The Honorable Ron Paul, and the very broke Mike Huckabee
Posted December 18th, 2007 by Jane Aitken
Apparently Chuck Baldwin agrees with me about Huckabee being broke thus he is questioning the attention Huckabee has been getting. Chuck is a 'religious' writer...but he is spot on when it comes to religion in government and which candidate the 'religious right' should support.
This is posted in full with permission. - J
Who Are These Kooks?
By Chuck Baldwin
December 18, 2007
This column is archived at http://www.chuckbaldwinli...
According to the Associated Press, "Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul's supporters raised over $6 million Sunday to boost the 10-term congressman's campaign for the White House."
The AP report also said, "The [Paul] campaign's previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million."
According to the Paul campaign website, "In a 24-hour period on December 16, the campaign raised $6.026 million dollars, surpassing the one-day record of $5.7 million held by John Kerry.
"During the day, over 58,000 people contributed to Dr. Paul's campaign, including 24,940 first-time donors. Over 118,000 Americans have donated to the campaign in the fourth quarter.
"The $6 million one-day total means the campaign has raised over $18 million this quarter, far exceeding its goal of $12 million."
Now, if one listens to most of the political pundits in the major media, Ron Paul is some kind of "kook," and his supporters are also a bunch of "kooks." So, the question must be asked, Just who are these kooks that are supporting him, and why are they giving Ron Paul all this money?
First, let's take a look at this "kook" who is receiving all this money. Ron Paul was born the third son of Howard and Margaret Paul, and was brought up with a work ethic in which one worked six days a week and went to church on Sunday. His first job was at age 5 helping his uncle wash bottles. He worked all the way through his youth mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, working in a drug store, delivering furniture and laundry, etc.
In high school, Ron was a track star, winning state as a junior in the 220-yard dash and running 2nd in the 440. His time in the 100-yard dash was 9.8. That's pretty good. I was never able to break 10-flat in the 100. Although, I bet I could have beaten him in the 50-yard dash. He also wrestled in high school. Coincidentally, so did I. But here Ron leaves me: he was president of the student council and an honor student. I never accomplished that. I was just glad to get promoted to the next grade. Even as a senior statesman, Ron Paul keeps himself in terrific shape. Have you seen him lately? He still maintains a rigorous exercise regimen.
Ron's two brothers are both ministers, and he became a medical doctor. He graduated from Duke University School of Medicine. When the Cuban Missile Crisis arose, Ron became a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force. He also served in the Air National Guard.
As an OB/GYN physician, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies, and he and his wife, Carol, have been married for more than 50 years. They have 5 children, 18 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild. Ron Paul is currently in his 10th term as a congressman from Texas.
As a congressman, Ron Paul has never taken a government-paid junket. He is not accepting a government pension. He returns a portion of his office budget every year to the taxpayers. As a member of Congress, he has never voted a raise for himself. Do you know any other member of Congress that can make such a claim? Of course you don't, because Ron Paul is truly one-of-a-kind.
Former President Ronald Reagan said this about Ron Paul, "Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country."
Perhaps this helps explain why many of the "kooks" supporting Ron Paul are active-duty military personnel. In fact, Ron Paul has received more campaign contributions from active-duty military personnel than any other Presidential candidate from either party.
But who are the other "kooks" supporting Ron Paul? What kind of people give more than $18 million in a quarter-year to a Presidential candidate that is almost universally ignored by the mainstream press? What kind of people give record contributions to a Presidential candidate that is lampooned by his fellow Republican Presidential contenders?
For example, Mike Huckabee recently said he could support any of the other Republican Presidential contenders (including Rudy Giuliani), except Ron Paul. That means, Mike Huckabee would rather support a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control liberal such as Giuliani than support the pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-Second Amendment candidacy of Ron Paul. Why is that?
Furthermore, why are the entire major media and establishment Republican machine either ignoring or lampooning a distinguished Air Force veteran, medical doctor, and ten-term Congressman? What is it about Ron Paul that the elite are so afraid of?
Here is something else: while Ron Paul's contributions have exploded, Mike Huckabee is all but broke! How can that be? How can a political "front-runner" be out of money, while a man who "doesn't have a chance" is breaking fundraising records?
So, who are these "kooks" who are sending Ron Paul so much money? And just why are they sending him so much money? I will tell you who they are, because I am one of them. They are rank-and-file, tax-paying citizens who are sick and tired of out-of-control federal spending and deficits. They have had it with an arrogant federal government that runs roughshod over both the Constitution and the liberties of the American people. They are people who have had enough of the IRS, the BATFE, and a thousand other federal agencies that have "erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance." (Declaration of Independence)
They are people who see through the phony, disingenuous federal politicians who only want to fleece the American citizenry for the purpose of building their own personal fortunes. They have had it with the Military-Industrial complex that desires to build international empires at the expense of the blood and sacrifice of the American people. They have had it with David Rockefeller and his Council on Foreign Relations. They have had it with the arrogance of George W. Bush and Nancy Pelosi.
