Ron Paul Republicans - Don’t be Fooled by Sarah Palin
Sep 10, 2008 politics
While she may have called Dr. Ron Paul “cool” and “independent of the party machine”, Sarah Palin is unfortunately still far from acceptable to a true liberty minded Ron Paul republican (or independent).
On the spending front, it appears that Palin has no problem spending taxpayer’s money, but we can’t be too hard on her for that. As long as Washington is dishing out taxpayer’s money in the form of earmarks, I have no problem with politicians trying to get it back to the people in each state rather than waste it on a federal project. However, Palin has come across as a bit less than honest on her positions.
Palin, during her speech at the RNC, said “thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere”, despite supporting the bridge to Gravina Island and its earmark during her run for Governor. In fact, she was insulted by the words “bridge to nowhere”.
This year alone, Palin sent earmark proposals to Senator Ted Stevens totaling $197 million, more per person than any other State in the Union. Even McCain criticized Palin’s earmarks during her term as Mayor of Wasilla.
However, the single most important issue that Ron Paul Republicans (or Independents) need to focus on is her acceptance of the neoconservative foreign policy of intervention and imperialism which costs the American people trillions of dollars. Foreign Policy being the single most important issue to Ron Paul supporters in this election, Sarah Palin is not acceptable in this area and thus does not make the Republican ticket for 2008 any more attractive. Nice try, McCain, but no cigar.
Tags: bridge to nowhere, earmarks, imperialism, independent, intervention, John McCain, liberty, neoconservative, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, taxpayers, Washington
Why the GOP is a one issue party
Sep 9, 2008 Ron Paul, politics
Major points of the video:
After Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Palin became the life of the party, and an admittedly formidable foe to the Democrats because of her out-of-the-beltway conservatism, and has made everyone forget that party leaders are uninterested in the conservative values that she represents.
Conservatives have been uncomfortable with John McCain because of his support for capaign finance reform, opposition to drilling in ANWR, his vote against the Bush tax cuts, his suscribing to global warming histeria and his support for a bill that would have granted amnesty to illegal aliens.
However, despite McCain’s liberal positions on other issues, Republicans seem to think that he is the best man to fight the war on terror.
Rudy Giuliani and Joe Lieberman were selected to represent the party at the RNC. Giuliani is extremely similar to Hillary Clinton in almost every area except for the war, but his ability to invoke 9/11 suddenly makes him a Republican star. Lieberman, despite being further to the left than Obama, is also selected to speak. Lieberman was Al Gore’s running mate in 2000. He supports universal health care, supports partial birth abortions, he is anti-gun, and opposed Samuel Alito’s appointment to the Supreme Court.
When WTMA host Richard Todd asked Cindy Mosteller why the Republicans were embracing Joe Lieberman, she said “Because he understands the importance of 9/11. This is a big tent party.” However, the tent was apparently not big enough for Republican congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul, who was not allowed normal credentials at the RNC, despite his own convention (rally for the republic which drew more than 12,000 people) discussing reducing the size of government, returning to the constitution, and bringing the Republican party back to its conservative roots, and Ron Paul being introducted by Barry Goldwater Jr. whose father, Barry Goldwater, was the conscious of the conservative movement for half a century. Paul was not even let into the doors at his own party’s convention due to his opposition to the Iraq war, despite him getting more votes in the primaries than Rudy Guiliani and Fred Thompson, who both had speaking roles at the RNC.
When Cindy Mosteller was asked why anti war Republicans like Ron Paul, North Carolina congressman Walter Jones, or Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel are not given a voice at the convention, she replied, “If you get a tent too big it’s bound to have holes in it.” She added, “Hagel could not even get up on a national stage and even make a case… and you know why? Because the surge has, by God, worked.” So much for the big tent.
You are not to be tolerated in the Republican Party if you agree with the majority of Americans who are against the war in Iraq, yet being pro gun control, pro socialized health care, pro-choice, and pro-amnesty is perfectly acceptable as long as your are pro war. If you are a staunch conservative, yet against the war, you are no longer welcome in the Republican Party.
The definition of a neoconservative is one who believes that America’s greatness is measured exclusively by our willingness to dominate the globe politically and militarily. For neocons, foreign policy is primary and every other issue is secondary.
The 2008 McCain campaign (and nomination) represents the takeover of the Republican Party by neoconservatives. Sarah Palin, who once supported anti-war conservative Pat Buchanan for president, now mouths the same neoconservative foreign policy rhetoric that defines the new GOP.
Sarah Palin, like Spiro Agnew to Richard Nixon and Dan Quayle to George H.W. Bush, will be a conservative vice president who has virtually no impact on the moderate President they serve. McCain will more likely appoint Joe Lieberman as Secretary of State than give Sarah Palin any responsibilities more important than office secretary.
The only reason McCain picked Sarah Palin as Vice President is to pacify traditional conservatives on the many issues they still care about so that in Republican victory, McCain and the neoconservatives can get to work on their only issue - War.
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Republicans make history, nominate another liberal
Sep 4, 2008 politics
I watched the Republican National Convention last night, and it was disappointing as I had expected. Sarah Palin delivered a breathtaking speech about how crappy of an opponent Barack Obama was, and empty promises of lowering taxes and giving the government back to the people. Since she had positive words to say about Ron Paul, I like her a tiny bit (and because she’s from Alaska), but she is about to get caught up in the same entrenched power she so adamantly denounced in her speech. She has become part of the Republican machine. I wonder, how are they going to lower taxes when John McCain already has a $68.5 billion per year spending increase proposal?
John McCain got the nomination by a landslide because all of the other candidates were silenced long before the RNC. The Texas Republican Convention was railroaded just like the RNC was, and rest assured only a few Ron Paul supporters made it through to the RNC (at least 15 votes, which was falsely reported by the convention Chairman as 5 votes for Ron Paul).
So, the question is, did the Republican Party officially die, or will we have better luck in 2012 with liberty minded candidates, or will this be the rise of a third party, and the death of the Republican party, much like the fate of the Whigs?
Tags: John McCain, republican national convention, RNC, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, spending