Common Sense

Would you hire a prospective employee who lied on their job application?  Can someone who misrepresents their qualifications when seeking a job be trusted to do the job properly and to be honest about their performance?  What about when the job we're talking about is President of the United States?

Mike Huckabee has emerged in the past couple of weeks as the anointed "Underdog" Republican candidate being promoted by the media, who seem to have realized that their former favorites, Giuliani and McCain, are going nowhere with the American people.  What does this have to do with lying about job qualifications, you ask?

LIE: Mike Huckabee has claimed on at least two occasions to be the "only candidate with a Theology degree" and the "only candidate to have studied at seminary".  One of these is somewhat true, the other is not, but they are used together to reinforce a lie.  FACT: Mike Huckabee does NOT have a Theology degree.  FACT: Mike Huckabee was a seminary dropout.

LIE: Mike Huckabee also claims to have been a tax-cutter in his days as Arkansas Governor.  When pressed, the Huckster dances around the issue, claiming he raised taxes X number of times, but lowered taxes Y number of times, therefore he lowered taxes more than he raised them.  FACT: Overall, taxes went up in Arkansas during Huckabee's tenure.

LIE: Huckabee claims to be tough on illegal immigration.  FACT: Huckabee re-appropriated monies from the Governor's Emergency Fund to help finance a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock.  Some emergency that must have been!

LIE: Huckabee presents himself as an outsider, not a member of the Ruling Elite.  FACT: Huckabee was an honored guest of the elite class from which all the "major" candidates spring at a November meeting of their private club, the Council on Foreign Relations, in New York -- just days before he suddenly became the media's favorite "Underdog" candidate.  Note that almost all other candidates for President - certainly all those "Washington insiders" - are members of the Council on Foreign Relations.  These include, but are not limited to, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Biden, Giuliani, Romney, McCain, Thompson, and now Huckabee.

Am I picking on Huckabee?  Perhaps.  Few people know very much about Mike Huckabee, which seems to be a good thing for him, while many are familiar with Giuliani's lies and Romney's flip-flops.  But the truth needs to be spread about "come-from-behind" candidate Mike Huckabee, who presents himself as a man of God but who is really just another unprincipled liar who, like most of the others, lusts for the power of the Presidency and is more interested in political gain than in truth and justice.  He is perhaps worse than the others in that he dons a mantle of respectability and appeals to Christian virtues in order to disguise his deceitful nature...apparently the page with that bit about "Thou shalt not bear false witness" has fallen out of the Huckster's Bible.

Where one is a government official, there is a fine line between lies and Treason.  Every person elected to the House or the Senate, every state legislator, every Governor, takes an oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.  How many really adhere to this oath?  How many can be trusted to always be honest with their employer, the voters?  Consider this: The Patriot Act is unconstitutional.  The Military Commissions Act is unconstitutional.  The undeclared war in Iraq is unconstitutional.  Socialized Medicine, whether "Single Payer" or "Universal Health Care", is unconsitutional.  Education being a state function, No Child Left Behind and the entire Department of Education are unconstitutional.  Yet almost every politician in one of the aforementioned offices, and almost every candidate for President has supported one or more of these unconsitutional programs.  If voting to pass unconsitutional legislation is not a violation of that oath of office, what is?  Is taking a sacred oath and then willfully and routinely violating it, thereby undermining the Consitutional system one is sworn to defend, not tantamount to treason?

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor---he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation---he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city---he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." --- Cicero: orator, statesman, political theorist, lawyer and philosopher of Ancient Rome.

"The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves." -- Plato, Greek Philosopher

Get interested in politics.  Research the candidates, then make your own decision.  I am confident that if you earnestly do so, you will discover, as I have, that there is really only one honest person running for President.  There is only one candidate who is motivated by love of country and steadfast belief in American values of truth, justice, and freedom.  There is only one candidate who has been firm and resolute in his oath to defend the Constitution, with a voting record to prove it.  That candidate is Republican Ron Paul.  Please support Ron Paul in the Republican primary on February 5th. 

We *can* take America back from the corrupt politicians and the special interests.  We *can* restore our freedoms and liberties.  We *can* revive the Rule of Law in this country.  But we can *only* do so by electing honest people who truly believe in American principles.  Vote for America.  Vote for Freedom.  Vote for the Constitution.  Vote for Ron Paul for President.