- While Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul fight on in the race
for the Republican nomination, media manipulation has done its job in behalf
of John McCain, and it's McCain who will be the Republican standard bearer.
In my opinion, forcing John McCain upon the Republicans greatly diminishes
the chance of a Republican victory in November. On the Democratic side,
Barak Obama continues to rack up victory after victory over Hillary Clinton-to
the relief of millions of Americans who dislike Clinton. However, despite
this appearance of victory for Obama, the Democratic race is very much
unsettled. Even if Obama wins all the remaining primaries, he still ends
up only barely ahead of Hillary in delegate counts--owing to the proportional
allocation system. Obama is "winning" delegates in each primary,
but so is Hillary. That is why the ultimate decision will be in the hands
of the Democratic Party "heavies" --those state and national
party leaders that control some 400 "super-delegate" votes. A
large portion of these leaders are very much part of the insider control
system that manipulates each election. This week I'll discuss the potential
consequences of a McCain-Obama contest as opposed to a McCain-Clinton race.
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- John McCain has a big problem. He is very much distrusted
by Republican conservatives. Recent polls at the CPAC conference, where
Romney made his speech announcing the suspension of his campaign, indicated
that Romney supporters were very frustrated about where to cast their votes.
Very few were willing to concede to McCain. Many wanted to vote for Ron
Paul but felt he couldn't win. About half were willing to cross over to
Huckabee, but that still left many still looking for "someone other
than McCain."
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- While the media insists on telling the nation that McCain
is winning the "moderate" Republican vote, conservatives know
that these "moderates" are really liberal Republicans. In the
end, Republican insiders are making sure that Republicans who dislike McCain
have nowhere else to go. They are counting on the fact that conservatives
are used to supporting the lesser of two evils and will "get over"
their dislike of McCain.
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- Even Mitt Romney has apparently succumbed to pressure
to support the party hierarchy by endorsing McCain. If he thinks it will
make him any more acceptable to the Republican establishment, he is very
much mistaken. All he does by endorsing McCain is corrupt his own constituency.
It won't provide him a VP slot either unless he has totally sold out to
the other side.
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- All of this will figure strongly in the controversy over
who the Powers That Be will choose for McCain's running mate. Mike Huckabee
wants the VP slot and would be a good choice for securing the evangelical
Christian support, which otherwise would not be enthusiastic about McCain.
Huckabee will convince them that McCain is a true conservative "just
like me." That's not very reassuring given Huckabee's liberal track
record as Arkansas governor. Huck's real purpose was to act as a spoiler
of the Romney candidacy. Huckabee then stayed in the race to make sure
that the anti-McCain votes didn't go to Ron Paul. However, other powerful
insiders connected to the Bush/Cheney center of power would like to use
the VP slot to promote Jeb Bush, the president's younger brother, into
a national spotlight. Other's are very much against another Bush on the
ticket, insisting that the Bush legacy is so unpopular that it would create
a negative backlash among potential crossover votes from independents.
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- Here's how this might play out in the presidential election.
While at least 70% of Americans really don't like the war in Iraq, only
about 50% of Americans feels strongly enough to let their anti-war feelings
determine who they will vote for in November. That's a sizable number.
McCain is a lopsided candidate on the war issue, and is often and derisively
referred to as "Bush on Steroids" due to his remarks about not
minding another "100-years" in Iraq.
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- If we see a McCain-Obama contest for the presidency,
virtually all the anti-war vote is going to Obama who has campaigned strongly
against the war, and who has a somewhat fresh image not tainted by years
in the Washington establishment. The image of or promise of change is usually
enough to fool millions of voters who naively think that the Democratic
Party will really change things. They should have already seen the foolishness
of that position from the absolute failure by Democrats to deliver on any
of their anti-war claims after gaining majority control.
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- While making vigorous verbal protests, Democrats have
refused to stop the war, refused to stop the CIA from secret detention
and torture, and refused to stop warrantless spying. They have refused
to force Bush to seek Congressional authorization to attack Iran, refused
to stop deficit spending, collaborated in the continued surveillance of
Americans, and granted immunity to telecoms for spying.
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- Believe me, nothing will change even if Obama wanted
them to-which I doubt. The PTB have more ways of creating military crises
that will force his hand than the public can imagine. Obama's new found
wealth came from a series of insider financial tips--the same kind of deals
that benefitted the Clintons in their early rise to power. Technically,
these deals are illegal since they involve insider knowledge, and are only
available to people who sign on to the "benevolent" control system
which manages this nation.
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- Last week, I expressed the opinion that the PTB are giving
huge amounts of money and media coverage to Obama in order to weaken Clinton,
even though they intend for Hillary to win the nomination in the end. Making
Hillary look vulnerable in the primary increases the perception that Hillary
isn't a shoe in for the general election. They are counting on the hate-Hillary
factor to ensure another Republican win. This is still a probable scenario.
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- On the other hand, it will be difficult for the Democratic
PTB to hand the nomination to Hillary if Obama continues to win big in
Democratic Primaries and has the lead in electoral votes going into the
convention. They are certainly capable of doing so, using their control
of super-delegates, but such a scenario would certainly boost the rage
of anti-war democrats who are supporting Obama. I suspect these could easily
defect to an independent candidacy if it came along. They won't vote for
McCain under any circumstances.
