There have been some surprising endorsements coming down the wire this [painfully protracted] election cycle. People with household names, as well as some more esoteric individuals, throw their seal of approval [in hopes, it can only be assumed in many cases, of some kind of lagniappe should the candidate du cœur be elected] on this guy or that one, in hopes of getting a little extra mileage for “their candidate.”
Some really don’t make any sense whatsoever:
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In June, the Home School Legal Defense Association PAC endorsed Mike Huckabee. I take this as the typical Christian somnambulance when it comes to politics. Like with George the Younger, some schmuck comes along, says a few frilly words, and the Christian wing of the proletariat is [figuratively] counting ceiling tiles. The truth is, Huckabee made it harder to homeschool in his native Arkansas than it was when Gov. Rodham – err, I mean Clinton left office.
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Chuck Norris, in October, endorsed Huckleberry. Now, gotta give mad props to Chuck, but I think that his justifications are all wet. While I agree with the rhetoric Huckabee espouses, I have studied his record, and the words don’t match the man’s actions.
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Pat Robertson, last month, endorsed Rudy “Pro-gay-marriage, Pro-abortion, Multi-marriage, Cross-dressing Adulterer” Giuliani, because, he said, he’d be better than Billary. This just serves to prove, to me, that for the past several decades, Robertson has been injecting his face and his assinine punditry into our lives and the public discourse, not in order to promote the Gospel, but to promote Pat Robertson. And now he’s sold out to Gog in hopes of shutting out Magog.
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This month, Jim Gilchrist, of the Minuteman Project, laid it on thick for the Huckster, too. There was apparently some blowback on this, due to the falling out between Gilchrist and Chris Simcox, and the fact that Gilchrist alone, not any national Minuteman Project group, has given this endorsement. The problem here is that Huckleberry has only just converted to a border-enforcement, anti-illegal-alien stance very recently [since his star began to rise in the national polls] and his record is something quite different. Huckabee, as governor, championed in-state tuition for illegals, gave illegal preferential treatment to the Mexican Consulate [that is, finagled them a deal whereby they could lease office space and furniture for $1 a year], and called the illegal alien crisis our “second chance” to make up for slavery in the first 250 years of American history. ['Cuz unconstitutional "equal rights" legislation hasn't done enough to "make up for" that in the succeeding 140 years] But since the Huckster now promises to be tough on illegal immigration, I guess that’s all okay with Gilchrist.
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In one of my personal favorites, openly gay Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson lent his support to accidental candidate and Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama, back in August. I like this one so much because Obama obviously has his thumb on the pulse of American political opinion: Obama already thinks “civil unions” [whatever that means] for gays are a good idea, but Robinson is a gay activist who wants to force gay marriage on all of us [whether we like it or not, which is the statist way], because anything short of absolute blasphemy is not good enough. [And I repeat my previous assertion that gays have every right to get married to individuals of the opposite sex that straight people have; there is no need for "gay marriage" or "civil union" talk; with whom they choose to have sex is their problem]
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In some just plain weird goings-on, evangelical Christian pastors and other “leaders” all over the place have been bandying about inexplicable endorsements for the Republican “top tier” [sic] candidates, despite the fact that, to a man, they’re all [excepting, now, Huckleberry] pro-choice. I mean, really pro-choice, by their records, not according to the rhetoric they put out since they threw their hats in the ring. [Including the sometimes waffling but always shocking evangelical support for the cultist, Romney. I wonder if the "anything to beat Hillary" thing is working for them, now that Hillary's campaign is sorta falling down, if not apart.]
Whoever said politics makes strange bedfellows must’ve had this presidential field in mind.
Not to rub it in, but while so many candidates have had to change their positions in order to garner these much-coveted endorsements, Ron Paul has been saying the same thing for three decades of public life. And true constitutional conservatives have been backing him all the way.
