Blue Republicans and Ron Paul

When a presidential candidate gets endorsements from pastor Voddie Baucham, Herb Titus, Norma McCorvey, Oliver Stone and Blue Republicans (who are really Democrats), what does that mean? Are you a right wing nutcase or a liberal fruit loop?

Voddie Baucham is a pastor well-known for his movement to reform the Southern Baptist Convention to be more patriarchal and to abandon public schools. Baucham says that sending your christian child to public school is like sacrificing him to Molech. Strong language. Baucham calls homeschooling the christian alternative. He endorses Ron Paul, calling him essentially the Christian choice.

Norma McCorvey is Jane Roe from the case that enshrined abortion as a federal issue, Roe v Wade. It was her lawsuit that made it to the Supreme Court of the United States and lead to the death of tens of million unborn children. Today Norma is a vocal pro-life activist. And, she endorses the Ron Paul approach to returning jurisdiction to the States. No pro-lifer disputes her credibility.

Herb Titus is a constitutional attorney that has won at the Supreme Court level, working with Judge Roy Moore’s team defending the State of Alabama’s display of the ten commandments in a courthouse. Titus is also party to a lawsuit that questions Obama’s credentials as a natural-born citizen. That lawsuit is currently before the Georgia Supreme Court. If successful at proving that natural born means born of two American citizens, it may be that not only Newt Gingrich fails to make the ballot in several states but also Obama fails to make the cut. Titus says that Ron Paul is the constitutionalists’ choice.

Oliver Stone, the liberal Hollywood blockbuster production machine, known for rated-R films of grotesque content, said in an interview that he would vote for Ron Paul instead of Obama, if given the opportunity. Stone cites not Paul’s anti-isolationist foreign policy, but instead economic reasons. Stone says he’s sick of the spending spree, and that Ron Paul’s view of the future is the only intelligent view. The world economy is on the brink of collapse, an increasingly non-partisan finding of fact.

Blue Republicans are supporting Ron Paul as well. Is that a Reagan Democrat or a depressed Republican? It turns out that Democrats are disaffected by Obama’s foreign policy (attacking countries unpredictably), corporate welfare bailout schemes (TARP and stimulus), violation of the 4th amendment (patriot act extension), and expansion of TSA. The founder, Robin Koerner, says that Obama is Bush III, if judged by the size and valency of his programs. Some Democrats thought Obama would make the USA more free. They were wrong. But, they are coming out for Ron Paul to make up for their mistake. See this local BSU event for more.

Blue Republican Event
Saturday, January 28, 2011
Boise State University,
Jordan Ballroom
7:00 – 9:00 PM

In primary elections the old-guard Republicans warn against choosing the most conservative candidate, citing the need to attract independents in the general election. In general elections the same Republicans say it is necessary to move to the center to appeal to the independent voter. Ron Paul consistently scores very high among independents. So, it follows logically that Ron Paul would do well in a general election.

Paul doubters either want to maintain power or are convinced that constitutionality is a concept beyond which we have long since de-evolved. They say of the constitution what they say of Ron Paul, “We like it but it will never happen.” Newsflash! if it doesn’t happen, we will likely live a worse future than we have seen in Oliver Stone’s movies.

The last note is for Christians. For those that can’t bear to eat with sinners, remember that God’s ways are mysterious and he confounds the logic of the world. Who are you to say that God will not use unusual circumstances to glorify himself and perhaps preserve an undeserving America, just as he saved Ninevah?

Blue Republican Event
Saturday, January 28, 2011
Boise State University,
Jordan Ballroom
7:00 – 9:00 PM

Santorum Non-conservative

At the South Carolina debate, Santorum, Gingrich and Romney all three nagged each other like wives in a harem. There was bickering about healthcare, effectiveness of leadership, and conservative verity. I observed the following.

Santorum thinks that government and labor unions not freedom are the key to success. He said that freedom is not an absolute and that government must regulate freedoms. It was the most shocking endorsement of government power I’ve heard. It sounded like Obama’s claim that the government must act on people’s behalf, but even more extreme in tone. It doesn’t sit well with this rugged individualist and it should not sit well with any American.

Santorum at one point parried a free-market thrust from Ron Paul by pledging to be for Right to Work legislation when president. While senator, Santorum opposed Right to Work, claiming it didn’t fit Pennsylvania (the unionist parts especially). This position alone is contorted. He says that the the policy was bad for Pennsylvania, but he would impose it when president. Of course, that means he endorses federal power even in the case of a law he disagrees with. Santorum the contortionist should be getting a stipend from Barnum and Bailey for the twists in logic. But, to be fair many conservatives are confused about the necessity of state sovereignty. Most believe the 10th amendment has been repealed by unanimous derision and the 14th amendment.

At the end of the debate, conversely Santorum claimed abortion is a federal issue (supporting the federal jurisdiction which lead to Roe vs Wade). He cited Ron Paul’s low rating by the National Right to Life Committee (@nrlc), which thinks federal legislation will overturn the federal Supreme Court Ruling. But, this position validates federal jurisdiction. Effectual repeal of Roe vs Wade must be established by restoration of a constitutional mainstay, like state sovereignty, or risk having no reason against repeal by a subsequent generation of legislators. The reversal must be that States are restored to a first line of defense against abortion, like in the case of murder. Only if an abortion ring is crossing state lines would federal jurisdiction take a secondary role. Without the Supreme Court’s usurpation of state sovereignty in the name of defending the 14th amendment, Roe vs Wade would not be the death of hundreds of thousands of American babies each year. By claiming it is a federal issue, Santorum shores up the rationale of the Roe decision.

Santorum uses social issues as tools, but he doesn’t believe in self-governance, which is the ultimate key to social issues. Ron Paul pointed out in the debate that morality is the main issue with the culture, the acceptability of abortion culturally is the problem. Culture determines laws not visa versa.

Lastly, it just came to my attention that for 2009 through 2011 Ron Paul has a perfect rating with NRLC, which means that Rick Santorum lied about Ron Paul’s voting record. He also supported pro-abortion Judicial Committee member Arlen Specter over a pro-life conservative Pat Toomey. And, Santorum voted to expand the pro-abortion Medicaid Plan under George W. Bush.