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- If they let Obama win the Demo's nomination, I don't
think McCain can beat him in the general election unless there are some
damaging media revelations that reveal some serious skeletons in Obama's
closet. They could open up his insider financial dealings, but that might
expose a system they want to retain. They could reveal his youthful anti-American
hostility that he shared with the radical Pastor of his current Church
of Christ congregation. There may be other things as well.
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- But short of that, or a war with Iran (which would instantly
cause a surge in unthinking American patriotism), Obama would win the presidency
given the current hostility toward the Republican interventionist agenda.
If Obama wins, it would be accompanied by the election of many more Democrats
in both the House and Senate, giving them even larger majorities to back
their social agenda. In the next four years, I strongly suspect we would
see the passage of many bad Democratic laws taking us back to the days
of pro-union labor laws, higher taxes, higher regulation, and expensive
health and welfare proposals.
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- In reaction to this, American conservatives would finally
start to fight against government for once, instead of going along with
it when led by Republicans. The PTB can give the Demos four years to do
their damage and in the end engender enough backlash to finally get the
Republicans back into the presidency in 2012. Of course the damage done
by the Democratic regime won't be undone by the next Republican. It never
is, unless there is an ulterior globalist motive for pushing "free
market" reforms (at least for big corporations). If the George Bush
presidency was any example, the globalist Republicans will never overturn
bad law nor bad presidential directives once they get back into power.
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- In short, the PTB can get to their globalist world war
either way, no matter who wins. If they run Hillary against McCain, the
Republican could win and stay in office right through the next war. If
Obama runs, he wins for only four years and the PTB get more socialist
legislation than even the globalist Republicans could get away with (although
we've yet to see what Bush can't get away with in that regard.)
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- AN INDEPENDENT CHALLENGE WITHOUT RON PAUL?
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- One thing we have learned from the current primary campaign
is just how manipulable the American voter is by a media onslaught for
or against various candidates. The slick campaign to eliminate Romney from
the campaign, using Huckabee as the spoiler, was very revealing. So was
the extreme media bias against Ron Paul. There just aren't enough thinking
people among voters to amass any more support for a principled, Constitution-based
platform than 5-10%. That doesn't bode well for a third party or independent
run. The mainstream media will deny any meaningful news coverage to third
parties--unless it's one of "their" third party spoilers like
Ross Perot, who collaborated with the PTB in order to get the Clintons
installed in the White House. Only in those cases do they get lots of coverage
and are allowed into the debates.
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- Without substantive media attention, within our "winner-take-all"
system, a third party/independent run for the presidency is not capable
of winning the election outright--though it can act as a spoiler for one
party or the other. However, as I just pointed out, the PTB get their way
with either the Democrat or Republican--they just get it done in a different
order and slightly different time frame.
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- In any case, no third party or independent candidacy
is going anywhere unless all the disparate parties and forces agree on
supporting a single candidate--and that person is Ron Paul. He is the only
candidate capable of attracting partisans across the principled political
spectrum of constitutional conservatives, independents and many anti-war
Democrats as well. Almost all of the small third parties would be willing
to join forces if Ron Paul were the standard bearer. Such a unified coalition
has not been possible in the past hundred years. Only Ron Paul is capable
of engendering the necessary trust to put together this large a coalition.
He says this movement is not about him, but it is, in one significant way:
A proper ideology is absolutely essential, but it has to have a human being
to be its champion and get elected to office. Ideas don't get elected on
their own without a person the people can rally around. No one else has
the elected track record of Ron Paul. No one else has his absolute reputation
for trust.
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- The only problem is that Paul has announced that he will
not run as a third party or independent candidate--that he is staying loyal
to the Republican party. He has done this not because he really thinks
highly of the Republican party (that has betrayed him constantly), but
simply because running as a Republican has been the only way in which he
has ever won anything. He would never have won his seat in Congress as
a libertarian. Only by running as a mainstream candidate do you accrue
the number of unthinking voters that is necessary to win. Not only is Ron
running for President but he is running concurrently for his seat in Congress
as a Republican. So he is not free to switch parties without ceding the
Congressional race to the other liberal Republicans who are challenging
Paul in the Republican primary in his Texas district.
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- The ultimate question for Ron Paul is this: Is staying
within the Republican's going to continue to yield any significant benefits
in terms of building the movement? It's a tough question. He believes it
will. Most of Paul's supporters couldn't care less about Paul staying in
the Republican party--which they correctly view as part of the problem.
However Ron sincerely believes he can continue to grow the movement staying
in the GOP and by retaining his seat in Congress.
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- Certainly this year's record run for the Presidency bears
that out. Paul never would have got even a fraction of the media and debate
time had he not run in the Republican primary. Even though the media purposely
denied him equal coverage and equal time in the debates, still his message
did get out there--with a lot of help from his supporters. Ron's message
failed to catch on in large numbers because too many voters are unthinking,
taking their cues from talking heads who dismiss Paul as irrelevant, and
too complacent with the status quo to feel the severity of the crisis we
face. The PTB are intent on keeping people complacent, and marginalizing
those that aren't.
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- Has Ron's advantage running with the Republican's run
its course? Yes and no. I don't think he will have any more effect back
in Congress than before--which was minimal. Admittedly, it has been great
to have him there. He has been our watchdog on everything the Congress
did wrong. He has been the conscience of the Congress for decades but,
like Jiminy Cricket of Pinnochio fame, Congress isn't listening. Ron isn't
getting any younger either but he is in good health and could still fight
on for many years--at least in Congress--but probably not as president
where he is quickly reaching that age limit where few would consider him
a viable candidate because of age. That is why many of us felt this election
was our last and best chance.
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