SITREP: Politics of Presidential Campaign 2000, April 22nd 2008

Jonathan Martin’s blog, Politico, announced that Ron Paul has not given up in the fight against the McCain machine. His congressional record has been more impressive than Senator John McCain, yet with media help and others the senator from Arizona jumped ahead of other candidates.

Ron Paul is a conservative, but he is also a Constitutionalist and libertarian when it comes to political science nomenclature.

He advocates a policy of foreign nonintervention, which is why he voted against the Iraq War Resolution – but is in favor of continued military force against terrorism that is occurring in Afghanistan. He favors a withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which many feel is not necessary now that the Cold War has been over.

Ron Paul has been in favor of ending the federal income tax for a long time, and believes that government spending should be addressed constantly, several federal agencies be abolished, favors hard money and opposes the Federal Reserve system. He also believes that US military bases should be removed from foreign soil, which is one of the key elements that prevented me from supporting Dr. Paul wholeheartedly and from the beginning. While there should be a cutback in military bases on foreign soil, we cannot totally isolate America.

He opposes the Patriot Act (as written), against the federal War on Drugs, No Child Left Behind, and gun control. Dr. Paul is pro-life and has introduced bills to reverse the Roe v. Wade decision, but also encourages states’ rights by letting each state regulate or ban abortion instead of the feds being involved. He is in favor of no amnesty for illegal immigrants, completing the border fence, no welfare for illegal immigrants, banning student visas from terrorist nations, and supported of the bill that declares English as the official language of the US.

While his campaign became successful, in the state primary votes he was weak, and didn’t get the media coverage, except on the Internet, that John McCain and other primary candidates received. On December 16^th, 2007 he had the largest one-day fundraiser in US political history by netting over $6 million in 24 hours – and all through independently organized entities. However, the Los Angeles Times, April 21^st 2008, (Andrew Malcolm) reports:

The political fund-raising of Rep. Ron Paul, which dominated the Republican presidential field as recently as December, is fading fast, apparently as his loyal followers’ enthusiasm reflects the looming numerical reality of his long-shot campaign. …
Paul’s financial report, true to his conservative stance, shows he carries no campaign debt. He still has nearly $5.1 million in the bank from the $34.3 million he raised in the last year. He has frequently rejected a third-party run for the White House and said he intends to use the money in a long-term effort to change the GOP from within. He also said he will not be endorsing Sen. John McCain …

Meanwhile in news about Obama …

There is a flurry going around cyberspace and in the media – and as usual it is misconstrued. One writer states …

Hannity now is not only attacking Obama, but millions of blacks in his take down of Barack Obama … He is telling the million men … that we committed an unpardonable crime by attempting to look at ourselves, acknowledging our individual shortcomings, then stage an event unprecedented in the history of America. The goal of the Million Man March, which was widely reported … the emphasis was for black men to be more personally responsible for our thoughts, dreams and aspirations. And to impress upon them to be more self reliant and less dependent.

Then, if this is so, why wasn’t the Million Man March composed of American males, not just a specific ethnic group?

The point was missed because Hannity was trying to point out that the leadership that organized the affair are publicly known racists and especially anti-Semitic.

The writer continues …

Had Billy Graham called for such an event to inspire and encourage black men to come together and listen to him tell us about are [our] need to be more self reliant and personally responsible he would have thought that commendable …

Billy Graham would not hold a rally just for one ethnic group – but ALL male Americans.

And in the news concerning Senator Obama, [Reuters], Obama Criticizes Carter’s Hamas Meeting …

Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama on Wednesday disagreed with former President Jimmy Carter’s overtures toward Hamas, saying he would not talk to the Islamist group until it recognized Israel and renounced terrorism. …
“That’s why I have a fundamental difference with President Carter and disagree with his decision to meet with Hamas,” Obama said. “We must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel’s destruction. We should only sit down with Hamas if they renounce terrorism, recognize Israel’s right to exist and abide by past agreements. Hamas is not a state. Hamas is a terrorist organization,” he said.

This is a surprising statement admonishing Jimmy Carter[i] because he has in the past state he would meet with those hostile to the United States, those that America and its coalition allies have declared war against with congressional approval after September 11th 2001 attack. Even Hillary Clinton called that statement naïve and its only purpose would be to provide credibility and ammunition for propaganda useful in the ongoing conflict between free nations and the Islamic extremist-fascist element that we are at war against.

• Media Matters, April 15^th 2008, Limbaugh Asserted that “the Islamofascists are actually campaigning for the election of Democrats” …

On the April 15^th edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh asserted that “liberalism is the greatest threat this country faces, not Islamofascism, because if the liberals dominate and win, and are in power for four, eight years or more, they don’t take Islamofascism as a threat”. He added: “And we know this because the Islamofascists are actually campaigning for the election of Democrats. Islamofascists from [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad to [Ayman] al-Zawahiri … Osama bin Laden, whoever, are constantly issuing Democrat [sic] talking points.”
Limbaugh made a similar claim on the May 10, 2006, edition of his show, during which he asserted that Ahmadinejad’s May 2006 letter to President Bush contained “Democratic talking points,” and “even some liberal Hollywood Jewish people talking point.”

I don’t think that the Democratic liberals are a bigger threat than Islamofascists; it is just that the liberals and their policies are endangering America by wanting to retreat from the mission of destroying Islamic fundamentalism and at the same time boosting the morale that America will give up.

For those of you who feel that the three main primary presidential candidates is represented in the picture below, maybe America should support Ron Paul since Fred Thompson is out of the picture. And with the economy the way it is, a person like Rep. Ron Paul would be a better choice than presently spouted by the media.

Source Links:
Not Yours to Give – originally published in The Life of Colonel David Crockett by Edward Sylvester Ellis. [Also see Constitution.org]
Ron Paul 2008 – Hope for America.
Ron Paul on the Issues
Dr. Ron Paul’s Biography - Wikipedia

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[i] Rightfully so. Jimmy Carter has appointed himself a sort of ambassador to every tyrant, despot and rogue national leader in the world, and as most of his presidential record concerning foreign affairs – a failure.