Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
How the GOP is Controlling the 2008 Election Determined to see Hillary go head to head against a GOP heavyweight in November, the GOP is engaging in vote fraud on both sides to control the nominee selection process.by Natalie Schultz
(Libertarian)
Monday, January 21, 2008
How the GOP is Deliberately Controlling the 2008 Election Through Voter Fraud By Natalie Schultz
It is a well-known fact that for over a year now Republican strategists had been arming themselves for a Rudy Giuliani Vs. Hillary Clinton campaign fight. Then suddenly, in the early summer of 2007 two monkey wrenches were thrown into their ultimate plan: Barack Obama and Ron Paul. The GOP never saw this coming. Hillary was the inevitable nominee of the Democratic Party just as Rudy was for the Republican Party.
But the American People had other plans, and after the first few debates two unknowns, one an inexperienced African American Senator, the other a rogue Conservative Libertarian Congressman known as "Dr. No" for always voting for the Constitution, changed everything. This was the worst scenario for the GOP. Both of these party-crashers gained popular support for their anti-war stance. Hillary was easy to beat, as 45% of the country absolutely hated her already; and Giuliani was the 9/11 candidate, who could argue against him?
Well, suddenly the GOP didn't know who the Democrats would nominate, and a member of their own Party shot down everything the Republican Party had come to be and sent out a rally-cry through all the circles of disgruntled Republicans and Conservatives and Libertarians and young voters who had all but given up on the election process. What to do? Well, starting a race-war among the Democrats would surely help in some way or another. But on the Republican side, a new strategy was needed: Mike Huckabee! Who? You know, the unknown Baptist Minister from Arkansas with not a conservative credential to his name. You see, Ron Paul had the anti-war vote on the Right, just as Dennis Kucinich had it on the Left; no point in trying to counteract that except to have all the other Republicans declare war on the entire world. But Ron Paul had the support of the Christian Conservatives and home-schoolers as well; he was the only person who had a perfect record on home-school Rights. Without the Religious Right the Republican Party loses half its base, so that amnesty-loving, tax-raising, patron saint of the NEA Governor from Arkansas suddenly had one single attribute that the GOP could exploit: He was a bona-fide Baptist Minister. And BOOM! It worked.
Out of nowhere, all the debate moderators shot questions about the Bible and evolution towards Mike Huckabee, and rise to the occasion he did. This started during the third Republican debate, hosted by CNN, the one after the FOX News debate that sent shockwaves across the world after Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani went at each other's throats over the illegal Iraq War. Ron Paul was totally ignored during that CNN debate. I know because I wrote about it; the title was "Mike Huckabee Won, Ron Paul was Ignored, CNN Lost." At the time my criticism was two-fold 1) Ron Paul was totally ignored 2) Huckabee's theological response was superbly rendered, however, why was the question ever asked? CNN turned that debate into a theological mockery of our election process. Granted, at the time I did not realize why.
20/20 hindsight is a powerful, yet useless gift. I am writing this now, as New Hampshire is re-counting both the Republican and Democrat ballots due to major discrepancies between hand-counted and machine-counted ballots. I do not expect the re-count to prove voter fraud, even though based on hand-counted votes Obama should have come in first place and Ron Paul in either 3rd or 4th. I already know that 'somehow', the ballot boxes that left their locations sealed, arrived at the re-count locations with their seals broken. So, even though in New Hampshire there is a paper trail, it really doesn't matter if along the road someone can just open the box and alter the contents. I applaud Dennis Kucinich and Albert Howard for standing up for Voter's Rights, and I commend all the Voter's Rights organizations who came to New Hampshire to oversee the re-count; however with a total cost of over $100,000 to their campaigns as it is, there just is not enough money or man-power to truly watch over the entire process. Those who are determined to manipulate the votes will be able to do so, no matter how hard we try to fight them.
The reason I am writing this, however, is because of the blatant voter fraud that the GOP is presently engaging in, this time in Nevada. The Nevada caucuses are being held today, the same day as the Republican primary in South Carolina. Most Republican candidates have opted to ignore Nevada to focus on South Carolina, as that is a very important state for the GOP. The only candidates who have actively campaigned in Nevada are Ron Paul and Mitt Romney, as both have a strong base there. Nevada has a large Mormon population, so that helps Romney, but overall the state is fairly libertarian and detests the IRS and the Federal Reserve, and that is why Ron Paul is popular there. So, with the GOP's most-favored candidates back East, there is no harm in throwing the entire Nevada caucus system into chaos, right?
