Shanktified!

HawkeyeGOP.com had these excellent comments:

And I agree, if Rudy Giuliani is the nominee — we will stay home or perhaps even support a third party candidate.

I was talking this over with a friend who told me that I may as well vote for Hillary. In fact both Hannity and Rush have been saying the same thing on their radio shows, they have been saying that not supporting the nominee is the same as a vote for Hillary.

Well, this is what I had to say to my friend. Nominating Giuliani is the same as electing Hillary.

True dat.

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One of my favorite blogs, What in Tarnation, sent me to another web poll. Seems all the questions were written by a liberal. But anyway. Here are my results and some of my comments.

Cox 32 (who???)
Tancredo 32 (Still disagree with him on a couple things. Specifically US Foreign Policy)
Paul 25 (Right on Foreign Policy, wrong on drugs)
Romney 25 (Mormon – yes, it matters to me. Plus, he’s yet to prove himself on some of his newly found conservative positions)
Hunter 19 (wonder why he’s down here?)
Huckabee 17 (really wonder why he’s down here — he’s becoming “one to watch” (update: or not))
Brownback 17
Thompson 8
McCain -3 (minus 3!! ha)
Richardson -16
Giuliani -18 (again, Giuliani scores below a Democrat)
Biden -19
Edwards -24
Dodd -25
Gravel -26
Obama -29
Clinton -30 (Communist)
Kucinich -32 (Communist)

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I love some of the things Ron Paul is saying. He’s right on Foreign Policy and very right on the Constitution. However, while running as a Libertarian for President he said and wrote some very strong statements concerning the use of Drugs in America. And for some reason, I haven’t seen any of this come up in the debates. Perhaps he’s changed his position.

From ontheissues.org Ron Paul:

* Legalize industrial hemp. (Jan 2007)
* Voted NO on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism. (Sep 2001)
* Voted NO on subjecting federal employees to random drug tests. (Sep 1998)
* War on Drugs has abused Bill of Rights . (Dec 2000)
* Legalize medical marijuana. (Jul 2001)
* Rated A by VOTE-HEMP, indicating a pro-hemp voting record. (Dec 2003

Check out these videos of Ron Paul on the Morton Downey, Jr. Show (how did that show ever make it on the air?)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=88REf0tjZHo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IHB2I83_N_k
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MGGDVm4mmTo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=waesMWjaqnU

Ron Paul wrote in 1987:

The Reagans, emulating Stalin, have even praised the chilling example of a child informing on his parents and urged others to follow his example. The 1980′s war on drugs has increased the U.S. prison population by 60%, while street crime has zoomed. Seventy percent of the people arrested for serious crimes are drug users. And all the evidence shows that they commit these crimes to support a habit made extremely expensive by government prohibition. Urban street crime, which terrorizes millions of Americans, is largely the creation of the U.S. drug laws. That alone is reason enough for legalization.

Source: totse.com/en/drugs/legal_issues_of_drug_use/ron_paul.html
(warning site contains materials offensive to some.)

Just some food for thought.

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Is George W. Bush America’s first Christian Universalist President? Chuck Baldwin asks Bush’s Faith-based supporters to consider the facts.

…how would our Christian brethren react if someone came into their church and said that “all religions pray to the same God”? I dare say such a statement would be met with the most vehement rejection. Yet, that is exactly what President Bush has said repeatedly. The latest example was just last Friday, October 5, 2007.

In an interview with Al Arabiya reporter Elie Nakouzi, Bush said, “I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God.” (Source: WND) Bush has made this same statement throughout his Presidency. The statement obviously reflects a deep-seated belief.

Of course, George W. Bush is the first President in U.S. history to celebrate Ramadan in the White House. He is also the first President to worship and pray in a Shinto temple.

Read the full story here.

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My Ron Paul on Evolution post continues to get a lot of comments. Gary’s latest comment brought up an excellent point I had not thought of before.

…Also, the Theory of Evolution does not accept a perfect original creation. It has death and destruction at the beginning. Scripture teaches that the original creation was perfect, then marred by sin, then death was placed upon it by God as a curse. Death before sin contradicts Scripture. If death was rampant for millions of years before Adam sinned, which would be the case according to the Theory of Evolution, then how could it be a curse placed upon creation by God? If that is the case, then death is normal, not abnormal. It undermines the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ to redeem people from the curse of sin and death….

Be sure and check out the entire post. It really has some great thoughts.

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Be sure and watch the video clip. There’s a great quote in it from Richard Viguerie who says: “They have said to the American people, ‘We have one guiding principle above anything else, and that is power. We are nominating somebody who can help us hold on to power.’ And at that point in time, perhaps it would be appropriate to begin the process of putting the Republican party out of it’s misery.”

ABC News: Christian Conservatives Weigh GOP Split
Those at the smaller meeting included James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Richard Viguerie, a direct mail pioneer, who recently authored “Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Republican Base.”

Viguerie told ABC News that the meeting was attended by “nationally known conservative leaders, and we took a very strong stand against supporting any pro-abortion candidate.

“Giuliani is beyond the pale,” Viguerie said. “It’s just not going to happen. There’s no way that conservative leaders are going to support a pro-abortion candidate. It was unanimous.”

Sentiment among his fellow “value voter conservatives” was so strong, Viguerie said, there was “overwhelming support to consider that idea” of a third-party presidential candidate in the event that Giuliani wins the Republican presidential nomination.

Such a move is not a “done deed,” he said, but he described how he’d been angry at the Republican Party for six years. “In the last six months, I’ve seen a vast majority of my colleagues, at the national level, move in that direction, including a willingness to go third party. They’re even further along on the third-party idea than I am,” Viguerie said.

We can only hope.  Well, actually I don’t care what party they belong to, as long as they are the right on the issues.

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