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Hey, I got a write-in vote from Florida for the office of President of the United States!

Not a joke: that is a real ballot a friend turned in this afternoon. I doubt I’ll win but hey, at least someone thinks I’m more qualified for the job than Roseanne Barr. That’s… something, I suppose!

As for my own vote for President:

There it is. That’s it. The space on my ballot for President was left unmarked. Untouched. Unsoiled. As virgin as the wind-driven snow.

I had thought of writing in “Rufus T. Firefly”. Until a wise friend convinced me today that a write-in vote for a fictitious character or anything like that would have been just as waste of a vote as those who blindly vote straight-ticket. That a much more morally powerful vote would be to choose not to participate in that particular madness at all.

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You know what’s going to happen to America after Tuesday?

Nothing. Not a damned frazzling thing.

We will still be taxed too much.

Abortion will still go on.

TSA will still be molesting children and elderly people.

We will continue to be
over-extended militarily.

Companies will keep relocating their production
overseas.

Children in our schools will continue to be taught to
obey and not question instead of encouraged to think for themselves.

Government power over us will continue to increase instead of diminishing.

Our economy won’t stop being based around fiat currency.

The Constitution will continue to be ignored by lawmakers and the judiciary and the White House.

NOTHING will change after
Tuesday… except perhaps a different set of faces upon which we’ll blame for the folly that we ourselves allowed to happen. Because we didn’t want to buck the status quo.

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Longtime readers of this blog know that I’m for fiscal conservatism and letting the free market be responsible for itself, without government interference. Meaning that among other things that I’ve never thought anything favorable about government bailout programs.

A few days ago Mitt Romney, the assumed Republican candidate for President, announced that Paul Ryan would be his running mate in this fall’s election.

Paul Ryan is being touted as a “Tea Party conservative”.

Okay, well then…

Why should this blogger, or anyone else for that matter, vote for a Romney/Ryan ticket when Ryan:

– voted for the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP)

– voted for bailouts of $14 billion for General Motors and Chrysler

– voted for bailouts of Bank of America, BB&T, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and other banks

– voted for bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

– voted for the insanely expensive Medicare

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sigh…

Every time I come across a story like this about how inane our “political process” has become, I can’t help but think of that line from Battle for the Planet of the Apes: “Ape has killed ape!!!”

So newly-announced candidate for President of the United States Michele Bachmann is feigning righteous wrath (I know of no other way to put it) at fellow candidate Mitt Romney because he hasn’t signed something called the “Susan B. Anthony pro-life pledge”.

Here’s what the pledge is about, according to the story at LifeNews.com:

The pledge has the candidates promising to support only judicial nominees who won’t interpret the Constitution in a way that supports Roe v. Wade, select pro-life Cabinet members on positions affecting abortion policy, supporting legislation to stop taxpayer funding of abortions and Planned Parenthood, and to support a fetal pain bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks

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As was written about here a few days ago, earlier this week Bob Jones III – the head of Bob Jones University – came out in support of Mitt Romney for President. I had a few things to say about it then.

And now Chuck Baldwin has a lot more to say about it and he does it better than I ever could.

In his latest article, “Bob Jones Dances With The Devil”, Baldwin goes at length as to why it is wrong for any sincere Christian to support Romney (and not it has nothing to do with Romney being a Mormon). But here’s where he really nails how bad Jones has become…

Folks, here is the problem: Christian leaders such as Bob Jones III have succumbed to the temptation to become glorified politicians. They surrendered their convictions thirty years ago when the old Moral Majority married the

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Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina and grandson of the founder, has endorsed Mitt Romney for President.

Which I don’t particularly have a problem with. Dr. Jones is free to endorse whoever he wants to for President.

Here’s where he goes totally wrong…

“This is all about beating Hillary,” Jones said.

What a wonderful Christ-like sentiment that Dr. Jones is expressing here. And yes, I am being sarcastic.

You know, so-called “Christian leaders” like Dr. Jones just don’t get it. They haven’t bothered to understand that not in a million years can they claim America for Christ. Because they can’t even let Christ take claim over their own hearts and minds. Christ cannot change America anymore than we let Him change us first.

And that is something that people like Dr. Jones refuse to do at all. To them, Christ is something ...

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