They are sick and tired of paying outlandish taxes for a public education system that produces high school graduates who cannot read and write. They are sick and tired of working for 30 years to pay off a mortgage, only then to be forced to pay extortion money (a.k.a. property taxes) for the rest of their lives to the feudal state. They are sick and tired of the government telling them what they can and cannot do with their own property. They are sick and tired of watching people with food stamps buy T-bone steaks and expensive Nike tennis shoes while they are forced to buy fatty hamburger and cheap sneakers.
They are sick and tired of watching their manufacturing jobs go to China and India. They have had it with money-hungry businessmen who hire illegal Mexicans at slave labor wages. They have had it with labor unions promoting politicians who support NAFTA, CAFTA, and the FTAA. They are sick and tired of being bled dry at the gas pump.
They have had it with this phony "war on terrorism" that sends trillions of dollars to nations throughout the Middle East, but refuses to close our own borders to illegal immigration. They have had it with the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" being used as excuses to trample people's freedoms. They have it with Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon. They have had it with Bush's North American Union. They have had it with Joel Osteen and Rick Warren. In short, they have just had it!
They also know that a vote for any other Presidential candidate is a vote for more of the same. Democrat or Republican: it is more of the same. Ron Paul, and Ron Paul alone, will bring a revolution of freedom and independence to America. Believe me, the Ron Paul revolution is bigger than Ron Paul. This is the beginning of a movement.
No matter what ultimately happens to Ron Paul's candidacy, the fight to return America to its roots of freedom and independence has started. The fire is lit. There is no putting it out. There will be other Ron Pauls, other campaigns, other spokesmen, other fundraising. The people supporting Ron Paul will not be silenced; they will not be ignored; they will not be intimidated. In truth, Ron Paul's campaign may just be the beginning of the end of the elitist, globalist, stranglehold over America.
As one who is also fed up with the globalist goons that dominate the two major parties, I join the Ron Paul revolution and vow to fight for the rest of my life for the freedom and independence of these United States. This means I will never again support a business-as-usual, millionaires-club, globalist toady from either party ever again! I will only support candidates who are fully committed to restoring constitutional government. If that makes me a kook, so be it.
(c) Chuck Baldwin
Please visit Chuck's web site at http://www.chuckbaldwinli....
Bookmark/Search this post with:
- Login to post comments
Huckabee's internet financial support
I notice that Huckabee is trying his own one day fund raising event later this month. On the pledge website, which has been up for a few days, he now has 320 people pledged to give $62,055. Wow! His campaign website contribution total advanced in a few hours today by $625 during the same time Ron Paul's advanced by $8,434. If he is looking for financial support on the internet, he better teach his Council on Foreign Relations cronies how to use computers.
One thing that boggles my mind is how Ron Paul, by any standard of measure, leads on the internet, but the press keeps telling us that he is insignificant in the polls. So why the current spate of press attacks against Dr. Paul for his $500 KKK contributor and his Huckabee-fascists-cloaked in the flag carrying a cross Sinclair Lewis remark. (Did you notice the subtlety of referring to Sinclair Lewis, author of ELMER GANTRY, when talking about Pastor Huckabee?)
Could it be these polls we keep hearing about are rigged?
Huckabee is just one more CFR Stooge
When Huckabee stated that he could support any other Republican candidate except Ron Paul, that confirms to me that they are all playing for the Council on Foreign Relations team, along with Clinton, Obama et al. Ad the old media to this mix, and you can see the set up. It's business as ususal. Nothing really changes. It doesn't matter whether a Democrat or Republican gets elected, just as long as it isn't Ron Paul.
That alone, should be enough to get you to vote for Ron Paul. The other candidates have made their deals. They can be depended on to deliver, if and when they get elected. Any promises they make to the American people are just that, campaign promises. Nobody really expects them to keep them.
Ron Paul is the exception. He is the real deal, and as such, a great threat to the CFR agenda. The silent treatment hasn't worked. Next, expect the dirty tricks.
Huckabee's new found popularity is a product of the old media. I think that his function is to siphon off support from Ron Paul without giving him any direct publicity. He may or may not be aware of his role, if in fact, that is the plan. I think that Romney may be the "favorite sun", although it really doesn't matter which one of these losers get elected. I don't think that Ghoulani can get the Republican nomination. McCain, the "Manchurian Candidate" doesn't have sufficient support.
