The silence from Ron Paul on his son’s endorsement of Mittens is deafening. Does he concur? Will he also support Mittens? Inquiring minds want to know.
Dave Hodges
I awoke several days ago to a devastating punch in the gut. I was overcome by feelings of abandonment and betrayal just like the feelings that a husband would experience when he realizes that his wife has been unfaithful and his best friend is his wife’s new lover. I am experiencing anger, depression and a sense of profound discouragement as I feel compelled to write these words.
Ron Paul has done more to wake up millions of former bankster serving sheeple in this country to the tyranny that is the New World Order than anyone else. He has helped to expose the criminal Federal Reserve and the general and pervasive “sell out” of Americans and our sovereign interests by the bankster minions (i.e. Obama and Romney). As a result, millions of Americans put their faith in this country doctor who has had one of the best voting records in the history of the House of Representatives. I will be eternally grateful to Ron Paul for his tireless support and defense of freedom.
Ever since my days of doing local talk radio in Wickenburg, Arizona, I have supported Ron Paul and have attempted to raise money on his behalf. However, in the past few months, I am certain that many of the listeners of The Common Sense Show have noticed that I have been dead silent on the subject of the Ron Paul Campaign. I was silent for some very salient reasons as I was beginning to have some grave concerns over the intestinal fortitude and direction of the Ron Paul Campaign.
In the past several weeks, I have been approached several times and repeatedly asked to become a Ron Paul delegate. I steadfastly refused as I used the convenient excuse of not having the time. In reality, I do have the time to help save my country from the bankster tyranny that has overtaken our Republic. I just don’t have the time to waste my time jumping on board a sinking ship that has become the Ron Paul Campaign. Are you listening to me Ron Paul leaders? There are valid reasons why I said no and then subsequently ignored repeated emails and voicemails designed to recruit me to this cause. I simply wanted to remain silent as I continued to evaluate the disturbing direction that the Ron Paul Campaign was headed.
In the early days of the Paul Campaign, I publicly criticized the establishment media as they orchestrated a wholesale media blackout related to Ron Paul’s campaign. Yet, Dr. Paul seemingly tolerated receiving 30 seconds of air time in a five member debate, in a 30 minute period, on national television. At the next media event, Ron Paul should have said something like “Well, I am glad I am getting my obligatory 30 seconds and the networks should be ashamed for censoring my message that millions of Americans want to hear. “ Unfortunately, these words of indignation were never spoken by the leadership of the Paul Campaign, or by Ron Paul, himself. It was at this crucial juncture that I first experienced misgivings about the direction of the Paul Campaign.
There has also been massive voter fraud committed against the Ron Paul Campaign in the Republican Primary elections. Even the New York Times admitted that the Republican Primaries in Iowa and Maine were stolen away from Ron Paul. Ron Paul was undoubtedly winning the Republican Primary in the early days. However, as the nomination continued to be stolen, and the will of the people was being usurped, Ron Paul remained silent to this grand theft of the nomination process. Even in Louisiana, as Ron Paul was winning, the Louisiana Republican leadership, controlled by Mitt Romney minions, stole the Paul delegates and gave them to Romney and then proceeded to beat up and evict the Ron Paul delegates when they protested. Meanwhile, Ron Paul chastised the dissenters and admonished his followers to be polite.
Anyone who donated money to the Ron Paul Campaign should be justifiably upset. The election process, in which many of us invested our hard earned money to support Dr. Paul, was stolen from us and there was not so much as a whimper from Ron Paul. Why did Ron Paul seemingly sabotage his own campaign by not forcefully speaking out about the ongoing election fraud and the bankster control of media election coverage? Does anyone else hearken back to the Ross Perot 1992 Presidential candidacy as he held a huge lead before sabotaging his own campaign over some nonsense about the Republicans sabotaging his daughter’s wedding? As Mark Twain said, history may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
I have been beside myself as primary election after primary election, the banksters, who control both political parties, continued their election fraud and the bankster controlled media continued to ignore the Ron Paul message. Meanwhile, the Arizona Ron Paul delegation approached me, again, to please become a delegate in the campaign. This time, I shared my reservations about the apparent lack of a backbone by campaign officials and by Ron Paul himself, to fight back against the criminal actions of the Republican Party leadership. I was told by a party official that Ron Paul delegates were going to seek and achieve a brokered convention and the subsequently freed up delegates would support Ron Paul and he would win the nomination. Just at the time I was going to once again capitulate and donate my time and efforts to the Ron Paul Campaign, Rand Paul sold his political soul to el Diablo, Mitt Romney, as he threw his support behind the Romney Campaign. I am still grieving this betrayal of Ron Paul supporters.
