He’s the Only One

Just a little food for thought as you ponder your vote in the primaries (either cast or to-be-cast):

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – According to a report released Tuesday by the National Taxpayers Union, Texas Congressman Ron Paul is the only remaining presidential candidate who proposes net spending cuts.

According to the report, Congressman Paul’s proposals would cut government spending by over $150 billion, a conservative estimate of the spending reductions Dr. Paul has proposed. The report concludes that the other remaining Republican candidates, Mitt Romney, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, have proposed spending increases of $19.5 billion, $6.9 billion and $54 billion respectively.

“It should come as no surprise that when you crunch the numbers Ron Paul is the only Republican who would actually shrink the size and cost of the federal government,” said Ron Paul campaign economic advisor Don Luskin. “Romney, McCain and Huckabee don’t hold a candle to Ron Paul – the only true fiscal conservative running for President.”

In ten terms in Congress, Ron Paul has never voted for a tax increase or for an unbalanced budget.

From Ron Paul’s campaign updates blog.

Ron Is Winning

You probably don’t know that, but he is. He’s the only candidate fit to recite the oath of office because he’s the only one who’s actually demonstrated his unwavering defense of the Constitution against all enemies, not just talked about it. My proof that he’s winning? Ok… how about yesterday’s IA Caucus results. He didn’t beat everyone, in fact he came in 5th. However, 3, 4, and 5 were separated by only a couple hundred votes, and he got more than double the votes of Giuliani. That’s a huge win for a “fringe” candidate who didn’t really spend much time or money in Iowa.

My other evidence is a national straw poll being conducted by AOL. While all of the other “national polls” only call land-line phones (who has those anymore, or answers when it says “out of area”), and only those whom they’ve already determined “likely voters”, this poll is online and has been going for months. In any case, this poll shows Dr. Paul up by 10 points as of this posting. 28% to 18% over Huckabee to be exact. The poll is interesting too because it’s broken down by state. Give it a look, and vote for yourself.

King of Awesome

Watch this video, laugh out loud, and then go to thisnovember5th.com and make a real difference in the future of the US.

Great Moments In U.S. History – More free videos are here

Go Ron Go

This… Is… Awesome!

October 3, 2007

Paul Campaign Raises Over $5,000,000 In Third Quarter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – The Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign raised $5,080,000 during the third quarter of 2007. That is an impressive 114 percent increase from the second quarter.

Cash on hand for the Paul campaign is $5,300,000.

“Dr. Paul’s message is freedom, peace and prosperity,” said Paul campaign chairman Kent Snyder. “As these fundraising numbers show, more Americans each day are embracing Dr. Paul’s message.”

Ron Paul’s 114 percent increase is in stark contrast to the decrease suffered by Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain. Romney’s fundraising was down 29 percent. Giuliani was down 40 percent. McCain was down 55 percent.

This country may turn out to the the “land of the free” after all.

Google Predicts a Ron Paul Win

According to this blog post at njection.com, google trends accurately predicted the outcome of the 2004 election. While this isn’t exactly a scientifically exhaustive study, you might find his results interesting nonetheless due to the sheer volume of data that google trends is crunching. Not only does performing some comparisons show that Ron Paul has far-and-away the most interested searchers on the web, but the story-volume report also shows how under reported he is in the media. It’s nice to see real data backing up the media bias that we all know empirically to exist.

Ron Paul Raises a Million

The Ron Paul campaign started a fund raising drive on Monday of last week (9/24). Their goal was to raise $500,000 before the end of the 3rd quarter (9/30). After reaching that goal by Thursday (only 4 days), they upped the ante and asked their online supporters for a cool million. Let’s just say that we came through in a big way. As I type this, the quarter has just about 2 hours left to live, and the total money donated to Ron Paul from online supporters just this week is $1,156,860.08. That, my friends, is the power of the message of freedom. We really can change this country, and put it back on the right track, the constitutional track. Please help.

Vote Ron Paul

Ron Paul is the best Presidential candidate I’ve heard speak… probably ever. If you watch this and still don’t vote for him, then I have very, very little hope for this country.

Restoring my faith in humanity (a little)

I saw this article today entitled “Why Do They CAIR about Jack Bauer?”. It’s written by M. Zuhdi Jasser, an American Muslim who has it exactly right. Please take the time to read this. It’s quite refreshing considering everything we hear on the MSM promoting appeasement of the Islamic Facist movement. Here’s a short segment to pique your interest.

As an American and as a Muslim, I find 24 to be not only a profoundly engaging program, but one whose portrayal of Muslims in quite fair. In the show, the president’s sister works for a “leading” Muslim civil-rights organization in D.C.; she is portrayed as a protector of constitutional freedoms. The head of this Muslim organization, who is in detention, reports to authorities on prisoners’ terrorism-related conversations that have alarmed him.

The show also shows the darker, extremist side of Islam — for example, an Arab-Muslim youth, a previously beloved neighbor in suburban L.A., turns out to be a terrorist thug who provides a key part of the nuclear device while terrorizing his friend’s family. This is another, undeniable part of today’s Muslim reality: While suitcase nuclear devices have yet to be used, the threat is there, and such characters are probably quite true to life in their depiction of members of al Qaeda cells or other jihadist networks in the West.

Some excellent quotes on government

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress….But then I repeat myself.
– Mark Twain

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
– George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man ….which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
– G Gordon Liddy

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
– James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
– Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
– P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
– Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
– Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
– Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!
– P.J. O’Rourke

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!
– Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
– Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap…except when Congress does it.
– Unknown

The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
– Ronald Reagan

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
– Mark Twain

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
– Thomas Jefferson

sniff… sniff… We’re Disenfranchised!!

I saw a study on the news this morning that said that rain on election day favors Republicans because more Democrats stay home. They didn’t say why…. But my first thought was that I was expecting the next story on the news to be that protests had erupted outside of local churches where picketers were claiming that they were being disenfranchised by God. I’m just sayin’… Those people love them some victimhood.