Why would the Nevada GOP want to screw things up for Mitt Romney, you may ask? Well, that is what finally made me see the entire GOP election scheme in High-Definition. Let's go back to early 2007: The top-tier GOP candidates were Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain. The GOP was NOT behind McCain back then because they believed that his pro-Amnesty Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill, co-sponsored by Ted Kennedy, would send most Republicans running for cover. So, at the time it was really between Giuliani and Romney. The truth is, as I stated at the beginning, the GOP was praying for a Rudy vs. Hillary campaign fight. Mitt Romney was essentially a rouse that the GOP gathered around in an attempt to seem "open-minded" towards Mormons, as well as they couldn't just appoint Giuliani Commander-in-Chief without at least making it seem like he competed against other Republicans to earn the nomination. The problems for the GOP became obvious after the first three debates; there was no solid support for any of the candidates. Romney was a Mormon, Giuliani was pro-choice, McCain was pro-Amnesty. The leaders of the Religious Right didn't help things, as each of them endorsed a different candidate for a different reason.
Republican voters revolted and waged a "Draft Fred Thompson" campaign. Eventually, Thompson jumped in, but even with all the pomp-and-circumstance surrounding him, his campaign deflated faster than a balloon stuck to a donkey at a child's birthday party. So, Good Ole Fred being a dud, conservatives heeded the Preacher's call from the pulpit and rallied around Mike Huckabee. Now, let's be honest, Huckabee has as much a chance of becoming President in November as does Santa Claus. So, after Iowa Huckabee replaced Mitt Romney as the rouse to get Giuliani nominated. Huckabee, however, proved to be even more useful than Romney, since Romney's rhetorical skills were lacking and he always came off looking like a flip-flopper. Huckabee's rhetorical skills, honed behind the pulpit, allowed his lies to come off as truths. So, he is now running as the anti-tax, anti-Illegal, pro-home-school candidate, even though as Governor of Arkansas he was more liberal than his predecessor, Bill Clinton. Huckabee not only raised taxes every chance he got, he increased spending, gave illegal immigrants college scholarships, and he even limited the Rights of home-schoolers. Mike Huckabee was the keynote speaker at the 2007 NEA National Convention, yet the home-school community rallied around him and left the true defender of home-school Rights, Ron Paul, in the dust.
This impressed the GOP so much that they were able to turn his incredible lack of foreign policy experience around by assigning two of the most elite Globalization specialists, John Bolton and Richard Hass, as his Foreign Policy Advisors. We all know who John Bolton is, however it is Richard Hass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), that is the real kicker. Granted, even Mitt Romney has William Weld, a member of the CFR Task Force to create a North American Union, as co-chairman of his New York campaign; but as I said, Romney is old news, particularly in light of the fact that he is a panderer, going which ever way the wind blows. The NeoCONs in the GOP cannot trust him to do as they say, especially since Tom Tancredo and Bay Buchanan had a long meeting with him and apparently convinced him to do away with any notions of amnesty. The fact is, Huckabee's exquisite ability to persuade the Masses is now being used as a tactical weapon to subliminally instill a pro-war, pro-globalization agenda into the minds of the least suspecting citizens of America. So, while the press questions why Huckabee is preaching about changing the Constitution to adhere more to Christianity, the GOP is so happy they are peeing in their pants, knowing that all the Evangelicals are falling at his feet, because in his next sermon he will be preaching that it is God's will that America give up its sovereignty and form a union with Mexico and Canada, and finally unite with the European Union as a Global Empire. No, Huckabee will not be our next President, but he has, unwittingly, sown the seeds of the demise of the United States of America in the hearts of every Evangelical Christian in this country. For that, the NeoCONs of the GOP and their cohorts of the Progressive New-Left will be eternally grateful.
The GOP has learned three important lessons during this campaign 1) You can convince the Evangelicals to believe anything as long as it is wrapped in Biblical verse. 2) Giuliani's campaign strategy must go down in the record books as the worst ever. 3) Americans truly are ignorant, as the majority claims to be against the Iraq War, and yet those are the very people voting for McCain.
