“I just don’t think she possesses the mental capacity to be the President of the United States. She’s a goofball!”

So everyone’s favorite host of Freedom Watch has weighed in on Sarah Palin. To me, she’s a completely divisive figure. People seem to either idolize her or loathe her. I don’t think she has much chance of being the next POTUS. In fact, I’d be surprised if she did better than Giuliani did in the GOP primaries of 2008.

For more about what lead up to the Judge’s “straight talk” listen to the audio:

(Thanks to Media Matters for the audio)

Yesterday it became quite clear that she was never in danger of becoming a foreign policy non-interventionist like Paul.

From CNN:

Palin published a note on her Facebook page Tuesday that encourages President Barack Obama to grant a request for the tens of thousands of additional troops reportedly requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in the country.

“Now is not the time for cold feet, second thoughts, or indecision,” Palin wrote on the site. “It is the time to act as commander-in-chief and approve the troops so clearly needed in Afghanistan.”

Noting the possible consequences of not helping to build up Afghanistan’s institutions, the former Alaska governor also wholeheartedly endorsed McChrystal’s counterinsurgency approach to continued U.S. military presence in the country.

“We can win in Afghanistan by helping the Afghans build a stable representative state able to defend itself. And we must do what it takes to prevail. The stakes are very high. The 9/11 attacks were planned in Afghanistan, and if we are not successful there, al Qaeda will once again find a safe haven, the Taliban will impose its cruelty on the Afghan people, and Pakistan will be less stable.”

She is just confirming that she never was and never will be a libertarian, especially when it comes to foreign policy. Don’t let the new designation (or Eric Dondero) fool you. The Palin-Cons are the same old Neo-Cons.

In those early years and up until the economic crisis of last year Ron Paul was brushed off as crazy whenever he brought up the unchecked powers of the Federal Reserve. Once the bailouts began and continued it became politically expedient to be more like Ron Paul. That is, as long as you are talking about economics. On foreign policy Ron Paul is still apparently crazy for firmly believing in non-intervention.

I am not alone among the Ron Paul faithful when I say that I’m very tired of reading articles with any of the following labels attributed to Ron Paul:

“Slowly, inexorably, Ron Paul’s message is beginning to take. Members of his own party and liberal media personalities, some who would have been the least expected, have begun to sense the danger. Conservatives are coming home, some ashamed, acknowledging that it was they, not Ron Paul, who had drifted away. Some Governors and senators and televisions pundits are now mimicking Ron Paul’s message, even paraphrasing his exact words. There are Ron Paul look-alikes, such as Governor Mark Sanford. “He’s just like Ron Paul,” his supporters assure us, “only better.” Who would have thunk it? It is now popular to be like Ron Paul.”

For all of Wead’s articles on Ron Paul, I think I enjoyed this one the most thus far. He outlines the history and reasons for Ron Paul’s popularity and then explains why we should look to him for solving our economic crisis.

After Wead’s series of articles on Sarah Palin being the GOP front runner and listing Ron Paul’s chances of the GOP nomination at 25-1 he goes back again to trumpeting his candidacy.

They dream that they can somehow keep one hand in the neo-con cookie jar while the other hand waves over the Constitution. When Dr. Ron Paul comes along and tells them its time to amputate the gangrene neo-conservatism they dart out of the office crying like babies. One would think they would get the hint with their string of losses the past few years. Their latest and ultimate loss came this week when Al “Dog-gone it! People like me!” Franken was declared the winner over Norm Coleman in the hotly contested Minnesota Senate race.

As difficult as that is to chew on for Republican leaders it still won’t be enough to get them to mend their ways. They are more worried about beating Democrats than doing what’s right for America.  Somewhere some red-blooded, meat-eating, Sarah Palin-in-drag true-believing Republican cymbal monkey is happy with this strategy. Those of us who believe in conservative roots and Old Right principles know how to restore the GOP to greatness. It starts with severing the neo-conservatism arm and embracing the liberty found in our Constitution. And by embracing I don’t mean fondling it under the table like many politicians do today. I mean embracing it with a proud momma bear hug.

Ron Paul knows this better than anyone yet he is still picked last for the team in GOP gym class. Paul is admired for his economics and ostracized for his foreign policy. Bad-mouthers always ask the question: How can Ron Paul be so right on economics yet so wrong on foreign policy?

The answer my friends (with apologies to John McCain)  is that he isn’t wrong on foreign policy. He is just as right on foreign policy as he is on economics.

