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The Ron Paul (and Chuck Baldwin) Matter

by Charles Lewis, Moderator, Save America Summit
 
I can no longer hold my peace.  It has come to my attention from various sources that the Ron Paul campaign is planning on a mega-march on Washington, followed by a wholesale attempt to get GOP convention delegates to abdicate their pledges and vote for Dr Paul.  That failing (and it absolutely will fall flat on its unceremonious face), he, I am told, plans to mount a 3rd party or independent candidacy.
 
As this issue keeps rearing its head, I can no longer stay silent on what you see below.  Muddying the picture is the fact that Dr Paul is fabulous - even unexcelled - on quite a few critical libertarian (and, yes, a number of constitutionalist): issues, including the 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 10th amendments, forced mental health screening, freedom of access to natural supplements, income tax, the Federal Reserve and monetary policy, the UN, the NAU, and so on.
 
But he's horrible on moral issues, where he's taken indefensible stances, and/or cast bad votes, on issues from gay marriage to gays in the military to abortion to euthanasia to prostitution to school prayer to marijuana.  He's weak on the life-or-dath issue of illegal immigration,  His foreign policy consists of abandoning our allies under siege (especially Taiwan and Israel) - to the point that no nation would dare be our ally - and essentially singing "Kumbaya" with our bitterest sworn enemies (especially those that massacre Christians).  And from there it only gets worse, with more red flags being raised on a regular basis
 
I only ask that you read the folowing with an open mind:
 
10 Reasons Why Christians Should NOT Vote for Ron Paul (at least not for president)
 
1    Paul is an outspoken advocate for the appeasement of communism (a diabolical, mass murdering and torturing, Christian hating and persecuting religion that has always vowed to bury us and has always voraciously pursued the fulfillment of that vow).  His revisionist pronouncements on Vietnam mirror those of Jane Fonda. He says we should do nothing when Red China chooses to devour our freedom loving ally, Taiwan.
 
2    He's an outspoken advocate for the appeasement of Islamism (a diabolical, mass murdering and torturing, Christian hating and persecuting religion that has always vowed to bury us and has always voraciously pursued the fulfillment of that vow).  He blames, not the terrorists, but America for 9/11.
 
3    He favors legalization of prostitution and marijuana.
 
4    He voted against school prayer and the one-man, one-woman marriage amendment
 
5    He opposes any physical border fence, opposes punishing businesses that employ illegal aliens, and opposes prohibiting states from issuing drivers licenses, or offering in-state tuition, to illegals.  All of these positions facilitate and encourage the continued influx of milions of invaders from a demographic group that generally despises America, and which in recent years has elected communist presidents in no less than 5 South and Central American countries.
 
6    He has gotten ratings as high as 67% from the ACLU, the organization that has done the most to stifle Christianity in America.
 
7    He has gotten ratings as high as 67% from the NEA, the consistently Marxist teachers union that has kept any vestige of Christianity out of government schools, advocates for the abolition of Christian home schools, and infuses state run schools with the pagan religions of earth worship, sodomy, communism, and secular humanism.
 
8    He has said that the forced dispensing - by a Christian pharmacist who objects on moral grounds - of the abortion pill should be a matter strictly between the pharmacist and his employer.  He voted against a bill to make it a crime to transport a minor across a state line for purposes of an abortion, and against another bill to make it a crime to harm or kill an unborn child via an assault on a pregnant woman.
 
9    He has said that Dennnis Kucinich (the most openly Marxist of all the Democratic contenders) was the candidate who (other than Paul himself) best exemplifies his principles.  Kucinich, who - among countless other outrages - has said he wants all American students to be government "schooled" (so much for Christian schools or Christian home schooling), himself announced that - should he have gotten the nomination - Ron Paul would have been his choice as a running mate.
 
10    Paul's report card at the values voters debate was far worse than that of the other seven participants combined.  He "lead" the pack with 8 of the 12 anti-Christian worldview answers given.  Brownback and Hunter tied for second with two.  Tancredo, Cox, Keyes, and Huckabee had perfect scores.  Paul had wrong (anti-Christian) answers on:
- a Terri Schiavo scenario where he said it's fine to starve the patient to death
- the Sudan scenario where the mass butchery and enslavement of Christians didn't bother him
the impeachment of judges who flout the Constitution and legislate from the bench
- prosecution for violation of pornography laws
- the application of decency standards to cable broadcasts
- a Christian state in Iraq (where Christians are being mercilessly persecuted and butchered) in spite of a provision in the Iraqi constitution that provides for one
- conditioning trade with China on improvements in religious freedom and elimination of unfair trade practices, slave labor, and poisoned, dangerous, and filthy products from toothpaste to foodstuffs to toys
- the prospect of denying visas and imposing trade sanctions on countries where Christians are persecuted on a grand scale
You can find (at http://www.ontheissues.org/Ron_Paul.htm - "On the issues dot org" is the most respected site on the stances of the various presidential candidates) confirmation of Ron Paul's opposition to the marriage amendment (under "Ron Paul on Civil Rights") and school prayer ("Ron Paul on Education"), his support for legalized marijuana  ("hemp"), and opposition to the war on drugs ("Ron Paul on drugs"), his 67% ratings by the ACLU ("Ron Paul on Civil Rights") and NEA ("Ron Paul on Education"), and his 11% rating ("indicating a 'soft-on-crime' stance") by the National Criminal Justice Institute (NCIJ - "Ron Paul on Crime").
 
