07:45 am
Ron Paul, Ross Perot, and. . . Chuck Baldwin??
You know things are getting weird when NPR starts interviewing Ron Paul on the bailout. And he’s making sense.
I regard Ron Paul the way I used to view Ross Perot. He’s crazy, but that doesn’t stop him from having the occasional good idea. He reminds me of an editorial cartoon on Perot that came out around the time of the 1996 election. Perot is on television, and he’s talking to the American people:
NAFTA steal your jobs? Told ya so!
Economy a mess? Told ya so!
Space aliens living in your toaster? Told ya so!
That’s Ron Paul. He may be right when it comes to the bailout (and to be fair, the Iraq war), but he’s profoundly wrong on a whole bunch of other things. Oh, and he just endorsed this guy for President:
The Libertarian Party Candidate admonished me for “remaining neutral” in the presidential race and not stating whom I will vote for in November. It’s true; I have done exactly that due to my respect and friendship and support from both the Constitution and Libertarian Party members. I remain a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party and I’m a ten-term Republican Congressman. It is not against the law to participate in more then one political party. Chuck Baldwin has been a friend and was an active supporter in the presidential campaign. . . .
I’ve thought about the unsolicited advice from the Libertarian Party candidate, and he has convinced me to reject my neutral stance in the November election. I’m supporting Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate.
Who is Chuck Baldwin? Here are some excerpts from his columns:
Let’s face it: most of America’s foreign policy over the last several decades has been more about fulfilling the U.N.’s global desires than protecting the people and property of the United States. And, yes, that includes America’s invasion of Iraq. Do readers not remember that soon after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush appeared before the United Nations and plainly told that sinister organization that the reason he had ordered the invasion of Iraq was to “defend . . . the credibility of the United Nations”? Frankly, I did not know the United Nations had any credibility worth defending. Nevertheless, G.W. Bush was willing to sacrifice over 4,000 American lives for the express purpose of defending the U.N.’s “credibility.”
I am often asked about the people in history that I revere or otherwise hold in high esteem. . . . Among nineteenth-century figures, none stand out more to me than Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson. For that matter, practically all of the generals from the Old Confederacy were probably the greatest assembly of military leaders to ever live. Their combined character on and off the battlefield is the stuff of legend. It will never be matched.
2010 seems to be a banner year for these designers of despotism. That is the target year for the implementation of the North American Community, which will commercially unite the United States with Canada and Mexico. . . . George W. Bush, John McCain, and Barack Obama are part of the global elite that seeks America’s entrance into an international New World Order. In fact, neither Presidential candidate from the two major parties will offer any resistance to this obstinate and oppressive oligarchy. . . . There seems to be only one obstacle standing in the way of the globalists: America’s citizens are the most heavily armed people in the world. That fact must surely stick in the throats of the globalists like a chicken bone.
So it seems that in a fit of pique over Bob Barr having criticized him, Paul has chosen to endorse a nutjob ultra-right-wing evangelical version of Dennis Kucinich. Apparently given the choice between his libertarian principles and his conspiracy theories, Paul chose the latter.
Chuck Baldwin worships Robert E. Lee and thinks that John McCain and Barack Obama are both the devil. He thinks the United States should be a theocracy. He actually believes that the Council on Foreign Relations is conspiring to destroy the United States. And he once actually said this:
It should be clear to anyone willing to see that while Terri Schiavo suffers what must be an agonizing death, Lady Liberty is also dying. Her feeding tube, the feeding tube of constitutional government and bedrock principle, has been removed, and she is starving for want of the fundamental fluids that maintain her health and vitality.
Yep. That’s who I want as President. Reverend Moonbat. This guy makes Sarah Palin look like Barbra Streisand.
So pardon me if I’m not going to get on the Ron Paul bandwagon anytime soon.