All we are saying is give peace a chance. Peace through free trade and commerce that is. Stop bombing and start doing business. We aren’t asking for much, just tell the truth, uphold your oath of office, and err on the side of freedom. That should be the goal, not winning the political party potato sack race.

Obama is a slick politician, so I expect him to continue to administer the neo-mercantilist, Hamiltonian empire that has been built up by both parties over the decades, with all of its schemes for corporate welfare for defense contractors, investment bankers and myriad other politically active businesses which, in turn, provide financial support for the regime. But Obama is also a hardcore leftist who spent his earlier career working with some of the craziest socialists in America, groups like ACORN, who advocated such things as kicking doctors off the boards of hospitals and replacing them with “the poor,” and Soviet-style nationalization of the energy and health care industries.

As for McCain, DiLorenzo says, in part:

John McCain is virtually a poster boy for Hamiltonian mercantilism: He favored a dictatorial executive branch, foreign policy adventurism and he supported the Wall Street Plutocrats’ bailout bill, which of course was pure Hamiltonianism.
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Hamilton was also obsessed with using the powers of the state to pursue “imperial glory” in war, and itched for a war with France, just as McCain itched for a war with Iran (for starters). That also makes him quite the Hamiltonian.

DiLorenzo goes on to describe how Hamilton worked feverishly after the ratification of the Constitution to “read between the lines” to attempt to create a National Bank and “expand the dictatorial powers of the executive branch…far beyond what the Constitution called for.” Ever since he Civil war, at least, the Hamiltonian school of thought has taken over, and has, in fact, served to “rewrite” American history as taught by educational systems today.  Obama is a prodigy of such a system.

I recently received an e-mail from a young conservative law student at New York University Law School who thanked me for writing critically of Hamilton. He was sick and tired of being lectured to by his law professors (such as Nadine Strossen of the ACLU) about the glories of the “Hamiltonian” interpretation of the Constitution, which essentially is a roadmap for ignoring constitutional constraints on government. Obama is a Harvard-trained lawyer who also embraces this subversive legal philosophy. Before the election, a tape emerged of a speech he made just a few years ago where he complained that the Constitution had not yet been sufficiently “reinterpreted” by leftist judicial activists to allow a really radical redistribution of income. I expect him to appoint dangerous socialists like himself to the federal judiciary.

Read Part 1 of the DiLorezo interview here.  Part 2 is here.

I wonder if this is an orchestrated effort to damage Palin because she supposedly went “rogue” during the campaign and decided she had her own opinions after all. I think this situation is ripe for Ron Paul to reach out to her. She can be an ally in helping to change the GOP from within. It seems the current party leadership is vulnerable. A few Palin and Paul media counter attacks are in order.

If Palin truly did go rogue, then what is stopping her from doing so now as the media promises to continue blaming her for McCain’s loss? In fact, I think the time is ripe for Ron Paul to contact every endorsed candidate in his Liberty PAC and have a public forum (hopefully televised on CSPAN or another outlet) discussing the future of the GOP. They could make attempts to publicly push the Republican Party towards its Old Right roots. I would love to watch a forum including Jeff Flake, Sarah Palin, Walter Jones, Gary Johnson, Mark Sanford, and many of the other Ron Paul endorsed Republicans.

Paul did something similar with his “vote third party” press conference. He ignored some of his own principles to find a common ground. Why not do the same in a concerted effort to publicly and openly steer the GOP back towards the Constitution and limited government?

Here, FOX News throws Palin under the bus.

I say opportunity because the outlook for liberty at this point in our country’s history is quite bleak. The popular political culture pendulum is swinging far to the left with Barack Obama’s pending victory. Following 9/11 Neo-conservative Right ideals were in vogue. The question remains what happens when the rebound occurs from the current move to the left? This is where libertarians can capitalize if the cards are played properly.

How to play those cards is the bigger question. Should libertarians follow Ron Paul’s lead and join the Republican Party in an attempt to infiltrate and shift the platform toward liberty? How long would such an effort take? Is there something to be said for reaching out to Sarah Palin in an effort to bring her into the liberty fold before 2012? I suggest this due to the recent reports of her “going rogue” and off-message according to a McCain aide reported on CNN.