As his message gets out, Ron Paul will continue to grow in popularity, while the other candidates diminish in popularity as their record is compared to Dr. Paul's. If Ron Paul can get the Republican nomination, I believe he can defeat any of the Democrat candidates. At the same time, I think that he is the only Republican who can win. The others are too closely tied to an unpopular, pointless war. Only time will tell.
Huckabee is just one more CFR Stooge
When Huckabee stated that he could support any other Republican candidate except Ron Paul, that confirms to me that they are all playing for the Council on Foreign Relations team, along with Clinton, Obama et al. Ad the old media to this mix, and you can see the set up. It's business as ususal. Nothing really changes. It doesn't matter whether a Democrat or Republican gets elected, just as long as it isn't Ron Paul.
That alone, should be enough to get you to vote for Ron Paul. The other candidates have made their deals. They can be depended on to deliver, if and when they get elected. Any promises they make to the American people are just that, campaign promises. Nobody really expects them to keep them.
Ron Paul is the exception. He is the real deal, and as such, a great threat to the CFR agenda. The silent treatment hasn't worked. Next, expect the dirty tricks.
Huckabee's new found popularity is a product of the old media. I think that his function is to siphon off support from Ron Paul without giving him any direct publicity. He may or may not be aware of his role, if in fact, that is the plan. I think that Romney may be the "favorite sun", although it really doesn't matter which one of these losers get elected. I don't think that Ghoulani can get the Republican nomination. McCain, the "Manchurian Candidate" doesn't have sufficient support.
As his message gets out, Ron Paul will continue to grow in popularity, while the other candidates diminish in popularity as their record is compared to Dr. Paul's. If Ron Paul can get the Republican nomination, I believe he can defeat any of the Democrat candidates. At the same time, I think that he is the only Republican who can win. The others are too closely tied to an unpopular, pointless war. Only time will tell.
Very good article, but
Very good article, but Huckabee is not broke. He is on pace to raise over $5 million this quarter. Unlike McCain and Thompson, he has not spent all his money on travel, focus groups, and high paid consultants.
Proud to be a kook
Chuck nailed it. If Ron Paul is a kook I'm proud to be called one too!
Chairman
well said
Very well said. This election is worth every bit of energy we put into it.
That letter is ON FIRE!!!
My guess is a lot of your blood was boiling about 1/2 way down on that letter like mine was. Absolutely one of the most articulate letters of our collective frustration I've read.
Chuck, don't know 'ya, but love 'ya already!
In the words of Glenn Beck now "You had me from 'Hello'...!" LOL!
I don't know who Chuck is but....
He seems to be seeing the same things the rest of us are seeing. Thanks for saying it so well, sir. See you in the streets, The REVOLUTION marches on though never televised.
Here's my letter to WND
Dear Mr. Farah,
In the past you have printed Pastor Chuck Baldwin's articles, I humbly ask that you would please print his recent one entitled, "Who are these kook's?".
This article is about the Ron Paul revolution and his supporters .
Chuck Baldwin is one of them, I am another, and many of your readership are too.
You have given one particular CHUCK a column to support Huckabee, I ask that you give another Chuck an opportunity to voice his support for the most prinicipled candidate running, Ron Paul.
...................................................................................
Please join me in sending e-mails asking for this to be an article that they will post on WND site....thanks
news@worldnetdaily.com
Email sent to WND
Hope it helps out our cause.
Triple dittos!!!!!
Once again Chuck is right on. What a brilliant bunch of "Kooks" this movement is assembling together.
!!Long live, we, the Kooks!!
Now let's all of you that can, come to New Hampshire, check in at campaign headquarters at 45 So. Main in Concord, get your marching orders, and let's help Ron win the January 8 NH primary.
If it is to be, it is up to WE!!
I am sending this to WorldNetDaily....
Joe Farah has printed Chuck Baldwins articles in the past and there are alot of Huckabee supporters that read his site....so this will be great to get on WND.
Remember it was the WND Chuck Norris column that started the Huckaboom....so I would encourage others to ask Mr. Farah to print this article too.
Wow I will be asking
Chuck Baldwin if I can use that letter on Caucus Night to pitch for Ron Paul.
It says how I feel perfectly plus it is an invitation of sorts for others to join as well. I can see a lot of folks saying yes to that letter here in Iowa on Caucus night. I think this is just what I need to share to help them in deciding which side of the fence to come down on.
