Jeffrey Goldberg argues that Ron Paul–though not a Zionist–understand Zionism better than all the other candidates.
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Dr. George Grant Endorses…
Well, in this clip he endorses Michelle Bachmann:
But I asked him on twitter if he would endorse anyone and he seems to find another candidate to be equally competent. His response was:
I think the best declared candidates on most issues are Ron Paul and Michele Bachman–but both have serious liabilities.
Grant has been a faithful student of history, particularly American history. His opinion means more to me than many other evangelical pastors.<>
Shocking the World in Iowa
Michael Doughterty seems rather confident that Paul will shock the world in Iowa. Among his reasons are the loyal Paul supporters who do not change. Once they come into the Paul camp, they do not leave. Whereas Iowans some Iowans have shifted from candidate to candidate, Paul supporters in Iowa are loyal to the end. Doughterty writes:
And why wouldn’t they be loyal? Ron Paul is offering something distinctive in this race – a return to a non-interventionist foreign policy, sound money, and Constitutional principles. And he has the ability to expand his support beyond his loyal fans, Iowa Republicans rate him the “most honest and trustworthy” among all candidates. It’s his consistency, even when he is at odds with the average Republican voter, that has impressed Texas voters for years.
Even if Paul fails to win the nomination, his campaign ,like Goldwater’s in 1964, can help leading libertarians identify their supporters and build long-term political institutions that can draw on their fund-raising power and activist energy for decades.
Senator Coburn on Newt Gingrich
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s possible 2012 presidential run: “He is undoubtedly the smartest man I’ve ever met. He is a thinker. He has great vision. The question to me is, does he have the capability to lead the country? And having served under him in the House, he’s probably not one that I would choose to support in a presidential primary.” Video Link
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A Case for Ron Paul
John Nichols lists a few reasons why Ron Paul is compelling…which pretty much boils down to this: Paul took Trump to Task.<>
“Life does not begin at conception,” says Newt Gingrich
CNSews.com is reporting Gingrich’s interview with ABC about his position on abortion. Newt argues that to make a case for life beginning at conception would raise all sorts of difficult questions:
In an interview with ABC News on Friday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he believes that human life does not begin at conception but at “implantation and successful implantation” because if you say life begins at conception “you’re going to open up an extraordinary range of very difficult questions.”
Gingrich also said that his “friends” who take “ideological positions” that human life does begin at conception “don’t then follow through on the logic of” that postion.
Assuming Newt’s ability to change his position on the same week–as Paul so remarkably showed with his video–Newt may here be appealing to Independents in Iowa.
Update: Oh wait! The double-minded man has changed his position again: http://www.lifenews.com/2011/12/05/gingrich-restates-pro-life-views-says-life-begins-at-conception/<>
What does DiLorenzo think of Newt?
Newt Gingrich’s foreign policy views are a combination of wild, irresponsible, and aggressive warmongering, extraordinary naivete about the nature of government, and juvenile hero worship. –Thomas DiLorenzo
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Giving Money to Government
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. —P. J. O’Rourke<>
