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Showing posts with label Current Affairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Current Affairs. Show all posts

Friday, August 24, 2012

Ron Paul: 'GOP Establishment Fears Ron Paul Upset at the Convention'


Source:Ron Paul- From a video about why the GOP is scared of U.S. Representative Ron Paul and his presidential campaign.
"Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at how the RNC is attempting to change the 5 state rule and decredential the entire Maine delegation only 4 days before the Republican National Convention."

From Ron Paul

Back in August during the GOP Iowa straw poll, Representative Ron Paul finished 2nd behind what's Representative Michele Bachmann. I've been trying to forget about Representative Bachmann after she did America the public service of ending her presidential campaign, Ron Paul finished 2nd with something like 200 votes and a percentage point behind Michele Bachmann. I had actually predicted that Representative Paul would win the Iowa straw poll and came damn near close. Not to pat my own back, but I have an itch.

But who was FNC's and the GOP establishment promoting after the straw poll, Bachmann obviously. Every mental patients and conspiracy theorists presidential candidate. Governor Rick Perry who was enjoying his fifteen minutes of fame and looked like was going to be the Tea Party candidate, but his presidential campaign bombed as bad as a Jean Claude Van Damn movie festival. Mitt Romney the aka Flip Flopper himself seen as the electable presidential candidate.

And there was some talk about Rick Santorum the former U.S. Senator and Representative who lost reelection in the Senate in 2006, but in a close call 18 points. They were saying about Senator Santorum that considering how he lacked campaign funds only because most Republicans believe that he can't win. That he had a strong showing in the straw poll, getting around 12% of the vote.

You know how about the guy who finished 2nd in the straw poll and almost won the damn thing. Where's the respect for Ron Paul, oh wait he's a Libertarian Republican who actually takes individual liberty, limited government and the U.S. Constitution seriously. Unlike the Christian-Conservatives/Christian-Nationalists who run the GOP today, so he doesn't get any until recently.

What does a man have to do to get a little love in the Republican Party? This is a Party that speaks about individual liberty, limited government and the U.S. Constitution all the time. But actually speaks in favor of those things, but scares the hell out of the GOP base because those things are just things to say in order to get elected.

If voters learned about what Christian-Conservative/Christian-Nationalist Republicans wanted to do once they were in office, which is what the American people finally woke up to in 2006, Republicans couldn't get elected to anything other than dog catcher outside of the Bible Belt in America. And even then they would probably have to steal those elections as well.

So when someone like Ron Paul comes around who has a thirty year history of doing and saying what he believes in, it scares the hell out of the GOP establishment because they know the man and know that he actually believes in what he says.

And thats what scares the hell out of the GOP establishment and everything they've worked to accomplish. No more Patriot Act, no more indefinite detention, no more corporate welfare, individual liberty for real. No longer government trying to protect people from themselves because all these things goes against today's GOP Bible, of national security and national morality. Which for them trumps individual liberty, limited government, and the U.S. Constitution.

The modern Republican Party is a party that wants people to be free, as long as they are living their lives as Christian-Conservatives (Christian-Theocrats, in actuality) want them too. Which goes against everything that Ron Paul stands for.

Monday, September 26, 2011

John Kramer: 'SNL Politics Reviewed: Alec Baldwin Gives The GOP Schweddy Balls'


Source:John Kramer- the guy on the right is Alec Baldwin. Not sure about the other guy.
"Welcome to the 37th season of Saturday Night Live, with its opening show hosted by Alec Baldwin.  SNL Politics Yes, it's Saturday Night, Alec Baldwin now holds the record for hosting SNL the most times, and if there's anyone out there who should have Scweddy Balls it's the Republican Party...

Source: John Kramer

I can sum up the Republican presidential debates in several paragraphs or less, so I will. 

Mitt Romney- "Vote for me because I can win." And his other slogan being:"If you're for it so am I." Well, Mitt Romney on truth serum.

Newt Gingrich who I do take seriously as an intellectual until he says something thats provocative. But then realizes its unpopular and tries to get away from it. As long as he doesn't preach about moral values: "Don't do because I've done it and I know from personal experience that some of these activities in life, well, take adultery (to use as an example) are simply personally wrong. It's wrong which is why you shouldn't do it. Even though I had a great time doing like having an affair with one of my staffers as Speaker of the House. When I was preaching about the moral decay of President Clinton". Newt Gingrich won't be up for Sainthood anytime soon, unless he pays to get in. And he is also unqualified to be a Monk, which may be why he's stopped preaching about moral values.

You have a classical Libertarian in Ron Paul, who apparently walked into a Republican Party one day, thinking he was at a Libertarian Convention. And hasn't found his way out of the Republican Party and is probably also unaware that he's at a party thats dominated by the Christian-Right and Neoconservatives. And the Tea Party that at least part of them are in bed with the Religious-Right. And are so warm there, that they can't get out of bed. 

Then there's John Huntsman and Gary Johnson who have no shot at the Republican nomination because they would both make excellent Liberal Democrats and they are both sane and that just ain't going to cut it in today's Republican Party.

I would mention Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann, but like I said I could sum up the Republican presidential debates in a few paragraphs or less. And since I'm not a politician or running for public office, I can stick with positions I've already made. Other to say that they are both American citizens, born in America and 35 or older. (At least as far as I know) And besides I have nothing to say nice about either of them. Other than maybe Senator Santorum who I'll admit he's one of the most honest politicians I know of. And that is a complement in todays politics, its just that he knows so much that isn't true and actually believes in it. Which would make Rick scary as a President. And Michele Bachmann just proves that even mental patients, even escaped mental patients are apparently qualified to run for President of the United States, or at least until they are recaptured. 

Rick Perry, well when he decides what he believes and what his plans are for the country, I'll take a look at his presidential campaign. The man keeps teleprompter's in business by himself. 

And with Herman Cain. Well his presidential campaign got suspended so now I would just be piling on. So what the hell, the man is not even qualified to pass a course on sexual harassment awareness. I'm not sure what the exact name for the course, I've never had to take it myself, let alone be President of the United States.

Thats the Republican presidential field of 2011-12, I know I'm thinking the same thing, "is that it". Where's Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Dick Nixon, Gerry Ford, Ron Reagan, and  Bob Dole? The problem is those people don't exist in the Republican Party anymore and wouldn't get the nomination for President in today's Republican Party because they wouldn't be trusted by the Religious or New-Right, which is the problem for Mitt Romney. Who twenty years ago would've fit in perfectly in the GOP but because of the new Republican Party. he has to say things just to please to them and say different things to different audiences.