Thursday - November 15, 2007

Category Image Who is Funding Ron Paul?


I'm amazed at accounts of Ron Paul's miraculous fund raising of more than $4 million in one day. But no one seems at all interested in where this money came from.

I've been a supporter of Ron Paul for many of his principled statements in the past decade. He has a strong libertarian strain in him and is big on limiting the power of the federal government, but his pacifism and his tendency to go along with the Libertarian Party's insistence on blaming America for the 9/11 attacks has left me quite opposed to him.

And now that he's been much more public in these debates, I'm pretty convinced that he's just a loon. The Libertarian Party and Ron Paul are confusing simplistic slogans with the necessary traits to govern. You can't govern by blaming us for being attacked. You can't govern by ignoring attacks or letting our country get humiliated by terrorists. We must win the war.

But honest people can disagree. I'm willing to believe that Ron Paul and his supporters are honest and well-intended.

But let's face it. They're mostly a bunch of pot smoking dead heads. Not that there's anything wrong with that, some very good friends of mine are pot smoking dead heads. They're great people. But mostly, they don't have $4M to give away in a day.

So where did that money really come from and why isn't anyone looking into that question? I have my own opinions and here's what I think.

The republican party has no leg up on the democrats. It's too early to say who the nominee will be on either side of the aisle, but it's clear what some anti-American forces are up to.

Move-on.org, an organization funded by George Soros, and supporting numerous communist and anarchist organizations is driving for power in this country. They are attempting, and succeeding, in driving the political debate to a leftist extreme that really hasn't been seen in this country before. They've succeeded in driving the democrat controlled congress into an anti-military, anti-defense, anti-American posture and have driven their support down to 11%.

There is no counter to the democrat leftist lurch. The democrat party is now committed to Move-on.org's extremism. They've done this by saturating the compliant media with lies, slurs, anti-Americanism, and conspiracy theories galore. George Soros is tossing his money, and I'm sure other organizations (perhaps the Chinese, and Islamic entities) are joining in too, to usurp America's interests and freedoms.

In the old days we would blame the communists but now the communists are supposed to be all gone so no one bothers to question the motives of these organizations. But if you look close enough you'll see that the organizers of these movements are the same ones from before. Palestinian communists, CAIR, hard core anti-capitalist labor unions, etc.

So what's this got to do with Ron Paul? It's this: If these nefarious organizations want to control the debate they can't simply drive the democratic party to the extreme left, they need to legitimize that move by making it appear that the Republicans also have a branch supporting extreme left positions. No one thinks that all democrats and all republicans will adopt these extremist views, but if only one part adopts them then it is easy to recruit the sane democrats into the ranks of the republicans.

So where did this money for Ron Paul come from? I think it came from organizations such as Move-on.org. It makes perfect sense. It gives the illusion that these extreme political positions are in fact main stream and makes their acceptance more likely.

Ron Paul supporters don't have $4M to give away. This came from someplace else. I believe it was a result of massive campaign contribution fraud. It's not hard at all to create ficticious people to give money to political causes.

So the conclusion of this rant is that campaign donation restrictions are just like gun control. If you outlaw guns, only criminals will have guns. If you outlaw campaign donations, then only those willing to break the law will get money donated. By limiting who can support political causes, law abiding people will comply with those limits, yet people with a lot of money and an inversely proportional amount of ethics can inject their money wherever they see fit. Campaign finance laws are subverting the political process by allowing nefarious parties to fraudulently contribute money to candidates to shift the political debate.

But you never see this in the news, you never see the source of this money being investigated. Because then we would have to admit that the Emperor has no clothes.

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