At the same site, you'll also find his 56% rating by National Right to Life, including: "Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime," "Voted NO on barring transporting minors to get an abortion," "Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions," "Voted NO on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research,"
 
You can find out more about Paul's advocacy for legalized marijuana and prostitution at http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=3970423&page=1.  His endorsement by a Nevada "prostitute procurer" was all over the Internet.  One place is http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21973236/.  He was also endorsed by super profane, Christian baiting "shock jock" Howard Stern (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59580).
As for Dennis Kucinich, if you watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJcnoDfFWhM more carefully, you'll see Paul asked whom among the other current candidates he would vote for if he weren't running.  The only one he mentions is Kucinich (Tancredo and Hunter were still active at the time).  He does allude to Chuck Hagel (a notorious "RINO"), who was not a candidate.  In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUG8T0ceeRs, he's asked to name Kucinich as his running mate if nominated.  The only reservation he expresses is that the two "don't agree on all the economic issues."  Kucinich is on record in favor of abortion on demand, a total ban on private gun ownership, and government schooling for all children.  As far as I can discern, these are not economic issues (see http://www.ontheissues.org/Dennis_Kucinich.htm for Kucinich's stunning down-the-line Marxist voting record).
 
His absolution of communism and islamofscism and blaming of America for all the horrors of those two abominations (plus his Jane Fonda-style revisionism on Vietnam, and his eagerness to hand our ally Taiwan over to the ChiComs): http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/ron-paul-on-war.html
 
And again there's the values voters debate, where he scored twice as many non-Christian worldview answers (8) as the other 7 participants combined: http://www.valuesvoterdebate.com/downloads/Round2Answers.pdf)
And there's one issue that outweighs even these with me: Paul (and his clone, Chuck Baldwin's) propensity to use terms like "imperialist" and "military-industrial complex" to describe America's fighting men.  Anyone who's considered himself a conservative more than 10 minutes (a rarity, apparently, among Paul supporters) can relate to the following statement:
For approximately the first 54 of my 55 years, the only people I heard use those terms against our armed forces were extreme leftists, and they used it against us mainly when we tried to do anything to slow down the real, unprecedentedly brutal and successful imperialism of the UN's World Federalist Socialists and their communist and islamofascist surrogates.
 
Further, count me in when it comes to our "military-industrial complex."  Without our fighting fforces and superlative weapons industry, we'd have been dead or slaves decades ago.  Notwithstanding the pejorative rhetoric of the communists, islamists, one worlders, or hard-core CFR operatives (Eisenhower, for instance), theyre huge assets.
Interestingly, the American hard left starts with the same postulate as the Paulistas (every one of whom will argue vehemently that we are, in fact, imperialists) - that, once again, America is the world's great imperialist militaristic satan.
If this is true, then America must not only be severely punished, but reined in once and for all.  Huge reparations should be paid.  We should be totally disarmed and placed in UN receivership.  We should lose our sovereignty completely.  Foreign troops should be deployed here as "peacekeepers," and should confiscate all weapons.  Those who advocate for a strong military should be rooted out and dealt with severely.  Our elections should be supervised by an international team of observers.  Our prosperity should be redistributed to the poor nations of the earth (whose dictators might let a little of it trickle down to their starving masses, just for show).
 
Now, for sure, this is nothing like what Ron Paul is overtly proposing, and the furthest thing from what you or I would countenance.  But I submit to you that it is based on the exact same initial assumption as Paul's, and its reasoning is far more sound logically (plus it has far more support among voters).  And it's pretty much EXACTLY what the Democrats are seeking.
 
Thus Paul and Baldwin's anti-American-military epithets feed perfectly into what the satanic forces have planned for us.
The truth of course, is the absolute opposite of the claims.  Far from there being a conspiracy for America to take over the world, the conspiracy is for the world (via the UN and its heinous, diabolical, totalitarian mass-murdering operatives) to take over America.  And I'll go one step further:
To accuse America of being "imperialist" while her sons and daughters are in harm's way not only gives great aid and comfort to the enemy (as WorldNetDaily has specifically documented in Paul's case).  It is also nothing short of high treason.
In Save America Summit's first teleconference, the notion of supporting a Ron Paul candidacy was soundly voted down - even under a hypothetical scenario where Paul assuaged our concerns several of the more onerous matters.  I'm not saying that Save America Summit will never endorse a ticket that contains Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin.  I am simply saying that if it does, it will do so in my absence.
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