So, Rudy and his CFR Dream Team have pretty much proven themselves to be incompetent at campaigning on a national level. The truth is, Rudy's message is equally as bad. Honestly, as a New Yorker, I was all for Rudy in the beginning. As Mayor he was brilliant. His speeches were no-holds-barred, tell it like it is. He truly did turn NYC around by cutting taxes and reducing crime and cleaning up the streets. But after 9/11 he totally lost it. Seriously, I think he went insane. All he talks about is War, War, War! His Senior Foreign Policy Advisor is Norman Podhoretz, the staunch 'Israel First' CFR member who wrote "The Case for Bombing Iran" and "World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win" (apparently I missed WWIII). Even Rudy's economic plan is absurd; in the TV ad I saw he touts giving major tax cuts to corporations. Sorry, but the People need tax cuts, and we need to stop supporting corporations who off-shore jobs with subsidies and tax breaks. Rudy has totally lost it.
I predict that the GOP NeoCON Oligarchy are going to rally around McCain. He has already said that he intends to stay in Iraq for at least 100 more years, and that he would have attacked Iraq even if he knew there were no WMD. This is exactly what they want, they just never believed the American public would go for it; obviously they (as well as I) underestimated the People.
McCain's pro-Amnesty agenda is still a sticking point for many Republican voters, which is why the GOP must make sure Hillary is the Democrat nominee. If it comes down to Obama vs. McCain, the GOP knows that a lot of Republicans will just stay home, especially since McCain got the Independent votes, not the Republican votes. They are betting that no matter who the GOP nominates, as long as Hillary is the opponent, Republican turn-out will be strong. The GOP is relying on Anti-Hillary sentiment to win the November election. That is why, I believe, they are not only messing with Republican ballots, but Democrat ballots as well.
So, what happened in Nevada? This is the letter that the Ron Paul campaign sent to the Nevada GOP after receiving information from supporters that they had been mailed incorrect caucus locations:
January 18, 2008 3:10 pm EST ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA
Today, the Ron Paul 2008 campaign is calling on the Nevada State Republican Party to re-examine multiple inconsistencies in the Nevada Caucus process, and to consider postponing the caucus, which is scheduled for Saturday, January 19. "The inconsistencies, errors and multiple changes in the rules reek of playing politics with the what should be a neutral process," said Ron Paul 2008 campaign manager Lew Moore. "The people of Nevada deserve to know exactly what the rules are and to know that those rules are being fairly enforced. This has not happened up to this point, and the caucus appears to be in chaos." The problem of multiple rule changes is being compounded by other inconsistencies and errors in the process. Many Nevada Republicans have received postcards with incorrect information about their caucus location, and the Nevada GOP website had incorrect caucus locations listed as late as Wednesday, January 16. Additionally, one or more county chairs have expressed concerns over an insufficient number of ballots, and the Ron Paul campaign has heard reports that rural counties are short of ballots, while Clark County precincts were given what is regarded as far too many ballots. The Ron Paul campaign has learned that the Nevada Republican Party has changed the rules for eligibility requirements for caucusing three times since January 9. Last summer when the January 19 caucus was set, the Nevada GOP announced that caucus would be closed and only for Republicans who had registered by December 19. On January 10, 2008, a caucus director for the Nevada Republican Party reversed the earlier policy and anounced a new standard by stating that any person who asserts that they are a registered Republican in the precinct but cannot be found in the voter rolls that the Republican party has, would be able to participate if they signed an affidavit attesting to the fact that they were a registered Republican. Then, on January 15 the Ron Paul campaign received communication from the state party that the affidavits would not be used. However, on January 17 the policy was changed for a third time, as the state party announced that affidavits would be in use throughout the state, subject to the discretion of county central committees and chairs. The Nevada Republican Party is changing the rules from week to week, and currently the rules will not even be uniform across the state, as eligibility rules may differ from county to county. Given the caucus location confusion with potential caucus participants not knowing where to go and the new rule effectively allowing anyone to get a ballot, the Ron Paul campaign is concerned that the confusion surrounding the caucus will both disenfranchise voters and make the election particularly susceptible to vote fraud.
The response from the Nevada State GOP, according to the Boston Globe article 'Nevada GOP Dismisses Paul Complaint' was "We would hope that the Paul campaign would go act like adults and not try to set up straw men to make up for their lack of organizing."