Rand Paul now supports carbon taxes advocate, Mitt Romney.
Rand Paul now supports Universal Health Care author, Mitt Romney.
Rand Paul now supports amnesty proponent, Mitt Romney.
Rand Paul now supports more bankster bailouts and more wars of corporate conquest supporter, Mitt Romney.
Rand Paul now supports more Federal Reserve Board criminality advocate, Mitt Romney, and not one word of disagreement from Ron Paul. Blood is indeed thicker than water and apparently, thicker than patriotism as well. And now, in a juxtaposition, the sins of the son are being visited upon the father as Ron Paul tells his delegates to be polite at the Republican Convention, in Tampa, while America continues to sink into the deep abyss of a tyrannical police state that is robbing us blind.
What have Ron and Rand Paul been promised? What will thirty pieces of silver buy today? A cabinet post? A surprise VP position for Rand? Well, I am not for sale and I will never support Mitt Romney or any other bankster minion. How many of you, like myself, feel like a pallbearer of a once noble campaign?
There is presently an unlimited supply of political capital that has now been left floundering after Rand Paul announced the capitulation of the Ron Paul Campaign to the globalist minion, Mitt Romney. I don’t drink from the Ron Paul Kool-Aid. I do not worship Ron Paul. I honor the message of freedom and that is the only reason I supported Dr. Paul because of his expressed love of freedom and his seemingly undying support for the Constitution. My personal journey on behalf of truth and freedom, with or without Rand and Ron Paul, will continue on, regardless of who the Paul’s support for the Republican nomination.
Despite my sense of betrayal, Dr. Paul has still done all freedom loving Americans an enormous favor through his service and dedication to the ideals of freedom. Ron Paul has awakened millions of our brethren to the corporate controlled police state that we are now all living under. As a result, we now have millions of pissed off Americans who have finally come to realize that their financial futures and their children’s heritage has been stolen by the criminal elite.
It is up to all us to find a new home to grow the message of freedom and to complete the job that the Ron Paul movement started. If we allow the millions of Americans who now realize that we have been conquered by criminal banksters, to dissipate, we will never have another chance to reclaim what we have lost.
If you want to live in the past, continue to support the Ron Paul Campaign and watch as your monetary donations will absolutely slip down the rabbit hole and end up in Mitt Romney’s coffers. Do not contribute to your own demise as we will undoubtedly witness the November election consisting of Obama vs. Obama 2.0 as the 2012 election will consist of New World Order sock puppet and teleprompter reader, Barak Obama vs. New World Order sock puppet and teleprompter reader, Mitt Romney. This is now unavoidable, the 2012 Presidential election is lost, but our new found political power is not lost unless we choose to consciously forfeit it. In 2012, we don’t have a legitimate presidential candidate to vote for, but freedom loving Americans have a choice on how we respond to our rigged elections, our corporate controlled media and the subsequent tyranny that the globalists are in the midst of implementing.
Freedom loving Americans now have tremendous political capital and please remember that nature abhors a vacuum. A new candidate and a new movement, reflective of our collective values, will emerge. Thanks to the Ron Paul movement, we have made great progress, but don’t make the mistake of living in the past. Rand Paul now openly supports Bain Capital’s, Mitt Romney and the Ron Paul Campaign is dead in the water. However, the new found spirit of our freedom movement is not dead and I will never capitulate to tyranny, nor should you.
