost it below in the hopes that some folks may understand why and how people should demand accountability of our elected representatives.

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This item found by my wife (who lived through the burstig of the Japanese Bubble of the early 1990s) :

At 3:30, note what Mr. Jim Rogers has to say about what Mr. Bernanke should do, and what he should do with the Federal Reserve.

I agree 100% with his assessment that at this point, the FED only serves the interest of corporate welfare, buy shuffling off hundreds of billions of dollars of bad debts and worse securities - pig swill dressed up as investments - and President Bush needs to step in and FIRE Mr. Bernanke, if he will not cease from debasing our currency and ruining our economy.

If this sort of thing is to be the order of the day, it is only a matter of time before the Red Chinese cash out their dollars, and the taxpayers find out that the Butcher’s Bill for all of this will be quite ugly indeed.

Even if you don’t completely agree with the message, this is still a way cool video.

(Kudos to whoever did the production of it, well done).

Having signed up to almost all the Republican presidential candidates (except the last two standing, McCain and Huckabee) I get this in from Dr. Paul’s mailing list:

Whoa! What a year this has been. And what achievements we have had. If I may quote Trotsky of all people, this Revolution is permanent. It will not end at the Republican convention. It will not end in November. It will not end until we have won the great battle on which we have embarked. Not because of me, but because of you. Millions of Americans — and friends in many other countries — have dedicated themselves to the principles of liberty: to free enterprise, limited government, sound money, no income tax, and peace. We will not falter so long as there is one restriction on our persons, our property, our civil liberties. How much I owe you. I can never possibly repay your generous donations, hard work, whole-hearted dedication and love of freedom. How blessed I am to be associated with you. Carol, of course, sends her love as well.

Let me tell you my thoughts. With Romney gone, the chances of a brokered convention are nearly zero. But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get. But with so many primaries and caucuses now over, we do not now need so big a national campaign staff, and so I am making it leaner and tighter. Of course, I am committed to fighting for our ideas within the Republican party, so there will be no third party run. I do not denigrate third parties — just the opposite, and I have long worked to remove the ballot-access restrictions on them. But I am a Republican, and I will remain a Republican.

I also have another priority. I have constituents in my home district that I must serve. I cannot and will not let them down. And I have another battle I must face here as well. If I were to lose the primary for my congressional seat, all our opponents would react with glee, and pretend it was a rejection of our ideas. I cannot and will not let that happen.

(emphasis and markup by me)

So, that pretty means means that Ron Paul is moving his focus to his Texas-14 congressional district race, and hopefully some if not all of the amazing cash cow he generated will be movable to his TX-14CD fund.

I was initially against the populist approach that seemed to be the hallmark of Dr. Paul’s politics, as well as the connection to conspiracy theorism and much of the moonbat fringe (9-11 Truthers as well as some of the far left anti-war movement), yet recently I have come to acknowledge that Dr. Paul’s central message was about retaining our freedoms and liberties which are documented in our national Constitution, and that the central fight is to make sure that the US Constitution stays as both the de facto and de jure law of our land.

Therefore, I both endorse and wish Dr. Paul well in his run for TX-14, and for the continued awakening of the American people to the horrors that we may face as we are courted and seduced by the siren calls of socialism from the Democrats, and a return to the rock-solid conservative, small-government republican ideals of Coolidge, Goldwater, and Reagan.

And I apologize for misunderstanding where you were coming from. I hope that the spirit of your revolution, which is a peaceful one, awakens every man and woman who can proudly call themselves by the name “American” to call with an ever louder voice for a return to fiscally responsible, federalist-modeled Constitutionally compliant, small government accountable to the people… yes, that we increase in our desire and demand for this, just as the Founding Fathers did when they gave so much to bring us liberty and freedom over 230 years ago.

We can do this by going to the polls in November and electing the “down-ticket” conservatives, that is, the local, state, and congressional disctrict and Senate candidates who will hear our call. So go - learn who is out there running and willing to get the job done and support them just as you’ve seen Dr. Paul’s supporters strive on his behalf - caucus, vote, and tell others to do the same.

A certain other presidential contender tells us that we can make a difference and that it is about “change”. This is true. What we need to do is start close to home, change our own attitudes and then tell the Washington D.C. Republican party establishment - we want a change back to proven, conservative principles that work.

Ron Paul tries to make a case for his pandering to the LGBT portion of his base on John Lofton’s show The American View.

I can’t say I agree 100% with all of Mr. Lofton’s views, but watching Dr. Paul do the “dodge and weave” here is not surprising… and the thing to be taken away here is that Dr. Paul should not be considered a strict, fundamentalist Christian as he might have us believe.

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.

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.