Straw men? Hello, the Nevada State GOP sent out the wrong information, not the Paul campaign. In fact, it was the Paul campaign, which is in fact quite organized in Nevada, that caught the discrepancies. The discrepancies were obvious, as it told voters from one county to caucus in another county. One would assume that every Republican voter received the same misinformation, unless that is, Big Brother GOP somehow knows exactly which Nevada residents are going to vote for Paul. So, either there truly is a conspiracy and the GOP sent the wrong information only to Paul supporters and the correct information to everyone else, or they did in fact screw up! Either way, the Nevada State GOP is in direct violation of Voter's Rights by not at least apologizing for and correcting the wrong information. Over 57 precincts in Las Vegas were directed to the wrong caucus locations. The Paul campaign informed the Nevada GOP of the problem by phone on Jan. 14, but the State website was not even updated until 6pm on Jan 16, two days before the caucuses. Additionally, the charges that some counties did not receive enough ballots are by far legitimate and must be addressed. Why would the rural counties be short-changed ballots? That is a direct violation of the Voter Rights Act.
Then there is the problem of changing the voting rules three times right up to two days before the election. Initially the caucuses were closed to only registered Republicans. Then, on Jan. 10 the State GOP decided that anyone could vote in the caucuses, as long as they sign an affidavit saying they are Republican. Then on Jan. 15 they decided against this, and then on Jan. 17 the GOP said that the affidavits could be used, but it will be up to the discretion of county chairs. How can each county make their own decision on the day of the caucus? That obviously is a deliberate tactic to base who can and cannot vote on the results of polls. Why else would each county be able to do its own thing?
Why would the GOP want non-Republicans caucusing anyway? Signing an affidavit that says you are a Republican, even though the registry does not show that is ludicrous. There is no way to go back and decide which votes were cast by people who lied on their affidavit. The whole point, in my opinion, was to get the Latinos to caucus for McCain. And, now that I think about it, this absurd rule means that Democrats could caucus twice once for the Republicans, by signing a false affidavit, and then as a Democrat, since the caucuses are held at separate times.
Why would Republicans want Latinos to caucus for McCain? Because, according to the Latino commentator on Lou Dobbs, most Latinos are Democrats, but they also like McCain, and they don't like that the Democrats take their vote for granted. After the last MSNBC Democrats debate (the one without Kucinich) the Latino man at the post-debate forum said that the Latinos were all for Hillary. He hinted that they would not vote for Obama, although he would not say why even when pushed by the reporter and a black woman. Then Obama's people released an ad aimed at Latino workers telling them that Hillary's campaign was trying to prevent them from voting by filing a lawsuit against casino caucuses. So, since the Nevada GOP only changed the rules to allow non-Republicans to caucus after all this went down, it seems that they were betting that a lot of Latinos would cross the line to get back at Hillary by voting for McCain.
We shall see how all this will turn out, however, I do believe that there should be a law that says the rules must be set in stone within a specific time-frame, so that the two Ruling Parties cannot just arbitrarily change the rules two days in advance of a primary or caucus.
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! The results are coming in: Ron Paul came in SECOND!!!!!!!! BACKFIRE, BABY!!! Ron Paul got 63% of the Independent vote!!!!!!!! Romney only got 53% of the Republican vote. Oh, WOW, I love the stupidity of theGOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE INDEPENDENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Love you Lou Dobbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! INDEPENDENTS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exit Polls: % of vote: Voters: Romney McCain Paul Rep. 84% > 53% 12% 11% > top 3 get 76% of Rep. votes Ind. 14% > 10% 11% 63% > top 3 get 84% of Ind. votes Dem. 2%
OH NO! Ok I take that back the GOP is really slick. The actual results are way off from the exit polls. It is not mathematically possible that the final results are so far off from the exit polls. Even giving a 5% margin of error, the final results are way off.
Why? Washoe County.
Exit polls: Romney 37%, Paul 31%, McCain 10% (top 3 total = 78%) Final report: Romney 44%, McCain 16%, Paul 15% (top 3 total = 75%)
This cannot be possible; this is way beyond any margin of error. How can Romney gain 7%, McCain gain 6%, and Paul LOSE 16%?
Ok, the top 3 candidates lost a combined total of 3% of votes between the exit polls and the final tally; that is totally legitimate. However, it does not explain the extreme discrepancy between vote gains and loses between the candidates.
Mathematically this perfectly equates to Paul losing his 16% to the combined gains of Romney (7), McCain (6) and the extra 3% exactly. 6+7+3=16!
How can Paul be the ONLY candidate to lose votes?!?!?!?!?
How can this happen? Based on a message from a Nevada voter, I think I figured it out. Apparently he went in and people were given a choice between just filling out a ballot and leaving or going on to participate in the caucus. Even though he was a Registered Republican, he was not allowed to participate in the caucus because they did not have his registration on record.