Great Article
Thank You Chuck. I don't think any of us could of put it better. Perfectly stated. I'm proud to be a kook fighting for our country
a stone in the RNC shoe
The tremendous success of the Ron Paul campaign has completely turned the other GOP candidates campaigns upside down as well as the RNC agenda and has forced them to spend money much more quickly then anticipated, this is a fight they didn't see coming. How long some of these guys will be around is a legitimate question now, I feel the field will be narrowed to 2 after Super Tuesday and Ron will be one of them
Actually not broke, more likely in Debt.
Just like John McCain, I think the post-CFR-speech Mike Huckabee has begun engaging in "deficit financing" That is one of the advantages of "proving" yourself before the CFR group... money seems to be "floated" in via loans to keep the campaign afloat with the expectation that donations will follow success and therefore will pay off the loan. (Though maybe he put some of those post-gubernatorial "gifts" up as collateral?)
The BROKE candidate is actually Fred Thompson, who will apparently be spending the next few weeks on a bus in Iowa because he can apparently no longer afford to fly back and forth between Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina... nor afford TV ads or even mailers (according to the article anyway). Which makes one wonder, if the supposed $7 Million he had at the beginning of the 4th Qtr wasn't enough for him to even campaign effectively through the early states how much money would he have needed to last through Feb 5th?)
And with Rudy "stepping back" from New Hampshire (or at least ceasing to run TV & Radio ads there)... it sounds like his expensive tastes are also cleaning out the checkbook. And unless he "surges" the loan-factory is probably dry as well.
What a great article!
Thanks for posting this.
This should be everywhere...
It sums up things just about right...
BRAVO!!!!
Needs to be read by everyone~~
Amazing!
Amazing article!
DaveLamarand.com
Thanks for posting
I had no idea that Dr. Paul's brothers were all ministers -- something he could easily use to win votes from the religious right. The fact that he doesn't, is exactly why I admire him.
ME TOO!
me too.
that was excellent!
that whole thing got me excited and angry, in that good sort-of-Jesus-overturning-the-tables-sort-of-way.
i like the part about huckabee supporting anyone but RP...considering some of the views, hed endorse, it donesnt say much about his integrity, does it? neither does huckabee's apparent fib about his theology degree...
might just have to print that out and share that sunday morning :-)
steven
Chucks stuff
You don't need to stop with this one; Read a mess of the other ones too. You'll find our pervasive message throughout! Most, if not all, are more than worthy of any effort required in hanging a printing on the church doors of this nation!
In fact, they could make EXCELLENT 'slimjims', of kind, too!
I will tell you who they are,
because I am one of them...
And I couldn't agree with you more!
Amen Brother!
MattinGA
Ron on Glenn Beck
Ron is relaxed and doing well. Beck, who'da thunk it, is making the whole NAU thing MAINSTREAM and NOT a conspiracy theory! Beck strongly believes in national sovereignty. This could be the most significant educational program to date, and like I said, who'da thunk it would have been Glenn Beck to legitimize our positions with the public!
BRAVO!!!!!!
Please digg this should be somthing every ron paul supporter
pledges to do for the freedom and future of this nation!
RP08-
Best. Article. Yet.
Go Chuck Baldwin (whoever you are). We are with you, sir. We are your compatriots. We will spend the rest of our lives fighting beside you. You are correct: it is the beginning of the end of the elitist, globalist stranglehold over America. They will fight back and they will do so viciously, but we will not back down.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" --Patrick Henry
"Time is short, but our course of action should be clear. Resistance to illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of our rights is required. Each of us should choose which course of action we must take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing." --Congressman Ron Paul
I'm sending it out
This is a great article! Chuck Baldwin wrote another solid piece a couple months ago about Why Pastors should support Ron Paul.
Bravo!!! That just about sums it up pefectly!!!
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." -Thomas Paine
JUST GREAT
There is nothing to be added, we will never surrender, we will win.
I here by join this pledge!!!
Couldn't have said it better...I'm in 100%
God's own fool
If this is a kook, let the kooks run both the Church and America. If love isn't wise,and faith is so foolish, then let me be called a fool- Georgian Banov
That was amazing!!!
What a joy to be part of this r3VOLution!!
I choked up
reading this article. I'm sending it to everyone I know. It sums up exactly what we're doing here.
WOW #2!
Holy flippin' COW! My blood started boiling about 1/2 way through that diatribe of "who are these kooks? I'll tell you who they are...!"
Pass this one on...and on...AND ON!!!
Bump, bump and BUMP!!!
Wow!
Awesome essay! I too am in this revolution for life, Ron Paul presidency or not. When the fight is over, we will be the guardians. Liberty will finally reign in the United States.