Palin has already been dubbed a potential Presidential candidate in 2012 by her GOP fans. The blessing and curse is that Palin is the source for the most recent conservative infighting. What if Palin resents being a puppet for the McCain campaign, and resents having to modify her own belief system even more? In short, what if Palin really is a moderate libertarian in neo-conservative lipstick? That is completely at odds with what we’ve discussed previously, but given the infighting, is it not a possibility? What if overtures are made now, Palin runs in 2012 and chooses Ron Paul as her running mate? Sure it is crazy and unlikely, but it’s only 2008. A lot can happen in the next four years.

It is difficult to believe such a thing is remotely possible for many reasons. She already has a taste of Republican “power” and may already be too far gone to the dark side to come back into the freedom fold. Would Ron Paul be interested in such a team? What about a Palin-Johnson ticket? Gary Johnson, that is — the former Governor of New Mexico. They are both young Republicans and “talk” limited government. Johnson even practices it. That would be a young vibrant team for a GOP libertarian revolution of sorts. While this is certainly more plausible it still rests on Palin doing a bit more of her own thinking, which is at this point is more than a long shot.

Any way you look at the next four years, the potential for liberty is slim. There is an entire status quo culture that embraces more government instead of less. However, there is a definite vocal minority undercurrent of libertarian opposition to giving the government more and more power over our lives. Isn’t it odd that the President and Congress are at record low approval ratings yet a candidate preaching more government is leading the polls for the White House? People seem to actually believe Obama has ideas that will fix all that ails us. This could work in libertarian favor if, over the next four years, we end up worse off than we are today.

Somehow we need to morph the status quo attitude from “the government will save us” into “the government needs to get out of the way”. It’s time for another bailout. It’s time for limited government liberty-loving libertarians and Republicans to bail out the failing GOP. The difference is that it needs to be done with the spread of grassroots ideas instead of our hard earned tax dollars. When the pendulum swings back from its current leftward trajectory, libertarians need to be ready to guide it towards the freedom guaranteed by our forgotten Constitution. That is, if it swing backs at all.

No, that isn’t Ron Paul’s style, as we learned from the debate where Paul whispered, “Make, fun buddy”, under his breath in reaction to yet another moronic insult emanating from somewhere between Mitt Romney’s sculpted sideburns. Ron Paul is a man deserving of integrity and respect at work in the sea of extreme buffoonery that is Washington DC.

Nothing illustrates such an assertion better than the last few weeks of having to listen to every pundit and politico tell us why we all had to fall in line behind a bailout bill that no one wanted to pass and no one was sure would work.  But the sky was falling and the wolf was around the bend so pass it we must. America, our government didn’t listen to us. We have no representation anymore. The last vestige of capitalism is nearing death. We are on the road to economic slavery.

On the right side of the road hops a satanic, grinning Johnny McCain sounding off “1-2-3-4 I support preemptive WAR, my friends. 5-6-7-8 , Sarah Palin is my running MATE, my friends”.

On the left side of the road stands an evil, laughing Barry Obama repeatedly shouting “1-2-3-4 I will tax you a whole lot MORE. 5-6-7-8 What else can we REGULATE?”

Meanwhile, the rest of us toil away trying to decide which of these media-anointed left-right reddish-blue piecemeal frankenstein candidates deserve our vote. We already know the answer. Neither of them.

For some reason, this is not good enough for a majority of people to direct their vote toward a third party candidate. The me-too masses are drawn magnetically to two candidates they dislike so much that the only way either can earn a vote is to be viewed as less damaging than the other one.

Since everyone now knows that I’m voting for Bob “freakin’” Barr they always corner me with “If you had to pick between Obama and McCain, which would you choose?” I answer, “Your question is idiotic. I don’t have to pick between feces and excrement because there are other choices out there.”

I almost feel sorry for those that feel shackled to only two choices. That is especially true this year, and even more true if you are a Republican. John McCain is a weak candidate. If the Republicans wanted to have a fighting chance on November 4th they should have nominated the gentleman from the 14th district in the great state of Texas, Dr. Ron Paul.

Sometimes, in order to fix something, you need to rebuild it from scratch. The Republican Party has been torn to shreds by neoconservatism and the big spending of compassionate conservatism. If Obama wins in November, and I think he will, Ron Paul will be standing ready to help rebuild the Republican Party. Maybe this time the Republicans will swallow their wounded pride and listen to the man.

Truthfully, I don’t believe they are that smart now and may never be, but perhaps after November 4th they’ll be more willing to engage the issues rather than insult the truth.