Based on this occurrence, I must deduce that all those people who voted via a ballot, but not in the actual caucus did not have their votes counted. This person asked us about the legality of the polling place having a Mitt Romney poster in the window and the announcer wearing a Romney shirt. I cannot say what the law is in Nevada, but I know that is illegal in my district in NY. So, since all the Paul supporters are rather obvious, it would be very easy to make the non-caucus votes disappear. This person looked at all the cars and estimated that 1 in 8 had a Ron Paul bumper sticker.
Honestly, it should be illegal to allow some people to just cast a ballot and then leave, while others participate in the caucus, because, like this person said, it was chaos. There was a line a half-mile long to enter through one door, and only 6 people checking people in. This is the easiest way to commit voter fraud, as the poll watchers can deliberately direct certain voters towards a specific box, and then when the caucus starts just get rid of those ballots when no one is paying attention. The caucused votes cannot be cheated as easily, since there are too many witnesses, which explains why Iowa worked out so much differently than either New Hampshire or Nevada for both Parties.
If the exit polls reflect votes cast by people who were not allowed to caucus, then this scenario seems to offer a glaring explanation for the discrepancies between the results, especially considering that Ron Paul received a whopping 63% of the Independent vote. If this happened at many caucus locations, that Independents were allowed to cast a ballot but not caucus, then the only truth to be gleaned from the Nevada Caucuses is that yes, Ron Paul does have a lot of support, but those votes were not counted because the GOP lied to the public when they kept flip-flopping on the rules.
Oh, wow! Not that I am surprised, but MSNBC has now even changed their exit polling data! Well, too bad for them, because I saved the original page to my computer! I started writing this last night, and I have been watching the polls continuously all day. Good thing. My data comes from the afternoon when MSNBC announced Ron Paul as coming in second based on exit polls. That's when I calculated that Paul should get 18-19%. All the data that was reported on TV was also online. It has now been "adjusted." You cannot "adjust" exit polls to fit the final tally; the whole point of exit polls is to see how actual voters voted.
This is the original tally of the candidates based on Republican, Independent and Democrat voters soon after the caucuses were over:
Category
%Total
Giuliani
Huckabee
Hunter
McCain
Paul
Romney
Thompson
Democrat
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Republican
84
5
9
1
12
11
53
8
Independent or something else
14
6
1
3
11
63
10
7
This is what it says at 8:05pm:
Category
%Total
Giuliani
Huckabee
Hunter
McCain
Paul
Romney
Thompson
Democrat
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Republican
86
5
8
1
13
7
57
8
Independent or something else
12
6
4
5
13
51
12
9
So, all of a sudden, about 8 hours later, once the discrepancies were glaringly obvious:
The Independent vote decreases by 2 and the Republican vote increases by 2. Wow. Der Kommisar Vanishes!
Huckabee gains 1 Republican vote and 3 Independent votes. Hunter gains 2 Independent votes. McCain gains 1 Republican vote and 2 Independent votes. Paul LOSES 4 Republican votes and LOSES 12 Independent votes. Romney gains 4 Republican votes and gains 2 Independent votes. Thompson gains 2 Independent votes.
That's it, I give up! I can't even write anymore I'm so upset. This entire country is a SHAM! Jane Harmon, you should be prosecuted under your "Extremist Beliefs Commission" for outward violation of the United States Constitution! There is plenty of room available in your newly built domestic Halliburton detention centers for the entire criminal, terrorist organization known as the United States Executive, Legislative and Judiciary branches. Susan Collins, I hope you lose your Senate seat to Tom Allen!
After the abhorrent treatment of the press towards Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul I considered leaving the Republican Party. The utter disregard for the last vestiges of true Conservatism in the Republican Party are a testament as to why they have all, all but Ron Paul that is, resigned their seats this past year. Hagel, Warner, Hunter the list goes on. Well guess what America? You are going to face the consequences that this void has left. You are soon going to learn what it's like to be treated like an "Axis of Evil" and how life in Guantanamo is. WAKE UP, you IDIOTS!
Do you even know about National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell's Cyber-Security Policy that will enable warrant-less internet and email surveillance? What about the Supreme Court refusing to hear the case We The People vs. United States? That would have guaranteed us the right to petition the government for redress of grievances against us; but the Supreme Court sided with Big Brother and denied We the People our Rights. What about the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act' that overturns the constitutionally guaranteed rights to free expression, association, and assembly?
