I was a Ron Paul supporter in the recent campaign.\u00a0 When Ron Paul endorsed Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party as his preferred presidential candidate, I looked up both candidate and party.<\/p>\n
Their view is that the U.S. Constitution is a Christian document, which to me seems implausible but pretty harmless\u00a0\u2014 a good deal more harmless, at any rate, than the current liberal-elite opinion that the Constitution is a sort of vague Mission Statement cooked up by a bunch of slave-owning plutocrats and festooned with “penumbras” that you need a pair of magic spectacles to see.<\/p>\n
Chuck and his party are also nutty about abortion and euthanasia, but I can live with that (so to speak). I agree with them about pretty much everything else, and decided to vote for Baldwin on November 4. Alas, he didn’t show on the ballot in New York (whatever Wikipedia says), and when I enquired about a write-in, the procedure was more than I could be bothered with. Political-passion-wise, I’m in the second quartile. Just barely.<\/p>\n
I therefore read with interest Chuck Baldwin’s recent VDARE column<\/a>. It’s basically an attack on George Bush took a prosperous and robust economy, and led America to the verge of a second Great Depression. He has taken a (relatively) free and independent republic to the brink of becoming a globalist Police State. He has pushed the envelope of executive power; he has trampled individual liberty; he has made a mockery of justice; and he has made America the laughingstock of the world. In addition, Bush has misused and abused our nation’s bravest and finest by his illegal and inexcusable invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n No matter. The Religious Right still loves him. Why? Because he is a “Christian” Republican.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There is also a strong endorsement of Thomas Jefferson for having embraced the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” even if he wasn’t much of a a Christian otherwise. I’m not convinced they have quite <\/em>got Jefferson right here, but any friends of ol’ Tom are friends of mine.<\/p>\n Do I regret having spoken up for Baldwin and having tried, in my feeble way, to vote for him? Not at all. The Constitution Party’s positions on large policy issues seem to me sound, and accord closely with my own. The Christian stuff seems harmless. Unless they go off the rails in some way, as Third Parties tend to do, I shall try harder to vote for them in future. I should change my party registration, too. I will\u00a0\u2026 when I have time\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was a Ron Paul supporter in the recent campaign.\u00a0 When Ron Paul endorsed Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party as his preferred presidential candidate, I looked up both candidate and party. Their view is that the U.S. Constitution is … Continue reading
\nGeorge W. Bush for not being Christian enough, another attack on James Dobson, Pensacola Christian College (no, me neither), and the rest of the “official” Religious Right for having let GWB sucker them when he doesn’t even believe in the literal truth of the Bible!<\/em><\/p>\n