In a recent blogger post discussing Sarah Palin, Dondero wrote back to one commenter who didn’t quite agree with him: “You’re a purist libertarian. You don’t give a f*** about such things. Perfectly understandable….Now go back to your Ivory Tower, and take those books off those dusty shelves, and start studying Objectivist/Austrian economics theory, like you do every day. You’ll be much happier than living in the real world like the rest of us do.“  For Dondero, if you don’t subscribe to his warped concept of libertarianism (i.e. neoconservatism) then you must be a “purist”, and not worthy of contributing to the discussion.  Eric, there’s only so far you can stretch the definition of a libertarian, and you’ve gone way off the deep end.

A sideline quote on Dondero’s blog states: “Real libertarians believe in protecting the homeland first and foremost.”   False.  Real libertarians believe in protecting liberty first and foremost.  National defense (not offense) is important, but not at the expense of individual liberties in the homeland (which is precisely what’s happened in the past 7 years).

Indeed, it seems clear that Dondero has an agenda here.  Simply counting the number of times he’s referred to Palin as “libertarian” tells you something.  Consider these headlines:

• “Conservative Blogger recognizes LR blog for pointing out Palin’s libertarian streak”
• “Confirmed! Palin’s a libertarian on social issues, takes a “hands off” laissez faire attitude”
• “Libertarians seem reasonably happy with a VP Sarah Palin”
• “Sarah Palin swimsuit video: America’s new cultural libertarian icon”
• “It’s official: Sarah Palin now linked with libertarian Republicans”
• “Sarah Palin passes Cato’s libertarian test with flying colors”
• “More evidence Sarah Palin was picked cause she’s a libertarian”

Of course, these are just the headlines.  There isn’t enough space here to list all the times he has described her as libertarian in passing, as though it’s an indisputable fact.  I suppose he’s banking on the fact that if you repeat something often enough, people will start believing it (and worse, repeating it).

So how does Palin differ from true libertarians?  Since we really know very little about her, we can only judge her by what she’s done as mayor and governor, and what she spouts on the campaign trail.  Of course, in this day and age it’s her job to support her running mate, but the fact that she defends so much of McCain’s big government actions is enough to scare any true libertarian.  Here are just a few differences:

Foreign Policy – Palin endorses the same policy of interventionism that’s gotten us into trouble for the past 50 years. Libertarians believe in non-interventionism.

Taxes – While Palin claims she believes in lower taxes, she raised the sales tax in Alaska.  And unlike libertarians, she doesn’t even mention repealing the 16th amendment.

Religion – Palin regularly injects religious beliefs into public policy.  She said it was the “will of God” that we intervene in Iraq.  Where libertarians would use general principles of freedom and liberty to guide them, she often follows religious precepts, and the result is often different.  This is more in line with the Constitution Party platform than the Libertarian Platform.

Freedom – Palin supports gambling bans.  She says it’s “harmful to society”.  A libertarian believes that what one does to oneself is one’s own business, not the government’s business.

Drugs – Similar to the previous item, Palin supports the failed and disastrous war on drugs.

Education – Like libertarians, even true Conservatives have called for the abolition of Department of Education.  I haven’t heard Palin support this idea either.

As times goes on, I’m sure other differences will surface.  These days, there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans, and Sarah Palin is no different.  Like so many Republicans these days, she pays lip service to the idea of smaller government, but then goes on to call for more regulations in the financial industry.  Frankly, I’m sickened by the number of people who are planning to vote for McCain/Palin as a protest vote against Obama, as though there’s a substantive difference.  But I digress.  Palin is no libertarian.  She’s not even a true conservative.

There are certainly varying sets of beliefs within libertarianism, but Dondero stretches those beyond the limits of comprehension by suggesting Sarah Palin is a libertarian. Dondero needs to realize it’s just not possible to paint libertarian lipstick on a neoconservative pig.

by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution

Originally published October 3, 2008 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article5096.html

<< For those unaware, please read George Dance’s critical article “Third-party debate in early October” on the upcoming Third Party Debate in early October. Date is not yet announced. >>

Fellow columnist Jonathan Cymberknopf reported in his late September article “Ralph Nader and Bob Barr banned from the media” that the media has stopped covering the Third Party tickets who have a mathematical chance to win, and this does indeed seem to be the case. These candidates in alphabetical order are:

• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Constitution Party listed on the ballot in 32 states)
• Bob Barr/Wayne Root (Libertarian Party, 45 states)
• Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente (Green Party, 32 states)
• and Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez (independents, 45 states).

