New Drudgere Healdline: Ron Paul: 'When fascism comes it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross'

He calls them like he sees them, very honest for a politician.

That Fox interview was so stupid he was probably thinking he could have slept another hour instead of giving "one word" answers. What was that about?

RP was not tired. He is doing great - the show he was on lead off with Huckabee's commercial, nothing about Dr. Paul, issues, money raised, Iraq, economy, social securtiy, debt.

It was a boring interview for RP.
Maybe he was bored and wondering, what dumb boring questions.

Glendale Keith

how nimble Ron Paul intellect is? You just can't box him in. Most of the other candidates don't even know who Sinclair Lewis is, much less know his work. I bet the google site has been hit few time on this one.

It's odd to me that the idiots on Faux News brought the cross up, NOT Ron Paul. They made the implication and now RP is having to answer for it. I hope he never goes back on that network. It was The Three Stooges interviewing Ron Paul.

In quoting Sinclair Lewis yesterday, perhaps Dr. Paul was alluding to the fact that espousing one's "Christianity" in American politics these days HAS become a kind of litmus test for one's suitability for office. After all, Governor Romney felt it necessary to address the religious rights' concerns about his Mormonism. Our candidate is amazingly well read and has served in Congress for 10 terms. I'm sure he has noted this trend toward "showing oneself to be a Christian" in Washington so as to influence voters, something thankfully he would never use to his advantage. I wonder too if he is cognizant of Christian dominionism, sometimes called Christian Reconstructionism. Wikipedia provides a synopsis of this movement. To be fair, Christians on the soft side of dominionism, if even they could be considered dominionists at all, would probably be pleased being allowed to read their Bibles during lunch at their schools or say a prayer at a high school graduation. In its most extreme, hard form, however, dominionists seek to make America a "Christian" nation, top to bottom, a "Christian theocracy, if you will. This, I believe, is the fascism Sinclair Lewis predicted and perhaps the one to which Dr. Paul was referring to. Under the Dominionist model of government, there would be no separation of church and state. This distinction would cease to be. Laws would follow those of the Old Testament. Archaic as it seems many hard dominionists would advocate stoning for adultery and homosexuality. For hard dominionists this control of society is some sort of precursor for the return of Christ, an end times eschatology that I really don't understand. I don't know where Governor Huckabee sits on the dominionist continuum. In fact, most dominionists disavow this term entirely due to its negative connotations. Still, it doesn't take much internet research to find that the late D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Presbyterian in Miami, Florida was considered one of the founders of the dominionist movement. In 2006 in his "Reclaiming America for Christ" Conference, his keynote speaker was Governor Mike Huckabee. In addition, Tim LaHay of the popular Left Behind series is known as a dominionist. He recently endorsed Governor Huckabee for the President of the United States. Secondly, the Falwell empire is associated with the dominionist movement as well. Pastor Falwell's son and successor recently contributed, illegally I think, to Governor Huckabee's campaign for President. Perhaps this issue should be more widely addressed.

Huckabee says it was "a bookshelf" (I'm going to ignore the fact that the camerawork was done intentionally to make it look like a cross...)

My point? Now Huckabee has stolen both the red shirt and the bookshelf for his Christmas message :)

Hope the Beck interview goes well. I'm stuck at work and can't watch it :(

I’ve written this in the past that Huckabee’s “I’m right because I’m a preacher” will not work in the overwhelming majority of the country. This may be rapidly becoming a Huckabee vs. Paul race. In this situation Huckabee will not win a single primary west of the Rockies, in the northeast, nor in the industrial mid-west. Remember Huckabee thinks Horse racing and whisky are evil too so that kills him in Tennessee and Kentucky. Huckabee has a Deep South plurality, but many of those deep southern states allocate delegates by percentage or district. Even in the south at least 1/3rd of Republicans are more of the economic variety. Ron will also do very well in delegate rich Texas.

But of course, wish in one hand and crap in the other and see what fills up first.

This nitpicking in the comment thread amuses me. Dr. Paul is a man of principle. He stated exactly what he thought and has done decades of reflection on politics, government, and liberty. It is exactly why we love him.

Huckabee owes America an apology for using images of Christianity to prop up his quest to become an ELECTED OFFICIAL IN A PARTICIPATORY GOVERNMENT.

Paul was just stating the truth, that yes, indeed, fascism will come to this country, and Sinclair may be right about how it arrives. And yes, Huckabee promotes himself as the Christian Candidate, which is utterly preposterous.

Grow a spine, and stop worrying about what people might think about Paul's intentions. His first and foremost goal is to spread the message. His secondary goal is to get elected President. That is what makes this campaign so wonderful.

So no, he won't be issuing any freaking apologies, and no he shouldn't.

And I've never been prouder to support this man of great courage.

-dave

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