Dave Hodges
Anonymous says:
If turncoat Rand had done this one day after Tampa it wouldn’t be so bad. What does he do now if Ron runs or VP’s in another party. What does dumbass rand do if we pull off the miracle in Tampa Harding style??
Here is asshole jack hunters piece telling us to bendover over on RonPaul2012.com. FUCK YOU JACK! I bend over NO MORE!!!!!!!
Ron Paul, John Boehner and Endorsements
When John Boehner was up for House Speaker, Ron Paul voted for him. The choice was between Boehner and Nancy Pelosi. Hardly a choice for liberty-minded people, but still, Dr. Paul chose Boehner without hesitation.
The same was true the last time Republicans controlled the House before Boehner’s tenure, when Dennis Hastert was House Speaker. Ron Paul voted for Hastert as House Speaker despite the fact that under Hastert’s watch Congress approved No Child Left Behind, Medicare Plan D, authorized President Bush’s war in Iraq and implemented the Patriot Act.
Let’s go back even further to when Ron Paul voted for Newt Gingrich as House Speaker in 1996. This was right after Dr. Paul was re-elected to Congress and Gingrich had supported Ron’s establishment opponent in the Texas GOP Primary. Conservative leaders like David Keene, Phyllis Schlafly and Milton Friedman all endorsed Ron Paul in that primary. But not Newt (I wish I had remembered this during my “Newt Gingrich is Not a Conservative” series on Paulitical Ticker).
In 1996, there was even a move by some House Republicans to deny Gingrich the speaker position. Conservative Republicans were ticked off, believing Gingrich had abandoned with Contract with America and Republican Revolution of 1994.
Ron Paul did not join their efforts. He voted for Newt Gingrich as House Speaker.
Why did Ron Paul do this? What philosophy does Dr. Paul share with Gingrich, Hastert and Boehner? For whatever ideas they do share, there are certainly a lot more that they don’t.
Ron Paul wants debate to be about the issues—not personalities, personal grudges or petty partisanship. It was inevitable that Boehner or the Democrat was going to be House Speaker. Dr. Paul voted with his party for the Republican. It was inevitable that Hastert or the Democrat, or Gingrich or the Democrat were going to be House Speaker. Dr. Paul voted with his party for the Republican.
Then, Ron Paul was a leading and outspoken voice in opposing everything his party did wrong—increased spending, bigger government, expanding entitlements, anti-civil liberties legislation, spying on citizens, unconstitutional undeclared wars, NDAA, TARP, SOPA, CISPA—we all know where the impeccably principled Paul falls on these issues.
Ron Paul supporting or endorsing these Republican House Speakers had absolutely nothing to do with how he voted. Ron Paul wanted to debate the issues on their own merits.
Is it possible that Dr. Paul could have simply refused to support Boehner, Hastert or Gingrich? Absolutely. But his message to the Republican Party is not that I’m against you. Indeed, Ron Paul is a member in good standing of the Republican Party. Ron Paul’s message is that he is against his party when it’s wrong.
Mitt Romney or Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. Sen. Rand Paul’s endorsement of Romney is a message to the Republican Party that he’s with them. But like his father, Sen. Paul’s support for Romney isn’t the same as how he votes. Sen. Paul is for the Republican Party—but he is against his party when it is wrong.
When Republicans are in support of the Patriot Act, Rand Paul is against it. When the GOP supports NDAA, Rand votes against it. When Republicans supported keeping troops in Afghanistan, Sen. Paul voted to bring them home. Spending? Civil liberties? Bigger government? The same.
Friday, Sen. Paul co-sponsored a bill to make industrial hemp legally available in Oregon. Why? Because Sen. Paul is a constitutionalist and the Tenth Amendment says Oregon has that right. If the Republican Party disagrees, they’re wrong—and Sen. Paul means to tell them so.
Like Ron, Rand’s focus is on the issues themselves, where the Republican Party is wrong and how to steer it right. Like Ron, Rand is far more interested in principles than personalities, personal grudges or petty partisanship.