He is mostly correct; the mainstream media is completely ignoring these candidates.  However, viral media has the potential to take the third party’s message to millions, spreading far TRUER democracy, and revealing the current election of McBama as the staged sham that it truly is.  The cool facet about it is that if it starts, its spreads like wildfire because everyone shares with everyone else.  On the flip side, there is only one month left, but with the financial world reeling, McBama-supported idiotic bailouts and bank failures galore, there is a real chance this could have a lasting effect on American politics for a long time to come, if it is done correctly.  Here is the idea.

Let me introduce Lisa Donovan, viral media YouTube producer and best known by her online moniker LisaNova based in Los Angeles. Ms. Donovan runs her own company, Zappin Productions.  Currently roughly 135,000 viewers subscribe to her channel which is 24^th highest all-time in YouTube history.  Two of her recent clips, “Is McCain Palin’s B****?” and “Sarah Palin Exclusive Interview with Charles Gibson on ABC!!” have “gone viral” with over 2 million and almost 1 million hits each, respectively.

Sarah Palin’s live interviews with the press to date are widely acclaimed as a disaster for this initially-obscure-Dan-Quayle-type VP candidate. I agree as you can read here “Answering Matt Damon’s Question on Sarah Palin (PART 2/2)“, but please decide for yourself. Although LisaNova is obviously all about maximizing the comic effect, I think Nader interviews are worthwhile.  (photo source)

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Sarah Palin Interview Links

Full ABC Charles Gibson video, each part ~5 minutes (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4)

Full CBS Katie Couric interview, 10 minutes (link)

FOX Sean Hannity interview, each part ~6 min (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3)

CNN’s Jack Cafferty does comment honestly on the Couric interview and CNN’s call to the McCain to ask whether Palin would be removed from the ticket (Part 1 with 1.7 million hits and Part 2)

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Mock Palin/LisaNova and Mock Charles Gibson on the Bush Doctrine, 4 minutes

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Ralph Nader (it’s actually him) vs. Mock Palin/LisaNova Interviews

Nader vs. Palin/LisaNova on the Paulson Plan Bailout (4 minutes, Nader charges McBama is “essentially puppets of their own making taking orders from their corporate paymasters” and is “A Clone of George W. Bush” Wow!)

Nader vs. Palin/LisaNova on the Constitution (1 minute, “Ya know what dat is? What iz zat?” my favorite!)

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As you may have noticed, LisaNova has copied Palin’s mannerisms and dress, but she is more or less regurgitating the hailstorm of nonsense that Palin fed to CBS, ABC, FOX.

Everyone, to have real Third Party Debates all we need to do is take the actual recorded McCain-Palin and Obama-bin-Biden [see below articles] and have LisaNova’s team stand-in for the Establishment. To be humorous, they probably do not actually need to change the script.  A moderator could then ask the real Third Party candidates for their answer to the same questions and WAA-LAH!  Instant third party debate!  Post everywhere on the Internet and problem solved!

I also think it would also be best to get Ron Paul involved to bring more attention to the effort, not only is he getting decent press exposure recently due to the bailout and made the Third Party Speech last month, but Dr. Paul is also famous for doing the first-ever known presidential candidate interview from a college kid’s dorm for YouTube last year and famously “went viral” during his campaign.

Is what I proposed fair?  No, it is an utter mockery of the Establishment.  But that’s what they deserve, and that’s what happens when you mess with We the People.

In Liberty,

Jake, the Champion of the Constitution

www.CampaignForLiberty.com

PS – In case you missed it, Ron Paul in his September 10 teleconference called for all Americans and members of the Revolution to support Third Party candidates. You can watch and read the transcript from this article “A Speech Barack Obama Could Give to Win the Presidency, Ron Paul, and Carroll Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope”.

I will send Ms. Donovan and cc Mr. Lyman from Third Party Ticket and some folks at Campaign for Liberty this article to see what they think.  Ms. Donovan appears to be apolitical, although she has Kucinich and Paul videos pasted in her favorites, but she should be able to turn a profit. For instance, if the Third Party Debate needs a commercial break, I think some viral media would work wonderfully, especially if McBama haughtily distains to attend the debate, as George Dance predicts.  Who knows what will happen, but I think its worth a shot.

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John McCain isn’t the opponent of big government that he claims he is, according to Bob Barr, the former GOP congressman and Libertarian presidential candidate.

“I think McCain is a hypocrite,” Barr said of the Arizona senator. “He claims he is for smaller government and that’s not the case.”

Here’s the article.