Digg this, you FASCISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Note: This was originally posted to my blog yesterday, after the media reported that Ron Paul came in second, just beating McCain. They lied! They deliberately changed the exit polls to "fit" the final, fraudulent results. Unfortunately, my blog is hosted at a pro-NeoCon site, so it is down more often than up, so I have decided to post it here, at Nolan Chart, which is much more fair and balanced. This voter fraud must be brought to the world's attention!
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This is an outstanding article! Thank you so much for taking the time to break it down so all can see. The story is slanted towards Congressman Paul, but effects ALL of the candidates and the future of our country. There is most definetly an enormous injustice taking place. I think Barrack Obama should be just as concerned as you folks are in the Ron Paul camp.
Let me start out with, I am still not sure who I will vote for on February 5th. I have been watching the elections pretty closely in all of the states so far and I also thought to myself that some things just did not seem right. I even rolled my eyes when I saw that Kucinich, Obama and Paul were throwing up red flags in New Hampshire. I was thinking, "sore losers" until I did a little thinking and research. The media was WAY off in their predictions for Obama and Clinton too.
I recently watched an objective documentary on the Diebold voting machines that are currently being used and was astounded at the ability and ease in which votes can be stolen and redirected. I am even more amazed that our media is not picking up and reporting this story!
Maybe someone can provide a link for the Diebold story. The ladies name that gave positive proof of Diebold's voting machines being tampered with is, Bev Harris, I think. I have also heard that Diebold is still in business and has since changed the name of their company.
I urge all Americans citizens to give this some attention and pass this story on to everyone that they can. This is an American tragedy in the making. Forward this story to all media outlets also.
Thanks
I am amazed to be reading such a sophisticated analysis as yours on the weak minded neocon Townhall site. Your analysis is extremely interesting. I hope you will continue writing.
I just hope the Ron Paul campaign will not take this Nevada screwing lying down. I am holding back on donating to the money bomb until I see some backbone from his organization. I want Ron Paul to take the $20 M in matching funds.
My only criticism is your use of the word 'rouse' where is think you mean 'ruse'.
I wanted to forward this article, but cannot because of the seemingly crazy language. Your outrageous language is a detriment to an otherwise great article. We are all pissed, but this article does nothing except invite criticism, invalidation and stereotyping by the people that might give it consideration or the ones that might have sent it on to the proper people that might be able to use the information. Can I suggest that you "clean it up" a little bit? Let's use some logic with our valid arguements. I'm just sayin'....
Natalie,
Wow is right... your have much to say and I agree it needs to be heard. However, you don't need to cross the line with offensive language and ridiculous use of exclamation marks. I am a thoughtful, interested voter trying to learn the truth, but find articles like this unfortunately tend to be counter productive. Passion is important, but so is respect, diplomacy, and responsible writing. Truth does not need offensive and disrespectful language to get through to the people who will take it to heart! I write this because I too care about the issues you are addressing, and am afraid that this type of journalism will turn off the very individuals we want to reach.
Please Natalie, you have good things to say, don't undermind yourself (while disrespecting yourself along with your readers!). We need people to hear the truth and act to bring about true change in our country. I for one am tired of being ashamed of things my country has done. Wouldn't it be nice to feel healthy pride in ourselves and our country? I honestly think that begins with how we communicate our beliefs.
I loved your article. I share your anger of the ignorance of most American people. Reading your point, "You can convince the Evangelicals to believe anything as long as it is wrapped in Biblical verse", reminded me of a comment I received from a woman while canvassing my precinct. She haughtily told me she was voting for, "Christ's Kingdom". Her comment stuck in my mind and truly angered me. I believe that her comment was truly ignorant. I do believe that even the devil can quote bible verse. Further, I believe that if a person should be judged in this manner; which I believe has little place in politics, he should be judged by his actions and NOT merely his words. I also don't believe that God; at least God as I understand him, would want his name used to catapult an individual to power, who will use that power to continue and spread an immoral war.
I just read the endorsement that Jane Roe; of Roe vs. Wade, gave to Ron Paul today. She said in her endorsement, "Ron Paul doesn’t just talk about being pro-life, he acts on it". I am hoping that the Evangelical Christians will wake up and heed her careful attention to Ron Paul's action in this matter, and realize the others are only talk.
My mother always said, "actions speak louder than words!".
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