As confusing as it can be, endorsing is not the same as voting. This is not to say that endorsements don’t carry weight. But certainly not more weight than what legislation actually gets passed or blocked.
And certainly not more weight than whose principles and whose ideas ultimately influence the Republican Party.
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12th June 2012 at 4:11 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
Anonymous is me!
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12th June 2012 at 4:13 pm
flash says:
***sniff***
Appeal to Ron Paul – Quoting from his Book ‘Ron Paul’s Revolution’ – Don’t Hug a Devolution!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaH4xGrEx4M
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12th June 2012 at 4:22 pm
Persnickety says:
Any thoughts on this article? And the claim that libertarians are the controlled opposition?
http://www.henrymakow.com/surprised_ron_rand_are_romney.html
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12th June 2012 at 4:34 pm
Magic Pockets says:
More fool you for thinking a politician could change things. Anyone who votes (at all) as far as i’m concerned is a liability and is endangering the human race. Time to bring in real freedom folks, either anarcho capitalism or a RBE, don’t care which, just please for the love of god stop voting.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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12th June 2012 at 4:44 pm
Doug Diggler says:
If you are a libertarian, than the Koch Brothers (their granddad was oil dealer to both Hitler and Stalin) are your gods. Ron Paul was running interferance for Mitt Romney some months back and you guys are only now catching on? I guess Webster Tarpley had Ron Paul pegged months ago. Clearly Ron Paul only cares about peace and liberty as far as he can push his son’s career. I am antiwar to the bone, but getting rid of gov’t so rich assholes can own is is not the answer!
Hot debate. What do you think?
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12th June 2012 at 5:12 pm
newsjunkie says:
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12th June 2012 at 5:42 pm
Thunderbird says:
American politics has become a rotten fruit; what else can you expect Mr. Hodges? We have an uninformed electorate that has put our last two presidents in office. Why should we expect it any different this time around? We have to let the rotten fruit die. People have to suffer greatly before they look out to do something about it. I don’t think we are there now. What is the difference between Obama and Romney? They are both statists; one for communism the other for fascism. Then there is Ron Paul. How many votes will he get when we have an uninformed public and a media doing everything it can to censor Ron Paul? This condition we are in did not happen overnight. It took many years of neglect from the electorate.
But something is in the air this year. I would not be too concerned about what Rand Paul did. You let your expectations get to large Mr. Hodges. You of all persons know that one cannot reverse the condition of a rotten fruit; it has to die. Yes, it has to die. It is no different with anything in life. Rotten fruit produces seeds that grow into new plants. The republican and democratic conventions are yet to come. Let’s wait for them to convene so we can see what new seeds these rotten political bodies will produce.
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12th June 2012 at 8:11 pm
flash says:
doug diddler-
There are the anarcho-capitalist/Libertarians, most of which support Ron Paul, if they vote
http://www.lewrockwell.com/
http://mises.org/
And then there are the, social issues , gay marriage , legalize pot ,beltway hipster libertarians from Cato/Koch and Reason which think they can cool their way into the mainstream and therefore will be easily co-opted by the graft machine….a watered down bastardized version of libertarianism made palatable for the mainstream consumers of statism.
Anarcho–capitalism will never be understood or accepted by the collective , but It’s still some comfort for us liberty-minded dreamers who still enjoy engaging in wishful thinking.
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12th June 2012 at 2:55 am
John says:
if you can watch this –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WtO5INu-VY4#!
and not realize you have been played, by the pauls, both of them….. well then
go romney!
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12th June 2012 at 3:15 am
Prison Planet.com » Ron Paul Addresses His Supporters « CITIZEN.BLOGGER.1984+ GUNNY.G BLOG.EMAIL says:
[...] Rand Paul = Judas (theburningplatform.com) [...]
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12th June 2012 at 8:18 am
| The Ron Paul Campaign is infiltrated, Sabotaged and Compromised. | « CITIZEN.BLOGGER.1984+ GUNNY.G BLOG.EMAIL says:
[...] Rand Paul = Judas (theburningplatform.com) [...]
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12th June 2012 at 10:56 am